Games
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.04.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Black "Harkins, William"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "1414"]
[BlackElo "1713"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
{The first match between the youngster and his protagonist started in
treperdation. How would the young one cope with the brilliance of Williams
play? Would the youngster be able to get an advantage from Williams unusual
openings. In the end experience showed after a great start by the youngster he
missed the fact, during fast responses, that he was under great threat and
lost a few pieces. Playing fast is ok as long as you are aware of threats and
slow down when they rear up.} 1. d4 c6 {Williams response to the opening
rarely changes, it starts as a slav or caro-kann but soon adopts a unique
perspective.} 2. Nf3 d6 3. e4 Qc7 4. Nc3 e5 5. Be2 (5. dxe5 dxe5 6. Bc4 h6 $14)
5... Bg4 6. Be3 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8. Qd2 Nbd7 9. Rad1 O-O 10. Rfe1 b5 {both sides
have developed well, white has the initiative and Black is waiting for a
counter attack almost poised.} 11. a3 a5 12. b4 Rfb8 13. d5 $6 $15 {this looks
like a good idea but it is playing into Williams hands somewhat, it allows the
opening of the weak c -file for Black in compensation for a strong b pawn
which is difficult to advance anyway on LifeWithoutCheses part.} (13. h3 $11)
13... axb4 14. axb4 cxd5 $1 15. exd5 $5 (15. Nxb5 $1 Rxb5 16. Bxb5 dxe4 17. h3
Bh5 18. g4 Rb8 19. Bxd7 exf3 20. Bf5 Bg6 $14) 15... Rc8 $1 16. Nxb5 Qxc2 17.
Rc1 $2 (17. h3 $11 {It is always important to challenge any aggressive enemy
pieces as much as posible to limit their scope. Especially when those pieces
are near the King. Not doing so gifts the opponent attacking opportunities he
would otherwise not have. With the back row being a posible trap for the
youngster he would also be wise to give his king a flight square.}) 17... Qxd2
$1 18. Bxd2 $6 (18. Rxc8+ Rxc8 19. Bxd2 e4 20. Nfd4 $11) 18... Rxc1 19. Rxc1 (
19. Bxc1 $17 Nxd5 20. h3 Bf5 21. Nxe5 $4 dxe5 22. Bf3 Be6 23. Nc7 Nxc7 24. Bxa8
Nxa8 $19) 19... e4 20. Nfd4 Bxe2 21. Nxe2 Ra2 22. Rc8+ $6 ({the loss of the
piece is inevitable from the previous mistakes on moves 17 and 18 by the
youngster.} 22. Rd1 e3 23. fxe3 Ne4 24. Nbc3 Rxd2 25. Rxd2 Nxd2 $19) 22... Bf8
23. Nxd6 $6 Rxd2 24. Ng3 $5 Rd1+ 25. Nf1 Nxd5 26. b5 Nf4 27. g3 $5 (27. Nf5
Ne2+ 28. Kh1 Rxf1# {The really strange thing is both sides are trying to do
the exact same thing at the same time. Will they both spot it??? lol.}) 27...
Ne2+ 28. Kg2 Rxd6 {all hope has gone from the poor youngster but I feel he
will have the last laugh in the long run. If William had been as strong as
LifeWithoutChes is at the youngsters age he would have been atleast a national
master by now. The rest is inevitable from William.} 29. Ne3 Nc3 30. Nf5 Nxb5
31. Ne7+ Kh8 32. Nc6 g6 33. Nb8 Kg7 34. Nc6 Nb6 35. Rxf8 Kxf8 36. Ne5 Rd2 37.
Ng4 Nc4 38. Kh3 Nd4 39. Kh4 {and so rather belatedly, LifeWithoutChes resigns,
in the words of Rambo, First Blood goes to William. Let us hope the youngster
gets some kind of reward for his great play, in the match. It will certainly
put him in good stead for playing people his own age. 1 - 0 to William.} 0-1
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.04.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Harkins, William"]
[Black "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1713"]
[BlackElo "1414"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
1. c3 c5 2. d3 Nc6 3. Qc2 f5 $3 {The yougsters opening play cannot be faulted
it is superb. Posed with the unusual opening from William, again
LifeWithoutChes causes some problems to William, posibly more problems than
either I or Nathan posed to that opening setup.} 4. e4 Nf6 5. Bg5 e5 $3 6. Nf3
(6. exf5 $2 d5 7. g4 $1 h5 8. Ne2 Be7 9. h3 hxg4 10. Ng3 $17) 6... d5 $3 7.
