Prieto Takes Game Three to Draw Even, Kistler needs to only draw game four to win the championship!
Dave Kistler as White in Rd. 3 of 2011 Championship
- Adolfo Prieto as black in Rd. 3 of 2011 Championship
WCC 2011 Championship Match (Rd 3), Dec 13.2011
Game 3 was delayed a week due to Dr. Kistler’s professional schedule. Mr. Prieto used the time wisely to review game one. Dr. Kistler again opened with the Ruy Lopez line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6, and a repeat of game one was in the offering. Mr. Prieto found an improvement to his seventh move of game one with 7….Bd7, allowing a Queenside castle on 8…0-0-0. Dr. Kistler needed to adjust his game plan and attack the Black King: for instance, moving 13. N4b3 instead of the pawn push 13.f5 would have forced the exchange of the dark squared Bishops and offered a White attack on the diagonal g1-a7. White’s move 14.c3 again should have been 14.N4b3 forcing the exchange of the Bishops. White’s position, by now quite cramped, was further aggravated by move 15.N4f3. Black captured the Knight with 15….Bxf3, leading to his advantage of two minor pieces for a rook. At this point, with White trying to extradite himself from his somewhat cramped position, Black waited for just the right moment to spring into further action. White’s 23. Rg1 was the right moment for Black’s 23….Ng3+, forcing White to trade his Queen for the two Black minor pieces. Now Black, just needed to mop up for the upset win.
[Event “2011 WCC Championship”]
[Date “2011.13.12?”]
[Round “3”]
[White “Kistler, Dave”]
[Black “Prieto, Adolfo”]
[Result “0-1”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Qd6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8.
Be3 O-O-O 9. Nd2 Qg6 10. f4 Bc5 11. Qf3 Bg4 12. Qf2 Nf6 13. f5 Qh5 14. c3 Rhe8
15. N4f3 Bxf3 16. gxf3 Rxd2 17. Qxd2 Qg5+ 18. Kh1 Bxe3 19. Qe2 Nh5 20. Qg2 Qh6
21. Rad1 Bf4 22. Rfe1 Bd6 23. Rg1 Ng3+ 24. Qxg3 Bxg3 25. Rxg3 g6 26. fxg6 hxg6
27. Rg2 Qe3 28. Rf1 Rd8 29. Rgf2 Rd2 30. Kg2 Rxf2+ 31. Rxf2 g5 32. a3 Qf4 33.
h3 a5 34. Re2 b5 35. Rf2 Kb7 36. Re2 Kb6 37. Rf2 c5 38. Re2 b4 39. axb4 cxb4
40. cxb4 axb4 41. Rf2 c5 42. Re2 c4 43. Rc2 Kb5 44. Rf2 c3 45. bxc3 bxc3 46.
Re2 Kc4 47. e5 Kd3 48. Rf2 c2[/pgn]
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