Not the most wonderful game, but demonstrates a trap in the Veresov attack which sprung up tonight. I was basically improvising my opening in a blitz game, which centers around playing the freeing e4 early in the queen's pawn game at the expense of hampering the c pawn from expansion. See this excellent Youtube video by Matt Pullin for another line in the Veresov where black can go wrong very easily. Play began 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 {The Veresov} g6?! {Doesn't prevent e4} 3. e4 d5 {Too late. The e-pawn is already there.} 4. e5 Ne4 5. Ne2?!
I'm having alot of trouble with this stupid Blogspot. It wouldn't let Javascript work because it automatically inserts break tags every time I press return, even though I am in "Edit HTML" mode. So I learned how to turn off this "feature" and now the Javascript works. The only problem now is that all of my previous posts are completely screwed up because of the hidden break tags that are now gone. Anyway, back to the chess game.
My opponent didn't see this trap and so lost his knight next move after 5 ... Bg7? 6. f3! Ng5 7. Bxg5. Play then went on in a pretty standard fashion. I pushed to f4 to clear the f3 square for the king's knight and tried to develop my pieces to good squares. I missed the obvious 11. Bxd8 winning the queen, but still managed to win another piece. After 13. Bf6+ I had a huge bishop right in black's king position which is hard to dislodge. I pushed c3 to shore up my central pawn wedge and establish the light square bishop on the aggressive d3 square. And then there was 16... h6
What is white's move in this position?
Of course the real game didn't make it to move seventeen as my opponent resigned after 16 ... h6 because he had to go. But it was a pretty good place to resign anyway because it is a forced mate! The game below contains two ending variations that could have occurred, but keep in mind that they did not occur. I was thinking about 17. Qg4 which is not immediately winning, so I need to work on recognizing ccombinations more still.
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