Mike Lomax Tournament Games

[Event "Mikelom Memorial Tournament"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2015.05.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "jmi60"]
[Black "greenpawn34"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1625"]
[BlackElo "1948"]
[EndDate "2015.05.22"]
[WhiteRating "1625"]
[BlackRating "1948"]
[GameId "11193474"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f4 {The Four Pawns Attack v the King's Indian, A fighter....good.} 5... O-O 6. Nf3 c5 7. d5 e6 8. Be2 exd5 9. cxd5 {A Position Gallagher looks at in his book on the KID. saying in effect 9...Bg4 passive/solid, 9...b5 crazy, 9...Re8 tricky/trappy. so guess what I go for...} 9... Re8 {We have gone itnto a Benoni type Kid and now White should play according to Gallagher. 10.e5 and all hell breaks loose.} 10. Qc2 {Gallagher mentions this trick as does a few of my opening trap books.} 10... Nxe4 11. Nxe4 Bf5 {The pin wins back the piece and Black has won a central pawn.} 12. Nfd2 Qe7 13. Bd3 {A wee bit disappointed to see this, 13.Bf3 takes us to a smashing Korchnoi game. (see next game.)} 13... Bxe4 14. Nxe4 f5 15. O-O fxe4 {If now 16.Re1 then I'd probably go for 16....Bd4+ 17.Kh1 exd3 a positional Queen sac as in the following game.} 16. Bb5 Bd4+ 17. Kh1 Nd7 {I was now hoping for 18.Re1. I'll show this in a extra PGN thingy} 18. f5 Rf8 19. Bxd7 Qxd7 20. Qxe4 Rae8 21. Qf3 Rxf5 22. Qd3 {I messed about here looking at c5 and other ideas trying to get the Queen away from defending the f1 Rook. Nothing seemed to work.} 22... Rxf1+ 23. Qxf1 Rf8 24. Qd3 Qf5 {Forces Queens off. I don't mind going in ending pawns up and all the piece activity.} 25. Qxf5 Rxf5 {White resigned which was kind of him. I'll win that d5 pawn and possibly the b2 pawn He can play for a mate.} 26. Bh6 Rxd5 27. Rf1 {But i think i would have seen it.} 27... Bg7

[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r3r1k1/pp1nq2p/3p2p1/1BpP4/3bpP2/8/PPQ3PP/R1B2R1K w - - 0 18"]

18. Re1 a6 19. Bxd7 Qxd7 20. Rxe4 Rxe4 21. Qxe4 Re8 {Wins the Queen of mates White.}

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. e4 Bg7 6. f4 O-O 7. Nf3 e6 8. Qc2 Re8 9. Be2 exd5 10. cxd5 {We now have the same position as my game.} 10... Nxe4 11. Nxe4 Bf5 12. Nfd2 Qe7 13. Bf3 {My opponnent played Bd3 here.} 13... Bxe4 14. Nxe4 f5 15. O-O fxe4 16. Re1 Bd4+ 17. Kh1 exf3 18. Rxe7 Rxe7 19. gxf3 Re1+ 20. Kg2 Nd7 21. Rb1 Rae8 22. Bd2 R8e2+ 23. Kh3 Rxd2 24. Qxd2 Rxb1 {White resigned.}

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 g6 4.Nc3 d6 5.e4 Bg7 6.Nf3 O-O 7.Be2 e5
8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 g5 10.Bg3 Nh5 11.Nd2 Nf4 12.O-O Nxe2+ 13.Qxe2
Nd7 14.a3 Re8 15.f3 Nf8 16.Bf2 Ng6 17.g3 Ne7 18.b4 b6 19.Rfb1
f5 20.a4 a5 21.bxa5 bxa5 22.Rb2 h5 23.Rab1 Rf8 24.exf5 Nxf5
25.Nde4 Nd4 26.Bxd4 exd4 27.Nb5 Ra6 28.Qd3 Bf5 29.Re2 Rb6
30.Rbe1 Be5 31.Qd1 Bxe4 32.Rxe4 Rb7 33.f4 gxf4 34.gxf4

