Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Not one, but two escapes

This game is kind of a followup to the "Insulting my opponent?" post from a couple of months back.Tonight I played a game where I managed to blunder on move 11, and had to surrender my queen for a piece and a rook (and it could have been even worse than that). In fact I thought about resigning around that point, but after playing a few automatic moves I hit upon a plan. Remembering the classic Nehzmetdinov v Chernikov game, I went for the plan of Bd4 followed by Nh3-f2-g4 with Nh6# a threat. Fortunately for me my opponent (who isn't rated that far below me), also played a few automatic moves, which allowed my plan to get going. While I didn't get the mate I was looking for, I did manage to win back enough material to make it interesting. But just when I had done that I played another bad move ( 29.e5) and found 29 ... Qc6 quite dangerous. So much so I then had to make a second escape with 30.Bc4 which was just enough to reach a drawn position. By this stage I decided my luck was all used up and offered my opponent a draw a few moves later.

Press,Shaun - Sreetharan,Kishore [B06]
Murphy Memorial, 08.05.2012


Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. Be3 a6 5. Qd2 b5 6. Be2 Bb7 7. a3 Nd7 8. O-O-O c5 9. dxc5 Nxc5 10. f3 Rc8 11. b4 Nb3+ 12. cxb3 Rxc3+ 13. Kb1 Rxb3+ 14. Ka2 Rb2+ 15. Qxb2 Bxb2 16. Kxb2 Nf6 17. Bd4 O-O 18. Nh3 Nd7 19. Nf2 Nb6 20. Ng4 Na4+ 21. Ka1 e5 22. Bxe5 f6 23. Rxd6 Qe7 24. Bxf6 Rxf6 25. Nxf6+ Kh8 26. Rhd1 Qe5+ 27. R1d4 Bd5 28. R6xd5 Qxf6 29. e5 Qc6 30. Bc4 bxc4 31. Rd6 Qb5 32. R4d5 Nc5 33. Rxc5 Qa4 34. Rdc6 1/2-1/2

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

OMG, you played 11.b4??

That's nuts Shaun?