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Charles Jaffe vs Frank James Marshall
Ch USA 1904  ·  Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit. Normal Line (D08)  ·  0-1


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Aug-05-04   rochade18: Black always has a strong pawn on d4 in the Albin counter gambit. Marshall trades of material, having two passed pawns in the end which can hardly be stopped by the rooks.
Jan-04-06   prinsallan: I searched through my own games and found a game that was identical up to move 17... I played for mate from there, but the opposition was not very hard.

Check it out though, its a pretty nice game:
[Event ""]
[Site "Jonkoping"]
[Date "1995-07-20"]
[Round ""]
[White "Anonymous"]
[Black "Jonas Astrand"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D09"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6
5. Bg5 f6 6. exf6 Nxf6 7. e4 Bb4+ 8. Nbd2 O-O
9. Qb3 a5 10. a3 a4 11. Qc2 Bxd2+ 12. Nxd2 Qe8
13. Bxf6 Rxf6 14. f3 Ne5 15. Bd3 c5 16. O-O Qh5
17. Rf2 Rh6 18. h3 Bxh3 19. gxh3 Qxh3
20. Rg2 Rg6 21. Rxg6 hxg6 22. Be2 Rf8
23. Qxa4 Qg3+ 24. Kf1 Rf4 25. Qc2 Rh4
26. Bd1 Rh1+ 27. Ke2 Qe1# 0-1

Tell me what you think of it plz.
-Prinsallan

Jan-04-06   Saruman: <prinsallan> White could have played 25.Qe8+ Rf8 (Kh7?? Qxe5 Rxf3+ Nxf3 ) 26.Qe7 Ng4 27.Qxf8+ Kxf8 28.fxg4 is not so clear. Or 26.-g5 27.Qxc5 g4 28.Qxd4 gxf3 29.Bxf3 Nxf3 30.Qd5+ Rf7 31.Nxf3 Qxf3+ 32.Kg1 Kh7 and black should be able to win.
Jan-04-06   prinsallan: On your first variation i would not play 26... Ng4, id play d3. Ill check the other, but now I must head home. C U all tomorrow. HF and thanks Saruman.
Jan-04-06   Saruman: <prinsallan> hmm 26.-d3 27.Qxc5 dxe2+ 28.Kxe2 Nxf3 29.Rf1 is also unclear I believe.
Jan-04-06   mymt: <prinsallen> nice game! only 2 ideas I could see
1. 20. ...Rf8 get everything onboard.
2. 22. ...Kf7 & ...Rh8
Jan-04-06   mymt: forgot - the B sac is OK
everyone post their games @ ? just click on it to get the ? page
& add it to Favourites to recall it.
Jan-04-06
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  dakgootje: <prinsallan> Hmmm some notes...First of all: You both made some awefull mistakes, which ill try to explain with some help from Fritz ;-)

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bg5 f6 6. exf6 Nxf6 7. e4 Bb4+ 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. Qb3 a5 10. a3 a4 11. Qc2 Bxd2+ 12. Nxd2 Qe8 13. Bxf6 Rxf6 14. f3 Ne5 15. Bd3 c5 16. O-O Qh5 17. Rf2 Rh6

<Fritz thinks: 17. ...Qg5 18. Re2 Be6 19. Rf1 Rf8 20.Ree1 Bh3 21. Re2 (white is pretty much in zugzwang) 21. ...Bxg2 22. Rxg2 Qe3 23. Kh1 Nxd3 24. Qxa4 Nf4 25. Rgf2 Rg6 26. Qd1 Nh3 27. Re2 Qg5 (eval -2.13), which is not something everyone would play...>

Jan-04-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  dakgootje: 18. h3?

<18. Nf1 and the game is pretty drawn (eval. 0.03)>

18. ...Bxh3! 19. gxh3??

<19. Kf1 Qg5 20. gxh3 Rxh3 21. Ke1 Rf8 22. Kd1 Ng4 23. Nf1 Nxf2 24. Qxf2 Rfxf3 25. Qe2 Rxd3 (eval. -8.84)>

19. ...Qxh3 20. Rg2 Rg6?

<20. ...Rf8 which has several forced mates. Exempli gratia 21. Nf1 Nxf3 22. Kf2 Ne5 23. Ke1 Nxd3 24. Qxd3 Qxd3 25. Rf2 Qxe4 26. Re2 Rxf1 27. Kxf1 Rh1 28. Kf2 Qf4 29. Kg2 Rh2 30. Kg1 Qg3 31. Kf1 Rh1#>

Jan-04-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  dakgootje: 21. Rxg6 hxg6 22. Be2??

<22. Bf1 could maybe have drawn (eval. -1.03), however there is an advantage for black>

22. ...Rf8?

<Again several forced mates like: 22. ...Qg3 23. Kf1 Kf7 24. Rc1 Rh8 25. Bd3 Rh1 26. Ke2 Qg2#>

23. Qxa4??

<Too greedy! Now there is a forced mate for black>

23. ...Qg3 24. Kf1

<24. Kh1 Kf7 25. Qd7 Nxd7 26. f4 Rh8 27. Bh5 Rxh5#>

Jan-04-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  dakgootje: 24. ...Rf4??

<MUCH better was 24. ...Ng4 with 25. ...Qg2#>

25. Qc2??

<25. Qe8 Rf8 is drawn! (eval. 0.00)>

25. ...Rh4 26. Bd1 Rh1 27. Ke2 Qe1#

Jan-05-06   prinsallan: <dakgootje> Thanks a lot for all the analyses. I must get a better chess program to eveluate for me, but since I sit on a Macintosh I am somewhat limited.

It was nice to see that the Bishop sac wasn´t all bad though.

Thanks for all the time you guys spent.
Back to the study ^^

-Prinsallan

Jan-05-06   prinsallan: Saruman said: <prinsallan> hmm 26.-d3 27.Qxc5 dxe2+ 28.Kxe2 Nxf3 29.Rf1 is also unclear I believe.

I tried some variations, but that was against my stupid mac and he lost terribly to 29... Qg2+ 30. Rf2 Ng1+
31. Ke1 Rxf2
32. Qxf2 Qxf2
33. Kxf2 Nh3+
34. Ke3? g5
35. e5? g4 and the pawn wil queen.
As I said, Sigma Chess for Mac aint a good evaluater, and soo, the comp is very bad at endgames ^^

Jan-05-06   prinsallan: <mymt> Forgot to thank you too m8, glad you like the game.

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