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C03 French Defense: Tarrasch Variation
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Checkmate, White is victorious
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[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/UbJbBZXO"] [Date "2021.12.15"] [Round "-"] [White "mereacrenatalia"] [Black "GabrielStratila"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2021.12.15"] [UTCTime "15:20:39"] [WhiteElo "1830"] [BlackElo "1330"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "C03"] [Opening "French Defense: Tarrasch Variation"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 { C03 French Defense: Tarrasch Variation } b6 4. c3 Bb7 5. Bd3 c5 6. e5 Nc6 7. Ne2 Qd7 8. O-O O-O-O 9. f4 f5 10. Nf3 c4 11. Bc2 Nh6 12. b3 Ng4 13. h3 Nh6 14. a4 g6 15. b4 Nf7 16. a5 bxa5 17. b5 Nb8 18. Rxa5 a6 19. bxa6 Bxa6 20. Ba3 Bxa3 21. Rxa3 Qe7 22. Qa1 Kb7 23. Rb1+ Kc6 24. Rxa6+ Nxa6 25. Qxa6+ Kc7 26. Rb7+ Kc8 27. Qa8# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0