Today's game comes from Dasher, an Internet Chess Club program. This is G/5 game of me as white against a WIM with the handle of "laburi."
The game is a Sicilian: c3 line.
1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 Nc6 7. Be3 cxd4 8. Bxd4 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 Qxd4 10. Nxd4 Bxe2 11. Kxe2 I've decided against castling, for better or worse, but I feel good about my position.
11. ...e5 12. Nb5 O-O-O? An IM dropping a pawn seemed like a trap, but I decided to bite.
13. Nxa7+ Kb8 14. Nb5 Bc5 15. b4 Bb6 16. a4 Ng4? This seems like a wasted move, but I do have to compromise my pawn structure.
17. f3 Nf6 18. a5 Bc7 19. Nd2 Rd5 20. Nxc7 Kxc7 21. Rhd1 Rhd8 22. Ne4 Kc6 23. Rxd5 Nxd5 Now we have moved to an endgame, but I'm currently up a pawn with about a 25 second time lead.
24. a6 bxa6 25. Rxa6+ Kb5 26. Ra7 f5 27. Ra5+ Kc4 28. Rc5+ Kb3 29. Nd2+ Kc2 30. Nf1 Nxc3+ 31. Kf2 e4 32. Rxf5 Nd1+ 33. Ke2 Nc3+ 34. Ke3 Rd3+ 35. Kf4 e3 36. Nxe3+ Kd2 37. Nc4+ Ke2 38. Re5+ Kf2 39. Nb2 Rd4+ 40. Kf5 Rd8 41. b5 Kxg2 as the flag falls on her.
Obviously, this was not a great endgame on my part, I started to rely the clock pressure to win, but I shouldn't have. Hopefully, upon further review, I'll get some great endgame study out of this, and you will too.
This is posted without any analysis from any computer. I hope you'll have fun with it.
ReplyDeleteNot going to lie, I've played chess before, but this is intense. I like how you can evaluate your moves simply by looking at a textual translation of moves on the board. Pretty impressive if you ask me (from a non-player's perspective).
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