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ANNOTATED GAME

Wonder if there'll be fireworks
kiev53 (1600) vs. racsimjoe (1463)
Annotated by: kiev53 (1530)
Chess opening: QGD (D51), 4.Bg5 Nbd7
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1. d4
ok I'm gonna play queens gambit. played a few times before and like the very open games it produces.
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1... d5 2. c4 e6
so you decline the gambit?

 
3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5
pinning the knight.

 
4... Nbd7
and as you don't remove the pin ...

 
5. cxd5
I'll simply take the pawn. and become a pawn up early in the game. Thanks
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5... h6 6. Bh4 Bb4
and as I cannot recapture on d5 if you now take with pawn ....

 
7. dxe6
I'll swap that off first.

 
7... fxe6 8. Qd3 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 O-O 10. e3 Qe8 11. Be2 b6 12. Bf3 Rb8 13. Ne2 Bb7 14. Bxb7 Rxb7 15. Nf4 g5
At this point I'd made a serious mistake and was shocked to see the pawn come forward....

 
16. Nxe6
... but I managed to recover

 
16... Qxe6 17. Qg6+ Kh8 18. Qxh6+
... cleaning up three pawns for my knight - not my intention but forced by your pawn advance to g5.

 
18... Kg8 19. Qg6+ Kh8 20. Qh6+ Kg8 21. Qg6+
just to let you know I could force a draw if I wanted :-)

 
21... Kh8 22. Bxg5
before cleaing up final pawn

 
22... Qf7
now here, you thought I could take my win quickly - I'd like to know If you saw good things for me here as I just couldn't see a quick kill myself. and decided to...

 
23. Bxf6+
clean up a few pieces.

 
23... Nxf6 24. Qxf7 Rxf7 25. O-O
... and hope to press home the pawn advantage thinking four pawns for the knight would see me through .. especially as the kings side is wide open.

 
25... Nd5 26. c4 Nc3 27. a4 Ne4 28. Ra2 Rb8 29. f3 Rbf8 30. Rc1 Ng5 31. h4 Nxf3+
And then I wasn't expecting this sacrifice but it was inspired... not only does it take care of all my pawns on f-g-h but we see later it equalises on a4 nice move!!

 
32. gxf3 Rf7xf3
ok 3 pawns for knight h4 is indefensible.

 
33. Re1 Rg8+ 34. Rg2 Rh3 35. Rxg8+ Kxg8
still thought I could do it! with the passed pawn on the e file...

 
36. Kf2
and wanted my king behind the three pawns for the push forward

 
36... Rxh4 37. Ke2
f3 may have been better but I still would have had no answer to ...

 

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