Black is already in a bad fix here, IMO. The problem I see with ...c6 is that after 2.Rf6, you have two pawns under attack: c6 and also g6 (due to the pin on the a2-g8 diagonal). I don't see a good way out for black. Rad8 allows the knight the d5 outpost, with Rf6 to follow up...
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That's what I thought, although I advocated c6 I really didn't have a follow-up
that could improve our position.
looks like the position might already be lost: nh6 with no moves, white's rook very active on a semi-open file compared to your rooks, three pawn weaknesses on the queenside, and great squares for the white knight.
i considered ne3 qe6 c6, but then rf6 and black loses.
c6 rf6 wins a pawn just as crazy said, and that wins for white for sure. (kg7 rxc6 qd7 qd5+-)
the variation you played looked like a good chance, but it seems qc4-c5 works tactically for white and so they win (d4 in the final position, driving your queen from defending the d6 rook?).
the critical moment in this game probably came some moves earlier.
I played white in this one.
As already has been stated, you guys lost earlier than this.
I forget where it may have been exactly but it seemed like there were numerous innacuracies by black in the midgame that led to this position.
I'm surprised by this, as I thought up until move 28 we still had a reasonable chance
to still win the game.
Alekhine said one must avoid the "delusion" that every position has a way out to victory and that is probably my worst chess habit. I incorrectly believe I can
always save a game.
we just lost. In this Ruy Lopez our team playing
as black debated our crucial 28th move.
The option was to play c6 preventing their
knight from moving to d5. As black we played
28...Rad8 instead.
Do you think c6 or Rad8 was better? Can you
find better continuations for both moves?
Hint: White's first move was Ne3.