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Oswestry Chess Club
[Event "Oswestry A v Newport A"] [Site "Oswestry"] [Date "2024.10.03"] [Round "Brd 5"] [White "Price, Malcolm"] [Black "Slegg, Gary"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "1388"] [BlackElo "1591"] [Annotator "Gary Slegg"] [PlyCount "71"] [GameId "2096913941909514"] [EventDate "2024.??.??"] [SourceVersionDate "2024.09.14"] {[%evp 9,71,-58,-4,-12,14,7,33,0,31,24,27,-6,1,-15,40,44,370,358,432,408,423,357,388,374,444,436,488,372,389,342,543,359,402,364,357,349,541,392,434,414,467,432,682,617,775,739,859,813,1141,1113,2463,1085,1089,1041,1055,672,1064,656,1085,964,935,914,1136,1093] A00: Irregular Openings} 1. b4 {Apparently this is the Polish opening. I have never faced it before, but it seems that I did ok out of the opening} {Stricly1 d4, b5 is the Polish Opening. This is a Polish opening reversed. But it is known as the Orang-Otang opening, since at the NewYork 1924 congress Tartakower claimed to have consulted them before employing it twice there. It is also the Skolsky opening after a practitioner- vk} e5 2. Bb2 d6 (2... Bxb4 3. Bxe5 Nf6 {43% for Wh is another promising line, especially employed by elite GMs. Wh has to spend time retreating the B, and Bl can develop a powerful iniative down the e file- vk}) 3. e4 (3. e3) (3. c4 {main lines}) 3... Nf6 {main} (3... f5 {scores even better for Bl at 30% for Wh- vk}) 4. Nc3 b6 {This has occured in just two games. It looks dodgy on several grounds. It puts more pawns on Bl squares, thus weakening the Wh squares. Also its purpose can only be to put the B onto b7, where it sits looking at the rocksolid e4 pawn. ( There is a line like this in a variation of the Petroff, but there both e pawns are off the board, so the B gets an open line) In the game the B just sits there ,and soon disappears when it does finally take on e4- vk} (4... Be7 {main- 35% for Wh from 56 games; Bl just gets on with development before launching a K side attack; a bit like playing against an English opening-vk}) 5. d3 $146 (5. Nf3 Na6 6. Bb5+ Nd7 7. Bc6 Rb8 8. a3 Bb7 9. Bxb7 Rxb7 10. Qe2 Nab8 11. d4 c5 12. d5 cxb4 13. axb4 Rc7 14. Nb5 Rb7 15. Nxa7 Nf6 16. Nc6 Qc7 17. Ra8 Be7 18. Nxb8 Rxb8 19. Qa6 Nd7 {Paquette,J (1331)-Malykin,E (1577) San Francisco 2014 0-1}) (5. Bb5+ Nbd7 6. Nf3 Bb7 7. d3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. a3 c6 10. Bc4 d5 11. exd5 cxd5 12. Bb3 d4 13. Ne2 Bxf3 14. gxf3 a5 15. f4 Qc7 16. fxe5 Nxe5 17. Nxd4 axb4 18. a4 Qb7 19. f4 Neg4 {Gossmann,G-Mayer,L Koerbecke 2000 1-0 (36)}) (5. d4 $11 {Cloud Engines}) 5... Bb7 {[%eval -4,21]} (5... d5 $15 {[%eval -58,20]} 6. Nxd5 Nxd5 7. exd5 Bxb4+ 8. c3 Bd6 {This looks so obvious now}) 6. a3 $11 Nc6 7. Nf3 Nd4 {moving a piece for a second time in the opening- its better to get on with developing the others first- vk} (7... g6 8. g3 Bg7 9. Bg2 O-O 10. O-O $11 {SF17- vk}) 8. Nxd4 {White is slightly better.} exd4 9. Ne2 c5 10. c4 {[%eval -6,18]} (10. g3 {[%eval 27,17] was preferrable.}) 10... dxc3 (10... Be7 $11 {as played the B on b2 is set free on the long diagonal, rather than kept out of the way-vk}) 11. Bxc3 {[%cal Bb2c3,Bc3f6,Bf6h4][%mdl 32]} g6 {[%eval 40,21]} (11... d5 $11 {[%eval -15,19]}) (11... Be7 {developing looks good again- the text just weakens the diagonal for the QB has just been invited to control-vk}) 12. Qa4+ $14 {I had overlooked this check} Qd7 $2 {[%eval 370,21][%mdl 8192] [#] A mistake that costs the game. I completely forgot this was the only piece defending my knight} (12... Ke7 $14 {[%eval 44,22]}) 13. Qxd7+ $18 Kxd7 14. Bxf6 Rg8 15. Rc1 {Not thebest- it is not much use putting rs on a file that is completely closed to them, and the R becomes a bit of a target as well. Wh needs to get his K side pieces into play, so-} (15. g3 Ke6 16. Bc3 f5 17. Bg2 Kf7 18. O-O {is a more sensible course- vk}) 15... Bh6 16. f4 Ba6 17. Rc3 (17. Rd1 {looks better and keps an eye on the enemy K=vk}) 17... Ke6 18. Bh4 Bg7 19. Rb3 (19. g4 $1 {SF17- wants development to chase the Bl K stuck in the centre} Bxc3+ 20. Nxc3 Bb7 21. Kd2 f6 22. Be2 Ke7 23. Rb1 $18 {SF17-the Bl pieces have no real places to get to for activity-vk}) 19... Bb5 {[%eval 543,21]} (19... f5 $142 {[%eval 342,18]} 20. g4 fxg4) 20. Nc3 (20. bxc5 Ba4 21. Rb4 b5 22. c6 a5 (22... Rac8 23. d4 $18) 23. Nd4+ (23. Rd4 {SF17- vk})) 20... Bc6 21. b5 Bb7 22. Be2 a5 {[%eval 541,19]} (22... Kd7 $142 {[%eval 349,21]} 23. f5 Bd4) 23. a4 (23. Na4 {picks up a b pawn and creates a passed pawn for Wh on the file-vk}) 23... f5 24. Bf3 Rab8 25. Kd2 {White is clearly winning.} c4 {[%eval 682,21] I played this to create a passed pawn on the e-file, I thought it was the only chance I had} (25... Kf7 $142 {[%eval 432,21]} 26. Re1 Bh6) 26. dxc4 Bxc3+ 27. Rxc3 Bxe4 {the B gets out, but far too late-vk} 28. Re1 d5 29. cxd5+ Kxd5 30. Bxe4+ (30. Rd3+ Ke6 31. Bxe4 {leads to mate in 11 according to SF17-vk}) 30... fxe4 31. Ke3 {[#] Intending Rc6 and mate. To be honest, I hadn't seen this mate, so it was luck rather than design, which enabled me to avoid it} Rbc8 {Inhibits Rc6.} 32. Rd1+ Ke6 33. Rc6+ Rxc6 34. bxc6 {[%cal Bb5c6,Bc6c7][%mdl 32] Strongly threatening Bd8.} Rc8 35. Rc1 Kd5 {My final error, I should have played Kd3} 36. c7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.39/Black=0.84 He has a low grade, but he didn't do a thing wrong despite me trying to create opportunities for him to make mistakes} 1-0
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