ANNOTATED GAME

Nutmeg Of Consolation VII
lethalia (1280) vs. acrewboy02 (1250)
Annotated by: acrewboy02 (1192)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn game (A45)
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21. c4
my king is starting to sweat a little... i debated dxc4 but decided that i didn't want to open a file for his rooks

 
21... Qh4
to clear the g5 space for my knight, as i plan to sack the knight for the h3 pawn (the rook will move when i play Ng5).... i think this gives me more than adequate compensation for the knight and i really want to draw his attention away from intensifying his queenside attack

 
22. c5
my king is sweating even more.... i thought for a long time about bxc6 but white would logically respond with bxc6 and my king would be in a very bad positoin... in case of C6 i plan to play Nd6

 
22... Ng5 23. Rf1 Nxh3+
Knight sacrifice!

 
24. gxh3 Qxh3
his king is going to be doing a lot of running!

 
25. Kf2
forced as anything else loses to Qh1 or Qh2

 
25... Qh2+ 26. Ke1
forced as Kf3 looses to Rh3 #

 
26... Qg3+ 27. Kd1
no particularly good options but Kd2 saves the pawn for a move

 
27... Qxg4+ 28. Kc2
white's best option here is probably to play Qe2 to stop the bleeding.... but he tries to run to satety because of his own attack that he wants to resume

 
28... Rh2+
now i'll attack with both the queen and rook!

 
29. Nd2 Qe4+ 30. Kb3
he thinks his king will be safe with his queen... but....
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30... Qxe3+ 31. Ka4 Qxd2
now white must guard the C2 and D1 squares .... i figure that he will try c6..... i've had Nd6 in my head as a backup plan for some time now, but if he plays c6, i can force the win of his queen and two pawns (yeah it took me a while to plan the combo and to decide what to do about that c pawn of his)

 
32. c6
its almost over now.... white may think he has escaped and is about to mate me but he is in for an unplesent suprise!

 
32... Qc2+ 33. Kb5 Qc4+ 34. Ka4
the real point of the combo!

 
34... Qxa6+ 35. Kb3 Qc4+
At this point white resigns.... i was planning a continuation that would grab both the c and d pawns as well as his king continued to shuffle between the two spaces.... i probably could have found a forced mate if i sacked my other knight but i'm not sure...

 

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