[Event "XLink internal 2009, Rd1, Group A"] [Site "SchemingMind.com"] [Date "2009.01.20"] [Round "-"] [White "pawnslinger"] [Black "Wolli"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B07x"] [WhiteCountry "USA"] [BlackCountry "GER"] [WhiteElo "2257"] [WhiteRD "117"] [BlackElo "1859"] [BlackRD "83"] [GameID "188413"] 1. e4 d6 { Wolli: Hello Ed, i wish you good games! } 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Bg5 { pawnslinger: Best of luck in your games! } 4... Bg7 5. Qd2 h6 6. Bf4 g5 7. Be3 Ng4 8. h4 Nxe3 9. Qxe3 g4 10. O-O-O { Wolli: family issues - but not sad ones! :-) } 10... Nc6 11. Kb1 { Wolli: uuuuhhh! } 11... e5 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Nge2 Bd7 14. Ng3 Be6 15. Nh5 Bf8 16. f4 gxf3 { Wolli: Ohh Ed, I will never try again this line with 9...g4 . My position looks so ugly, I am ashamed of it. :-) } 17. gxf3 { pawnslinger: I learned this opening the hard way... at the hands of Mr Botterill, an old English master made me give up the Black side of this. That was back in the early 1970s and I haven't taken up this Black line since. I pretty much stick to the Najdorf these days. And sometimes I think it looks ugly too, but it complicates things, so I have better chances as Black. } 17... Qe7 { Wolli: Do you mean this line in the Pirc or the Pirc in general? } { pawnslinger: The Pirc in general. I ran into Botterill at a tournament in the south of England, I can't recall the name, it was one of the beach resort places. And he showed me how to play it. Prior to that I was a big Pirc advocate. I met him in the 1st round of that event. Oh, I remember, it was called the Barnstable Open. Of course, the town was Barnstable! } 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 a6 20. f4 Ng6 21. Qf2 O-O-O 22. Qa7 { Wolli: Thank you for the game. Your move wasn't a surprise for me, but I wanted to have castled before resigning just out of aestetical reasons. :-) } { Game Over: [%ccsnt 2009.03.29,05:23] } 1-0