Week 1
Chesspark launched the Chesspark College Association in the last week. Lot of good players plays in this team competition. I would like to show you a nice game from the championship which was played between UTB’s IM Daniel Fernandez aka D-Fernandez and Miami’s NM Ernesto Alverez aka Skaternesto. After a crazy game with lots of tactics, Skaternesto managed to pull of the upset of the evening making the score UTB 1- Miami 1.
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. e4 d6 6. h3 O-O 7. Nf3 e6

The International Master decided to play an agressive opening with black, the Ben-oni defense. He attacked the center by moving the e-pawn and he plan later to move the f-pawn to f5 to gain space.
8. Bd3 exd5 9. cxd5 Na6 10. O-O Nh5 11. Bg5 f6 12. Be3 Bh8 13. Nd2 Nc7 14. a4 f5 15. exf5 Bxf5 16. Bxf5 Rxf5 17. g4 Nf4

Fernandez found a brilliant way to save both the knight and the f5 rook. If white capture the f5 rook with pawn, then the queen moves to g5 to give check and give checkmate on g2 in the next move.
18. Qf3 Rf7 19. Bxf4 Be5 20. Ne2 Bxf4 21. Nxf4 g5

The f4 knight is pinned by the f7 rook. Black wins back the piece.
22. Rfe1 Rxf4 23. Qc3 Qf8 24. Ne4 h6 25. Re2 Re8 26. R1e1 Re5 27. Ng3 Nxd5 28. Qd3

Black won a pawn on d5, white planned to give a check on g6 and use his knight on f5 to attack. Here black should move the rook to d4 to defend the d5 knight, give up the f4 square for the knight and be able to control the 1st rank later by Rd1 to get counter-play.
Rf3 29. Qg6+ Kh8 30. Rxe5 dxe5 31. Rxe5 Nf4

This knight move looked good, it attacked the queen, but blocked the rook and white has a nice double-threat move to attack the rook and threatening to win the queen. Black should have moved the knight to e7 to defend.
32. Qe4 Nxh3+ 33. Kg2 Rf4 34. Re8 Rxe4 35. Rxf8+ Kg7 36. Nxe4

Black resigned. White won. If black captures the f8 rook, then white king captures the h3 knight and white wins with extra knight.
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