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Today I played the third game of the new training cycle and the goal to reach 2100 on lichess classical by the end of November. This time the goal is thought through more thoroughly, I have enough time, and I will be analyzing all the games in detail before playing a new one.
This was an open Tarrasch French in which we traded the queens and a pair of rooks early on. Then we played a positional, maneuvering game in which I was trying to exploit his IQP, and he was trying to liquidate it.
And then, on move 29, he went for a mental knight sac which led to an endgame impossible to calculate correctly. Try to figure it out before watching it!
Here is the game:
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 exd5 5. Bb5+ Bd7 6. Bxd7+ Nxd7 7. dxc5 Nxc5 8. Ngf3 Qe7+ 9. Qe2 Qxe2+ 10. Kxe2 O-O-O 11. Re1 Re8+ 12. Kf1 Rxe1+ 13. Kxe1 Bd6 14. b3 f6 15. Bb2 Nh6 16. Rd1 Bc7 17. Nb1 Rd8 18. Nc3 Ba5 19. Kf1 Bxc3 20. Bxc3 Nf5 21. Bd4 b6 22. Ne1 Ne6 23. Bb2 Kb7 24. Nd3 a5 25. a4 Kc6 26. Re1 Nfd4 27. Bxd4 Nxd4 28. Nf4 Kd6 29. Rd1 Ke5 30. Rxd4 Kxd4 31. Ne6+ Kc3 32. Nxd8 Kxc2 33. Ke2 d4 34. Nc6 d3+ 35. Ke3 d2 36. Nd4+ Kc1 37. Ne2+ Kc2 38. Nd4+ Kc3 39. Ne2+ Kc2 40. Nd4+ 1/2-1/2
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