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Match review - Is a draw correct?

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #1

    SGKoip

     

    To start things of on this forum, we can atleast try to help eachother in centain games.

    Here I would like to review a game I played at the beginning of my chess.com career. There are a few position where there might be better moves. And my biggest question is the endgame, whether it would be possible I could have pushed a pawn for a queen. to win.


    So In this diagram I'llshow some position I would like to discuss.

    Since everything seems to be buggy for me (must be my browser) i just going to post the game itself, hope that works for you too.



    1. In the opening I clearly made a mistake by going for a transposed Italian game instead of winning a pawn (variation is in the diagram.)

    2. I would like to discuss move 7. Here I decide to take the Knight on d4 (Nxd4), which I think I review it would be better to move Nd5. Do you agree or are there even better and what variations will be likely when i go for the alternative?

    3.     Would like to review move 10 to move 17. I think i left a great deal of opportunities there, and made clear mistake. See the diagram above for further information.

    I had some notes which I made at this position:

    These were the notes i got (they are vague but oke :D)

    13. dxe5
    13.a.1 dxe5 dxe5 
    13.b.1 dxe5 Qg5+ 
    13.c.1 Bxb5 Bxb5 


    14.a.2. Rxd7 bxc4 
    14.b.2.a Rd2?? bxc4 
    14.b.2.b Bd2 Qg6 
    14.c.2.a Qxb5 c6 
    14.c.2.b Qxb5 Qg5 
    14.c.2.c Qxb5 exd4 

    15.a.3. Qxc4! good
    15.b.3.a Qxc4 losing ground.
    15.b.3.b Bxb5 Bxb5 not great
    15.c.3.a dxe5 Qg5+
    15.c.3.b Rd2 somewhat doable.
    15.c.3.c Kb1 Qxg2 

    16.b.4.b Qxb5 Qxg2 not ideal 
    16.c.4.a Bc2 Qxg2 Not good. 
    16.c.4.c Bxg7!! Kxg7 

    17.c.5.c Rg2! anymove will lead us in a good position. I think Bxb5 is best at this moment. 

     From that point i tried everything to withhold the attack from black. I think i did "ok" in this part, please comment if you see any mistakes or slight incorrect moves?

    4.     The endgame. It kind of starts  after move 38. I'll post the diagram below, and ask if you can find with a deep calculation if i can win this position or should i be happy with the draw i got?

     


    This variation I choose:
    39. Kd4Ke7 
         40. g3 h3
         41. Kc5 Kd7 
    42. b5 Kc7
    43. a4 Kb7

     

    Leading to this diagram:



    Consider that i just restarted chess since 8/9 years ago (primary school, now 21) for 1 month at that time.

    And thanks in advance for reading and/or commenting on this topic. Hope you and I will learn from this game!

    Greetings

    SGKoip - Stijn K
  • 2 years ago · Quote · #2

    SGKoip

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  • 2 years ago · Quote · #3

    SGKoip

    diagrams not working ...

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #4

    Skwerly

    Try putting up a pgn - I can plug that into my engine and check it out.  Cool

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #5

    NM OmarCayenne

    If you're referring to the game against Doc_Black...it's exceedingly complicated, but I suspect that White can just draw.  He should revolve his king around his pawns on the queenside (under no circumstances should he head over the other side and allow his passers to get blockaded and picked off).  If Black puts his bishop on d3 and moves his king to d6 (with the White king on b4), then there's 1 a6 Kc7 2 Kc5 Be2 3 b6+ Kb8 4 a7+ Kb7 and Black cannot accomplish the two things he needs to win (covering b5 and the queening diagonal) because the only square to do that from--Bc6--will fail to a8/Q+.

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #6

    SGKoip

    Allright i fixed it,well partially. It was supposed to be commented, but since that took me a lot of time and it didn't work afterwards i didn't want to have that again. Hope this works for you all. 

    And thanks for your patience! and thanks tonydal for your early comment ill look into it.

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #7

    tbischel

    so some thoughts:

    if 13. dxe5 Qg5+ 14. Bd2 Qxd5 black threatens Qa1# and cxb5

    in the actual continuation, 15. Bd3? wasn't such a good idea.  Here, dxe5 seems much better.

    19. Qe2? Qd5! and for instance, 20. Rf1 Qa3+ 21. Kd1 Rfe8 22. Qf2 Nf5 23. Be4 Rd8+ 24. Ke1 Qc1+ 25. Ke2 Qd2#  (clearly not the only line, but definitely feels like black is crashing through)

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #8

    NM OmarCayenne

    Yep, 19... Qd6 looks pretty strong indeed. Of course, Black is a piece up (with a powerful wedge on c3), so these sorts of continuations are apt to come naturally. Also the immediate 19... a5 suggests itself.

    A bit later on Black had the winning idea 25 ... Bxb3+ 26 Kxb3 c2. And even a move earlier this seems very promising: 24... Bxb3+ 25 Kxb3 c2 26 Qxc2 Rb8+ 27 Ka2 Rfc8 (followed by Nd5). Black's pieces are all in optimum positions.

    I think it's a bit unrealistic to think of winning that endgame. Of course, there may be a win there...but you really should be thinking of a draw first and foremost. One other possibility I see is 40 Kc5 (with the idea of walking your king up toward the queening squares first, to block out the other king). Not sure if this would work or not (as I say, it's very complicated); in any event, I don't think you should've played g3 unless your opponent forces it (with Bd5). After 40 g3 h3 Black now will always have the option of walking his king up and picking off the h2-pawn (which is a good deal easier this way than with the pawn still on h4).

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