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8th May 2009, 09:19am
#1
by JG27Pyth
NYC United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1487

Here's a rapid (30 min) OTB game against a guy I think is roughly a B player -- he kicks my ass at blitz chess, but with 30 minutes I occassionally manage a decent game. This one ends with a splashy mate involving multiple sacs.

8th May 2009, 09:23am
#2
by JG27Pyth
NYC United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1487

My note to 17 says, "I don't know how to get the queenside going" but now that I look at it I had c5 -- I think I just got fixated on that annoying enemy a pawn.

8th May 2009, 09:24am
#3
by renegade9
Bellevue United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 79

nicely done. impressive going through that many moves without losing a piece.

>>Renegade   \o/

8th May 2009, 10:32am
#4
by JonnySleazy
Salt Lake City United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 62

Nice Rook Sac for the mate, very nice!

However, after  7....Bg4, if you had played 8. f3 you would have won either the bishop or knight that was threatened by your pawns

8th May 2009, 01:04pm
#5
by JG27Pyth
NYC United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1487
JonnySleazy wrote:

Nice Rook Sac for the mate, very nice!

However, after  7....Bg4, if you had played 8. f3 you would have won either the bishop or knight that was threatened by your pawns


Yeah I think you're right... i don't have time to look at it closely atm, but I recall thinking that somehow he was going to have a discovered attack on my lonely h file N, but looking quickly now, I think I was seeing phantoms. So his earlier bishop retreat  into the pawn fork _was_ just a blunder... well, the game wasn't a masterpiece, that's for sure!

8th May 2009, 01:14pm
#6
by ASpieboy
ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Canada
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 1556

I love the 'throw everything at the King' games.

8th May 2009, 01:58pm
#7
by CerebralAssassin
Rodos Greece
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 297

nice ,very nice!!Wink

8th May 2009, 11:01pm
#8
by bondiggity
United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 1567

I think your rook sac was sound, as it has enough positional compensation. However:

 

37...Bg4! would have rendered you lost.

 

Nice finish, congrats on the win!

8th May 2009, 11:06pm
#9
by JG27Pyth
NYC United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1487
slack wrote:

Yeah, 6. ...Be6 is a blunder. Check move list for variations.


You're right slack... it's not complicated. I missed it. I gave my opponent too much credit. Hanging that pawn fork is the kind of outright blunder he doesn't do very often (I'm the one who's blunder prone on the clock) and I just convinced myself "oh he sees something I don't..."  so... lesson learned... don't ever give anyone credit for anything ;)

 

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