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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Two Rooks or a Queen?

An interesting question with no definitive answer. It all depends.......What follows is an interesting game won by the new Ukrainian Women's Chess Champion, Nataliya Buksa.

 [Event "UKR-ch Women Final 2018"]
[Site "Kiev"]
[Date "2018.12.20"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Babiy, Olga"]
[Black "Buksa, Nataliya"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2275"]
[BlackElo "2410"]
[Annotator "Golubev"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2018.??.??"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. b4 Bd6 $6 6. d3 Ne7 7. Ng5 O-O 8.
f4 b5 $2 9. Nxf7 Rxf7 10. Bxf7+ Kxf7 11. fxe5 Bxe5 12. d4 $18 {White is
winning.} Nxe4 13. dxe5 (13. Qf3+ $5) 13... Bb7 14. O-O+ Kg8 15. Qd3 a6 16. a4
bxa4 17. Rxa4 Ng6 18. Ra5 c5 19. Bf4 $2 {White was playing imprecisely on the
previous moves, and this is simply wrong.} Nxf4 20. Rxf4 Qg5 $6 21. g3 $6 Qxe5
{White is no worse still. But a big mistake on the next move ruins her game.}
22. Qxd7 $4 Nd6 $1 $19 {The white queen is fatally misplaced.} 23. Ra2 Qd5 24.
Rd2 Qh1+ 25. Kf2 Re8 26. Qxe8+ Nxe8 27. Rd8 Qxh2+ 28. Kf1 Qg2+ 29. Ke1 Qxg3+
30. Rf2 Bc6 31. Nd2 Qxc3 32. bxc5 Qxc5 33. Re2 h5 0-1

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