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ANNOTATED GAME
London failed
damalfi (1684) vs. fiou (1686)
Annotated by: damalfi (1200)
Chess opening: King's Indian (A48), London system
damalfi (1684) vs. fiou (1686)
Annotated by: damalfi (1200)
Chess opening: King's Indian (A48), London system
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The London attack not always works... | |||||
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1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 |
The fiachetto is probably the best structure against the London attack. This doesn't mean I won't play my favorite plan against it. The first thing to do is to block the action of a future black bishop... on f5! The black squared bishop will aim to a solid pawn wall (c3), and it is not dangerous itself. | ||||
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3. Bf4 Bg7 4. h3 |
This move is necessary so, in case of Af5, g4. Of course, the side-effect is to provide a square for the bsb in case of an early Nh5. | ||||
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4... d6 5. e3 O-O 6. g4 |
Af5 prevented. Some play Be6, here... and it is not as bad as it seems. | ||||
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6... b6 |
But black has the other right plan. | ||||
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7. c4 |
I decide to sacrify the pawn wall against the bsb by providing a block against the wsb with d5. | ||||
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7... Bb7 8. Nc3 Nbd7 9. Be2 |
Tempting him to try to exploit the pin over the f3 knight. | ||||
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9... Ne4 |
My plan should have been h4, here, trying to attack soon his king. This moves allows him to open my future castling on the queenside. | ||||
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10. Qc2 Nxc3 |
My queen move was bad. I cannot take with the queen, because of e5. | ||||
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11. bxc3 e6 |
Here, he could have played e5. | ||||
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12. Rh2 |
So I prevented it. The idea is to castle queenside (or Kd2, also possible) and get my rooks on his king. But it is not a straight-forward plan. | ||||
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12... d5 13. h4 dxc4 14. h5 |
I was almost forced to attack a bit too soon. | ||||
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14... b5 15. hxg6 hxg6 |
I though he would have taken with the f7 pawn. Here, one of the variants I found interesting: 16. Nh4 Nf6 17. Nxg6 f7xg6 18. Qxg6 Qe8 19. Qxe8 Ra8xe8 20. g4-g5 Nd5 21. Be5 Bxe5 22. dxe5 Nxc3 23. Bg4 Nxe4 24. Bg6 Re7 25. Ke2 Bxg5 26. f2-f4 Be4 27. Rh1 Bxc3+ 28. Kd2 Bxh1 29. Rxh1 Ne4+ 30. Ke2 Rd8 31. f4-f5 Rxd2+ 32. Kf3 Nxf2 33. f5-f6 Ng4 34. f6xe7 Ne5+ 35. Kg3 16. f3-h4 d7-f6 17. f4-h6 g7-h6 18. h4-g6 f7-g6 19. h2-h6 b7-e4 20. h6-g6+ e4-g6 21. c2-g6+ g8-h8 22. e1-c1 d8-e7 23. d1-h1+ f6-h7 24. f2-f4 f8-g8 25. g6-h5 g8-g7 26. g4-g5 a8-g8 27. e2-f3 e7-f7 28. h5-f7 g7-f7 29. f3-e4 f7-d7 30. g5-g6 g8-g6 31. e4-g6 h8-g8 32. g6-e8 d7-d5 33. e3-e4 16. f3-h4 d7-f6 17. f4-h6 g7-h6 18. h4-g6 f7-g6 19. h2-h6 b7-e4 20. h6-g6+ e4-g6 21. c2-g6+ g8-h8 22. e1-c1 d8-e7 23. d1-h1+ f6-h7 24. f2-f4 f8-g8 25. g6-h5 g8-g7 26. g4-g5 a8-g8 27. e2-f3 g7-g5 28. f4-g5 g8-g5 29. h5-h6 g5-g3 30. f3-e4 g3-e3 31. e4-h7 e3-c3+ 32. c1-b2 c3-g3 33. h7-f5+ h8-g8 34. h6-h8+ g8-f7 35. h1-h7+ | ||||
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16. Nh4 |
A sac. I imagined that the queen in g6 should have guaranteed me compensation. 9. f1-e2 f6-e4 10. d1-c2 e4-c3 11. b2-c3 e7-e6 12. h1-h2 d6-d5 13. h3-h4 d5-c4 14. h4-h5 b6-b5 15. h5-g6 h7-g6 16. f3-h4 d7-f6 17. f4-h6 g7-h6 18. h4-g6 f7-g6 19. c2-g6+ h6-g7 20. f2-f3 f6-d5 21. g6-e6+ f8-f7 22. g4-g5 d5-c3 23. g5-g6 c3-e2 24. e1-e2 b7-f3+ 25. e2-d2 d8-f6 26. e6-f7+ f6-f7 27. g6-f7+ g8-f7 28. a1-f1 c4-c3+ 29. d2-c3 b5-b4+ 30. c3-b4 a8-b8+ 31. b4-c3 | ||||
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16... c5 17. Nxg6 |
In a hurry to preserve the attack. | ||||
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17... fxg6 18. Qxg6 |
Doesn't it look good? | ||||
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18... Nf6 19. Bh6 Rf7 |
I didn't see Be4, that frees him from any danger. So I HAD to play the UGLY... | ||||
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20. f3 |
...losing an important "tempo". | ||||
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20... Kf8 21. g5 Ng8 22. O-O-O Nxh6 23. gxh6 Bh8 24. Rg1 cxd4 |
You see, he comes first. The right move here is Qg8+ and exchanging queens. But I am a piece under! | ||||
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25. exd4 Qf6 |
I didn't see here the threat Qf4... now, I tried a lot of ways to preserve my attack, but they doesn't work. Qg8+, Ke7, h7 would be a good try, but Qf4+ and then QxRh2 destroys me. | ||||
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26. Rf2 Qxg6 |
without the queen, my game is technically lost. The pawn itself is not enough to give me compensation. | ||||
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