Decided to play in a 16 0 tournament went I got home, four rounds of swiss.
[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.17"]
[White "Tchitcherine"]
[Black "KyleMayhugh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1689"]
[BlackElo "1218"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Chigorin defense, Janowski variation"]
[TimeControl "960+0"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c4 dxc4 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e3 Bf5
6. Bxc4 e6 7. O-O Bd6 8. Bb5 O-O 9. Bxc6 bxc6 10. b3 Rb8
11. Re1 h6
Through here I think I've blundered my way through to an adequate opening just following basic principals.
12. Bd2 Ng4
This turned out to be a big blunder. I'm not too upset about it, I just need to file that combination away for future reference. It dooms me to losing a piece:
13. h3 Nf6 14. e4 Bh7 15. e5 Bxe5
16. dxe5 Nd5
Down a piece for a pawn against a superior opponent, this game is likely lost. Given that it's a tournament and I have nothing to lose by playing on (it would go on to be the first game over anyway), I decided to go with an all-out attack and see what happened.
17. Na4 f6 18. exf6 Qxf6 19. Qe2 Rbe8 20. Qa6 Qg6
Crafty strongly suggests Be4 here instead for me. If we follow the computer line from there, I end up with a rather credible attack, but I would have had to have been a much better play to see some of the moves it suggested.
21. Ne5 Qf5 22. Qxa7 Rf6 23. Qd4 Ref8 24. Rf1 Ne7 25. Nd7 Rd8
If it wasn't already over, this really ends it. This move didn't mean his queen was exposed to my rook if he moved his knight. It meant my rook was exposed to his queen when he moved his knight with check.
Playing out the string from here...
26. Nxf6+ Qxf6 27. Qxd8+ Kf7 28. Qxc7 Be4 29. Bb4 Qg5 30. Qxe7+ Qxe7
31. Bxe7 Kxe7 32. Nc5 Bd5 33. Rfe1 Kd6 34. Nxe6 Bxe6 35. Rxe6+ Kxe6
36. a4 Kd7 37. a5 Kc8 38. a6 Kb8 39. a7+ Ka8 40. Kf1 c5
41. Ke2 c4 42. b4 c3 43. Kd3 c2 44. Kxc2 g5 45. g4 h5
46. b5 hxg4 47. hxg4 Kb7 48. a8=Q+ Kc7 49. Qc6+ Kd8 50. Ra8+ Ke7
51. Ra7+ Kf8 52. Qa8#
1-0
I get a bye in the second round, hooray :( Not only does that mean no playing for 45 minutes or so, it means that I'll have a point and play someone so far above me that I'll get crushed. I'll try to learn something from that game anyway, but it's hard. A small loss is easier to learn from.
So much for the hope of a small loss. I had no idea how to respond to his opening and tried bringing the queen out based on some videos I'd watched recently on the Scandanavian opening. It did not go well.
[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.18"]
[White "KyleMayhugh"]
[Black "ForkingKnight"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1216"]
[BlackElo "1658"]
[ECO "A51"]
[Opening "Budapest defense declined"]
[TimeControl "960+0"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. Nc3 exd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qh4 Be7
6. f3 O-O 7. e4 d6 8. Bd3 Ng4
Here's where it went wrong. I correctly used f3 to open up an escape square, but I waited too long to use it. It was brutal from here.
9. Qh5 g6 10. Qb5 Nge5
11. Bc2 Nd4 12. Qa4 Bd7 13. Nb5 a6 14. Bh6 Re8 15. Qa3 Nxc2+
0-1
Okay, and now I'm officially frustrated. I really shouldn't play tournaments for a few reasons: First, a sleeping baby at the beginning is never a sleeping baby at the end. For another, the time limit isn't nearly long enough for me to be practicing the thought process I'm supposed to be learning, which is the most important thing. Also, I always get a bye and get stuck sitting around because I'm always the lowest-rated player.
All of that is no excuse for missing this knight-fork and ruining a good game:
[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.18"]
[White "KyleMayhugh"]
[Black "ForkingKnight"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1216"]
[BlackElo "1658"]
[ECO "A51"]
[Opening "Budapest defense declined"]
[TimeControl "960+0"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. Nc3 exd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qh4 Be7
6. f3 O-O 7. e4 d6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Qh5 g6 10. Qb5 Nge5
11. Bc2 Nd4 12. Qa4 Bd7 13. Nb5 a6 14. Bh6 Re8 15. Qa3 Nxc2+
0-1
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