An Avoidable Draw?
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the opening ain't in my "book", White missed some juicy pawn forks: 7 e5 & 9 e5. And was still winning until move 28 f4? .
Don1 wrote: the opening ain't in my "book", White missed some juicy pawn forks: 7 e5 & 9 e5. And was still winning until move 28 f4? .
Those forks are right, but white was only winning until 27. Re1?, since then black could have already played 27... Nf3+ winning the exchange. 28. f4 just provoked black to play the right move.
19. Nb5, 20. Nxa7, 21. Nb5 and 22. Nd4 seems like a bad plan to me. You're taking four moves just to gain the meainingless a-pawn, but you don't even win it, since black wins the pawn on c2. Also black could have played 20... Ra8 and 21... Rxa2, winning back the pawn.
And on move 25, better was 25. dxc6 (en passant capture), just winning another pawn.
And of course there is no doubt that a rook and two connected pawns beat a lone bishop. Even if you take off the rook and bishop, you still have a completely won position for black.
checkout the 9th move carefully white missed an opportunity to win a piece.....9. e5
dskaura wrote: checkout the 9th move carefully white missed an opportunity to win a piece.....9. e5
I think this is also possible on 7th move.
Phobetor: U R correct!
27 Kf1! , White has the right idea, to try to trade down; but missed the N check. And apparently Black did also, and maybe i didn't look close enough also.
I'm looking at the end game, 47th move of black maybe wrong, maybe its better if black move his rook, 47. ...Rf3 48. Ke4 g4 (48. Bc6 c2) (48. Bd1 g4). Black will win, maybe this is a shear luck
move 47 i like Rd3 if B or K attack take the pawn on d7, otherwise start advancing the K-side pawns. should be an easy win.
47... g4 was good, but after 48. Kf4, 48... Rh2 with 49... c2 is alot easier than giving up the c-pawn. Black will eventually get the d-pawn for free anyway.
Thanks for the comments, kind of interesting to take note of the easy things I missed especially the forks and en passant on 27. Perhaps that teaches one to never try starting a game at midnight.
move 27 has no en passant it's just a discovered double attack with check.
Your right, move 27 wasn't en passant, it was a really stupid move on my part that I only saw after I had forced black to move the knight, one or two moves later. However, move 24/25 was, and in fact it may have allowed a win since I could have defended with my queen, forcing a loss of either the knight, rook or queen.
i like all the moves as played; 24/25 on: you have a passed pawn, traded Qs with a material advantage; until 27, Kf1! preparing Re1 or f4 looks strong.
hey a lot of forks were missed out there!
Here was an interesting game that I eventually pushed into a draw. The only real question is, was it avoidable? Excluding black's rook fork at the end, could white have still managed to force the draw or was it shear luck?