The game below was played in a team match called Chess Match Championship 1200+. It is a 76 board match between Chess lovers & CHESScom-International_EUROPE and Kopaonik. I played on board 18 for Kopaonik and managed to win both of my games against chesszardoz. The score in the match at the moment I type this is 63 - 70 in favor of Kopaonik.
I think I should start commenting this game from the position after 16.h3. That is because I think that the moves that were played before my 16th move were kind of normal looking and maybe not that exciting. I replied with 16...Ne7 with the intention of getting rid of the knight on f5. True, this might not be the all that exciting either, but chesszardoz's follow up move does make things more exciting. The move 17.g4 does make trading the knight on f5 seem like a bad idea because chesszardoz would take back on f5 with the g-pawn, opening the g-file for attack. Because trading on f5 seemed too dangerous even if my opponent can't take advantage of the g-file in a few moves, I decided to play 17...Kh7, which turned out to be a waste of a move due to chesszardoz's reply 18.Bb3 basically forcing the king back to g8. The idea behind Kh7 was to follow it up with g6, in order to drive the knight away from f5. I obviously could not play g6 first, because that would have left the h6-pawn inadequately defended. Chesszardoz continued by playing 19.Be3 and I think White should be preferred in that position.
On my 19th move, I decided finally to get rid of the knight on f5, so I played 19...Nxf5. Like I had expected, chesszardoz took back with the g-pawn. I continued with 20...Qc7 in order to prepare c4. In the game continuation I did not have time to play c4 and it was actually my opponent who went for c4 first. The problem with 23.c4 was that I could take on c4 with my b-pawn and chesszardoz was forced to take back with the bishop. Admittedly taking with the bishop does look like the more natural move in any case, but because I could follow up with 24...d5, chesszardoz's pawn structure falls apart. This is because the e-pawn must take on d5 in order to prevent loss of material. After 26...Nxd5, I was happy with my position, I had much better pawn structure compared to my opponent and my pieces were somewhat more active than those of my opponent's. Despite of the horrible pawn structure, four pawn islands where in one of them are doubled pawns, it was easier for chesszardoz to form an attack towards my king than it was for me to generate attack towards chesszardoz's king. While I went after the pawns and tried to win them, chesszardoz targeted my king, which was probably his best chance to alter the course of the game. I admit that it started to look a bit dangerous for me after 31.h4 and I was not sure how well I can defend againt the threats. I had to very careful what I play especially after 33...fxg6 because it seemed that my king is a bit too open for my liking. The pawn on f6 was very annoying as well, limiting my options. I was able to play quite well in my opinion and I wanted to finish this game with a nice tactic, but unfortunately I was denied of it, because chesszardoz saw the threat. I am typing about the possibility after 44...c2 if 45.Kf1, for example, then 45...Ba3 wins the game. If queen takes the bishop, then c1=Q+ and I have traded a pawn and a bishop for a queen and I would have an easy win. Well, the remainder of the game was reasonably easy regardless, so I did not mind too much. I have added one mate in one, two mate in three and two mate in four puzzles today.
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