Monthly Archives: May 2012
#5421 by Noname
05:24, May 05, 2012 by Noname
[pgn] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Nbd7 8. O-O Be7 9. Be3 b5 10. a3 Bb7 11. Bf3 Nc5 12. Nxc5 dxc5 13. Nd5 Bxd5 14. exd5 e4 15. Be2 Nxd5 16. Qc1 O-O 17. Rd1 c4 18. Rd2 Qd6 19. Qd1 Rfd8 [/pgn]
#5422 by Noname
08:32, May 05, 2012 by Noname
[Event "?"]
[Site "kurnik"]
[Date "2012.03.08"]
[Round "-"]
[White "meteleu"]
[Black "santerra"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Time "15:35:24"]
[TimeControl "900"]
[WhiteElo "1042"]
[BlackElo "1129"]
1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. f3 d6 5. h3 g6 6. d3 Bg7 7. g4 O-O 8. a4 a6 9.
Ne2 Bd7 10. Qb3 Qc7 11. Bd5 e6 12. Bxc6 Bxc6 13. Kf2 Rfb8 14. Rd1 b5 15. Qc2
bxa4 16. d4 c4 17. b4 axb3 18. Qd2 a5 19. Na3 d5 20. e5 Nd7 21. Bb2 a4 22. Nf4
Bf8 23. h4 Qb6 24. g5 Bxa3 25. Rxa3 Qd8 26. h5 Qxg5 27. hxg6 fxg6 28. Rg1 Qh4+
29. Ke2 Rf8 30. Rg4 Qh2+ 31. Rg2 Qh6 32. Nxe6 Qxd2+ 33. Kxd2 Rxf3 34. Ng5 Rf4
35. Ke3 Raf8 36. Ne6 Rf3+ 37. Ke2 Rf2+ 38. Rxf2 Rxf2+ 39. Kxf2 h5 40. Nf4 Kg7
41. Ne6+ Kh6 42. Kg3 g5 43. Ra1 Nb6 44. Rf1 h4+ 45. Kg4 Bd7 46. Rf6+ Kh7 47.
Kh3 Kg8 48. Kh2 Kh7 49. Nxg5+ Kg7 50. Rxb6 Be8 51. Rb7+ Kg6 52. Nf3 Kf5 53.
Nxh4+ Ke4 54. e6 Kd3 55. e7 Kc2 56. Rb8 Bh5 57. Rh8 Bf7 58. Rf8 Bh5 59. Rh8 Bf7
60. Rf8 Bh5 61. Rh8 1/2-1/2
#5423 by Noname
12:51, May 05, 2012 by Noname
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 Qf6 5.O-O Be7 6.d3 h6 7.d4 exd4 8.Nxd4 Qg6 9.Qf3 Nf6 10.Nf5 Bxf5 11.exf5 Qg4 12.Qxg4 Nxg4 13.Re1 Ne5 14.Bb3 O-O 15.Bf4 Nbd7 16.Ne4 Rae8 17.Bxe5 Nxe5 18.Rad1 d5 19.Ng3 Ng4 20.Nh5 Bb4 21.Rxe8 Rxe8 22.c3 Bc5 23.Rf1 Nxf2 24.Rxf2 Re1#
#5424 by Noname
06:09, May 06, 2012 by Noname
[pgn] 1. e4 c5 {Here I thought for a while trying to decide how I wanted to play against this guy. I finally decided to not play scared and just enjoy the lesson of how a master plays the sicilian.} 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 {Looking this up, apparently this is the Sicilian, Kan Variation. I will probably forget this.} 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. Be3 {Apparenly book was to simply castle here. I was a little afraid of queen coming out to b6 harassing a couple of things, but felt Nb3 with a discovery should be fine. Qa5 I thought was met with Nc3 maybe followed by Nb3 decently enough. At this point, I still had not really developed a plan beyond getting the pieces out.} Nc6 7. O-O {Taking knight looks like it might have been best. I felt I had the edge in development and was hoping he would start taking some of my pieces to further my development and that my bishops would start giving him some concern both being pointed at the kingside i.e.: 1. ...Nxd4 2. Bxd4 however, I think the main problem I missed is Ne5 hitting my bishop which is certainly uncomfortable.} Qc7 8. c3 {I felt c3 did a couple of things for me. It adds to the support of the knight, in case of things like Bc5, and gives a nice hole for the light-squared bishop in case of Ne5.} d5 9. Nd2 {Here I continued standing my ground, continuing to develop and hoping to force my opponent to initiate some trades, thereby developing my pieces further. In hindsight, taking the pawn might have been better as it opens the position up a bit with his king still in the middle of the board. I did not believe that I would be winning through tactics or blitz attacks against a much higher rated player though, and was instead depending/hoping on better development with a strong position.} Be7 10. f4 {Here I thought I was either forcing him to take the pawn finally, and if he did not, then playing e5 locking in his light squared bishop for a while and harassing the knight. I felt my dark-squared bishop provided adequate protection to the hole I was creating to my king. He quickly showed the fallacies in my logic.} dxe4 11. Nxe4 {Succcess in my mind! Pieces are well developed, queen can comes to f3. The rooks have great spots on e1 & d1. After the game, he told me I did have good development, but there were simply no threats being created. I agreed that I was playing somewhat passively.