Wolf Attack!

We begin with a brilliant attacking game played by Slek in the FICS team-league. The pgn viewer from chessbase doesn't seem to work (see end of article), so I am showing various positions throughout the game.

White: behzadxxx (rating: 2060), Black: Slek (rating: 1904) The game began with some kind of Benoni. Afer 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nf3 g6, we had the following position.

The next moves were 7. h3 Bg7 8. e3 O-O 9. Be2 Na6 10. O-O Rb8 11. Re1 Bf5 12. Nd2 Re8 13. Bb5 Bd7 14. Bf1 b5 15. a4?! b4!?
The first interesting moment came on the 15th move. White pushed a4 exploiting the pin against Black's knight. Black responded with b4 counterattacking W's knight.

White now played 16. Nb1?, a big mistake following up on the earlier error of not playing a pre-emptive a4. As blore may have said, if an opponent has blundered once, he is likely to do it again.
Black then exchanged off his LSB with an interesting maneuver (17...Bc8!?) and put pressure on White's pawns on d5 and e4. After 16. Ncb1 Nc7 17. e4 Bc8 18. Bd3 Ba6 19. Bxa6 Nxa6, White decided it was time for his second double-blunder, and played 20. Nb3? Nxe4 21. Qd3? setting the stage for Black to show some real fireworks.

Here, Slek played 21...Qh4! and the White King's final countdown begins. After W responded with 22. g3 (22. Be3 was better), B played 22...Nxg3. Since W's rook is en prise, he played 23. Rxe8+ Rxe8 24. fxg3.

Play continued with 24...Qxh3 25. N1d2 c4! 26. Nxc4 Nc5! What is the idea behind Black's last two moves?

After 27. Nxc5, the idea becomes clear with Black's next, brilliant move: 27...Bd4+! If W takes the bishop, then he gets mated with 28... Re1+ and 29... Qf1#.

White tried 28. Be3, but after 28...Qxg3+ 29. Kf1 Qf3+ 30. Kg1 dxc5 31. Re1, once again Black found a killer move.

The move was 31...Re4. Instead of resigning immediately, W played on for 4 more moves, but the result was inevitable. The rest was 32. Qxe4 Qxe4 33. d6 Qg4+ 34. Kf2 Qf4+ 35. Kg2 Bxe3 White resigns.
A great win for Slek and the team. Starting with 21...Qh4, Black unleashed a series of powerful and forcing moves without giving a single chance to White.

The pgn viewer which doesn't work at present.

[Event "FICS rated standard game"] [Site "FICS freechess.org"] [FICSGamesDBGameNo "398842440"] [White "behzadxxx"] [Black "Slek"] [WhiteElo "2060"] [BlackElo "1904"] [WhiteRD "70.3"] [BlackRD "31.5"] [TimeControl "2700+45"] [Date "2016.09.04"] [ECO "A61"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nf3 g6 7. h3 Bg7 8. e3 O-O 9. Be2 Na6 10. O-O Rb8 11. Re1 Bf5 12. Nd2 Re8 13. Bb5 Bd7 14. Bf1 b5 15. a4 b4 16. Ncb1 Nc7 17. e4 Bc8 18. Bd3 Ba6 19. Bxa6 Nxa6 20. Nb3 Nxe4 21. Qd3 Qh4 22. g3 Nxg3 23. Rxe8+ Rxe8 24. fxg3 Qxh3 25. N1d2 c4 26. Nxc4 Nc5 27. Nxc5 Bd4+ 28. Be3 Qxg3+ 29. Kf1 Qf3+ 30. Kg1 dxc5 31. Re1 Re4 32. Qxe4 Qxe4 33. d6 Qg4+ 34. Kf2 Qf4+ 35. Kg2 Bxe3 {White resigns} 0-1