2015 GTCL Team Competition, 2nd Round. I'm paired with a Russian player but he's below my rating so I'm confident he is not a threat. He played the Scandinavian Qd6 variation and I just reply solidly. On move 8, I offered the b4 pawn sac - he declined. Move 19 c4 pawn sac again - accepted by no choice. My position was already favorable with a c6 passed pawn backed up by my Queen, Rook and white colored Bishop.
For some reasons I stop calculating precisely and missed some quick wins. Yuri has 2 minutes left on his clock and I'm enjoying a comfortable 30 minutes on my clock. I committed 3 serious mistakes in succession in move 37. Qe7, 38.c7 and 39.Qd8 where Yuri got me spending 26 minutes to find the only correct defense to thwart a mating attack. Luckily, I found 43. Rc3 and he runs out of accurate moves and fizzled out. He resigned when I promoted the c pawn on move 47. c8=Q
It was an intense struggle almost throwing up the game brought by mistakes towards the end. Nevertheless, I came out victorious!
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Scary Scandinavian Game
Rulix Batistil vs Yury Cheryachukin
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment