[Event "Wild Wild West - Atomic Opening History: Emil (1693) - Someone (1750)"] [Site "German Internet Chess Server (GICS)"] [Date "May 15, 1996"] [White "Emil"] [Black "Someone"] [Result "1/2 - 1/2"] [WhiteElo "1693"] [BlackElo "1750"] [TimeControl "2 12"] [Termination "Game drawn by repetition, 1/2-1/2"] [Variant "Atomic"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/Chronatog"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/QDGxSdxY/3PQX0bbY"] [Orientation "white"] 1. e3 Nf6 2. Qf3 e6 3. Bd3 Bb4 4. c3 Bxc3 5. Nh3 g5 { This is really a rather modern game using the appropriately named "Someone" opening, even though he's actually playing black in this game. 1.e3 Nf6 2.Qf3 is a very common modern opening but until further study is done, we don't know how common it was back then. Apparently Someone played 1.e3 often enough to have the whole spectrum of 1.e3 openings named after him in the Atomix book, though. } 6. Nxg5 Qf6 7. b3 Rg8 8. Qxf6 Rxg2 9. Nc3 c6 10. Ne4 d6 11. Nf6+ Kf8 12. Ne8 Na6 13. b4 c5 14. Nc7 Rb8 15. a3 e5 16. b5 Be6 17. bxa6 b5 18. Nxe6 a5 19. Ke2 f5 { Now we've finally reached a bona-fide endgame in atomic chess from one of the very early games! Given what we know now, this would be a very easy win for Black - simply move the King onto the 7th rank and then move the rook over to the g file, penetrate, trade off the rooks and win with the pawn advantage that Black has. However, this was way before anybody even studied endgame theory as far as I know. So we're treated to an endgame where some curious moves take place. } 20. Bb2 d5 21. Rg1 Ke7 22. Rg7+ Ke8 23. Rg8+ Ke7 24. Re8+ Kf7 25. Rf8+ Ke7 26. f4 c4 27. Rf7+ Ke8 28. Rf8+ Ke7 29. Rf7+ Ke8 30. Bc1 c3 31. d3 c2 32. h4 b4 33. axb4 Rb3 34. Kf2 e4 35. Kg3 a4 36. Re7+ Kd8 37. Rd7+ Ke8 38. Re7+ Kd8 39. Rd7+ Ke8 40. Re7+ { White absolutely stole a draw in this game, but Black had good intentions. Black really should have traded off rooks and then could have won very easily. But we have the advantage of more than a decade of analysis to find this out. } 1/2 - 1/2