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[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/fvPEHAbl"] [Date "2022.02.04"] [Round "-"] [White "Nicholas"] [Black "lion26"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2022.02.04"] [UTCTime "15:29:13"] [WhiteElo "1772"] [BlackElo "1626"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "A00"] [Opening "Van't Kruijs Opening"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. e3 { A00 Van't Kruijs Opening } e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nce7 4. O-O c6 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nxe5 f6 7. Nf3 Bg4 8. h3 Be6 9. Nh4 g5 10. Nf3 Qd6 11. Nc3 O-O-O 12. e4 dxe4 13. Bxe4 a6 14. Bd3 Kb8 15. b3 Nd5 16. g4 Nxc3 17. dxc3 h5 18. Bg6 hxg4 19. hxg4 Bxg4 20. Nh2 Qxh2# { Black wins by checkmate. } 0-1