Wednesday, October 3, 2018

BATUMI CHESS OLYMPIAD 2018 ROUND 8 – LEI vs COSMA


This game is from round 8 of the 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad. It features Tingjie Lei with White against Elena-Luminita Cosma with Black.

Today’s game features a French Defence.

Lei,Tingjie (2468) - Cosma,Elena-Luminita (2328)
43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women Batumi (8.3), 02.10.2018

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Nh3 Qe7 9.Qg4 g6 10.Ng5 C14: French: Classical System: 4 Bg5 Be7 main line 
10...h5 11.Qf4 Nc6 12.0–0–0 White is slightly better. 
12...Nf8 [Black should play 12...a6!² ] 
13.g4!± Nh7 14.Nxh7 Rxh7 

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15.Bg2! Rh8N [15...Bd7 16.Bxd5 0–0–0 17.Bf3 Be8 1–0 (29) Sychev,K (2362)-Obolenskikh,D (2510) Moscow 2012] 
16.Bxd5! Strongly threatening gxh5. 
16...Bd7 [16...exd5 17.Nxd5] 
17.Bf3 Threatens to win with d5. 
17...0–0–0 18.gxh5 gxh5 19.Rxh5 Rxh5 20.Bxh5 Rh8 21.Bg4ƒ Keeping Black busy. 
21...Qh4 22.d5 [Better is 22.Ne4 ] 
22...Nb8 [22...Ne7±] 
23.dxe6 [23.Rg1+- and White stays clearly on top.] 
23...fxe6? [23...Bxe6± 24.Bxe6+ fxe6] 
24.Ne4+- Qh6 25.Qxh6 Rxh6 26.Nf6 c5 27.Rxd7 

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27...Nxd7? [27...Rxf6 28.Re7 (28.exf6 Kxd7 29.f7 Ke7±) 28...Rxf2 29.Bxe6+ Kd8 30.Rxb7 Nc6 31.Rd7+ Ke8] 
28.Bxe6 White is clearly winning. 
28...Kd8 29.Bxd7 Rh2 30.f4 Rf2 31.f5 Ke7 32.Kd1  1–0

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