Games
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "nitishdas"]
[Black "Boger, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "2019"]
[BlackElo "1379"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{I think John felt a bit intimidated by Nitishes rating but for a long part of
the game John matches Nitish but a few errors occur and you can't make any
errors at all against Nitish.} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O O-O 5. d4
d6 {the opening is a Fianchetto system of the Kings Indian Defence.} 6. c4 Nbd7
7. Nc3 e5 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bd2 Ne8 $2 $16 {a dubious novelty to a computer but a
natural move to a human.} (9... c6 {this position is well known and has a good
performance as black but 9...c6 is the most played move here, but many
different moves have been tried.}) 10. e3 $6 f5 $2 11. c5 $6 dxc5 12. Qb3+ Kh7
13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Bxe5 (14... Qxd2 $4 15. Rfd1 $18 {and the Queen is
trapped.}) 15. Rad1 $3 Nd6 16. Nd5 $1 c6 17. Nf4 Qb6 18. Ne6 $4 Re8 $4 (18...
Bxe6 19. Qxe6 Rfe8 20. Qb3 Qxb3 21. axb3 $17) (18... Qxb3 $4 19. Nxf8+ {
an intermezzo} Kg8 20. axb3 Kxf8 $16) 19. Qxb6 $1 axb6 20. Nc7 Rxa2 21. Nxe8
Nxe8 22. Bc3 Bxc3 23. bxc3 Rc2 $4 {White is won now.} (23... Be6 24. Rd8 Ng7
$14 {and the game looks like it is heading for a draw.}) 24. Rd8 Rxc3 $2 25.
Rxe8 Bd7 26. Re7+ $18 {well John put up a decent fight but Nitish is clearly
won here. So 1 - 0 to Nitishdas.} 1-0
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Boger, John"]
[Black "nitishdas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B36"]
[WhiteElo "1379"]
[BlackElo "2020"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{John gets into a Marcozy Bind actually the Gurgendize System of the Sicilian
and he gets a great position but then swaps off into a difficult endgame which
NitishDas plays perfectly so he wins yet another...} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4
cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be3 {I give the three more common
moves here:-} (7. Be2) (7. Nc2) (7. f3) 7... Ng4 8. Nxc6 Nxe3 9. Nxd8 Nxd1 10.
