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ANNOTATED GAME
Power of the Passed Pawn!
chizznappy (1305) vs. sycilmathai (1214)
Annotated by: sycilmathai (1200)
Chess opening: French (C00), Wing gambit
chizznappy (1305) vs. sycilmathai (1214)
Annotated by: sycilmathai (1200)
Chess opening: French (C00), Wing gambit
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24... Rbf8 |
A drunken oversight by Black. Obviously better was 24.Rbe8. | ||||
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25. Qxe6+ Kc7 26. Re5 Qd6 |
Black would like to exchanges of Queens asap. If White gets the Black king to the b file, then White will check him using his rook currently on the a file. From there, matings threats will surely follow. | ||||
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27. Qe7+ Qxe7 |
whoosh....close call. A little too close for comfort. with the exchange of queens now and the passed pawns, this game Black is doing well. | ||||
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28. Rxe7+ Kd6 29. Rae1 |
As said before, my plan was to march down the pawns. With the pawn blunder and now my rooks out of action it seems like White could possibly draw the game, or at least even up some material. | ||||
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29... Rfd8 |
took me a long while to find that move. i've been finding that quiet moves are 1.difficult to find 2.very effective! | ||||
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30. Re1e5 c3 |
a common thread in endgame theory is this: the player who can centralize (get the king to one of the four center squares or as close as possible) the king in the endgame has more space, and as a result more control of the whole board. as in the opening where we try to castle asap, in the endgame its a good idea to centralize the king asap. Here white could have a plan of f3, Kf2, Ke3, etc. Of course, there are some exceptions: you might take a look at this position here and say "the centralized black king is in jeopardy. Though, even with the two white rooks owning the e file and close to the enemy king, there are no significant mating threats. Indeed, as GM Mike Christiansen has said "the threat is often greater than the execution". Nevertheless, Black is using his king as an active piece: claiming territory and aiding the safety of the passed pawns. | ||||
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31. Re5e1 |
White could have kept that rook on e5. Instead, 31.R(7)c6 and eventually exchanging d rook. After the king takes on, i.e. Kxd7, then the e5 rook can now take the pawn on the a file, after which his king could march in and save the day. Note that the Black king is quarantined below the 5th rank because of the White rook on a5. Even so, black still has a chance to quarantine the White king by playing Re8- allowing no chance for the king to come in and gobble up the pawns | ||||
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31... d3 32. Re7e3 Kc5 33. Rc1 |
White couldn't have drawn the game here, but instead of shipping the e1 Rook over to the c file checking and rechecking the king from the efile might have forced Black to exchange one of the rooks, giving better chances of using his king to stop the pawn march. The Black king is in a precarious position here of protecting his d pawn and not allowing White to draw the game. A chess tactician would called that "overloading the defender". In this case, the king. | ||||
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33... c2 34. Kf1 |
too late for the white king to get in on the action. | ||||
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34... Rhe8 35. g4 |
better here for White is 35.Re1. If Black plays 35...d2, then 36.Rxc2 Kb4 37.Rd1! Leaving Blacks dream of queening a pawn in the dust. NOW White would actually be winning as he has a huge pawn majority on the kingside. His pawn grabbing from earlier on would come in handy now. NOTE that while material is even here, the advanced pawns of Black have a value of a minor piece or major piece. White is having to expend all his forces to keep the black pawns from queening. This concept of "overloading" is providing Black with more and more space on the board. | ||||
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35... Rxe3 36. fxe3 Kc4 37. h4 Kc3 38. Kf2 Rf8+ |
Getting the king out of the way as far as possible. | ||||
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39. Kg3 d2 |
now the fatal strike. here on out is just standard endgame technique- which is my nemesis. | ||||
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40. Rxc2+ Kxc2 41. g5 d1=Q |
the material advantage will now be decisive. | ||||
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42. e4 Qf3+ 43. Kh2 Rd8 |
this seems the fastest way to checkmate. | ||||
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44. e5 Rd2+ 45. Kg1 Qd1# |
Great game, with a lot to learn from each side. Good example of the power a passed pawn. Had White not given up material in the beginning of the game it would have given him a more solid position in the center and and equality of position. There's alot missing from this annotation. Any thoughts? Thanks to whoever might have actually read this whole annotation. Thanks alot Chizznappy for playing- | ||||
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