Thursday, October 20, 2005

Upcoming tourney

Another tourney, another chance for some smith morra games. While I havent been studing my tactics much over the last 2 weeks, I have been doing some study of the smith morra ....

Update: tournament came and went, 3 games with white and no sicilians at all! Whats up, are people scared to play against the smith morra now??! :)

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Swindled win :)

[Event "Weekend swiss"]
[Date "2005.10.08]
[Round "4/5"]
[White "Smith Morra fanatic"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bd3 Bb7 6. O-O Nf6
7. Bf4 O-O 8. Qe2 Nc6 9. d5 Nd4 10. Nxd4 cxd4 11. d6 dxc3
12. dxe7 Qxe7 13. bxc3 Qc5 14. e5 Nd5 15. Bd2 Ne7 16. Rad1 Rac8
17. Kh1 Ng6 18. f4 f5 19. Qh5 Bd5 20. Rde1 Qe7 21. c4 Bxc4
22. Bxc4 Rxc4 23. Qe2 Rfc8 24. Rf3 Re4 25. Be3 Qa3 26.Qd1 Qa4
27. Rh3 Rxc2 28. Qh5 Qb4 29. Qxh7+ Kf7 30. Rg1 Rxe3
31. Rxe3 Qxf4 32. Rg3 Qh6 33. Qxh6 gxh6 {this looks very bad
for white} 34. a3 Nxe5 35. Re1 Kf6 36. Rh3 Ng4 37. Rf3 e5
38. h3 Nf2+ 39. Kg1 Nxh3+ 40. Rxh3 e4 41. Rxh6+ Kg5
42. Rd6 Rc3 43. Ra1 Rc7 44. Rad1 e3 45. Kf1 f4 46. Rxd7 Rc2
47. Re1 a5 48. Rd8 Kh4 49. Rg8 b5 50. Rb1 b4 51. axb4 axb4
52. Rxb4 Rf2+ 53. Ke1 Kh5 54. Rb5+ Kh6 55. Rg4 f3
56. gxf3 Rxf3 57. Rb8 1-0

Score with Smith Morra: +3 =4 -1

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Upcoming tourney

Theres a 5 round open swiss on this weekend, so there could well be some smith morra action happening ;)