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Game from US Amateur Ch East

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Hi folks,

This is one of my best OTB games to date. It was round 5, and I had to play for a win for my team (it was a team championship, with 4 man teams, and I was board 1 for mine) to have any chance of winning our class.

I still made some inaccuracies, but I really think playing on the site here is helping my OTB chess. I have added 125 points to my USCF rating after 3 tournaments since I started playing here- from 1685 to 1810 after this tournament. I have been in the mid 1800's twice in separate decades, but life and chess don't always blend well!

I showed the game to some of my friends at the tournament, and one of them (dstarr on the site here) said "Man, you play like Fritz" after seeing the last move. We laughed, and I told him I was going to quote him if I was every accused of using an engine on the site here!

And the way I've been dropping pieces here lately, there's not much danger of that!

[Event "US Amateur Team East"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.02.14"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Paul Leggett"]
[Black "Timothy Woodard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "1712"]
[BlackElo "2105"]
[EventDate "2010.01.16"]
[SourceDate "2010.01.16"]
[WhiteTeam "Clermont's Sandbaggers"]
[BlackTeam "Golden Knights"]

  • 8
  • a
  • 7
  • b
  • 6
  • c
  • 5
  • d
  • 4
  • e
  • 3
  • f
  • 2
  • g
  • 1
  • h
1.g3d5
2.Bg2Nf6
3.Nf3e6
4.O-Oc5
5.d3Be7
6.Nbd2Nc6
7.e4b6
8.Re1d4
9.a4e5
10.Nc4Qc7
11.Nfxe5Nxe5
12.Nxe5Qxe5
13.f4Qe6
14.f5Qd7
15.e5Nd5
16.e6Qd8
17.exf7Kf8
18.f6Nxf6
19.Bxa8Bg4
20.Bf3Bxf3
21.Qxf3Kxf7
22.Bg5Rf8
23.Bxf6Bxf6
24.Re4Kg8
25.Rf1Kh8
26.Rf4Re8
27.Re4Rf8
28.Qf5Kg8
29.Qe6Kh8
30.Qf5Kg8
31.h4Kh8
32.g4Be7
33.Qe5Bxh4
34.Rxf8Qxf8
35.Qe8Kg8
36.Qxf8Kxf8
37.Kg2Kf7
38.Kf3Be7
39.Rf4Ke6
40.Ke4Bf6
41.Rf5Be7
42.Re5Kd6
43.g5h6
44.gxh6gxh6
45.Kf5Bg5
46.Re6Kc7
47.Rg6Kb7
48.Ke5Bc1
49.Rg7Ka6
50.b3Bd2
51.Kd5Be1
52.Rh7Bd2
53.Kc4Be1
54.Re7Bd2
55.Re2Bc3
56.Rh2Be1
57.Rxh6Bd2
58.Rh7Be1
59.Kd5Bd2
60.Kc6Be1
61.Re7Bd2
62.Re2Bc1
63.Kc7Ka5
64.Kb7a6
65.Re6b5
66.Rxa6Kb4
67.Rb6

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      hi Paul when you sacrificed your knight had you calculated the position right up until exf7 and possibly beyond or was it intuitive based on the uncastled King position or some other factor? Very bravely played 🙂

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      nice game. I have to come up with something vs. the KIA, havnt seen it otb ever but I have a feeling it will pop up eventually.

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      Originally posted by robbie carrobie
      hi Paul when you sacrificed your knight had you calculated the position right up until exf7 and possibly beyond or was it intuitive based on the uncastled King position or some other factor? Very bravely played 🙂
      It was thematic and intuitive, simply because I couldn't figure it all out. I almost freaked because I hadn't even considered 13. ... Qe6 back at move 11, because I had assumed he would want to keep the diagonal open to play ...Bg4 at some point, hittinig my queen with tempo. Fortunately, it opened up new avenues for attack, so it wasn't a painful oversight. I am proud that I found 18. f6!, or rather that it found me!

      Edit: I looked at the hanging rook on a8 down the long diagonal, the resulting mobile pawn duo on e4 and f4, the rook "xraying" the king still in the middle of the board on e8, and the possibility of a future Bf4 with two strong bishops raking.

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      Good game.

      The Knight sac is a standard King's Indian idea which works much better here
      because White is two tempo up.
      (one because he's White and one because the e-pawn went to e5 in two moves).

      Edit 1. I see you have beat me to it in replying to Robbie.

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      yip good game

      you didnt tell us whether your team won the class or not ?

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      Originally posted by st40
      yip good game

      you didnt tell us whether your team won the class or not ?
      I goofed in the title- I played in the South version, not the East. My team was competing for the C class, and we were one point out. The team that won played extremely well, and they were more deserving, even if we had managed to tie them in the last round.

      Out top team from my club (the Clermont Chess Club, in Clermont, FL, USA) won the B prize, so we were very proud of them. dstarr on the site played board 2 for them.

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