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Sashie VII · Jun 25, 2009

This game is from our TMC-ROUND 1: 666 vs Narz's People match. A straightforward rush at the kingside, successful due to the opponent's errors in defending. Lucky me

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6
6.Bc4 e6
7.Bb3 b5
8.f3 Be7
9.Be3 O-O
10.a3 Bb7
11.Qd2 Nbd7
12.g4 Ne5
13.O-O-O Nc4
14.Bxc4 bxc4
15.h4 Qa5
16.g5 Nd7
17.h5 d5
18.g6 Nc5

Error. 18. ... h6 is better.

19.exd5 Rad8
20.h6 hxg6
21.hxg7 Rfe8

Decisive error.
22.Qh2 f6
23.Qh7+ 1-0

Richard Cribb · Jun 25, 2009

Sashie VII said:
Error. 18. ... h6 is better.

And what happens after 19.Bxh6 then?
I haven't had time to look at it properly, but I think that Black should perhaps try somthing like 19...Nc5. 18...Bxa3 might also be worth investigating.
Sicilian is one difficult opening, I must confess that I don't understand the fatal attractionmany seem to have for it..

Narz · Jun 25, 2009

Someone of an ugly yet interesting game.

Should have got an opening advantage but instead I feel behind two pawns. I won them back thanks to lackluster play by my opponent.

Then I missed a forced win on move 48 and was quite annoyed with myself :ack:

. I ended up settling for a draw though I was a pawn up. The game was unrated & regardless both of us are advancing to the final round. I hope to beat Suvi decisively in the last round for 1st place!

Sashie VII · Jun 25, 2009

Richard Cribb said:
And what happens after 19.Bxh6 then?
I haven't had time to look at it properly, but I think that Black should perhaps try somthing like 19...Nc5. 18...Bxa3 might also be worth investigating.
Sicilian is one difficult opening, I must confess that I don't understand the fatal attractionmany seem to have for it..

I used to dread playing against it as White.

18. ... h6
19. Bxh6 Bxa3
20. Bxg7 Bxb2+
21. KxB Qb4+
22. Ka1 Kxg7.

He could give me something to worry about as well. With my bishop gone, I have one less attacker. With open lines to my king, it'd be a close call :crazyeye:

Narz · Jun 25, 2009

Sashie VII said:
I used to dread playing against it as White.

I just play 2. c3. I have never met one Sicilian player that does not annoy.

DaveShack · Jun 25, 2009

I wasn't annoyed by it, but it did make me feel a little queasy. :crazyeye:

Narz · Jun 25, 2009

If you're not forceful 2. c3 can lead to a very passive game for white though.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=19491876

Richard Cribb · Jun 26, 2009

Sashie VII said:
I used to dread playing against it as White.

Indeed.
Facing a strong and well-prepared Sicilian afficionado is a challenge for sure.

18. ... h6
19. Bxh6 Bxa3
20. Bxg7 Bxb2+
21. KxB Qb4+
22. Ka1 Kxg7.

He could give me something to worry about as well. With my bishop gone, I have one less attacker. With open lines to my king, it'd be a close call

I don't think so, it seems to me like you win the race easily.
Allow my to expand your line a tiny bit:
23.h6+ Kg8 (23...Kxg6 24.Rdg1+ Kh7 25.Qg5 Qxc3+ 26.Kb1 Rg8 27.Qg7+ Rxg7 28.hxg7+Kg8 29.Rh8#;
23...Kh8 24.g7++-) 24.g7 Rfb8 25.h7+ Kxg7 26.h8Q+ Rxh8 27.Qg5+ Kf8 28.Rxh8#

Narz said:
I just play 2. c3. I have never met one Sicilian player that does not annoy.

That was Sveshnikov's patent. Quite an underestimated player, by the way. His games are worth studying.
Except that this is a sound line, it has the merit of taking Black out of his world of memorized variations. So kudos to you for a good choice.

Narz said:
If you're not forceful 2. c3 can lead to a very passive game for white though.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=19491876

Everything can, if you misplay the opening.

WhiteEagle22 · Jun 26, 2009

Only the one match vs. the slightly higher ranked player looks good, but I'm hoping to capture Flying Pig's queen in the next move.

Flying Pig · Jun 26, 2009

Keep hoping

WhiteEagle22 · Jun 27, 2009

Flying Pig said:
Keep hoping

No kidding! :lol:

I did get a draw at a site other than chess.com (It was Orkut's chess app.) I should have written down my moves to share them. After all, I should have been able to share the game with you guys.It was against an AI known as Shallow Blue.

Flying Pig · Jun 27, 2009

You did block an awesome mate move.

azzaman333 · Jun 27, 2009

Flying Pig said:
You did block an awesome mate move.

If he didn't fall for it, maybe it wasn't that awesome?

WhiteEagle22 · Jun 27, 2009

It was easy enough to see how to block it.

