So Superfraggle has drawn first blood in CalgaryPuck Daily Tournament II:
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/...3?tab=analysis
Superfraggle is a London player, so no surprise to see “Doozre” go with that opening again. Very solid opening from both players, that basically transposed into a Queen’s gambit declined/Nimzo-Indian, with black exchanging the dark square bishop for white’s pawn on e3.
Karim then got an early advantage, first winning a pawn won a pawn with 10. Nxc3, and then trading knights and forcing white to capture back with the king and concede castling rights (12. Nd2, Nxd2 - threatening White’s queen on b3, and 13. Kxd2 is basically forced).
Things looked good for black until later in the mid game, when white won a rook with 17 … Qf6, 18. Ke1, Rb8, 19. Bxb8.
Black was still in it for a while after that—it was a good fight between two strong players. Doozre finished it off with some style though, finding a nice tactic with 25. Be5, after which Qh5 is very menacing due to the absolute pin on the g7 pawn. After that, Qxh6 leaves black with no good options other than trading queens.
Very fun game to look at.