A nervous game of six queens

Garexy (2118) - Me (1988*), 5+3 Blitz game

Italian Four Knights game

 

I had a fairly large amount of bad experiences this year so far playing anonymous chess game at Lichess, so I decided to go back to playing logged in as myself.

1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Nxe4 5. Bxf7+ (the Alekinhe declined transposed into an Italian Four Knights. This bishop move does not have a good reputation). 5. ... Kxf7 6. Nxe4 d5 7. Ng3 Bc5 (returning the favour, as white can counter with the same trick by playing Nxe5+ - but white declined) 8. d3 Rf8 9. Bg5 Qd6 10. Qd2 Kg8 11. 0-0-0 Be6 12. Rde1 d4 13. Kb1 

Black has a strong position, the bishop pair looks menacing at the king, and white is about to sacrifice the exchange to get rid of one bishop.

13. ... Bb4 14. Qe2 Bxe1 15. Rxe1 Rae8 16. Nxe5 (white may have overlooked the pointe of Rae8 - it protects the pawn at e5 by the tactics of Bxa2+) Nxe5 17. Bf4

White now relied on this pin to regain some material. I had seen a refutation, and played it - completely overlooking that black can simply score a free bishop with Rxf4. Oh well. In my line black ends up a full rook ahead, which should be sufficient.

17. ... Qd5 18. Bxe5 Qxa2+ 19. Kc1 Qa1+ 20. Kd2 Qxb2 21. f4 Qb4+ 22. Kd1 Qc3 23. Ne4 Qa1+ 24. Kd2 Qa5+ 25. Kc1 Bd5 26. Rd1 BBxe4 27. dxe4 Rxe5 28. Qc4+ Kh8 29. Qxd4 Rb5 30. g3 Qb4 31. Qd3 Re8 32. e5 Qb2+ 33. Kd2 Qb4+ 34. Ke3 g5 35.Rf3

 

 

This is mate in 10 starting with Qe1+, which I did not see. The position is of course completely won for black, but I was down to 50 seconds while white still had over 4 minutes. Even with increment, that made me nervous. Anyway, play continued.

35. ... Qc5+ 36. Kd2 Qd5 37. Ke3 Qxd3+ 38. cxd3 Rb2 39. h3 Rd8 40. Ke4 Rb3 41. f5 a5 42. f6 Rb4+ 43. Kf5 Rf8 44. Kxg5 a4 45. Kf5 a3 46. Ke6 Rb6+ 47. Ke7 Ra8 48. f7 a2 49. f8=Q+ Rxf8 50. Rxf8+ Kg7 51. Rf7+ Kg6 52. Rf6+ 

Stuff had happened. I managed to get the queens off the board, had to sac one of my rooks to eliminate white's new queen, but a new black queen is ready to materialize at a1. The Stockfish programme in the post mortem rather annoyingly points out that this position is mate in 14, which of course I did not see.

 

52. ... Rxf6 53. exf6 a1=Q 54. f7 Qe5+ 55. Kf8 (now it's mate in 3 starting with Qe6, and that I should have seen....) b5 56. g4 b4 57. h4 h5 58. gxh5+ Kxh5 59. Kg8 Qe6 60. Kg7 b3 61. f8=Q+ Qg6+ 62. Kh8 Qh6+ 63. Kg8 Qxf8+ 64. Kxf8 b2 65. Ke7 b1=Q (the sixth queen in the game) 66. Kd7 Qxd3+ 67. Kxc7 Kxh4 and white resigned.

My rating went up from 1988 to 2039 (still provisional).

 

Full game.