ICC's summary tries to claim this game is the Queen's Gambit Accepted, but I don't see how
[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.16"]
[White "Visin"]
[Black "KyleMayhugh"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1339"]
[BlackElo "1238"]
[ECO "D20"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "3.e4"]
[TimeControl "1800+30"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5
The Three Knights' Game, but from here white goes off book.
4. a3 Nf6 5. h3 O-O
6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Be6 8. Be2 h6 9. Bh4 g5
This move took me awhile. In fact, I did a fantastic job of taking my time in the middle game in this one, averaging well over a minute per move between the opening and the endgame.
With no clear ways to improve my development, and needing to unpin the knight for my break move of d5, the best course of action seemed to be to weaken his strongest piece by driving it back. This turned out to be the difference in the game later on.
10. Bg3 d5
11. exd5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 Qxd5
Thought long and hard about which piece to take with here. I finally decided that either piece would be driven back immediately by c4, more than likely, but the queen needed moving anyway to make room for the rook on the semi-open d-file
13. c4 Qd6 14. O-O Nd4 15. Nxd4 Bxd4
16. Rb1 f5 17. Bf3 c6 18. Re1 f4 19. Bh2 Qc5
His dark-squared bishop is now effectively out of the game. This is almost like being a piece ahead.
Now I have a severe light-squared weakness complex on my king side, which is a problem, and in general just too much space around my king, but it's a workable problem, I can try to fix it.
I'm threatening Bxf2+ and winning the exchange with a fork, but I've also got vague ideas of getting a rook onto the d-file and playing Bxc4 (with the response of dxc4), followed by Bxf2+, which would win the queen, but that exchange would be two bishops and a rook for a queen and two pawns, roughly equal but awfully risky.
20. Re2 Rad8
21. b4 Qd6 22. c5 Qc7 23. Re1 Bd5 24. Bxd5+ Rxd5
Needed to get his light-squared bishop off the board with my pawn structure. I feel a lot better about my king's security now. His queen can get in there easily, but no support piece can likely get behind my pawn structure with any ease.
25. Qh5 Qg7
Qh5 is very nice for him. I thought seriously about ignoring that queen, dropping the a-pawn and mounting an attack, but I wisely decided that was a bad idea and would likely cost me many more pawns with no real attacking chances.
26. Kf1 Bc3 27. Red1 Rfd8 28. Qe2 Qg6
The extra piece is again key to the day. All four of my pieces are attacking that pawn, but his fourth piece can't get into the action, pawn won.
29. d4 Rxd4
D4 puts him in an even more awkward position, still dropping the pawn but allowing the queen to attack one of the rooks. Probably won't make a difference though.
30. Rbc1 Rxd1+
31. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 32. Qxd1 Qf7
Okay, I think we can call this endgame. We each have a queen and a dark-squared bishop, and I have seven pawns to six. This should be a win, but it's not at all easy to bring home and my opponent has shown good play for this level.
In retrospect, I like Bd4 better than Qf7, blocking off the open file.
33. Qd3 Bd4 34. f3 Kg7
I liked Kg7 here, taking away some of his queen options and getting my guy closer to the action.
35. Ke2 Qa2+
36. Qd2 Qxd2+
Crafty would rather I take the hanging pawn over there, but I think I've already got a winning advantage at this point and I want to simplify.
Relatively simple end-game win at the end.
37. Kxd2 Kf6 38. a4 Kf5 39. g3 Be3+ 40. Kd3 Bc1
41. g4+ Ke6 42. b5 Kd5 43. Bg1 Ba3 44. bxc6 bxc6 45. Bf2 Bxc5
46. Bxc5 Kxc5 47. Ke4 Kd6 48. a5 Ke6 49. a6 Kf6 50. Kd3 Ke6
51. Kc4 Kd6 52. Kd3 Kd5 53. Kc3 c5 54. Kc2 Kd4 55. Kd2 e4
56. fxe4 Kxe4 57. Ke2 c4
0-1 (resignation)
He wanted a rematch, and I was pretty hungry but went ahead and gave it to him to be polite.
I went for the attack here and he almost fended it off. The fun thing about attacking at this level is that you can get away with unsound attacks because the defense will usually be unsound too. He almost had it, playing defender very well, but eventually made the fatal mistake.
[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.16"]
[White "KyleMayhugh"]
[Black "Visin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1278"]
[BlackElo "1318"]
[ECO "D20"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "3.e4"]
[TimeControl "1800+30"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e6 4. Bxc4 c6 5. Nc3 Be7
6. Nf3 Nf6 7. h3 O-O 8. e5 Nd5 9. O-O Nd7 10. a3 N7b6
11. Ba2 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nd5 13. Qc2 Qa5 14. Bd2 Qd8 15. Bb1 g6
16. Bh6 Re8 17. g3 b5 18. h4 f6 19. h5 f5 20. Qd2 Ba6
21. Kg2 b4 22. Rh1 bxc3 23. Qc1 Kf7 24. hxg6+ hxg6 25. Bg7 Rg8
26. Bh6 Rh8 27. Ng5+ Bxg5 28. Bxg5 Rxh1 29. Qxh1 Qg8 30. Bc2 Qh8
31. Bh6 Qh7 32. Qh4 Rh8 33. Rh1 Bb7 34. Bb3 c5 35. Bxd5 Bxd5+
36. f3 cxd4 37. Qf6+ Ke8 38. Rb1 Qc7 39. Qxg6+ Qf7 40. Rb8+ Ke7
41. Bg5+ Kd7 42. Qxf7+ Kc6
1-0
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