Ruel,D (1417) - Roychoudhury,Souvik (1962) [A08]
Waukesha Winter Swiss Waukesha (Round 2, Board 1), 09-Jan-2008
1.Nf3 I play all sorts of things against 1.Nf3 but I doubt whether I will repeat this variation again. I feel white had strong attack during move 11 around. I was wishing to change the colors. Having the kings Indian defense background, with one tempo down on a sharp variation - man, I was sweating ! Lucky that I could keep myself cal between move 9 to 18 and eventually won the game thanks to opponents few mistakes. 1...Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c5 4.0-0 Nc6 5.d3 e5!? 6.Nbd2 Be7 7.e4 d4!? 8.Nc4
A pure Kings Indian defense with colors reversed position. 8...Qc7 9.Nh4 [9.a4] 9...0-0 10.f4
I was thinking white has big advantage here, may be winning. Was very worried that I might lose due to over aggressive play. [10.a4] 10...b5 11.Na3?! Ba6 12.g4?! Ne8 13.g5?! f6?! 14.Nf5!? fxg5 15.fxg5 Nd6 16.Ng3!? g6 17.Bd2 b4 18.Nb1
White's knight moved Nb1-d2-c4-a3-b1 as if it was not developed at all. This un-development, due to not playing a4 stopping b5, cost the game to white. 18...Nf7 19.h4 Bc8 [19...h6 I was playing for the following line when I played g6. But then realized Qg4 given white advantage. 20.gxh6 Bxh4 21.Qg4+/-] 20.c3?! Weakens d3 20...dxc3 21.bxc3 Ba6! I moved B back from a6 just few moves back. Was not easy to overcome psychological barrier to put it back again. But this was indded the best move in this position and won the game for me. 22.Be3? [22.Rf3 Followed by Bf1 to defend d3] 22...Rad8 23.c4? Loosed c-pawn also due to pin. 23...Bxc4 24.Qe1 Bxd3 25.Rf2 Nd4! Strong move forcing more exchange and one more pawn to the center. Black will now have 4 connected pawns in the center ! 26.Bxd4 exd4 27.Rd2 c4 28.Bf1 Bxf1 29.Nxf1 Ne5! 30.Nh2 d3 Clears the g1-a7 diagonal with dangerous threats by black bishop 31.Kg2 Bc5 32.a3 Bd4 0-1
Till I lose a game for over aggression, I will say "Fortune favors the brave" !
3 comments:
Souvik, sorry I have not had a chance to check out your site, but I have been busy. It looks very nice. Could you put those game links which allow you to play through the game with comments like on Ivan's blog. It is much easier to follow along.
Ashish,
I tried but do not know how to do it. Will talk to Ivan and get it.
Thanks
Souvik
I use chess base to generate the files. Then you have to store them some where like geocities.com, and provide a link to it.
You can also use chess.com
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