Thursday, February 02, 2006

IM Herman van Riemsdjik vs Smith-Morra fanatic

After playing at the 2006 Queenstown Class Classic, IM Herman van Riemsdijk gave a simul, which I was lucky to play in .. here is what happened:

[Event "Simul"]
[Date "2006.01.30"]
[White "IM van Riemsdjik, Herman"]
[Black "Smith Morra fanatic"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. Be3 a6 5. Qd2 b5 6. h4 h5 7.
Bd3 Bb7 8. f3 Nf6 9. Nh3 Nbd7 10. Ng5 O-O 11. O-O-O e5 12. d5 Bc8 13. Rdg1 Nb6

van Riemsdjik has a great position, my pieces are passive while his are active, it was instructive to see how he played

14. Qe2 Qd7 15. g4 hxg4 16. fxg4 Nxg4 17. h5 Nxe3 18. Qxe3 Qe8 19. Ne2 Nd7 20.
Ng3 Nf6 21. hxg6 Ng4

Finally I try to get active!

22. gxf7+ Rxf7 23. Qe1 Rf2?

... and blunder a piece

24. Nf5 Bxf5 25. exf5 e4 26. Rxg4 Qe5 27. Qxf2

van Riemsdjik doesnt even bother preventing me from having a bit of a king hunt .. on 27. c3 I would have just resigned

Qxb2+ 28. Kd2 Qc3+ 29. Ke2 exd3+ 30. cxd3 Qc2+ 31. Kf3 Qxd3+
32. Kg2 Qxd5+ 33. Ne4

My king hunt comes to nothing, as he knew it would, and the threat of 34. f6 is deadly

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1 Comments:

Blogger Schaakpraat said...

A nice game

8:08 AM  

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