Game of the week November 18, 2018 by Robert Huntington [Site "Plovdiv"] [Date "1976"] [Round "?"] [White "Lematchko, Tatjana"] [Black "Merdinjan, Agop"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B22"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "39"] [EventDate "1976.??.??"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "11"] [EventCountry "BUL"] [EventCategory "6"] [SourceTitle "StarBase 4.56"] [SourceDate "2004.11.04"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2004.11.04"] [SourceQuality "2"] 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 d6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Nc3 Nxc3 (7... dxe5 {is better}) 8. bxc3 e6 9. Bd3 {Kim Commons, annotating the game in Chess Life and Review, gives this move an exclamation mark. But Stockfish is unimpressed and prefers} (9. exd6) 9... dxe5 10. dxe5 Qa5 11. O-O Be7 $2 { Commons and the computer both agree that Black should grab the pawn on e5.} 12. Qe2 O-O 13. Bg5 $1 Bxg5 14. Nxg5 f5 15. Bc4 Qxe5 $2 (15... Nxe5 {is better.}) 16. Qh5 $1 h6 17. Rae1 Qxc3 $2 {Losing immediately and spectacularly but Black's may already be lost after, e.g.,} (17... Qf4 18. Bxe6+ Kh8 19. Re3 Ne5 (19... Qxg5 $4 20. Qxg5 hxg5 21. Rh3#) 20. Rg3 Ng4 21. Nf7+ Kh7 22. Rh3 Bxe6 23. Ng5+ Kh8 24. Nxe6 Qd6 25. Nxf8 Rxf8 {and White is an exchange up.}) 18. Rxe6 $1 Bxe6 (18... Qxc4 19. Rxh6 $1) 19. Bxe6+ Kh8 20. Qg6 {Black resigns} your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts Views: 111