Game 10

This was a close call for the GM, who judged this game with Lanark 'veteran' George Brown to be the most difficult of the 27 he played in the exhibition.

[Event "Lanark Chess Club's 60th anniversary simultaneous exhibition"]
[Site "Lanark"]
[Date "2004.05.01"]
[White "Brown, George"]
[Black "Motwani, Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White Grade "1473"]
[Black Grade "2541"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Qc7 6.f4 (an error - Paul later suggested Nf3) g6 7.Nf3 Bf5 8.Bxf5 gxf5 9.Be3 e6 10.0-0 Nge7 11.Nbd2 Ng6 12.Ne5 Bd6 13.Ndf3 f6 14.Nd3 Nxf4 15.Nxf4 Bxf4 16.Qd2 Bxe3+ (heading for a simplified position where his extra pawn and superior technique will prevail?) 17.Qxe3 Qd6 18.Rae1 Kd7 19.Qh6 Raf8 20.Re2 Rf7 21.Rfe1 Re8 22.Nh4 Qf8 23.Qf4 Rfe7 24.Nf3 (later, club members looked at the sacrificial possibility 24.Nxf5 exf5 25.Qxf5+ when Kd6 to protect the d pawn might lead to perpetual check. But instead, perhaps Kc7 - b6 is safe enough for Black) Qg7 25.b4 Qg4 26.Qd2 f4 27.c4 (a bold try) dxc4 28.d5 Nd8 29.dxe6+ Kc8 30.Qd4 Rxe6 31.Qxc4+ Kb8 32.h3 Qf5 33.Nd4 (in his newspaper column IM Douglas Bryson suggested 33.Rc1!) Rxe2 34.Rxe2 Qd7 35.Rxe8 Qxe8 36.Nf3 (in the club analysis we thought Nb5 was strong here) Qe3+ 37.Kh2 Ne6 38.Qc2 Ng5 39.Qd1 Nxf3+ 40.gxf3 Kc7 41.Qc2+ (41.Qd5 keeping the Queen centralised and the Black King out?) Kd6 42.Kg2 h5 43.a4 a6 44.Qb2 Ke6 45.Qc2 Kd6 46.Qb2 Kd5 47.Qa2+ Kd4 48.Qc2 b6 49.a5 bxa5 50.bxa5 Qd3 51.Qb2+ Kc4 52.Kf2 Qd4+ 53.Qxd4+ Kxd4 54.Ke2 Kc3 55.Kd1 Kb4 0-1