Bushka

Game 2 of a 'best of 19' match - not counting draws - between

Anneke Treep (NL), white, and Christiaan Freeling (NL), black.

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1. f25c64
2. ed3cd4
3. gxe4c54
4. fxd4d8x5This is the regular defence against 1. f25-c64, 2. ed3. Sacrificing the man on b4, either on the second move (bd4 instead of cd4) or on the third, is inevitable to create the hole on c5 that prevents white from capturing the 5-line. As it is, white must capture gxe5, hxe5 or ixe5, after which black captures two white men on the e-line to go one man up. Though this advantage will not be permanent, black initially dictates matters in all variations of this regular defence.
5. hxe5e9x6
6. f56f0x7Black can do this because there's no danger of white capturing the f-line. If white had played 3. hxe4, 4. gxd4, black would have been restricted to 6. ... f9x7, with white having the option to capture either the f-line or the 6-line. Here white decided to leave the option to capture the f-line to keep tempo moves in a later stadium. Strategically this implies steering towards a closed game.
7. gf5f9x6White must capture ixg6 or jxg6. The latter would allow black to proced with the tempting f86. The former doesn't. Can you see why?
8. jxg6?eg8Never follow your own advise!
9. g67xg98xBlack is 5 up in terms of pace and threatens to win a man with f86.
10. f34f86
11. ixg6g8h7xAfter 8. jxg6 the loss of a man was inevitable. White should have moved 8. ixg6.
12. h45e76
13. e13ac5
14. e24e65x
15. e34xd76
16. hg5bd5
17. e45de6
18. fe4??Admittedly Anneke resigned after submitting this move, even before black's reply. This unfortunate oversight turns a slow strangulation into sudden death.
d54
19. ed5xe65xWhite resigns ...

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