Annotated chess game: Fool's Paradise!

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ANNOTATED GAME

Fool's Paradise!
NN (1653) vs. The Dentist (1297)
Annotated by: jotheblackqueen (1200)
Chess opening: KP (B00), Nimzovich defence

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1. e4	The other day, I couldn't resist having a peak through my buddy, The Dentist's past games profile because his rating had suddenly shot up about 18 points. I saw this brevity and I couldn't help playing through it to see how The Dentist managed to pulverise his opponent in just TWELVE MOVES! I saw how, he showed his opponent the utter folly of leaving the Fool's Mate diagonal unprotected. Yes, white was certainly awakened from a Fool's Paradise.



1... Nc6 2. f4 e5	2......... e5 - transposes into a sort of King's Gambit declined.



3. f5	3. f5? - bad move - this leaves the Fool's Mate diagonal unprotected to the BQ. Better was Nf3 guarding the h4 square and developing a piece at the same time - in this case white will now drop a pawn as 3........ Qh4 forks WK and e4 pawn.



3... Qh4+ 4. g3 Qxe4+	4. ........ Qxe4 - after 4. g3?? this allows another queen fork on e4 and the WR on h1 is toast. The Dentist may have a low rating, but as you saw with my earlier annotated game "In the Dentist's Chair" in which I very nearly lost he is not to be underestimated! Now white really feels the drill as a lot of enammel is about to disappear from his side of the board!!
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2340) on 11-Apr-08: 4.g3 drops a rook for nothing. White had to try 4.Ke2 and pray. White still comes under enormous attack by either 4...Nd4+ 5.Kd3 d4 or 4...Qxe4+ 5.Kf2 and Black has the pleasant choice of 5...Bc5+ or 5...Qxf5+ with a tremendous game.


5. Qe2 Qxh1 6. Nf3	6. Nf3 - develops a piece but three moves too late. The Dentist now develops very sensibly bringing out a knight to f6.



6... Nf6 7. Qc4	7. Qc4?? - white tries to counter-attack by zeroing in on f7 with his queen but he leaves the f3 knight en prise.



7... Qxf3 8. Be2	8. Be2 - develops a piece but white is way down on material. Had it been me I would have resigned when I knew I was going to drop a rook even though The Dentist is 300 points south of my rating. But I don't think I would have left the Fool's Mate diagonal unprotected in the first place.



8... Qh1+ 9. Kf2	9. Kf2 - would interposing with 9. Bf1 been any better? Now the WK is driven into open country.



9... Qxh2+	9. ........... Qxh2 , yet still more ennamel is drilled away!!



10. Kf3 e4+	10. ....... e4 - deadly pawn stab!



11. Ke3 Qxg3+ 12. Bf3	12. Bf3 - white throws in the sponge after playing this move because he knows that when the Dentist next comes on line, white is going to cop Old Matey on f3!
	2 comments toiletduck1 (1200) on 11-Apr-08: decent game, white doesn't show much resistance however! tugger (1200) on 14-Apr-08: with all due respect to NN, i think he can put this down as a dreadful performance. he clearly underestimated his opponent and was punished for it. i can only assume he was on auto-pilot through the first four moves, then realised what a terrible mess he'd got himself in. black takes advantage flawlessly.