Monday, July 4, 2016

No Blunders...


Another English Opening :)

As mentioned in the last post, I am making progress in reducing the number of blunders in a game. The below game is one of my better played games over the last few years. I will have to take it with a grain of salt as my opponent who was 400+ points higher rated than me donated half his time to get better points for the tournament. I had 10 minutes and he had 5, this does not diminish the results in my opinion as I still reduced the number of errors and blunders, and he had no blunder until the endgame. Anyway see below for my comments on the game.

This coming weekend I will be playing in my first Over-The-Board (OTB) tournament in close to two years, should be close to 35 people in attendance. I will post my games no matter the outcome in the coming weeks. Until then I will play 1 long time control game a day in preparation for the event I may post a few of these as well this week.
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KCchessc6 1470 - SergioDantas 1850
1-0 (Hourly Classical Arena) 2016.06.29
[#] 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 e4 4.Ng5 d5 Pretty simple attack by black, I have seen this a few times in blitz but it really doesnt seem to pack too much puch. 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Ngxe4
[6.Qa4 c6 7.Qxe4 Be7 8.Nf3 Nf6 9.Qc2 O-O 10.g3 Bg4 11.Bg2 Re8 12.O-O Bb4 13.Re1 Qb6 14.d3 Nbd7 15.Be3 Qd8 16.h3 Bh5 17.a3 Ba5 18.Qb3 Qc8 19.Ng5 h6 20.Nge4 Nxe4 Reimann,M (1569)-Brungs,S (1703) Magdeburg 2012 1/2-1/2 (43)]
6...Bf5 7.d3
[7.g3 Bg6 (7...c6 8.Bg2 Nxc3 9.bxc3 Nd7 10.Qb3 Nb6 11.d3 h6 12.a4 Qd7 13.O-O Rd8 14.Rb1 Rb8 15.Bf4 Rd8 16.c4 Bxe4 17.Bxe4 Bc5 18.a5 f5 19.Bf3 g5 20.Be5 O-O 21.axb6 Bxb6 22.c5 Greinert,T-Korthase,E Greifswald 1997 1-0) 8.Nxd5 Qxd5 9.Bg2 Qd7 10.O-O Nc6 11.d3 Be7 12.Be3 h5 13.Qa4 a6 14.Rac1 h4 15.Nc5 Bxc5 16.Rxc5 Ne7 17.Qxd7 Kxd7 18.Bd4 hxg3 19.hxg3 f6 20.Bxb7 Rab8 21.Bxa6 Nc6 Golcman,E (2336)-Hajek,J (1971) Marianske Lazne 2005 1-0;
7.Nxd5 Qxd5 8.Nc3 Qd7 9.d4 Be7 10.e3 O-O 11.Be2 c6 12.O-O Qc7 13.Bd3 Bxd3 14.Qxd3 Na6 15.a3 Rad8 16.e4 Bf6 17.Be3 Qb6 18.Rfd1 Nc7 19.b4 Ne6 20.d5 Qc7 21.Rac1 Qb8 Angelov,Z (2105)-Petrov,S (2075) Sunny Beach 2006 1/2-1/2 (69);
7.Nxd5 Qxd5 8.Nc3 Qd7± ]
7...Nxc3 This here seems to be a mistake i thought Bb4 would have been better for black.
[7...Bb4 8.Bd2 ]
8.bxc3 Maybe Nxc3 would have been better giving white a better pawn chain in the center. 8...Bxe4 9.dxe4 Qxd1 10.Kxd1 a little nervous being on the the open file but I have time to get the king to safety while he gets his pieces out of the way of the rooks. 10...Bc5 11.e3 Controls d4 11...O-O
[11...Nd7 12.Bc4⩲ ]
12.Rb1 Ke2 or Bc4 surely would have been better here, but with no white squared bishiop i wanted to take control of the half open file. 12...b6 13.Bc4 Nc6 14.Ke2 Ne5 15.Bb3 Rad8 16.f4 Ng4
[16...Nd3!?± ]
17.Kf3 this was a mistake e5 takes away all squares for the Knight following up the h3 and the piece is mine or relegated to h6.
[17.e5 Rfe8 18.h3 Nh6 ;
17.e5 Rfe8+⁠− ]
17...Nf6± 18.e5 Ne8
[18...Nd5!?± ]
19.Bb2+⁠− here I really wanted to exploit the power of the two bishops need to ous e6 and c4 c5 19...Rd3? Not sure what the meaning of this is, it is easliy defended and does nothing to help improve the Knight on e8.
[19...g6+⁠− ]
20.Rhe1 c6 ok lets his Knight out
[20...Rd8 cannot change what is in store for White 21.Rbd1 Rc8 22.e4+⁠− ]
21.Rbd1 Rxd1 22.Rxd1
[22.Bxd1?! Nc7+⁠− ]
22...Nc7
[22...g6 cannot change destiny 23.Rd7 Ng7 24.g4+⁠− ]
23.Rd7 Rook on the 7th and good things will happen 23...Nb5
[23...Ne6 is no salvation 24.f5 Nd8 25.Rxa7+⁠− ]
24.e6 fxe6
[24...Nd6 no good, but what else? 25.exf7 Nxf7 26.Rxa7 b5+⁠− ]
25.Bxe6 Kh8 26.c4 Nd6 27.Bxg7# [1-0]
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