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[Event "Rated Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/UXRYEeCS"] [Date "2020.12.13"] [Round "-"] [White "France_Defence"] [Black "kidman"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2020.12.13"] [UTCTime "10:52:12"] [WhiteElo "1915"] [BlackElo "1342"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+5"] [BlackRatingDiff "-8"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "C02"] [Opening "French Defense: Advance Variation, Paulsen Attack"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 c5 3. c3 d5 4. e5 Nc6 5. d4 { C02 French Defense: Advance Variation, Paulsen Attack } cxd4 6. cxd4 Nge7 7. Nc3 Qa5 8. Bd2 Qb4 9. Nxd5 Qxb2 10. Nc7+ Kd8 11. Nxa8 Nxd4 12. Be3 Qb4+ 13. Nd2 Qc3 14. Rc1 Qb2 15. Rc4 Ndf5 16. Ne4+ Nd5 17. Bxa7 b5 18. Bb6+ Ke7 19. Bc5+ Ke8 20. Bxf8 Kxf8 21. Rxc8+ Ke7 22. Rxh8 Qb4+ 23. Nd2 Nc3 24. Qc2 Nd5 25. Nc7 Nxc7 26. Qxc7# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0
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