#736 USA Trails Ukraine

After two and a half weeks of play in their correspondence match vs.the Ukraine, the United States trails 1-0 and is losing in 5 other games. All the damage is taking place on the lower boards.

Some contests are already at turn 27 but twelve have yet to begin. Mine, an English and a French, are at moves 3 and 7.

Here is the finished game:

[Event "Ukraine - USA Rossolimo-100 Memorial"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2010"]

[White "Sukhanitskij, Stanislav"]
[Black "Lewis, Jerome A"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]

[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.11.29"]
[WhiteTeam "Ukraine"]
[BlackTeam "USA"]

{board 56, Scandinavian Defense}

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 6. g3 Bg4 7. Bg2 Nc6 8. O-O g6 $2 $146 9. Bf4 Qd7 10. d5 Nb4 11. Qd2 Rd8 12. Ne5 Qc8 13. a3 Nbxd5 14. Nxg4 Qxg4 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Bxd5 e6 17. Qc3 Rxd5 18. Qxh8 Ke7 19. Bxc7 h5 20. Be5 g5 21. Bf6+ Ke8 22. Bg7 Qf3 23. Qxf8+ Kd7 24. Rae1 h4 25. Re3 Qh5 26. Rc3 1-0

PGN of all 128 games (5-move delay, no ECO codes)

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