M6 or Lose???

As of the start black decides to play the Sicilian. White responds with Nc3 making this game into a closed sicilian defense opening. White as in all the previous blogs takes control of the centre while black counter-controls the centre by holding it down with the knights and pawns. From the start white takes a minor advantage as both bishops get developed. This is because the black pieces are very undeveloped and uncoordinated and white can easily start an attack including the queen being developed. Now white does not play this immediately, but gets to the same good position mixing the move order a bit. White finds a nice move of taking the knight first before the bishop as this makes blacks pawns in a worse position however if white took the bishop first, black could set up a slightly better position of regaining the knight. Black develops their bishop ready to castle and white castles immediately activating the rook along the way with the previous move of f4. White takes advantage of the developed rook and queen to start the first attack. Gaining tempo on the black knight. White sets up the knight on a post making white have an excellent position so far. Black castles and white makes an outpost for the knight. Black tries to get a better position by having possession of the b file. This succeeds as white prepares for something else giving black time to counter-attack, but misses the important move. Black instead attacks the knight to gain tempo, however this is a bad move as black loses their pawn and gets a double pawn with no backup for defense, to be exploited later. Black tries another method of a counter-attack, but misses the simple move of taking the pawn with the queen. White gains tempo and secures the pawn, which was hanging. White attacks the pawn of the double pawn chain secretly and black defends while attacking white pawns. Now, white moving a3 is presumably a mouseslip as this blunders a pawn with nothing to offer back, most likely trying to go a4. Wait... a3 is the top engine move... Anyways, white falls for the trap? And white takes possession of the a file and gains tempo on the queen while gaining a better position, and doubling the rooks. This is where everything crumbles down for black. Black moves the knight and the double isolated pawn gets exploited with Ra5 where black just moves the king for safety and white take the pawn and black offers a 2nd pawn with a5 and white takes simplifying the position down even more. Black trades, in a losing position which is not preferred by the masters. White tries to trade and, but black takes back the losing material and white threatens to promote. Black takes yet another pawn while preventing the promotion and white tries to gain tempo on the black knight, but loses the game, with mate in 6 on the board!!! Black misses the 1 and only chance to turn the game around and misses this in a blitz game. Black tries to get back at the mate, but white forces a winning position with black being under time pressure. White gains the the pawn and trades with the black rook (another mistake for black). White promotes. And black in desperation tries to get a sneaky mate, however white simply trades the rook and bishop for blacks rook simplifying the position down even more, with the fact of being a queen up. Forks the king and knight, cleans the board and checkmates, not overthinking it.

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