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erikido23
Tell me I am a moron. Tell me my blunders are brilliant. Tell me I am creative, just tell me something about my terrible game
JG27Pyth
There are some, er, creative inaccuracies, in that game. I enjoyed looking over the game. You would have caught me with that exchange sac you have in your notes 25.Nb4 Rxb4...) I think you missed 21...Be7 22.Qa7 Ra8 23.Qb7 c5 winning material...if I calculated that correctly.
Wow, be7 is a pretty "natural" move. I have been missing all sorts of backwards moves recently.
hmm, now that I analyzed it closely it still doesn't seem to be working....
Yep. I missed Nc6.
Took a look at the Be7 move with Houdini... turns out it's correct and the Queen can be trapped c5 is very bad -- Nc6 refutes it as you noted -- However, White's queen can be trapped with:
21...Be7 22.Qa7 Ra8 23.Qb7 Bc5! 24.Kh1 Ra7 25.Nc6 Rxb7 26.Nxd8 etc. Ultimately black wins a N for two pawns. Connected passed pawns. So it remains tricky. Also I just spelled out that line from memory so apologies if screwed something up. It looks right to me.
Interesting. I had looked at b-c5 but completely missed r-a7. So many blind spots
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