Under Pressure

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Avatar of joeygaga
I just finished this very interesting online chess game. It was a game of opposites in some ways: black's defenses were breached early on, while white erected an impenetrable pawn wall. White captured pawns while black captured a piece. In the end I think black didn't know how to proceed and ended up getting caught in the corner of the board. One thing I was particularly happy with was the pressure I was able to keep on the black king all game. Though I think I misstepped on the ABC columns eventually, I had built up enough of a defense to finish the attack.

Please share any comments/analysis. Thank you.

Avatar of pinkpawn97

actually, it looks untouched....

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Hey xevs, thanks a lot for the analysis.

22. Ne6+!! is brilliant. I felt the whole time that there was a breakthrough move like this in this position, but I failed to find it.

It's funny, too, because I play tactical puzzles all day on Shredder for the iPhone, and so many of the puzzles are situations like this, where you force a king move with a knight check while uncovering the queen for a capture. Hopefully now that you pointed this out in one of my own games I will pay more attention to similar positions in the future!!