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ANNOTATED GAME
Portuguese Gambit #2
Class B Player (1750) vs. raskerino (1744)
Annotated by: raskerino (1841)
Chess opening: Scandinavian defence (B01)
Class B Player (1750) vs. raskerino (1744)
Annotated by: raskerino (1841)
Chess opening: Scandinavian defence (B01)
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17. Qxc2 cxb3 18. Qxb3 Be7 |
I want to castle as quickly as I can. We've gotten through most of the middle game and I'm STILL down a pawn. So I think it's time for another look at the board. I'm targeting the a pawn, and white is tied down to it. He also has to worry about the weakness of the IQP. An IQP is usually helpful if you can use it in an attack, but that's unlikely here so it's a target for me. The pawn on f3 is still a problem for white as it opens an annoying diagonal against his king. In an open game I also have the advantage of still having a bishop on an open board. This is my compensation for being down a pawn, is it worth it? I don't know. I think it's interesting though, that I've had compensation for the pawn from move 3 until now. | ||||
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19. d5 |
A VERY double-edged move. White tries to rid himself of a weakness and open the e file. On the other hand it opens up the a7-g1 diagonal for me. It also opens the a1-h8 diagonal. It trades off a weakness but in return weakens the dark squares. | ||||
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19... O-O 20. dxe6 Rxe6 21. Nf4 |
White's trying to activate but the position is an open one, where his knights will become targets. | ||||
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21... Nc5 |
Instead of passively defending I counterattack his queen while threatening Qd4 . However this a blunder, and I should now lose the game. Instead I should probably play the pressure Re3. | ||||
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22. Qd5 |
He misses the win! After 22.Nxe6 Nxb3 23.Nxd8 Nxa1 24.Nc6! Bf6 25.Ne4! and white will trade off black's bishop, going into a pawn up endgame which should be a reasonably straight forward win. This move is one from the green eyed monster school of thought. The white queen, which has been on a side that's been constantly pressured, grows jealous of my queen. She's willing to give herself up to end my queen's life... Aside from bad lines about green eyed monsters, this move makes sense as white still wants to trade. The one problem is 22.Nxe6 wins. | ||||
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22... Ra6 |
White removes his rook from the attacked square and it pressures white's biggest advantage (the outside extra pawns) and biggest weakness (it's an isolated pawn on the line of my bishop). | ||||
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23. Qxd8 Rxd8 24. Nfd5 |
White continues playing for trades. | ||||
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24... Bd6 |
...and I continue avoiding them as much as I can. | ||||
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25. Rfd1 |
This move places a rook on an important file, but I think the trappy 25.Nb5!? may be better. Afterwords my oppones said he looked at it, but thought it was bad after 25... Bxh2 !? 26.Kxh2 Rxd5 however he's got a nice move at the end: 27.Nc7! forking rooks. While black's not forced to play the bishop check I think it's a nice trap to toss out, and I could see myself falling for it. | ||||
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25... Ne6 |
I add pressure to a3. | ||||
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26. Ne4 |
26.Nb5 was better and made more sense as it also attacks the bishop and defends a3. However white has had to worry about little annoying threats the entire game, and here he begins to throw it away. | ||||
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26... Bxa3 27. Ne7+ |
This traps was his plan with 26.Ne4... Too bad it's weak. He want's 27... Bxe7 28.Rxd8 Bxd8 29.Rxa6, but I'm not going to fall for that. thanks to neilskye for pointing out that I initially wrote that 27... Bxe7 is met by 28.Rxa6?? which (he pointed out) is met by 28... Rxd1 winning. | ||||
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27... Kf8 |
Now white has only one move to hold the position together, namely 28.Nd5 where I'm better due to the bishop but it's nothing close to a win. | ||||
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28. Rxd8+ |
The losing blunder, now white has to worry about two threats. One is the hanging knight and the other is Bc5 winning the rook on a1. Notice that the weakness instigated on move 3 has lasted throughout the entire game and allows for this final tactic. | ||||
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28... Nxd8 29. Nf5 Bc5+ 30. Nxc5 Rxa1+ 31. Kf2 Ra5 |
The final point, white might be able to hold the endgame if he's only down an exchange, and with knights there are so many forks to worry about that it would have been difficult to prove, if it was not for this skewer. | ||||
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32. Nd7+ |
White's prays for 32... Kg8 where he'll have time to retreat the attacked knight on f5. | ||||
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32... Ke8 |
But no. There is a double attack on the knights and black wins. While I can't claim that this game was the most accurate, it shows the way CONSTANT pressure and easy development comes in the portuguese gambit. This isn't a crushing attack like game #1, in this game white doesn't grab material at every opportunity, the game shows another part of the opening, the constand build-up of threats that can last an entire game. I hope you enjoyed the game, and please PM me with comments, criticisms and analysis. | ||||
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