SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ROUND 8 – ASIS GARGATAGLI vs CUENCA JIMENEZ

This game is from round 8 of the Spanish Championship 2018 tournament. It features Hipolito Asis Gargatagli with White against Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez with Black.

Today’s game features a Scotch Game.

Asis Gargatagli,Hipolito (2515) - Cuenca Jimenez,Jose Fernando (2506)

83rd ESP-ch Women-ch 2018 Linares (8), 27.08.2018

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Be3 Qf6 6.c3 Nge7 7.Bc4 0–0 8.0–0 b6 9.Qd2 C45: Scotch Game [9.Nc2 Ne5 10.Be2 Bb7 11.f4 N5g6 12.e5 Qe6 13.b4 Bxe3+ 14.Nxe3 Nh4 15.Bg4 f5 16.Be2 Kh8 0–1 (34) Kasparov,G (2812)-Caruana,F (2795) Saint Louis 2016] 

9...Qg6 10.Nxc6 Nxc6 11.Bxc5 The position is equal. 

11...bxc5 12.Na3 Rb8 13.f3 d6 14.Rae1 Ne5 15.Be2 

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15...f5N [15...Qf6 16.f4 Ng6 1–0 (66) Huschenbeth,N (2596)-Salomon,J (2476) Douglas 2017] 

16.Nc4 Nf7 17.Bd3 fxe4 18.Bxe4 Qf6 19.Ne3 Be6 20.Qc2 g6 21.Nd5 Bxd5 22.Bxd5 Rfe8 23.Qa4 Re5 [23...Re7²] 

24.Bb3ƒ White is really pushing. [Much less strong is 24.Qxa7 Rxb2 25.Bxf7+ Kxf7=] 

24...Re7 25.Re4 Kg7 26.Qxa7 Rbe8 27.Qa4 Rd8 [27...Qg5± keeps fighting. 28.h3 Nh6] 

28.Rfe1+- Rxe4 29.Qxe4 Rd7 30.Qe8 Rd8 31.Qe7 d5 Black hopes to continue with ...c4. 

32.Qxc5 c6 33.Qa7 Rd6 34.Qe3 Nd8 35.Qa7+ Nf7 36.c4 Qxb2 37.cxd5 cxd5 38.Qc5 Rd7 39.h3 

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39...d4? [39...Nh6 40.Qc6 Qd4+ 41.Kh1 Qa7 42.Bxd5 Nf5] 

40.Re7 White is clearly winning. 

40...Rxe7 41.Qxe7 Qc1+ 42.Kf2 Qd2+ 43.Kg3 Qg5+ 44.Qxg5 Nxg5 45.h4  1–0