ANNOTATED GAME

A bad line...
babetta (1884) vs. nyctalop (1960)
Annotated by: nyctalop (2166)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B33), Pelikan (Lasker/Sveshnikov) variation
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27. Rae1 Bd6
Time to reorganize my pieces and what better way than to kick the White Queen around for a bit?

 
28. Qb5+ Kc7
My king has reached relative safety and now it's time for the counter-attack.

 
29. Reb1 Rh8 30. h3
Trying to remove the pressure on h2.

 
30... Rxh6 31. Rfg1
Hard to explain this move. The natural and best 31. Qxb3 is still hopeless after 31...Qxb3 32. Rxb3 Rxc4 33. Rfb1 b6 and I'm a clear piece up.

 
31... Rxh3+
Now it's mate in 7.
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32. gxh3 Qxf3+ 33. Rg2 Rd1+ 34. Rxd1 Qxd1+ 35. Rg1 Qf3+ 36. Rg2 Qf1+ 37. Rg1 Qxh3#
I was quite lucky this was a forced sequence or else I would have timed out a won game due to a crappy ISP. I had the inspiration of introducing the line as a conditional move just hours before a weekend of hell when I had no internet and no one at my provider budged to do anything about it. I guess luck is needed in chess sometimes, not just pure knowledge.

 

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