[Event "Wild Wild West - Atomic Opening History: climbim (2065) - Pfiffigunde (2016)"] [Site "German Internet Chess Server (GICS)"] [Date "May 28, 1996"] [White "climbim"] [Black "Pfiffigunde"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2065"] [BlackElo "2016"] [TimeControl "5 5"] [Termination "Black forfeited on time, 1-0"] [Variant "Atomic"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/Chronatog"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/QDGxSdxY/uxxrQu3t"] [Orientation "white"] 1. Nf3 f6 2. Nd4 Nh6 3. e4 c6 4. d3 e6 5. Bxh6 d5 6. Nb3 Na6 7. Nc5 Nxc5 8. Nc3 dxe4 9. d4 e5 10. Ne4 Bf5 11. Nd6+ Bxd6 12. Qh5+ Bg6 13. Qh3 f5 14. Qb3 Qa5+ 15. c3 { Black forfeited on time here. This game is actually almost rather modern in its opening - it begins out as the Exchange variation, but White plays 3.e4 rather than 3.Nf5. Then the rather odd 4.d3 was played, but climbim was always known for his rather offbeat opening moves, so this may have been a particular eccentricity of his at the time. We won't be able to know without finding more games or asking him ourselves. The game did continue on with some modern pinning and counterpunching, eventually ending when apparently Pfiffigunde lost on time by either lag or disconnecting. This was back in the old days where there was no timeseal and disconnection/lag could very easily cause a player to lose. Dial-up connections via modems were the way to get onto the Internet then, and in most cases it wasn't even 56k. Imagine that! So we're robbed of a chance to see a high level endgame as it would have played out in 1996, although I would've put my money onto Black with this final position. } 1-0