Thursday 31 January 2019

A Win Against Fritz

From time to time, I'll insert a chess game into this blog, played against Fritz on Chessbase. My main purpose in doing this is to keep practising how to insert a chess game into a blog or else I'll forget how to do it before very long. A secondary purpose is to keep a record of interesting games, preferably ones that I win but not exclusively. Here goes:
[White "Sean"] [Black "Fritz Club Level"] [Result "1-0"] [Termination "Fritz resigned"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 h5 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 Bb4 6.Qa4+ Nc6 7.a3 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 Bd7 9.Qc2 dxc4 10.e4 e5 11.Bxc4 Qe7 12.0-0 0-0-0 13.d5 Na5 14.Bd3 Rde8 15.h4 c6 16.c4 b6 17.Rfb1 Kc7 18.Nd2 Kb8 19.Nb3 Nxb3 20.Qxb3 c5 21.a4 Qd6 22.Bd2 Kc7 23.a5 Ra8 24.f3 Rhb8 25.Qa3 Rb7 26.Bc2 Rab8 27.a6 Nxd5 28.cxd5 Ba4 29.Bxa4 Ra8 30.axb7 Rb8 31.Bc6 Rh8 32.Qxa7 Kd8 33.b8 Qxb8 34.Qxb8+ Ke7 35.Qb7+ Kf6 36.Bg5+ Kg6 37.Ra7 Rf8 38.Rxb6 Kh7 39.Be8 Kh8 40.Bxf7 Rd8 41.Be6 Rd7 42.Qxd7 Kh7 43.Qxg7#
There is a glitch in this game. White's 33rd move is 33.b8+Q, meaning that the pawn queens with check, but this was not recognised and play stopped at Black's 32nd move. The only way that I found to proceed was simply to write 33. b8. Ah well, nothing's perfect. To be honest, I blundered in this game on my ninth move. I forgot that my queen was vulnerable to a discovered attack from the black bishop after the knight moves away. In the original game, I played 9.e3 and black countered with 9...Nxd4. Oops! After my reconsidered 9.Qc2, I didn't make any more blunders and went on to win in grand fashion against a handicapped Fritz playing at club level.

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