Saturday, August 16, 2008

LindseyAnn v. ray9 1-0



[Event "www.ChessWorld.net server game"]
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net "]
[Date "2008.7.28"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "lindseyann"]
[Black "ray9"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D07"]
[WhiteELO "1340"]
[BlackELO "1292"]

{Termination "Black king mated" Mode "ICS" DateLastMove "2008.8.16" Board "5139118"}
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.e3 f5
{A strange move at this point in the game.}
6.Bxc4 Nf6 7.O-O
{Better here was Qb3}
7...Bxf3 8.Qxf3
{The computer would prefer me to take with the pawn, but I didn't want to weaken my kingside or my pawn structure.}
8...Qd7 9.b3 O-O-O 10.Ne2 Qd6 11.Bd3
{I'm not sure why I set up to take with the bishop when I could have taken immediately with the queen.}
11...e5 12.Bxf5+ Kb8 13.Bb2 g6 14.Bd3 exd4 15.exd4 Qb4
{Bad move. He missed the hanging knight at f6.}
16.Qxf6 Be7 17.Qf3 Rhf8 18.Qe3 Rd5 19.Bc4 Rh5 20.Rac1 Bd6 21.g3 Qa5 22.Bf7
{I was trying to trick him into taking the bishop so I could mate. Not the soundest plan, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.}
22...Be7
{He slipped up here and I actually took advantage of it.}
23.d5 Re5
{And now he makes a bigger slip up. One mistake can be recovered from, but two in a row is tough.}
24.Qf3
{Oops, if he'd respond to this with Rf5, he'd be on much more even ground. He does not though.}
24...Nd8 25.Bxe5 Nxf7 26.Bf4
{The fact that I missed Qxc7+ winning the queen is unbelievable. It was as plain as day.}
26...g5 27.Be3
{And now I've lost any chance of making that move.}
27...Qxa2 28.Rc3
{Pointless to defend that pawn, since if he'd taken it, after Bxa7+ Kxa7 Qxb3 loses the queen.}
28...h6 29.Rfc1 Ne5 30.Qh5 Nf3+ 31.Kg2
{Hung my knight.}
31...Qb2 32.Qxh6 Qxe2
{We have both been playing terribly for the last 5 moves.}
33.Rxc7 Ne1+ 34.Kg1
{Out of my options all were very bad except for this one, so I'll take a bit of credit for cleverness here.}
34...Nd3
{Forced mate from here and I saw it.}
35.Qxf8+ Bxf8 36.Rc8#
{Black king mated}
1-0

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