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C41 Philidor Defense
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1-0
Checkmate, White is victorious
FEN
PGN
[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/CERIfYLN"] [Date "2020.12.13"] [Round "-"] [White "France_Defence"] [Black "nectarie"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2020.12.13"] [UTCTime "16:18:02"] [WhiteElo "1920"] [BlackElo "1478"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "C41"] [Opening "Philidor Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 { C41 Philidor Defense } c5 4. dxe5 dxe5 5. Qxd8+ Kxd8 6. Nxe5 h5 7. Nxf7+ Ke8 8. Nxh8 Nc6 9. Bc4 Nf6 10. Bf7+ Ke7 11. Bb3 Nxe4 12. Ng6+ Ke8 13. O-O a5 14. Nxf8 Kxf8 15. f3 Nd6 16. Nc3 Bf5 17. Rd1 Rd8 18. Bf4 Ke7 19. Bxd6+ Rxd6 20. Rxd6 Kxd6 21. Rd1+ Nd4 22. Ne2 a4 23. Nxd4 cxd4 24. Rxd4+ Ke5 25. Rxa4 b5 26. Ra5 Bd7 27. c4 Kd6 28. Rxb5 Bxb5 29. cxb5 Kc5 30. a4 h4 31. Bc2 g6 32. Bd3 g5 33. a5 Kd4 34. Bf1 Kc5 35. b6 Kc6 36. b4 Kb7 37. Bb5 Ka8 38. a6 Kb8 39. Bc6 h3 40. a7+ Kc8 41. a8=Q# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0
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