Posts about chess games have been rather rare recently, but today and tomorrow this blog will have a game that features an opening variation that has not been covered here before. It is of course increasingly hard to find new variations as there are already over 500 different opening variations that you can find in this blog. Admittedly it is not much compared to all of the variations that have been named, but it is still a lot.
The game below was played in a team match called REMATCH. The match consists of 103 boards and it is played between France/Deutschland Group and LullabyVisca. I am playing on board 34 for LullabyVisca. The current score in the match is 52.5 - 133.5 in favor of LullabyVisca. Therefore we have secured the win in the match quite clearly.
More often than not, when I have played the Italian Game, my opponents have played 3...Bc5, but this time I had the chance to play 4.Ng5 because boubalex played 3...Nf6. I have some experience of playing this with the black pieces, but I think this was the first time when I got to play this with the white pieces. However, I would not have played 5...b5, but 5...Na5 instead. I think I learned that line many years ago and I still remember it to a point, even though I have not played it all that many times. I can't even really remember anymore where I learned it. I do not think I had seen anyone play 5...b5 before, so I had no previous memory to base my move to. I decided to go for the greedy 6.Bxb5, but I did notice that I may face some difficulties because of that move. I was a bit worried about my knight on g5 and the pawn on g2. I think I planned things from the move 6.Bxb5 up to the move 8.Nf3. I thought that if boubalex would reply with 8...e4, then I would just play 9.Nd4 and I would be okay. I also thought that 8...Bg4 would be really annoying to face. I was surprised to see that my opponent played the more passive 8...Bd6. I played 9.h3 in response because I thought that I should stop Bg4 and after that I would be fine. I was behind in development, but for some reason I did not think of it being that bad of a thing. I was, of course, in some trouble still and had my opponent played 10...e4, I would have been in huge trouble. I would have likely replied with a huge blunder like Nd4 and I would have been in a losing position. After 11...Nd5, the game comes into balance again. The game continued evenly until boubalex blundered with 16...f4. After that I should be clearly better and maybe even close to winning. Actually the move 16...f4 was the losing move because my opponent was not able to bounce back inot the game anymore.
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