Nbd2 Be7 8. Bxf6 Bxf6 9. Be2 O-O $6 (9... Be6 $1) 10. O-O $6 (10. exd5 Qxd5 11.
d4 $15 {with the threat of Bc4 looming.}) 10... Be6 $1 11. a3 Rc8 12. Rad1 Qc7
13. exf5 Bxf5 14. c4 d4 $6 $15 (14... Nd4 $3 {attacking the Queen and not
blocking in one of Blacks two Bishops in becoming a bad Bishop.} 15. Nxd4 cxd4
$17) 15. Nb3 b6 16. Nfd2 Rfe8 17. Bf3 Bd8 $1 {repositioning the bad Bishop now
after 18...Bxe4, on the next move, William will have a good Bishop and Knight
for LifeWithoutCheses bad Bishop and average Knight, this is the seed to a
further defeat. If only the youngster had spent some time developing his
strategy as well as his brilliant tactics-but LifeWithoutChes wants to prove
he can win against all the odds regardless of the fact he will nearly always
lose giving such an advantage to someone with the skill of William.} 18. Ne4
Bxe4 $6 (18... Qd7 $11) 19. Bxe4 Qd6 20. Qe2 Bc7 21. Qh5 Qh6 $4 (21... g6) 22.
Qxh6 gxh6 23. Nd2 $4 {Let off the hook can have a debilhitating effect on
moral sometimes. Or other times it can make you feel invincible. It just
depends on how determined to win you feel.} (23. Bxc6) 23... Ne7 24. Nf3 Ng6
25. g3 Kh8 26. Kg2 Rg8 27. b4 Nf4+ 28. Kh1 Ne2 29. Rde1 Nc3 30. Nh4 cxb4 31.
axb4 Nxe4 32. Rxe4 {LifeWithoutChes has used some good tactics to get rid of
an important White piece but he is now left with a bad Bishop versus a good
Knight scenario.} h5 33. Nf5 Rg4 34. f3 Rxe4 35. fxe4 Rf8 36. Kg2 a5 $3 37.
bxa5 bxa5 38. Ra1 Rb8 39. c5 Rb3 40. Ne7 Rxd3 41. Nd5 Bd8 42. Rb1 Kg7 43. Rb8
Bg5 44. c6 Rd2+ 45. Kh3 Rc2 46. c7 d3 47. c8=Q Rxc8 48. Rxc8 d2 49. Nc3 a4 50.
Nd1 a3 51. Ra8 a2 52. Rxa2 {LifeWithoutChes was offered a draw there with a
bad Bishop like i have repeatable stated he should have bitten Williams hand
off. He was fooled into thinking he had an advantage when infact he was losing.
To be fair I myself watching did think at the time Black had chances of
winning but I also felt I knew the abilities of William and he would not allow
such a strategically good position to go begging. So 2 - 0 to William. Bad
luck for LifeWithoutChes so far.} 1-0
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.04.24"]
[Round "3"]
[White "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Black "Harkins, William"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B11"]
[WhiteElo "1392"]
[BlackElo "1710"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
{Would 'The West Coast Kid' give up, we all thought he would be whitewashed
with the score standing at 2 - 0 to William.} 1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Qc7 {
The Harkins Defence.} 4. d4 $1 {Taking control of the centre...} e5 $2 {
counter attacking too quickly.} 5. fxe5 $6 (5. Nf3 $1 $16 {a developing move
which also doubles as an attacking move on e5 and defensive on d4. Note
Lifewithoutches needs to castle quickly and this also helps that.}) 5... dxe5
6. dxe5 $2 Be6 $3 {blockading the e pawns and preventing an immediate Bc4 by
Lifewithoutches. Also getting his light squared Bishop outside of the Knight
on d7 and also after Nd7 long castling is possible.} (6... Qxe5 7. Nf3 Qc5 8.
