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could I have taken the game further (maybe win)?

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Humness
Dec 8, 2008
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Does anyone think I could have continued, because the opponent was going to repeat moves to draw anyway so I accepted a draw.

Thanks in advance.

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Tiger-13
Dec 9, 2008
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#2

maybe...XD

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Spiffe
Dec 9, 2008
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#3

There's nothing better for you, but you were lucky to get away with a draw from there!  From that final position, Re8 & Rh6 both look winning for black to me.

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Mainline_Novelty
Dec 9, 2008
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Spiffe wrote:

There's nothing better for you, but you were lucky to get away with a draw from there!  From that final position, Re8 & Rh6 both look winning for black to me.

I think only a pawn White loses, 33...Re8! 34.d4! Bf6 35.Nf4 Rg5+! 36.Kf1 Bxd4

Or am i wrong?

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nator109
Dec 9, 2008
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#5

You are lucky draw is the best thing or you would of lost

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BlueKnightShade
Dec 9, 2008
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aabbccdd wrote:
Spiffe wrote:

There's nothing better for you, but you were lucky to get away with a draw from there!  From that final position, Re8 & Rh6 both look winning for black to me.

I think only a pawn White loses, 33...Re8! 34.d4! Bf6 35.Nf4 Rg5+! 36.Kf1 Bxd4

Or am i wrong?

If white played 33. d4 black would not play 34... Bf6? but rather play 34... Rxe6 35 dxe5 Reh6

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Spiffe
Dec 9, 2008
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#7

Right, on Re8, d4 is insufficient.  Interesting position, looks like something out of Tactics Trainer!  In fact, out of curiosity, I plugged it into Crafty and confirmed -- it's scoring that position as -5.67 after Re8, easily winning for black.