Sunday, April 29, 2018

T76 Highlights: Round 2

Tobiasdelmonte shows how to play a QG - lots of great tactics and a key sacrifice. 
This is the sort of game I love. White's King was engineered into an inescapable position after setting up a mating net and a sacrifice.


Tobiasdelmonte (1668) - Konstantinos (1658)

Result: 1-0
Site: Internet Chess Club
Date: 2018.04.01
[...] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.¤f3 ¤f6 4.¤c3 e6 5.¥g5 ¥e7 6.e3 ¤bd7 7.¦c1 b6 8.cxd5 cxd5 9.¥b5 ¥b7 10.¤e5 O-O 11.¤c6 ¥xc6 12.¥xc6 ¦c8 13.¥a4 ¤e8? Opens the door for a nice combination! 14.¥xe7 £xe7 15.¤xd5 exd5 16.¦xc8 Advantage White - just need to finish it! 16...£b4 17.¢f1 ¤df6 18.¥xe8 ¦xe8 19.¦xe8 ¤xe8 20.£c2 White is up exchange and a pawn but Black still has resources... 20...¤d6 21.g3 g6 22.¢g2 a5 23.h4 £b5 24.h5 Keep attack going with pawn push to open Rook file!! 24...£e8 25.hxg6 hxg6 26.b3 £e7 27.£e2 ¤f5 28.£f3 £e6 29.£f4! And not a lot Black can do here... 29...f6 Best defense for Black looks like
29...¤g7 30.£b8 ¤e8 31.£e5 £xe5 32.dxe5 g5 33.¦h6 b5 34.¦b6 b4 35.¦b5 a4 36.bxa4 ¢g7 37.¦xb4 ¤c7
30.£b8 ¢f7 31.¦h7
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