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Thursday, May 7, 2015

The Next to Last Blunderer Usually Wins

Well illustrated by this game Tuesday evening with my friend Brett at the Lyndonville Chess Club playing at NEK Vapor. See Black's 24th move.............:

[Event "LCC"]
[Site "<Unknown>"]
[Date "2015.5.5"]
[Round ""]
[White "Brian Lafferty"]
[Black "Brett  Hoffmann"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A41"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]

1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 f6 {?!} $14( 2...Bf5 {!?} 3.c4 Bxb1 4.Rxb1 c6 5.b4
Nd7 6.e4 e5 7.d5 Be7 8.dxc6 bxc6 9.Ng1 h6 10.Qg4 Bg5 11.h4 Ngf6
12.Bxg5 $10) 3.Bf4 {?!} $10( 3.e4 {!?} e6 4.c4 Be7 5.Nc3 Bd7
6.d5 e5 7.h3 f5 8.exf5 Bxf5 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 a5 11.c5 Nd7 12.Qb5
Qc8 $14) e5 4.dxe5 dxe5 5.Qxd8+ Kxd8 6.Bg3 Bb4+ 7.c3 Bd6 8.h3
g5 9.e4 h5 10.Nbd2 h4 11.Bh2 Nc6 12.Bb5 a6 13.Bxc6 bxc6 14.O-O-O
Be6 15.Kb1 a5 16.a3 a4 17.Ne1 Ne7 18.f3 Rb8 19.Nd3 Bxa3 20.Nb4
{?} $19( {'better is'} 20.Kc2 {'better is'} Bd6 21.c4 Ng6 22.Ra1
Ra8 23.b3 axb3+ 24.Kc3 Rxa1 25.Rxa1 b2 26.Ra8+ Kd7 27.Rxh8 Nxh8
28.Kxb2 Be7 29.Bg1 Bf7 $15) Bxb4 21.cxb4 Rxb4 22.Nb3+ Kc8 23.Nc5
Bc4 24.Nd3 Bb5 {??} $20( {'better is'} 24...Rb5 {'better is'}
25.Ka1 c5 26.Bg1 Rd8 27.Nf2 Rd4 28.Rc1 a3 29.bxa3 Bf7 30.Rb1
Ra5 31.Kb2 Nc6 32.Rc1 Rd2+ 33.Rc2 Rxc2+ 34.Kxc2 $21{%08DA} )
{%09DB} 25.Nxb4 {%09DB} Rd8 26.Rxd8+ Kxd8 27.Rd1+ Ke8 28.Bg1
Kf7 29.Bc5 Ng6 30.Rd7+ Ke8 31.Rxc7 Nf4 32.Nxc6 Bd3+ 33.Ka2 Bc4+
34.Ka3 Nd3 35.Re7+ Kf8 36.Bd6 Bb5 37.Rb7+ Ke8 38.Rxb5 Kd7 39.Rd5
Nf4 40.Nxe5+ Ke6 41.Ra5 Kxd6 42.Nc4+ Ke6 43.Rxa4 Nxg2 44.Ra6+
Kf7 45.Nd6+ Ke6 46.Nf5+ Ke5 47.b4 Nf4 48.b5 Nxh3 49.b6 Nf2 50.b7
Kf4 51.b8=Q+ Kxf3 52.Qb3+ Kxe4 53.Qe3+ $20{%08DA} 1-0

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