Bf4 Nf6 9. Qd3 $16 {aiming to castle Queenside.}) 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. Bf4 O-O-O 9.
Bd3 Ne7 10. O-O Kb8 11. a4 Ng6 12. Bg3 h5 13. h3 Ndxe5 14. Nxe5 Nxe5 15. Qe2
Bc5+ {notice how William has been very patient in taking the e5 pawn and is
now almost the equivalent of yet another pawn up in terms of development.} 16.
Kh1 g5 $2 (16... h4 17. Bf4 $17) 17. Bb5 $4 (17. Nd5 $3 {nice trick...missed
unfortunately by the West Coast Kid.} cxd5 18. exd5 Rxd5 (18... Ka8 $4 19. Bxe5
$18) (18... Bd6 19. dxe6 fxe6 $11) 19. c4 Rxd3 20. Bxe5 Bd6 21. Bxh8 $44) 17...
h4 $3 18. Bh2 g4 19. hxg4 h3 20. g3 Bxg4 21. Qe1 Bb4 $6 (21... cxb5 $18) 22.
Be2 Rd4 23. Bxg4 Nxg4 24. Rf4 f5 $3 25. exf5 Rxf4 26. gxf4 Qd7 $3 27. Qg3 Bxc3
(27... Qxf5 28. Qf3 Rg8 29. Bg3 $19) 28. bxc3 $2 (28. Rf1) 28... Qd5+ $3 {
on the ropes is the Kid.} 29. Kg1 Rg8 $1 30. Kf1 Nxh2+ 31. Qxh2 Qf3+ $1 32. Qf2
Qh1+ 33. Ke2 Qxa1 34. f6 $1 Rf8 $6 (34... Re8+ 35. Kd2 h2 36. f7 Rd8+ 37. Ke2
h1=Q 38. f5 Qad1+ 39. Ke3 Qc1+ 40. Ke2 Qd2#) 35. Qd4 $1 Qa3 $6 36. Qe5+ $1 Ka8
37. f7 h2 $4 {just when it looks all over it is but over for William not The
Kid.} (37... Rc8 $1) 38. Qe8+ $3 {Rxe8 is forced and after that fxe8=Q is
checkmate. Their was a battle royal on now with the score at 2 - 1 to William.}
1-0
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.04.24"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Harkins, William"]
[Black "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1710"]
[BlackElo "1392"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
1. c3 c6 2. d3 d6 3. Qc2 Qc7 {The Harkins Symmetrical Opening.} 4. e4 e5 5. Nf3
f5 $2 {too cavalier.} 6. Be2 Nf6 7. O-O Be6 8. Ng5 Qd7 9. Nd2 h6 10. Nxe6 Qxe6
11. exf5 Qxf5 12. Qb3 $1 {targetting b7 and inducing further pawn weaknesess.}
b6 13. d4 e4 $6 {too many pawn moves the youngster should take note of his
lack of development, punishing it is second nature to an experienced player
(old duffer??) like William.} 14. f3 $1 e3 15. Nc4 Nbd7 16. Nxe3 Qa5 17. a4 Be7
18. Qc4 $5 c5 19. Bd3 O-O-O {The King looks safe there honest guv, so does the
Kids Queen????} 20. b4 b5 21. Qe6 cxb4 22. Qxe7 Rhe8 23. Qxd6 Nb6 24. Qc6+ Kb8
25. Nc2 bxa4 ({There is no defence to the combined threats on The Kids King
and Queen.} 25... Nfd5 26. axb5 Qxa1 27. Nxa1 $18) 26. Bf4+ Re5 27. Bxe5+ Qxe5
28. dxe5 Rxd3 29. Nxb4 Nfd5 {before William can play Checkmate with Na6#, The
West Coast Kid resigns. Incredibly well played by William, its now 3 - 1 to
him.} 1-0
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.04.24"]
[Round "5"]
[White "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Black "Harkins, William"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "1392"]
[BlackElo "1710"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
1. d4 c6 2. e4 d6 3. f4 Qc7 4. c4 {If Carlsberg did pawn centres they would
look like this.} e5 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. Nc3 exf4 8. Qd4 (8. Qd2) 8...
