# 2025.09.19 Chess is like Football: Bills vs Dolphins

- Link: https://coffeefordessert.com/2026/09/04/2024-09-12-2025-09-18-chess-is-like-football-bills-vs-dolphins/
- Published: 2026-09-04T04:45:00-05:00
- Author: Coach Chad

Bills vs Dolphins. To win you have to not lose.

1.e4 g5. After 12…Nxd4 White had 32 legal moves. Nd6+ was one of them. White took
the queen. The clock still ran out. 0-1 on time.

That is the penalty after the punt. You grabbed the queen. You still had to play.

Never Give Up. Keep going.

>  [Event “Live Chess”]
>  [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2025.09.19”] [Round “?”] [White“
> Guest2089601302”] [Black “Guest2824650116”] [Result “0-1”] [TimeControl “120+1”][
> WhiteElo “1600”] [BlackElo “1600”] [Termination “Guest2824650116 won on time”][
> Link “[https://www.chess.com/game/143306968940?move=1”%5D](https://www.chess.com/game/143306968940?move=1”%5D)
> 1. e4 g5 2. Nf3 g4 3. Ne5 h5 4. d3 Bg7 5. Nc4 b5 6. Ncd2 Nc6 7. Na3 b4 8. Nac4
> Ba6 9. Be2 Bxc4 10. Nxc4 Qb8 11. O-O Qb5 12. d4 Nxd4 13. Nd6+ cxd6 14. Bxb5 Nxb5
> 15. a3 bxa3 16. Ra2 axb2 17. Bxb2 Bc3 18. Ba3 Nf6 19. Qb1 a6 20. Bb4 Nxe4 21. 
> Qb3 Nd2 22. Qa4 Nxf1 (22… Nd4 23. Bxc3 Ne2+ 24. Kh1 Nxc3 25. Qb4 Nxa2 26. Qxd2
> Rh6 (26… O-O) (26… Rg8)) 23. Kxf1 O-O 24. g3 Rfc8 25. Kg2 Rc4 0-1

I wish you the best of luck!!

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