Well for you younger guys you may wonder what the heading means. It was the Queen Mothers horse which in 1953 was romping home to win the Grand National only for some unaccountable reason to fall flat on its belly and lose the race. With respect to my opponent there are some parallels to that in this game. (It wasn't a bad mistake that I made was it ?..... - it was just that Mark was more awake than I was !)
[Event "Cov League Div 1"]
[Site "Rugby A v Cov A"]
[Date "2011.3.8"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mark Page"]
[Black "Bob Wildig"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "?"]
[BlackELO "?"]
%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. Bd3 d5 5. Nxe5 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. c4 Nd7 8.
cxd5 Nef6 9. Nc3 Nb6 10. Bg5 Nbxd5 11. Re1 Be6 12. Rc1 Re8 13. Bb1 c6 14. Qd3
Nb4 15. Qd2 Qb6 16. a3 Nbd5 17. Nxd5 Nxd5 18. Bxe7 Rxe7 19. Nc4 Qc7 20. Re5
Rae8 21. Rce1 Nf6 22. Ne3 Rd7? {From a position of considerable positional
advantage Black cleverly homes in on the losing move. Simpler and better would
have been Bd5 or Bc8 giving White problems on the e file} 23. Nf5 Rf8 {Asleep
to the danger. Was there a better move - probably but not enough to save the
game.} 24. Nxg7!! {And suddenly its all over. Nothing can save Black from Qg5
etc. Oddly enough White had been in timetrouble and Black had plenty of time -
but that's irrelevant now ... Mark generously said that he had been lucky.
Maybe so but he never misses chances like the one I gave him !} 1-0