Rxd1 Kxd8 11. Be2 (11. c5 {this has a 50% record in 9 games played by amatuers}
) 11... Bg7 12. Rc1 e6 13. O-O Ke7 14. Rfd1 Bd7 15. b4 a5 16. a3 axb4 17. axb4
Rhc8 18. Nb5 Bxb5 19. cxb5 Rxc1 20. Rxc1 Ra1 21. Rxa1 Bxa1 22. f4 Bc3 23. Kf2 {
So Nitish has rather cleverly swapped off all posible defenders to b4 and he
this will have a pawn advantage in an opposite coloured Bishops endgame.} Bxb4
24. Ke3 d5 25. exd5 exd5 26. Kd4 Kd6 27. g4 Bd2 $4 28. f5 $4 (28. Bf3 $3 Bxf4
29. Bxd5 Be5+ 30. Kc4 b6 31. Bxf7 Bxh2 32. Kd4 $15 {this is drawn.}) 28... Bf4
$6 29. h3 $6 (29. fxg6 fxg6 30. h4 $17) 29... g5 $6 30. Bf3 Be5+ 31. Kd3 Kc5
32. Bg2 b6 $6 33. Bf1 $4 {the losing mistake from here on John is in trouble.}
Kxb5 34. Ke3+ Kb4 35. Ba6 Kc3 36. Bb5 f6 37. Ba6 Bd4+ 38. Ke2 Bc5 39. Bd3 Kd4
40. Bb5 Ke4 41. Bc6 Be3 42. Kf1 Kf3 $6 43. Bxd5+ Kg3 44. Bg2 $4 (44. Ke2 $3 Bf4
45. Bf7 Kxh3 46. Bh5 b5 47. Kd3 Be5 48. Kc2 Kg3 49. Kb3 Bd6 50. Kc3 Bc5 51. Kb2
Kf2 52. Kb3 Ke2 $11 {and its drawn.}) 44... b5 45. Bc6 b4 46. Ke2 Bd4 47. Kd3
Bc3 $4 48. Kc4 $4 (48. Be8 $3 Kxh3 49. Bh5 {and its drawn by the same
technique.}) 48... Kxh3 49. Kb3 (49. Bf3 Bd2 50. Be2 h5 51. gxh5 g4 52. Kd3 Bh6
53. Bf1+ Kh2 54. Kc4 g3 55. Kxb4 g2 56. Bxg2 Kxg2 57. Kc4 Kg3 58. Kd5 Kg4 59.
Ke6 Kg5 $19 (59... Bg7 $2 60. h6 Bh8 (60... Bxh6 $4 61. Kxf6 $11))) 49... Kxg4
50. Bd7 h5 51. Kc4 h4 52. Be6 h3 53. Kd3 Kg3 54. Bd5 Kf2 55. Kc2 h2 {they both
played the endgame very quickly and very innacurately though john saving drawn
positions were like textbook positions which I wouldn't have found with
computer assistance in the analysis. So its 2 - 0 to Nitish.} 0-1
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.10"]
[Round "3"]
[White "nitishdas"]
[Black "Boger, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2021"]
[BlackElo "1377"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{With the match standing at 2 - 0 and nitish on form, it looked likely that
Nitish would win this game and an opening weapon of sheer complexity and
cunning led to another win but atleast John put up a fight which would lead to
a John win if Nitish made a serious mistake, i am sure.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.
Bc4 f5 $2 {a Giuoco Pianissimo opening but f5 has a poor reputation, mainly
because of d4 reply.} 4. d4 $3 exd4 5. Nxd4 $1 Ne5 $4 (5... Nf6 $14 {this is a
playable gambit.}) 6. Bxg8 $3 Rxg8 7. Qh5+ $1 $16 (7. O-O $1 fxe4 8. Qh5+ Ng6
9. Re1 d5 10. Nc3 Bb4 11. Bg5 Qd7 12. Nxe4 $3 Bxe1 13. Rxe1 dxe4 14. Rxe4+ Kf8
15. Qf3+ Qf7 16. Qa3+ Ne7 17. Rxe7 Qxe7 18. Qxe7#) 7... g6 8. Qxh7 $5 $16 Rg7
9. Qh3 d5 $2 $16 10. exf5 Qf6 $1 11. Nc3 c6 $6 $16 (11... Bxf5 12. Nxd5 Qf7 13.
Nxf5 gxf5 14. Qb3 O-O-O $16) 12. Bh6 $6 $16 Rh7 $2 $18 {To be perfectly honest
I thought here, while observeing the game going on, that Nitish had missed an
obvious threat and was going to lose a piece. But Nitish had seen what was
comming all too clearly...} (12... Re7 13. Bxf8 Qxf8 $16) 13. Bg5 $3 {a superb
move.} Qxg5 $2 (13... Nd3+ 14. cxd3 Re7+ 15. Be3 Qxd4 16. O-O Qg7 17. Bg5 Bxf5
18. g4 Bd7 19. Bxe7 Bxe7 $18 {this combination was found by a computer without
my help surprisingly enough(sarcasm).}) 14. Qxh7 Bxf5 $6 15. O-O O-O-O 16. f4
Rd7 17. Qxd7+ Nxd7 18. fxg5 Bc5 19. Rad1 Bxc2 20. Rd2 {The pawns are equal but
its a Bishop against Two Rooks clear advantage for Nitish so he resigns there.
