Hammering Meat

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As promised, I will post another of my tournament games from Chess.com. The featured game is my highest rated win so far, but he's only mid 1800s. I'm playing a few high 1900s and 2000s at the moment, so after I finish those I'll probably post them as well.

In Round 1 of this tournament I'm currently on 7/7 with one game against this guy to go, which I'm winning, another game which I'm positionally worse off, and the third which will most likely be a draw (K and 3 pawns on the same side of the board endgame - but I'm holding off accepting his draw offer firstly because he's a 1700 (yeah I know, screwed up in the middle game) but also because I'm hoping for some last minute blunder), but since the top two of my group goes through to Round 2, I should be OK.

Anyway, the game. With a few annotations this time - not many since I've not done that sorta thing before.

[Event "6th Chess.com Quick Knockouts (1601-1800)"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2009.10.01"]
[Round "1"]
[White "meathammer"]
[Black "Bingshui"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1835"]
[BlackElo "1983"]
[TimeControl "1 in 1 day"]
[Termination "Bingshui won by resignation"]

1.e4 d5 2.e5 Bf5 3.d3 c5 4.Qf3 e6 5.g4 (this was unexpected) Bg6 6.Nh3 Nc6 7.Bg5 Qa5+ 8.Nc3? (randomly gives me a piece) d4 9.Bd2 dxc3 10.Bxc3 Qc7 11.O-O-O Nge7 12.Nf4 Nxe5 13.Bxe5

Qxe5 14.h4 h6 15.Re1 Qd6 16.Nxg6 Nxg6 17.Qxb7 (his attempt to get compensation for the piece) Rd8 18.Bg2 Be7 19.h5 Ne5 20.Re4 O-O 21.Rxe5 (also unexpected, considering I'm up a piece.) Qxe5 22.Qxe7 Rb8 23.b3 c4! (I like this move :)) 24.dxc4 Qa1+ 25.Kd2 Rbd8+ 26.Ke2 Qe5+ 27.Be4?? (Which is shortened by this move, giving me mate in 1 instead) Qxe4+ (not surprisingly, he resigns)

0-1

Till next time, may you agglomerate all your unpremeditated contemplations.