[Event "BCL Division 1"] [Site "Leighton Buzzard"] [Date "2026.04.28"] [Round "?"] [White "Ozdemir, Kamil"] [Black "Kenworthy, Gary"] [Result "1-0"] [Annotator "Ozdemir, Kamil"] [ECO "B21"] [WhiteElo "1672"] [BlackElo "2119"] [PlyCount "67"] [EventType "game"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [SourceVersionDate "2024.02.13"] [WhiteTeam "Luton A"] [BlackTeam "Leighton Buzzard A"] 1. e4 {Best by test.} c5 {And my opponent played the sharp classical Sicilian Defence.} 2. d4 {Immediately looking to create an unsymmetrical game.} cxd4 3. c3 {I went for my reliable Smith-Morra gambit.} dxc3 {Gary Kenworthy confidently accepted the gambit.} 4. Nxc3 e6 5. Nf3 a6 6. Bc4 b5 7. Bb3 Bb7 8. O-O Ne7 {Black's last Bishop and Knight moves seem offbeat to me.} 9. Bg5 f6 10. Be3 Ng6 {I went for some ideas I'd come across in the book Mayhem in the Morra by Marc Esserman by playing} 11. Nd4 {and attack Black's e6-pawn with my f-pawn.} {In response, my opponent, prematurely went for b4 early to dislodge the Knight, thinking he could win the e4 pawn. However, it allowed the very thematic} b4 12. Nd5 $1 {As Marc Esserman would say “Knight in the face!”. The Knight here plays a few key roles, it controls 8 key squares around the board and defends the e4-pawn. Taking is far too dangerous as Gary Kenworthy was to demonstrate in this game.} exd5 $2 {and so the fun begins. Black takes what he thinks is a free Knight. However, this leaves his King open in the firing lines. More importantly, the pawn on d5 is defended well and acts as a blockade of all the Queenside pieces.} 13. exd5 Qa5 14. Nf5 Ne5 15. f4 Nf7 16. Re1 Kd8 17. Rc1 d6 18. Qe2 Nd7 19. Kh1 Nfe5 {After finding some tactical ideas, Gary Kenworthy is forced into giving back the Knight to prevent check-mate while his pieces are still immobile and the lone King stuck on d8.} 20. fxe5 dxe5 21. Red1 g6 22. Ng3 Bc5 23. Ne4 Bxe3 24. Qxe3 Qb6 25. Qxb6+ Nxb6 26. Nc5 Bc8 27. Ne6+ Ke7 28. d6+ Ke8 29. Nc7+ {After using my advantage with the passed d-pawn and my highly active pieces, I was able to force an inevitable fork on the King and Rook.} Kd8 30. Nxa8 Nxa8 {It was only a slow painful clean up afterwards with all of Garys pieces on the back-rank hopelessly defending the promotion square.} 31. Rc6 h5 32. d7 Bb7 33. Rxf6 Nc7 34. Rb6 {Here Gary resigned, as the final tactical blow-out would have seen him lose either a Bishop or a Rook.} 1-0