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  • White: John Coffey (Expert)
  • Black: Ash (Expert)
  • Where: Purdue University Chess Club
  • tournament December 1990.
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  • This is going to be a lesson on how
  • not to play chess.
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  • The King's Gambit.
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  • Black accepts.
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  • Necessary to prevent Qh4+.
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  • This is an agressive counter thrust.
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  • Not much of a good way to defend e4,
  • so White takes the pawn.
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  • Black offers a pawn with the hopes of
  • gaining rapid developement.
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  • White also takes the gambit pawn.
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  • Now Black and White both have 7
  • unmoved pieces on the back rank, but
  • the pawns are equal and Black has
  • more open lines.
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  • Developing.  The standard book
  • move is d4 instead.
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  • Guards his prodigal pawn.
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  • Pins the knight.
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  • Develops.  Now White thinks that
  • he can put Black on the defensive
  • with a ...
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  • ... check.
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  • Blocks the check and Develops a
  • bishop.  Actually the e file is a
  • dangerous place for the queen to be.
  •  i.e. see the last game.
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  • Technically a mistake because it is
  • moving a knight twice in the opening
  • before castling the king to safety.
  •  White expects a reply of Qd7,
  • Nxe6 Qxe6, Qxe6+ fxe6 where the king
  • pawn is isolated and can come under
  • attack later.  But it doesn't
  • quite work that way.
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  • Black decides that he can part with
  • the pawn even though White will
  • capture it with a check.  These
  • moves by White to win a pawn are
  • costing him time.
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  • Takes the bishp.
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  • Black recaptures.  Now maybe
  • White should be satisfied with having
  • isolated the king pawn and ...
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  • ... not take this pawn.
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  • The king must move.
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  • White wanted the knight out of the
  • way so that it could not be used in
  • the attack that is coming.
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  • Now Black threatens Re8 pinning the
  • queen ...
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  • ... so the queen gets out of the
  • way.
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  • White's king is way too exposed.
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  • White was actually thinking that he
  • could block the check and then castle
  • out of the pin later ...
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  • ... but it isn't going to work that
  • way because now two pieces attack the
  • knight and as a result the king can
  • no longer move away from it.  It
  • is worth noting that Black only has 1
  • unmoved piece and that White has 4
  • unmoved pieces here.
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  • White tries to get out of the pin.
  •  Maybe Kf1 was better because
  • ...
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  • ... the knight threatens to go to f2
  • with a fork.
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  • Stops the fork.
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  • Black gets his pawn back.
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  • There is not much else.
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  • Again threatening the fork.
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  • Again there is not much else.
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  • Black finishes his developement.
  •  The White back rank is looking
  • very sad.
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  • Seeing double barrel rooks pointed at
  • his king, White tries to make an
  • escape square.
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  • Now Black's goal is to get to f3.
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  • Again there is not much else.
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  • Again the goal is to get to f3.
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  • White can not tolerate that pawn.
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  • This adds extra pressue to d2.
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  • This is the ultimate cheapo attack as
  • it threatens Ng6 mate.  But it is
  • a mistake because it ...
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  • ... helps Black to open lines to the
  • king.
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  • Forced.
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  • Black has new hopes of getting his
  • rook to f2.
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  • The move Qg3 would have been better
  • because it would have guarded th f2
  • square.
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  • This sacrifice blows away the king
  • position.
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  • Forced.
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  • Now the bishop will drop with check
  • ...
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  • ... so White decides to make a run
  • for it.
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  • With two rooks on the 7th rank
  • against the king, there can be no
  • doubt about the result.
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  • White guards b2.
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  • Qe3!
  • Black does not fear Qb8+ because of
  • the reply Rd8+.
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  • The king tries to run for it.
  • What should Black
  • do?
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  • This fork on the king and rook is
  • fatal because it also forces mate.
  • Black actually played Qd3+ which is a
  • slightly longer way to force mate.
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