Nd7 9. e5 Bxf3 10. gxf3 Nxe5 11. Bxf4 Nxf3+ 12. Kd1 Nxd4 13. Bxc7 Ne6 14. Be5
f6 15. Bg3 O-O-O+ 16. Kc2 Nd4+ 17. Kc1 Bd6 18. Bh3+ f5 19. Bxd6 Rxd6 20. Re1
Nf6 21. Re5 g6 22. Na4 Nf3 23. Re7 Rd2 24. Nc5 Rhd8 25. Ne6 Re8 26. Rc7+ $2 (
26. Rxe8+ Nxe8 27. a4 Rxh2 28. Bf1 Nc7 29. Nxc7 Kxc7 30. Ra3 Nd2 31. Bd3 $19)
26... Kb8 27. Rxb7+ Kxb7 28. Nc5+ Ka8 29. Nd3 Rxd3 30. Kc2 Rd2+ 31. Kb3 Rxh2
32. Bf1 Rb8+ 33. Ka3 Rbxb2 34. c5 Nd4 35. Ba6 Nd7 36. Bc8 Nxc5 37. Re1 Rxa2+ {
and although its not checkmate as the King has the escape route to the b4
square, I think Lifewithoutches, had had, enough.} (37... Nb5#) 0-1
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.04.24"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Harkins, William"]
[Black "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1710"]
[BlackElo "1392"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "35"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
{After playing some incredibly good faultless chess William was in the mood
for a fourth game in one night, while the youngsters play was pretty impresive
too. Lifewithoutches was near punch drunk by this stage and with the score on
4 - 1 to William it wasn't surprising to see a similar outcome to the past
games in this game.} 1. c3 e5 2. d3 d5 3. Qc2 Nf6 4. e4 Bd6 5. Nf3 Be6 6. Be2
O-O 7. O-O c6 $11 {Lifewithoutches seems to have taken to heart what I said
before the game about remaining solid. This opening can't be faulted.} 8. Be3
h6 9. Nbd2 Nbd7 10. h3 c5 11. d4 cxd4 12. cxd4 Rc8 13. Qd3 exd4 14. Bxd4 dxe4
15. Nxe4 Nxe4 16. Qxe4 b6 $2 (16... Nc5 $15) 17. Bd3 f5 $4 (17... g6 $16) 18.
Qxe6+ {18...Kh8?? would have been a bad mistake here after 19.Qxh6+! Kg8 20.
Qxg7# but the position is totally lost anyway. The youngster said he could ge
tthe piece back but I and Fritz 11 don't think its possible. So the match is
almost decided at 5 - 1 but LifeWithoutChes canplay Kingmaker if not King at
the moment but keep at it Lad.} 1-0
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.05.01"]
[Round "7"]
[White "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Black "Harkins, William"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B11"]
[WhiteElo "1422"]
[BlackElo "1723"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Qc7 4. Nf3 e5 5. Bc4 b5 6. Bb3 a5 7. a3 Na6 8. O-O Nc5
9. fxe5 Nxb3 10. cxb3 dxe5 11. d4 exd4 12. Nxd4 (12. Qxd4 $14 {and William
would have struggle to castle because moving the Bishop on f8 would leave g7
undefended to a Queen sorte while moving the Knight to f6 allows e5 pawn
advance with the gain of tempo- even though its hard to see a significant
advantage for LifeWithoutChes here.}) 12... Bd6 13. Qh5 $2 {loss of tempo here.
