0043 NORFOLK GAMBIT (Nimzovitch Attack)
Midtown XVII, 5-1-99
Patrick McCartney (1891) Richard Stancil (1689)
1 Nf3 d5 2 b3 c5 3 e4 Bg4 (Taking the e-pawn is best) 4 ed Qd5 5 Nc3 Qd7 6 Bc4 e6 7 0-0 Nc6 8 Re 0-0-0 9 h3 Bh5 10 Ne4 Nd4 11 Neg5?! Nf3 (Black should have considered 11...h6. White would have to basically put the Knight right back on e4. After 12 Ne4 Nf3, White must deal with doubled isolated pawns) 12 Nf3 Nf6 13 Qe2 Nd5 14 a4 Nb4 15 d3 Bf3 16 gf (White gets stuck with the doubled pawns, anyway) 16...Qd4 17 Be3 Qh4 18 c3 Nc6 19 Qf1 Qf6 20 Qg2 Ne5 21 f4 Nd3 22 Red Qc3 23 Ba6!? Qb3 24 Rab Qb1?? (24...Nb2 and Black should be able to survive, and maybe win at that) 25 Rb1 Rd5? (Black falls apart. White has had less than a minute since move 22 to make it to move 30. Black tried to run White's clock out rather than spending his 9 remaining minutes finding the best moves to get to move 30) 26 Bb7 Kc7 27 Bd5 ed 28 Qd5 Nb4 29 Qc4 Bd6 30 Qf7 (White made time control with about 10 seconds to spare) Kb6? 31 Rb4 1-0 (Notes by McCartney)