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Here is the text of an interesting game. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to discuss the game, ratings of the players, format, setting, time controls, etc. I will provide details in a few days.
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Nb3 Bb4 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bxf6 Qxf6 9.Bc4 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 O-O 11.Rb1 d6 12.O-O Ne7 13.Nc1 a6 14.a4 Rd8 15.Ne2 Ng6 16.Rb6 Nh4 17.f4 Qg6 18.Ng3 Bg4 19.Qd2 Rac8 20.Bd5 exf4 21.Rxf4 Rc7 22.e5 Rcd7 23.exd6 Kh8 24.Rd4 h5 25.Bxb7 Rxb7 26.Rxb7 Bf3 27.Rxh4 Bxb7 28.Rxh5+ Kg8 29.Rg5 Rxd6 30.Qc1 Rd1+ 31.Qxd1 Qxg5 32.Qe1 Qc5+ 33.Kh1 Bc6 34.Ne4 Qd5 35.Qe2 Qxe4 36.Qxe4 Bxe4 37.Kg1 a5, 0-1.
Warren Dutton (1801) -- Peter Marshall (2101), Ontario Cadet Championship, Kingston 1994 (3). Time controls 35/90, SD/60. Played Nov. 26, 1994. Sicilian, B33.
This was a key game for the event's outcome, which featured the province's best under age 16. Matthew Struthers, then Ontario Chess Association Youth Coordinator, and a first-year student at Queen's University, organized the event, and I assisted him. Marshall was highest-rated and wound up winning the 5-player RR with 3.5/4. But it could all have worked out differently had White been able to hold his advantage in this game. In a very tactical offbeat and quite interesting line of the Sicilian Pelican / Sveshnikov, White was material ahead, but with threats against his King, as both players got short of time in a complex middlegame situation. After move 27, W had 11 minutes for 8 moves, while B had 8 minutes. With 29...Rxd6!?, Black gambled; White would be no worse, and should not lose, had he played 30.Rxg6! Rxd2 31.Rb6!, attacking the bishop which could give an upcoming discovered check. The game looks unclear had this happened. After move 33, White was still holding on, but he blundered with 34.Ne4?, losing a piece, with only two minutes left on his clock to the control, and soon resigned.
Both Warren (of Toronto) and Peter (of Ottawa) soon got their ratings over 2200. The event ran well, and the players showed great fighting spirit and sportsmanship.
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