} Nf6 14. Qh4 (14. Rxf6 $1 gxf6 15. Bh6 Rg8 16. Nf5 Bxf5 17. exf5 O-O-O $19)
14... Bc5 15. Be3 O-O $2 16. Nf5 $6 $15 (16. Rxf6 $3 gxf6 17. Qxf6 Qe7 18. Qxe7
Bxe7 19. Nxc6 $16) 16... Bxe3+ 17. Nxe3 Qb6 {not satisfied with pinning a the
first Knight to the King, William tries a second one.} 18. Qg5 $6 $17 (18. Qf2
$15) 18... Ng4 $1 19. Rf3 Be6 20. Kh1 f6 21. Qf4 Ne5 22. Rg3 Rad8 23. Qh6 Rf7
24. Ne2 $4 {this next move is straight out a russian book...at first site
Whites position looks ok but it is actually totally lost.} Bg4 $3 {the point
is now gxh6 is threatened winning whites Queen and a Knight (on e2) is
attacked by the Bishop on g4.} 25. Qf4 Bxe2 26. Nf5 Rfd7 27. h3 $2 {Its mate
in 3...unless white gives up his Queen.} (27. Ne3) 27... Rd1+ 28. Rxd1 Rxd1+
29. Kh2 Qg1# {well it looks like it is going to be a quick final few games for
LifeWithoutChes, but he has played well, his results don't do him justice.
Standing at 6 - 1 to William, he only needs half a point to win his match and
maybe win the overall event between the four of us.} 0-1
[Event "12 Match Series 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2016.05.01"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Harkins, William"]
[Black "LifeWithoutChes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1723"]
[BlackElo "1422"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
1. c3 d5 2. d3 e5 3. Qc2 Qf6 4. e4 dxe4 5. dxe4 Bc5 6. Nf3 (6. Be2 $4 Qxf2+ 7.
Kd1 Qxg2 8. Bf3 Qf1+ 9. Kd2 Bxg1 10. Qd1 Qxd1+ 11. Kxd1 Bc5 $19) 6... Bg4 7.
Be2 Bxf3 8. Bxf3 Nc6 9. O-O O-O-O 10. Be3 $2 $15 (10. b4 Be7 11. b5 Na5 12. c4
Qe6 13. Nc3 Qxc4 14. Be2 Qc5 15. a4 Kb8 16. Be3 Qd6 17. Rfd1 Qg6 18. Nd5 Bd6
19. Rac1 b6 20. Nb4 Nf6 21. Na6+ Kb7 22. Bd2 Nh5 23. Bxa5 bxa5 $2 24. Qc6+ Kc8
25. Qxc7+ Bxc7 26. Rxc7#) 10... Bb6 $6 11. b4 Nh6 $6 (11... Bxe3 $13) 12. a4
Bxe3 13. fxe3 Qh4 14. Na3 g5 15. b5 Na5 16. c4 g4 17. Be2 g3 $3 18. h3 Ng4 $4 (
18... Rd7 19. Rf3 $13) 19. Bxg4+ {LifeWithoutChes was playing too quickly as
usual, he missed this move which is obvious in hindsight.} Kb8 20. Rxf7 Rhf8
21. Raf1 Rxf7 22. Rxf7 Nxc4 $2 23. Nxc4 Qxg4 $2 {So that was it 7 - 1 to
William and a successfull day at the office. William finishes on a mighty 23.5/
36 and the positions in the other matches are such that whatever happens that
score may be difficult to beat in the overall standings. A mighty score for a
mighty chess player. I am currently on 21.0/33 needing to win 2 games in a row
which will mean i get an extra default point. It may not be posible for all
three of us to finish on 23.5 so if say I won one and drew then won I would
finish on 23.5 and on 1st tie break (minus default games) we would still be
level but the second tie break would decide that William won as it is score
with people on same original score (match between William and me was won by
William 6.5 - 5.5). But if say Nathan got a 7 - 1 victory with LifeWithoutChes
then Nathan needs a 6.5 -5.5 victory, over me, to tie with William when it may
rest on number of wins, or, wins as black, as the first two tie breaks would
be equal (same default numbers assumed, and they tied their match between them
6 - 6). It could rest on how Nathan does against the youngster(ie the
youngster is LifeWithoutChes).} 1-0