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South Coast Kevin - supergrobi was a draw and here is the game. Comments welcome!

[Event "Friendly Game, 30m + 15s"]
[Site "Meeting Point"]
[Date "2011.05.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Southcoastkevin"]
[Black "Supergrobi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "1707"]
[BlackElo "1876"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "2011.05.21"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bd7 5. Nf3 Bc6 6. Bd3 Nd7 7. O-O Ngf6 8.Qe2 Nxe4 9. Bxe4 Bxe4 10. Qxe4 c6 11. Re1 Be7 12. c4 Nf6 13. Qc2 O-O 14. b3 b5 15. Bb2 bxc4 16. Qxc4 Qd5 17. Rac1 Rfc8 18. Ne5 Bd6 19. Qxd5 cxd5 20. f3 h6 21.Nd3 Nd7 22. Nc5 Nxc5 23. dxc5 Bxc5+ 24. Kf1 Bb4 25. Rxc8+ Rxc8 26. Rc1 Rxc1+ 27. Bxc1 e5 28. a3 Bc3 29. Ke2 f6 30. Kd3 Be1 31. b4 Bf2 32. b5 Kf7 33. a4 Ke6 34. Ba3 h5 35. a5 Kd7 36. Bf8 g6 37. Bg7 Ke6 38. Bf8 f5 39. Bb4 e4+ 40. Ke2 Bd4 41. Bd2 Kd6 42. Bb4+ Kc7 43. Bd2 Kb7 44. fxe4 fxe4 45. h3 Bc5 46. g4 hxg4 47.hxg4 Bd4 48. Be1 Bc5 49. Bd2 Bd6 50. Be3 Bc7 51. Bd2 Bd6 52. Be3 Bb4 53. a6+ Kb8 54. Bd4 Bd6 55. Kd1 Bc7 56. Ke2 Bb6 1/2-1/2

Interesting white pawn down bishop end game position with remote pawn majority for white. I think 47...d4 should win for black. idea d3, e3, e2 etc.

Here is my comments on this game. I didn't expect Kevin to come back as he didn't pick up a pawn that he should have picked up and lost a pawn after that for nothing. But then his end game handling was pretty decent against supergrobi.

(To follow my comments, you would need to copy it to a note pad, save it as .pgn extension file and open in any chess software. I think you can also download free CB lite.)

[Event "Friendly Game, 30m + 15s"]
[Site "Meeting Point"]
[Date "2011.05.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Southcoastkevin"]
[Black "Supergrobi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "1707"]
[BlackElo "1876"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "2011.05.21"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bd7 5. Nf3 Bc6 6. Bd3 Nd7 7. O-O Ngf6 8.
Qe2 Nxe4 9. Bxe4 Bxe4 10. Qxe4 c6 11. Re1 Be7 12. c4 Nf6 13. Qc2 O-O 14. b3
14... b5 {My intuition was Bf4 from seeing games where GMs commit b3 to
support c4 but place bishop at a more active place than behind a pawn by
fianchettoing. Fritz agrees! But Bb2 is not at all bad since d4 pawn is not
blocked.} 15. Bb2 bxc4 16. Qxc4 {Almost like a clear plus for white as c-pawn
is weak and white will soon pile up pressure by bringing rook to c-file.} 16...
Qd5 $6 {Rc1 or Qb6 would be slightly better I think.} 17. Rac1 17... Rfc8 {
Sounds logical to put the f-rook on c8 than a-rook as the queen is now at d5
as a-pawn would require some support.} 18. Ne5 Bd6 19. Qxd5 $4 (19. Nxc6 $16 {
A pawn is a pawn! White can easily de-entangle from the pin. Also there is
no immediate mating attack on the king side from either Qh5 or from Bxh2.})
19... cxd5 20. f3 h6 21. Nd3 Nd7 22. Nc5 $4 $17 {A pawn gift??} 22... Nxc5 23.
dxc5 Bxc5+ 24. Kf1 Bb4 25. Rxc8+ Rxc8 26. Rc1 Rxc1+ 27. Bxc1 e5 28. a3 Bc3 29.
Ke2 f6 30. Kd3 30... Be1 {I think now white idea here should be to attempt to
occupy light square g4 and b5 with his pawn.} 31. b4 Bf2 32. b5 {
white achieved one of his objective of fixing his pawn, which is good.} 32...
Kf7 33. a4 $1 {This opens way for bishop to stop black's king from coming and
attacking a and b pawns.} 33... Ke6 34. Ba3 34... h5 $1 {
g5 is stopped, also prepares to face bishop f8 threat.} 35. a5 Kd7 36. Bf8 g6
37. Bg7 Ke6 (37... Ke7 {
This will be interesting but no major trap threat, bishop will escape.}) 38.
Bf8 f5 39. Bb4 e4+ 40. Ke2 Bd4 41. Bd2 {Fritz suggests h4 or h3. Committing
h4 needs careful analysis but I think here h4 can be boldly played as bishop
cannot attack to take it as it is tied to defend a7 pawn.} 41... Kd6 42. Bb4+
Kc7 (42... Bc5 $1 $19 {
I saw this move as b6 tactic here wouldn't help. d4, d3 would now follow.} 43.
b6 axb6 44. a6 44... Kc7 {and black wins.}) 43. Bd2 Kb7 44. fxe4 {I wasn't impr
essed with this trade. I think f-pawn should just stay and f3 and let black
exchange.} 44... fxe4 45. h3 (45. Bb4 {first may be}) 45... Bc5 $1 46. g4 hxg4
47. hxg4 Bd4 (47... d4 $1 {black lost the d4 push plot behind Bc5.}) 48. Be1
Bc5 49. Bd2 49... Bd6 $2 50. Be3 $2 {This move looks okay at the outset but
there is an a6 tactic here. After white plays b6, black king will free
himself as b8 is defended by bishop and will come out via c6, b5 etc. Soon
connected d and e pawns will promote.} (50. Ke3 $1 {This king move will
overburden bishop to defend f4 square otherwise king will sneak and grab g6
pawn!}) 50... Bc7 51. Bd2 Bd6 52. Be3 52... Bb4 $2 {
final error from black. a6 now and draw after this.} 53. a6+ Kb8 54. Bd4 Bd6
55. Kd1 Bc7 56. Ke2 Bb6 1/2-1/2

