Coulsdon LP

[petejwatts]

As promised, one of my ongoing tourney reports, this time the just played Coulsdon LP. With no up-to-date LP grade, the arbiters used my Rapidplay grade of 129, which would have prevented me in playing in the U120 section. I think it would have been better to have used my last listed LP grade of 119, which would, so it was just as well that some players wanted to play up so that they could raise the bar to U130, allowing me tio play in the lower section. As well as having things on my mind I am well out of practice and to have made me play in an U170 would be quite unfair imo. However, more to follow on that.

Well, it was a tourney of two halves, suffering two dreadful "miniature" defeats on the first day, then two imo pretty good wins on the second, including, my pride and joy, a win with black against a 161, probably my best ever result! I will enjoy telling you about that one, but tempting as it is to gloss over my defeats, I will reveal them in order, so we start with my first drubbing by a 113. Generally one learns much more by one's losses than ones wins, so it is important not to ignore them. Annotations are by Fritz 10 set to thinking 100 sec per move at pushing 2M positions per sec.
There are extra things I can add but at first I think I'll just post the game as annotated and then comment on it later. Alas some characters dont paste properly, so I'll post this intro then the game after I have cleaned it up.

[petejwatts]

Ok here we are. Cleaning this up took quite a while, so I dont think I'll bother doing that with the other games. Instead I'll use the Blunder Check which stores the Fritz evaluations, doing out without the need for annotation symbols. It also writes fewer variations, which will make the game easier to follow. Basically my play was so dreadful I'm tempted not to post this game, but here it is anyway. A fine lesson in how not to play chess!

[Event "Coulsdon"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "2011.01.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Watts, Pete"]
[Black "Frasier, A."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C44"]
[WhiteElo "129"]
[BlackElo "113"]
[Annotator "Fritz 10 (100s)"]
[PlyCount "55"]

{C44: Ponziani Opening and Scotch Gambit} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. d4
d6 5. d5 Nb8 {last book move} 6. Bg5 Be7 7. Bd3 (7. Bxf6 Bxf6 8. Na3 O-O=/+)
7... Nbd7 (7... Nxd5 8. exd5 Bxg5 9. Nxg5 Qxg5 10. O-O-/+) 8. Nbd2 (8. Be3 c6
9. dxc6 bxc6=/+) 8... O-O (8... Nxd5 9. exd5 Bxg5 10. Nxg5 Qxg5 11. Nf3-/+)
9. Qe2 (9. Be3=/+) 9... c5 {Black's piece can't move: c8} (9... Nxd5!? 10.
exd5 Bxg5 11. Nxg5 Qxg5 12. h4-/+) 10. Nh4 (10. Nc4 b5 11. Ne3 c4 12. Bxf6
Nxf6= (12... gxf6? 13. Bc2+-)) 10... h6 (10... Nxd5 11. Bxe7 Nxe7 12.
O-O -/+) 11. Bxf6=/+ Nxf6 {Black has the pair of bishops} ({Not} 11... Bxf6
12. Nf5 Nb6 13. g4+/=) 12. Nhf3 Bd7 13. h4 (13. Nf1 Nh5 14. g3 Rc8=) 13...
Bg4 (13... Nh5 14. g3=/+) 14. Nf1= Qd7 15. N1h2 (15. Ne3 a6=) 15... Bh5=/+ 16.

Qc2 (16. Nf1 Rac8=/+) 16... b5 17. O-O-O ( > 17. Qe2!? c4 18. Bc2-/+) 17... c4-+

18. Be2 Rfc8 (18... Bg6 19. Nd2-+) 19. Ne1? (19. Nf1 Bg6
20. N3d2 Nxd5 21. Nxc4 Nxc3 ( < 21... bxc4 22. Rxd5 Qd8 23. g3=) 22. bxc3
bxc4-+ (22... Rxc4!? 23. Bxc4 bxc4 24. Ne3=/+)) 19... b4 ( > 19... Bxe2!? 20.

