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C00 French Defense
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Checkmate, White is victorious
FEN
[Event "Open Arena"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/jZglPSzk"] [Date "2021.01.05"] [Round "-"] [White "GrigoreG"] [Black "Arsenie2010"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2021.01.05"] [UTCTime "17:15:16"] [WhiteElo "1541"] [BlackElo "1571"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+13"] [BlackRatingDiff "-14"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "420+2"] [ECO "C00"] [Opening "French Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 { C00 French Defense } 3. Qh5 g6 4. Qe5 f6 5. Bb5+ c6 6. Qg3 cxb5 7. exd5 exd5 8. Nf3 Bd6 9. Qh4 Bf5 10. Nbd2 g5 11. Qh5+ Bg6 12. Qh3 Qd7 13. b3 Qxh3 14. gxh3 Be4 15. Nxe4 dxe4 16. Nd2 Bb4 17. Bb2 Bxd2+ 18. Kxd2 Nc6 19. Rhe1 f5 20. f3 Nge7 21. fxe4 fxe4 22. Rxe4 Rf8 23. d5 Nd8 24. d6 Rf4 25. Rxe7+ Kf8 26. Be5 Rf2+ 27. Kc3 Rf3+ 28. Kb2 Rxh3 29. Rf1+ Kg8 30. Re8# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0