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Stockfish 9+wasm
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A00 Van't Kruijs Opening
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1-0
Checkmate, White is victorious
FEN
PGN
[Event "Open Arena"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/QAXx1fFB"] [Date "2021.03.30"] [Round "-"] [White "Matei-10"] [Black "GrigoreG"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2021.03.30"] [UTCTime "17:03:32"] [WhiteElo "1736"] [BlackElo "1416"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+15"] [BlackRatingDiff "-4"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "420+2"] [ECO "A00"] [Opening "Van't Kruijs Opening"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e3 { A00 Van't Kruijs Opening } e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bd3 d5 5. O-O Bd6 6. Rb1 Be6 7. b4 b5 8. Bxb5 e4 9. Bxc6+ Bd7 10. Bxa8 Qxa8 11. Nd4 Qd8 12. d3 exd3 13. cxd3 Nh5 14. Qxh5 g6 15. Qxd5 Qh4 16. h3 Be6 17. Qa8+ Ke7 18. Qxh8 Qf6 19. Nc6+ Kd7 20. Qxf6 Kxc6 21. b5+ Kd7 22. Na4 c6 23. bxc6+ Kxc6 24. Qc3+ Bc5 25. Qxc5+ Kd7 26. Rb7+ Kd8 27. Qf8# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0
                  10GrigoreG1
                  01Matei-101
Computer analysis Move times Crosstable FEN & PGN