} Nd5 {Ouch! I certainly overlooked this. The knight invades already and my pawn looks very silly out there as a target. I did not want to give up the bishop pair even though, again in hindsight, he was threatening to take the worse of my 2 bishops. Queen up was probably best.} 12. Bd2 Qb6 {Ouch ouch! My opening has fallen apart at this point in my mind. I thought for a long time here considering simply Kh1 and surrendering the pawn. I finally saw a slight improvement.} 13. Qb3 Qa7 {Actually got him thinking for a bit! I had probably used up 1/2 hour already and he had used around 5 minutes. I knew I was playing slow, but I wanted to give him as good a game as possible. Currently that appears to have been amounting to losing material. I looked for a long time at 1. Qc4, but I felt after ...b5 My queen had simply wasted a move. 2. Qxc6 seemed to trap the queen after Bd7. So I finally surrendered the pawn feeling like I still had decent development for compensation.} 14. Kh1 (14. Qc4 b5 15. Qxc6+ Bd7 16. Bxb5 {An interesting alternative I had looked at a bit that the computer actually likes} Bxc6 17. Bxc6+ Kf8 18. Bxa8 Qxa8 {Winning a knight, a bishop, a pawn and the exchange for my queen. Black is a mess, but should be fine. Computer has white up 1/2 a point. I might have tried it in a blitz game.} ) Nxd4 15. cxd4 Qxd4 {Here I thought for a while. 1.Rad1 seemed decent and holding, but being down material, I felt had to start trying to make something happen.} 16. Rac1 O-O 17. Rc4 {Working on doubling the rooks and taking c file, but it doesn't seem like that really does me any good. I have been keeping an eye on the possibility of moves like Ng5 but didn't feel good about it yet.} Qa7 {Here I saw that his light-squared bishop was still out of play, and that his queen was also a bit out of the battle. I thought, how about I reposition the queen to h5! Now that Ng5 move looks pretty good. I thought that 1...Bxg5 2. fxg5 and now the rook could swing over to h4 at some point, start making some things happen.} (17. ... Qb6 {He later said that he probably should have just played here.} ) 18. Qd1 Bd7 19. Qh5 f5 {Luckily my confidence in my attack concerened him enough or something and he did not play Bb5.} (19. ... Bb5 {I thought this move was met with} 20. Qxh7+ Kxh7 21. Ng5+ {This is just horribly losing though. In my brain, I believed he was forced to go to h8, the pawn for some reason was not on f4, my rook can come to h4 for check, then bishop can come back and forth to h7 with check forcing perpetual.} ) 20. Ng5 Nf6 {did not expect this move. I looked for a long time at Qh4 and Qh3 for a long time keeping the mate threat alive if only to provide a distraction and uneasiness for my opponent. Qh4 seeemed to get me into some trouble after Ng4 and now the knight is pinned and he's threatening Nf2+ winning the exchange or smother mating me, so I finally discarded that idea. I had almost settled on Qh3 when I finally looked at Qe2. Not only am I hitting the pawn twice I thought! I see a great sac of the bishop winning my pawn back!} 21. Qe2 {He later told me, he felt this was a pretty good move. I happily accepted the compliment. (: This was the first point in the game I actually saw him think for more than a couple of seconds/minutes.} b5 22. Rc2 Qb6 {Getting protection to his pawn finally and one of his reason why he felt he should have just played Qb6 much earlier.} 23. Bxf5 {Yay! Certainly far from winning or anything. But I felt this was a huge milestone in re-earning the draw with this guy after I felt like I was completely lost. Not only is it winning the pawn back, this will leave us with bishops of opposite colors.} exf5 24. Qxe7 Rae8 {Again I thought for a long time here. I only have a few choices, one of them swaps the queens off, getting closer to what I was hoping was a draw. The other 2 (Qa3 and Qb4) just didn't really seem to do much of anything but let his rooks come in. Looking at it now, it does seem like I might be threatening something like Qb3+ with threats of smothered mate of my own! Instead...} 25. Qc5 {I went for the draw. I knew after he took, his rook would be invading to e2, but I felt like taking the biggest threat out of the game, even if I dropped a pawn, the opposite colored bishops should hold for a draw if I can find a way to swap off the knight and rooks.