ANNOTATED GAME

Team match
gazdvez (1662) vs. chriskirkland (1605)
Annotated by: gazdvez (1200)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn game (D02)
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1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Bg4 3. e3 Bxf3 4. Qxf3 e6 5. Bd3
planning e4.

 
5... Qf6
After exchange black would bring his knight with tempo into the game.

 
6. Nd2
symmetrical. I win a tempo after exchange.
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6... Bb4 7. c3 Qxf3 8. Nxf3 Bd6 9. e4
Without queens, the king can be a fighting piece, that's why I didnot play 0-0.

 
9... Nf6
??

 
10. e5 Ne4 11. exd6 Nxd6 12. Bf4
To make more alternatives, which black must now calculate.

 
12... O-O
Black king is in safe, but after exchanges I want to bring in a pawn, that is why the king better stands in the middle.

 
13. Bxd6 cxd6
The pawnstructure is worse.
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14. Kd2
Make contact between the rooks and centralize the king, too. The black knight has no good place, but must move.

 
14... Nc6 15. a3
Maybe with b4 next, or just for preventing any attack with a and b pawns.

 
15... e5 16. Bb5
I donot want to make better these pawns, so I try to exchange the lightfigures. If the knight goes away, the e5 pawn is over.

 
16... exd4 17. Bxc6 dxc3+ 18. Kxc3
After Rc8 I would play Nd4 safely.

 
18... bxc6 19. Rhe1
The only totally open file to catch.

 
19... Rfe8 20. Rxe8+ Rxe8 21. Re1 Rxe1 22. Nxe1 f6 23. Kd4
Black cannot push the c-pawn, so I made moveless this crowd.

 
23... Kf7 24. Nd3
I want to give my knight for the d5 pawn, to get the a-b-c files, where I can make an isolated pawn, what black must catch, so I get time for win the fight on the kingside and push a pawn in.

 
24... Ke6 25. b4
preventing c5.

 
25... a6 26. Nf4+ Kf5 27. Nxd5 cxd5 28. a4
Kxd5 maybe better, but it doesnot matter anymore.

 
28... Ke6 29. b5 axb5 30. axb5 g5 31. b6 Kd7 32. Kxd5 h6 33. g4
black resigns, because have no pawnmoves and the d6 pawn hangs, so I can make the territory on the kingside mine.