Friday, January 18, 2008

LindseyAnn vs. cliff36



[Event "www.ChessWorld.net server game"]
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net "]
[Date "2007.11.28"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "lindseyann"]
[Black "cliff36"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteELO "1336"]
[BlackELO "1192"]

{Termination "Black king mated" Mode "ICS" DateLastMove "2008.1.18"
Board "4351569"}
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bb4 5.Bd2 Nf6 6.e3
{Thus far, we've both played very solid opening moves.}
6...O-O 7.Bd3 Ng4 8.O-O Bd6 9.c5 Be7 10.b4
{Hangs the pawn.}
10...Nxb4 11.Ne2
{Bad move again. I've lost focus. Better would have been 11. Bxh7+ Kxh7 12. Qb1+ Kg8 13. Qxb4. Winning back the pawn but trading a bishop for a knight.}
11...Nxd3 12.Qb3 e5
{Now it was his turn to make a bad move.}
13.h3
{I should have taken the knight straight away. He could have played Nxf2 keeping himself ahead, but thankfully he misses it.}
13...Nf6 14.dxe5 Ne4
{This was a big turn around for me. He would have done much better by taking the pawn with Nxc5, threatening my queen and protecting the knight at d3.}
15.Qxd3 Nxd2 16.Qxd2 Bxc5
{Now I'm only down a pawn, which is a vast improvement from a few positions ago. However my pawns are bad and I have no more bishops.}
17.Rfc1 Bf5
{And now I'm up again with the hanging of his bishop. I was very lucky that he started making careless moves.}
18.Rxc5 Be4 19.Rac1
{I probably should have moved the knight. If he would have taken it then the pawns on the king-side would have been really weak. Luckily he didn't.}
19...f6 20.Nc3
{I have no idea what I was thinking with this move.}
20...fxe5 21.Nxe5 d4
{Now he hangs the other bishop. Maybe that bizarre knight move I made threw him off balance.}
22.Nxe4 Qh4
{Now he's getting desperate. He's looking to mess me up with Qxf2, but it's protected quite well by the knight.}
23.Qxd4 b6
{Black enters into a forced mate, which I of course miss, but it's quite pretty here it is: 24. Qd5+ Rf7 25. Qxf7+ Kh8 26. Rxc7 Qxf2+ 27. Kxf2 Rg8 28. Qxg8+ Kxg8 29. Rx8#}
24.Rxc7 b5
{There is another forced mate here, but I get so hung up on getting a smothered mate that I miss out on several less pretty mates. But, thankfully I do get the smothered mate and it is glorious.}
25.Qd5+ Kh8 26.Nc6 Rae8 27.f3 Qh6 28.Nd6
{With this move I went from winning out right to our score being completely even. If I hadn't managed to eek out the mate it would have been a tragedy.}
28...Qxe3+ 29.Kh2 Qf4+ 30.Kh1 Qxc1+ 31.Kh2
{Here he could have forced a draw. He was greedy though.}
31...Re1 32.Nf7+ Kg8 33.Nh6+
{You've gotta love the double check.}
33...Kh8 34.Qg8+ Rxg8 35.Nf7#
{Black king mated. My favorite mate of all time.}
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