My first recorded encounter of this Old Fourteenth variation was at the GAYP Nationals held in Dublin, OH, June 2005. I had run into this deviation a couple of times earlier, which posed no problem, but at the Nationals I barely managed to draw, and then only with a man down.

Since then the same game has occurred two or three more times, the last being a tournament game on the "Its Your Turn" web site.

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