} Qxc5 {He happily took} 26. Rxc5 Re2 {and just as happily brought the rook to e2. Again I though for a long time.} 27. Rd1 {The move I finally settled on after looking at some alternatives I'll list. I felt like getting my rook into the game with a potential discovered attack on the bishop was strongest. My bishops and knight could work together to hold e1 if need be.} (27. Bc3 h6 28. Nf3 Ne4 {This greatly concerned me. If knight takes bishop and rook recaptures, his rook will be a monster against my queenside pawns.} 29. Rc7 Nxc3 30. bxc3 Be8 {I might have still been ok here with Ra1 or something, but I feel far from comfortable having my pawns split up and both being targets.} 31. a3 {what the computer suggests, and then bringing the f rook to d1. certainly gets my rooks active but at the cost of a passed a pawn. Didn't even consider it.} ) ({another move i considered, but I was concerned about...} 27. Bc1 Rfe8 {but I suppose I was fine after...} 28. Nf3 {so maybe that would have been ok as well, though I felt like my bishop was out of play a bit.} ) Ng4 {However, this move seemed to dash all of my hopes at a draw again. I had just given my opponent a huge gigantic fork opportunity!! I had no idea what to do. Kg1 just seemed to allow the knight to come in anyway. And after the rook moved the bishops falls. (Had i looked closer, I had moves like Kf1 threatening to win the rook back, or even Rf1 counterattacking the knight to consider.} 28. Nh3 {I sadly settled on this, totally removing my knight from play. Hoping my slightly more active rooks and bishop could create some havoc on g7.} Be6 29. Bc3 {Giving up the a pawn but hopefully for some counterplay. He also had a nice fork trick on e3 after 1...Rxg2 2. Kxg2. That would still probably hold for a draw as a single pawn difference would not matter in the opposite colored bishop endgame.} Ne3 30. Re1 {I thought for a bit about this move as well, I saw a chance to trade off more material and ended up going for it} Rxe1+ 31. Bxe1 Bxa2 32. Ng5 Nd5 33. g3 Re8 {I saw this and felt the knight coming back to protect it was strong. If he didn't invade with the rook, I would lock it out with Ne5. If he did invade, then I had some counter play which is what happens.} 34. Nf3 Re3 35. Rc8+ Kf7 36. Ne5+ Kf6 {He again thought for a while before deciding on this move.} 37. Bf2 {Jumping at the chance to play Bd4 which protects the pawn and gives some chances at double checking. Those are usually quite strong, but in this case I couldn't find anything to follow it up with.} Re2 38. Bd4 Ne7 {Ignoring the double check/discovery threats, the knight can't seem to threaten anything with it's free move from the center of the board, at such a fine outpost. Unbelieveable!} 39. Rc7 Bd5+ 40. Kg1 Ke6 {finally breaking the discovered check} (40. ... Rg2+ 41. Kf1 Rxh2 {fails to...} 42. Ng4+ ) 41. Ra7 {winning back the pawn yet again!} Be4 42. Rxa6+ Kd5 43. Bc3 Rg2+ 44. Kf1 {With 5 minutes on the clock, I confidently offered a draw to my opponent.} Rxh2 {He took with no reply} 45. Ra7 {He thought for a few minutes here. Then to my shock he said...yea...okay.} [/pgn]
#5425 by Heinrich
07:08, May 06, 2012 by Heinrich
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.02.23"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mod. Benoni"]
[Black "Basisstellung"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkb1r/pp3ppp/3p1n2/2pP4/8/2N5/PP2PPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "0"]
*
#5426 by YourMove
07:36, May 06, 2012 by YourMove
[White "alexksso"] [Black "jbuilder"] [Date "2012.05.06"] [Site "fics.org"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. c3 O-O 6. b4 Bb6 7. Ng5 h6 8. h4 hxg5 9. hxg5 Ne8 10. Qh5 Bxf2 11. Kxf2 Qf6 12. gxf6 gxf6 13. Qh8#
#5427 by PL
10:52, May 06, 2012 by PL
[Event "BSV Extern"]
[Site "Bussum"]
[Date "2004.03.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "PL"]
[Black "LdeK"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E97"]
[Annotator "PL"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventType "game"]
[EventCountry "NED"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5
Ne7 9. b4 Nh5 10. Re1 {Het idee is dat op Pf4 nu Lf1 volgt.} f5 11. Ng5 Nf6 12.
