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ANNOTATED GAME

Giving no quarter
tommetje (1984) vs. nyctalop (2120)
Annotated by: nyctalop (2166)
Chess opening: Gruenfeld (D85), modern exchange variation
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42. Ra1
Finally the Rook gets the chance to blockade.

 
42... Rb5 43. Bg1
Covering the back rank.

 
43... Re5
Intending to exchange Rooks.

 
44. Bf1 Re1 45. Rxe1
Forced, now White played a few more moves out of inertia.

 
45... Nxe1 46. Bc4
Even if White could somehow exchange his dark square Bishop for my Knight, the resulting endgame would still be lost.
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46... Nc2
With the idea Nb4 and a2.

 
47. Kg2 Nb4 48. Bd4
Covering a1.

 
48... Bg7
And White resigned. My opponent put up quite a struggle and made the game really interesting. It's pretty hard to say where he went wrong, since he never played a bad move, just small inaccuracies that slowly worsen his position to the point where there was no salvation. If I were to give question marks to White's move it would be his 16th, where gxf3 would have been more critical, his 19th, where he missed a good chance to play Bd4, 20th move would be given a "?!" since 20. Rc7 would have avoided the simple double attack and finally his 27th, where he completely surrendered the initiative.
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