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ANNOTATED GAME
Club Mini-T: Get Out of Jail Free.
redfox17 (1416) vs. archduke_piccolo (2081)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2334)
Chess opening: QP counter-gambit (C40), Maroczy gambit
redfox17 (1416) vs. archduke_piccolo (2081)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2334)
Chess opening: QP counter-gambit (C40), Maroczy gambit
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16... Kg7 |
(??) A disastrous move, and it is probably just as well I didn't spot the refutation during the game. I thought this was the only move to save the game! Better would have been 16...Na6, but I had already determined that Black got a miserable game after that: 16...Na6 17.Re6 Rxe6 18.Qg4ch and Black will soon drop a second pawn. | ||||||
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17. Qf1 |
(?!) This was the move I expected. In fact, so logical does it look, the move 17.Qh5!! never even occurred to me. Had it done so, I would have chosen a different 16th move: 17.Qh5 and now [a] 17...Kxf6 18.Qh6ch!! Ke7 19.Qg5ch! Kf7 20.Rf1ch and wins; [b] 19...Be5 20.Ne4 Bxf6 21.Nxf6 Kxf6 22.Kxf6 Nc5 and the Black King can not survive the crossfire of White's pieces and pawns. This has to count as a monumental piece of luck for me. | ||||||
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17... Na6 |
"It's now or never..." Elvis Presley... | ||||||
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18. Nb5 |
(!?) The GK engine calls the game even, here, but I didn't feel that I was out of the woods yet. Instead, 18.Nd4 Bc5 19.Qf2 e3 20.Qg3ch Kh8 21.Ne6 d2 and battle rages on, but Black still looks to have his back to the wall. Even if this were not the best play from White, Black had to do something for his bishop... | ||||||
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18... Be5 |
Driving back the rook. The attack against b2 is incidental and irrelevant. | ||||||
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19. Rf5 |
(!) Finding another active posting. Man this was tough going. | ||||||
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19... h6 |
A horrible move to contemplate, yet it seemed just about essential, to prevent Rg5ch. It is also no indication that Black's game might anything approaching equality with White. | ||||||
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20. Re1 |
White brings up his last reserves. About what I expected. Black has an exposed King, advanced but vulnerable centre pawns almost surrounded by the enemy, and a knight twiddling its thumbs in a remote desolate spot. | ||||||
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20... Rac8 |
Also mobilising the last reserves, in the hope that the resulting clash might yet fall out in my favour. Compared with the overall menace in White's position, this attack against c4 doesn't amount to much. But there was one small tactical feature that I had already observed... | ||||||
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21. Rxe4 |
(?!) To be honest I hoped, but didn't really expect, White to play this. Black's response is so obvious. But once more, a closer examination indicated this wasn't as bad as the sequel would seem to indicate. I was expecting 21.Nd4 or Nd2 here. | ||||||
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21... Bxh2+ |
The good old masked battery motif strikes again. As the game progressed, though, I wondered if after all White had seen this, and had a cunning plan in mind. | ||||||
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22. Kxh2 Rxe4 |
Having won the exchange for a pawn, Black has roughly an equal game, White being compensated for the slight material deficit with more space and better placed pieces. But now... | ||||||
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23. Nd6 |
(??) This came like the sun bursting through clouds, as after this Black is well on top. Instead, 23.Nd2 blockades the d-pawn and attacked the rook. But see the comment. I don't really trust the GK engine's analysis for reasons you will see there. | ||||||
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23... Qxd6+ |
Had White overlooked the simple loss of the piece, the check .... or something else? | ||||||
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24. g3 |
(?) GK calls this a mistake, too, but as 24.Kg1 Qb6ch led to the exchange of Queens, White already down a rook suggests the King retreat was not an option. | ||||||
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24... Re2+ |
The GK engine prefers ...Qg6, but I was looking for simple lines. | ||||||
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25. Kh3 |
Forced. | ||||||
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25... Re3 |
Dual purpose: protecting the d-pawn and threatening mate. | ||||||
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26. Rf7+ |
I had been expecting Qf2 or maybe Qg1. | ||||||
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26... Kg8 |
It was here that I wondered whether this whole sequence had been planned by White with the idea 26...Kg6?? 27.Qf5#! But after this retreat, White has run out of attack. | ||||||
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