Alice Lee vs Ashritha Eswaran (2023)

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Alice Lee vs Ashritha Eswaran
US Championship (Women) (2023), Saint Louis, MO USA, rd 11, Oct-17
King's Indian Defense: Kramer Variation (E70) · 1-0

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Oct-19-23		keypusher: This game is something of a mismatch, but I still thought it was interesting. The line with 5.Nge2 and Ng3 is not too common and doesn't score too well, according to our database. After 11....Na6 it looks like a pretty ordinary. But after 15.Nb5 Black seems lost at sea. She doesn't want to take the knight on b5, but it's paralyzing her game. At first she seems to want to play ...c6 (hence ...Rd8 and ...Bf8) but then she moves her pieces back where they were. Alice Lee, meanwhile, is purposefully regrouping, and 21.Ne2 threatens Ne2-c3 aiming at the pawn at a4. Eswaran finally lashes out with 21....f5, but after 22.ef gf 23.Ng3! she has the weakness on h5 to contend with (often the problem with playing ...h5 early in the King's Indian -- makes it tricky to play ...f5 later). So 23....f4 24.Bxc5 fg 25.Be3 and the pawn on g3 is doomed. But after 27....a3 Lee slips with 28.b4. Black could have tried 28....Rxb5!? and if 29.Ba4? then 29....Qf5+ 30.Rc2 Rxd5! 31.Bb3 Nf6 and Black is still fighting. But Eswaran also had 29.Bd2 or Qc3 to think about -- small wonder she was reluctant to lock up her own rook. Anyway, after 28....Ra7 29.Qxg3 White was a pawn up with a totally dominant position. Black makes efforts to get play against White's semi-exposed king, but they never get anywhere. Lee does a good job of forcing pieces off the board and getting to an easily won ending.

Oct-19-23		perfidious: This opening variation transposes into a type of Saemisch very favourable to White, in which (as noted by <keypusher>) Eswaran would have done better to omit ....h7-h5. Black's plan then looks familiar from the anti-Petrosian system vs the Classical with ....a5, ....Na6-c5 etc, but never makes much headway.

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