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Tyler Hughes vs Pete Karagianis 2004 US Class Championships Annotations by Tyler Hughes I first got interested in chess four years ago when I was nine. I began playing on the internet and then started playing in a few tournaments. My rating started off low - 1037 - but as I began to play in adult tournaments my rating began to rise. I also became the 2002 Colorado Elementary champion and the 2002 National Elementary Blitz Champion. Last month, I traveled to Des Moines to play in the US Class Championship. My rating was 2081 going into the tournament. I played well and I got a few lucky breaks to win the expert section 5-0. My rating will now be around 2135. This game was played in round 3. My opponent is the Iowa state champion, Pete Karagianis. The game was very complicated - it started off as a normal Evans gambit, Black began to catch up in his development, then I found an unexpected resource, he found a tricky defense and the game quickly became one of the most complex games of my life. [Click here to follow along on an interactive JavaScript board]
Hughes,T (2081) - Karagianis,P (2138) [C52] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 I was happy to see this move as it allows me to play the Evans gambit, an opening which I have been studying a lot lately with the help of Larry Christensen. 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.0-0 dxc3
This line is quite risky; Black will be up two pawns but he will have a hard time catching up in development. I was happy to see this move, as White usually scores well in this line. It's nice and intuitive to play for White: your queen goes to b3, you take the pawn on c3 with your knight, your bishop goes to a3 to stop black from castling and you develop your rooks to the open central files. 8.Qb3 Qf6 This is the best move. Qe7 isn't as good because White will gain a tempo of Black's queen with Ba3. 8...Qe7 9.Nxc3 Bxc3 (9...Nf6 10.e5 Bxc3 11.Qxc3 Ne4 12.Qc2
Nc5 13.Bg5
9.e5 Qg6 9...Nxe5 Taking the pawn loses: 10.Re1 d6 11.Nxe5 dxe5 12.Qb5+ c6 13.Qxa5 +- 10.Nxc3 Nge7 11.Ba3
11...Bxc3 Black has also tried castling right away here: 11...0-0
12.Rad1 12.Qxc3 0-0 13.Bd3 My idea is to chase Black's queen to h5 and then play Ra1-e1-h4.
13...Qh5 A novelty. During the game I thought that 13...Qe6 loses but it turns out that it's really not so bad
after all: 13...Qe6 14.Bxh7+! Kh8 15.Rae1
14.Rae1 This was my idea when I played 13.Bd3: I want to play Re4 next, and then Rh4 trapping the queen and if he stops this by ...Ng6 I want to play h4 followed by g4. However, I had another continuation which would have won back one of my pawns and left him with a very weak isolated pawn: 14.Bxe7 Nxe7 15.Qxc7 This position is quite pleasant for White-he has many open files for his rooks, his bishop is well placed and black has a isolated d-pawn which makes it difficult to develop his light squared bishop. 14...Re8 Getting out of the pin by my bishop, so that he can play ...Ng6 next move which stops my idea of Rh4 and opening up an attack against my e5 pawn. 15.Re4 Threatening 16.Rh4, winning Black's queen. 15...Ng6
16.h4!? I spent half an hour on this move. The idea is to take
away the h3-square from black's queen. Now my threat is 17.g4 Qh6
18.Bc1 winning the queen. 16.Rfe1
16...d5 During the game I thought that taking the e5-pawn would lose for Black. However, I missed an important resource for Black. 16...Ngxe5 17.Nxe5 d5! When calculating this line I did not see this possibility. My opponent showed it to me later when we were analyzing our game. I only looked at 17...Nxe5 and 17...Rxe5.
This is a complicated position, I have many interesting continuations. Lets take a look:
18.Be2
17.exd6
17...Bg4? This move loses a piece; lets look at some different options for Black:
18.Bb2! Forcing f6. 18...f6 19.Bc4+?! Here I saw the possibility of sacking my queen, and I went for it with out hesitation. However, I completely missed a way that I could have just won a piece: 19.Qc4+ Kh8 20.Rxg4 cxd6 21.Rg3 +- If I had seen 19.Qc4+ I would have played it, as this is completely winning for White. I instead went for wild complications. 19...Kh8? Here my opponent and I both thought 19...Kf8 would be
suicide. It turns out that this was the better move. 19...Kf8
20.Rxe8+ Rxe8 21.dxc7
20.Qxf6! I had to see this idea before I could play h4. If I didn't have this shot I would probably be worse. 20...Nge5!
