Meitner-Mieses Gambit | BRILLIANT TACTICS vs Deadpool!
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I don't normally do reviews of games against bots, but this game shows a very good demonstration of the tactical ideas that come out of one of my favourite lines in the Vienna Game, the Meitner-Mieses Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Qg4 Qf6 5. Nd5)! This comes out of "full copycat" variation of the Max Lange Defense and as per my previous posts, "never go full copycat"!
Nd5 is a very strong tactical theme in the Vienna Game generally, but particularly with the Meitner-Mieses Gambit line. Indeed, it arguably isn't really a gambit as White isn't worse after the move! Black is basically goaded, forced even to go down a very aggressive path with their queen where they are almost trapped! Black has only one good move that isn't immediately losing, which is the committal (5... Qxf2+). White must play the obvious (6. Kd1) and suddenly Black is in some serious trouble as it is very much overextended. Black is facing an attack from a potential Nxc7+ which is a fork of the king and rook. It is also facing Qxg7 with the queen infiltrating onto the second rank with the rook trapped in the corner on the other side!
For the second time in this very short game, Black's best move is Kf8, which is a difficult move to find which negates White's attack. It's White's only good move - everything else approaches [+3] for White!
In this match, Black played the understandable (6... g6) which is a mistake at around [+4]. Considering that Black is up a point of material, it demonstrates the devastatingly bad position Black is in!
We now have (7. Nh3) and the black queen is forced to (7... Qd4) as the only safe square. We now have (8. d3) closing the door on the queen in the centre of the board with the trap sprung next turn! Black is forced to move their dark square bishop to give the queen an escape square, but it isn't obvious which is the best square for the bishop. Black plays (8... Bd6), and inaccuracy [+5]. After (9. c3), the black queen is forced to another single safe square (9... Qc5).
Another developing move and the queen is forced to the edge of the board (10. Be3 Qa5). We continuing to attack the queen each turn with developing and forcing the queen to move (11. b4 Qa4+ 12. Bb3 Qa6). In the first 12 moves, Black moved their queen SEVEN times!
And now with the queen on the a6 square, the knight on d5 wields its power yet again. A capture on the c7 square is now a FAMILY FORK, demonstrating why moving the king to f8 was tactically so advantageous for Black many moves ago. I moved (13. Qf3) - my queen and light square bishop are both looking at the f7 pawn.
Black misses the tactic and I now have (14. Nxc7+) - a brilliant move! Black's bishop on d6 cannot capture the knight as it must defend the f8 square. Otherwise, I have Qxf7+ and then Qf8# - back rank mate! However, as it's a family fork, the king must move out of check and Black's queen on a5 is captured with no compensation (14... Kd8 15. Nxa6)!
Against the bot, the rest of the game was just mop up. The bot played annoyingly well - I lost to the Deadpool bot several times before this game. Even in this game, I didn't win for another 27 moves! However, it was a matter of forcing material trades and then creating a mating net with my overwhelming material piece advantage in the endgame. GG!
Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/computer/75240539
