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1. e4
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Evans Gambit. This is a tricky opening to play - I've had mixed success. It's an aggressive opening - white needs to establish a mating attack or win pieces before the endgame. Black's challenge is to try to get to the endgame with a pawn advantage. |
 
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1... e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4
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The gambit move |
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4... Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O Bb6 8. cxd4 d6 9. d5 Ne5
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This may not have been the best move - perhaps Nf6 is better? |
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10. Nxe5 dxe5 11. Bb2 Qd6 12. Nd2 Nf6 13. h3 Ba5 14. Bd3 Bxd2 15. Qxd2 Nd7 16. f4
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Keeping an aggressive line |
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16... Qc5+
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this doesn't really help black - perhaps castling or Nb3 would be better |
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17. Kh1 f6 18. a4
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Preventing black from castling (Ba3!) |
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18... exf4 19. Qxf4 Qd6 20. Qh4
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Can't afford to swap Qs - need to stay attacking. This moves sets up an interesting exchange on f6 later |
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20... Ne5 21. Be2
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again - don't want to swap pieces - need to stay attacking |
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21... Bd7 22. Bh5+
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this starts the real trouble for black. g6 creates problems, Nf7 is also trouble - so perhaps black did the best thing by moving the K |
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22... Kd8
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I can now see an interesting move - Rxf6. Just need to move the black Q away. |
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23. Ba3 Qa6 24. d6
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....or block the Q from defending f6 |
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24... cxd6
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I can't make the move yet - the K would escape to c7 |
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25. Rac1 Rc8 26. Rcd1 Qxa4
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?? this pawn swap is trouble for black |
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27. Bxd6 Nc6 28. Rxf6
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and finally I can make the play - hard to see how black defends this now |
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28... Ne7
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black agreed. |
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