[Event "Warsaw Olympiad 1935"]
[Site "Warsaw POL"]
[Date "1935.08.21"]
[Round "7.4"]
[White "De Burca, Aibhistin"]
[Black "Rethy, Pal"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTeam "Ireland"]
[BlackTeam "Hungary"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[ECO "D17"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "Wiesbaden variation"]
[EventDate "1935.08.16"]
[EventType "team"]
[Source "Warszawa"]
[WhiteFullName "de Búrca, Aibhistín"]
[BlackFullName "Réthy, Pál"]
[URL "https://www.irlchess.com/olympiads/warsaw1935/deburca-rethy-warsaw-1935.htm"]
[LastModified "Tue Sep  2 12:08:33 2025"]

{ Annotator: W. R. O'Shea (see source). } { Event information: <a
href="http://www.olimpbase.org/1935/1935fa07#irl.html">Match scorecard</a>
and <a href="https://olimpbase.org/1935/1935fa.html">final event table</a>,
OlimpBase. } { Source: <em>Evening Echo</em>, January 11, 1936, p. 6. }

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 e6 7. f3 Nbd7 8.
Nxc4 { Only played after long deliberation. White hopes to tempt Black into
an unsound combination. } 8... Bb4 9. e4 Nxe4 ({ If } 9... Bxe4 10. fxe4
Nxe4 11. Qf3 $1) 10. fxe4 Qh4+ 11. Kd2 Qf2+ ({ Black cannot play } 11...
Qxe4 { on account of } 12. Nd6+ { . It is, therefore, not clear how he is
to continue. }) 12. Kd3 O-O-O ({ A surprise move which White had
overlooked. If ( 12... } 12... O-O-O { ) } 13. exf5 Nc5# { ! However, White
has sufficient resources. }) 13. Nd6+ ({ A fatal mistake. White's idea is
to block the file of the Black QR and to afford the King a flight square.
Rethy soon proves it a mistaken policy. As Lilienthal afterwards remarked,
White could have won by the simple } 13. Qe2) 13... Bxd6 14. exf5 Ne5+ 0-1