Sunday, March 27, 2022

PCG Reversed & PCG 3/26/2022

Philidor Counter Gambit Reversed

JimWest (Chess.com 1872) - Threadfin_Butterflyfish (Chess.com 1818), Chess.com 3/26/2022

1.e3 e5 2.e4 Nf6 3.d3 d5 4.f4 Nc6 5.fxe5 Nxe5 6.d4 Nxe4 7.dxe5 Qh4+ 8.g3 Nxg3 9.Nf3 Qe4+ 10.Kf2 Nxh1+ 11.Kg2 Bg4 12.Be2 Bc5 13.Nc3 Qg6 14.Kxh1 O-O-O 15.Bf4 Rhe8


16.Bg3 f5 17.Nh4 Qc6 18.Bxg4 fxg4 19.Qxg4+ Kb8 20.Ng2 g6 21.Rd1 h5 22.Qa4 Qe6 23.Rxd5 Rxd5 24.Nxd5 Qf7 25.Nf6 Rd8 26.h4 Rd1+ 27.Ne1 Rd8 28.Nd3 Bb6 29.Qb3 Qf8 30.Qe6 Qh6 31.Bf4 Qg7 32.Bg5 a6


33.Nd5 Qf8 34.N3f4 Re8 35.Qf6 Qc5 36.Nxb6 Qxb6 37.Qxb6 cxb6 38.e6 Kc7 39.e7 Kd6 40.Nxg6 b5 41.Nf4 Ke5 42.Nxh5 a5 43.Ng7, Black resigns.

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Philidor Counter Gambit

litodeleon (lichess 2019) - JimWest (lichess 2104), lichess 3/26/2022

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 f5 4.d3 c6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Bxf6 Bxf6 8.O-O f4 9.d4 Qc7 10.h3 a5 11.a3 Na6 12.dxe5 dxe5 13.Qe2 Nc5 14.b4 Ne6 15.Rfd1 b5 16.Bb3 a4 17.Ba2 O-O


18.Nd5 Qa7 19.Nxf6+ gxf6 20.Rd6 Re8 21.Rxc6 Kh8 22.Rd1 Qg7 23.Nh4 Nd4 24.Rxd4 exd4 25.Qf3 Bb7 26.Nf5 Qf8 27.Re6 Rxe6 28.Bxe6 Re8 29.Bd5 Bxd5 30.exd5 Qf7 31.Nd6 Re1+ 32.Kh2 Qe7 33.Qxf4 Kg8


34.Nxb5 Qe5 35.Qg3+ Qxg3+ 36.Kxg3 Kf8 37.Nxd4 Ke7 38.c4 Ra1 39.Nb5 Kd7 40.c5 Rd1 41.c6+ Kc8 42.d6 Rd5 43.d7+ Kd8 44.Nc3 Rd3+ 45.f3 Rxc3 46.b5 Rc5 47.Kf4 Rxb5 48.g4 Rc5 49.h4 Rxc6


50.g5 fxg5+ 51.hxg5 Rc3 52.Kg4 Rxa3 53.f4 Rd3 54.f5 a3, White resigns.