Thursday, September 10, 2009

A BDG in Chess960?

I'm probably too much of a traditionalist or whatever to have developed much interest in Fischer random chess, or Chess960, as I understand the idea is known these days. However, a reader sent this game which I found interesting. A BDG in Chess960? Sure looks a lot like one.

White: friscodelrosario (2110)
Black: pkramam (1520)
Event: Online Chess, Chess.com
Date: 2009-08-30

Pos1 
1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Ng3 Nf6 4. f3 exf3 5. Nxf3

Pos5

5...c6 6. c3 Ne6 7. Bf5 Bd7 8. Bd2 O-O 9. Ne5 Nd5 10. O-O

Pos10

10...Bxe5 11. dxe5 f6 12. Qc2 h6 13. Rae1 fxe5 14. Rxe5 Rf6 15. Ne4 Rf8 16. Qc1 Nec7 17. Ng3 Bxf5 18. Rexf5 Rxf5 19. Nxf5 Qe6 20. c4 Nb6

Pos21w

21. Bxh6 gxh6 22. Nxh6+ Kh8 23. Qc3+ Kh7

Pos24w 
24. Rf7+ Kxh6 25. Qg7+ Kh5 26. Qh7+ Kg5 27. Qg7+ Qg6 28. h4+ Kh5 29. Qe5+ Kh6 30. Qf4+ Kh5 31. Rh7+ 1-0

Pos31b

Thanks to Frisco for sending this in. Here it is in PGN. 

[Event "Online Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2009.08.30"]
[Round " "]
[White "friscodelrosario"]
[Black "pkramam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2110"]
[BlackElo "1520"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[Variant "wild/fr"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rbqkbnnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBQKBNNR w - - 0 1"]

1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Ng3 Nf6 4. f3 exf3 5. Nxf3 c6 6. c3 Ne6 7. Bf5 Bd7 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. Ne5 Nd5 10. O-O Bxe5 11. dxe5 f6 12. Qc2 h6 13. Rae1 fxe5 14. Rxe5 Rf6 15. Ne4 Rf8 16. Qc1 Nec7 17. Ng3 Bxf5 18. Rexf5 Rxf5 19. Nxf5 Qe6 20. c4 Nb6 21. Bxh6 gxh6 22. Nxh6+ Kh8 23. Qc3+ Kh7 24. Rf7+ Kxh6 25. Qg7+ Kh5 26. Qh7+ Kg5 27. Qg7+ Qg6 28. h4+ Kh5 29. Qe5+ Kh6 30. Qf4+ Kh5 31. Rh7+ 1-0