ANNOTATED GAME

materialkiller's mini-tournament
materialkiller (1285) vs. tag1153 (1464)
Annotated by: materialkiller (1938)
Chess opening: Nimzo-Indian (E24), Saemisch variation
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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 d5 6. e3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b6 8. Ne2 Bb7 9. f3 Nbd7 10. a4 O-O 11. a5
Maybe hold off on this move

 
11... c5
Strong break

 
12. Ba3
Develops the bishop and pins the pawn.

 
12... Rc8
Putting pressure on the c4 bishop

 
13. Qb3
Creating a queen bishop battery and pressuring the b7 bishop

 
13... Re8
developing the rook and unpinning the c5 pawn

 
14. O-O cxd4 15. exd4
cxd4 might be better

 
15... Nd5 16. Rac1
a blunder

 
16... Ne3
Good move forking bishop and rook.

 
17. a6
Closing the game

 
17... Nxc4
Retreating the bishop is much stronger.

 
18. axb7 Rc7 19. Rfd1 Nxa3 20. Qxa3 Rxb7
Black is up a pawn.

 
21. c4 Qg5 22. d5 exd5 23. Rxd5 Rxe2
A Big mistake, Qe3 allows black to go into endgame a pawn up.

 
24. Rxg5 Nc5 25. Qa1 g6 26. Rd1 h6 27. Rd8+