Thursday, November 5, 2009

Meterobz vs. LindseyAnn 1-0



[Event "Online Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2009.10.30"]
[Round "1"]
[White "meteorbz"]
[Black "lindseyann"]
[TimeControl "1"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO " "]
[WhiteELO "1718"]
[BlackELO "1169"]


{Termination "meteorbz won by resignation"}
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4
{Scotch. Boo.}
3...exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.Bd2
{Finally out of the opening book. 8. c4, further harassing my knight would have been in the opening book.}
8...Qe6 9.Nc3 Rb8 10.Nxd5 Qxd5 11.Bc3 Bc5
{Bb4 is a bit better.}
12.Qc4 Qxc4 13.Bxc4
{Things are still pretty even. If I was a good player I probably could have pulled out a draw.}
13...O-O 14.O-O d5 15.exd6ep cxd6 16.Rab1 Bf5 17.Bb3 Rfe8 18.Rfe1 d5 19.Bd2 Re6 20.Rxe6 Bxe6 21.Re1 Re8 22.Kf1 Bd6 23.Ba4 Bxh2
{While the computer does not reguard this move as terrible, I do. I should not have allowed my central pawn structure to break down and isolated my d-pawn.}
24.Bxc6 Bc7
{Did I really just hang my rook?}
25.Bxd5
{And did he really not take it?}
25...Kf8 26.Bxe6
{Simplifying with me down a pawn and major queen side weakness.}
26...Rxe6
{My choices were to either take with the pawn, and have more bad pawn, or go along with his plan of simplification. I was pretty much done at this point.}
27.Rxe6
{And I definitely didn't realize when I choose to simplify that I'd end up with the bad pawns no matter what.}
27...fxe6 28.Ke2 Kf7 29.Be3 a6 30.Kd3 Kf6 31.Ke4
{Ties my king down to the protection of the kingside pawns, while he gets the pawns rolling on the queenside.}
31...g5 32.c4 h5 33.b4 g4 34.a4 *

This was my first completed game after a longish chess break. It was played at a new site, Chess.com and I was playing a member of the UCF Chess club.

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