This game was originally shared in the post C50 Italian Game: Hungarian Defense. That post has been renamed to C55 Two Knights: 4.d3, 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 and Max Lange Attack (8...Bf6). The info about the team match is out of date since it was typed when I orginally shared the game. This game is taken from a team match called Art of Chess vs VIP ChessQueen. It was played between Art of Chess and VIP Paul Morphy Chess on 46 boards. I played board 5 for VIP CHESS and won both my games on time. During the same day, February 19th 2015, I won four games against this same opponent on time. It is always annoying to win these correspondence games on time as the games seem really unfinished, especially when the situation on the board does not correspond with the result. The match ended with a score 58 - 34 in favor of the home team Art of Chess. This match started December 1st 2014, finished on April 29th, 2015 and players who signed up for the match had to be rated under 2000.
This game followed the first game in the post C55 Two Knights: 4.d3, 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 and Max Lange Attack (8...Bf6) only up to the move 3...Be7. In that first game leduar played 4.c3. In this game JogadorAmador played 4.d3. There is nothing really wrong with either move, but 4.d3 is slightly better. The first position of interest can be seen below. In that position I chose to play the move 11...Bd6. It was a bad move after which I was clearly worse or at least quite close to it.
A few moves later I made an even clearer mistake by playing 15...g6 in the position below. The game continued with the moves 16.Bh6 Rfe8 17.Ng5. Then I made the worst move of the game so far, 17...Nd8?? After that I should have been in a lost position. However, there was only one move that could have taken the winning advantage and that move was 18.f4. JogadorAmador played 18.a4 instead and I was let off the hook a bit.
JogadorAmador's 18th move did keep the advantage in side of my opponent and that did not change during the remainder of the game. I only won because my opponent did not make his 23rd move and lost on time.
Game number two. This game was played in the "atadros's mini-tournament V". 11 players participated in this mini-tournament and I was 9th in the final standings. I was only able to gather 5.5 points in 20 games, so this was really bad mini-tournament from my point of view. In this game I faced atadros, the player who created this mini-tournament. Atadros was on 4th place in the final standings and my opponent was able to gather 13.5 points. The mini-tournament was won by a player called desaparicidos (2080). The winner gathered 17.5 points out of the possible 20 points.
The same moves were seen in this game as they were seen in the first game in this post up to the move 7...Bg4. Only the move order was slightly different. The move order was the same only up to the move 3...Be7, but when in game two the move order was 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nbd2 O-O 6.c3 d5 7.Bb3 Bg4, in this game the move order was 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 O-O 6.Bb3 d5 7.Nbd2 Bg4. In the first game JogadorAmador played 8.O-O and in this newer game atadros chose to play 8.Qe2. It is not really an improvement to the older move, actually it might be somewhat worse. However, there is no significant difference between the two, so 8.Qe2 is also a decent move. Atadros was the first one to make a mistake in this game. It was a bad idea for my opponent to castle long in the position below.
My reply, 13...a6, was designed to protect the advance of my b-pawn. It was a bit slow plan and it was a better idea to move my knight to a5. It is according to Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT Black's best move against 13.O-O-O and the only move that would have given me a clear advantage. The move I played in the game did not give me much. A few moves later atadros made a huge blunder that could have lost the game. In the position below atadros played 18.g5??
I had the possible line to victory in my grasp, but I let it go, because I could not see the continuation starting from 18...bxc3. I played the inaccurate move 18...hxg5 instead and my opponent was back in the game again. Atadros replied by taking the pawn on g5 with the knight and the position was about even. Then I blundered and played 19...Qc8, after which it was my turn to be on the losing side of the board. For some reason my opponent played 20.Rc1 instead of the obvious looking and winning move 20.Qc4. After both players had missed their chance to get a winning advantage, the game continued quite evenly until it was my turn to get the winning advantage again in the position below. Atadros made a huge mistake by playing 24.Ng3??
I was able to find the best move 24...Bxc3 and things looked to be going my way again. Unfortunately for me, I was not able to play accurately all the way to the end and when we reached the position below, I threw my advantage away with the move 28...Nxf3. Even after my sloppy move 28...Nxf3, I should be slightly favored, but it would be unlikely that I would actually win the game.
Only a couple of moves later I made the game losing blunder when I played 30...Qe7 in the next position. In order to keep my small advantage, I should have played 30...c5. It was perhaps my best chance to keep me on the better side of the board.
Atadros answered with the move 31.Rg1 and no matter what I do, I should be quite lost. I did my best to prevent the inevitable defeat, but I accepted my loss in the position after 37.Ka3 and resigned.
