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C00 French Defense: Knight Variation
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Checkmate, White is victorious
FEN
[Event "Casual Correspondence game"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/kF1le3lY"] [Date "2020.12.28"] [Round "-"] [White "DragosCeban"] [Black "villette"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2020.12.28"] [UTCTime "17:31:07"] [WhiteElo "1500"] [BlackElo "1312"] [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 } d5 3. Bd3 dxe4 4. O-O Bd6 5. Bxe4 Bf4 6. Qe1 Qd6 7. Nc3 c5 8. Nb5 a6 9. Nxd6+ Bxd6 10. Ng5 f6 11. Nf3 Bf4 12. Nh4 Nc6 13. Qe2 Ne5 14. d4 Nc4 15. Bxf4 e5 16. Bg3 Nd6 17. h3 b5 18. f4 exd4 19. Bxa8+ Kf8 20. Bc6 Bf5 21. Bf3 Nc4 22. Nxf5 Nxb2 23. Ne3 Nc4 24. Nxc4 bxc4 25. a4 a5 26. Qe6 Ne7 27. Qa6 Nd5 28. Rab1 g6 29. Rb7 Nc3 30. Qa8# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0