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ANNOTATED GAME
The Prairie
blackgnik (1439) vs. theshandykid (1425)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2332)
Chess opening: Trompovsky attack (Ruth, Opovcensky opening) (A45)
blackgnik (1439) vs. theshandykid (1425)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2332)
Chess opening: Trompovsky attack (Ruth, Opovcensky opening) (A45)
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40... Qa3 |
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41. Be2 Rc2 |
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42. Bb5 Qb2 |
Black has developed a threat of his own: a double attack on b5 and g2. What should White play here? | ||||||||
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43. Bd7 |
(?) Aggressive, but overlooks a vicious counterblow he could have played: 43.Qb8!! threatens 44.Qe8+ to win the e7-knight. After 43.Qb8 Nc8 44.Qb7+ White would again be attacking strongly. | ||||||||
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43... Rxg2 44. Qe3 |
(?) A mistake, though it is not at first sight obvious how Black is able to counter the strike against e6. | ||||||||
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44... Re2 |
(!) Great move, an X-ray defence. Naturally, the Queen can't take the e-pawn, but nor can the bishop, even though it is check (45.Bxe6+ Kf6 and after the Q moves off the file, the bishop is lost and Black would be well on the way to winning). As it is, Black has now seized the initiative. Can he retain it? | ||||||||
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45. Qh6 Kg8 46. Qh4 |
(?) Rather a doleful phase of the game for White, as this move could well have lost him the game. Again, it has to be admitted, given that White is attacking the vulnerable dark square weakness in general and the e7-knight in particular, the refutation is not something that leaps at once to the eye. | ||||||||
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46... Qg7 |
(?) The obvious defence, and obviously planned ahead of time, but it throws away Black's advantage. Black had a much better defence - really a counter-attack: 46...Qb7!! - a fantastic 'recoulez pour mieux attaquer' move. It threatens the light square bishop, which White can of course defend by taking the knight: 47.Qxe7. But then comes 47...d4+! and White loses at once! Although pieces have been much reduced in this game, the game remains fiendishly complicated. | ||||||||
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47. Bd6 |
(!) As you were. White recovers the initiative, and against the win of material that follows, there is little Black can do. | ||||||||
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47... g5 |
There is no better defence than this. | ||||||||
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48. Qh5 Ng6 49. Qxe2 Qxd7 |
Now White has won the exchange. Yet all is not lost for Black. He has 4 pawns for it - not a whole rook's worth, withal, but enough to cause White a whole heap of trouble in realising a win. For example, if Black were, against a lone rook, to get a pair of pawns on the Number 3 rank with the kings out of play, then if neither can be captured on the move, he'd be winning, even if it were not his move. Something like this: fen="8/2R5/7k/8/7K/3pp3/8/8" w Black wins whatever White plays (e.g. 1.Kg3 d2 2.Rd6 e2 etc). | ||||||||
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50. Ba3 Nf4 |
(?!) A propos of my last comment: passed pawns should be pushed. Indicated was 50...d4! and Black would have been still well and truly in the game. | ||||||||
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51. Qb2 Kf7 52. Qh8 |
(!) The other advantage of advancing the pawn to d4 would have been to prevent this infiltration. Now Black is in real trouble, and has to hang on through all sorts of dangers. It is the phase of the game that follows on from this that reminds me of the Fenimore Cooper novel. | ||||||||
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52... Kg6 53. Qg8+ Kh5 54. Bc1 |
(!) Very strong... | ||||||||
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54... Qb5 |
Gamely issuing threats, but now White had a forced win. | ||||||||
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55. Qxh7+ Kg4 56. Rg1+ |
(?) Good enough to retain a big advantage, but White could have cut to the execution here with the remarkable 56.Rxf4+!! and mates in 4 more moves. The second 'match point' missed! | ||||||||
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56... Kf3 57. Rg3+ Ke4 58. Re3+ Kd4 59. Qg7+ |
Black's wagon laager has been completely encircled, and soon some stragglers will be picked off. Black's hopes for survival are fading... | ||||||||
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59... Kc5 60. Qe7+ |
(?!) ...and might have been extinguished right here with 60.Qc7+! Since 60...Kd4 (61.Qc3#) and 60...Kb4 (61.Qc3+ etc) led to a quick quietus, Black would have had to play 6o...Qc6, whereupon 61.Rc3 settles the matter. | ||||||||
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60... Kd4 61. Re1 |
A pause to draw breath, and fair enough, too. Black was threatening 61...Qf1#. | ||||||||
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61... Qc4 62. Qxg5 e5 63. Qxf5 |
I think White could have improved on this by 63.Bxf4! exf4 64.Qxf4+ and whatever Black plays, he has to drop Queen for Rook: 64...Kd3 (any other move, and 65.Rc1 follows) 65.Qe3+ Kc2 66.Rc1+ will do. | ||||||||
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