A tricky defense! Black blocks the long diagonal, so now he is threatening to take my queen. I decide to sacrifice it for two minor pieces. (20...gxf6 21.Bxf6 mate.) 21.Nxe5! Now black must take the queen. 21...gxf6 22.Nxg4 Now black has to deal with Bxf6 mate. It turns out that despite that fact that I only have two minor pieces for the queen Black is clearly lost! 22...Ne5 The best try, attempting to block the killer dark-squared bishop. 23.Nxf6 Now I destroy the e5 knight's support, while also threatening Blacks queen. 23...Qf5 24.d7! This pawn will be a killer. 24...Re7 25.Rfe1 Because I spent so much time on 16.h4, 20.Qxf6 and 21.Nxe5 I now have only eight minutes left to make move 40. The quality of my play now noticeably goes down. 25...Qxf6 26.Bxe5? 26.Rxe5 This move would have been much better than 26.Bxe5 but I was moving fast to make the time control so I didn't have much time to consider which piece I should take with. 26...Rf8 27.Rf5! Rxe1+ 28.Kh2 Qxb2 29.Rxf8+ Kg7 30.Rf7+ Kh6 31.d8Q +- And Black will be mated soon. 26...Rxe5 27.Rxe5 Rf8 28.R1e2 Rd8
Nothing works: 28...Qd6 29.Re8 Qxd7 30.Rxf8+ Kg7 31.Rg8+ Kf6 32.g4 +- 29.Re8+ Kg7 30.R2e7+ Kg6
31.Re6? I had seen this move since 26.Bxe5 so I made it instantly to save time. There were two better continuations, one of which mated and another which would have put me up a rook and a bishop. I now only have five minutes for nine moves.
31...Rxd7 32.Rxf6+ Kxf6 33.Bb3? I am moving really fast at this point. My next seven moves do not really do anything positive for my position. Meanwhile, my opponent skillfully mobilizes his queenside pawn majority and turns it into quite a threat, one that I must address before mobilizing my own majority. 33...c5 34.Rc8? b6 35.g3? 35.g4! +- 35...Ke5
Now suddenly I have to deal with Black's plan of ...Kd4 ...b5 ...c4. 36.Kf1 I must get my king over to the queenside to help defuse Black's pawn majority. 36...Kd4 37.Ke2 b5 38.Kd2 a5 39.Bd1 39.Kc2?? c4 Would be quite painful after all my hard work. 39...Kc4+ 40.Kc2 Whew! I barely make the time control with 20 seconds left. Now I need to figure out how to defuse Black's queenside pawn majority. 40...Kb4 41.a3+
This move trades my a-pawn for his c-pawn. My plan now is after 41...Kxa3 42.Rxc5 I will move my bishop to e2 to attack the b5 pawn. Black will be forced to defend this pawn with his rook. Then I will advance my kingside pawns and at the proper moment I will sacrifice my extra piece and one of my kingside pawns will queen. 41...Kxa3 42.Rxc5 Kb4 43.Re5 a4 44.Be2 Rb7 45.g4 a3 I now calculate to make sure that my h-pawn will queen before his king arrives to stop it. 46.Rxb5+ Rxb5 47.Bxb5 Kxb5 48.g5 1-0
I queen in time. An interesting game, filled with missed and untried possibilities
for both sides, many of which I completely missed during the game. This game
was very fun to analyze. Winning this game put me tied for first with 14-year old Christopher Nienart. I beat him in a close game the next morning,
and then won my next game to win the tournament 5-0. I thank my opponent for
a very interesting game and a fun analysis session on ICC. I also thank
Brian Wall and Jesse Cohen for analyzing it with me.
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) 10.Qxc3 f6 (10...Nf6) 11.Ba3 d6 12.Bd5 Bd7 13.Rfe1 This
is the sort of position White is aiming for in the Evans gambit. White
has plenty of compensation for the pawn: a huge lead in development, the two
bishops in and real chances to attack Black's king. Watch what
happened in the ancient game Steinitz-Gray, 1872: 13...0-0-0 14.Rab1 Be6??
15.Rxb7! Kxb7 16.Qxc6+ Kc8 17.Qa6+ Kd7 18.Bc6 mate.
And again, this is the kind of position White is looking for
in the Evans gambit. White's plan of attack will be to transfer more
pieces to the kingside by playing Bd3 and then Ne4 possibly followed by
Neg5. For example, lets look at what happens if Black plays naturally: 12...Bb6 13.Bd3 Qh5 14.Ne4 Re8 15.Neg5 h6 16.Nxf7 Na5
17.Nxh6+ Kh8 18.Qf7 Qxf7 19.Nxf7+ Kg8.
This position is bad for me. Black has 4 pawns for the piece, two of
which are passed. All of my pawns are broken up and his pawns on c5 and d4
severely restrict my bishop.) 20...Nxd4 21.Qxd4 Rxe5 22.Bb2 Rae8
An interesting position; White has two bishops for a rook and three pawns.
White's queen and dark squared bishop form a nice battery toward Black's
king. This is nice, but White's king is very exposed, which means that
black can usually force a perpetual if he wants to. Also, Black may be
able to break up White's queen and bishop battery by activating his
queenside pawn majority by ...c5, ...a6 and ...b5. Although this
position is probably a draw with best play, Black has better practical
chances due to White's exposed king and the possibility of activating his
queenside pawn majority.
