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ANNOTATED GAME
Winning the bishop vs. knight endgame
claespiper (1650) vs. tag1153 (1496)
Annotated by: claespiper (1724)
Chess opening: Scandinavian defence, Lasker variation (B01)
claespiper (1650) vs. tag1153 (1496)
Annotated by: claespiper (1724)
Chess opening: Scandinavian defence, Lasker variation (B01)
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21. Bc2 |
Preparing another battery with the queen up front. | ||||||||
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21... Rad8 |
Nice centrally placed rook. | ||||||||
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22. Rad1 |
I mimic black. | ||||||||
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22... c5 |
Opening up the center. Now I see that 20...a6 might have been played to remove b5 from the bishop. | ||||||||
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23. dxc5 Qxc5 24. Qf3 |
Attacking b7, expecting it to move forward. | ||||||||
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24... Rxd1 |
Simplifying the game. | ||||||||
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25. Rxd1 |
But White gets the open d-file. | ||||||||
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25... b6 |
Moving it out of harms way. | ||||||||
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26. Qd3 |
Eying d8, h7 and threatening a6. | ||||||||
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26... a5 |
Both queenside pawns are now on black squares, safe from the white bishop. I hope I have won something by forcing them up the board... | ||||||||
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27. Qd4 |
White offer a trade of queens. If the queens are removed my rook is better than Blacks and as we have pawns on both sides on a open board the bishop is considered to have a slight edge over the knight. | ||||||||
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27... Qxd4 |
Black accepts the offer and Whites queens running days are finally over ;-) | ||||||||
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28. Rxd4 |
Both the queens are now off the board. | ||||||||
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28... Nd5 |
Where it should be placed, centrally. | ||||||||
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29. Be4 |
"Go away!" A key principle playing bishop vs. knight is to deny the knight any good central outposts. This move also put the bishop on the long white diagonal. | ||||||||
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29... Nf4 |
"I'll move...". A bad move would have been 29... Rd8 which would loose to 30. c4 | ||||||||
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30. Bf3 |
"You there! Move!" Attacking the knight with the rook and removing squares e2 and h5 from the knight. | ||||||||
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30... e5 |
Forcing my rook to move as well as placing the pawn on a black square AND protecting the knight. Good move. | ||||||||
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31. Rc4 |
Retreats to a square that still cover e4 as I don't want a pawn stab that forces by bishop off the long diagonal. I'm not afraid of a move like 31...b5. It will be met by 32. Rc5 forking two pawns. | ||||||||
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31... Nd3 |
Repositioning the knight as well as forcing me to move the b-pawn. But the d-file was free. 31...Rd8 might have been better. | ||||||||
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