42...Bc5–and for some reason I thought that my own pawn keeps my king from reaching the a-pawn. Even worse that I didn't check that possibility again later. lol

As Nxc6 would have probably won earlier for white after my stupid b5 idea, I can live with the result...

my mistake my annotation after 14...b5 was actually for 15.Bb2. I think 14... b5 should be ok even if there is no "idea" behind it as it does not really worsen the position. Because "no idea" moves generally would not have been analyzed at home and confuse opponents who mostly rely on theory. But yes the immediate follow up 15.bxc4 was bad.

So here is the game between Littlefish and myself.

From my point of view it was a very interesting and hard fought game, with the errors that were made being generally quite instructive (for us at least). No early 14 move draws here!

the only difference between the two players being that it was littlefish who made the last mistake.

@ littlefish - Many thanks for the game.


[Event "Friendly Game, 30m + 5s"]
[Site "Meeting Point"]
[Date "2011.05.23"]
[Round "?"]
[White "littlefish"]
[Black "Blunderer"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1668"]
[BlackElo "1757"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2011.05.23"]
[TimeControl "1800+5"]

1. Nf3 {5} d5 {19} 2. g3 {2} c6 {6} 3. Bg2 {2} Nf6 {26} 4. d3 {2} Bg4 {6} 5. h3
{20} Bxf3 {6} 6. Bxf3 {1} Nbd7 {2} 7. O-O {3} e5 {3} 8. Nd2 {15} Bd6 {22} 9. e4
{25} d4 {17} 10. Nc4 {77} Be7 {20} 11. a4 {18} b5 {55} 12. Nd2 {22} a6 {18} 13.
Bg2 {35} c5 {16} 14. f4 {48} Rc8 {87} 15. axb5 {82} axb5 {7} 16. Nf3 {52} Qc7 {
21} 17. f5 {19} c4 {27} 18. g4 {63} h6 {11} 19. g5 {115} hxg5 {3} 20. Bxg5 {2}
b4 {303} 21. Bxf6 {106} Bxf6 {105} 22. Nh2 {101} Bg5 {56} 23. Qg4 {120} Bh6 {
199} 24. Qg3 {68} Nf6 {306} 25. Ra4 {125} cxd3 {43} 26. cxd3 {1} b3 {17} 27.
Rc4 {18} Be3+ {127} 28. Kh1 {4} Nh5 {1} 29. Qh4 {114} Qb7 {31} 30. Rxc8+ {30}
Qxc8 {2} 31. Bf3 {6} Qd8 {48} 32. Qxd8+ {76} Kxd8 {0} 33. Bxh5 {60} Rxh5 {0}
34. Kg2 {6} Rh6 {14} 35. Ng4 {5} Rc6 {9} 36. Nxe5 {228} Rc2+ {2} 37. Kf3 {1}
Rxb2 {2} 38. Nc4 {11} Rh2 {14} 39. Kg3 {29} Re2 {102} 40. Rb1 {10} b2 {46} 41.
Rxb2 {17} Re1 {3} 42. Nxe3 {28} Rxe3+ {1} 43. Kf2 {48} Rxd3 {10} 44. Ke2 {13}
Rxh3 {3} 45. Rd2 {7} Re3+ {41} 46. Kf2 {5} Rxe4 {1} 47. Kf3 {2} Rh4 {17} 48.
Kg3 {6} Re4 {0} 49. Kf3 {1} Re3+ {3} 50. Kf4 {6} Re7 {8} 51. Rxd4+ {5} Rd7 {3}
52. Rc4 {30} Ke7 {2} 53. Re4+ {2} Kf6 {2} 54. Rc4 {15} Rd6 {1} 55. Re4 {2} Rd1
{3} 56. Kg4 {17} Rg1+ {4} 57. Kf4 {1} Rf1+ {1} 58. Kg4 {1} Rxf5 {0} 59. Ra4 {13
} g6 {2} 60. Ra6+ {4} Kg7 {1 littlefish gibt auf (Lag: Av=0.26s, max=0.8s)}
0-1

