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As another season draws to a close, its worth remembering the annual “Game of the Season” competition. For the uninitiated, this is where you get to air your brilliant or ridiculous or funny or chaotic or important or whatever-you-might-think-might-entertain-others games that you’ve played competitively during the season. Just send me something and a bit later we’ll vote and there might even be a trophy if anyone can remember where it is!

To give you an example that incorporates a number of the categories, here is a game Marc sent me recently. It’s unclear to me why he doesn’t give up on move 9 but I guess you never win anything by resigning!

  [Event "2nd 4NCL Easter Congress"] [Date "2022.04.17"] [Round "?"] [White "Marc Obi "] [Black "James McDonnel"] [Result "*"] [WhiteElo "1921"] [BlackElo "1929"]   e4 c5 2. Nc3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} d6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 3. f4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} e6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 4. Nf3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Nc6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 5. Bc4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} g6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 6. O-O {[%clk 0:00:00]} Bg7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 7. d3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Nge7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 8. Qe1 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Nd4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 9. Nb5 $2 {I forgot my queen was no longer on d1, now I will not even be down an exchange but by a full rook[%clk 0:00:00]} Nxc2 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 10. Qf2 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Nxa1 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 11. Be3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} a6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 12. Nxd6+ {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qxd6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 13. Bxc5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qd8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 14. Rxa1 {[%clk 0:00:00]} O-O {[%clk 0:00:00]} 15. f5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} b5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 16. Qh4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Nxf5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 17. Qf2 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Ne7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 18. Bb3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Bb7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 19. Rf1 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Rc8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 20. Bb6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qd7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 21. Ng5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Rc6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 22. Be3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} f6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 23. Nf3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Kh8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 24. d4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Rcc8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 25. Qh4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Ng8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 26. Qh3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Rfe8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 27. d5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qe7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 28. Nh4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Bh6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 29. Bxh6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Nxh6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 30. Nxg6+ {[%clk 0:00:00]} hxg6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 31. Qxh6+ {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qh7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 32. Qf4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} f5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 33. Rf3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qg7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 34. exf5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} g5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 35. Rh3+ {[%clk 0:00:00]} Kg8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 36. Qd2 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Rcd8 $2 {[%clk 0:00:00]} (36… exf5 {was necessary to maintain any advantage but black has time troubles}) 37. d6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Kf8 {black is imploding!} $4 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 38. fxe6 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qe5 {[%clk 0:00:00]} e7+ {[%clk 0:00:00]} Kg7 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 40. exd8=Q {[%clk 0:00:00]} Rxd8 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 41. Qc3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} Qxc3 {[%clk 0:00:00]} 42. Rxc3 {winning[%clk 0:00:00]}