Indecipherable games (January 15/16)

[LozCooper]

If it's one of my events, chances are I've already deciphered it! What was the game?

Gutted - I just looked through my chess folder and I must have accidentally thrown it out at some point! It was a Radavanovic-Arkell game from Sunningdale, where literally every move from move 3 onwards looked like a squiggle. Moves themselves were literally indecipherable as I suspect no real attempt to record the game was made I hope you have a posterity copy, I loved it!

I must have special powers of deduction then as in 2003 I input all of Keith's games onto chessbase I resisted the temptation to write etc as he entered his umpteenth rook ending but thankfully a 1000+ of the games were already on chessbase and I was also able to drag and drop my many losses in r&b against r as well

[Justin Hadi]

Gutted - I just looked through my chess folder and I must have accidentally thrown it out at some point! It was a Radavanovic-Arkell game from Sunningdale, where literally every move from move 3 onwards looked like a squiggle. Moves themselves were literally indecipherable as I suspect no real attempt to record the game was made I hope you have a posterity copy, I loved it!

I remember that game and possibly remember picking up the scoresheet, will have a look around for it. It was Radavanovic's scoresheet that was indeed indecipherable after about move 7, possibly due to the opening (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b5!? or something similar).

[Sean Hewitt]

I happen to have a souvenir copy of a scoresheet (between two titled players no less, at an e2e4 event!) that I guarantee no human, machine or functional life-form can decipher if you're up for a challenge!

[Event "e2e4 Sunningdale"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.05.29"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Radovanovic, Jovica"]
[Black "Arkell, Keith"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2011.02.12"]
[SourceDate "2011.02.12"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b5 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. a4 b4 6. O-O c5 7. c4 cxd4 8. Nxd4
Bxg2 9. Kxg2 Qc8 10. b3 Qb7+ 11. f3 Be7 12. e4 O-O 13. Be3 d6 14. Ra2 a6 15.
Re2 Nbd7 16. Bg1 Nc5 17. Nd2 Rfe8 18. Qb1 Bf8 19. Rfe1 g6 20. Nf1 Nfd7 21. Ne3
Ne5 22. Rd1 Rac8 23. g4 g5 24. Bf2 Qe7 25. Bg3 Qf6 26. Nec2 Rc7 27. Ne1 Ng6 28.
Kh1 Nf4 29. Red2 Nd7 30. Ne2 Nxe2 31. Rxe2 Ne5 32. Rf2 Rb7 33. Qb2 Bg7 34. Nd3
Nxd3 0-1

[LozCooper]

I happen to have a souvenir copy of a scoresheet (between two titled players no less, at an e2e4 event!) that I guarantee no human, machine or functional life-form can decipher if you're up for a challenge!

[Event "e2e4 Sunningdale"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.05.29"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Radovanovic, Jovica"]
[Black "Arkell, Keith"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2011.02.12"]
[SourceDate "2011.02.12"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b5 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. a4 b4 6. O-O c5 7. c4 cxd4 8. Nxd4
Bxg2 9. Kxg2 Qc8 10. b3 Qb7+ 11. f3 Be7 12. e4 O-O 13. Be3 d6 14. Ra2 a6 15.
Re2 Nbd7 16. Bg1 Nc5 17. Nd2 Rfe8 18. Qb1 Bf8 19. Rfe1 g6 20. Nf1 Nfd7 21. Ne3
Ne5 22. Rd1 Rac8 23. g4 g5 24. Bf2 Qe7 25. Bg3 Qf6 26. Nec2 Rc7 27. Ne1 Ng6 28.
Kh1 Nf4 29. Red2 Nd7 30. Ne2 Nxe2 31. Rxe2 Ne5 32. Rf2 Rb7 33. Qb2 Bg7 34. Nd3
Nxd3 0-1

A miniature by Keith's standards