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ANNOTATED GAME
Poisoned knight
richard1234567 (1534) vs. vios (1369)
Annotated by: richard1234567 (1803)
Chess opening: Philidor (C41), Steinitz variation
richard1234567 (1534) vs. vios (1369)
Annotated by: richard1234567 (1803)
Chess opening: Philidor (C41), Steinitz variation
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13... Nbd7 |
Develops a knight. | ||||||
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14. Nf3 |
I continue to add pressure on e5. | ||||||
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14... Nh5 |
Black has placed his knight on the rim to threaten to win a pawn and effectively force the exchange of pawns. | ||||||
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15. fxe5 Nxe5 16. Nxe5 Qxe5 17. Qe2 |
Now the game begins to get interesting with a knight sacrifice. After I had played Qe2, I began to worry as I had seen the discovered attack a second after I had clicked submit. But after a while, I had seen it was actually going to give me a better game if the knight was taken if he played b4. | ||||||
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17... b4 18. Qf3 |
I had calculated that if black were to play bxc3? he would positionally be crushed after 19.Qxf7+ followed by bb6 and rd1. | ||||||
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18... bxc3 |
He takes the bait. Why not? It's free( Not really) Now white uncorks the fireworks! | ||||||
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19. Qxf7+ |
He allows me to gain strong counterplay after he captured my knight. I managed to calculate a few moves deeper into this complicated position. The two continuations I thought anout after Kd8(forced) were 20.Bb6+ and 20.Rad1 or Rfd1 then followed by 21.Be6 | ||||||
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19... Kd8 |
I think 20.Rd1+(any rook) was just as good as 20.Bb6+ but Bb6 allowed my bishop to infiltrate blacks position. | ||||||
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20. Bb6+ Kc8 21. Rad1 |
I play Rd1 anyway.I bring another piece into the attack. I was planning to play either 22. Be6 or 22.Qd7 | ||||||
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21... Bf6 |
Im not too sure what this move achieves.Perhap he thought about the possibility of a battery along the d file followed by a check on d8 but then again, I don't think any move would have been much better. | ||||||
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22. bxc3 |
I looked at the possibilities of a check followed by Rb1 making use of the open B file. I played 22.Bxc3 instead of 22. Be6 because I wanted my plan to be "less obvious" | ||||||
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22... Be7 |
A good defensive move that shuts off the 7th rank to the queen(temporarily) My attack seems to have run out of gas after 22... Be7 so I planned to use the positional advantage I had to a material advantage after Bd4( I thought) | ||||||
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23. Bd4 |
I didn't see something here. This seemingly gains a rook but... | ||||||
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23... Bc5 |
Pins the bishop to the king. Now black seems to be in a better position. | ||||||
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24. Qe6+ |
I thought about this move for a while. It seemed the best since I could win my bishop back after 24. Qe6+ Qxe6 25. Bxe6+ I capture the queen with check and I can win the bishop immediately since the king has to decamp to b7. | ||||||
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24... Qxe6 25. Bxe6+ Kb7 26. Bxc5 |
I am definetely positionally winning and I'm ahead two pawns in material. This is easily won for white. | ||||||
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26... Rae8 |
Black committs a serious blunder. Much better here was Rd8 which trades off rooks. | ||||||
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27. Rd7+ |
Black allows white to land this deadly check. Blacks king has an unappetizing choice of a8,b8 and c8. | ||||||
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27... Kb8 |
Kb7 allows me to develop my rook with tempo but every square was equally as terrible. | ||||||
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28. Rb1+ Kc8 |
This move loses immediately after 29. Re7+!! which forces the king to d8 then its mate after 30. Rb8 Bc8 31. Rxc8 | ||||||
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