One of the pleasures of watching the live games is to put the moves into an engine and bask in "your" superiority to those playing the games by seeing something they missed!
Lavery, Robert–Leitch, Calum0–1B00Ulster Masters 20154.1Belfast18.10.2015McAlister
1.e4 a6 Looks like a beginner's move, but better than its appearance. 2.d4 d5 The most common continuation here is 2...b5 as in the sensational win
by the English No.1 over the World Champion at the 1980 European Team
Championship: 3.f3 b7 4.d3 f6 5.e2 e6 6.a4 c5 7.dxc5 xc5 8.bd2 b4 9.e5 d5 10.e4 e7 11.0-0 c6 12.d2 c7 13.c4 bxc3 14.xc3 xc3 15.xc3 b4 16.xb4 xb4 17.ac1 b6 18.e4 0-0 19.g5 h6 20.h7+ h8 21.b1 e7 22.e4 ac8 23.d3 xc1 24.xc1 xb2 25.e1 xe5 26.xd7 b4 27.e3 d5 28.xd5 xd5 29.c3 c8 30.e2 g5 31.h4 g7 32.hxg5 hxg5 33.d3 a5 34.g3 f6 35.g4 d6 36.f1 e5 37.e1 h8 38.f4 gxf4 39.xf4 c6 40.e2 h1+ 41.d2 h2 42.g3 f3 43.g8 g2 44.e1 xe2 45.xe2 xg3 46.a8 c7 0-1 Karpov,A-Miles,A: Skara 1980 If you're looking for something
really provocative, then try 2...h6 which another top English GM (and
ironically a noted opening theoretician) tried out on his return to chess
after retiring to an ordinary work-life: 3.d3 c5 4.dxc5 e6 5.e3 c7 6.b4 c6 7.c3 d6 8.cxd6 xd6 9.f3 f6 10.h3 g5 11.a3 g4 12.d4 e5 13.e2 xe4 14.hxg4 d7 15.g5 0-0-0 16.gxh6 c6 17.xc6 xc6 18.b3 c7 19.a4 g3 20.fxg3 xg2 21.f1 d3+ 22.xd3 xd3 0-1 Van Oosterom,C-Sadler,M:
Haarlem 2010 3.c3 dxe4 4.f3 exf3 5.xf3 Sacrificing not one but two
pawns. I would have expected 5.xf3 which would be similar to a reasonably
respectable gambit against the Caro-Kann: 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.f3 exf3
5.Nf3 5...xd4 6.e3 b4 7.0-0-0 g4 Oops! Looks like White is going to
lose the exchange, but in fact Black's move should lose. 8.a3 The players
had been moving quickly up to here and in so doing missed a tactical shot.
Counter-attacking the opposing queen is the right idea, but this is the wrong
method. Correct was 8.d5! threatening both Nc7 checkmate and the Black
queen - plus Qxg4 winning the bishop if he loses the protection from his queen.
The best try is e6 but then 9.xc7+ e7 10.f2! (threatening Bc5+
forking king and queen) d7 and now 11.d4! allowing White to capture
the a8-rook. 8...xf3 9.axb4 xd1 10.d5 d7 11.xd1 e6 12.f4 xb4
Black is the exchange and three pawns up and he went on to win without any
further alarms. 0–1
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There was some exciting chess played over the weekend and amazingly there were no draws in all the games played in the first three rounds!
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