ANNOTATED GAME

The Classic Bishop Sacrifice
whizzkid111 (1554) vs. dellerth (1634)
Annotated by: whizzkid111 (1200)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn (A40)
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11. Bd3
! Placeing my light squared bishop on the all important diagonal that eyes on black's weak point ( h7) setting up the classic bishop sacrifice!!!

 
11... a5
? no good as I was not thinking about castleing anywhere. Instead I setting up the Classic bishop sacrifice. Hope lied within something such as 11. Nd7 followed by 12. f5 for black.
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12. h4
!! The point of this move was when I did do the bishop sacrifice. Kxh7 Ng5 !! If black would take the knight with the bishop. pxh5 opens up the h- file with a deadly attack which comes with mate! But the sacrifice is not quite ready yet.

 
12... b4
? Black should have worred about his king here instead of doing stuff on the Queen-side that did not even bother me. It was not too late at this point to have tried 12. Nd7 followed by 13. f5.

 
13. Qe2
Now after the bishop sacrifice and Ng5 the queen will have access to h5!

 
13... Nd7
?? TOO LATE! 13. f5 or 13. g6 where the only two moves.
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14. Bxh7+
!! Here comes the beautiful bishop sacrifice!
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14... Kxh7
A forced move......
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15. Ng5+
If 15.Bxg5 16. pxg5 Kg6 17. Qh5 Kf5 18. g4 checkmate If 16. Kh6 17. Nxe6 discovery check by the bishop 17. Kh7 18. Nxf8 gives white a won game!

 
15... Kg8

 
16. Qh5
Threatning 17. Qh7 checkmate.

 
16... Bxg5 17. hxg5
opens up h-file and threatning Qh7 or Qh8 checkmate!

 
17... f6
The king tries to run away.....

 
18. g6
But it does not work! And now 19.Qh8 checkmate is unstopable!

 
18... Nc5
Black's position is just hopeless.

 
19. Qh8#
Checkmate! What a wonderful sacrifice and what a wonderful game. I would like to thank Dellerth for the absolutly brilliant game we had!
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