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ANNOTATED GAME

Challenge from ashmal29
ashmal29 (1569) vs. alloutwin (1612)
Annotated by: alloutwin (1200)
Chess opening: QGD (D38), Ragozin variation
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34... Kd5 35. Nb3 Bc6
Threatening Kc4 winning the knight after the king moves out of check

 
36. Kf4
Moves out of the line of the bishop. Another move would be Nd4, as white will want to trade off the bishop

 
36... Kc4
Wins the pawn, but at a cost. White will now check and remove the bishop. Note that Ned4 wont help as Ba4 drives the knight away and I win the d4 knight

 
37. Na5+ Kxc5 38. Nxc6 Kxc6
With no pieces left and my king unable to help the king side pawns I resign myself to pushing the queenside pawns and praying for a mistake.

 
39. Ke4 b5 40. Kd3 Kc5 41. Kc3 a5 42. h4 a4
A careless move, I could have run my king across to the kingside to pick up the 2 pawns, and force a draw

 
43. h5 b4+ 44. Kb2
Starting to look like there is some hope. Though it will be difficult pushing the pawns any further. I should have been thinking about protecting the kingside, which I though was lost because of the presence of the knight

 
44... Kc4
A final careless move, I needed to play f6 to prevent whites next (and winning) move.

 
45. g5
I am now lost, i can only hope to push my pawns forwards enough to distract white.

 
45... hxg5 46. h6 Kd3 47. h7
White has no need to protect the knight, he will promote the pawn next move and mop up my pawns easily. A good lesson, never get too focused on one section of the board causing you to forget another, I had chances to force a draw and failed as i ignored my kingside.

 

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