Analysis of our Vote Chess game against Unikat - Automat Team

I think this is the best game we played since I am in this club. We couldn't convert it into a win but the fact alone that we could get a good position out of a strategical pawn sacrifice in the opening, makes me happy.

And then of course there is the long fight that lasted almost a year (the game started on February 9th 2020, at a time that we were hearing the news about Covid-19 but never thought that it would determine our lives since then). It looks like we have missed the win on move 50. Our opponents played a few inaccuracies before that, but we made a few strong and critical moves (move 46 and 47 for instance).

Unfortunately I have dismissed Ke5 too soon. It would have been winning on move 49 and it would probably still have been winning on move 50. I fell into the trap where I have been faling in since I play chess, thinking that "this looks like we are going back to where we came from". OF course that is what you sometimes have to do in an endgame.

I'll try to remember that lesson in future, as a moderator of the vote chess games, I should be looking as objective as possible to every suggestion that has been made.

So here is the analysis. In the beginning of the game there is quite some survey that I did as the game went on. I have left it as it was. At the end of the game I have kept the "weighted error value" of both Dragon and Stockfish that I used to assist me in the analysis. I don't know exactly what those values mean, but I can tell you that they are very good. In my own games they are most of the time around 0.5 or above. In rapid they are most of the time above 1. But most of all I have kept it because both engines seem indicate that Black has escaped with a draw.

I hope that you enjoy this analysis.

Thank you for posting this, i found it quite enjoyable!

Did the moves 46 and 47 come with "!" from the engines?  Just wondering.

I feel we played with excellence, makes me proud of our VC team.  

Yes, the "!" came from the engines.

I hate playing against Odyson.

Guy is a beast.

Thanks varelse for those generous words, you're pretty beastly yourself! Actually, I didn't make much of a showing this game. I joined the game as it was already in progress, opposed going into the bishop versus knight endgame but was outvoted, then was convinced that we were simply losing for a long time. It was my teammate Vezekmin who played the opening, and it was he who took seriously our drawing resource.

From around move 30, with a wide open center and pawns on both sides of the board, the bishop is so superior to the knight that I still think the game is lost from that point on, whatever the computer may say. 

@odyson, That's what the analysis shows indeed. Had we played Ke5 on move 49 or 50, we could have won the game. Frustrating for me, who coordinated the discussion, is that the move was suggested on move 49 but I dismissed it rather bluntly without looking at it properly.

Anyway, the Bishop may be superior to the Knight in an open position, but we learned from this endgame that a Knight is very difficult to control.