Game of the week March 8, 2020 by Robert Huntington My apologies for failing to post last Sunday. [Event "Chicago Open 2001"] [White "Hodgson, Julian M"] [Black "Kudrin, Sergey"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A45"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "41"] [EventDate "2001.05.??"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "7"] [EventCountry "USA"] [SourceTitle "CL, Sept 2001"] [SourceDate "2009.03.03"] [SourceVersionDate "2009.03.03"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 d5 4. e3 c5 (4... Nc6 $5) 5. Bd3 (5. Nd2 $5) 5... cxd4 ({Stockfish prefers (but only by a smidgeon)} 5... g6) ({and definitely doesn't care for} 5... Nf6 $14 {the most common move}) 6. Bxe4 dxe4 7. exd4 g6 ({The most common move here is} 7... Nc6 {but Stockfish prefers the text as well as}) (7... e6) 8. Nc3 (8. Ne2 $5) 8... Bg7 9. Nge2 Bf5 $6 (9... O-O 10. Nxe4 Qb6 $11) 10. Qd2 Nc6 11. O-O-O (11. Rd1 $1) 11... h5 12. h3 Rc8 $6 (12... Na5 $1 $11) 13. Kb1 (13. Qe3 $14) 13... Na5 14. b3 Nc6 15. Qe3 Qa5 16. g4 $6 ( 16. Kb2 $11) 16... hxg4 17. hxg4 Bxg4 18. Rxh8+ Bxh8 19. Rh1 Bg7 $2 (19... Kd7 20. Nxe4 Nb4 21. N2c3 Bf5 22. Re1 e6 23. Re2 g5 $1 $15) 20. Rh7 Kf8 $2 (20... Bxe2 21. Rxg7 (21. Qxe2 $2 Qxc3 22. Rxg7 Qxd4 $17) (21. Nxe2 $4 Nb4 $19)) 21. Bh6 1-0 your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts