Nunn published wrong move order ?

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In the 1996 Olympiad tournament at Erevan, in round 10, G.Kasparov - I.Sokolov played a game of 71 plies, 36. Qe4:ph4 1-0.

In his famous book “Understanding Chess Move by Move”, Nunn gives the moves:

  1. Qc2 Rad8
  2. Nd2 Qc5

However, my database of 3 million games from Convekta, gives the moves differently for Black:

  1. Qc2 Qc5
  2. Nd2 Rad8

*** QUESTION: :question: Does anybody have information from another source, to help determine whether Nunn or Convekta is correct?

Thank you.
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Surely that game would have been in the Informant.

If you can’t get an answer from anywhere else, try calling the Cleveland Public Library, home of the John G. White collection of chess books and magazines.

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ChessBase “Big Database 2005” and “Inside Chess” magazine v9, I22, pg. 12
both give the move order as 15. Qc2 Qc5 16. Nd2 Rad8.

Regards,
John

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Thanks for this information.
Three different sources all in agreement, and all differing with Nunn’s move order (for his game 16).

In the particular game position it does not seem to be a major distortion. Perhaps that is why Nunn did not sense anything was wrong after he transposed the two moves (if indeed he did – or whatever earlier source transposed them before Nunn received the game score).
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