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 d6 4.Nc3 g6 5.e4 Bg7 6.Be2 O-O 7.Nf3 e5
8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 g5 10.Bg3 Nh5 11.Nd2 Nf4 12.O-O Nxe2+ 13.Qxe2
Nd7 14.a3 Re8 15.b4 b6 16.Nd1 Nf8 17.Ne3 Ng6 18.Rfb1 Nf4
19.Qd1 h5 20.f3 Bh6 21.Nf5 Qf6 22.Nxh6+ Qxh6 23.bxc5 bxc5
24.Qa4 Rd8 25.Qa5 Rf8 26.Bxf4 gxf4 27.Qc7 Kh8 28.Ra2 Qg6
29.Kh1 Rg8 30.Nf1 Bh3 31.Rbb2 Rg7 32.Qa5 Rag8 33.Qd2 h4 34.Qf2
Qh5 35.Qe1 f5 36.Rf2 Rg5 37.Rae2 fxe4 38.fxe4 f3

[Event "Mikelom Memorial Tournament"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2015.05.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "greenpawn34"]
[Black "Blanca"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1937"]
[BlackElo "1660"]
[EventDate "2015.??.??"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Bc5 {Black opts to defend a Max Lange rather than go main Two Knights.with 5....Nxe4. I was going to play one of the rare lines. (that is for another day.)} 6. e5 d5 7. exf6 dxc4 {Now instead of the 'book move' 8.Re1+ we go....} 8. fxg7 Rg8 9. Bg5 {The most common reply is now 9...Qd5 10.Nc3 with loads of good fun for White.} 9... Be7 {Damn! He either has the book, knows it or has chickened out. (I found out later he knows it.} 10. Bxe7 Kxe7 {More damn! He knows that this awkward move is is best.} 11. Re1+ Be6 12. Na3 {This is possibly best by trial and error. It develops a piece keeping the d-file clear.. The other move played is the clumsy looking 12.Re4 but that gets White in a muddle.} 12... Qd5 13. b3 {Now 13.....c3 keeping the d-file closed so Black can get on with an attack down the g-file. White is gummed up.} 13... cxb3 {I was glad to see that, I'm getting untangled.} 14. c4 Qd7 15. axb3 Rxg7 16. Nb5 Kf8 {The e6 Bishop is now unpinned. I should now just chop the d-pawn but first.....} 17. Qd2 {Frees d1 for the a1 Rook, and toying with Qh6 ideas which pins the g7 Rook, also takes the sting out of Bg4 and with Qd2 in some cases I might sneak in a Qb4+ Kg8 and the Black back rank is weak.} 17... a6 18. Nbxd4 {No choice, if I don't do it now then Rad8 and I might not get another chance.} 18... Nxd4 19. Qxd4 {I offered a draw here. which was accepted. I did think of playing on just in case Black went for a win with.} 19... Qc6 20. Rad1 Qxf3 21. Qxg7+ {When I look good.}

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 ed4 5. O-O Bc5 6. e5 d5 7. ef6 dc4 8. fg7 Rg8 9. Bg5 Qd5 10. Nc3 Qf5 11. Ne4 Be7 12. Be7 Ke7 13. Nd4 Nd4 14. Qd4 Be6 15. Rad1 f6 16. Rfe1 b6 17. Nc5 {Black rersigned. Rxe6+ is the threat. If 17...bxc5 18.Qd7 mate. 17....Rad8 18 Qxd8! }

[Event "Mikelom Memorial Tournament"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2015.05.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "greenpawn34"]
[Black "wsossin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1958"]
[BlackElo "2009"]
[EndDate "2015.05.25"]
[WhiteRating "1958"]
[BlackRating "2009"]
[GameId "11193460"]

