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May 13, 2004Interview with GoodKnightHello PlayChess pals, It is my intention to interview PlayChess members and talk about chess and not only about chess. There are a lot of strong players around here. There are players with professional or club involvement in chess. Finally, there are hobby players from all around the world, composing a multinational and multicultural community, and I am willing to write small articles about them. In this first article I present to you GoodKnight, one of the strongest players in this site. Right now, he is no.3 of the HCL rating list with 2263 points. He is also a very active player since he has completed 424 games so far. As you can see he prefers to keep his personal details private, but has accepted to answer some questions. Michalis: What is your chess education? When and where did you learn to play chess? As you can see in the player info page of GoodKnight, he is involved in organizing children chess tournaments. Michalis: How did you get involved into organizing children events? GoodKnight doesn’t have the time to review one of his games for this article. I am not the right person to analyze them either. I am very glad that I have played two games against him, unfortunately I lost both of them! Michalis: I’d like your comments about the level of correspondence chess in this site, and your opinion about the opponents you face. I said that I cannot analyze them, but aided by my computer I was able to spot an interesting combination from a very recent game.
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 b5 6.O‑O Bb7 7.Nc3 Qc7 8.a3 Nf6 9.Qf3 Nc6 10.Nxc6 Bxc6 11.Bf4 Qb7 12.Be5 Be7 13.Bd4 Notice that White prefers to place his Bishops ready for a Kingside attack. 13... O‑O 14.Qg3 d6 15.f4 White prepares e5 15... Rfc8 16.e5 The Kingside attack begins. Black’s pieces are on the other side of the board. There is only a single Knight defending the Black King and soon it is forced to abandon the f6 square. 16... dxe5 17.fxe5 Ne4 18.Qg4 Nxc3
Black decided to take the c3 Knight, a piece not involved in the attack. Can you see the continuation? It is not very difficult to guess what goes on. 19.Bxh7+ Demolishes the pawn shield 19... Kf8?? This move only causes further problems. It would be better to play 19...Kxh7 exposing the King to any attack after which 20.Rxf7 is the only move that maintains the advantage for White. Notice that after 20.Qh5+ Kg8 White can only draw with perpetual check. Any other move allows Black to use the material advantage and win. 20.Rxf7+ Another meaningful sacrifice. 20... Kxf7 Black could delay the end if he had played 20...Ke8. The game lasted for 5 more moves. 21.Bg6+ Kg8 22.Qxe6+ Kh8 23.Qh3+ Kg8 24.Qh7+ Kf8 25.Qh8+# 1–0
Posted by Michalis Kaloumenos at 08:30 PM
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