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ANNOTATED GAME
A Titanic Endgame Fight! (R+B vs. R)
ethansiegel (1723) vs. clarinetref (1746)
Annotated by: ethansiegel
(1986)
Chess opening: Pirc defence (B07)
ethansiegel (1723) vs. clarinetref (1746)
Annotated by: ethansiegel
(1986)
Chess opening: Pirc defence (B07)
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13. a3 |
Keeping the knight out of b4. | |||||||||
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13... Nd7 |
Revealing a second attacker on the Nc3, while shifting his attentions to the queenside. | |||||||||
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14. Bd2 |
Defending the Nc3, while threatening a revealed attack on the Qa5 down the road. | |||||||||
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14... Qd8 |
Not sticking around for that -- although Qb6 looks to be okay as well (though the b-pawn looks totally poisonous after, say, Qb6 15. Kh1 Qxb2? 16. Rfb1!). | |||||||||
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15. Rab1 |
The first new move of the game. This frees the Nc3 to move! | |||||||||
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15... e6 |
And this prevents the knight from moving to d5, while giving the queen a chute to probe the white kingside, perhaps. | |||||||||
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16. g4 |
Aggressively pushing towards black's kingside. Is this warranted? I think so -- white has a good presence on the kingside and in the center, and black's pieces are pretty passively posted. | |||||||||
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16... Nc5 |
Seeking exchanges may not be bad for black here, especially if he can remove white's bishop-pair advantage. | |||||||||
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17. f5 |
Will I give up my Bd3 to keep pushing into black's kingside? Apparently, I will! | |||||||||
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17... exf5 |
It's understandable not wishing to expose his king, but I had expected Nxd3. | |||||||||
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18. exf5 |
Isolating black's d-pawn and still threatening to open the kingside. | |||||||||
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18... Qb6 |
?! Now this move looks strong, threatening to win a piece because of the discovered check. But much stronger would've been Ne5. This allows white to embark upon a combination that will give him a small but important advantage... | |||||||||
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19. Nd5 |
! I think this is a very good tactical defense! Either the queen must go back to d8 or black must give her up. | |||||||||
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19... Ne5 |
?! An interesting try, but the exchanging combination favors white. I would've still preferred Qd8 here, but I confess that it's very hard to play something like that psychologically, since you just moved Qd8-Qb6 last move! | |||||||||
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20. Nxb6 |
Forcing black to play Nxf3 , otherwise he loses the queen for not enough. | |||||||||
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20... Nxf3+ |
Of course. Now white heads to the endgame with a small advantage. | |||||||||
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21. Rxf3 |
The best way to get out of check... take the piece! | |||||||||
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21... Bd4+ |
Unexpected! I had thought I'd see axb6, and black has to figure out what to do about his atrocious pawn structure. But this allows white to exchange even MORE of black's pieces. | |||||||||
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22. Be3 |
Basically forcing black to play Bxe3; anything else loses material. | |||||||||
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22... Bxe3+ 23. Rxe3 axb6 |
And this move was necessary now, otherwise white just has a large material edge. So take stock now -- black's pawn structure is a wreck, he has a knight to white's bishop in the endgame, and his rooks are on ineffective squares, and it's white's move. | |||||||||
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