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ANNOTATED GAME
Wired... or just weird?
thereaper1 (1480) vs. ionadowman (2002)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2332)
Chess opening: French defence (C00)
thereaper1 (1480) vs. ionadowman (2002)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2332)
Chess opening: French defence (C00)
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39. Ne4 |
If Re4 was feasible a move back, it was still feasible here. Having said that, the knight move was what I expected, and it still looked as though it might hold. But the possibility of Ng3 had been on my mind for quite some time, and now I thought I had the answer. | ||||||
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39... Rg6 |
(!) Threatening mate, and confining the K to the h-file. There is only one possible defence. | ||||||
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40. Ng3 |
Biting the bullet. Yet with no pawn remaining, how can Black win the ending? Surely 2R plus B vs 2R is no better than with one rook apiece? And White has extra pawns into the bargain. The answer lay in the poor position of White's King. Had it stood at h2, the win for Black, if one existed at all, would have been very problematic. | ||||||
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40... fxg3 41. fxg3 Rd2 |
(!) The key to White's castle. Having left the second rank, the pawns can not shield the White King, who is imprisoned in his own dungeon. | ||||||
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42. Re7 |
(?!) Not as good as 42.Re4, though Black already had the answer to that: 42...Bf6! | ||||||
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42... Rh6+ |
(!?) Better was to take the pawn at once. but I preferred this as in keeping with a winning plan I had in mind. | ||||||
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43. Kg1 Kg8 |
Threatening ...Bd4ch. | ||||||
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44. Rxg7+ |
(?) Rather too drastic a solution, but White's game was heading south already anyway. Instead 44.Re4 would have led to an ending in which he kept his pawns... for a while longer... | ||||||
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44... Kxg7 45. g4 Rhh2 46. Re1 Rhg2+ |
A finesse to gain a tempo to attack and win the f-pawn. Much better than the immediate ...Rhf2. | ||||||
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47. Kh1 |
If course the other direction led to mate at once | ||||||
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47... Rgf2 48. g5 |
The f-pawn was defenceless. | ||||||
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48... Rxf3 49. Rg1 |
Cutting to the chase? My opponent allowed it was a simple oversight. But, cramped as he is - neither K nor R can leave the back rank - the game was up anyway. | ||||||
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49... Rh3# |
(0-1) A fascinating game, I found: quite a few mistakes by both sides, and taking some bizarre turns in its latter stages. I was very impressed with White's play in this game. He came desperately near to pulling off a draw - so close that for a while I thought he had just about succeeded. | ||||||
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