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C00 French Defense: Knight Variation
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Checkmate, Black is victorious
FEN
PGN
[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/ZwQKhWZL"] [Date "2022.10.03"] [Round "-"] [White "raresapostol"] [Black "cotomanmaria"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2022.10.03"] [UTCTime "14:05:35"] [WhiteElo "1500"] [BlackElo "1500"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "C00"] [Opening "French Defense: Knight Variation"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 { C00 French Defense: Knight Variation } Nf6 3. e5 Ne4 4. Bd3 Ng5 5. Nxg5 Qxg5 6. Be4 d5 7. Bf3 Nc6 8. d3 Qg6 9. d4 Bb4+ 10. c3 Ba5 11. b4 Bb6 12. a4 a5 13. b5 Nd8 14. Na3 c6 15. c4 dxc4 16. Nxc4 Bc7 17. Bh5 Qxg2 18. Rf1 Qxh2 19. Nd2 cxb5 20. axb5 g6 21. Bf3 Bb6 22. Rh1 Qf4 23. Ne4 Qf5 24. Bg4 Qxe4+ 25. Be2 Qxh1+ 26. Bf1 Qe4+ 27. Be2 Bxd4 28. Be3 Bxa1 29. Qxa1 b6 30. Qd4 Qb1+ 31. Bd1 Qxb5 32. Qa4 Qd7 33. Bxb6 Qxa4 34. Bxa4+ Bd7 35. Bb3 h5 36. Bd4 h4 37. Bd1 h3 38. Bf3 h2 39. Bc3 Rc8 40. Bxa5 Rc1+ 41. Kd2 Ra1 42. Bc7 Rh3 43. Bh1 Rxh1 44. Bb6 Rb1 45. Be3 h1=Q 46. Kd3 Qd1+ 47. Ke4 f5+ 48. Kf4 Rh4+ 49. Kg5 Qg4+ 50. Kf6 Qh5 51. f4 Qh8+ 52. Kg5 Rg1+ 53. Bxg1 Nf7+ 54. Kxg6 Qh6# { Black wins by checkmate. } 0-1
00010101½1½011110010cotomanmaria10
11101010½0½100001101raresapostol10
Computer analysis Move times Crosstable FEN & PGN