[blind-chess] Skype Coaching Games - 25 January 2015, Nimzowitsch-Larsen, A01
- From: "Paul Benson" <paul.benson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Blind Chess" <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:00:35 -0000
Skype coaching session, 25 January 2015.
The following game was examined, 50 moves.
Paul Benson.
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White: Jobava, 2727.
Black: Carlsen, 2862.
Event: Tata Steel, Wijk aan Zee 2015.
Result: 0-1 in 50 moves.
Opening: Nimzowitsch-Larsen, Indian Variation, A01.
Brief summary.
Tournament standing: White is on 1.5 points from 7 games, tournament rating
2507.
Tournament tanding: Black is on 5 points from 7 games, tournament rating 2907
and has just won 4 games in a row.
Early opening: White, 3. Nc3, is aimed at taking both players out of a battle
of theory. Black chooses simple development in response, wisely avoiding trying
to refute the idea.
Mid opening: White, 8. f3, sets up a possible kingside pawn attack, but black,
8. ... h5, prevents this. Black makes it difficult for white to play for
queenside castling by forcing the exchange of dark square bishops.
Early middlegame: Black castles kingside and prepares to fight up the central
files. White trades a bishop for a knight and then tries to hold the centre
with his 2 knights. Black advances with, 21. ... h3, in itself not threatening,
but such a pawn might offer opportunities in the endgame.
Mid middlegame: Black trades all rooks and enters an endgame of queen and
bishop against white queen and knight. The black h3 pawn now becomes an
annoyance for white, the black queen must not be allowed to invade along the
white 2nd rank.
Early endgame: Black tries to probe with queen and bishop but white has a
fortress.
Mid endgame: White seeks to create unnecessary kingside complications on moves
38 and 39 in black's time trouble, not really recommended but understandable.
All it does is offer the black queen an entry into the white position, the
fortress was dismantled from within.
Late endgame: Once black won a pawn, the advanced h3 pawn gave black
unstoppable threats of a queen invasion. The only question remaining was wether
white could find a perpetual or would the black king advance to win more pawns.
1. b3 g6
2. Bb2 Nf6
3. Nc3 Bg7
4. d4 c5
5. e3 cxd4
6. exd4 d5
7. Qd2 Nc6
8. f3 h5
9. Bb5 Qd6
10. Nge2 Bh6
11. Qd1 Bf5
12. Bc1 Bxc1
13. Rxc1 Rc8
14. Qd2 O-O
15. Bxc6 bxc6
16. Na4 Rfe8
17. O-O e5
18. c3 h4
19. dxe5 Rxe5
20. b4 Rce8
21. Nd4 h3
22. g3 Bc8
23. Nc5 Nd7
24. Nd3 R5e7
25. Rfe1 c5
26. bxc5 Nxc5
27. Nf4 Rxe1+
28. Rxe1 Rxe1+
29. Qxe1 Ne6
30. Nfxe6 Bxe6
31. Kf2 Bd7
32. Qb1 Qc7
33. Qb3 Bc8
34. a3 a5
35. Qb2 Ba6
36. Nc2 Qa7+
37. Ne3 Bc4
38. f4 Kh7
39. g4 Qe7
40. Qc1 Qe4
41. f5 Qf4+
42. Kg1 gxf5
43. gxf5 Bd3
44. Qe1 Bxf5
45. Nxf5 Qxf5
46. Qg3 Kh6
47. Qb8 Qf3
48. Qh8+ Kg6
49. Qg8+ Kf6
50. Qd8+ Kf5
White resigns, 0-1
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