Friday, May 8, 2009

A fun Philidor's game

Here is a fun game I just played on the Free Internet Chess Server. If you copy-paste this as a PGN into your viewer you can read my comments as well as look at some variations.

[Event "rated blitz match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2009.05.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "waparker"]
[Black "pencsev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1171"]
[BlackElo "1048P"]
[ECO "C41"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Qxd4 Bg4 5. Rg1 $5 {A cute little move to have some fun that I just came up with. If black takes the knight and opens the g-file, he will basically be forfeiting the right to castle on the kingside, and the development of his dark-square bishop might be difficult due to the pressure on g7. But it's definitely not a very sound idea.} Qf6 6. Qe3 (6. Qb4 Bxf3 7. gxf3 b6 8. Nc3 Qxf3 9. Nd5 Kd8 $16 {If black goes for pawn-grabbing, white will have a lead in development and threats on c7 to force the king to forfeit the right to castle.} ) Nc6 7. Nc3 a6 8. Bd2 (8. Nd5 Qd8 9. Qb3 Rb8 10. h3 Bd7 11. Bd3 ) O-O-O 9. O-O-O Nd4 10. Be2 (10. Nd5 Qg6 11. Qxd4 $18 {A simple tactic to win a piece. The queen can't stay on the diagonal to protect the knight.} ) Nxf3 11. gxf3 Be6 12. Kb1 (12. Qa7 b6 13. Qa8+ Kd7 14. Qxa6 g6 15. e5 Qf5 16. Bb5+ c6 17. Qb7+ $18 ) Kb8 13. Bd3 d5 {Black offers to open up lines when he is the player with poor development.} 14. exd5 Bxd5 15. Nxd5 Rxd5 16. Be4 Rb5 17. Bc3 Qb6 (17. ... Qe7 {A better alternative to the move played which immediately loses;} 18. Rd2 Rb6 19. Ba5 Rd6 20. Qb3 b6 21. Bb4 Qe5 22. Rgd1 Rxd2 23. Rxd2 Qg5 24. Qd3 $18 ) 18. Rd8+ Ka7 19. Qxb6+ (19. Rxf8 Qxe3 20. fxe3 c5 21. Rxg7 ) cxb6 20. Rgd1 (20. Rxf8 f5 21. Bd3 Rd5 22. Bxg7 ) Bc5 (20. ... Be7 21. R8d7 Kb8 22. Bxb7 Bf6 23. Bxa6 Rg5 24. f4 Rg6 {Rybka gives Rg1, sacking the rook to stop white's rook coordination. This more human-like move leads to checkmate.} 25. Be5+ Bxe5 26. Rb7+ Kc8 27. Rxf7+ Kb8 28. Rd8# ) 21. R1d7 a5 22. Rxb7+ Ka6 23. Ra8# {pencsev checkmated} 1-0

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