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ANNOTATED GAME
Refutation of an unsound sacrifice?
Promising youngster vs. Charles Higgie
Annotated by: charleshiggie
(2222)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B21), Smith-Morra gambit
Promising youngster vs. Charles Higgie
Annotated by: charleshiggie
(2222)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B21), Smith-Morra gambit
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21... exd4 |
I take a pawn. | |||||
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22. Qf3 |
He avoids the queen exchange | |||||
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22... Be4 |
I hit his queen again. | |||||
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23. Qf4 |
His queen moves | |||||
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23... Be5 |
I hit is yet again. He seems to have spent most of the game running round with his queen, while I improve the position of my pieces hitting it. | |||||
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24. Qc1 |
And now it is very poorly placed. | |||||
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24... Rc8 |
threatening discovered attacks on his queen. | |||||
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25. Re1 |
which he choses to ignore. | |||||
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25... Ne3 |
So I carry out my threat. | |||||
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26. Bxe3 |
He decides to trade queen for rook and bishop | |||||
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26... Rxc1 |
so I take | |||||
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27. Bxc1 |
he takes back. As well as having a huge material deficit all his pieces are passively placed and he was nearly out of time on his clock. OK find the move which caused him to finally resign (Shredder verified that this was the best move) | |||||
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27... Qb8 |
Did you find it? Shredder assesses this position as +7 for black. I love the variation 28. g3 h4 and my Rh8 which hasn't done much all game suddenly comes to life! Many thanks for reading this annotation, I hope you enjoyed it. Please rate my annotation - give it a few stars and leave a comment or two! | |||||
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