Awesome game dude congratulations!
Just one thing, why not 18.Rf1 (since Rb1 is answered by Rfb8).. ?
Oh now i see, better would be 16.Rab1 without losing tempo!
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11...Bxh6 is a good move. Why the five question marks?
The questionable move is 12...Qxb2.
16.Rfb1 looks wrong, there is a not-so-subtle difference between this one and 16.Rab1! which is a killer: the rook is not hanging on a1 if the queen goes back on the a1-h8 diagonal. Still, it should give white the advantage.
16...Qxc2?? is suicidal- the only move was 16...Qe5.
WTF is wrong with 18.Nxc3?
It seems pointless posting moves which never happened.
pfren wrote:
WTF is wrong with 18.Nxc3?
It seems pointless posting moves which never happened.
As I said, I reconstructed the game after it happened, and I didn't remember the exact sequence of moves at that point; so I decided to get to the position I remembered by making the "dummy move" Qc3 for black.
And you're right, Rab1 was much better.
Could you please explain how 11...Bxh6 is good? I don't understand yet. Also, I just realized that 25. Rxf7 was much better than Nxf7, because it led to an almost immediate win.
Nice job Dennis!
MangoDurango wrote:
Could you please explain how 11...Bxh6 is good? I don't understand yet.
One solid option is moving the rook from f8, to answer an eventual Ng5 with ...Nf8. I don't see how white can break in.
There is also 12...f6!? (committal, but apparently not bad at all) and 12...Nd4!? 13.Ng5 Nf6, which is ambitious, but risky (although I see no refutation).
Well, with the Nf8 option, it seems like his piece wouldn't be active, while my pieces are. And with the Nd4 option, I just continue doing the same thing that I did in the game (e5 and then Ne4). However, f6 seems interesting. All of these options, though, I think lead black to have a worse position than if he had not taken the bishop in the first place.
You cannot play e5 with a knight on d4 (due to ...Nf5 and your queen goes south). Maybe something like 12...Nd4 13 Ng5 Nf6 14.g4 (to control f5) has to be played, when white may be threatening to push the kingside pawns further (f2-f4 intending e4-e5). The b2 pawn looks poisoned all the time, but black may create counterplay with something like 14...c4!? when matters aren't clear at all.
This was an interesting game that I played during chess club at school, and it contains a few sacrifices. Please disregard the apparently bad moves played by black in the middle (such as when the queen was hanging); I was merely attempting to reconstruct correctly the main theme of the game and the end position.
Please comment your thoughts!