ANNOTATED GAME

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rider_tiger (1200) vs. bukefalt (1476)
Annotated by: rider_tiger (1200)
Chess opening: QGD (D08), Albin counter-gambit
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33. Rc1
you take my pawn, i take your bishop. I guess d7 would have worked as well.

 
33... Bd6
attacks my pawn with two pieces (king and bishop)

 
34. Bc5
i protect it and attack his bishop

 
34... Bxc5
here i thought long and hard. Should i take it with my pawn or with the rook. Taking the bishop with rook would speed up the game, and I was ahead one pawwn, so i decided to go with that. Now that i think back, using the pawn would have been a lot better because i would have a passed pawn.it would be separated from the other pawn, but anyways...

 
35. Rxc5+
i am infact attacking his h5 pawn.

 
35... Kxb4 36. Rxh5
IMO i accelerated the game.

 
36... b5
now he starts rolling down his pawns.

 
37. Rg5
thinking back, i think this was the worst mistake. I should have done rook to h7 and start moving the pawns. I do it later (move 42), but too late.

 
37... Rf7 38. Rg6
move it up so i can threaten two pawns on the left side.

 
38... a5 39. Rc6
not sure if this is a good move.

 
39... Ka3
going for the other pawn. This shows the importance of an active king in an end game.

 
40. Rc5
i am like, now i got him, he cannot protect both his a5 and b5 pawns with his king.

 
40... Rb7
well, he does not have to, he will protect his g pawn and p pawns at the same time using one rook. Efficient use of technology. Star trek fans will know, this is like Borg or something :)

 
41. Rh5
i could do c2 here, but how long will i get to protect that pawn, he will just keep rolling down with the other pawns. I needed an attack plan.

 
41... Kxa2 42. Rh7
i should have done this long time ago.

 
42... b4 43. h5 b3 44. h6 b2 45. hxg7
i was hoping he would queen immediately and i would get a queen with a check, keeping my queen and rook. I knew if he took my pawn sacrificing his rook, it would not be good for me.

 
45... Rxg7
and surely, thats what he did.

 
46. Rxg7 b1=Q
now we have a queen for a rook and he has a good pawn on a file.

 
47. Ra7 Qe4+
checks

 
48. Kh3
i run

 

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