ANNOTATED GAME

A win I did not hope
chrishan43168 (1449) vs. tarek1974 (1705)
Annotated by: chrishan43168 (1944)
Chess opening: Ruy Lopez (C64), classical (Cordel) defence
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This is one of my most interesting Blitz Games. The victory is not the only reason. According to me, it was a sharp game. So I'll annotate the game to share it with you.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5
This is my favourite move in this position. I like to play Ruy Lopez rather than Giuoco Piano, Two knights defence etc.
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3... Bc5
I haven't met with this reply before, 3...Nge7 or 3...a6 was usual to me. Therefore it was a new experience...
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4. Bxc6
This is my usual fourth move.
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4... dxc6 5. d3 Nf6 6. Nxe5
I think that I was bad there, I thought about 6.Bg5 too. But I was simply intended to the capture, because I had not much time to see many alternatives.
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6... Bxf2+ 7. Kxf2 Qd4+ 8. Ke1 Qxe5
After all, the only things happened were; I lost my chance of castling and two of his pieces are near the centre. His bishop also can be easily developed, say 9...Bg4.
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9. Nc3 O-O 10. g3 Bg4 11. Qd2
The queen has to be moved to the only safe square, what else to do?

 
11... Rfe8
The black army assembles to an attack, more correctly to an assault. It was a bit relief because the queen was in front, (not the rook).
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12. Qf4
I badly wanted to exchange the queens, and to make a safer surrounding to my king.

 
12... Qe7
He did not like it, he might be thinking that it was useful (as same as I thought about the black queen).
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13. Be3 Be6 14. Kd2 Nh5
The knight is annoying my queen. Since I could not attack the horse from the queen and to keep some pressure on the f7 pawn, I decided to keep it on the same file.

 
15. Qf2 Rad8
A violent attack is nearly coming, at this point I was thinking that I was going to lose this game.

 
16. Rhf1
To make my power on the f-file to a higher extent, then he must allocate some more time to make his move.
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16... Nf6
Sheltering my target pawn and making more power on the center. And he threatened me, with Bh3 and to collapse my centre,, I found no better option except 17.Kc1.

 
17. Kc1 Ng4
The horse is troubling me again
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18. Qf4
Did I do a simple mistake there, I have a doubt. In the case of 18...Nxh2 I had been thinking about to launch an attack on the h-file. I think that my best response might be 18.Qe2.

 
18... Nxe3
He cut the bishop, that made me a sigh, because it was the move I hoped there in that instance.

 
19. Qxe3 Bg4
He is limiting the available space for my king.
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20. Qf4 Bh5 21. Kd2
I needed to take the other rook too. It had not been moved yet. It was sleeping.
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21... c5 22. Nd5
Here I managed to exert some pressure on his attacking structure by a simultaneous attack to the queen and to c7 pawn.

 
22... Rxd5
Very offensive move!! I think that it was the mistake he did to make me win in that game.
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