[Event “Lichess unrated blitz 5+10”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2019.02.24”]
[Round “?”]
[White “James”]
[Black “Anonymous”]
[Result “*”]
[BlackElo “0”]
[Classes “?”]
[ECO “?”]
[GameNo “-1”]
[TimeControl “300+10”]
[WhiteElo “0”]
- d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e6 4. Bxc4 Nf6 5. a3 c5 6. Nf3 cxd4 7. exd4 Be7 8.
O-O O-O 9. Be3 Nc6 10. Nc3 a6 11. Rc1 Na5 12. Ba2 Bd7 13. b4 Nc6 14. Bb1 Nd5 - Qd3 g6 16. Nxd5 exd5 17. Ne5 Bf5 18. Qc3 Nxe5 19. dxe5 Bxb1 20. Rxb1 Rc8
- Qd4 Rc4 22. Qd3 Qd7 23. Rfc1 Rfc8 24. h3 Qb5 25. Qd2 Rxc1+ 26. Rxc1 Rxc1+
- Qxc1 Qc4 28. Qb2 b5 29. Bd4 Qd3 30. e6 Qd1+ 31. Kh2 Bd6+ 32. g3 fxe6 33.
Bg7 e5 34. Bxe5 Bxe5 35. Qxe5 Qd2 36. Kg2 d4 37. Qb8+ Kf7 38. Qb7+ Kf8 39.
Qc8+ Kg7 40. Qxa6 d3 41. Qb7+ Kh6 42. Qe4 Qe2 43. Qf4+ Kg7 44. Qd4+ Kg8 45.
Qd8+ Kg7 46. Qd7+ Kf8 47. Qd6+ Kf7 48. Qd5+ Kg7 49. Qd4+ Kh6 50. Qf4+ Kg7 51.
Qd4+ Kh6 52. Qf4+ *
The last move was draw by 3 fold repetition.
The curious thing is that if black moved his king to h5, I would have checked his king by moving my Queen to f3, in which the only defense is to keep allowing to be checked by me, luckily the 3 fold repetition kicked in, I wasn’t in the mood to chase his king all over the board. I suppose the 3 fold rule would kick in before the 50 move rule, but if it was OTB, it would be harder to keep track of repeating positions.
The queens are in mutual zugzwig as far as capturing the other queen, since the queen that captures queen will lose the game.
ANALYSIS POSITION:
Even though it didn’t happen in the game, it was kinda cool it was possible for both queens to be in mutual capture zugzwig. Capture avoidance is more accurate than zugzwig, but zugzwig sounded better.
-also note that Kg5? Loses to QxQ followed by pawn to f4 check.