Panzar75 · Jun 27, 2009

Last year I started the Swedish chess championships with a draw then a win, then 4 straight losses and a win in the last round. Because I was the highest rated player in my group that dysmal performance lost me 85 rating points.

This year I am 3:rd highest rated in my group if I recall correctly. First game turned out to be a win. I faced an older gentleman some 180 points below my rating and I was black.

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 d5 3. Bb2 e6 4. e3 Be7 5. Be2 O-O 6. O-O c5 7. c4 Nc6 8. d4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Bd7

Nothing much to comment so far, all logical looking moves.

12. Qe2 a6

During the game I felt Qe2 was, far from a mistake, but not optimal. I wanted to play Bc6 but felt that Bc6, Bb5 would be slightly annoying. I don't really want to take on b5 and let his queen get an active square, certainly don't want to allow Bxc6, bxc6 and I thought Qc7 would eventually be harassed by a rook on the c-file. So I figured I could spend a tempo on a6 stopping Bb5.

13. a4 Bc6 14. Rd1 Qc7

Again, I felt Rd1 probably wasn't the most optimal move. I have two good options in Qa5 and Qd7. My feeling during the game was that Qa5 was probably slightly stronger objectively but that both moves were fine. What clinched it for Qc7 was the trap if he were to play the developing move Nc3. I thought stopping his most natural developing move couldn't be all that bad so I settled for Qc7.

15. Nc3 e5

He thought for well over 20 minutes and then played Nc3. I almost fell off my chair. Afterwards he said he had planned to play Nd7. He had spent around 1:25 on the clock so far while I had spent about 0:35. After I played e5 he more or less blitzed out the next 7 moves which turned out to be another mistake since he immediately lost another piece.

16. Bxe5 Qxe5 17. f4 Qxc3

And the rest isn't that exciting anymore.

18. Rac1 Qa5 19. g4 Rad8 20. Rf1 Qd2 21. g5 Qxe2 22. Bxe2 Ne4 23. Bc4 Nd2 24. Rf2 Nxc4 25. bxc4 Bc5 26.
Rc3 Rd1+ {white resigns} 0-1

Game without comments

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Narz · Jun 27, 2009

CONGRATS PANZAR!!! [party]

I had a good feeling about you this year!

I will check out your game (more to come I hope?) later on, right now I have to focus solely on this!

Flying Pig · Jun 28, 2009

WhiteEagle22 said:
It was easy enough to see how to block it.

True, but it was potentially an awesome move

Panzar75 · Jun 28, 2009

The second, extremely hot, day is over. Well above 30 degrees centigrade outside and pretty hot inside the playing venue as well. Things did not go my way today as I only managed to draw my 150 points lower rated opponent. I was black today again.

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3

I don't know the Smith-morra very well. I always plan to learn it but so far haven't done so. I usually avoid it with d5 but I remembered our voting game where we accepted and adopted a Pirc setup against it. So I decided to give it a whirl.

4. Nxc3 d6 5. Bf4 Nc6

Bf4 confused me. It looks so very wrong but might be the main line for all I know about the Smith-Morra. I wanted to get on with my pirc setup but Nf6 seemed to run into e5 so I developed the other knight instead.

6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Bc4 Na5

My preferred setup with g6 and Bg7 seemed not to be possible. Moves like Ng5 and Qb3 puts a lot of pressure against f7. So I decided to tickle his bishop and see what happened.

8. Bd5 e6

I had hardly expected Bd5. Nxd5, exd5 seemed to trap my a5 knight somewhat. So I finally accepted total failure in getting the Pirc setup and went with the e6/d6 setup.

9. Bb3 Nxb3 10. Qxb3 Qa5

I am not a fan of the e5 move in any type of sicilian so I didn't go for it in this game either although I probably should have. Qc7 didn't look appealing to me putting the queen on the same diagonal as his bishop and probably a rook on the file as well. I couldn't really find a good way of dealing with the e-pawn with threats like Rd1/Nb5/e5. In hindsight I overestimated his Nb5 move after I play Qc7 but at the time it looked pretty bad to me. I spent rather a lot of time without ever really getting to a conclusion. I seriously considered Qb6 but in the end went with Qa5 for no particular logical reason.

11. O-O a6

I felt my position was starting to get really bad. I was worried about all sorts of things including Qb5+, Qxb5, Nxb5. I couldn't find a way to save the e-pawn so I decided to stop all tricks involving the b5 square and just castle giving the extra pawn back.

12. Rad1 Be7 13. Bxd6 Bxd6 14. Rxd6 O-O

At least I was able to castle. Now it's walking a tightrope trying not to lose.

15. Rfd1 b5 16. e5 Ne8 17. R6d4 Bb7

I was pretty sure all he had to do was some combination of Qc2/Ng5/Rook somwhere along the 4:th rank and I'd be toast. Fortunately he seemed inclined against taking any action along those lines.

