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A40 Modern Defense
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1-0
Checkmate, White is victorious
FEN
PGN
[Event "Vasily Smyslov Arena"] [Site "http://chess-academy.net/xrLiDxvb"] [Date "2020.07.31"] [Round "-"] [White "pascalepaul"] [Black "sarpe"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2020.07.31"] [UTCTime "16:07:02"] [WhiteElo "1539"] [BlackElo "963"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+2"] [BlackRatingDiff "-2"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "420+2"] [ECO "A40"] [Opening "Modern Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "chess-academy.net"] 1. d4 g6 { A40 Modern Defense } 2. g3 Bg7 3. c4 Bf6 4. e3 Nh6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Nc3 Kh8 7. Bh3 d6 8. O-O Qd7 9. Qd3 Qxh3 10. Bd2 Qd7 11. c5 Qf5 12. Qxf5 gxf5 13. Nh4 Ng4 14. Nxf5 e6 15. Ne7 Re8 16. Nxc8 Rxc8 17. cxd6 cxd6 18. Nb5 b6 19. Nxd6 Rc6 20. Nxf7+ Kg7 21. Nd8 Rc8 22. Nxe6+ Kg6 23. Nf4+ Kg5 24. e4 Bxd4 25. Nh3+ Kh5 26. e5 Bxe5 27. Nf4+ Kh6 28. Ne6+ Kg6 29. Rac1 Kf7 30. Rxc8 h5 31. f4 Kxe6 32. fxe5 Kxe5 33. Re1+ Kd4 34. Bc3+ Kd3 35. Rd8+ Kc2 36. Rd2# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0
                 1½1pascalepaul2½
                 0½0sarpe½
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