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19... Nd6
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Trying to control the c4 square and forcing some exchanges in order to reduce my queen side dominance. Nc7 might have been better here controlling both a6 and b5 squares. |
 
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20. Rc1
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Rc1 move not only protects c4 square but also attacks the entire c-file. |
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20... Bf7
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Moved his bishop back due to possible attack on e6 square from white's Nc5 move. However, Nc5 move was almost obvious and black could have waited for another move to push back his bishop.
I am not sure what else he could have played in this position. Maybe distracted my attention by playing 20. ... h5 and counter attacking on king side. But my king side was sufficiently safe for me to get distracted. Black's 20. ... Nd6-b7 can prevent my next Nc5 move; but after a6 his knight has to move back to d6 square.
Here 20. ... a6 will be followedby 21. Nb6 Ra7. This was probably best way of defending position. Infact black's 19. ... Nc7 and 20 . ... a6 might have made posed problems in white's queen side attack. |
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21. Nc5 h5 22. Na6
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I tried to control c7 square by playing this move. But I lost temp after black's Rc8 because I didnot want to exchange my rook on c-file and thus had to move the knight back to c5. |
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22... Rc8 23. Nc5 Kh7
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Trying to get king to safer postion in order to bring his white squared bishop into play. |
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24. b5 Bf6
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Maybe this move was to move his rook on f8 to g8 to attack my king side and open the g-file. |
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25. Qa4
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I had to either bring my knight on f2 or queen into play to further push my pawns to 6th and 7th ranks. Knight cannot be played directly as it will block my white bishop's control on b5 pawn. This reasoning along with the fact that black cannot pin my b-pawn by playing Bf7-e8 made me to bring queen into play. 25. ...Be8 will be followed by a double blow of 26. Ne6. |
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25... Rg8 26. a6 Rb8 27. Ba5 Qe8 28. Bc7
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At this point black resigned the game with no way preventing my passed pawns from queening or losing the material whiling trying stall my passed pawns.
The black's strategy of playing for an open diagonal of h8-a1 in order to get strong control for its black bishop was never achieved. Black had deviated from his initial strategy of attacking the base of white's pawn chain in the middle of the game and thus lost tempo.
In the hindsight, looking back at white's move 9. Ne1 instead of bishop manoeuvre 9. Be3 and then Bf2 proved to be important because it played an active role in supporting a and b pawns of white from getting exchanged. |
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