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B00 King's Pawn Game: Nimzowitsch Defense
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1-0
Checkmate, White is victorious
FEN
[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/9L5GUnoR"] [Date "2021.01.12"] [Round "-"] [White "Victor"] [Black "Dany"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2021.01.12"] [UTCTime "17:39:42"] [WhiteElo "1500"] [BlackElo "1476"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "B00"] [Opening "King's Pawn Game: Nimzowitsch Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 { B00 King's Pawn Game: Nimzowitsch Defense } Nf6 3. c3 d5 4. f3 Be6 5. Ne2 Bd7 6. Nf4 e6 7. Nxd5 Bd6 8. Nxf6+ Qxf6 9. e5 Qe7 10. c4 Nxd4 11. c5 Bxc5 12. f4 f6 13. Qxd4 Bd6 14. exd6 cxd6 15. Nc3 e5 16. Ne4 exf4 17. Bc4 O-O-O 18. Bd5 Rhe8 19. Qxa7 f5 20. Bxb7+ Kc7 21. Ba6+ Kc6 22. Qb7# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0