[Event "Top 10 Best Chess Games of All Time: Nigel Short vs Jan Timman (1991) A Long Walk Off a Short Peer"] [Site "https://lichess.org/study/80A9TQeT/9zKGw9Z4"] [Result "*"] [UTCDate "2017.11.13"] [UTCTime "21:53:14"] [Variant "Standard"] [ECO "B04"] [Opening "Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Alburt Variation"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/Eligora"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/80A9TQeT/9zKGw9Z4"] [Orientation "white"] { White- Nigel Short Black- Jan Timman } 1. e4 Nf6 { The Alekhine Defence. } 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 { Modern Variation. } 4... g6 { Alburt Variation. Black aims to fianchetto the Bishop. } { [%csl Rg7][%cal Rf8g7] } 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 Bg7 7. Qe2 Nc6 8. O-O O-O 9. h3 a5 10. a4 dxe5 11. dxe5 Nd4 12. Nxd4 Qxd4 13. Re1 e6 14. Nd2 Nd5 15. Nf3 Qc5 16. Qe4 Qb4 17. Bc4 Nb6 18. b3 Nxc4 19. bxc4 Re8 20. Rd1 Qc5 21. Qh4 b6 22. Be3 Qc6 23. Bh6 Bh8 24. Rd8 Bb7 25. Rad1 Bg7 26. R8d7 Rf8 27. Bxg7 Kxg7 28. R1d4 Rae8 29. Qf6+ Kg8 30. h4 h5 31. Kh2 { White begins the king walk. } 31... Rc8?? 32. Kg3 Rce8 33. Kf4 { Black resigns here, but the checkmating moves would have been something like the following ones. An amazing game from Nigel Short. } 33... Bc8 34. Kg5 Bxd7 35. Kh6 Bc8 36. Qg7# { Black won a beautiful checkmate by walking his king up,then checkmate and black could not stop white } *