Here is my first 100+ move game.  :)  I thought it would be interesting to post because it was a very long game.  :)

nice

veeeery long :)

white you should have won but you blew it

Not really.  It's kind of difficult to win that endgame.  Good game.

wow, i don't have the time to go through all the moves, but good game

pretty epic.

Lol, no, its not difficult at all.. he blew it badly. Lots of moves for nothing. But hey.. important is he had fun. No need to play like kasparov all the time

If you thought this wasn't difficult then maybe you can give some suggestions on where I could have made some improvements.  :)  Keep in mind that my opponent's rating was 2270 (250 points higher than mine).  Before my opponent did the knight sac it was looking kind of drawish since I didn't see a good way of eliminating black's pawn so I can go promote.  :)  Usually a rook vs knight endgame ends in a draw unless there are some threats with the pawns.  :)

einstein I love how the people that say you blew it, their games don't look all that impressive at all. I know my games aren't all that impressive, but hey, i'm not the one trying to bring somebody down by posting unnecessary comments.

 

laporte and young_roy123, why don't you study einstein_69101's games and learn a thing or two.

nice game.

Thanks for posting the game.  It must have taken you as long to post and annotate it as it took to play it!  Great sacrifice in the middle and I agree with you;  Rook v Knight looked a draw from a long way out.  I'd be interested to see if anyone who disagrees can post a way of showing how you could have won this one

here's a move: 

79.RxN;;

1/2-1/2 

i'm adding to the common shorthand for chess notation here.  i think the semicolon is a good candidate for drawish chess.

; = drawish move

;; = has loss the will to live, drawish move

Its winable but tough to get a wining position

Frankdawg wrote: Its winable but tough to get a wining position

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 I don't see how he could have won the game from a position in his game.  Laporte and young_roy123, why don't you show us the winning move.  It looks like a draw to me.

59 Kg5 is stronger than 59. Kg3 imo

59.Kg5 Ne6+  60.Nxe6 Kxe6  61.Kxg6 Nxg4 still looks like a draw to me.

When someone says:

"Its winable but tough to get a wining position"

That pretty much means 'I looked at it with my chess engine and it said white was up material so I know you can win but I didn't let me chess engine run long enough to figure out exactly how'

Einstein, I think you played a fantastic game and despite the outcome I think it's a game to be proud of.  Yes, the endgame was long and didn't produce a positive result but many people would have fatally blundered along the way.  Other than move 92.Ke7?? which guaranteed the draw, I'm not positive there was a win in here.  The position beginning at around move 55 or so is a great mental exercise and I've been poking around trying out a few things to see if I can come up with anything positive.  It's damn tough!  If I find anything with promise I'll be sure to post it. 

Again, great game.  Move 25...Ra5 is a curious mistake if you ask me but...nevermind.

-Gonnosuke

I found a winning continuation beginning at move 55.  It should be noted that I didn't spend a whole lot of time analyzing possible refutations to my line so I'm not making any guarantees that it'll stand up but it was difficult enough finding a win at in that end game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even if black doesn't move his king to a square where white can use the skewer the black knights have been driven away from the action and the black king is not in position to be useful. I'm not positive but I have strongly suspect, now that I've looked more in depth at the position, that white can force this kind of final position even with completely different lines as long as he holds off on moving his kingside pawns long enough to drive the knights and king out of position to start his King & Pawn march.

The last moves were just overkill. You could have gotten a good advantage by taking his pawn with your knight on move 63 and have a two-pronged pawn advance.