I recently played in the Hereford Spectrum Chess Congress (see the Spectrum Chess web site for more details). It was a five round swiss system event, and I (like many others) took a bye in round three (Sat evening), so I actually played four games over the board. I didn’t do very well, scoring only one win out of four.
As I’ve just posted about my liking for the Dutch Defense and in particular the Leningrad System, I think it’s appropriate that my next post should be about a defeat in this system played in this tournament. The game was played in round two, and I (naturally) played black.
In this post I’m just going to give the game, examination of which will be the subject of future posts (probably several of them!).
1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 d6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.b4 0-0
7.Bb2 Qe8 8.0-0 c6 9.Nbd2 Na6 10.a3 Bd7
11.Qc2 Nh5 12.e3 Nc7 13.a4 a6 14.Nb3 Rc8
15.Nc1 Nf6 16.Nd3 h6 17.c5 Ncd5 18.Nd2 g5 19.Nc4 f4
20.e4 Ng4 21.exd5 f3 22.Bh1 Qh5 23.h4 Qg6 24.Qd1 Bf5
25.Bxf3 Bxd3 26.Bxg4 gxh4 27.Nb6 Rcd8 28.Bh5 Qf5 29.g4 Qe4 30.Re1 Qf4
31.Qxd3 Qxf2+ 32.Kh1 Qxb2 33.Rab1 Qf2 34.Qe3 Qa2 35.dxc6 Rf2 36.Qe6+ Qxe6 37.Rxe6 bxc6
38.Rxe7 dxc5 39.Rd7 Rdf8 40.bxc5 Rd2 41.Nc4 Ra2 42.Ne5 Rff2
43.Bf7+ Kh7 44.Bxa2 1-0
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