Sunday, February 15, 2009

#454 USATE - Day 1

In my only game, I blew a full point against expert Victor Rosas :

[Event "USATE"]
[Site "Parsippany, NJ"]
[Date "2009.02.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Moldovan, John"]
[Black "Rosas, Victor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "1811"]
[BlackElo "2035"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2009.02.14"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[Source "John Moldovan"]
[SourceDate "2009.02.15"]

{D36 Queen's Gambit Exchange Variation} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. d4 e6
5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bg5 Be7 7. Qc2 Be6 8. e3 Nbd7 9. Bd3 Rc8 10. O-O O-O 11. a3 h6
12. Bh4 c5 {Diagram #} 13. Rae1 $146 Re8 14. Qb1 Qb6 15. Na4 Qd8 $11 16. Nxc5
Bxc5 17. dxc5 Rxc5 $6 18. Nd4 $14 Qb6 19. Rd1 a6 20. Rd2 Rec8 21. Rfd1 Kh8 22.
h3 g5 $6 23. Bg3 $16 Nh5 24. Bh2 Ng7 25. Nxe6 Qxe6 26. Be2 $6 Ne5 $2 $18 {
Diagram #} 27. e4 dxe4 28. Qxe4 $16 Re8 $2 29. Rd6 $18 Qf5 30. Rxh6+ $2 Kg8 $16
31. Qxb7 $2 $44 Ng6 $4 32. Bg4 $18 Qc2 33. Rf1 Qc1 34. Qxa6 Re1 35. Bd6 Rc2 $2
36. Bb4 $2 Rxf1+ 37. Qxf1 Qxb2 {Diagram #} 38. Bf3 $4 Rc1 $19 39. Bd1 Qa1 40.
Qb5 Rxd1+ 41. Kh2 Rh1+ 42. Kg3 Qe5+ 43. Qxe5 Nxe5 44. f4 Nf5+ 0-1
Btw, I'm playing for Keresmatic Combo (not Lithuanian Athletic Club). Yesterday we lost to 2175-rated West Orange Krush 4-0 & beat Yellow Submarine 4-0.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey John,

This is Victor Rosas. You played a really good game. The queens gambit is an opening I have never played before so I was very unfamiliar with the lines and well this isolated d-pawn + bad bishop was a pain for me all game. I think at some point Nxe6 and e4! was decisive (main reason why I wasn't doing anything) I kept on thinking about this possibility. As a last comment, I feel that you should have taken your time. I had 35 seconds for quite a few moves and you had like 40 minutes. Anyways, Thanks for the game analysis.