Here is one of the most interesting games I have been in.  :)  Here is something where the game gets wide open.  :)  Black had more pressure on the white king.  But not quite enough.  :)

you got lucky at the end if he just played 52... Nc2 it would of been a draw

still one of the most gorgeous games i ve ever seen, have you put it through a computer analysation?

smooth

 

I think Black had more than enough pressure on the White king.  He was in fact just a piece up (until he choked toward the end).  There were a lot of interesting threats and such--but he really should have prevailed.

Probably missing something, but I see 22... a6 to be blacks big missed oportunity. 23)QxQd8 RaxQ 24) Nxc7 Nxd4 and black is left with an isolated d pawn, but his rook should get to f2 shortly and his threats should snowball.  You seem like a fun player.

Yeah after the game was over I plug the moves in to see what my chessmaster 9000 program thought of these moves.  It appears that I had the advantage by about 1 point before I did my bishop sacrifice.  The bishop sacrifice was probably not my best choice since he can move his king in front of my pawn.  :)  But I played with it.  :)  I fell as far as about 4.5 points down right before we traded off the rooks.  After the rook trade off it was about a drawish position.  I saw that he had 52...Nc2 but it was unclear if he can stop my pawn or not.  :)  Maybe I need to do further analysis with 52...Nc2 53 b5.  :)

I didn't like this game much at all.  The movesets were not in any way related to how I would move.  The opening was a bit crazy too.  Normally you would use either the c4 pawn OR the f4 pawn... but not both.  That's like trying to attack both king and queen sides at once.  It's an all-or-nothing type of play-style... which tend to produce dangerous results in high-rated games.  Also, there were a lot of good pieces threatened here and there... and some without much retaliation.  I didn't understand the reasoning behind leaving them be, besides thinking they're blunders.  Sorry to be really critical, but I can assure you I mean no disrespect.

52  ... c2
53. b5  Nd4  (Next move would be either Nc6 or Ne6)
54. b6  Kd7 (not moving b6 would've drawn)
55. Ka6  Nc6

56. Kb7  Nd8 (Draw - Move repetition... Nc6/Nd8)

56. b7  Kc7
57. Bb5  Nd8 (Draw)

56. Bb5 - Win.  (Bg4 vs. Ne6)

54. ... Kd6
55. Ka6  Nc6
56. Kb7  Nd8
57. Kc8  Ke7
58. Bb5 - Win.

 

If you didn't make either of those winning move sequences... You may have drawn. 

My mistake.

52. ... c2
53. b5  Kd7
54. b6  Kc8
- Draw...  King occupies the b8 square, horse to move.

 

illuminosferatu

yeah I forgot to put some commentary notes for each move.  The opening was crazy, but what was interesting was the middle game where it seemed like I hung a rook or a bishop.  :)  Actually there was no blunder there as far as I can see.  35 Nh4 threatens checkmate with Ng6# if he decides to take my rook.  He was busy defending that.  :)  And 38 Bg4 was played because I no longer have a checkmate threat.  If he takes my rook then I take his knight and I fork both of his rooks.  :)

pawn strong at first but not support then make the defence go down

I was talking about 39 Rcc7... Why didn't he do Bg5?

If 39...Bg5 then I would go 40 Bxc8 Bxh6 41 Rxh6 which would end up trading rooks and winning the bishop back.  :)

But the way the rooks are repositioned, he shouldn't do Rxh7 for the rook trade-off but mobilize his knights instead (having a white rook on h6 does not leave either of the knights at an immediate threat, and the rook doesn't have many good moves available after coming from h6.  Moreover, there wont be a white rook on the same file as the white king, so possible forced moves are in black's favor.

Perhaps he was worried I would get into the back rank to move his king.  :)  He probably should have kept the pressure coming.  :)

Did you look at 11...a5, looks interesting?

Fotoman wrote: Did you look at 11...a5, looks interesting?

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That would put black at a disadvantage... one chance at a check which can easily be blocked isn't enough to lose a knight over... especially when the queen and rook reinforcements still have to assume a viable position first.  It's highly unlikely that move would be used.

Having forseen the rook's check... it would have been 13. Nb1... block successful and can reinforce with bishop/queen.  Or the king can allow the rook to take over.

If you stick the queen in further... you limit black's offense on the other side... and black can't push without a huge loss of material... Not worth it.