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ANNOTATED GAME

Just another Dragon
metalhead (1788) vs. moppa (1774)
Annotated by: moppa (1200)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B78), dragon, Yugoslav attack, 10.O-O-O
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31... f4
Passers must be pushed, as the say...
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32. Nd4 Rg2
Black wants to keep the white king immobilised and out of the pawns way. The activation of the black king is tricky, too, because if it runs too far away the white h-pawn may run through.

 
33. Ne6
White cannot allow ...e5. This is good square for the knight and now he must try to make some play connected with the advance of the h-pawn. Note that now all white pieces expect the king are able to help the h-pawn, so black must act quickly.

 
33... f3 34. Bd4 f2
If black is allowed to play ...g3 and ...Rh2 things are starting to get miserable for white.
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35. Bxf2
But are things really this desperate? Now the game turns into a Rook and knight endgame with two extra pawns for black, not to mention the superior rook. In my notes I had this line: 35.Ng5 Nf4 36.Ne4 Nh3!? It is a long time ago since I analysed this, since at this point my opponent started using all the 5 days for every move, maybe waiting my rating to rise (his rating had gone up to 1830 or something) so he would not lose so many points. 35.Ng5 is at least something active. If black does nothing, white simply advances his h-pawn to victory. Now 35...g3 36.Nf3 locks the rook out forever, so 35...Nf4 looks best. After 36.Ne4 Nh3!? black threatents to win a bishop with Rg8 or force the bishop out of the long diagonal with ...e5, ...d5 and ...d4. It's not clear if wghite can do anything for that.
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35... Rxf2
This should be a matter of technique, altough I'm not sure about mine.
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36. Rg1 Ne5 37. h5 Kh7 38. Ng5+ Kh6 39. Ne4 Rf8
Black is now playing "safe" moves and intends to place his rook behind the passers.

 
40. Ng3 Nd3
Black now wants to get rid of white's last hope, the h-pawn. After that he can squeeze the win without worrying some random runners on the edge of the world.
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41. Kc2 Nf4
The plan is to swing rook to g5.

 
42. Rf1 e5 43. Ne4
Does this move really have a purpose?
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43... d5
These pawns are starting to look scary... This central pawn majority was one of blacks advantages he gained at move three!

 
44. Ng3 Rg8 45. Rh1 Rg5 46. Rf1
White decides to prepare Nf5 .

 
46... Nxh5 47. Nf5+ Kg6
Blunders a pawn. Surely Kh7 was better?

 
48. Ne7+ Kg7 49. Nxd5 g3
Black wants to tie white forces with the passers. The he will have more room to maneuvre

 
50. Ne3 Nf4 51. Rg1 g2 52. Kd2 Kf6
The king comes. At last.

 
53. b4
White is running out of moves.

 
53... b5 54. a3 a6
Black knows that the greater rook mobility will ensure him the privilige to "waste" a move if he wants to. These pawn moves are to take that away from white.

 
55. Ke1
Unfortunately for black the king cannot come to f2 due ...Nh3
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55... e4
Making room for the king.

 
56. Kd2 Rg3
Suddenly white has no moves. All knight moves allows Nh3, king moves drops the knight and rook moves of course drops the rook. This leaves 57.a4 and white didn't want to face another passer. He resigned. I would like to thank my opponent for the game and apologize about the bad language I've been writing. English isn't my native language after all. And please, leave comments and rate the game! :) It's nice to have feedback for annotations.
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