Bf3 {Ik had in die tijd veel partijen van Kramnik bestudeerd die ook deze
opstelling speelt.} h6 {kansrijker is c6.} 13. Ne6 Bxe6 14. dxe6 {is de pion
op e6 sterk of zwak? In elk geval krijgt wit meestal voldoende compensatie
door druk tegen d6.} g5 (14... c6 {wordt hier het meest gespeeld:} 15. b5 Ne8
16. Ba3 {[%csl Rd6]} Rf6 17. c5 dxc5 18. Bxc5 Qxd1 19. Bxd1 Kf8 20. bxc6 bxc6
21. Rb1 Rc8 22. Rb7 Rc7 23. Rb8 Rxe6 24. Bb3 Rf6 25. Rd1 {1-0 (25) Wells,P
(2480)-Sowray,P (2357)/Sunningdale 2006/EXT 2008}) 15. h3 (15. exf5 e4 16. Be2
Nxf5 17. Bb2 Qe8 18. Qb1 Qxe6 19. Bd3 $13) (15. Qd3 g4 16. Bd1 {is de beste
manier voor wit om verder te gaan.}) 15... f4 16. Ba3 a5 17. c5 axb4 18. Bxb4
dxc5 19. Bxc5 b6 $4 {Tsja.} (19... Qxd1 20. Raxd1 Rfe8 21. Rd7 $1 $16) 20. Qxd8
1-0
#5428 by Noname
11:29, May 06, 2012 by Noname
1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Bg5 dxe4
5. Nxe4 Be7
6. Ng3 O-O
7. Nf3 c5
8. dxc5 Qxd1+
9. Rxd1 Bxc5
10. Bxf6 gxf6
11. Ne4 Be7
12. Nd6 Nc6
13. c3 Rd8
14. Nxc8 Raxc8
15. Bc4 Rxd1+
16. Kxd1 Bc5
17. Ke2 Rd8
18. a4 a5
19. Bb5 Ne7
20. Rb1 Nd5
21. Bc4 Nf4+
22. Kf1 Nd3
23. Bxd3 Rxd3
24. Ke2 Rd8
25. b4 axb4
26. cxb4 Ba7
27. Rc1 Bb8
28. Rc4 Be5
29. Nxe5 fxe5
30. Rc7 b6
31. Rc6 Rb8
32. Kd3 Kf8
33. Kc4 Ke7
34. Kb5 Kd7
35. Rxb6 Rxb6+
36. Kxb6 f5
37. a5 e4
38. Kb7 f4
39. a6 e3
40. fxe3 fxe3
41. a7 e2
42. a8(Q) e1(Q)
#5429 by Noname
11:32, May 06, 2012 by Noname
1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Bg5 dxe4
5. Nxe4 Be7
6. Ng3 O-O
7. Nf3 c5
8. dxc5 Qxd1+
9. Rxd1 Bxc5
10. Bxf6 gxf6
11. Ne4 Be7
12. Nd6 Nc6
13. c3 Rd8
14. Nxc8 Raxc8
15. Bc4 Rxd1+
16. Kxd1 Bc5
17. Ke2 Rd8
18. a4 a5
19. Bb5 Ne7
20. Rb1 Nd5
21. Bc4 Nf4+
22. Kf1 Nd3
23. Bxd3 Rxd3
24. Ke2 Rd8
25. b4 axb4
26. cxb4 Ba7
27. Rc1 Bb8
28. Rc4 Be5
29. Nxe5 fxe5
30. Rc7 b6
31. Rc6 Rb8
32. Kd3 Kf8
33. Kc4 Ke7
34. Kb5 Kd7
35. Rxb6 Rxb6+
36. Kxb6 f5
37. a5 e4
38. Kb7 f4
39. a6 e3
40. fxe3 fxe3
41. a7 e2
42. a8=Q e1=Q
43. Qc8+ Ke7
44. Qc5+ Kf6
45. Qf8+ Ke5
46. Qg7+ Kd6
47. Qg3+ Qxg3
48. hxg3 e5
49. b5 e4
50. b6 e3
51. Ka6 e2
52. b7 e1=Q
53. b8=Q Kd5
54. Qd8+ Kc4
55. Qc7+ Kd4
56. Qd6+ Ke3
57. Qf4+ Ke2
58. Qe4+ Kf1
59. Qxh7 Qxg3
#5430 by jp
15:57, May 06, 2012 by jp
1. e4 c6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 Bf5
4. g4
Bg6
5. Bg5 f6
6. exf6 exf6
7. Bh4 Bd6
8. Nh3 Ne7
9. g5 fxg5
10. Nxg5 Bf5
11. Qf3 O-O
12. Bh3 Bxc2
13. Be6+ Kh8
14. Nf7+ Rxf7
15. Qxf7 Qa5+
16. Nc3 Bb4
17. Qf8+ Ng8
18. Qxg8#