Here's a fun game I just finished from another site. I had white against the rare 3...Bc5 Ruy Lopez. Black's Queen sortie got her trapped - or so it seemed. A diversionary B move saved her, but she was still out of play enough for black to succumb to a sac and a 'creeping' attack - a series of short little moves that forced a decisive weakening of the enemy K position. A final N sacrifice proved too much to resist.
[White "SwissGambit"] [Black "NN"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 {Perhaps this is why the move 3...Bc5 is not so common.} exd4 6. e5 { If white gets away with this, it's a sign that black has misplayed things. } Qe7 7. O-O Nd5 { 7...Nxe5? 8.Nxe5 and black can't recapture due to 9.Re1.} 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3 Nxc3 10. bxc3 a6 11. Ba4 O-O 12. Bg5 Qa3 {She finds only trouble here. But ...Qe8 doesn't seem fun to play.} 13. Bb3 h6 14. Bh4 d6 15. Nd2 {With the annoying threat 16.Nc4.} Na5 16. f4 Nxb3 {Black gets impatient and tries to break the Q out of jail right away.} 17. axb3 Qb2 18. Ne4 d5 19. Rf2 {She's trapped, but black finds a way to keep it interesting.} Bg4 20. Qxg4 {And here it is. 20.RxQ BxQ 21.RxB dxe4 seemed to let black off the hook, so I decided to sac the Exchange. I'm not going to lie - I used an analysis board to find the game continuation before I played this move.} Qxa1+ 21. Rf1 Qb2 22. Bf6 g6 23. Qh4 h5 {23...Kh7 24.Ng5+ and 25.Qxh6 is death.} 24. Qg5 Kh7 25. Ng3 {The N has been en prise for the last 6 moves and finally gets to escape.} Qxc3 26. Nf5 {Not 26.Nxh5? because black doesn't have to take it. This move threatens 27.Qh6 and taking the N loses to Qxh5+.} Bxd4+ {One last spite check.} 27. Kh1 1-0
[FEN "r4rk1/1pp2pp1/pb5p/3pP3/3PNPbB/1PP5/1q3RPP/R2Q2K1 w - - 0 20"]
20. Qxg4 Qxa1+ 21. Rf1 Bxd4+ {This try looks too late to try after White's creeping attack is creeping up the board. (SG called it the spite check.) So go for it now. } 22. cxd4 {Forced.} 22... Qxd4+ 23. Nf2 {The attack has lost a tempo (now Black can play Kh8.) and the pinned Knight is not on the more active g3 square., Still fancy White due to the extra piece and passive Black Rooks. Black's extra Queenside pawns look too slow to create counter-play. But to get in White will have creep even slower than he did in the game.}
That 3...Bc5 is not as bad as it's reputation. It's playable.
I've won with it OTB and lost against it OTB (although in the loss I had
a nice opeing tug but made a typical middle blunder.)
Anybody see a good move which Black missed in this game?
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 {4.b4! A Lopez/Evans must be good for some fun.} 4. O-O Nf6 5. Re1 {All very logical but too peaceful. White protects his e-pawn before going for the c3 to d4 push.} 5... O-O 6. c3 Ng4 {Setting a wee trap on the d4 square. A turn worth knowing.} 7. d4 exd4 8. cxd4 Nxd4 {In ArashAB v greenpawn on here. White played 9.Bg5 and resigned after 9...Nxf3+ and 10...Qxg5.} 9. Nxd4 Qh4 10. Nf3 Bxf2+ 11. Kh1 Bxe1 12. Nxh4 Nf2+ 13. Kg1 Nxd1 14. Nf3 Bf2+ 15. Kf1 Be3 16. Nbd2 Bb6 17. Ke2 Ne3 {White resigned.}
Originally posted by greenpawn34 Anybody see a good move which Black missed in this game?
If anyone needs a clue about what Black missed in the game Greenpawn has just posted, have a look at the win by Tim Dickinson I posted here: Thread 116824 ( "Here's one by the top board of the team I play for" ).
3... Bc5 is Cordel variation, played by Fischer in his youth.
For example>
http://www.redhotpawn.com/chess/grandmaster-games/viewmastergame.php?pgnid=54314&subject=Svetozar_Gligoric_vs_Bobby_Fischer
in Buenos Aires, the only tournament in which Reshevsky ended above Fischer (but it was quite understandable: Bobby experienced his first love).
Oh, that hot August of 1960...
There is one more "strange" move in Ruy Lopez besides Cordel's 3... Bc5 which served one great GM for many years...
Here's a game where I misplayed the opening badly, was struggling the entire game, just to in effect have an open position rook entombment (almost) on my opponent who resigned right off as soon as he had problems. He really didn't need to move the rook, this is so close to being interesting, but then so much crappy play 😞😕
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