Qxe2 b4 21. Qc2-+) 20. Bxh5 b3 (20... Nxh5!? 21. Nf1 Bd8-+) 21.
Bxf7+ Kxf7 22. axb3 cxb3 23. Qe2?? {causes more grief} (23. > Qd3-/+) 23...
Qa4-+ 24. Nd3 (24. Nc2 {a last effort to resist the inevitable} Nxe4 25. Rd3-+)

24... Nxe4 25. Nxe5+ dxe5 26. Qd3 (26. Qh5+ {doesn't change the outcome of the

game} Kg8 27. Qf7+ Kxf7 28. Kb1 Qa2+ 29. Kc1 Qa1#) 26... Qa1 Qb1 Rxc3+! {Mate

attack} 28. bxc3 (28. bxc3 Ba3# {
Mate attack}] 0-1

[petejwatts]

Ok here is Round 2. Decided to leave out the evaluation scores, as I had to clean up the annotations anyway. A much better game by me that I not only draw but had a winning position a number of times but failed to convert. First I'll just post Fritz commentary, but may add comment later:

[Event "Coulsdon"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "2011.01.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Pratley, Ian"]
[Black "Watts, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "129"]
[BlackElo "129"]
[Annotator "Fritz 10"]
[PlyCount "120"]

1. e3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bg4 {last book move} 5. Be2 e6 6. Ne5 Bxe2
7. Qxe2 Nbd7 8. O-O dxc4 9. Nxc4 Be7 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Nf3 Nb6 12. Nfe5 Nxc4 13.
Nxc4 Qc7 14. b3 c5 15. dxc5 Qxc5 16. Qf3 b5 17. Nd2-/+ ({Fritz 10:} 17. Ba3
Qc7 18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19. Na5 Rfc8 20. a4 b4 21. Nc4 Nd5 22. e4 Nc3 23. e5=)
17... Qg5= ({Fritz 10:} 17... Qc2 18. a4 b4 19. Qd1 Qc3 20. Ra2 Rad8 21. Rc2
Qd3-/+) 18. Bb2 Rac8 19. Rac1 Qd5 20. Qxd5 Nxd5 21. a3 Rfd8 22. Nf3 Bf6 23.
Nd4 a6 24. Rfd1 Kf8 25. Kf1 Ke8 26. Rxc8 Rxc8 27. Rc1 Rxc1+ 28. Bxc1 Bxd4 29.
exd4 Ke7 30. g3 Kf6 31. Ke2 Kf5 32. Kf3 Nf6 33. h4 h5 34. Bg5 Ne4 35. Bc1 f6
36. Be3 g5 37. hxg5-+ ({Fritz 10:} 37. Bc1 gxh4 38. gxh4 Nc3 39. Be3 e5 40.
dxe5 fxe5 41. Bg5 Nd5 42. Kg3 e4 43. Bh6 Nc3 44. Be3 Ne2+ -/+) 37... fxg5 =/+ (
{Fritz 10:} 37... Nxg5+ -+) 38. Bc1 Nf6 39. Kg2 g4 40. f3 Nd5 41. Kf2 Nf6 42.
Bf4 -+ ({Fritz 10:} 42. Kg2=) 42... Nd5?= ({Fritz 10:} 42... h4-+) 43. Bd2 -/+

({Fritz 10:} 43. Bd6 Kg5 44. a4 bxa4 45. bxa4 gxf3 46. Kxf3 Nb6
47. Ke4 Kg4 48. a5 Nc4 49. Bc7 Nd2+ 50. Ke3 Nf1+ 51. Kf2 Nd2 52. Ke3= ) 43...
e5 44. dxe5 Kxe5 45. f4+ Ke4 46. Ke2 Ne7 47. Be3 a5=/+ ({Fritz 10:} 47... Nf5 48. Bf2 h4 49. gxh4 Kxf4 50. h5 Kg5 51. Bc5 Kxh5 52. Kf2 g3+ 53. Kf3 Kh4 54. g2 Kg4 -+) 48. Bc5? -+ ({Fritz 10:} 48. Bb6 Nf5 49. Kf2 h4 50. gxh4 g3+
51. Ke2 Kxf4 52. h5 Kg4 53. h6 Nxh6 54. Bxa5 g2 55. Bb6 Nf5 56. a4 Ng3+ 57. Kd3 Kf3 =/+) 48... Nf5 49. Bf2 h4? =/+ ({Fritz 10:} 49... a4 50. bxa4 bxa4 51. Kf1 h4 52. gxh4 g3 53. Bb6 Nxh4 54. Bc7 Kf3 55. Kg1 Nf5 56. Bb6 Kxf4 57. Kg2 Kg4 -+) 50. gxh4 Kxf4 51. h5 Kg5 52. h6 Kxh6 53. Kd3 Kg5 54. Ke4 Kf6= ({Fritz10:} 54... a4 -/+) 55. Kd5 g3 56. Bxg3 Nxg3 57. Kc5 b4 58. axb4 axb4 59.Kxb4 Nf5 60. Kc5 Ne7 1/2-1/2