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A40 Horwitz Defense
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0-1
Checkmate, Black is victorious
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[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/ZQuBCtwk"] [Date "2021.09.09"] [Round "-"] [White "Anonymous"] [Black "DVV"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2021.09.09"] [UTCTime "16:31:37"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "1458"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "A40"] [Opening "Horwitz Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. d4 e6 { A40 Horwitz Defense } 2. Qd3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Nf3 d6 5. Ne4 Nd5 6. Qc4 Rb8 7. e3 b5 8. Qe2 Ba6 9. c4 bxc4 10. Qc2 Ndb4 11. Qc3 d5 12. Neg5 e5 13. dxe5 f6 14. Ne6 Qe7 15. Nxc7+ Kd7 16. Nxa6 Nxa6 17. Qa3 Rb6 18. Qxe7+ Bxe7 19. Bd2 Nxe5 20. O-O-O Rhb8 21. Nxe5+ fxe5 22. Ba5 Rxb2 23. Bd2 Rb1+ 24. Kc2 R8b2+ 25. Kc3 d4+ 26. Kxc4 Rxd1 27. Bd3 Rdxd2 28. Bxh7 Nc7 29. Bf5+ Kd6 30. Bc8 Rdc2+ 31. Kd3 Rc3+ 32. Ke4 Ne8 33. f4 exf4 34. exf4 Nf6+ 35. Kxd4 Rxc8 36. Kd3 Kd5 37. Ke3 Ng4+ 38. Kf3 Nf6 39. Ra1 Rc3# { Black wins by checkmate. } 0-1
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