1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 c5 4. b4 {Here we go again. I have some nice wins with this both here and OTB.} 4... b6 {Best is probably to take the b4 pawn, though4...b6 cannot be bad.} 5. d4 {Never played this before, I'm hoping to transpose back in my pawn sac line when his b6 looks odd. Usually on the few times I've faced 4....b6 I take on c5.} 5... Bb7 {I think Black should take on d4. He is trying to keep the game closed. Now I'll take on c5 because I get a free hit on the b7 Bishop.} 6. bxc5 bxc5 7. Nc3 {Freeing b1 for my free hit.} 7... a6 {Not sure if this is needed now but it will have to played sometime to keep the c3 Knight off b5.} 8. Rb1 {And every move from now till move 25 I look at what happens if Rxb7. I sent a PM saying he won't be castling Queenside. He said he might if I let him.} 8... Qc7 9. Bd3 {An attempt to get it messy. If 9...cxd4 10 Ne2 and see what happens. Black closes the centre which I did not mind at all.} 9... c4 10. Be2 f6 {I was glad to see that. Don't make pawn moves where you are the weakest. Steinitz. This should have been prepared by developing more pieces. The b8 Knight and Be7 should be in play.} 11. O-O Nd7 12. Re1 {Another free hit, this time an x-ray on the e6 pawn.} 12... Be7 {Now a big decision do I take on f6 or develop.} 13. Bf4 {Develop and now threatening to take on f6. The f4 Bishop need not be protected whilst I have Rxb7 on the board.} 13... f5 {Now I have to sac to get in. I looked for ages here at 14.Bxc4 I'm sure he cannot play 14...dxc4 15.d5 is very strong. But 14...Qxc4 and my c3 Knight hangs. In the end I went for the obvious.....} 14. Ng5 Bxg5 15. Bxg5 {I was thinking he might play 14..Nf8 rather than give me the French Bishop. No Queenside castling.} 15... h6 {This is possible a quick move, a reaction move. It allows....} 16. Bh5+ Kf8 17. Bc1 {And this little chappie is rejoining the game on a3.} 17... Ne7 18. Ba3 g5 {To gain some Kingside room, possibly planning Rh7 to hold the second rank. Could have g4-g5 ideas cutting off my h5 Bishop.} 19. Bd6 {Played to stop Rb8 defending the b7 Bishop. though would I give up the Bishop for a silly Rook. I don't know. I do know I have played and looked at Rxb7 on nearly every move. I had some fantastic variations crossing my board.} 19... Qc6 {Every piece I have is perfectly placed. It's time to dive in.} 20. Nxd5 {The joy being he cannot play 20....Qxd5 threatening mate 21.Bf3 and Rxb7.} 20... exd5 21. Qf3 {I actually do not want to play Qxf5+ I have a better plan.} 21... f4 {Good. Off we go. I was going to play Rxb7 first, the position I looked at transposes into the actual game with one slight difference. } 22. Bxe7+ Kxe7 23. Qa3+ Kd8 {Critical part of the game can I get him to go for the 'good move'. } 24. e6 {If I had played 22. Rxb7 Qxb7 his best defence is not to move the Knight. It may be best now as the Bishop will no longer cover the Queening square.. It was whilst looking at this back on move 22 I saw the flaw in his next move.} 24... Nf6 {Natural move hitting the Bishop and covering e8 and threatening to shut down the e-file with Ne4 now the move I had been looking at since move 8. It works.} 25. Rxb7 {At last. There is one drawback in the Knight covering e8 defence (it blocks the h8 Rook.)} 25... Qxb7 26. Qd6+ {Transposing into a position I looked at a few moves ago.} 26... Kc8 27. e7 {And there is no Ne8 defence. 27...Ne8 28.Qd8 mate.} 27... Ne4 {There is nothing else. I win the Knight and the passed pawn will cost a piece. 27..Qd7 28.Qxf6 Kc7 29.Qe5+ and e8=Q} 28. Bg4+

