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27... Kf7
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I felt uncomfortable on the g-file where White's rook is and planned to defend my king's fortress properly.
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28. Nf4
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Of course, White heads for e6.
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28... Reg8 29. Ne6
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Being on the sixth rank is usually the most powerful place for a knight, but fortunately he can't do any harm there in this case.
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29... Qxb4
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Why not take a free pawn? My queen is ready to penetrate the opponents fortress.
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30. g5 Qe1+
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Forcing the queen exchange which is good for me because I am ahead of material (his bishop hangs if he doesn't place his queen in-between).
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31. Qf1 Qxf1+
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Taking the pawn on h4 instead of the queen exchange was also tempting, but it looked like the opponent could trap me with endless rook attacks between the g- and h-file then, so I wanted to be on the safe side.
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32. Kxf1 fxg5 33. hxg5 g6
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Smashing that knights support point! h7-h6 would probably also have been good.
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34. Rb2
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One last hope for my opponent...
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34... b5
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Fortunately those one-move threats are easy defend.
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35. Rc2
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Another try...
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35... Rac8
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Now White is lost, more loss of material is about to come.
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36. Ba3 Ng3+ 37. Kg2
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? This creates the perfect knight fork on e3.
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37... Nxf5
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White can't avoid more loss of material. After this move Mr. Hamarat gave up and we shook hands. Victory! Another great simultaneous exhibition in the Vienna Stadion Center. A great game where I could finally make some use of the concepts presented in Jeremy Silmans book for chess amateurs. I will also analyze it with Fritz and add some comments to the positions where some tactical shots were possible that we haven't seen. At the risk of repeating myself: feel free to comment, I'm always happy to learn from better players! One final note: the ELO rating '~2400' is probably not true for 'real on the board' chess, but probably only for correspondence chess.
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