Fourth of July Game

Now that I have been doing this for about a week I would like to mention a little bit about my chess habits, playing times, playing style and openings that I am trying to learn. 

I live in a pretty barren chess environment, at least where tournaments are concerned, we have a few Books-a-Million (BAM) chess clubs in my area where about 20 or so players get together several times a week for casual games. We have at least 3 Class A players, probably 5 Class B and one Master that gives lots of guidance and advice to the players who are new to the game.  While my work and personal life does not always allow me to play I do try to get to one meeting a week and play about four or five causal games against much better opponents. Usually I will win or get to a winning positon a few times a month, I am getting more and more of these as I learn the positions and work on my tactics and endgame.

As far as the openings that I am trying to learn I use the English almost solely as white. I would like to see as many different positions in this opening as possible. My plan is to use it solely for a year then incorporate another opening for white or when I start winning more than 50% of the time with white.

As for black, I am working on 3 or 4 openings. 1 against the basic opening moves. Against 1.e4 I play the Caro-Kann, 1.d4 I play the Dutch, 1.c4 I also play the Dutch I believe 1.c4 f5 is called the Anglo-Dutch Defense and against 1. Nc3 or Nf3 I really don’t have a plan, I usually try to get a transposition into a Caro-Kann Four Knights.

This is just a little bit of what I am planning as far as my opening choices, as far as my playing style I prefer openings that work from the flank, I’m not really sure why but it seems to just be right for me.

That is enough of that now on to the only game I was able to play on the 4^th of July (worked all day long).

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
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	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H

dhamudurai - Caseylj

0-1, 2014.07.04.

[#] 1.e3 +0.04 CAP 1...d5 2.d4 = 2...c6 again I was going for some sort of Caro-Kann setup for black.

[2...Nf6 3.f4 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.c3 Bf5 6.Be2 e6 7.O-O Be7 8.Ne5 O-O 9.Nd2 Nxe5 10.fxe5 Ne4 11.Nxe4 Bxe4 12.Bd3 Bxd3 13.Qxd3 f5 14.exf6 Bxf6 15.dxc5 Qc7 16.e4 Qxc5 17.Be3 Qc4 18.Qxc4 dxc4 19.Rad1 Rfd8 20.Kf2 b5 21.Ke2 1/2-1/2, Rapoport Alex - Shirov Alexei (ESP) 2749 , Toronto 2/18/2010 Simultan]

3.a3 Nd7 4.Bd2N

[4.Nf3 e6 5.Nc3 Bd6 6.h3 Ngf6 7.b3 e5 8.Qe2 e4 9.Nd2 O-O 10.Bb2 Ne8 11.g3 f5 12.O-O-O b5 13.b4 a5 14.Nxb5 cxb5 15.Qxb5 Ndf6 16.c3 Bd7 17.Qe2 Ba4 18.Re1 Nc7 19.Nb1 axb4 20.c4 bxa3 21.Nxa3 Bb4 22.c5 Ne6 23.f3 Qa5 ...0-1, Jacobsen Waldfried - Mueller Roland (AUT) 2101 , Bayern 1998 Ch Mittelfranken (seniors)]

4...Ngf6 5.h3 e5 6.f3? -1.45

[6.Nc3 -0.15 Houdini4a]

6...e4? here I was thinking if he exchanged i could get a very forward supported ♘ on e4 then shore up its defenders and this would turn into a problem for white as the game moved on. -0.80

[6...Nh5 -1.45 Houdini4a]

7.f4 Bd6 8.Bb4 Qe7 9.Bxd6 Qxd6 10.Be2 O-O 11.Bg4 Nxg4 12.hxg4 Qg6? -0.33

[12...Nf6 -0.98 Houdini4a]

13.f5? -0.89

[13.Nc3 -0.33 Houdini4a]

13...Qg5 14.Nh3? -2.63

[14.Nc3 -0.89 Houdini4a]

14...Qxe3 15.Kf1 Nf6 16.Qe1? -4.50

[16.Nc3 -2.63 Houdini4a]

16...Nxg4 From here on out the game was lost for white, although I did miss a few mating postions a couple of times. I need to work on my tactics and endgame. 17.Qxe3 Nxe3 18.Ke2 Nxf5 19.Rf1 Nxd4 20.Kd2 Re8 21.Nc3 e3 22.Kd3 c5 23.Nxd5 e2 24.Rfe1 Bf5 25.Kc4 b6 26.Nc7 Be6 27.Kd3 Bf5 28.Kc4 Nxc2 29.Nxe8 Rxe8 30.Nf4 Re4 31.Kb5 Nxa1 32.Nxe2 Nc2 33.Rf1 Bd7 34.Ka6 Rxe2 35.Rd1 Re7 36.Kxa7 Ne3 37.Re1 Nd5 38.Rc1 Bb5

[38...Bc6 39.Ka6 Rb7 40.Rxc5 Nc7# (0:00:05) 8827kN 38.Rc1 -156.50 Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64]

39.Kb8 Re8 40.Kb7 h5 41.Rd1 Re7 42.Kc8 Bc4 43.Kd8 f5 44.Rc1 b5

[44...Bb5 45.Kc8 Bc6 46.Re1 Rxe1 47.Kb8 Re8 48.Ka7 Ra8# (0:00:01) 1603kN 44.Rc1 -156.50 Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64]

45.Rb1 Bd3 46.Rd1 c4 47.Rd2 Kf7 48.Rf2 f4

[48...Nb6 49.Rxf5 Bxf5 50.b3 Rd7# (0:00:01) 68kN 48.Rf2 -156.50 Houdini 4 Pro x64]

49.g3 g5 50.gxf4 Nxf4 51.Rf3 h4 52.Rf2 Re2 53.Rf1 Rxb2 54.Rg1 Rg2 55.Rb1 h3 56.Rh1 c3 57.Re1 c2 58.Re7 Kf6 59.Rc7 h2 60.Rc6 Kf5 61.Rc5 Kg4 62.Ke7 h1=Q 63.Kf6 Qh6 64.Ke5 Re2 65.Kd4 Qh8 66.Re5 Qxe5# White checkmated [0-1]

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