Nice game and smother mate; I was very surprised that white slid his queen over to protect the rook, it didn't seem like he got any compensation for the queen sacrifice
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Jul 11, 2018
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I just played a game where i lost pawn and got a very bad position, due to my attempt to avoid the (in my opinion silly and boring) london system. Somehow i managed to get counterplay and he finally blundered, and resigned in view of Bc7,g4,Ne1/g1,Nd2+,Ke2,Nxb3:
I would have been even more happier about this continuation:
Good point, what I wrote is rather ambiguous, since both 26. Qb5 and 26. cxb6 (and the relevant follow-up moves, which you detailed earlier) leaves White a bishop up, but outcome is different in the number of pawns held by White and Black.
And in our case, the QUALITY of the pawns!
Pawn on b6, defended by B on c7, OR pawn on c7, defended by a B on f4 - they simply choke black to death!
Such a structure would give white serious winning chances even if black also had a bishop of the opposite color (and equal pawns) with rooks on the board.
as Black I would probably be too complacent to notice either of the two saving moves by White, happily thinking that mate is unstoppable.
Remember that it was a three-minute game... :-)
In the game, many things can happen. I am sure that I would be overjoyed as Black if I played the game, because Black is not the player 'in desperation to save the White king'
By the time I doubled Rs on the e-file I already saw potential - but basically I couldn't believe what was happening: didn't I just BLUNDER MY QUEEN against a near-2200 player? :-)
(if I was in a bad real-life situation, I could get desperate), and I would have therefore not bothered about checking to see if White has defensive moves, and as a result, I would have equally overlooked 26. Qb5 or 26. cxb6 by White. And I am equally confident that if you were playing White instead of Black, you would have seen 26. cxb6 even during the game itself.
I hope and believe that as white, all of the alarm bells would be ringing after ...Rhe8, seeing that I can't even place a R on e1 - and that I would simply pay with the exchange with either 24. Rg1 (winning) or 25. Rg1 (winning).
Well I did not actually think much about 26. cxb6 though since I only listed it as a possibility, and it is good that you have worked out a path in this variation. The abilities to analyse and acknowledge the winning variations also explain why and prove that you are indeed a stronger-than-2000 player as you broke the over-the-board 2000 barrier the other day.
Thank you! :-) Very kind words :-)
And by the way, <Eric>, "always say check - it might be mate!"
Okay...I try to take note of it, but I may not remember though.
It's a joke, of course - it refers to your post #10.