|
« TAP TO LOG IN
|
ANNOTATED GAME
a TINY LITTLE move
igd13 (1653) vs. bigjim (1758)
Annotated by: igd13 (1774)
Chess opening: QGD Slav (D15), Schlechter variation
igd13 (1653) vs. bigjim (1758)
Annotated by: igd13 (1774)
Chess opening: QGD Slav (D15), Schlechter variation
 Interactive |
• |  Show all comments |
• | All annotated games | • | View chessboard as: |
| |||||
|
20... Qd7 21. Rab1 Nec7 22. Ne5 |
It takes a couple of moves for black to reorganise, and white begins to advance and put pressure on the backward c5 pawn, and hassle the queen (no one likes their queen to be forced to move). White might play Rb6, later, making c6 increasingly hard to defend... | ||||
| | |||||
|
22... Bxe5 |
so black takes the bait ....the fishing worked. Feeling too much pressure mounting at c6, black exchanges out a crucial defender - his fianchettoed bishop. Here is an extremely relevant quote from wikipedia!... "One of the major benefits of the fianchetto is that it often allows the fianchettoed bishop to become more active. Because the bishop is placed on a long diagonal (either h1-a8 or a1-h8), it controls a lot of squares and can become a powerful offensive weapon. However, a fianchettoed position also presents some opportunities for the opposing player: if the fianchettoed bishop can be exchanged, the squares the bishop was formerly protecting will become weak and can form the basis of an attack (particularly if the fianchetto was performed on the king-side). Therefore, exchanging the fianchettoed bishop should not be done lightly, especially if the enemy bishop of the same colour is still on the board." no kidding... | ||||
| | |||||
|
23. Bxe5 Nb5 |
black advances his knights, which are bound to be powerful together in the a to c files, and at the same time reveals an attack on the white knight. | ||||
| | |||||
|
24. Nd6 Nac7 25. Nxb5 Nxb5 |
the exchanges continue, and black is satisfied that his knight has an outpost | ||||
| | |||||
|
26. Bf6 |
26. Bf6 Ouch. The white bishop is now a deadly superpower and is going to be hard to shift, even though it is undefended. Black might have prevented this by an earlier ...f6, or better still, not exchanging out the black-squared bishop. | ||||
| | |||||
|
26... Na3 |
26...Na3? Black continues tactically down the a-file, oblivious to what is about to happen... | ||||
| | |||||
|
27. e4 |
27. e4! Game over. Ignoring the plight of a number of white's pieces, this small pawn push opens up the board for a very rapid assault by the white queen (Qh6 and Qh7#) (As far as I can see, white can force checkmate from now...I'd be interested to know if anyone can find an escape for black's king?). Interestingly, if black still had a knight at b5, then this position would be partially defendable, by playing 27...Nc7 then 28...Ne8. However, black would lose his queen in its current position, because after 27...Nc7, the pin 28. Rb7 (with the aim to take the knight) wins the black queen, because black must again urgently move the knight to e8 the very next move to avoid instant checkmate. | ||||
| | |||||
|
27... Qd8 |
Black desperately tempts white to a feast of his queen, to remove the white bishop, which appears to have infinite value, now that the knight at a3 is too far away to defend. | ||||
| | |||||
|
28. e5 |
...but the offer is correctly ignored | ||||
| | |||||
|
28... Qxf6 |
The forward white bishop is clearly more powerful than black's queen, so black desperately tries to remove the threat | ||||
| | |||||
|
29. exf6 |
Now the pawn takes the place of the bishop, and black's position is not improved. Here is a very interesting variant sequence that I think would allow black to play on for as long as possible from the current position, but it still gives white a lovely forced checkmate! 29...Kh8 30. Qh6 Rg8 31. Rb7 Raf8 32. Ra1 Nb5 33. Ra8! (taking advantage of the fact that black cannot afford to move his rooks at all, because if 33...Rxa8, then 34. Rxf7... 35. Rxh7#). All moves from now result in obvious checkmates for white. Can you find a longer surviving sequence for black? | ||||
| | |||||
|
29... g5 |
black resigns. 1-0. In our other game, bigjim systematically wiped me off the board, so I was lucky to find 27. e4! in this game to leave it at 1-1. Finally, it is interesting to think that if this game was played over the board, I would have had to take care to prevent my eyes from being seen by my opponent while I was looking at the black king's side of the board before these moves! | ||||
| | |||||
|
30. Qxg5+ |
|||||
| | |||||
| |||||