Monday, 26 February 2024

Similar concepts

 While sorting out some games from my current club event, I was struck by the similarity between the game featured in the "Found Scoresheets" article, and the one played below. They both used a combination of the knight and dark squared bishop to attack c7, and in both cases Nb5 was an important move. The other interesting thing was that they were played at exactly the same time, on the same table (this game being on Board 2). I'm sure some advanced plagiarism detector might have something to say about that, but apart from noticing that Nb5 was a threat in the board 1 game, I can't say that I borrowed anything specifically from it.


Press,Shaun - Garland,Liam [E67]
Rama Memorial --- (4), 20.02.2024

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. g3 d6 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Nc3 Re8 8. e4 e5 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Qc2 c6 11. Rd1 Qc7 12. b3 Nf8 13. Ba3 c5 14. Nb5 Qb8 15. Bxc5 Bg4 16. Bd6 Qc8 17. Nc7 N8d7 18. Nxa8 Qxa8 19. h3 Bxf3 20. Bxf3 Bf8 21. Bxf8 Nxf8 22. Rd6 Ne6 23. Rad1 Kg7 24. h4 Nd4 25. R1xd4 exd4 26. Qd3 Rd8 27. Rxd4 Rxd4 28. Qxd4 Qc8 29. e5 Ne8 30. Bg4 Qc7 31. Bd7 Kf8 32. Bxe8 Kxe8 33. Qd5 Qc8 34. Kg2 a6 35. a3 Qc7 36. b4 h5 37. c5 b6 38. Qd6 Qxd6 39. exd6 Kd7 40. Kf3 1-0

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