And now it is 3 - 0 to Nitish.} 1-0
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.16"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Boger, John"]
[Black "nitishdas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "1386"]
[BlackElo "2009"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{Nitish thought this might rank as the longest grand prix game ever but we
have had ones twice as long before and he has a short memory as his last game
against me was 67 moves which was a draw. Here John really goes to town on a
concerted attack which he maintains until a slip up loses him the exchange and
then Nitishes techneque is just superb and poor John has nothing at all to
show for his own superb play. Maybe Nitish should walk around with a 'prepare
to be disapointed' sticker on his lapel.} 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nf3 c5 4. dxc5
Qa5+ 5. Nc3 Qxc5 6. Qd3 Nc6 7. Be3 Qa5 8. O-O-O d6 9. Kb1 Nf6 {This has got to
a dragon sicilian kind of position- i am not clear which line though.} 10. Be2
O-O 11. h4 a6 12. a3 Be6 13. Ng5 Ne5 14. Qd2 Bc4 15. h5 Rfc8 16. h6 (16. hxg6
Nxg6 17. Nxf7 $4 Bxf7 18. Bh6 Bxh6 19. Qxh6 Rxc3 20. bxc3 Qxa3 21. c4 Qb4+ 22.
Kc1 Bxc4 23. Bxc4+ Qxc4 24. g4 Rc8 25. Rd2 Qc3 26. Re2 Ne5 27. g5 Nc4 28. gxf6
Qa1#) 16... Bh8 17. f4 Ned7 $4 18. Bf3 $1 Rab8 19. Nd5 $1 (19. Ba7 b5 $4 20.
Bxb8 Rxb8 21. Na2 Bxa2+ 22. Kxa2 Qxd2 23. Rxd2 Nb6 $18) 19... Qxd2 20. Nxe7+ $3
{it actually loses the Knight but it is a great wrecker of nitishes position,
so great move by John.} Kf8 21. Nxg6+ $3 fxg6 22. Rxd2 Ke7 23. f5 $4 (23. Rhd1
$3 {It was a complex position only Nitish,a gm or a computer could see through
its complexities but f5 throws away the advantage.} Ne8 24. e5 $18) 23... Ne5
$1 24. Bf4 Rd8 25. Rhd1 Nxf3 26. gxf3 gxf5 27. Bxd6+ Rxd6 28. Rxd6 fxe4 29.
fxe4 Rg8 $3 {laying a nasty trap now Nxh7 followed by Rd7+ or simply e5 will
suffice.} 30. Nf3 $4 {he falls for the trap now the game is practically lost
although against an ordinary player John might hold for a draw...} Be2 31. e5
Bxd1 32. Rxd1 Ng4 33. Rg1 Nxh6 34. Rh1 Rg6 35. Rh5 Nf7 36. Rxh7 Rh6 37. Rxh6
Nxh6 38. c4 Ng4 39. Kc2 Nxe5 40. Nxe5 Bxe5 41. b4 Kd6 42. Kb3 Bf6 43. a4 Ke5
44. a5 Kd4 45. c5 Kd5 46. Ka4 Kc4 47. Ka3 Bc3 48. b5 axb5 49. c6 bxc6 50. a6
Bd4 51. Ka2 Kc3 52. Ka3 Bc5+ 53. Ka2 Kc2 54. Ka1 b4 55. a7 b3 $3 56. a8=Q Bd4#
$3 {Bravo, poor John its checkmate incase you didn't notice despite Johns
Queen. well 4 - 0 to Nitish and John is just realistically playing for honour
now. And John if you are reading this sorry I put you in the position of
playing someone simply unplayable in your first match, youre giving it a good
go I will up youre rating estimate on the website.} 0-1
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "nitishdas"]
[Black "Boger, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "2011"]
[BlackElo "1385"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{with Nitishdas on 4 - 0 before this game, John, is only playing for pride but
after another long game his technique just needs work on though Nitish will
show holes in Grandmasters thinking sometimes I'm sure.} 1. Nf3 f5 {A
Reti-Dutch hybrid.} 2. e4 fxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6 4. d3 e5 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Nxf6+ Qxf6 7.
