This position arose in the third round game of the 1994 Eastern Class Championship in Woburn, MA between GM Alexander Shabalov (white) & GM Patrick Wolff (black) after just 8 moves of a Vienna Game [C26]:
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bb4 4.f4 Nxe4 5.Qh5 O-O 6.fxe5 d5 7.Nxd5 Nc6 8.Nf3 Be6 ...
It's most likely all (well known) theory up to this point & the game was drawn after black's 43rd move, so chances are that neither player went horribly awry on the way, but it's one of the most complex tactical demonstrations I've ever seen, especially at such a high level of proficiency.
Sometime soon I'm going to try to analyze it, but every time I look at it I find something else lurking in the sub-variations. It's not the kind of thing I'd feel confident I could duplicate over the board just yet.
Here's the whole game without annotations for now:
[Event "Eastern Class Championships"]
[Site "Woburn, MA"]
[Date "1994.03.12"]
[EventDate "1994.03.11-13"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Shabalov"]
[Black "Patrick Wolff"]
[ECO "C26"]
[WhiteElo "2696->2706"]
[BlackElo "2659->2670"]
[PlyCount "86"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bb4 4.f4 Nxe4 5.Qh5 O-O 6.fxe5 d5
7.Nxd5 Nc6 8.Nf3 Be6 9.Ne3 g6 10.Qh6 Nxe5 11.Nxe5 Bxd2+ 12.Ke2
Qf6 13.Bxe6 Qf2+ 14.Kd1 Rad8 15.Bd7 Rfe8 16.Nd3 Rxd7 17.Nxf2
Bxe3 18.Nd3 Nf2+ 19.Ke2 Bxc1 20.Kxf2 Bxh6 21.Rhe1 Rxe1 22.Rxe1
Kf8 23.Re4 Bg5 24.g4 Rd5 25.Rb4 b6 26.Ra4 a5 27.Rc4 c5 28.a4
f5 29.gxf5 gxf5 30.Ke2 Rd6 31.h4 Re6+ 32.Kf3 Re3+ 33.Kf2 Bh6
34.Nxc5 bxc5 35.Rxc5 f4 36.Rxa5 Rh3 37.Rc5 Rxh4 38.a5 Rh1
39.a6 Ra1 40.Rc6 Bg5 41.b4 Ra3 42.c3 Ke8 43.Kf3 Kd7 1/2-1/2
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