Miniature: Sacrificial Kingside attack

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10/0 time controls.  A rather pretty short game.

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Gambitking: About assigning double exclamation points, perhaps it is a little harsh, but it does walk right into a trap.  Of course, I have since been looking at the Kg6 lines since, which tend to get a lot more complicated and double edged than the game continuation, but regardless, black was much better off, and much safer, holding steady for the time being, and then castling queenside.  It might still be double edged, but white has a lot more difficulty organizing the attack under those circumstances.

As for the lines you gave, it's a very promising responce.  All kinds of tactical explosions.  Wasn't it played in a famous Greco game?

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I know after 9. Ng5 you say that black is lost, but what if he tries 9...g6 instead of 9...Bxc3?

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Gambitking: you're correct.  Qg5 wins in that position.

Back to the 9... Kg6!? line, I present white's winning resource.  10: H4! against which black has no responce.

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I also think the pronouncement of death was a bit premature, although blacks 9th and 10th moves were real stinkers.

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Archaic71: I don't think any pronouncements were immature.  I never said white was lost until he/she castled into the attack.  After that point, the lines are decisive, though, in actual play, there is the issue concerning most accurate play  (H5! for example, does not strike me as obvious a continuation as Qe4+ or Qg6, both of which let black back into the game, and either of which I might have played in the blitz controls).  Nevertheless, for analytic purposes, black was lost.  It was just a question of finding the correct lines.

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Gambitking: you're correct.  Qg5 wins in that position.

Back to the 9... Kg6!? line, I present white's winning resource.  10: H4! against which black has no responce.


Qd3+ wins the bishop

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lol, he didnt even accept the sac!!!

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Gambitking/Msoewulff: Well, personally, I think that the sacrifice declined lines were more aesthetically pleasing than the accepted ones would have been, so I am more than happy with the response.  (I'm talking about the setup with Ng5 and Qh5, where white's entire army coordinates to contain and then eliminate white's king, without any checks, and ceding the entire queenside, and, in some potential lines, a rook, to continue this agenda.)

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I'm assuming you meant to write 'B4' and not 'G4' in your analysis for where the bishop goes to pin the knight, but I know what you meant :)

Nice game! Whenever I face the Owen's Defence, I usually play B-Q3 (Bd3) where you play Kt-QB3 (Nc3) and hope for the following crazy tactical lines:

 

Oh, and isn't giving TWO question marks for castling a little harsh? LOL!

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 What if? 9)...Bxh1

How does the game continue?

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Gambitking:  Yeah, I saw the checkmate.  I first looked for an endgame, and miscalculated the final position to have one less piece than actually did.  (By the way, the endgame is losing.  I just thought black was missing a piece that was still on the board...Tongue out)  Still, that simplifying combination would have been aweful pretty if it worked...  Then, just later, I saw the mate.  I was just about to post it here.

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So what if 2...Bd5? After 3.Bh6 I can't find anything better than perpetual after either 3...Ne8 or 3...Bxh6.

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Whoops, didn't see the new comments while I was typing. If 1.Bh6 then I think I'm forced to play Ne8, but I don't see the win still.

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Sir David: Nd5! forces mate.

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What's the response to 1.Bh6 Ne8 2.Ne5 Bd5?

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SirDavid: the knight is immune.  The bishop is under pin.  (On a sidenote, Ng5 works just as well, but Nd5 seems more pleasing to my eye for some reason or another).

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I said Bd5, not Be5. There's a Bishop on h1 too.

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Oh, Bd5.  I missaw.  Appologies.  After Bd5, white has another sacrifice 12 Be4! and, again, black can resign.

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