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ANNOTATED GAME
Riot King Re-match!
gm_dursley (2186) vs. paddl3s (1921)
Annotated by: paddl3s (1200)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B21), Grand Prix attack
gm_dursley (2186) vs. paddl3s (1921)
Annotated by: paddl3s (1200)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B21), Grand Prix attack
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57. Ka5 |
I think this is the right move. 57 b4 Kb6 Is more comfortable for black | |||||
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57... Ne3 |
The knight starts It's journey towards the kingside pawns | |||||
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58. b4+ Kc6 |
The king must stay back and stop (or delay for long enough to win via the kingside) the queenside pawns | |||||
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59. a4 |
White gets caught up in advancing his queenside pawns as quickly as possible and (I think) makes a small positional error. Black now has some juicy checks and should be able to win at least one of the queenside pawns.. | |||||
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59... Nc4+ 60. Ka6 Nb2+ 61. b5+ |
The other option is 61 Ka5 .. Bd1 62 Ne5 But once again, I feel white makes the correct selection | |||||
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61... Kc5 |
The correct move. Keeping pressure on both pawns and preventing a5. If 61... Kc7 62 Nf4! ... Bf1 63 Nd5 With enough firepower now on the queenside for white to definitely draw. | |||||
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62. Ka5 |
62 Nf4?! .. Bc4 63 Ka5 Is a possibility | |||||
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62... Bd1 |
Winning the a-pawn although it means white has time to mount a creditable plan around the b-pawn advance | |||||
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63. Ne5 |
! Definitely the right move. Using the time to bring the knight in to the game rather than being tempted to try and pick off some of black's pawns. Stronger than 63 Nf4? ... Nc4 64 Ka6 ... Bxa4 - | |||||
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63... Nxa4 64. Nd3+ |
Checking the black king away to allow the b-pawn to advance. | |||||
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64... Kd6 65. Nf2 |
Again, white's only move well found. The bishop is torn between the defence of the g-pawn and the knight. Black can afford to lose neither.. so he is forced to play........ | |||||
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65... Nc3 |
Bringing blacks big guns a little disconcertingly away from the action (the b-pawn) but It's forced. | |||||
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66. Nxd1 |
White has to play this. If not the bishop goes to f3 and the b-pawn is effectively halted. | |||||
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66... Nxd1 67. b6 |
My knight is now worringly far away from the ever-advancing b-pawn. Although I had worked out that because the white king must move to a6 to accompany the pawn, my knight has time to stop it because after Nc3,Nd5. Nb4 will deliver check, and therefore can get to C6 to stop the pawn in time! | |||||
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67... Nc3 68. Ka6 Nd5 69. b7 Nb4+ 70. Kb5 Nc6 |
Now the b-pawn is un-queenable. | |||||
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71. Kc4 |
White must abandon the b-pawn to go and go and try to beat black to the kingside and eliminate his pawns. | |||||
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71... Na5+ |
I was a little worried after Kc4. I had (rather naively) assumed white would stick to the b-pawn. I thought of keeping the knight on c6 to stop the b-pawn and using my king on the kingside, although that draws because the king is then tied to the kingside pawns protection and the knight tied to the b-pawn. I also considered playing Ne5 , Nf3 and then Kc7 and taking the b-pawn that way and hoping my knight could hold a pawn for long enough for the king to arrive.. But in the end I went for 71 ... Na5 ! The knight deals with the b-pawn allowing the king to get to the kingside (slightly later than the white king) | |||||
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72. Kd3 Nxb7 73. Ke4 h5 |
!! The key to my whole Na5 plan. The h5-pawn will drop. But my king has time to hold the f3 pawn and the knight arrives in time to stop it being swapped off. 74 Kf5 ... Kd5 75 Kg5 ... Ke4 76Kxh5 ... Kf3 And black wins. If white tries to play Kh4, h3 and trade the g-pawn off then black has time to play Nd6, Nf5 ! and force the king away from the h3-pawn's defence. | |||||
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74. Kf5 Kd5 |
White resigns. One of my best performances on GK so far. I'm very happy with the way I played the sicilian having been thrashed with the same line not long ago, and picking out the right lines in a closely-fought endgame is a new pleasure for me aswell!! Well played gm_dursley also, Brilliant game. | |||||
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