The following entertaining miniature win was played against Franciszek Sulik (1908-1977) who was born in Gliniany, Austria-Hungary, later Lwow, Poland and now Ukraine.
He played as a reserve on the Polish team at the the 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires in 1939. The team (Tartakower, Najdorf, Frydman, Regedzinski and Sulik) won the silver medal.
In September 1939, when WWII broke out, he also decided to stay in Argentina. In 1940 he moved to Australia where he won the South Australian Championship in 1954, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1978.
Aristide Gromer–Franciszek Sulik1–0C48Buenos AiresBuenos Aires1940Stockfish 16
C48: Four Knights Game 1.e4 e5 2.f3 f6 3.c3 Even when this game was
played in 1940 the Four Knights Game was a throwback to they days before World
War One when it was popular. Though there are some sharp variations, it
usually leads to quiet positional play. Not in this game though. c6 4.b5 4.xe5 This is the dubious Halloween Gambit in which white tries to seize
the center with his Ps and drive the Ns back to their home squares. xe5 5.d4 g6 5...c6 6.d5 b4 7.dxc6 xe4 8.d4 e7 According to GM Larry Kaufman
this reutes the gambit, but black's advantage is only minimal. 6.e5 g8 7.c4 d5 8.xd5 8e7 9.g5 c6 10.b3 h6 11.e3 f5 is the engine refutation.
4...c5 5.xe5 White usually castkesm, but here this move is, inlike
last move, quite playable because of black's B on c5. xf2+ But this move,
which has been unsuccessfully played several times, is unsoubd as black doies
not have enough pieces in play to take advantage of the position od white's
displaced K. 5...xe5 6.d4 Unlike in the previous variation this attacks
two pieces so that after a6 7.e2 d6 8.dxe5 xe5 the position is equal. 6.xf2 xe5 7.d4 eg4+ Safer would have been 7...Ng6 8.g1
One can see the appeal of black's strategy: white's R is hemmed in by his K
and with his next move black drives back the B. The situation is only
temporary as white already has a decisive advantahe. How? Gromer will
demonstrate. c6 9.e2 d6 10.h3 h6 Now black's N is awkwardly placed. 11.h2 Brilliant! This is even better than capturing the N. 11.xh6 gxh6 12.d2 e7 13.f4 d5 14.exd5 xd5 15.xd5 cxd5 16.h2 Here, too, white's
advantage proved decisive. Barbosa,E (2446)-Ayala Pena,E (2190) Katowice POL
2014 11...hg8 11...e7 proved no better in Reichardt,H-Mayer,F Dresden
2001 which continued 12.d3 e6 13.e1 0-0-0 14.b4 fg4+ 15.g1 and
white soon won. 12.f1 So, the R is in play and white's K is safe after
all. h5 A futile attempt to get the N safely back in play, but there was
really nothing that is much better. 12...d5 13.e5 e4 14.xe4 dxe4 15.c4 and with his J in the center the attack on f7 is too much for black to handle.
13.h1 The reason for this is umclear, but his position is so good that
it does no harm. h6 14.g5 a5 15.d2 hg8 Clearly the idea behind 12...
h5 didn't work! 15...e6 does not work out well after 16.xf6 gxf6 17.xh6 0-0-0 18.f4 hg8 19.d5 cxd5 20.xd5 xd2 21.xd2 xd5 22.exd5
and white's two Bs for the R coupled with black's weak Ps are sufficient to
secure the win. 16.b4 A nice sacrifice of a P to clear the way for the
advance of his e-Pawn. xb4 17.e5 Ripping the guts out of black's position. h7 17...dxe5 18.dxe5 d7 19.ab1 a3 20.c4 f6 21.exf6 gxf6 22.be1+ d8 23.xf6+ gxf6 24.xf6 White has a winning attack. A sanmple line... c5 25.f7 f8 26.e4 e7 27.h6 xf7 28.d6 xe1+ 29.xe1 f8 30.h7 c7 31.e8+ xe8 32.xe8 18.e4 xd2 This allows mate in 4, not that it
matters. 18...xg5 19.xg5 e6 20.xg7 0-0-0 21.xd6+ b8 22.ab1 a3 23.xf7 xf7 24.xf7 wins 19.xd6+ d7 20.xf7+ Black resigned. 20.xf7+ e7 21.xe7+ d8 22.f7# 1–0
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