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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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63... Nd3 64. Rd1 e4 65. Qf6+ Kc5 66. Be3+ d4 |
Black has now just one pawn for the rook - nowhere near enough even though his last two pawns are connected, advanced and passed. But White continues to probe, looking for an opening, yet, I suspect, to settle upon a plan. | ||||||||
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67. Qf8+ Kd5 68. Qa8+ Kc5 69. Bg1 |
Still unable to find a clear winning line, White draws his bishop back out of trouble. Perfectly safe: he is still pretty much winning. But, if he had been prepared to give up something, he might have been able to find quicker, tactical roads to the win. For instance, he could have given up the bishop here: 69.Qxe4! dxe3 70.Qxe3+ ... 71.Qxd3 and obtained a simple win. | ||||||||
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69... e3 70. Qa3+ |
(!) Possible here was 70.Bxe3, although I would not assert that it's any better than the move played. E.g. 70.Bxe3 dxe3 71.Qa7+ Kb4 72.Qxe3 Nc5 73.Rd4. Instead of the knight move, Black could initiate a series of checks for White to survive. On reflection, the move played is straightforward enough, and ought to win at least a piece... | ||||||||
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70... Nb4 |
Else the knight is lost. But now White wins the Queen... | ||||||||
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71. Qa5+ |
(?) ... or not. 71.Rc1 wins. | ||||||||
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71... Kd6 72. Qd8+ |
72.Bxe3 | ||||||||
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72... Kc5 73. Qc8+ Kb5 74. Qd7+ Kc5 75. h4 |
At last hitting on the idea of pushing home his h-pawn. It isn't the only plan he could have adopted, as we have already seen, but it looks promising. However, he had a better plan available, which would have made a fine and spectacular conclusion to a fascinating game: 75.Rxd4!! Qxd4 76.Bxe3!! Qxe3 77.Qa7+ picking up the loose Q at e3. A couple of decoy sacrifices followed by a skewer. | ||||||||
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75... e2 |
(?) Black has to make the best of the slender chances he has remaining, and this is a very desirable advance. But it ought to have led to a quick loss. Relatively better was to exchange Queens (75...Qd5+), but it is not at all an attractive prospect. It is possible that Black saw the possible consequences of this move, but figured, on past record, White might not find the tactical win from here... | ||||||||
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76. Re1 |
(?) Missing another killer combination: 76.Bxd4+ Qxd4 77.Qxd4+ Kb5 78.Qxb4+!! (simplest) Kxb4 79.Re1 with an elementary win. Yet though he's missing the killer combos, White has been doing enough to keep himself well ahead. For some time now, Black has been living on hope - of which he seems to have an inexhaustible supply... | ||||||||
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76... Qd3 |
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77. Qe7+ Kc4 78. Rxe2 |
Another one bites the dust... But White might have been better advised to take with the Queen, to force the Queens off the board. | ||||||||
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78... Qf3+ 79. Rg2 Nd5 80. Qe2+ |
(!) Once the Queens are off, surely Black's chances go with them? Well... maybe... | ||||||||
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80... Qd3 |
(?!) Not that it makes all that much difference here, I would have taken the Queen. It's a tempo thing. It is clear White now wants them off, so Black might as well take now, and hit the rook with ...d3 to follow, and some chance, however skinny, of an attack. | ||||||||
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81. Qxd3+ Kxd3 82. h5 Nf4 83. Rg3+ |
(?!) OK, but more consistent was 83.h6 at once. E.g. 83.h6! Nxg2 84.Kxg2 Ke4 85.Bxd4! wins. | ||||||||
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83... Ke2 84. Rg5 |
Still good was 84...h6! | ||||||||
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84... d3 85. Re5+ |
85.h6! | ||||||||
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85... Kf3 86. Re3+ |
86...h6! | ||||||||
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86... Kg4 87. h6 |
(??) Unbelievable! For four moves White declined to move this pawn though it was quite OK to do so. Now, faced with its imminent capture, White advances it. But it is precisely now it is a mistake that throws away White's entire winning advantage. Then what was the correct move? Although at first sight a rook sac might look good, it doesn't quite work: 87.Rxd3? Nxd3 88.h6 Ne5 89.h7 Nf7 and Black reels in the pawn. Correct was 87.Re4 and whatever happens, White retains his rook advantage. | ||||||||
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87... d2 |
(!) Black's only chance, but it's a good 'un. White has just one problem-like move to draw the game... | ||||||||
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88. h7 |
(?) ... and this isn't it. But how was White to find the stunningly paradoxical drawing line? 88.Rd3!! Nxd3 89.h7 d1=Q 90.h8=Q and Black pretty much has to take the perpetual: 90...Qf3+ 91.Kh2 Qg3+ 92.Kh1 etc. The rook sac has the effect of drawing the knight away from the corner, away from where the final action takes place. | ||||||||
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