Hereby I would like t present a fine game for aspiring chess players. You can find a rarely used (but oh good) Old Benoni Defence. The match is fine but the point of this game is to show you what most of you will not see in it. At the end of the game white's king is standing in the middle of the board and it seems that there is no immediate deadly threat for him, but...
34...Kc7 35. Rxh6 Re1+ 36. Ne2 Rxe2+ 37. Kd4 f5 (White wouldn't dare 38. gxf5 Nxf5+) 38. Rc6+ Kd7 39. Kxc4 (or 39. Kc5) f4 and Black should win the promotion race.
hmm Rc6+ don't help the white i guess
What is the "psychological" factor that has one so "tunnel" visioned towards the end of the middle game or end game so that instead of a perfectly appropriate check mate (it is "ignored") one goes for a inessential material gain? I myself have fallen victim to this "blind spot".
Yeh, I wondered why white passed up checkmate for a pawn, and why black ran right into it.
yeah he got gready for a pawn ,but when you play the game Its a diffrent story,you don't see it especailly when your playing a good player,and trying to be up a few pawns in a end game,was this game on time ,long or blitz,there was a reason why he missed it???????????
Demonstrates how a timely blunder can change the outcome!
Nice! Of course, Rc6# would have ended black's reign earlier ..
Yeah, you got lucky he didn't see 35. Rc6#, but nice finish though
Hmm,how about if rook to Rc6+#
Hm, feel free to post your comments! I would LOVE to read them.
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