A positional game

Hello all, here a positional game of mine. Hope you enjoy it.

Any comments? Thx

Very nice game, and your rating is impressive, but I'm willing to bet you already had a winning combination at move 27, although I don't quite see the whole thing. It's probably at least 5-6 moves deep. Can anybody find a combination there? You have loads of pieces aimed at the poorly defended Black king, more pieces that can swing into play quickly, plenty of forcing moves, and Black's queen is nearly trapped. Some candidate moves I would consider there:

27. Rxf7+ Kxf7 followed by Rf1+ or Qg7+ or Be3

27. Be3 leaves very few places for the Black queen to go, and most of those places leave the king even more undefended.

27. Qg6 threatening Qxf7#

27. Qh7 followed by Bg6

27. Bxg7+

27. h4 to drive the queen away

Thanks for your comment squod. Just to mention it on move 27 blacks queen is on g5 so a move like Qg6 is not good because black could then exchange queens. But now that i look deeper on the position I see a brilliant winning combination. Can you find it?( On move 27).

Hi Huey, I dont understand what that has to do with being positional? The game was still very positional although black hung a piece.

Yes Huey thats one nice winning way. But can you find one on move 27? :)

yes, its very nice. What I mean is 27. h4! Qxh4 28.Bxg7! Kxg7 ( ke8 29.Rxf7 kxf7 30.Qg6#) 29.Qh7+ Kg8 30.Qxf7#. Nice combination, right? :)

Sorry, I have to rush off to work now without knowing the answer until tomorrow, other than I won the bet... somehow!

Have Fun Sqod! Ah yes Huey you are right! Qg4 seems to be holding for the moment. I should probably go to sleep now before I miss more moves :D maybe you can find some trick to make the combination work? Thanks and see you!

If you want comments, it would be VERY helpful to mention that this is a blitz game.  No deep thought or analysis necessary when you are chasing the clock against an opponent who is 200 rating points below you.

Waste of time, folks.

cdowis75 wrote:

Sexy-Sunshine wrote:

Any comments? Thx

If you want comments, it would be VERY helpful to mention that this is a blitz game.  No deep thought or analysis necessary when you are chasing the clock against an opponent who is 200 rating points below you.

Waste of time, folks.

I was not chasing the clock. I clearly outplayed my opponent. And what is wrong with analysis blitz games at this Level?

I disagree after Bxe6 white already has a big advantage, clearly shown in the game, with the d5 square.  On fxe6 however it will depend on whether black can play d5 or white can keep a strong hold on d5, and eventually take advantage of the backward d6 pawn.  10. Nd5 was probably not the best move, you don't need to immediately occupy it unless you have a good reason.  Black should definitely play Bxd5 and it will be easier to defend.  You should keep building up - blacks d5 is never possible.  Like the moves you played Bf4 a4

Also should mention that black should have played g6 Bg7 which is much better placement.

for some reason Nc3 without c4 is actually better in these lines also

I noticed that you have placed  "?" on several black moves, as doubious moves.  Now were these carefully crafted moves worthy of analysis, or just desperate attempts to beat the clock.

Again I note that you "forgot" to tell us this was a blitz game (a minor detail?), where beating the clock is a major part of the game, and you are asking us to do a serious analysis of the game.

Don't botther to answer because I am no longer tracking this thread.

Brilliant for a blitz game!

Hey guys, be careful : the OP is a 2300 player. Or at least, it's what he says :

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/get-free-coaching

I'm very careful...

.... merci.

You seem to have several misconceptions.

After d4 c5, c4? simply allows cxd4, where black can simply play e5 after Nf3.  There is not enough compensation on the d5 square for that to be a serious try after e3 dxe3 Bxe3.

After dxc5? black can play e6 and white loses all opening advantage.

After Nf3?, cxd4 Nxd4 is a bad try, because black has 2 center pawns and the knight will have to move on a future e5, unless you plan on playing Nf3, wasting time.  After d5 black has an obvious advantage.

Great one! When I was looking for a combination around here I did look about 2 moves before and 2 moves after move 27, but then I got overly focused on move 27 since it looked like the king was most vulnerable at that point in time, so I assumed a combo had to exist exactly there, which was foolish. You caught the spirit of what I was trying to do and found it. Great job!

26. Rxf7+ Kxf7 27. Qg6+ Kf8 28. Bd4

28...Bc5 30. What then? This wins the queen in a couple moves, but is there a mate somewhere?

28...Qg5 29. Bxg7#

28...Qd6 29. Bxg7#

28...Rd6 29. Nxd6 Qxd6 30. Bxg7#

26...Kd8 27. Bd4 Qg5 28. Rxg8 Qh5 29. Rxg8+ Bf8 30. Qg6+ Qxg6 31. Bg6+ Rf7 32. Rf1

   32...Kd8 33. Rxf7  Ke8 34. Rxb7+ Kd8 35. Rxf8#

   32...Ke7 33. Bc5+ Kd7 34. Rxf7+ Be7 35. Rxe7#

etc.

There are many possibilities for Black at each shot by White, for the next several moves.

I haven't had a chance to look at Sexy-Sunshine's continuation yet to see if Black has any viable alternatives there. Sorry for the delays, but I was tied up with Christmas cards and now I have to go to work again in a couple hours. I still believe there's a winning combo against all possible Black alternatives at move 27, but it might involve investigating a lot of alternatives for Black, and your move 26 combo looks better, if only because it's earlier in the game.

I believe such analysis of even blitz games is beneficial since such positions could arise in regular games and the more tactical solutions a person sees, the more they're likely to recognize a solution of that type in a critically stressed position such as those in this game.

(I'll probably have typos as usual in my post, so please leave about 5 minutes before responding about typos or oversights, while I recheck it after posting.)