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ANNOTATED GAME
A mouthful of Sicilian... nice Bishop Sac!
RALbama1 (1573) vs. baobab (1769)
Annotated by: ralbama1
(1960)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B32), Labourdonnais-Loewenthal (Kalashnikov) variation
RALbama1 (1573) vs. baobab (1769)
Annotated by: ralbama1
(1960)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B32), Labourdonnais-Loewenthal (Kalashnikov) variation
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This was from another chess site... argh, sorry GameKnot! But, it was a cool game that involved a nice Bishop sacrifice which led to a nice mating attack. | |||||
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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 |
Standard Sicilian so far. | ||||
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4... e5 |
e5, we move into the Labourdonnais-Loewenthal variation... cool name for sure! | ||||
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5. Nb5 |
and this move adds (Kalashnikov) to the variation name... I wonder what the longest variation name in Chess Database of openings is. Anyone know? | ||||
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5... Nf6 |
Nf6, attack my king pawn, naturally. | ||||
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6. Nb1c3 |
Nb1c3, and I have an awkward position to say the least. | ||||
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6... Bb4 |
Bb4, logical move, pin my knight. | ||||
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7. a3 Ba5 |
This was an interesting play. I think Bxc3 might have been better, but let's see how it plays out. | ||||
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8. Nd6+ |
Nd6 , this was simply played to prevent black from castling. | ||||
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8... Ke7 9. Be3 |
My dark square bishop is eyeing c5... | ||||
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9... Bxc3+ 10. bxc3 Ne8 |
Black has to boot my Knight out, but I'm looking at two good diagonals for my bishops on c4 and c5 | ||||
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11. Bc5 Nxd6 12. Bxd6+ |
One bishop attacking... | ||||
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12... Ke8 13. Bc4 |
...two bishops attacking... | ||||
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13... Qa5 |
Qa5, a nice threat, but this move takes Blacks queen away from the main action of my attack and doesn't offer enough of a counter attack. I think better was b5. | ||||
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14. Qd2 |
I looked at Qf3 also, but for some reason chose this instead. I don't know why anymore, can anyone else tell me? | ||||
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14... h5 |
Black now is showing his intentions of getting his king side rook involved, maybe this is why I didn't move Qf3 on the previous move... | ||||
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15. O-O Rh6 |
as expected | ||||
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16. f4 |
This was the key move for me. It exposes my king to an easy check, but that's what I want. Then Black can move his knight to a5 and double attack my bishops, but he didn't look any further than that... | ||||
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16... Qb6+ |
Just as I had hoped... | ||||
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17. Kh1 Na5 |
... and the trap is set. Black is thinking he is going to end up with a bishop advantage, but I had sacrifice planned from the time f4 was played. | ||||
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18. Bxf7+ |
and it begins | ||||
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