[Event "Mikelom Memorial Tournament"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2015.05.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "wsossin"]
[Black "greenpawn34"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2004"]
[BlackElo "1961"]
[EndDate "2015.05.31"]
[WhiteRating "2004"]
[BlackRating "1961"]
[GameId "11193467"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 {Had a few recent disasters with this. Let's try again.} 3. Nxe5 Nc6 {The tricky-dicky line.} 4. Nxc6 dxc6 5. e5 {I've met this a few times with mixed results. Always leads to an interesting game.} 5... Be6 6. d4 Qd7 7. Be2 O-O-O 8. O-O {Playing it safe and giving me back the pawn.} 8... Qxd4 9. Qxd4 Rxd4 10. Be3 Re4 {Had to inject some tension into the game. I figured I'd be saccing the exchange somewhere as surely the Rook gets trapped.} 11. Nc3 Rxe5 {All for the sake of a pawn. But I want that Knight on f6 ASAP.} 12. Bd4 Ra5 13. a3 c5 14. Be5 Nf6 15. Bxf6 {I did not think he would do that but it's probably good.} 15... gxf6 16. Rfe1 c4 17. Bh5 Re5 18. f4 Bc5+ 19. Kf1 Rxe1+ 20. Rxe1 Bd7 21. Bf7 Bd6 22. g3 {Now b5 and try and keep the pawn or get the Rook into the game?} 22... h5 {Activity.} 23. Bxc4 h4 24. Nd5 hxg3 25. hxg3 b5 26. Bd3 c5 27. b3 Rh6 28. Ne3 {Possibly Rh5 to hold f5 pawn is the move but on principle I cannot tie down a Rook to defending things.} 28... c4 {This pawn sac gives me a passed pawn in a Bishop v Knight ending. It looked OK.} 29. bxc4 bxc4 30. Bxf5 Bxf5 31. Nxf5 Rh1+ 32. Ke2 Rxe1+ 33. Kxe1 Bxa3 {I have my passed Rook's pawn. Knights hate passed Rook pawns.} 34. Ne3 {It was here I realised he has the strong move g4 and f5. So....} 34... Kd7 {I had to hope he never played it.} 35. Nxc4 {Good. I'm back in the game} 35... Bb4+ 36. Ke2 f5 {One pawn holds up two and I've fixed the g-pawn on a dark square. My Bishop has a target. The fact it was 2nd time I played f5 (the Latvian!) did not go unnoticed by me.} 37. Ne5+ Ke6 38. Nc6 Bc5 39. Kd3 Bf2 40. Nd4+ {The idea being after I move King then Ne2 holding g3. But now...} 40... Bxd4 41. Kxd4 Kd6 {I have the opposition. If he plays g4 then my f-pawn will Queen first. If he chases after the f-pawn my a-pawn runs home. I have the outside passer. I thought I have the winning chances.} 42. Kc4 Kc6 43. Kb4 Kb6 44. c3 {A wee sneaky tempo loser to get the opposition which I was sure he would play. I now have to play carefully with my King but I have the winning chances.} 44... a5+ {I hardly looked at 44..a6 it may be better as I pass the buck. I saw this was OK back when I swapped the Bishop & Knight, as long as I keep my King on the right square.} 45. Ka3 Kb5 46. Kb3 Kb6 {That is the right square. I can answer Ka4 with Ka6 and Kc4 with Kc6. If he now plays 47.c4 Kc5 . Note White cannot play g4 when we both Queen because my King can catch his f-pawn.} 47. Ka4 Ka6 48. Ka3 Kb5 49. Kb3 Kb6 {Back on the key square again.} 50. Ka4 Ka6 51. Ka3 {I was hoping White would try and win it. He is a pawn up. But this probably the safest way.} 51... Kb5 {That is a three fold rep. The game was drawn. Winning attempts by White seem to force him to find two good and instructive moves.} 52. Kb3 Kb6 53. Ka4 Ka6 54. c4 Kb6 55. c5+ {I can and possibly would have played 55...Kc6 here. 56.Kxa5 Kxc5 and the White King is stuck on the a-file because the Black King has the opposition and stays on the c-file.} 55... Kxc5 56. Kxa5 {This way White has to play carefully.} 56... Kd4 57. Kb4 Ke4 58. Kc4 Kf3 59. Kd4 Kxg3 {Now 60.Ke5 Kg4 wins for Black. It's that mutual Zugzwang position Swiss Gambit showed a while back. It's also in one of the blogs.} 60. Ke3 Kg4 61. Ke2 {That is the correct move because we then get....} 61... Kxf4 62. Kf2 {...it is Black to move. With White to move here it's a Black win.} 62... Kg4 63. Kg2 f4 64. Kf2 {It's all been basic endgame tech for the last few moves. I'll play it out.} 64... f3 65. Kf1 Kf4 66. Kf2 Ke4 67. Kf1 Ke3 68. Ke1 f2+ 69. Kf1 Kf3 {Maybe a cute move or idea in there somewhere we have both missed. Most of it was an ending and I just covered the basics. allowing me to play f5 was the game saver.}

