Friday, June 15, 2012

Mike Serovey Loses to the Italian Master, Gaetano Caradonna

I recently finished a game that was played on the ICCF server. This game, complete with analysis and diagrams, can be found at http://mikeseroveyonchess.com/games/sicilian-defense-page/sicilian-defense-with-gaetano-caradonna-page/. More complete analysis of this game, and my other games that I played against masters, will be found in my members only area of my chess site once I get it set up. For now, I need to finish the online class in legal and ethical issues and then move before I will have the time and energy to work on that part of my site.

Here is the game in PGN:

[Event "S-Open/5-pr40"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2012.6.1"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Caradonna, Gaetano"]
[Black "Serovey, Michael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2203"]
[BlackElo "1734"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6
6.Ndb5 Bb4 7.a3 Bxc3+ 8.Nxc3 d5 9.exd5 exd5 10.Bd3 O-O
11.O-O d4 12.Ne2 Bg4 13.Bg5 Qd6 14.f3 Bh5 15.Qd2 Nd5
16.Be4 f6 17.c4 Nb6 18.Bf4 Nxc4 19.Bxd6 Nxd2 20.Bxf8 Kxf8
21.Rf2 Nxe4 22.fxe4 Re8 23.Ng3 Bg6 24.Rd2 Re5 25.b4 a6
26.a4 Ke7 27.Rc1 Ke6 28.h4 h6 29.Kf2 Bh7 30.h5 Rg5
31.Rc5 Re5 32.Rdc2 Kd7 33.b5 Nb4 34.Rxe5 fxe5 35.Rc4 Nd3+
36.Ke2 Nf4+ 37.Kd2 Ne6 38.b6 g6 39.hxg6 Bxg6 40.a5 h5
41.Nf5 h4 42.Rc1 Bh7 43.Rh1 Nc5 44.Rxh4 Bg6 45.Ke2 Ke6
46.Rh6 Kf7 47.Kf3 d3 48.Ke3 d2 49.Nd6+ Ke7 50.Kxd2 Nxe4+
51.Nxe4 Bxe4 52.g4 Kf7 53.g5 Bg2 54.Rf6+ Ke7 55.Rf2 Bd5
56.g6 Kd6 57.g7 Kc6 58.Rf5 {Black resigns.} 1-0