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A40 Horwitz Defense
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1-0
Checkmate, White is victorious
FEN
[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/UjivYA7B"] [Date "2022.10.04"] [Round "-"] [White "Anonymous"] [Black "cotomanmaria"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2022.10.04"] [UTCTime "12:20:18"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "1500"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "A40"] [Opening "Horwitz Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. d4 e6 { A40 Horwitz Defense } 2. Qd3 d5 3. Qb5+ c6 4. Qd3 Nf6 5. Qf3 Na6 6. Na3 Nb4 7. c3 Na6 8. h4 Ne4 9. Qe3 Bxa3 10. bxa3 c5 11. dxc5 Nexc5 12. c4 dxc4 13. Bb2 f6 14. Bd4 e5 15. Bxc5 Nxc5 16. Qxc5 Bf5 17. Qxc4 Qc8 18. Qa4+ Qd7 19. Qb4 e4 20. Qc5 b6 21. Qe3 g6 22. g4 Bxg4 23. Bh3 f5 24. f3 Bh5 25. fxe4 fxe4 26. Bxd7+ Ke7 27. Ba4 Rad8 28. Qxe4+ Kf6 29. e3 Rhe8 30. Bxe8 Rd6 31. Rd1 Re6 32. Qd4+ Ke7 33. Qd5 Bxd1 34. Kxd1 a5 35. e4 Rd6 36. Qxd6+ Kxe8 37. e5 h5 38. e6 b5 39. Nf3 b4 40. Qc6+ Kd8 41. Qd6+ Ke8 42. e7 Kf7 43. Qd7 Kg8 44. e8=Q# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0