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[Event "Open Arena"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/dxn21tNJ"] [Date "2020.11.30"] [Round "-"] [White "France_Defence"] [Black "Paul_1234"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2020.11.30"] [UTCTime "17:33:22"] [WhiteElo "2301"] [BlackElo "1945"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+5"] [BlackRatingDiff "-4"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "420+2"] [ECO "C42"] [Opening "Petrov's Defense #2"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 { C42 Petrov's Defense #2 } Qe7 4. d4 d6 5. Nf3 Nxe4 6. Be2 Nc6 7. O-O Nf6 8. Re1 Qd7 9. Ng5 Be7 10. d5 Ne5 11. f4 Neg4 12. h3 Nh6 13. Bf3 O-O 14. Ne4 Nxe4 15. Bxe4 Bh4 16. Rf1 Re8 17. Bd3 Qa4 18. f5 Qd4+ 19. Kh1 Qxd5 20. Bxh6 gxh6 21. Qg4+ Bg5 22. h4 Qc6 23. hxg5 hxg5 24. Qxg5+ Kf8 25. f6 Qb6 26. Qg7# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0