[Event "Mikelom Memorial Tournament"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2015.05.14"]
[EndDate "2015.05.31"]
[Round "1"]
[White "sonhouse"]
[Black "bvdhruva"]
[WhiteRating "1690"]
[BlackRating "1516"]
[WhiteElo "1690"]
[BlackElo "1516"]
[Result "1-0"]
[GameId "11193009"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 a6 3. Ng1f3 exf4 4. d4 d5 5. e5 Nb8c6 6. Bc1xf4 Bc8g4 7. c3 Qd8d7 8. Bf1e2 O-O-O 9. Nb1d2 f6 10. O-O h5 11. h3 Bg4xf3 12. Nd2xf3 Kc8b8 13. b4 g5 14. Bf4h2 Bf8h6 15. b5 axb5 16. Be2xb5 Qd7e6 17. Ra1b1 Nc6a7 18. Bb5d3 g4 19. Qd1b3 b6 20. Nf3h4 gxh3 21. Bd3f5 Qe6e8 22. Bf5xh3 Ng8e7 23. exf6 Ne7c6 24. Qb3xb6 1-0

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3 Bd7 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. c3 Rc8 7. Ng5 {I'll come
back to this move.} cxd4 8. cxd4 Nxd4 9. Nxh7 Be7 10. Qh5 {I'm Liking Rxh7
here. if Qxh7 then Rxc1+ and Bg5+ mates. If Bxh7 then OK just take on c1.}
Rxc1+ 11. Kd2 Rxh1 {Again Rxh7 and Bg5+ looks like fun.} 12. Nf6+ Bxf6 13. Qxh8 Bg5+ 14. Kc3 Rc1+ 15. Kb4 Be7

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 Bd7 7. O-O cxd4 8. cxd4
Nxd4 {And now....} 9. Ng5 h6 {Saves the pawn, which looks bad to take anyway,
and we get....} 10. Nxf7 Kxf7 11. Qh5+ g6 {This gets mated in loads of
different way. You would do no harm looking at all the way Black gets mated
after this. I'll show...} 12. Qxg6+ Ke7 13. Bg5+ hxg5 14. Qxg5+ Kf7 15. Bg6+
Kg7 16. Be8+ Kh7 17. Qg6

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 Bd7 7. O-O cxd4 8. cxd4
Nxd4 9. Ng5 h6 10. Nxf7 Kxf7 11. Qh5+ Ke7 {You can take a perpetual with.....}
12. Qh4+ Kf7 13. Qh5+ Ke7 14. Qh4+ {Should Black slip in g5.} g5 {Again White
mates.} 15. Bxg5+ hxg5 16. Qxg5+ {Same position as before, let's try....} Nf6
17. Qxf6+ Ke8 18. Bg6