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In My Best Games of Chess 1908 - 1923, Alexander Alekhine gave this amazing game in the notes to another game, calling it, "a game played by the author in Moscow, 1915." The current theory is that he made up this game, probably during analysis of this 9 Qg4 variation, which seems to have been new play.
Alekhine - anonymous, Moscow 1915
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5
Bb4 5 e5 h6 6 exf6!? hxg5 7 fxg7 Rg8 8 h4 gxh4 9 Qg4! (apparently, 9 Qh5
had been played in previous games) 9...Be7 (9...Qf6 in Nunn's Chess
Openings) 10 g3! c5 (10...Bf6 Alekhine) 11 gxh4 cxd4 12 h5! dxc3
13 h6 cxb2 14 Rb1 Qa5+ 15 Ke2 Qxa2 16 h7 Qxb1 17 hxg8Q+ Kd7 18 Qxf7 Qxc2+ 19
Kf3 Nc6! 20 Q4xe6+ Kc7 21 Qf4+ Kg6 22 Q6e3+ Bc5 23 g8Q b1Q 24 Rh6!
(Alekhine gave this two exclamation marks) Qxf1 25 Qb4+ Qb5 26 Qd8+ Ka6 27
Q3a3+ mate in 2.