USCF/ICC Quick Rated Saturday Tourney

Here is another game that I played over the weekend. For those who do not know the USCF in conjunction with the ICC hold USCF Quick Rated tourneys at 5pm Server time (Eastern Time) every Saturday. Yesterday was the first one that I have played in and I thought that I played pretty well considering that everyone I played was at least 400 point higher than me. They use your USCF rating to do the pairings and not everyone has an established rating so you can be paired with someone who has a 1800 ICC but does not have even a provisional USCF rating, I believe this is what happened to me and this is why I was playing the last round with a 600 point rating gap between me and my opponent.

One of my games though I played very well with the black pieces and aside from one errant move, I calculated it and wrote the move down I just didn’t play it on the board. I got excited and just plain forgot to make the move.

The game started off pretty strange, at least to me, with 1.d4 d5 2.e3? I quickly busted out 2… e6 with the idea of getting long lasting control of the e4 square and using that as a launching point of my future attack.

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cristoforo - Caseylj

1-0, 2015.04.04.

[#] 1.d4 0:12:03 1...d5 0:12:00 2.e3 0:12:05 2...e6 0:11:59 3.f4 0:12:06 3...Nf6 Looking to control e4 0:11:44 4.Bd3 0:12:08 4...c5 After c5 I was expecting either Nf3, a natural developing move and would allow for a future night on d4 anchored by e3. 0:11:30 5.c3 0:12:10 5...c4 After this move I was thinking that I could take control of all the light squares and not have too much to worry about, a future Nd2 would threaten at least a trade of knights and after a future Nd7 f6 I will be able to go d5 and I felt that would be a solid spot for my Knight. Not to mention I will gain a tempo on the bishop. 0:11:27 6.Bc2 0:12:11 6...b5 0:11:06 7.Nd2 0:12:11 7...Bd6 Bb2 would have been slightly better as it would have given me one more defender/ attacker on the e4 square. 0:10:59 8.Ngf3 0:12:13 8...Ng4 This was to apply pressure to his light squared bishop and maybe picking up a pawn if he played poorly. 0:10:06 9.Qe2 0:12:08 9...f6 I was trying to not allow his bishop in e5 Stockfish says f5 would have kept the game more or less even but f6 gives white a pawn advantage. We are not grandmasters so I think it was negligible but is good information for the next time I’m in a similar spot. 0:09:41 10.e4 0:11:09 10...Bxf4 0:09:13 11.Ne5 the following line from Stockfish is interesting and I had not even considered it for a second. Taking with fxe5 allowed me to get Qa4+and I get to pick up another pawn and his light squared bishop is pretty much out of the game for the next few moves. My plan here was to trade as much as possible and win the end game a pawn or two up. 0:10:50 11...Nxe5 0:08:51

[11...fxe5 12.Qxg4 O-O 13.Nf3 Bxc1 14.Rxc1 exd4 15.Nxd4 e5 16.Ne6 Bxe6 17.Qxe6 Kh8 18.Qxd5 Qb6 19.Qd2 Nc6 20.Rd1 Rf7 21.Qe2 Raf8 22.Rd2 a6 23.a3 Kg8 24.h4 Ne7 25.Bd1 h6 26.a4 Rf6 27.Bc2 Kh8 28.Kd1 Rf2 (0:03:25) 611286kN 11.Nfe5 -1.75 Stockfish 5 64]

12.dxe5 0:10:52 12...fxe5 0:08:53 13.exd5 0:10:46 13...Qh4 0:08:45 14.g3 0:10:35 14...Bxg3 0:08:44 15.Kd1 0:10:26 15...Bf4 Again not the most accurate move exd5 is better. for some reason i was thinking that he would take the bishop but obviously that was not going to happen. 0:07:59 16.Nf3Went from two pawns up to evenaccording to Stockfish, but i felt at the time i was winning, even though i gave up the initative for a second. 0:10:21 16...Qf6 0:07:36 17.Bxf4 0:10:13 17...exf4 0:07:21 18.Ne5 0:09:57 18...O-O 0:06:59 19.Qh5 0:09:45 19...Qh6 I was going for the trade with the idea of pushing the e pawn after a trade of Knights 0:05:50 20.Qf3 0:09:30 20...Nd7 0:05:34 21.Nxd7 0:08:25 21...Bxd7 0:05:35 22.Be4 0:08:25 22...Rae8 0:05:17 23.Kc2 0:08:23 23...exd5 0:05:11 24.Bxd5 0:08:24 24...Be6moving the king over would probably been better here but i was happy with the position that followed. 0:05:07 25.Bxe6 0:08:22 25...Rxe6 0:05:08 26.Rad1 0:08:22 26...Qg6 0:05:09 27.Kc1 0:08:23 27...Qe4trade queens and i win the endgame if i blunder i will have a draw at least. 0:04:40 28.Qg4He says not and plans Rhg1 Qxg7#, all i have to do is Rg6and I have the game in the bag. 0:08:04 28...Qe3 0:04:21 29.Kb1 0:08:04 29...Rfe8 0:03:54 30.Rhg1about three different moves win the game for me here I had even written a couple of them down on my note pad, but i forgot to make the damn move 0:07:51 30...Qe4 0:03:35 31.Ka1 0:07:52 31...Qe1?????? there are not enough question marks for this move,Rg6 wins but i got too excited and make the loosing move. I went from being -22 up to mate in 1. terrible 0:03:31

[31...Rg6 32.Qh4 Rxg1 33.Rxg1 f3 34.Qf2 Qe2 35.Qg3 g6 36.Rb1 f2 37.Qg2 Qd2 38.a4 Re1 39.Qa8 Kg7 40.Qxa7 Kh6 41.Qxf2 Qxf2 42.Rxe1 Qxe1 43.Ka2 bxa4 44.Ka3 Qa1 45.Kb4 Qxb2 46.Kc5 a3 47.Kxc4 a2 48.Kc5 a1=Q 49.h3 Qxc3 50.Kd6 Qaa5 51.Ke6 Qc6 52.Kf7 Qa7 53.Kg8 Qc8# ]

32.Qxg7# 0:07:46 [1-0]

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