Nc3 Bc5 $146 {a really good novelty here.} (7... Bb4) 8. Be3 $5 (8. Be2 $4
Qxf2+ 9. Kd2 Be3#) 8... Bxe3 9. fxe3 O-O 10. Qd2 Be6 11. O-O-O d4 12. Ne4 Qe7
13. Kb1 c5 14. Be2 Nc6 15. a3 a5 16. Rhf1 b5 17. Rxf8+ Rxf8 18. Rf1 Rxf1+ 19.
Bxf1 Qf7 20. Be2 c4 21. Ng5 Qg6 22. Nxe6 Qxe6 23. e4 c3 24. bxc3 dxc3 25. Qxc3
b4 26. Qc4 Qxc4 27. dxc4 Nd4 28. Bd3 Kf7 29. axb4 axb4 30. Kb2 Kf6 $2 (30...
Ke7 31. c3 bxc3+ 32. Kxc3 Kd6 33. Bc2 Kc5 $14 {probably a draw.}) 31. c3 bxc3+
32. Kxc3 Kg5 $4 (32... Ke6 33. c5 Kd7 34. Kc4 Kc6 $14 {probably a draw.}) 33.
c5 Kf4 34. Ba6 $4 (34. Kc4 Ke3 35. Bb1 Kf2 36. Kd5 Kxg2 37. Kxe5 Nb5 38. c6
Kxh2 39. Bd3 Nc7 40. Kd6 Na8 41. e5 g5 42. e6 g4 43. e7 g3 44. e8=Q g2 45. Qe5+
Kh1 46. Be4 Nb6 47. Qh5+ Kg1 48. Bxg2 Kxg2 49. Qxh7 Nc8+ 50. Kd7 Na7 51. c7 Kf3
52. Qd3+ Kg2 53. Qe2+ Kh1 54. Qf1+ Kh2 55. Qf2+ Kh1 56. Qxa7 $18) 34... Kxe4
35. Bb7+ Ke3 36. c6 Kf2 $4 (36... Nb5+ 37. Kc4 Nc7 38. Kc5 e4 39. Kd6 Ne8+ 40.
Ke7 Nc7 41. Kd7 Nd5 42. c7 Nxc7 43. Kxc7 Kd3 44. Ba6+ Kd2 45. Kd7 e3 46. Ke7 e2
47. Bxe2 Kxe2 48. Kf7 h5 49. Kxg7 Kf2 50. g3 Kg2 51. Kg6 Kxh2 52. Kxh5 Kxg3 $11
) 37. Kc4 Nxc6 38. Bxc6 Ke3 39. Kd5 e4 40. Ke5 g5 41. Bxe4 h5 42. Kf5 h4 43.
Kxg5 $3 {that was deliberate honest the connected passed pawns are an
efficient way to win so the Bishop isnt needed, its surperflous.} Kxe4 44. Kxh4
Kf5 45. g4+ Kg6 46. g5 Kg7 47. Kh5 Kg8 48. Kg6 Kh8 49. Kf7 Kh7 50. h3 Kh8 51.
h4 Kh7 52. g6+ Kh8 53. g7+ Kh7 54. g8=Q+ Kh6 55. Qh8# {wow what an amazing
endgame but John was second best yet again though he played way better than
the 1550 upgraded rating even, i have assigned him. So now its 5 - 0 to Nitish
and he needs only a draw and a win to get 5 default points added and win this
match.} 1-0
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.20"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Boger, John"]
[Black "nitishdas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B41"]
[WhiteElo "1396"]
[BlackElo "1951"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{In this game John gets the result he had tried to get the whole match without
success.} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. c4 Qc7 6. Be2 {this
whole variation is the Kan system of the Sicilian Defence.} Nf6 7. Nc3 Bb4 8.
f3 O-O 9. O-O b6 10. Qc2 (10. Be3) 10... d5 (10... Bc5 11. Be3 e5 12. Nf5 $11)
11. cxd5 exd5 $2 (11... Bc5 $3 {a move Nitish told me not to say he had missed.
