From Forced Mate to Completely Losing (Outrageous Swindle)

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ajian

In this game, played in the World Open recently, I had black against an opponent rated roughly 2190. He had outplayed me for most of the game up to this point and at this point, at move 33, he had 10 minutes to my 42 seconds. His last move was Kh1-g2, and my position (black) should be losing, but because of this ridiculous computer line I still have fighting chances (evaluation +1.0).
 
 
Suddenly, he began to think for a long time, and 2 moves later he had around 90 seconds to my 20 or so. Then he blundered and I ended up with a miraculous win.
 
In the position, Black looks like he is going to lose a piece. His Ng6 is attacked and pinned, and black is unable to play ...Kh7, unpinning and defending, because of the annoying white Rb7. The one move directly defending the knight, ...Qe8 runs into Bxf5, after which black has no more ways to defend the knight and loses a piece. 
 
Luckily for me, I had this random idea to play ...Bg5, the idea being if fxg5, then ...f4. With 42 seconds on my clock, I could not see anything else, and I couldn't see anything wrong with ...Bg5, so I played it and hoped for the best.
 
This is when he took his long think, probably because ...Bg5 is such a bizzre move, and then after a time-trouble blunder a few moves later, white went from a forced mate to a completely lost position.
Here's the game:
 
 
Karma came back to bite me after I was convincingly outplayed in round 6 and lost. I guess luck runs out if you don't have the skill to win games the right way. Frown
It turns out he could have won easily by not playing Kh1-g2 before the initial position. Ne3-f1 would have been a simple enough win, as Bxf5 is unstoppable.

F117nighthawk

lol

ajian

he got trolled

F117nighthawk

yea i realized