My earlier post promised more information on this match, including two games that are not in the databases, so here they are:
MTK Budapest-Dundrum, European Club Cup (1.4), Budapest, September 1985
26. Bh4 Rec7 27. Bxf6 gxf6 28. Ng4 Kg7 29. f5 Be7 30. e5 exf5 31. Rxf5 fxe5 32. Qxe5+ f6 33. Qf4 Qe6 34. Qxh6+ Kf7 35. Rdf2 Qe1+ 36. Rf1 Qxc3 37. Rxf6+ Bxf6 38. Qxf6+ Ke8 39. Bg6+ 1-0.
MTK Budapest-Dundrum, European Club Cup (2.3), Budapest, September 1985
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 d5 5. e3 O-O 6. Qb3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Nc6 8. Be2 Qd6 9. O-O e5 10. d5 Ne7 11. e4 c6 12. dxc6 Nxc6 13. Rd1 Qe7 14. Bg5 Nd4 15. Nxd4 exd4 16. Nd5 Qxe4 (diagram)
17. Nxf6+? Bxf6 18. Bxf6 Qxe2 19. Bxd4 b5 20. Re1 Qc4 21. Qf3 Bf5 22. Qe3 a5 23. b3 Qd5 24. Bb2 f6 25. Rad1 Qc6 26. Rc1 Qb7 27. h3 Rad8 28. Qf4 Rf7 29. Rcd1 Qb6 30. g4 Bc8 31. Rxd8+ Qxd8 32. g5 fxg5?? 33. Qe5 1-0.
Kevin McHugh’s attempt at an early simplification had a flaw, though GM Lengyel overlooked it. In the diagrammed position, the computer finds 17. Bxf6! Qxe2 18. Qb4! winning, since White threatens 19. Ne7+ Kh8 20. Nxg6+ as well as 19. Qxd4. After the game’s 17. Nxf6+?, Black still has an uncomfortable position because of the weakness of the long diagonal, but was weathering the pressure reasonably well until the disastrous 32. … fxg5??. After 32. … Bxh3 instead, it’s still all to play for.
My earlier post expressed doubts about the accuracy of the scores given by Sakkélet, but John Griffin has written in and comments that these were indeed correct.
The earlier post mentioned that only one of the games from the match, Portisch-Curtin, was given on OlimpBase. I received a message from Wojciech Bartelski the following day, requesting the game scores. Impressive! Here is the pgn file.
And here is the original article in Sakkélet. No reports, unfortunately, in Fiacla Fichille or in any of the Irish papers, at least not that I could find.