LOL} 12. Be3 e5 13. Nf5 Bxf5 14. Nd1 Bxe3+ 15. Nxe3 Qxc2 16. Nxc2 Bd7 $17) 12.
Nxd5 Nxd5 13. exd5 Qxc2 14. Nxc2 Bc5+ 15. Kh1 Bf5 16. Ne1 Nd7 17. Bd3 Bxd3 18.
Nxd3 Bd6 19. Bf4 Bxf4 20. Nxf4 Nf6 21. Rad1 Rfd8 22. h4 h6 23. h5 g5 $4 24.
hxg6 fxg6 25. Nxg6 Rd6 (25... Nxd5 $4 26. Rxd5 Rxd5 27. Ne7+ Kf7 28. Nxd5 $18)
26. Rfe1 Ra7 $2 (26... Nxd5 $4 27. Ne7+ Kf7 28. Rxd5 Re6 29. Rde5 $3 $18 (29.
Rxe6 Kxe6 30. Rh5 Kxe7 31. Rxh6 $18)) 27. Ne7+ $3 Kf8 28. Nc8 Rdd7 29. Nxa7
Rxa7 30. Re6 Nd7 31. Rxh6 Nc5 32. Rxb6 $18 {even the great Nitish cannot come
back in this game but he is winning the war with the match situation at 5 - 1
to him.} 1-0
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.21"]
[Round "7"]
[White "nitishdas"]
[Black "Boger, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A05"]
[WhiteElo "1954"]
[BlackElo "1395"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{short but sweet, Brian like me can not emulate his win against Nitish and
just surrendours when it looks very likely that Nitish is going to win.} 1. Nf3
Nf6 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O d5 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 e5 7. Nf3 Be6 {this is an
unusal move here, black has a textbook centre and an advantage of a centre
pawn majority 2 to 1.} 8. a3 Bc5 9. b4 Bb6 10. Bb2 e4 11. Nd4 O-O 12. Nxc6 bxc6
13. c4 Rb8 14. c5 Bxc5 $3 15. Qc2 $1 Bb6 16. Qxc6 Rc8 17. Qa4 Qd7 $2 {having
got the White queen out of the game, John rather submissively tries to swap
off his own Queen.} 18. Qxd7 Nxd7 19. Nc3 f5 20. Rfd1 d4 21. Nb5 Rc2 $2 (21...
Bb3 $11) 22. Nxd4 Bxd4 23. Bxd4 Rxe2 24. Bxa7 $16 {Those connected passed
pawns look mighty strong to the human eye so John resigns. 6 - 1 and Nitish
needs any kind of result to win the match.} 1-0
[Event "Grand Prix 2017 event4 match2 60 10"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.02.22"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Boger, John"]
[Black "nitishdas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B36"]
[WhiteElo "1383"]
[BlackElo "1955"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
{John read what I say in the match 5 game analysis (ie the match with Kronus),
here John gets a great position but faulters, overlooking the obvious in a
search for the unobvious. John has the talent to be a strong player the
positions he builds up if only he didn't almost make an error a game.} 1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be2 Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Bg7 9.
O-O O-O 10. Be3 Ng4 11. Qd2 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Bd7 13. Kh1 Bc6 14. Bf3 Bxc3 15. Qxc3
f6 16. Rad1 Qb6 17. Rd2 Rfd8 18. Rfd1 Qc5 19. b4 Qe5 20. c5 $4 {punch drunk
chess blindness like a boxer on the ropes.} Qxc3 {so Nitish wins 7 - 1 and
with it he gets 4 default points in the grand prix, as the remaining games are
counted for the winner of the 12 match series, once they reach the winning
post.} 0-1