Hello Chess lovers,
Today is my friend's birthday, International Master Teclaf Pawel from Poland... He just got his second Grandmaster Norm and would soon pick the 3rd which would qualify him for the Grandmaster title.
I told him I would write about him if I win tonight's arena, so yeah, Teclaf! Happy birthday!
He uses the username "Yarebore" on lichess and has played a Hivechess event once (Although he didn't complete it).
I won tonight's Hive chess Arena which makes me happy. I did a 100% berserk and I played well. I got lucky in two games... I had to win dirty against eniolw. I can also consider my game against Stranger27 tricky. Let's take a look at it.
[Event "HIVE Blitz Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/DXwCzFYj"]
[Date "2022.06.18"]
[White "stranger27"]
[Black "ZGM_Samostically"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2022.06.18"]
[UTCTime "19:41:14"]
[WhiteElo "1645"]
[BlackElo "2142"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-1"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+1"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "300+2"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Opening "Englund Gambit"]
[Termination "Normal"]
1. d4 e5 - I always try to gambit, so I can get an open position and attack very quickly.
2. c3 - my opponent declined and chose a solid approach
exd4 3. cxd4 Nf6 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 g5 7. Bg3 Bg7 8. Nc3 g4 9. Ne5 Nh5 10. Nxg4 Nxd4 11. Be5 Bxe5 12. Nxe5 Nc6 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. e3 Nf6 15. Be2 Rb8 16. b3 Qe7 17. O-O Rg8 18. g3 d5
After 18.d5, my position isn't okay and white is solid. All I hoped for here was a mistake
19. Qd4 h5 20. Bf3 h4 21. Bg2 hxg3 22. fxg3 Ng4 23. e4 Rb4 24. Qd3
Rh8?!** - A very Tricky move with bad plans... ( Can you see the idea?)
25. exd5 Qc5+ 26. Rf2 Qxf2+ 27. Kh1 Rxh2# 0-1
Not the trademark way to win... But yeah, it got the job done.
I want to show you an idea I learnt from IM teclaf himself. I think I have shared it before but somehow I still get these positions against our 
@schamangerbert (Alekhine defence -Spielman Gambit)[Event "HIVE Blitz Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/K5TPdYBp"]
[Date "2022.06.18"]
[White "ZGM_Samostically"]
[Black "HerbyW"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2022.06.18"]
[UTCTime "19:05:57"]
[WhiteElo "2129"]
[BlackElo "1769"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+2"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-1"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "300+2"]
[ECO "B02"]
[Opening "Alekhine Defense: Spielmann Gambit"]
[Termination "Normal"]
1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. e6
"The Gambit! In most of our games, he captures, but he has stopped capturing, yet, I still play the same moves..
Nf6 5. Nf3 fxe6 6. Bd3 g6 7. h4 Nh5 8. Ne5 Nd7 9. Nxg6
The gambit works in different ways. In this game, I threatened to checkmate at move 9
Ndf6 10. Nxh8 Bh6 11. Bxh7 Kf8 12. d4 Bxc1 13. Qxc1 Kg7 14. g4 Kxh7 15. Nf7 Qf8 16. Ng5+ Kg8 17. gxh5 Qh6 18. Rg1 Kf8 19. Nxe6+ Bxe6 20. Qxh6+ Ke8 21. Nb5 Kd7 22. Rg7 Re8 23. Qxf6 a6 24. Nxc7 Kxc7 25. Rxe7+ Rxe7 26. Qxe7+ Bd7 27. h6 Kc6 28. Qxd7+ Kxd7 29. h7 b5 30. h8=Q Kc6 31. Qe5 a5 32. h5 b4 33. h6 a4 34. h7 b3 35. h8=Q bxc2 36. Qhf6+ Kb5 37. Qxd5+ Kb4 38. Qb6# 1-0
A beautiful game that ended in the luxury of royalties.
Now, I'm sure he would study and prepare for it in the last round.
I'm happy to win today, it's been a while. Also, it came with a lot of fun. My favourite GM won today, Took a lot of time in a not-so-easy endgame. #TeamHikaru... I hope he wins the candidates.
Thanks for reading my post. See you all next time.
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