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ANNOTATED GAME
2008 Free Missouri Class Championships
Holmes, Dan (1618) vs. Dutiel, Tony (1889)
Annotated by: kansasjayhawk (1666)
Chess opening: QGD (D09), Albin counter-gambit, 5.g3
Holmes, Dan (1618) vs. Dutiel, Tony (1889)
Annotated by: kansasjayhawk (1666)
Chess opening: QGD (D09), Albin counter-gambit, 5.g3
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30. Qb8+ |
I saw that I likely had a perpetual check with Qb8 Kh7 Qb1 , and I was seriously considering taking it here. I decided to make the first move of it so I could see what to do from there. | ||||
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30... Kh7 |
The first day of the tournament had been rough for me, and I had lost about 20 rating points. I realized that I could get them all back if I won this game, and I could also tell that my opponent did not like his position. I decided to keep pressing. | ||||
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31. Qf4 Rd6 |
I think it was here that my opponent offered me a draw. I had already made the decision to play for a win, and I was sticking with it. I knew that my opponent did not offer draws in positions he thought were unclear, so this must have meant that he was nervous. I realized I had the psychological edge here. | ||||
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32. Qe4+ Kg8 33. Rb1 |
Qe7 followed by Rd1 would have won material here. | ||||
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33... Rd8 34. Rb7 Rf8 35. Qg6 |
At this point, I had 38 minutes remaining. Although I had a lot of pressure on the critical g7 square, Black was starting to develop threats of his own against the f3 square. | ||||
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35... Qe5 36. Qxc6 |
After the game, my opponent told me that taking this pawn gave him a lot of counterplay. However, I saw no better move. I didn't like 36.Qxa7 because of the reply ...Qb2. | ||||
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36... Kh8 |
White now needs to be careful not to leave the rook undefended and lose it to ...Qe4 . | ||||
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37. Qd5 Qf6 38. f3 |
I now had 32 minutes left. | ||||
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38... Qc3 39. Qd4 |
I do not believe that I could have won this game without these mate threats. I was now trying to trade queens and make my pawn plus count, but with so many checks available to Black, this was not so easy of a task. | ||||
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39... Qc2+ 40. Kh3 Qf5+ 41. Qg4 Qe5 42. f4 Qa1 43. Qe2 |
I thought that ...Qf1 Kh4 g5 was threatened here, not realizing that after Kh5, Black has no queen checks. | ||||
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43... Qa6 44. Qb2 Qe6+ 45. Kg2 Rg8 |
Finally defending against the mate threat, but also taking away an escape square from the queen, which becomes important later. | ||||
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46. Qd4 Qc6+ 47. Qd5 |
24 minutes remaining. | ||||
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47... Qa6 48. Rd7 Qa2+ 49. Kh3 Qe2 50. Re7 h5 |
This move seems to fatally weaken Black. | ||||
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51. Qg5 a5 52. Ra7 |
Black's queen cannot leave the h5 pawn undefended upon pain of mate, and Qf1 leads simply to Kh4. I was down to 20 minutes here (while my opponent had 57 minutes), but I felt like I was finally almost out of the woods. | ||||
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52... Qf3 53. Rxa5 Re8 54. Qxh5+ |
Now that the queens are coming off, the rest should be simple for White. Black resigned here, and I breathed a sigh of relief. | ||||
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