The following is a game from an OTB tournament. After 5 rounds(out of 6), I had 3 points with 3 wins and 2 losses. My game was against another 3 pointer. Had I won this game(I did), then I would have ended up with 4/6, pretty decent(and good enough for shared 4th place and 6 with tiebreak score, out of 32). If I had lost however, 2/6 is a pretty miserable score.

Here is the game, with some comments on the psychology of the position as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The highlight of the game was my 24...Be4!! move. Black threatens to win the White Knight, back rank mate with Rc1+ Rxc1 Qxc1 and mate in 1 with Qxg2(which my opponent, in considerable psychological shock, missed). Besides having 3 enourmous threats, I think the most amazing quality of the move is that black puts his Bishop en prise to win!

Please comment.

Ne3

Ne3 loses a pawn to Bxg2! If white takes, then black forces mate with Rc1+.

22. f4

21...Bxg2 turns out to lose because of 22.f4. Thanks for your comment vincey!

 

However, after 21...f5, I don't see anything for white.

Well, that move was quite a nice one. However, White was at a disadvantgae right in the beginning after the wrong moves he made to counter the French......his Bishop and Knight were focusing on the central pawn which was a wrong strategical plan. As a result, his Bishop and Knight on the Queenside participated in the fight weakly and allowed quick development by you.

 

Good move!

Ne3, Bxg2 ..and black wins

Thanks for your comments Turn and Moonwalker.:)

However, as pointed out by Vincey, Bxg2 fails to f4. Instead, f5 seems to virtually win for black.

where is f5 to be played?

After Ne3, black can play f5.

Okay guys sorry for cheating but here is the analysis.

Analysis by Fritz 11:

1. =  (0.09): 1.Ne3 Qe7 2.Rd1 h5 3.f3 Bc2 4.Re1 Bg6 5.Kf2 f6 6.Nf5 Qd8 7.Ne7+ Kh7 8.Nc6 Qxd4+ 9.Nxd4 Rd8 10.Rd1
2. -/+  (-1.05): 1.Nf4 Bxg2 2.Nxg2 Rc1+ 3.Rxc1 Qxc1+ 4.Ne1 Qxe1+ 5.Kg2 Qa5 6.a4 Qc7 7.Qd5 g6 8.Qd4 a6 9.Qd5 Qc8 10.Qe4 Qe6 11.Qxe6 fxe6 12.Kf3
3. -+  (-2.02): 1.Qxe4 Rc1+ 2.Qe1 Rxe1+ 3.Rxe1 g6 4.Ne3 Qe5 5.Re2 Qa1+ 6.Nf1 Kg7 7.f3 Qd4+ 8.Ne3 f5 9.Kf1 Kf6 10.g3 f4 11.Ng4+

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Then Rd1 and the position is equal.

f5 with the idea of f4, winning the knight, and potentially mating.

Big mistake on White's part was not developing correctly. It's past move 20 and he still has an unmoved rook with no scope behind the pawn. It should be on an open file by now.

Just a question isildar, do you like lord of the rings? :)

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If f4, then the bishop hangs.

Nice move. Its always nice when you make that sort of move :D

Thanks for you comments everyone.

 

@mufusah, what gave it away?

 

@bobob, Black can play Rd8 before that.