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goldmedal10 (619) vs. boredqueen (908)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2337)
Chess opening: Mieses opening (A00)
goldmedal10 (619) vs. boredqueen (908)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2337)
Chess opening: Mieses opening (A00)
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11... Qxe5+ |
This is very annoying for White, not so much the loss of the pawn (that has compensations in the open e-file), but the check is a real nuisance. It is hard to know how best to deal with it. Probably best is 11.Kf1, but who would think of that? Offering the exchange of queens is also unattractive in the circumstances, but is probably the second best move! Moving the bishop back to e2 hardly comes into consideration, as it has just moved away from there. So we are left with interposing on e4. And THAT has problems of its own as we will discover. | ||||
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12. Ne4 |
Understandable, but this (and Be4 would have suffered the same) has a downside. The knight is left pinned, the bad part being that Black has ...f5, attacking the immobilised knight. This would be far from fatal, though, as White has such a lead in development, she could probably sustain the loss and still have an advantage. See next note. | ||||
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12... Qb5 |
Disdaining to attack the pinned knight by 12...f5. What might have happened, then? The knight would certainly have been lost, but not without compensation: 12...f5 13.Bc3 ... (Counter-attacking the Queen, and eyeing g7, as well. Instead, castling {13.0-0} would have been pretty good as well) 13...Qe7 (Keeps the pin on the knight, and protects g7 as well.) 14.0-0 fxe4 (Well, there goes the knight, but 15.Re1! ... And now White pins the e-pawn against the Black royal family! Were Black to try and defend by 15...Bf5, fen="rn2k1nr/ppp1q1pp/1b6/5b2/N3p3/2BP1B2/PPP2PPP/R2QR1K1 w kq -", 16.Bxe4!! would be deadly (better than taking with the pawn, as White wants the e-file open for her rooks). | ||||
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13. Nac3 |
Reasonable, again, but it does leave the b2-pawn open to capture. As it happens, this is OK, but only if you can figure WHY its OK. I might well have played 13.Nxb6 here as the simplest idea. But there was a good alternative in 13.c4, attacking the queen, at the same time protecting the knight with White's own queen. This is an easily overlooked motif to defend a knight on a4 (or, in Black's case, a knight on a5). | ||||
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13... Qb4 |
I have to admit, I can't figure what Black had in mind for this move. What might have happened had she taken the b-pawn? Well, White's simplest course would be to chase the Queen out with Rb1 (13...Qxb2, 14.Rb1 Qa3 15.0-0), with a fine game. Instead, 14.Nd5 would leave Black in all sorts of strife, but it is a whole deal more complicated and harder to calculate. If you keep things simple and straight-forward you should be good. | ||||
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14. a3 |
A nice wee trap - if it were a trap, but there were better moves, such as castling (recommended) or 14.Nd5. | ||||
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14... Qxb2 |
As it turms out, this is a terrible mistake that should have lost Black her queen. As I have mentioned before, not for nothing is the b2-pawn called 'the poisoned pawn'. I don't know how many are the victims I have hauled in who were careless enough to snatch my b2-pawn! I've lost count. Sometimes the poison takes a few moves to take effect, but here it is a fast-acting agent... | ||||
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15. Nb1 |
It is hard to figure out what White was thinking here, particularly when one looks ahead to her following moves. This knight retreat is bad, not because it loses (it should NOT lose, actually), but because the best move is so good: 15.Ra2! Where could the Queen have moved? Black would have had to cut her losses by 15...Qxa2 16.Nxa2 and go down the major exchange, queen for rook. But now, White's rook is 'en prise'... | ||||
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15... Qxa1 |
I did say White's last move wasn't fatally losing, didn't I? That is true. In fact, just possibly Black might have been better off leaving the rook alone, and played 15...Qe5. Just... possibly. | ||||
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16. Qe2 |
This really is a terrible move, when there was so much left to play for. I think I can see the motivation for this mistake, though, as with it, White is threatening checkmate in two moves! (17.Nf6ch K-moves 18.Qe8#). But that overlooks the disaster to White's back rank. Had White been castled already, this might have been a great move. But White did have something better, that would have retained a small edge: 16.Bc3! Qa2 17.Bxg7 ... and White would have got her rook back! | ||||
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16... Qxb1+ 17. Bc1 |
White played this move, then resigned. She realised that she would still have to interpose with her queen, and that would have been the end of her counter-play in the e-file. White had so much going for her in this game (apart from the overlooked checkmate at move 10): fine, quick development, solid, centralised position, more space, gains in time here and there some good decisions - all spoilt by a miscalculated counter-attack at the close. | ||||
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