D Sceviour wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:11 pm
This is Schooner's first win in the monthly ICS tournament. The results was marred with a time forfeit by BelFish, but the games were all very exciting. In particular, I like the game against host NightmareX. Black pummeled the white queen out of the opening, and white never stood a chance. Thank you to the host and all the participants.
Indeed, Nightmare underestimated the threat on the long diagonal in combination with the knight that could move to h4 and it didn't look deep enough to see it coming, after 24 .. Rxd4 it saw trouble arising, but by that time it was already too late. Two of the major weaknesses of Nightmare are a somewhat weak king safety and a very ancient search with hardly any pruning. Every time I decide to do something about it, but in practice there are always other things more important.
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[Event "Monthly online blitz"]
[Site "I7-6950X"]
[Date "2020.01.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "NightmareX"]
[Black "Schooner"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Nc3 O-O 7. O-O d6
8. Bf4 Ne5 9. Bb3 a6 10. h3 c5 11. Nf3 Ng6 12. Bh2 b5 13. a4 c4 14. Ba2 b4
15. Ne2 Bb7 16. Bxc4 Rc8 17. Bd5 Nxd5 18. exd5 Rc5 19. c3 Rxd5 20. Qb3 Rd3
21. Ne1 Rd2 22. Nd4 Qa8 23. Nef3 Bd5 24. Qxb4 Rxd4 25. Qxd4 Bxf3 26. gxf3
Nh4 27. Qg4 f5 28. Qf4 Bg5 29. Qxd6 Rd8 30. Qg3 f4 31. Qg4 h5 32. Qxh5 Rd3
33. Qg4 Rxf3 34. Qe6+ Kh7 35. Qe2 Be7 36. Rad1 Bc5 37. Rd4 Bxd4 38. cxd4
Qd5 39. Qc2+ Kh6 40. Qd2 g5 41. Qe2 Rxh3 42. f3 Nxf3+ 43. Rxf3 Rxf3 44.
Qxa6+ Kh5 45. Qe2 Kh4 46. Qe5 Qc4 47. Qe1+ Kh3 48. Qd1 Qc6 49. Qd2 Qe4 50.
Bxf4 gxf4 51. Qg2+ Kh4 52. Qh1+ Kg4 53. Qg2+ Rg3 54. Qxg3+ Kxg3 55. Kf1 f3
56. b3 Qb1#
{White checkmated} 0-1
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I thought for a very long time that Nightmare had a fortress in the game with black against Nemorino but suddenly it broke around the 127th move. Maybe it was a fortress and Nightmare played a wrong move when time trouble came up, or maybe it wasn't a fortress at all, I haven't analyzed it yet.
[pgn]
[Event "Monthly online blitz"]
[Site "I7-6950X"]
[Date "2020.01.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Nemorino"]
[Black "Nightmarex"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bg5 h6 8.
Bh4 g5 9. Bg3 Bg7 10. h3 Ne5 11. f3 Nbc6 12. Bf2 Ng6 13. Qd2 Nxd4 14. Bxd4
Bxd4 15. Qxd4 Be6 16. h4 gxh4 17. O-O-O Rg8 18. Qf2 Qa5 19. f4 Bg4 20. Rd5
b5 21. Kb1 Rc8 22. Rd3 Rc4 23. Re3 Rd4 24. Be2 h5 25. a3 b4 26. Nd5 bxa3
27. Rxa3 Qd2 28. Re3 Rc4 29. Rc1 f6 30. b3 Rd4 31. f5 Ne5 32. Rd1 Qxe2 33.
Rxe2 Rxd1+ 34. Kb2 Rxd5 35. exd5 Bxe2 36. Qxe2 Kf8 37. Qxh5 Rg4 38. Qh6+
Kf7 39. Qd2 a5 40. Ka2 Re4 41. Qxa5 Re2 42. Qb4 Rxg2 43. Qxh4 Rxc2+ 44. Ka3
Rc3 45. Ka4 Rd3 46. Qh5+ Kf8 47. Qh8+ Kf7 48. Qc8 Rd4+ 49. b4 Rc4 50. Qe6+
Kf8 51. Ka5 Nd3 52. Qe2 Rd4 53. b5 Nc5 54. Qa2 Rf4 55. Qh2 Rd4 56. Kb6 Rxd5
57. Kc6 Re5 58. Qh6+ Kf7 59. Qh3 Re4 60. Kc7 Ra4 61. Qh7+ Kf8 62. Qh6+ Kf7
63. Qh5+ Kf8 64. Qh1 Re4 65. b6 Re5 66. Kc6 Kg7 67. Qf3 Kf7 68. Qh5+ Kf8
69. Qh6+ Kg8 70. Qh3 Kf7 71. Qh7+ Kf8 72. Qh8+ Kf7 73. Kc7 Re4 74. Qh7+ Kf8
75. Qh6+ Kf7 76. Qh1 Re5 77. Kd8 Kf8 78. Qh6+ Kf7 79. Qh3 Nb7+ 80. Kc8 Nc5
81. Qf3 Kg8 82. Kd8 Kf7 83. b7 Nxb7+ 84. Qxb7 Kf8 85. Qf3 Re1 86. Kd7 Re5
87. Qh1 Kf7 88. Kc7 Kf8 89. Qh3 Kg8 90. Kd8 Kf7 91. Qh1 Kf8 92. Kc7 Rc5+
93. Kd7 Re5 94. Qa8+ Kf7 95. Qe8+ Kg7 96. Kc6 Rc5+ 97. Kb6 Re5 98. Ka6 Re1
99. Ka5 Re2 100. Kb5 Re5+ 101. Ka4 Re1 102. Kb3 Re4 103. Ka2 Re5 104. Kb2
Re4 105. Kc1 Re1+ 106. Kd2 Re4 107. Kc3 Re1 108. Kd4 Re5 109. Kc4 Re4+ 110.
