Friday, August 26, 2011

The Power of Two Bishops

Recently I played a corresponding game at chess.com. It is one of the games I played in a Semi Slav thematic tournament. At the end of the game, my two bishops completely dominates the board. Below is the PGN and an embedded PDF analyzing the game.

[Event "12th Chess.com Thematic Tournament - Semi Slav (1801-2000) - Round 1"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2011.08.01"]
[White "BennyNevis"]
[Black "whily"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1768"]
[BlackElo "1876"]
[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]
[Termination "whily won by resignation"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 {Thematic Game - This is the starting position.} 
 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a3 Bd6 10.O-O O-O
 11.b4 a5 12.Rb1 axb4 13.axb4 Qe7 14.Qb3 Nd5 15.Nxd5 exd5 16.Bd2 Nf6 17.Ra1 Ne4 18.Bc3 Nxc3 
 19.Qxc3 Bxb4 20.Qc2 g6 21.g3 Bd6 22.Kg2 f6 23.Nd2 c5 24.dxc5 Bxc5 25.Bxb5 d4+ 26.Kg1 dxe3 
 27.fxe3 Qxe3+ 0-1
alt : 2011-08-01-bennynevis-vs-whily-semi-slav.pdf

Friday, August 19, 2011

Transition from Attack to Defense

Recently I played a corresponding game at chess.com. It is one of the games I played in a Ruy Lopez thematic tournament. I attacked first, but later on have to defense and lost the game quickly (as I thought). Below is the PGN and an embedded PDF analyzing the game.

[Event "Ruy Lopez - Round 1"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2011.07.25"]
[White "nadreck"]
[Black "whily"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2022"]
[BlackElo "1882"]
[TimeControl "1 in 5 days"]
[Termination "nadreck won by resignation"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 {Thematic Game - This is the starting
position.}  Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.Re1 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Nxe5 Be7 8.d4 Be6
9.Bf4 O-O 10.c3 Nf5 11.Nd2 c5 12.g4 Nh4 13.dxc5 Bxc5 14.Ne4 Bd6
15.Nxd6 cxd6 16.Nd3 Qd7 17.f3 Qc6 18.Re3 Bxg4 19.Nb4 Nxf3+ 20.Kh1 Qd7
21.Rxf3 Bxf3+ 22.Qxf3 Rfe8 23.Rg1 Re6 24.Nd5 Rae8 25.Qg4 1-0
alt : 2011-07-25-nadreck-vs-whily-ruy-lopez.pdf

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Wild King's Gambit

Recently I played a corresponding game at chess.com. I played King's gambit, and the game went wild as what usually happens in this opening. Both white and black kept making tactical blunders and I won the game although I just intended to draw the game at the critical moment. Below is the PGN and an embedded PDF analyzing the game.

[Event "The super wally's that will crush YOU!!! - Board 36"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2011.07.22"]
[White "whily"]
[Black "graywyvern"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1896"]
[BlackElo "1822"]
[TimeControl "1 in 5 days"]
[Termination "whily won by resignation"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.Bc4 d5 7.exd5 Bd6 8.d4
 f3 9.O-O fxg2 10.Kxg2 h6 11.Nc3 Nbd7 12.Bf4 Nb6 13.Qe2 Qe7 14.Rae1
 Kf8 15.Nb5 Qd8 16.Nxd6 cxd6 17.Ng6+ fxg6 18.Bxd6+ Kg8 19.Rxf6 1-0
alt : 2011-07-22-whily-vs-graywyvern-kga.pdf

One technical note: I generated the PDF file by using LaTeX package xskak, which is great for chess articles/books.