This game was annotated by chess master I. A. Horowitz. All notes below are his. |
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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3
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White intends to play P-Q4, getting a powerful Pawn center and driving away Black's pieces from that sector. |
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4... Qe7
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This early Queen move is permissible because it does not expose Black's Queen to attack and because it is part of a plan to maintain Black's hold on the center. |
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5. O-O d6 6. d4 Bb6 7. a4
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This move threatens 8 P-R5 winning material. If 8... BxRP? 9 P-Q5 N-N1 10 RxB, or if 8 ,,,NxRP 9 RxN BxR 10 Q-R4 ch and 11 QxB. |
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7... a6 8. a5 Ba7
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Now 8... NxRP could not be countered by 9 RxN: 9... BxR 10 Q-R4 ch P-QN4 11 QxB PxB. |
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9. h3
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To prevent ... B-N5 pinning the Knight. |
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9... Nf6
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White should now play 10 R-K1 and then develop his Q side. |
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10. dxe5
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A very bad move. It opens the diagonal of the Black KB, now trained directly on the White King, and lets the Black Knight reach a splendid post at K4. |
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10... Nxe5 11. Nxe5
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Rather than retreat his B, White exchanges. But the recapture beautifully centralizes the Black Queen. |
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11... Qxe5 12. Nd2 Bxh3
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To break up the Pawns protecting White's King. |
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13. gxh3 Qg3+
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Made possible by White's 10th move. |
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14. Kh1 Qxh3+ 15. Kg1 Ng4
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Threatening ...Q-R7 mate. A lesson in what happens when the Pawn wall in front of the King is destroyed. |
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16. Nf3 Qg3+ 17. Kh1 Bxf2
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White resigns. The threat is 18... Q-R6 ch 19 N-R2 QxN mate. If 18 RxB NxR mate. If 18 B-B4 QxB White is three Pawns down and has no good way to stop 19... Q-N6. |
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