I was looking at the game Wainwright vs. Znosko Borovsky, Weston 1924 when I noticed something very peculiar which indicated that there was a serious error in the pgn file. My first source was the Chessgames site, but when I looked at database.chessbase.com and http://www.365chess.com/view_game.php?g=2644847, the moves were exactly the same.
The original source was most likely 'Hastings 1923-4, Weston-super-Mare 1924' (A. J. Gillam Chess Player, 1995). I don't have a copy of this book (if anyone does, have a look for me) so I don't know if the error was in the original text or in the transcription. It seems that the mistake has been copied from one database to another. I doubt this is the only example out there.
See if you can work out the mistake...
...before you look at my corrected version.
Unreliable sources
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David McAlister
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Re: Unreliable sources
8...c5 is the error (and 8...c6 the correct move).
In Gillam's "Hastings 1923-4, Weston-super-Mare 1924" the move given is 8...c6. A diagram given after White's 18th move also has the pawn solidly sitting on c6. So wherever the mistake comes from, it isn't Gillam. He had taken all the games at Weston-super-Mare 1924 from the Tinsley notebooks (a source for many of the English tournaments he has published from that period),
In Gillam's "Hastings 1923-4, Weston-super-Mare 1924" the move given is 8...c6. A diagram given after White's 18th move also has the pawn solidly sitting on c6. So wherever the mistake comes from, it isn't Gillam. He had taken all the games at Weston-super-Mare 1924 from the Tinsley notebooks (a source for many of the English tournaments he has published from that period),
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Gerard Killoran
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Re: Unreliable sources
Thanks David, I'm glad that Tony Gillam has been exonerated - and Tinsley too.