[Event "friendly game"]
[Site "Warsaw POL"]
[Date "2009.01.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Teresa"]
[Black "Klara"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "800"]
[BlackElo "600"]
[EventDate "2009.01.01"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[Annotator "Daddy"]
[FEN "6k1/p3B1p1/1p5p/3P1Q2/q1p5/2P2P2/5KPP/2n5 b - - 0 41"]

{Klara employed her favourite Nimzo-Indian Defence but blocked the center 
and found herself in trouble. Facing imminent resignation she decided to 
give a couple of spite checks.} 
41...Qa2+ {As every toddler Klara likes to move her horses around the 
board much and she is fond of checks too, but she saw that the gung-ho 
style attack leads to nowhere after } 
    ( 41...Nd3+ 42.Kg3 Qc2 43.d6 Qf2+ 44.Kh3 $16 )
42.Kg3 
    ( 42.Ke3 {Teresa, who has just finished reading Nimzowitsch's 'My 
    System' is dilligent pupil which is why her first thought was to 
    advance the King but then she saw that after} 42...Qe2+ {she would 
    lose the piece and the game.} )
42...Qd2 {Klara just touched the Knight with the little pads of her 
fingers but seeing my significant eyes she let the piece go and moved the 
Queen... I did not protest because my girls have just learned how to play 
and one has to be understanding, so there is no touched piece rule.} 
    ( 42...Ne2+ {She first saw that after} 43.Kg4 {White has nothing 
    better than perpetual check because of mate threats.} 
        ( {But she missed } 43.Kh4 {which wins for White, because after} 
        43...Nxc3 44.d6 Qxg2 $2 45.d7 Qxh2+ {White King escapes!} 46.Kg4 
        h5+ 47.Kg5 Qg3+ 48.Kxh5 Qh2+ 49.Bh4 $18 {and mate follows.} )
    43...Nxc3 44.Qf8+ Kh7 45.Qf5+ $14 )
43.d6 Qe1+ {Believe this young lady is just 10 months old! While crumpling
one of captured pieces she realized that yet another check is useless for 
Black.} 
    ( 43...Ne2+ 44.Kg4 h5+ 45.Kxh5 Nf4+ 46.Kg4 $18 {Checks are over, game 
    is lost.} )
44.Kg4 {Whenever a kid has to find the best square for the King it is 
usually in a fix. Not different this time, Teresa looked at me helplessly 
in hopes for support. I just nodded dully knowing that any other choice 
than Kg4 makes very little difference whatsoever. } 
    ( 44.Kh3 Nd3 45.Qd5+ Kh7 )
44...Nd3 {Klara became little irritated. Not only infants like her are 
very tasty, but she doesn't speak yet so she couldn't express her 
disappointment at the position. 'Agh boo boo' - she just babbled merrily 
and moved her Knight, probably because she saw nothing better at the 
moment and she really fancies these pieces.} 45.Qd5+ 
    ( {Yesterday I learned the girls the fork, which is why she was afraid
    of} 45.Qf8+ Kh7 46.d7 Ne5+ 47.Kh3 Nxd7 {She only didn't notice that 
    now} 48.Qf5+ {wins for White!} )
45...Kh7 46.d7 {'Bathtime! Children!' - mummy's sonorous voice could be 
heard through the wall. My well-mannered, older girl wanted to finish the 
game as quickly as one can. She advanced her pawn with care peeking 
triumphantly at her sister.} 46...Qe5 $1 {Klara seemed resigned. Not only 
she was losing on the board but probably she was just thinking of sucking 
a pint of milk at her mother's breast. Actually I think she wanted to 
capture Bd7, but she is just too short to reach the back ranks so she 
truncated her Lady's route on e5.} 
    ( 46...Ne5+ 47.Qxe5 Qxe5 48.d8=Q Qxc3 49.Qd5 Qb2 50.Qe4+ Kh8 51.Kg3 c3
    )
47.Qxd3+ $4 {'What?' - yelled on Teresa. - 'She's decoying my Queen, 
daddy! That's unfair!...' - her blue, almond eyes filled with tears. 
Suddenly she saw she couldn't take the Queen because of fork. So she just 
took the Knight. Checking and capturing are kid's favourite ways of 
playing (you must have known that, haven't you?), so 2 in 1 was here good 
enough for her. } 
    ( 47.Qxe5 Nxe5+ 48.Kf5 Nxd7 $10 )
47...cxd3 48.d8=Q {Teresa cast offended glance at her sister. She knew 
that three queenside pawns cannot be stopped, so all she was left was to 
escape with the perpetual check. Even though she never heard of Bobby 
Fischer vs Najdorf story (Leipzig 1960) she 
brushed all the pieces off the board in a fury. - 'That's a draw, you 
naughty kid! Daddy, Klara is bad girl, DAAAADY! I should have won this 
one. Daaaadddy... gimme a hug...' - she kept whining. Klara was amused. 
She actually didn't know what IS a draw, but she really liked all the 
pieces scattered over the sofa. That was fun! She is very little girl and 
chess pieces are primarily nice toys and not abstract symbols for her. - 
'Don't worry darling' - I gave Teresa tender look. - 'She wasn't 100% 
fair. In the middlegame she stole and chew one of your pawns!' } 1/2-1/2

