I was just looking through my old scoresheets when I discovered that I once played a tournament game against Grandmaster Robert Hess.
In this game I played the Basmaniac “Defense” 1. e4 g5
I experimented with this for a few games but I never won with it so eventually I gave it up.
Robert Hess is now a grandmaster with a USCF Rating of 2662. He will play on the US Team at the forthcoming World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia.
In my game against Hess, I got a reasonable opening and possibly even had an advantage until I made a simple blunder on move 22.
Here is the game:
[Event “Manhattan Insanity”]
[Site “Marshall Chess Club New York”]
[Date “2003.01.05”]
[Round “07”]
[White “Hess, Robert L”]
[Black “Sloan, Sam”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “B00”]
[WhiteElo “2022”]
[BlackElo “1946”]
1.e4 g5 2.Bc4 e6 3.d4 d5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Bb3 Be6 6.Nf3 h6 7.Qe2 Nf6
8.Nc3 c6 9.Ne5 Nbd7 10.Ng6 Rh7 11.Nxf8 Nxf8 12.Bd2 Qd6 13.O-O-O
O-O-O 14.Na4 Re8 15.Qf1 Ne4 16.Be3 f5 17.f3 Nf6 18.Nc5 Bg8 19.Bd2
Ne6 20.Nxe6 Bxe6 21.Re1 Rhe7 22.a3 f4 23.Bb4 Qd7 24.Bxe7 Rxe7
25.Qd3 Rg7 26.Qc3 Bf5 27.Qc5 Kb8 28.Qf8+ Kc7 29.Qxf6 g4 30.fxg4
Be4 31.Qxf4+ Kb6 32.h3 Rf7 33.Rxe4 Rxf4 34.Rxf4 Qd6 35.Rhf1 a5
36.Rf6 Qg3 37.Bxd5 Kb5 1-0