Saturday, November 13, 2021

PCG Reversed & PCG 11/12/2021

Philidor Counter Gambit Reversed

JimWest (Chess.com 1824) - kira9696 (Chess.com 1710), Chess.com 11/12/2021

1.e3 e5 2.e4 Nf6 3.d3 Bc5 4.f4 d6 5.c3 a6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 Bxf3 8.Bxf3 Nc6 9.a4 O-O 10.f5 Qd7 11.Na3 b5 12.Bg5 b4 13.Nc2 Rab8 14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.d4 b3


16.dxc5 bxc2 17.Qxc2 dxc5 18.Rd1 Qe7 19.O-O Kh8 20.Be2 a5 21.Bb5 Rb6 22.Bxc6 Rxc6 23.Rd5 Rd8 24.Rfd1 Rcd6 25.Rxd6 cxd6 26.Rd5 Qa7 27.c4 Qb6 28.b3 Qb4 29.Kf2 Qa3 30.Rd3 Qb4 31.Qd1 Qb6


32.Qh5 Rd7 33.Rh3, Black resigns.

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Philidor Counter Gambit

furkan57 (lichess 2358) - JimWest (lichess 2195), lichess 11/12/2021

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 f5 4.exf5 Bxf5 5.O-O c6 6.d4 e4 7.Re1 d5 8.Bb3 Be7 9.Ne5 Nf6 10.f3 O-O 11.fxe4 Bxe4 12.Nd2 Kh8 13.Nxe4 Nxe4


14.Rxe4 dxe4 15.Qh5 Qxd4+ 16.Be3 Qxe3+ 17.Kh1 Qg5 18.Nf7+ Rxf7 19.Qxf7 Nd7 20.g3 Rf8 21.Qc4 Nc5 22.Rd1 Nxb3 23.axb3 Qg4 24.Rf1 Rxf1+ 25.Qxf1 Qf3+ 26.Qxf3 exf3 27.Kg1 Bc5+ 28.Kf1 g5


29.h3 h5 30.g4 hxg4 31.hxg4 Kg7 32.b4 Be3 33.c4 Kf6 34.b3 Ke5 35.b4 cxb4 36.cxb4 Kf4 37.b4 Kxg4 38.b6 axb6 39.b5 Kf4 40.Ke1 g4 41.Kf1 g3 42.Ke1 g2 43.Kd1 g1=Q+ 44.Kc2 Qc1+ 45.Kb3 Qc5


46.Kb2 Qxb5+ 47.Kc2 Qc4+ 48.Kb2 f2 49.Ka3 f1=Q 50.Kb2 Qfc1#.