#400 Last Night's Consultation Game

In last night's consultation game at Kenilworth, the White team led by experts David Grasso & Mark Bilenky defeated a Black squad headed by KCC Champion NM Mark Kernighan & U1800 titleist Ian Mangion. 27 players participated.

It was an exciting contest with both sides in deep time-trouble over the last 16 moves and a terrific tactical conclusion where the victorious side sacked 2 Exchanges!

Here is the raw score :

B81 Sicilian Defense
Keres Attack
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g4 h6 7.h4 Nc6 8.Rg1 g6 9.Be3 a6 10.Qf3 Ne5 11.Qe2 Qc7 12.0–0–0 b5 13.f4 Ned7 14.g5 b4 15.gxf6 bxc3 16.h5 cxb2+ 17.Kb1 Nxf6 18.hxg6 Nxe4 19.Bd2 f5 20.Bg2 d5 21.Bxe4 dxe4 22.g7! Bxg7 23.Ba5! Qf7 24.Nc6 Bd7 25.Rxg7!! Qxg7 26.Qh5+ Kf8 27.Bb4+ Kg8


28.Rxd7!! Qxd7 29.Qg6+ Qg7 30.Ne7+ Kf8 31.Nxf5+ 1–0


... fully annotated java-replay page & zipped PGN.


For easy reference, here are links to all of our previous consultation games :

Nov. 2006 - blog posts #29, 33, 34; replay; PGN
May 2007 - posts #142, 143, 146, 147; replay; PGN
May 2008 - posts #317, 321, 322; replay; PGN

P.S. - Next time we'll have a time control every 10 moves to avoid the time scrambles.