1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bg4 5. Bxc4 e6 6. Nc3 Bd6 7. O-O Nbd7 8. h3 Bh5 9. e4

Here the game-score in Clarke's scoresheet ends. The report in the 15th July edition of the Cork Examiner for Round 3 indicates that this game was adjourned - so this cannot be the only moves played and indeed Clarke's scoresheet also has in the "form for adjournment" section the diagram filled out with what presumably is the adjourned position (#).

[RR White to play would win immediately via 1. Rd2 Kxf7 2. c6 Be5 3. c7. With Black to play, the position (#) is difficult to hold for White, and may be lost. A sample line is 1... Kxf7 2. Kd5 h4 3. c6 Bd8 4. Ke5 h3 5. Rd2 Bc7+ 6. Kxf5 g3 7. Rd7+ Ke8 8. Rxc7, when Black is winning after either 8... Kd8 or 8... h2 (Lomonosov tablebases).]

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Annotator(s): David McAlister.

Reference(s): Irish Championship 1980, contd., Seán Coffey, IRLchess, November 8, 2020.

Event information: Tournament report.

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