I had hoped my opponent would push for the win because it was the only way he could lose.

kant  thanks for the game!

I am trying to defend my Ponziani championship against the dreaded Expertise .  

Dave, any comment on the Ng1 game.  You seemed very interested in seeing it.

kant

Your annotations are confusing to me as to what was actually played and what are notes.  I am working on the game.

kant   You went down one of the main side lines with 8. Ng1  e3!? and White only got a very small advantage from the opening. I followed the game to and through move 18.  Thank you for posting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

I will re-post it without the chess.com engine analysis.

Recent Vote Chess victory:

Kudos and Congratulations to my former Vote Chess Team, Ponziani Power, for winning their 14th in a row!

No matter how much some like to downgrade the opening, it sometimes gives good practical results.

It is not the best opening as The Ruy Lopez and English and Queens Gambit and 1. Nf3 are no doubt better. But it gives good practical results.

Annotations by Anand.

After 6. Nxe5  Ng6  the best moves for White are 7. Qd4 or 7. Qf3

the move 7.Bd3 is given ?! in Play the Ponziani and the above game is in that book.

It is often a mistake to play for a draw with White against strong opposition. [if that is what White thought he was doing--he just played inferior moves]  

I am hoping some gm will play 7. Qd4 some day and play for a win.

[Event "ICC 3 0"]

[Site "Internet Chess Club"]

[Date "2013.10.31"]

[Round "1"]

[White "WIM Svetla Yordanova"]

[Black "BrianWall"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ICCResult "White resigns"]

[WhiteElo "1904"]

[BlackElo "2047"]

[Opening "Ponziani: Fraser defense"]

[ECO "C44"]

[NIC "KP.05"]

[Time "04:29:08"]

[TimeControl "180+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. d4 Nxe4 5. d5 Bc5 6. Qe2 Nxf2 7. dxc6 Nxh1

8. Nxe5 O-O 9. g3 dxc6 10. Bg2 Nf2 11. Be3 Bxe3 12. Qxe3 Ng4 13. Nxg4 Bxg4

14. Nd2 Re8 15. Ne4 f5 {White resigns} 0-1

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WIM Svetla Yordanova vs Brian Wall     Ponziani Fraser defense 

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https://denverchess.com/Games/ViewPGN?id=4885

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WIM Svetla Yordanova vs Brian Wall     Ponziani Fraser defense 

  click and move       with embedded notes

https://denverchess.com/Games/ViewPGN?id=4886

obviously 6. Qe2 is a terrible move.

Canutus, i believe even black made mistake going into this line. Ofcourse Qe2 is probably blunder of a game, he should capture knight and Qd5 follows, if pawn f2 is taken. Hard to believe titled player would blunder such well known line in opening with so little lines to learn... Kinda embarassment, because she chose to play ponziani.