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My most notable win last year was against Nor Ilhamuddin last year after I “unfairly” booked up on a specific line in the Mokdern. It felt like cheating then because more than half the game was played based on memorisation of the video I just watched.

Ilham is playing for Eon Bank this time around and like me is also playing board one. With a “rematch” tonight I was sure Ilham would want sweet revenge for the previous defeat. The difference was now I am White and there’s no way to play the Mokdern

Instead, I played a Vienna line which I also lost to Ilham some years back. I repeated the variation again because I had gone thru that game right after my loss with the chess engines and found some improvements. After that I used that line a lot in online games so I was very familiar with it. I was lucky the same line was played and Ilham made some inacuracies. I quickly gained an advantage in the opening which carried forward to the middle game.

However being a patzer, I knew my luck wouldn’t hold as there were still heavy pieces such as the Queen and two rooks. I offered a draw from what I thought was a position of strength – just before I doubled rooks (19. Re2) against black’s backward pawn. Of course, the draw offer was refused

Ilham knew as well as I that I most likely will not survive the complications of the middlegame.

Here is the complete game

[Event "2nd DATCC League"]
[Site "Wilayah Kompleks, KL"]
[Date "2010.01.05"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Andrew Ooi"]
[White ELO "1834"]
[Black "Nur Ilhamuddin"]
[Black ELO "2044"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C29"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Qf3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Nc6 7. Qg3 Bf5 8.
Bd3 Bg6 9. Bf4 Bxd3 10. cxd3 g6 11. Nf3 Bg7 12. O-O O-O 13. Rae1 Qd7 14. e6
fxe6 15. Bxc7 Rae8 16. d4 Ne7 17. Be5 Nf5 18. Qh3 h6 19. Re2 Nd6 20. Bxd6 Qxd6
21. Rfe1 Rf6 22. Ne5 Kh7 23. Qg3 g5 24. Ng4 Rf4 25. Qd3+ Kh8 26. Ne5 Bxe5 27.
Rxe5 Kg7 28. Qg3 Qe7 29. Qh3 Qf7 30. Qe3 Rf8 31. h3 Rf1+ 32. Rxf1 Qxf1+ 33. Kh2
Rf2 34. Qg3 Rf6 35. Qe3 Kf7 36. Qe2 Qf4+ 37. Kg1 Qc1+ 38. Qe1 Qxb2 39. Re2 Qb6
40. Qc1 Qd6 41. Qb1 Qa6 42. Rb2 b6 43. Qh7+ Kf8 44. Qh8+ Ke7 45. Qg7+ Rf7 46.
Qxh6 Qf1+ 47. Kh2 Qf4+ 48. g3 Qc1 49. Re2 Rf6 50. Qg7+ Rf7 51. Qe5 Rf6 52. Qc7+
Kf8 53. Qd8+ Kg7 54. Qd7+ Kf8 55. Qd8+ Kg7 56. Qd7+ Kf8

1/2-1/2

Of course if you go thru the game using chess engines you’ll find plenty of missed chances for White and Black(17. Qd6! was one and 20. Qg3! is another). Thankfully when I blundered a pawn, it wasn’t bad enough to lose the game.It was a huge relief when Ilham offered the draw after the repeated Queen checks.

As an added bonus my team, DATCC, managed to beat Eon Bank 2.5-1.5 which also made our total points 13 which was the same as Eon Bank. However we just pipped EON to finish 8th place because of the higher Match Point.

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