IM Kapengut Annotates

Last week, IM Albert Kapengut scored a win against Carlito Agner of the Carolina Cobras. Kapengut has played three games in the USCL and has won all three. This week, he plays again against Vadim Martirosov of the Boston Blitz. Can IM Kapengut win again?

Of course he can!

He has generously annotated last week's game and presents it below.

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Albert KAPENGUT (2372) [New Jersey Knockouts] - Carlito AGNER (2251) [Carolina Cobras]
US Chess League, Week 4 (15 Sep 2010)
Internet Chess Club: G/90+30"

Annotations by IM Albert Kapengut

1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Qe2 Nc6 5. c3 e5 6. dxe5

(6. d5 Nb8 (6... Ne7 7. f4 exf4 8. Bxf4 Bg7 9. Nf3 Nh5 10. Be3 O-O 11. O-O f5 12. e5+= {Farges,Y-Weeramantry,S /Philadelphia 1993}) 7. Nf3 Bg7 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 O-O 10. Nbd2 Qe8= {Margulis,I -Grefe,J /California 1997})

6... Nxe5! 7. Bb3 Qe7 8. Bg5

(8. f4 Nc6 9. Nd2 Bh6! 10. g3 O-O 11. Ngf3 Re8 =+ {Wachinger,G -Blodig,R /Bayern 2000})

8... h6 9. Bh4?

(9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. Nd2=)

9... g5 10. Bg3

























10... Nxe4! 11. Bxe5 Qxe5 12. Nf3 Qe7 13. O-O Nc5=+ 14. Qd1 Qf6

(14... Bg7 15. Re1 Be6=+)

15. Re1+ Be7 16. Nd4 O-O

(16... Bd7 17. Nd2 O-O-O=+)

17. Bc2 Be6?! 18. b4 Nd7 19. Qd3 Qg7

























20. Nxe6 fxe6 21. Rxe6+= Ne5 22. Qh3?!

(22. Qe4!?)

22... Rf6

(22... Qf7!? 23. f3 Qf4 (23... g4? 24. Qxh6 gxf3 25. Bb3+-) 24. Na3 g4 25. Qg3 Bg5 26. Qxf4 Bxf4 27. fxg4+=)

23. Rxf6 Bxf6 24. Nd2 Nf7?!

(24... g4!? 25. Qh5 Rf8 26. Rd1 Qg5=)

25. Ne4 Be5

(25... d5 26. Nxf6+ Qxf6 27. Re1+=)

26. Rd1 b5?

























27. Qd7!+- a5 28. Qc6! Qf8

(28... Ra7? 29. Qxb5+-)

29. Bb3! axb4 30. cxb4 Qe8

(30...Kg7 31. Bd5 Rc8 32. Qxb5 c5 33. bxc5 dxc5 34. Bxf7 Rb8 35. Qc6 Qxf7 36. Nxc5+-)

31. Qxc7 Ra3

(31... d5? 32. Qb7+-)

32. Qb7 Rxb3 33. axb3 Qe6 34. Qd5 Qg4 35. g3 Kg7 36. Rc1 Qd7 37. Rc6 Qb7 38. Rxd6!

























Black resigns.

(38. Rxd6 Nxd6 39. Qxe5+ Kh7 40. Nxd6+-)

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