Club Night - 2nd May 2022
Crawford Macnab
2 May 2022
Four games played on Monday 2nd May 2022.
New player Adam McIntosh defends stubbornly against Stuart McKinney and missed tactic that would have turned the tables!
2nd May 2022
| White | Black | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adam McIntosh | 0 - 1 | Stuart McKinney | 1455 | |
| 2 | Charles Gunn-Russell | 1797 | ½ - ½ | Crawford Macnab | 1811 |
| 3 | Allan McDiarmid | 1740 | 0 - 1 | Paul Girdwood | 1524 |
| 4 | Euan McDiarmid | 0 - 1 | Eric P Smith | 1621 |
Charles and Crawford got into mutual time trouble with Crawford missing opportunity for winning attack against white king. Draw agreed after time control reached.
Allan gifted a piece to Paul.
Eric won a few pawns against Euan and with the better position setup a nice mating attack to finish.
Stuart looking for killer move
Adam played well but Stuart gained an advantage building pressure on white position.
On move 35 a tactic to win a pawn backfired due to threat of bank rank mate, and fortunate that Adam did not see the needed follow up.
McIntosh, Adam
McKinney, Stuart
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1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. ed5 Nd5 5. Nd5 ed5 6. d4 Bd6 7. Be3 O-O 8. Bd3 Bg4 9. h3 [9. Bh7 Doesn't work 9... Kh7 10. Ng5 Qg5 11. Bg5 Bd1 12. Rd1] 9... Bh5 10. O-O Qf6 11. Be2 Ok move but is moving the same piece twice
just to avoid doubled pawns. Better with c3 or other move. 11... Re8 12. Qd2 Nd7 13. c3 c6 14. Rad1 Bc7 Setting up Qd6 and threats on h2. 15. b4 Leaves backward
pawn on c3 and possibly weaker white squares such as c4. Rfe1 helps support
Be2. 15... Qd6 16. g3 Threatens Bf4 winning bishop 16... Qf6 17. Kg2 Nb6 18. Ne1 Reasonable idea to challenge white bishop but will give knight access to c4. [18. g4 Bg6 19. Ne5 Be5 20. de5 Qe5 21. Rfe1] 18... Nc4 19. Qc2 Advantage
to black now. Threats on e3 and knight forking king and queen [19. Bc4 dc4 (19... Bd1 20. Bd5 cd5 21. Qd1) 20. Ra1 a5] 19... Bg6 20. Qc1 Be4 [20... Ne3 21. fe3 Qg5 Hits g3 and e3 22. Rf3 Be4] 21. Kh2 Ne3 22. fe3 Qd6 23. Rg1 Qe7 24. Bd3 Bd3 25. Rd3 Qg5 26. Nf3 Qf5 27. Qf1 Tenacious defending 27... Re6 28. Qe2 Qh5 29. Qf2 Rae8 30. Re1 Rg6 31. Rdd1? [31. Rg1 holds] 31... Bg3 32. Qg3 Rg3 33. Kg3 Qg6 34. Kh2 Qc2 35. Kg1 Re3 Black blunders due to
weak back rank 36. Re3 Qd1 37. Kf2 Let's black of the hook [37. Re1 Qe1 38. Ne1 knight for two pawns white has good practical winning chances] 37... g6 38. Kg3 Qc1 39. Re7 Qc3 40. Rb7 Qa3 41. b5 cb5 42. Rb5 Qa2 43. Rb8 Kg7 44. Ne5 Qd2 45. Nf3 Qc3 46. Rd8 white winning but still some chances with
rook and knight. This loses on the spot 46... Qc7