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Here is a game I played against the microsoft chess program found on Vista. I set it to level 10 (highest difficulty) and gave myself 1 hour for 40 moves.
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1. d4
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I always do this with white nowadays.
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1... d5
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Typical response.
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2. c4
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And this.
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2... c6
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Semi-slav. This was the moment I started thinking.. 'OK, now the computer is going to murder me'.
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3. Nc3
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Pretty standard development.
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3... e5
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Pretty surprising. Had to think now where to put my knight after dxe5 4...d4. I was initially planning for 5. Nb1, but I just felt that this was back sliding.
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4. dxe5
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What else? I had seen that I will lose this pawn anyway so it was a case of thinking 'where is the best place for the knight after Qh5+ an Qxe5?'
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4... d4
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As forseen.
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5. Ne4
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I decided at this moment that if Qh5 i could go Nd2 and block the check. Then after Qxe5 I would play Ndf3 and fork queen and pawn.
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5... Qa5+
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But after the check Nd2 would be asking for a passive position. It (the computer) could develop further with Bb4 and tie me down.
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6. Bd2
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When playing the computer I always try to force the issue.
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6... Qxe5
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Equal on material again but the computer has gained two very good bishops. I had an small suspicion that something had already gone wrong.
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7. Ng3
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I felt this was forced. Defending it with Qc2 would be asking for trouble because of Blacks active bishops. (Bf5 for example)
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7... Qd6
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Stepping away from my tempo gaining Nf3.
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8. Qc2
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I didn't want black developing his bishops to excellent squares later so I thought this move was good. Also defends c4 and prepares 0-0-0 (my initial plan - from which I chickened out of completely).
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8... Nf6
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Defends some light squares in the middle of the board.
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9. Nf3
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I was happy with my knights at this point. They re controlling most of the centre. Still developing though.
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9... c5
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Quite a strong (and annoying) pawn wedge there. But I thought I would undermine this later with Rd1 and e3. In hindsight I should have gone 0-0-0 next but I was too concerned about having a safe king on the kingside. Almost a flaw, almost falling into a category of closed-mindedness.
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10. Ne4
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On this move I spent a long time. I thought about Nf5, Bxf5 and Qxf5 threatening Qc8+ but didn't think it led anywhere. I thought about 0-0-0 and chickened out. I think my decision in the position just came back to the strategy of forcing moves against the computer. I noticed c5 weakened the h1-a8 diagonal and I had hazy, distant plans of g3 and Bg2 and Bf4. At the time this seemed very active, it centralised my queen and gave me options on the kingside.
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10... Nxe4
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Moving the queen would lose a tempo so this is forced.
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