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[Event "CVD"] [Site "CVD"] [Date "2014.08.11"] [Round "?"] [White "Ernest"] [Black "Richard"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C16"] [Annotator "Ernest"] [PlyCount "69"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] {In this game, I carried out a pawn storm and did a speculative material sacrifice. [%bt=0]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Bd3 {Preparing for a potential Greek Gift sacrifice. Forgot that c4 would cause me to lose a tempo.} Nge7 8. O-O c4 {kicking back my bishop before castling so that the sacrifice on h7 won't follow} 9. Be2 O-O 10. g4 {I started a pawn storm because the centre was closed, my pieces were pointing towards the black king, and Black's pieces could not easily access the kingside.} f5 11. exf6 Rxf6 12. g5 Rf8 13. h4 Nf5 14. Kh1 {clearing g1 for my rook} Qe8 15. Rg1 Qh5 16. Nh2 {A discovered attack on the queen. I knew that he could answer with Qxh4, but I thought that by maneuvering my rook along the g-file, I would be able to either trap the queen or draw by threefold repetition. According to Fritz, I would not have been able to do either of those things with best play by Black. Luckily, he didn't answer with Qxh4. Maybe he, too, thought that it would be risky for him.} Qe8 17. h5 e5 18. g6 h6 {Unfortunately, because he had not previously weakened his king's position by playing either g7 or h7, he was able to blockade my storm. However, my g-pawn is now cramping the area around the king.} 19. Ba3 {This move was done to force the black rook onto f6 so that I could subsequently improve the position of my knight with tempo.} Rf6 20. Ng4 Re6 21. dxe5 Qd8 22. Bf3 {Threatening to capture the d-pawn and pin the rook.} Nce7 {adding another protector to the d-pawn} 23. Bxe7 {Although my bishop had a lot of freedom and kept the king trapped, it was not really influencing the main area of activity around the centre and around my king. Therefore, I decided to exchange it in order to draw the black knight away from its influential position.} Nxe7 24. Qd2 { threatening to sacrifice on h6 and to bring my rook to the d-file to tripple my attack on d5} Rb6 25. Nxh6+ {Intending to sacrifice my knight for 2 pawns (after gxh6, Qxh6) to have a strong attack on the king. [%smsr=1]} Kf8 { declining the sacrifice and leaving me another pawn up} 26. Qf4+ {Before playing this move, I made sure that Black could not get out of check with a meaningful counter-attack on my queen, which would leave me with both my queen and my knight under attack.} Nf5 {this loses a piece} 27. Nxf5 Bxf5 28. Qxf5+ Kg8 29. Qh3 {avoiding the complications that Qh4+ would cause, and backing up my h-pawn in preparation for its advance} Rb2 30. h6 {ignoring the threats to my second rank and continuing with my plan} gxh6 31. Qxh6 Qd7 32. g7 Kf7 33. Bh5+ {Intending to use my queen and my bishop to force the king onto e6 where I could skewer to win the queen. If the king goes to g8 instead, then Qh8#.} Ke7 34. Qg5+ {Continuing with my maneuver to force the king to e6. Qf6 would have been an instant mate, but I wasn't really looking for mates at this point. I was just following through with a simple winning plan that I had formulated.} Ke6 35. Qf6# {I was ready to play Bg4+ to win the queen, but then I noticed the mate.} 1-0

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