|
« TAP TO LOG IN
|
ANNOTATED GAME
A Barroom Brawl
archduke_piccolo (2122) vs. janakaliyanaara (1846)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2337)
Chess opening: Reti (A08), King's Indian attack
archduke_piccolo (2122) vs. janakaliyanaara (1846)
Annotated by: archduke_piccolo
(2337)
Chess opening: Reti (A08), King's Indian attack
 Interactive |
• |  Show all comments |
• | All annotated games | • | View chessboard as: |
| |||||
|
18... Bxa1 |
Of course. In effect Black is saying 'Show me.' Quite rightly. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
19. Nc5 Qe7 |
(?) But this really is a mistake. I was expecting the correct move, 19...Qc7, here, with this sort of continuation: 20.Nxb7! Qxb7 21.Bxc6 Qb6ch 22.c5! or 20...Kxb7 21.Bd2 ... 22.Rb1ch. White would have obtained the edge anyway, but Black makes it easier. | ||||
| 2 comments | |||||
|
20. Ba3 |
Lining up a 'masked battery' against the Black Queen, and discovering the rook's attack on the bishop at a1. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
20... d3 |
Although the GK engine calls this a mistake, it was rather a clever move, as now 21.Bxc6 could have been met by ...Bd4ch. 20...Qc7, would not have been very much of an improvement after 21.Rb1! ======= Now, two or three moves ago, looking ahead to this position, I had intended the simple and good 21.Rxa1, with the best part of a winning game. Once again I found a 'better' move. Only it turned out not to be a better move after all. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
21. Nxb7 |
(??) A spectacular move, especially as White is already a rook down, but it compromises a huge advantage. The right move was indeed 21.Rxa1. So beguiled was I with this knight sacrifice in earlier lines, I thought is would be good here, too. But I had made one small oversight - and an easy oversight it is to make, and all. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
21... Qxb7 22. Bxc6 Qb6+ |
So far, per spec. Now, we just block the check... | ||||
| | |||||
|
23. c5 |
... thusly, and we just have to endure a desperate counter-attack, then round up the Black King. But by now I had spotted what I had missed a move or so earlier. I waited, sweating and sitting on my thumbs, for the retribution... | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
23... Bd4+ |
(??) Who says there isn't luck in chess? This is the move I had anticipated when I went into this line. It looks so obvious, doesn't it? Saves the 'en prise' bishop, and with check into the bargain, so the Queen can also be rescued. Black gets to keep his extra rook. How could there possibly be a better move? 23...Rd4!!, that's how. Maybe I could still have won the game afterwards, but I wasn't looking forward to having to pick myself up and start again: 23...Rd4 24.cxb6 Rxa4 25.Bxa4 Bd4ch 26.Kg2 axb6 27.Bb5, threatening Bd6ch and a possible mating attack. | ||||
| 2 comments | |||||
|
24. Kg2 Bxc5 25. Bxc5 |
A decoy sacrifice... | ||||
| | |||||
|
25... Qb2+ |
...which Black dared not accept on account of the two-move checkmate that would have followed. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
26. Rf2 Qb1 |
The Queen has to stay on the b-file. No better would have been 26...d2. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
27. Qa6+ |
Now comes the forcing process to finish. Black only seems to be the exchange ahead. A rook and the knight are out of the game, so Black is really playing two pieces down. | ||||
| 2 comments | |||||
|
27... Kc7 28. Be4 |
A quiet move in the middle of the attack, pinning the d-pawn, but, more importantly, freeing the queen from having to protect it, and making the c6-square available for the queen. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
28... Rdb8 |
Now White has a forced mate. But what else could Black have played? The threat was Qxa7ch Kc8; Bb6 and Black would have had to give up the queen to prevent immediate mate. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
29. Qc6+ Kd8 30. Be7+ |
A decoy sacrifice to finish. | ||||
| 1 comment | |||||
|
30... Kxe7 31. Qd6+ Ke8 32. Bc6# |
In true sporting fashion, Black played the game out to checkmate. This game was a good start to the Mini-T, a fun game to play, but not without the odd stumble. | ||||
| 3 comments | |||||
| |||||