More super fun games from the latest hardcore. I'm in.
(Do I win them all. No - but those I don't show. 🙂 I've made a few awful blunders and mad sacs that don't work.)
A good exercise in memory in one game (the first) The second game I just played the moves from a game in Estrin's book on the Two Knights. (that is allowed.)
aukermdr - greenpawn (and everyone else who has gone before me)
RHP October 2016.
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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. Re1 O-O 8. c3 d5 {The Marshal pawn sacrifice. Black gets a rip snorting attack but theory has pulled it's teeth.} 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 Nf6 12. d4 Bd6 13. Re1 Ng4 14. h3 Qh4 15. Qf3 h5 16. Bf4 Nxf2 17. Bxd6 Nxh3+ 18. Kf1 Bg4 {Still theory} 19. Be7 Qxe1+ 20. Kxe1 Bxf3 {Now 21.gxh3 Rfe8 22.Kf2 Rxe7 23.Kxf3 Re8 And White is all gummed up on the back rank. All been seen before..} 21. Bxf8 Re8+ 22. Kf1 Be2+ 23. Ke1 Bd3+ 24. Kd2 Re2+ {Still known. If 25.Kxd3 Nf4 mate! I'm like to know where I saw this. It's not my idea, I've seen it before.} 25. Kc1 Rxg2 26. Be7 {Must still be theory. 26....g5 Bxg5. So I bring the Knight in to keep White bottled up.} 26... Nf4 27. Na3 Be4 {Vacate d3 for a Knight Check. I'm now thinking on my own though it all looks obvious, it must have been played before..} 28. Nc2 {28.Bc2 was the move. Then Black does have good winning chances with the kingside pawns but no mate. White can sac his extra piece for a pawn. Still work to do. } 28... Nd3+ 29. Kd1 Bf3 {a three piece mate.}
Game Two
peterh - (Me) RHP October 2016 and Semenko - Periliev, correspondecne 1947.
Nice mate in the notes to this one.
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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nd4 {The Fritz Variation that is Alexander Fritz (1866 to 1908)} 6. c3 {The trap is 6.d6 Qxd6 7.Nxf7 Qc6 and Black is winning.} 6... b5 7. Bf1 Nxd5 8. Nxf7 {I knew this was move but had never faced it before. Out came the Estrin book and we now follow the Perfiliev game} 8... Kxf7 9. cxd4 exd4 10. Qf3+ Nf6 11. Qxa8 Bc5 12. Bxb5 Re8+ {Still following the game but I'd play this. 13. Bxe8 Qxe8+ wins White Queen or mates with a Bishop check on a6 or g5..} 13. Kf1 Ba6 {14.Qxd8 Bxb5+ mates.} 14. Qf3 {White in the above mentioned game played 14.Qc6. I'm on my own now.} 14... Qe7 {Cannot be wrong, it threatens mate in one.} 15. g3 Bxb5+ 16. d3 Qe6 {Threatening a skewer with Bc6 or Qh3+ this looks very good.} 17. Bd2 {To stop Qe1+ ideas but} 17... Bc6 {That is just too strong. White resigned. He has to give up the Queen. Which is the way I thought it was going to go.} 18. Qxc6 Qxc6 {If now 19.Rg1 then 19...Ng4} 19. Kg1 Qf3 {I conquer f2. There is a nice mate in there.} 20. Na3 {I can just that (20...Bxa3) but let us leave the Knight on a3 for effect.} 20... Ng4 21. Rf1 Re2 {Look at the King. All it needs is a Knight check and it's mate. The threat is Nxf2 and Nh3 mate or Rxf2 ( 22.Be1 Rxe1.) } 22. Nc4 {No need to panic. It's all under control.} 22... Nxf2 23. Ne5+ Kg8 24. Nxf3 Nh3 {That would have been a cool wrap up. A two piece mate.}
