ANNOTATED GAME

Team match
ironbutterfly (1365) vs. darius_vitrosoo (1351)
Annotated by: darius_vitrosoo (1200)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn (D00), Chigorin variation
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1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bg5
might have been a little early

 
3... f6 4. Bh4 g5 5. Bg3 Nh6 6. e3
had to bring the other bishop out

 
6... Ng4
i do not the knight there

 
7. h3 Nh6
thats better

 
8. Qh5+ Nf7
ok even better, now its pinned

 
9. a3
to stop Nb4

 
9... Bf5 10. O-O-O
had to protect c2

 
10... Qd7 11. Qe2 g4
and he locks me out

 
12. hxg4 Bxg4 13. f3 Be6 14. Qd2 Nd6
i though about trading the knight off but decided against it

 
15. Bd3 O-O-O 16. e4 Nc4 17. Bxc4 dxc4 18. d5
nice fork i though

 
18... Ne5 19. Bxe5
i relized my fork was bad for me

 
19... fxe5 20. dxe6 Qxd2+ 21. Rxd2 Re8
but it worked out ok

 
22. Rd5 Bg7 23. Rc5 Red8 24. Nge2 Rd6 25. Rxc4 Rxe6 26. Ng3 Rd8 27. Kb1
want to avoid being checked

 
27... Bh6 28. Nf5
attacking e7

 
28... Bd2 29. Nxe7+
forgot about the rook guarding that pawn

 
29... Rxe7 30. Nd5 Red7 31. Nf6 Rd7d4 32. Rxd4 Rxd4 33. Rxh7
hoping for back rank mates

 
33... b6
no such luck

 
34. c3 Rd3 35. Kc2 Rd6 36. Nd5 Bf4 37. Nxf4 exf4
white should win here

 
38. Rf7 Rg6 39. Rxf4 Rxg2+ 40. Kb3 Kb7 41. Rf6 Ka6 42. e5 Kb5 43. e6 c5 44. Rf7 c4+ 45. Ka2 Re2 46. e7 Ka4 47. f4 b5 48. f5 b4
black was hoping he would take with the c pawn, not the a pawn

 
49. axb4
once again black is unlucky

 

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