[Event "2022 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Champions"] [Site "Almaty"] [Date "2022.12.26"] [Round "3.45"] [White "Tang, Andrew"] [Black "Mamedov, Rauf"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2439"] [BlackElo "2578"] [Annotator "Lang,JJ"] [Variant "Standard"] [ECO "D34"] [Opening "Tarrasch Defense: Classical Variation"] [StudyName "World Rapid Championship"] [ChapterName "Tang, Andrew - Mamedov, Rauf"] [ChapterURL "https://lichess.org/study/okgre2NA/c9qUjIbk"] [Orientation "white"] { [%evp 0,70,31,25,18,18,42,45,45,31,35,20,17,-10,16,23,13,26,31,27,27,18,20,35, 35,35,-5,-19,-24,-14,-55,-30,0,0,-12,12,17,6,41,51,99,91,92,92,109,122,132,138, 151,146,184,152,228,187,218,191,204,156,203,196,227,257,248,346,354,26,14,0,0, -441,-440,-674,-729] The Azeri sacrifices a pawn in the Tarrasch, but Tang is prepared and able to trade off queens and reach a position where he should be in no danger. From there, he puts on a clinic, bullying his opponent, until Black sets one final trap with many perpetual checks lurking. Tang blunders into one, and then blunders out of one into a mating net. Anybody else could blame time pressure, but the American hyper-bullet champion surely wishes he had this one back. } 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. c4 e6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. g3 Nf6 7. Bg2 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. a3 Ne4 11. Nxd5 Be6 12. Ne3 f5 13. b4 Qf6 14. Bb2 Qxb2 15. bxc5 f4 16. Qc2 Qxc2 17. Nxc2 Rad8 18. Nb4 Nc3 19. Rfe1 Bc4 20. Nxc6 bxc6 21. Ne5 Nxe2+ 22. Kh1 Ba6 23. Nxc6 Rd2 24. Rad1 Rb2 25. Ne5 h5 26. Bd5+ Kh7 27. Be4+ Kg8 28. Ng6?! (28. Nd3!) 28... Re8 (28... Nc3!) 29. Bf3 fxg3 30. hxg3 Kf7 31. Bxh5 Kf6 32. Nf4?? (32. Rd6+ Kg5 33. Kg2! (33. Rxa6?? Nxg3+!)) 32... Bb7+ 33. Kh2 Nxf4 34. Rd6+?? (34. gxf4 Rxe1 35. Rxe1 Rxf2+ 36. Kg3 Rg2+ 37. Kh3 g5) 34... Kf5 35. Bg6+ Kg4 { 0-1 Black wins. } 0-1