davidmoodychess (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} davidmoodychess) wrote,@ 2006-07-23 19:35:00 |
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The quiet killer
Most winning moves bring to mind July 4th fireworks. The sky erupts in colors, the board explodes, and the poor victim resigns with a face more smudged by gunpowder than red from embarrassment.
But sometimes that killer move wouldn't wake a baby.
bookman (1682) - rsanchez (1703) [B14]
2006Duo.17, 2006
This game is from an Internet Chess Club correspondence tournament. I'm not a good correspondence player, simply because I lack the patience to analyze a position until it screams for mercy.
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4
I have been playing the 4.Bd3 system for quite a few years, but Black has a lot of good ways to equalize and enough time to find them in a correspondence game. Therefore, I took the radical approach of trying to get a better position before attacking.
4...Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qc2 Nc6 9.Bd3 Nf6 10.0–0 Be7
One has to wonder whether this bishop accomplished anything on its little jaunt. It looks like Black is trying to play 11...Nb4, and White decides to worry about it.
11.a3 0–0 12.Rd1 b6 13.Bf4 Bb7 14.Rac1 g6
If Black felt concern about White's pressure on h7, than 14...h6 seems more natural. Still, the text shouldn't be that bad as long as Black remembers to get his bishop to long diagonal.
15.Bc4
Hoping that the d5 push will come to something, but this idea commits him to messy kingside pawns.
15...Na5 16.Ba2 Bxf3 17.gxf3 Rc8 18.Qe2 Qd7 19.b4
Chasing the knight to what will hopefully be a more vulnerable square.
19...Nb7
19...Nc6 20.d5 exd5 21.Nxd5 with the double threat of 22.Nxf6+ and 22.Rxc6.
20.d5 exd5 21.Nxd5 Nxd5 22.Bxd5 Rxc1 23.Bxc1 Nd6?
23...Bf6 dominates the long diagonal while leaving White without a useful discovery. The text allows a killer move.
24.Bb2 1-0
Yes, that's all. White has the simple idea of 25.Qe5 followed by mate on g7 or h8. With his f-pawn pinned, Black can stop this only by giving up at least a piece, for example, 24...Qd8 25.Qe5 Bf6.
Most winning moves bring to mind July 4th fireworks. The sky erupts in colors, the board explodes, and the poor victim resigns with a face more smudged by gunpowder than red from embarrassment.
But sometimes that killer move wouldn't wake a baby.
bookman (1682) - rsanchez (1703) [B14]
2006Duo.17, 2006
This game is from an Internet Chess Club correspondence tournament. I'm not a good correspondence player, simply because I lack the patience to analyze a position until it screams for mercy.
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4
I have been playing the 4.Bd3 system for quite a few years, but Black has a lot of good ways to equalize and enough time to find them in a correspondence game. Therefore, I took the radical approach of trying to get a better position before attacking.
4...Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qc2 Nc6 9.Bd3 Nf6 10.0–0 Be7
One has to wonder whether this bishop accomplished anything on its little jaunt. It looks like Black is trying to play 11...Nb4, and White decides to worry about it.
11.a3 0–0 12.Rd1 b6 13.Bf4 Bb7 14.Rac1 g6
If Black felt concern about White's pressure on h7, than 14...h6 seems more natural. Still, the text shouldn't be that bad as long as Black remembers to get his bishop to long diagonal.
15.Bc4
Hoping that the d5 push will come to something, but this idea commits him to messy kingside pawns.
15...Na5 16.Ba2 Bxf3 17.gxf3 Rc8 18.Qe2 Qd7 19.b4
Chasing the knight to what will hopefully be a more vulnerable square.
19...Nb7
19...Nc6 20.d5 exd5 21.Nxd5 with the double threat of 22.Nxf6+ and 22.Rxc6.
20.d5 exd5 21.Nxd5 Nxd5 22.Bxd5 Rxc1 23.Bxc1 Nd6?
23...Bf6 dominates the long diagonal while leaving White without a useful discovery. The text allows a killer move.
24.Bb2 1-0
Yes, that's all. White has the simple idea of 25.Qe5 followed by mate on g7 or h8. With his f-pawn pinned, Black can stop this only by giving up at least a piece, for example, 24...Qd8 25.Qe5 Bf6.