Yes, an interesting game. In spite of mistakes on both sides you played the endgame much better, though, so I think it was a deserved win after all.

Instant Karma - Ritch 1-0. Here is the game -

[Event "Friendly Game, 30m + 5s"]
[Site "Meeting Point"]
[Date "2011.05.25"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Chinf"]
[Black "Ricardo2001"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[EventDate "2011.05.25"]
[TimeControl "1800+5"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nc6 3. g3 Bf5 4. a3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O e5 7. dxe5 Nxe5 8. Nh4 Be6 9. Re1 Ne7 10. e4 d4 11. f4 Bg4 12. Qd2 Nc4 13. Qd3 Nb6
14. h3 Be6 15. b3 Qd7 16. Kh2 c5 17. Bb2 c4 18. bxc4 Bxc4 19. Qd1 Na4 20. Bc1 d3 21. e5 Qd4 22. cxd3 Qxa1 23. Qxa4+ b5 24. Qc2 Rc8
25. dxc4 Rxc4 26. Qb3 a6 27. Bb2
Ricardo2001 resigns (Lag: Av=0.78s, max=1.5s) [%emt 0:00:09]} 1-0

Ritch, Thanks for the game.
It was an interesting game, and White's opening did not give any advantage. One option was to take an early pawn, instead i thought of utilising the d4 blockade. Black played well and was even better at one point, till ..Qd4. I found cxd3! giving up what looks like an exchange, but restricting the black queen from coming out of a1. I think Ritch could have played Bd5 or Be6!? instead of Qxa1 with a solid advantage. After Qxa4+! by white, it became clear that White had sufficient counterplay and even was better in the game.

malackym - chessfan

Malackym - Chess Fan 7
45m, unrated Meeting Point, 27.05.2011

1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2 Bb4+ 6.Nd2 f6 7.Bxg8 Rxg8 8.Qb3 Bxd2+ 9.Kxd2 Rf8 10.Nf3 b6 11.Nd4 c5 12.Nf5 g6 13.Nd6+ Ke7 14.Nb5 a6 15.Nc3 Bb7 16.Na4 b5 17.Nxc5 Bc6 18.Qa3 d6 19.Nd3 Kf7 20.Qb3+ Kg7 21.Nf4 Bd7 22.Qd5 Nc6 23.h4 Qe7 24.h5 Ne5 25.h6+ Kh8 26.f3 Nc4+ 27.Kc3 Nxb2 28.Kxb2 Qe5+ 29.Qxe5 dxe5 30.Nd5 Bc6 31.Nb4 Bb7 32.Rac1 Rfc8 33.Nc2 Rc7 34.Rhd1 f5 35.exf5 gxf5 36.Rd6 e4 37.Rcd1 Rcc8 38.fxe4 Bxe4 39.Nb4 a5 40.Na6 f4 41.Nc7 Bxg2 42.Nxa8 Rxa8 43.Rd8+ Rxd8 44.Rxd8# (Lag: Av=0.31s, max=0.5s) 1-0

It felt good to play again, it has been a while. Thank you chessfan for the game. I was truly rusty and got lucky at the end.

Good Luck with the rest of the tournament CF.

Mark.