This exposes Black to further attack by P - R 5 without any compensation for it. If I had to play this position nowadays I would simply play 13...R - K 1. Then after 14 Q × P, Q × Q would follow, and I believe that Black would regain the Pawn. If, instead, White played 14 P × P then B - Kt 5 would give Black an excellent game.
| 14. P - R 5 | B - Kt 2 | |
| 15. O - O | Q - B 2 | |
| 16. K R - Kt 1 | Kt - Q 2 |
Black's position was bad and perhaps lost in any case, but the text move makes matters worse. As a matter of fact I never saw White's reply B - B 5. It never even passed through my mind that this was threatened. Black's best move would have been 16...K R - Kt 1. If that loses, then any other move would lose as well.
| 17. B - B 5 | K R - B 1 |
From bad to worse. Kt - B 3 offered the only hope.
| 18. B × Kt | Q × B | |
| 19. P - R 6 | B - B 3 | |
| 20. P × P | P × P | |
| 21. Q × P | Q R - Kt 1 |
The game was lost. One move was as good as another.
| 22. R × R | R × R | |
| 23. Kt - K 5 | Q - B 4 | |
| 24. P - K B 4 | R - Kt 3 | |
| 25. Q × R ! | Resigns. |