1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 Nc6 5.Be3 e5 This looks like it could gain tempi on a normal KID, playing ...f5 before ...Nf6, saving ...Nd7, f5, Nf6. But White reacts accurately.

6.d5 Nce7 7.c5! f5 8.cxd6 cxd6 9.Bb5+ Kf8 Black definitely doesn't want to swap off his good B.

10.f3 Nf6 11.h3 h5 12.Qd2 h4 13.Nge2 Nh5 14.0-0-0 Qa5 15.Kb1 a6 16.Bd3 f4? 17.Bf2 b5?

Peter Stuart rightly comments: "It is White who has the attacking chances on the queenside -- not Black." Indeed, in many Saemisch-type positions, both sides attack on the wing their King is located, quite safe -- compare the classic game Kotov vs Szabo, 1953 or the not-so-classic Sarfati-Cashman game on User: Jonathan Sarfati. It is quite reasonable, because they are attacking on the side where they have a space advantage, so their kings are safest there rather than facing the enemy attack. But this means that Black's blocking the K-side on the previous moves was also wrong.

18.Nc1 Ng3? The N is out of play here.

19.Rhe1 Bd7 20.Nb3 Qd8 21.a3 Kf7 22.Rc1 Bf6 23.Rc2 Qb8 24.Na2 Rc8 25.Rec1 Rxc2 26.Qxc2 Nc8 27.Na5 Bd8 28.Nc6

Black now wishes he had left his B-pawn at home, but he still would have been worse since he has blocked off his natural counterplay on the K-side.

He once played about 20 Blindfold games at once and I can only be incredulous as I cant even play one game of blindfold!!

I simply cannot "see" the board - and I have tried everything over the years to achieve this but I simply cannot. Nor can I just look at a position and recall it. And I have great difficulty remembering openings - my memory in this respect is poor (I getconfued partculay by all the transpositions) -I need a board in front of me and often I forget games (or varitions) I have played even only reecently...

TO remember things I have to repeat them over and over again (hundreds of times in many cases) - this applies even to my own poems. Itis the reason I will never have any other language than English.

To recall game I have to play it over many many times. I wish there was some medicine one could take to magically make one's memory very clear and good - but alas ...I lack it.

So I am amazed even if someone can play one game of blindfold. I know you (Jonathan) can play several also...

I can only marvel at people who can recall positions and so on - I can if I play the games over quite a few times. That is about 6 or 10 or more times and that very recently or I forget it... I wish i coud but my brain wasn't wired right in the first place!!

My son cant visualise any chess games (moves - that is not even two or three move sequences) but he can "hear" msuic and recalls converstions in movies often verbatim -I get them mixed up and have to have them told to me several times and even then I mix them up unless it is something very simple...I can visualise moves (with a board in front of me) but I have no memory for music (I forget what it sounds like the instant it stops - if I have hear msuic hundreds of times there is kind of "vague" "ghost memory" of how it sounds but it is not clear..)...Sarapu said to me once he lacked that also...but I lack also his eidetic memory powers!! O me miserum!!

And some things from my (especialy younger)life I reacal very clearly...

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White looks to have some dangerous threats with moves like axb6 and Nc6+ in the air, but it is Black to play.

Ewen uncorked to following combination

1...Rxe7 2.Qxe7 Qxf3 3.gxf3 Rg8+ 4.Kf1 (4.Kh1 Nxf2#) Ba6+ 5.Re2 Nd2+ 6.Ke1 Nxf3+ 7.Kd1 Rg1+ and White resigned as mate next move follows.

Anyway many happy returns Ewen.

Hope this might help you.