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ANNOTATED GAME
A Fun Miniature
rockhawkamn10 (1437) vs. aghori (1552)
Annotated by: rockhawkamn10 (1200)
Chess opening: French defence (C00)
rockhawkamn10 (1437) vs. aghori (1552)
Annotated by: rockhawkamn10 (1200)
Chess opening: French defence (C00)
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11. O-O |
Also securing the king | ||||
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11... h6 |
This ensures that the knight will only become more aggressive if it moves, and it also prepares to clear out white's minor pieces on the f file and possibly start a pawn storm. | ||||
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12. Ne4 |
This move brings the knight into the action while trying to keep black's LSB out of it; however, it doesn't do much as far as preventing a pawn push or pawn storm. | ||||
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12... Nh4 |
Attempting to reopen the a8-h1 diagonal and open the f file while making a revealed attack on the bishop on f4 | ||||
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13. Nxh4 |
The only way I could see to keep from exposing the white king. | ||||
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13... Bxh4 |
The more logical of the two possible captures, because it adds pressure to white's king and doesn't allow white to annoy black with 14. Ng6 which gains a tempo and puts the knight right in the black king's face after 13...Rxf4. | ||||
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14. Bg3 |
Offering a trade to get black's stronger bishop off the board, but the trade would hang the e pawn. | ||||
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14... Bg5 |
I do not care for this move, in my opinion retreating to e7 and then relocating on the queen side to work with the LSB to aim at white's king or leaving the bishop on h4 and letting white give the black queen a personal invitation into the game is much better. | ||||
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15. Qh5 |
! With light square holes in black's defence, white tries to take advantage of them. | ||||
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15... Bf4 |
Enticing a trade that would bring the black rook awkwardly onto the 4th row in the middle game, but it also takes away the bishop as a defender of the f6 square. | ||||
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16. Nf6+ |
!! Either wins the exchange or clears the path for victory - 16... Kh8 17. Qg6 (no matter what black does besides 17... Be4, which just delays the inevitable, there is checkmate next move) | ||||
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16... gxf6 |
Not seeing white's plan of action, black takes the sacrifice instead of the loss of material. | ||||
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17. Qg6+ |
Using the newly opened g file | ||||
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17... Kh8 |
Forced | ||||
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18. Qh7# |
That's all she wrote. Thanks for watching, and I hope you had a good time and maybe took something away from this. I probably missed some things in my annotation, and if you would like to point them out either through a comment or private message, I would appreciate it. | ||||
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