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C00 French Defense: Normal Variation
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1-0
Checkmate, White is victorious
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PGN
[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/ep9N28ME"] [Date "2021.03.17"] [Round "-"] [White "luchi"] [Black "Alexandru16"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2021.03.17"] [UTCTime "15:23:42"] [WhiteElo "1661"] [BlackElo "1428"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "C00"] [Opening "French Defense: Normal Variation"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 { C00 French Defense: Normal Variation } Bb4+ 3. c3 Nf6 4. cxb4 Nxe4 5. f3 Nd6 6. Nc3 Nc6 7. h4 h5 8. Bg5 O-O 9. Bxd8 Rxd8 10. f4 f6 11. Qxh5 Kf8 12. Qh8+ Kf7 13. Qh7 Ke8 14. h5 Ke7 15. Qxg7+ Ke8 16. h6 Nb5 17. h7 d6 18. h8=Q# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0
00001001½1½00½011001Alexandru1620
11110110½0½11½100110luchi31
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