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Here is the text of an interesting game. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discuss the game, and guess at its players, ratings, era, time controls, and setting.
Frank Dixon -- WFM Hazel Smith (2051), Ontario Open, Brantford 2004 (3). 40/120'+30", SD/60'+30". Played 16/5/2004.
Notes by Frank Dixon
This was an excellent tournament. I had run the previous year's Open in Kingston on short notice, when no one else wanted to take it on. Chris Mallon's Brantford team used their preparation time to promote the event, and had two GMs, Dimitry Tyomkin and Sergei Kudrin, contesting the event which attracted a strong field of over 100 players, with all sections well supported.
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6
[A stubborn system is 4...Bd7, intending ...Bc6 and exchanging off the problematic light bishop for a White knight. Spassky -- O'Kelly, San Juan 1969, is a brilliancy prize game showing how that line should be met. See GM Psakhis' fine book 'The Complete French'.]
5.Bg5 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6
[More fashionable and sharper is 6...gxf6!?]
7.Nf3 Nd7 8.Bd3 b6 9.Qe2 Bb7 10.O-O-O Qe7 11.h4!? O-O-O 12.Kb1 Kb8 13.g4(?!)
[Now that Black has castled long, this move and the next are not really necessary.]
13...g6 14.g5 Bg7 15.Rhe1 Rhe8 16.c3! e5!
[Correct. This is one of the very few French lines where Black does NOT break with ...c7-c5.]
17.Qc2! Qf8
[Not 17...exd4? 18.Nf6! is very strong.]
18.Qa4 exd4 19.cxd4 f5! 20.Ned2 Qd6! 21.Ba6 Bxa6 22.Qxa6 Qf4!
[Excellent play from the 13-year-old WFM, boosting her activity while staying solid. On 22...Bxd4?! 23.Nb3! recovers the pawn with a good position.]
23.Rxe8 Rxe8 24.Qb5!? Qd6?
[After 24...Re7!, Black would certainly stand no worse. I intended 25.Qd3, with a draw offer; White does not have much. But now White has a precise, very strong sequence, which wins. His powerful knight pair takes over the position, and Black's clock was starting to become a factor.]
25.Nc4! Qe6 26.Re1! Qf7?
[Black could last longer with the unpalatable 26...Qxe1+ 27.Nxe1 Rxe1+, but White should win. Now it is over quickly.]
27.Rxe8+ Qxe8 28.Nfe5! Bxe5 29.Nxe5 Kc8
[The desperate try 29...Nf6!? would lose to 30.Nc6+ Kb7 31.gxf6, with White's King escaping the checks after 31...Qe1+ 32.Kc2. If 31...Qxc6 32.Qxc6+ Kxc6 33.f7 wins.]
30.Qa6+ Kb8
[On 30...Kd8 31.Nc6#.]
31.Nc6+, 1-0.
[A good analysis session with Hazel and her coach, NM Lorne Yee followed. Hazel has since gone on to great success, and she is taking a break from tournament play in recent years.]
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