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ANNOTATED GAME

Forced Mate - See #26
superglue (1507) vs. fastbnow (1471)
Annotated by: superglue (1561)
Chess opening: Queen's gambit accepted (D20)
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16. Ng5
Even more pressure on h7. 3 attackers and 2 defenders...

 
16... Qe8
Avoids an attack on the Q with the knight and potential mate

 
17. Bxh7+ Kh8 18. Be4
back to attack Ra8

 
18... Bxa4
look familiar??? Good move but I have a few options.

 
19. Qd3
This leads to rook exchanges

 
19... Bxd1 20. Bxa8 Bb3 21. Be4
even steven but white still has position and up those 2 points from the earlier rook/bishop exchange

 
21... Nxe4 22. Qxe4
I questioned black's willingness for this exchange as it put white in a potential mating postion. It seeems usual to exchange players so willingly when black was behind.

 
22... g6 23. Qe5+ Kg8 24. Qxc7
Captures pawn and puts the Q in a position of power on the 7 rank

 
24... Bc4 25. Rxb6
white is very strong here as Rb8 threatens to capture the black Queen

 
25... Kg7 26. Rb8
This is a forced checkmate from this postion unless the black Q captures the attacking white rook. Can you spot the mate if Qa4?

 
26... Qa4
I know the game is won at this point. Its 3 move to mate.

 
27. Qxf7+
1

 
27... Kh6 28. Rh8+
2

 
28... Kxg5 29. Qf4#
3 Checkmate!

 

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