Tomorrow afternoon I am attending the Orange County Chess Meetup Group. Usually a day or so I play over some old games to enjoy and sharpen my game, but mostly to enjoy them.
Tomorrow I just may play the Italian. So many people now just want to respond 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 with 3..h6?!. Of which the correct response is 4.d4.
So I found a pair of games from when Yahoo! used to let allow chess games on their servers. Both of them were blitz games and I usually do quite well on blitz games.
So here those two games.
Escalante-“kevinairthompson”
Blitz Game, Yahoo, Mar. 24 2006
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6 4.d4 f6 5.dxe5 Nxe5 6.Nxe5 fxe5 7.Qh5+ g6 8.Qxg6+ Ke7 9.Qf7+ Kd6 10.Qd5+ Ke7 11.Qxe5mate 1-0
Escalante-“heliiom”
Blitz Game, Yahoo, June 12 2006
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Nxd4 6.Qxd4 Nf6 7.e5 Ng8 8.Nc3 d6 9.exd6 cxd6 10.O-O Nf6 11.Re1+ Be7 12.Bf4 O-O 13.Rad1 Qa5? (13…Be6 14.Bxe6 fxe6 15.Rxe6 Qd7 16.Ree1 Rad8 17.Nd5! and Black is still lost.) 14.Bxd6 Bxd6 15.Qxd6 Qg5 16.Qxf8+! Kxf8 17.Rd8+ Ne8 18.Rexe8mate 1-0
The Gambit Chess Player 