Not Official No Castle Chess

Discussion of anything and everything relating to chess playing software and machines.

Moderators: hgm, Rebel, chrisw

User avatar
AdminX
Posts: 6339
Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:34 pm
Location: Acworth, GA

Not Official No Castle Chess

Post by AdminX »

Not Official No Castle Chess, but I did play a 5 minute blitz game without castling and it was fun.

[pgn]
[Event "Rated Blitz game"]
[Site "lichess.org"]
[Date "2021.07.22"]
[Round "?"]
[White "JTHanoi"]
[Black "TedSummers"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2078"]
[BlackElo "2054"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2021.??.??"]
[EventType "blitz"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. e4 {0} h6 {0 B00 Carr Defense} 2. d4 {1} d6 {0} 3. f4 {2} c6 {0} 4. Nf3 {
1 [#]} a5 $146 {0} ({Predecessor:} 4... g5 5. fxg5 hxg5 6. Bxg5 Bg7 7. Nc3 Nd7
8. Qd2 Nf8 9. Be3 Nf6 10. h3 Ne6 11. O-O-O {0-1 (57) Gaponenko,I (2357)
-Sharikov,A (2170) Lichess.org INT 2021}) 5. Bd3 {1} Nd7 {2.85/24 0} (5... d5
$142 {1.61/28} 6. e5 e6) 6. c3 {1 B00: Queen's Fianchetto Defence, Nimzowitsch
Defence.} Qc7 {0} 7. Be3 {1} e5 {0} 8. dxe5 {0.90/29 4} (8. h3 $18 {1.84/30
has better winning chances.}) 8... dxe5 $16 {0} 9. f5 {-0.38/32 3} (9. fxe5 $16
{1.08/25 Threatens to win with Nbd2.} Nxe5 10. Nxe5 Qxe5 11. Nd2) 9... Ngf6 {1}
10. Qd2 {-1.16/30 5} ({White should play} 10. Nbd2 $15 {-0.35/31}) 10... Ng4 {
-0.63/30 1} (10... Nc5 $17 {-1.16/30 Strongly threatening ...Bxf5!} 11. Qc2
Nxd3+ 12. Qxd3 Be7) 11. h3 {-1.37/28 2} (11. Bg1 $1 $15 {-0.63/30}) 11... Nxe3
$17 {1} 12. Qxe3 {0} b5 {6} 13. Nbd2 {3} a4 {1} 14. a3 {-1.53/28 4} (14. Qe2
$142 {-0.95/28}) 14... Bb7 {-0.96/28 4} ({Black should try} 14... Bc5 {-1.53/28
} 15. Qe2 Nf6) 15. c4 $2 {-2.55/25 12} (15. O-O-O $17 {-0.96/28 was necessary.}
) 15... b4 {3} 16. axb4 {24} Bxb4 {0} 17. g4 {11} a3 {-1.11/28 7} (17... O-O-O
$19 {-2.61/30} 18. Bc2 Nc5) 18. bxa3 {2} Rxa3 {-0.67/28 4} ({Better is} 18...
O-O $1 $17 {-1.33/26} 19. Bc2 (19. Qe2 Rxa3) 19... Bc5) 19. Rxa3 $15 {1} Bxa3 {
1} 20. Ke2 $2 {-8.29/25 6} (20. Nb3 $17 {-0.91/30}) 20... Bc5 $19 {9} 21. Nd4 {
3} Bxd4 {3} 22. Qf3 {1} Qa5 {18} 23. h4 {6} Qa2 {11} 24. Bb1 {24} Qb2 {26} 25.
g5 {8} hxg5 {17} 26. h5 {2} Nc5 {21} 27. f6 {4} Ba6 {39} 28. fxg7 {8} Bxc4+ {1}
29. Ke1 {4} Rg8 {32 [#] ...Bc3 is the strong threat.} ({Wrong is} 29... Qc1+ $2
30. Qd1 $18) 30. h6 {11} Bc3 {1} 31. Qd1 {21} Bxd2+ {27 Black mates.} 32. Kf2 {
1} Bf4+ {5} 33. Kf3 {4} g4+ {5 [#] Deflection, Decoy} 34. Kxg4 {2} Qg2+ {
1 Double Attack} 35. Kf5 {1} Qg6# {2 Normal Black wins by checkmate. Weighted
Error Value: White=1.34/Black=0.61} 0-1
[/pgn]
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
__________________________________________________________________
Ted Summers