Should've pushed your d-pawn on move 35 instead of your f-pawn
Did I blunder this endgame?
@HueyWilliams. I am asking if you think a player in my rating could win this. Just because the computer see a win does not mean a human could win. Could you win this? Also I am asking how to play a QGD endgame.
@Steikt, it justbtakes a bit more exp and study to find moves like that. For instance I found 33...Rc2 bcos I saw this idea in Nimzowitch's My System. He calls it " The Absolute 7th rank" or something.
What a dull game. Well played and all that, but I just couldn't be bothered. I'd have offered a draw as soon as the queens were off. Just me I suppose, but I prefer a few fireworks.
The biggest edge you had was less than a pawn i suppose you could try to win but you would have had to grind your way to victory
Dear Steikt,
You could have tried to use the pawns as pressure instead of just exchanging them, what about :
I think I played a good game and I had one more pawn in the endgame, but it was not so easy... I tried to put my rook behind my passed pawn, and have it where it can block checks from my opponents rook. I did a computer analysis and I was better and a computer would have won, but it was a very difficult line. Maybe too difficult for a player like me? On move 41 I offered a draw because all lines that I calculated ended in a draw. My opponent declined it so we played it till the end.
One last question: How should I play a QGD endgame? Did I have the right ideas?