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Wonder.. so many rethinks required right from Nc3 itself..

what a joke. at 30. there should have been Bg2 , and then Rxa8

"this is ridiculous. no it's not a question of taste. your puzzle suggests a complete blunder wherever you look at it. and no, nc3 was one of the worst responses to the time pressure and the material disadvantage.

Here you have put a wrong analysis and a blunder as the only solution to a puzzle in an article, one points out your mistake and you desperately and pathetically try to defend it. this is not the right way for learning and improvement."

well, Imagine you winning, you're not an expert player, you got the opponent's queen, you up four pawns, you are very very materialist, not a good tatician, calculate only 1 move forward and the opponent plays Nc3, a chance to be up 6 pawns, what would you do?

I'm showing you a game that happened, it can't be changed!

and how a Knight sacrifice helped me to be in an equal situation

I'm not teaching tactics, i'm showing you one that could happen.

so, if you really is about to resign, try first something crazylike that sac

 

Nb4 looks like the best bet to me, not for the fork though. That's too easily met by Qa4, but after that you may get to nab a few pawns. Better still, resign!

o.o, yea that's true, I couldn't see that in the game

37...Ra8 is a complete mistake, you have mate on the move! 37...Rd1 is best!

well, it's a question of taste, Nc3 was the best response to the time pressure and the material disavantage, then he accepted the sac, so he lost =)

Good one!...though if your opponent had played 25. Bd2 (instead of bxc3), then I think U would have lost your N, becos it has nowhere safe to retreat to.

 

Also, after White plays 30 Qa7, then 30...Bg7+ would have won the Queen (KxB RxQ).