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ANNOTATED GAME
Knights of Honor VIII Open Tourney
esso78 (1288) vs. charleshiggie (2134)
Annotated by: charleshiggie
(2197)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B58), classical
esso78 (1288) vs. charleshiggie (2134)
Annotated by: charleshiggie
(2197)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B58), classical
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21... Rxb3+ |
I take back. This is the critical position. Now Ka2 leads to Qa4 mate. The question is what to do if he plays the best defence, Kc2? At the time I thought I had to play Rb2+. Now if Kd1 I can take his queen with check and then move my queen to safety. So he has to play Kc1. Play could continue RxQd2, NxQd4, R(d2)xBd3 N(d4)xBc6 R(d3)-c3+ followed by taking his knight on c6 and we have the level endgame I mentioned earlier, where I have bishop and 2 pawns for a rook. I was interested to see later that after Kc2, black does have an improvement on that line, I can play Qa4! with many horrible threats! | |||||
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22. Kc1 |
But he didn't! it is now mate in 4, but I mated in 5, I took time-out to take his queen. Please see http://gameknot.com/chess-puzzle.pl?pz=41840 Many thanks for reading my annotation, please leave a comment, and rate my annotation. | |||||
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22... Qa1+ 23. Kc2 Rb2+ 24. Kc3 Qa3+ 25. Kd4 Rxd2 26. Nc1 Qc5# |
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