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ANNOTATED GAME

St. Andrews vs Dundee - round 2
bigpeta (2083) vs. hogfysshe (1725)
Annotated by: hogfysshe (1862)
Chess opening: English (A22), Bremen, Smyslov system
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29. axb5
PxP

 
29... Be8
29. ...Be8. one chance to remove that pawn lost.

 
30. b6
and white is two squares from promoting.

 
30... Nc6
30. ...Nc6

 
31. Bd2
31. Bd2

 
31... e4
inhibiting the bishop.

 
32. Rc8
White finds a nice safe square on black's home rank.

 
32... Kg7
as Pete pointed out during the game, I should have played Nd8 here if I was to have any chance of mitigating the cost of the coming promotion and exchange.

 
33. b7
33. b7

 
33... g5
a few moves earlier, I had noted that white could play RxN. but another mental lapse and that got away from me. so while I am thinking I can play NxP next move, I proceed toward the idea of a clash at the white king's fortress.

 
34. Rxc6
RxN. black resigns. a bit of a shirk here as the WTW Rulez say play on. but as this was a hybrid WTW / BP Students game, I took what at the moment felt like a luxury. Later thought that I should have hung in and tried to engineer a stalemate. I expect however that bigpeta would have none of that and would have closed things out before too long. Thank you to bigpeta for playing.
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