Kd5 Re5+ 111. Kd4 Re1 112. Qg6+ Kf8 113. Kd5 Re5+ 114. Kc6 Rc5+ 115. Kd7
Re5 116. Kd8 Re1 117. Qg2 Re3 118. Kc7 Re5 119. Qh2 Re4 120. Kd7 Re1 121.
Qh8+ Kf7 122. Qh5+ Kf8 123. Kd8 Re5 124. Qh6+ Kf7 125. Qh4 Kf8 126. Qh7 Re4
127. Qh8+ Kf7 128. Qe8+ Kg7 129. Qc6 Re5 130. Ke8 Kh6 131. Qg2 Kh5 132. Qg3
d5 133. Kd7 Re4 134. Kc6 Re5 135. Qf4 d4 136. Qxd4 Rxf5 137. Qd1+ Kg5 138.
Qd2+ Rf4 139. Kd7 e5 140. Ke6 e4 141. Qa2 Kg4 142. Qg2+ Kh5 143. Qg7 Kh4
144. Kd5 f5 145. Qg2 e3 146. Ke5 Rf2 147. Qg1 Kh3 148. Kd4 Rf3 149. Kd3 Rg3
150. Qd1 Kh4 151. Kd4 Rg4+ 152. Kxe3 Re4+ 153. Kf3 Kh5 154. Qg1 Rg4 155.
Qb6 Kg5 156. Ke2 Rg2+ 157. Kd3 Rg3+ 158. Kc4 f4 159. Kd4 Re3 160. Qb1 Rf3
161. Qh7 Re3 162. Qd7 Re1 163. Kc3 Re5 164. Kd2 Re3 165. Kd1 Rg3 166. Ke1
Rg1+ 167. Kf2 Rg3 168. Qg7+ Kf5 169. Qh6 Rg5 170. Qf8+ Ke5 171. Qc5+ Kf6
172. Qd4+ Kf5 173. Qd5+ Kf6 174. Qe4 Re5 175. Qh7 Kg5 176. Qg7+ Kf5 177.
Qh6 Re3 178. Qh5+ Kf6 179. Qg4 Ke5 180. Qg5+ Ke4 181. Qf6 Rf3+ 182. Kg2
Rg3+ 183. Kh2 Re3 184. Qe6+ Kd4 185. Qf5 Re2+ 186. Kh3 f3 187. Kg3 f2 188.
Qf6+ Kd3 189. Qa6+ Ke3 190. Kg2 Rd2 191. Qc4 Rd3 192. Qe6+ Kf4 193. Kxf2
Rd2+ 194. Ke1 Rd4 195. Qa2 Ke3 196. Qe2+ Kf4 197. Kf2 Re4 198. Qh5 Re6 199.
Qf3+ Ke5 200. Ke3 Rb6 201. Qe4+ Kd6 202. Qd4+ Kc6 203. Kd3 Rb1 204. Qa4+
Kd6 205. Kd4 Rg1 206. Qa3+ Kd7 207. Qf3 Ra1 208. Kc4 Ra2 209. Qd3+ Ke8 210.
Qe4+ Kd8 211. Qd4+ Ke7 212. Qe5+ Kf7 213. Kb5 Ra7 214. Qf4+ Kg6 215. Qg3+
Kh5 216. Qh2+ Kg4 217. Qg1+ Kf3 218. Qxa7 Ke4 219. Kc4 Kf4 220. Kd3 Kf5
221. Qe7 Kf4 222. Ke2 Kf5 223. Kf3 Kg6 224. Kf4 Kh6 225. Kf5 Kh5 226. Qg5#
{Black checkmated} 1-0
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All by all this was one of the worst tournaments for Nightmare since a very long time, hopefully next time it will be better.