18. Qb4 Qxb4 19. Rxb4 Nc7

Bxf3 or not Bxf3, that is the question. A quick Ne4-d6 looked menacing so I decided against it.

20. Rbd4 Bd5

I decided having a knight on d5 was better than a bishop on d5.

21. Nxd5 Nxd5 22. Ng5 Rac8 23. Kf1 Rc2

Somewhere along here I started feeling like my position was okay again.

24. R4d2 Rfc8 25. Ke1 h6

I was really confused about what to do. I couldn't find any reasonable looking plan.

26. Ne4 Kf8

I looked at Rxd2 but failed to see that after Kxd2, Nb4, a3 I had the move Rc2+ which looks good. This position seems to be where I had the chance to play for a win but I didn't see anything convincing. The game then quicky turned into a very drawish position so I accepted his draw offer.

27. g3 Ke7 28. Rxc2 Rxc2 29. Rd2 Rc6 30. Kd1 f6 31. exf6+ Nxf6 32. Nxf6 Kxf6 33. Ke2 h5 34. Ke3 g5 35. f3 {draw agreed} 1/2-1/2

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Panzar75 · Jun 29, 2009

This is where I lost 4 in a row last year. This year it went better since I managed to win without too much trouble against a player rated 280ish points lower. It was very warm today as well and it might have influenced me in the end where I was sure I had seen a mate but later couldn't find a mate in 2. I was white for the first time in the tournament.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bd7 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 d5 8. O-O Bc5

Nc3 is sort of obvious but I wasn't sure if I wanted to play c4 at some point. So I opted to wait with that move. On Qf6 I was planning Be3.

9. Re1 Be6

Playing a much lower rated player my philosophy was sort of not to make any mistakes and win in the endgame. I suspected there were objectively stronger moves than Be3 but I was in the mood to just not allow anything dangerous for him so I simply opposed the diagonal.

10. Be3 Bb6

I was under the impression I was slightly better here as after exd5 the recapture cxd5 allowed Bb5+ when he has to move the king and after Qxd5 his pawns remain doubled and isolated. (Bxd5 obviously loses a piece to Bxb6 discovered check.)

11. exd5 Qxd5 12. Nc3 Qd6 13. Ne4 Qd7

For some reason I never even reflected on the possibility of Nc5. I was obviously too focused on the line I played as I saw it would likely win a pawn.

14. Ng5 Nf6 15. Nxe6 fxe6 16. Qe2 O-O 17. Bxb6 axb6 18. Qxe6+ Qxe6 19. Rxe6 c5

So I got my shiny pawn extra.

20. Bc4 Kh8 21. Rd1 Rad8 22. Ree1 Ng4 23. Rxd8 Rxd8 24. f3 Nf6 25. Kf2 Rd2+ 26. Re2 Rxe2+

This is just overly helpful on my opponent's part. This is where I felt certain I would win.

27. Kxe2 g5 28. f4 g4

I thought f4 was a cute move but again, giving me a protected passed pawn is more helpful than he needed to be.

29. g3 Kg7 30. Ke3 c6 31. a4 Nd5+

The final mistake. Although it has been a foregone conclusion for a while now this isn't even giving me a chance to go wrong.

32. Bxd5 cxd5 33. c3 Kf6 34. b4 d4+ 35. Kd3

Me and a friend drive his car to the playing site, takes about 45 minutes. He usually get these long drawn out games where I have to wait. Unusually he was done long before this position came up so I figured we could go home early. Little did I know my opponent would take 40 minutes on the next move and then play the game out. Sigh... did I mention it was 32 degrees centigrade?

35...Ke6 36. bxc5 bxc5 37. cxd4 cxd4 38. Kxd4 Kd6 39. a5 Kc6 40. Ke5 Kb5 41. f5 Kxa5 42. f6 Kb5 43. f7 Kc4 44. f8=Q Kd3 45. Qf5+ Ke3 46. Qxg4 Kf2 47. Ke4 Kg2 48. Qe2+ Kh3

I was sure I had seen a mate somewhere a while back but now I couldn't seem to see what it was. Did I mention it was 32 degrees centigrade?

49. Ke3 h5 50. Qxh5+ Kg2 51. g4 Kh1 52. Qe5 Kg2 53. g5 Kh1 54. g6 Kg1 55. g7 Kh1 56. Qg5 Kxh2 57. Kf2 Kh3 58. Qg3# {White mates} 1-0

Not a pretty finish I'm afraid but at least I got the full point and now have 2,5/3.

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WhiteEagle22 · Jun 29, 2009

Congrats on the win, Panzar! :goodjob:

Here's a game I lost against the Tournament Chess game AI (I'm black):

1. d4 e6
2. c4 Bc5
3. dxc5 Nf6
4. e4 Nxe4
5. Qg4 0-0
6. Qxe4 d5
7. cxd6 cxd6
8. Bd3 b6
9. Qxh7# 1-0

I really did not like this game. It was tough, short, and brutal. :eek:

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