This game puzzle comes from GM Ian Rogers’ excellent book ‘Oops! I resigned one more time!’. It features a game from the 1985 Australian Open in Ballarat, between David Hacche and Eddy Levi.
Game Puzzle from 1985 Australian Open
Chess by Chris Depasquale 22/3/25 Begonia 2025
Chris writes in his column: “At the recent Begonia Open, Anthony Hain met a Heffalump in former Australian champion Stephen Solomon. As in the previous example (Robson vs Caruana, American Cup), the operation was a success but the patient died. Hain deserves credit for how he went about it.” Here is the game annotated by Chris – (see Diagram below labelled: “In the diagrammed position it is White to play his 15th move in today’s second game.”)
Australian Open 84 / 85, Round 6 results
You can see that Guy West is leading by half a point after Round 6. S Neerava, M Fuller, Chris Despasquale and C Laird follow on 5 points. you can see half of David Hacche on 4 points, on the left.
Here is a blistering Round 3 game between West and Hacche where White sacs a knight then offers a queen, with his bishop rook knight and pawn sufficient to complete the job, if the queen sac was taken.