Game 11: ggrayggray v Kevin Bonham (1-0)

[Kevin Bonham]

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[Garvinator]

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[Kevin Bonham]

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[Garvinator]

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[Kevin Bonham]

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[Garvinator]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4 f5 8. Qg3 cxd4 9.cxd4 Ne7 10.Bd2 0-0 11. Bd3 b6 12. Ne2 Ba6 13. Nf4 Qd7 14. h4 Bxd3 15. Qxd3 Rc8 16. Rh3 Rc4 17. h5 Nbc6 18. Ne2 Nd8 19. h6 g6 20. Bg5 Rac8 21. c3 Nec6 22. Qd1 b5 23. Kf1 a6 24. Kg1 Rc7 25. Bf6 Nf7 26. Qe1 Na5 27. Nf4 Nh8 28. Rb1 Ra4 29. f3 Rc8 30. Qh4 Qf7 31. Be7 Rac4 32. Rg3 Nc6 33. Bd6

[Kevin Bonham]

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[Garvinator]

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[Kevin Bonham]

This is strategically lost. I resign. Well played.

(This line is supposed to be more than OK for black but if so I am not good enough to demonstrate it against strong opposition. Too much fiddling about. As usual. )

[Garvinator]

This is strategically lost. I resign. Well played.

Thanks for the game. Surprised to see you resign though. I was starting to struggle to work out exactly how to take advantage of all these pieces on the kside

I think the win is still many moves away (no immediate smash).

On move 18, I thought 18. ... h6 is stronger, as it prevents h6 and stops pieces getting to g5. It does leave a 'nasty' hole on g6, but that can be protected with the Ne7 and Qe8.

(This line is supposed to be more than OK for black but if so I am not good enough to demonstrate it against strong opposition. Too much fiddling about. As usual. )

This line does seem to involve a lot of piece shuffling for black and allows white a chance for a kside attack.

[Aaron Guthrie]

I was surprised too at the resignation. Can you give a rough outline of the winning plan, Kevin?

[Aaron Guthrie]

This line does seem to involve a lot of piece shuffling for black and allows white a chance for a kside attack.

By this line you mean the French, right?

[Kevin Bonham]

Thanks for the game. Surprised to see you resign though. I was starting to struggle to work out exactly how to take advantage of all these pieces on the kside

I found too many lines that involved (eventually) getting your queen to g5, shifting rook to e3 and breaking through with g4. That long-term idea was virtually everywhere and in any line where I could stop it there were breakthroughs on the queenside or unsolvable problems defending my e-pawn. There is indeed no immediate smash but every line I looked at long-term was going into +2 or worse well down the track and it wasn't like you had to play moves at precisely the right time to win it. I just couldn't be bothered playing on since my only hope was a virus destroying every copy of Rybka on the planet.

On move 18, I thought 18. ... h6 is stronger, as it prevents h6 and stops pieces getting to g5. It does leave a 'nasty' hole on g6, but that can be protected with the Ne7 and Qe8.

My source indicates that allowing h6 is no problem and even calls the h5-h6 idea "primitive" but it is a question of correct defence (which I wasn't up to). Had I actually read the notes it gives for 16.h5 as opposed to your 17.h5 I might have grasped a better defensive plan! (In those notes Black puts a knight on g8 and keeps one rook on the kingside.)