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ANNOTATED GAME
Double sacrifice turns game around for Black
tag1153 (1732) vs. jasonakay (1642)
Annotated by: jasonakay (1200)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn game (E10)
tag1153 (1732) vs. jasonakay (1642)
Annotated by: jasonakay (1200)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn game (E10)
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25... Ng3 |
Attacking the h1 rook, threatening check with Nxe4+ and clearing the f column. What will White do about the threat of Rf2+ which could win his queen? (Ng4 would be met with h5, forcing the knight to retreat or be captured; Nd3 would be followed by Nxe4+ which prevents the king from escaping to c3 but slows Black's attack nonetheless; Nf3 would block the f column and prevent Black's queen from checking on g5, but would be met with dxe4, again forcing the knight to move or be captured.) | |||||
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26. Qb3 |
White opts to move his queen instead, attacking the unprotected knight and transferring protection of the e4 pawn to the light bishop, meaning that checking the King with the knight again will result in an exchange. | |||||
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26... Qg5+ |
Check! Lots of continuations here: if White moves his king to his back rank, the Black knight will capture the unprotected rook on h1; if the White king goes to c2, then Black's knight takes the unprotected e4 pawn, threatening mate soon thereafter with the rook and queen; should White choose c3 for the king, Black can follow up with checks from his queen and knight which would cost White his queen, and if the White king moves to d3, then dxe4+ will force him to move again, to either c2 or c3. There remains one other option... | |||||
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27. Qe3 |
Up by seven? Let's try to force a queen exchange! Seems reasonable except for what follows... | |||||
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27... Rf2+ |
There is no way to capture the rook and no opportunity to block. White must move his king to the only square that continues to lend protection to his queen. | |||||
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28. Kd3 |
If Black hesitates, there will certainly be an exchange of queens! | |||||
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28... dxe4+ |
At this point, White resigned, having very limited options: moving the king out of check loses the queen; capturing the checking pawn with the queen results in checkmate (29. ... Qd2#). | |||||
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