OVOD vs DE ROSA – EUROPEAN CLUB CUP 2018 ROUND 2

This game is from round 2 of the 2018 European Club Cup. It features Evgenija Ovod with White against Mariagrazia De Rosa with Black.

This game features a Sicilian Scheveningen. To learn more about beating the Sicilian Defence, here is the best instruction book I could find on Amazon.

Ovod,Evgenija (2363) - De Rosa,Mariagrazia (2131)

23rd European Women Club Cup 2018 Halkidiki (2), 13.10.2018

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f3 e6 7.Be3 b5 8.a4 B80: Sicilian Scheveningen: 6 g3 and 6 Be3, including English Attack [8.Qd2 Bb7 9.g4 Nfd7 10.0–0–0 Nb6 11.Nb3 N8d7 12.Na5 Rb8 13.Bd4 Ba8 14.h4 Qc7 15.g5 b4 16.Nb1 e5 17.Bxb6 Rxb6 18.Nc4 Rc6 19.Ne3 1–0 (70) Aronian,L (2767)-Nakamura,H (2777) Saint Louis 2018] 

8...b4 9.Na2 e5 10.Nb3 d5 11.exd5 Nxd5 12.Bf2 Be6 13.Bc4 Nc6 14.0–0 

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14...Nf4N [14...Ne3 15.Qxd8+ Rxd8 16.Bxe6 Nxf1 1/2–1/2 (27) Macs,O (2158)-Graudins,I (2418) ICCF email 2011] 

15.Bxe6 Nxe6 16.Qe2 Be7 17.c3 0–0 18.Qe4ƒ White has some pressure. 

18...Qc7 [Black should play 18...bxc3!= 19.Qxc6 cxb2] 

19.cxb4 And now Rfc1 would win. 

19...Rab8? [19...Ncd4= 20.Rac1 (20.Nxd4 exd4 21.Nc1 Bxb4=) 20...Qd6 21.Nxd4 exd4] 

20.Rac1 Rfc8 

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21.Na5! White is clearly winning. 

21...Ned8 [21...Nxa5 22.Rxc7] 

22.Rfd1 Bd6 23.Qd5 Bxb4 24.Nxc6 Nxc6 25.Nxb4 

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25...Rxb4 [¹25...Nxb4 26.Rxc7 Nxd5 27.Rxc8+ Rxc8 28.Rxd5 Rc1+ 29.Be1 f6] 

26.Rxc6!+- Qxc6 27.Qxc6  1–0