South African Closed Championship (1)
Kempton Park, 2003
1. e4e5 2. Nf3Nc6 3. Bc4Nf6The Two Knights Defence.
4. d4exd4 5. e5d5 6. Bb5Ne4 7. Nxd4Bc5 8. Be3Theory dictates 8...Bd7. Watu's Castling move led to the speculative exchange sacrifice, and spells trouble.
8... O-O 9. Nxc6bxc6 10. Bxc5Nxc5 11. Bxc6Ba6 12. Nc3d4 13. Bxa8Qxa8 14. Qxd4Rd8 15. Qg4h5 16. Qf3Qb8 17. Rd1Rxd1+ This position was reached in Kobese-Van Tonder Match. Then play continued17... Re8 18. Qe3(Watu himself during the postmortem suggested 18. Rd5 as an improvement.)
18... f6! This gave black compensation for the sacrifices. Then Black went on to win.
18. Nxd1Qb4+ 19. Qc3Qg4 20. f3Qxg2 21. Nf2Nd7 22. Qc6Nb6 23. Qe8+Kh7 24. Qxf7Qg5 25. f4Qg2 26. Qxh5+Kg8 27. Qg4Qd5 28. Rg1Qf7 29. Qg6Qd7 Perhaps Kobese underestimated his opponent by overlooking this move. From here it was downhill.
30. Ne4Kf8 31. Nc5Qh3 32. Qxg7+ [Annotations by NM Stanley Chumfwa (Zambia) - in South Africa]1-0