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13. Rg1
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This was a bright move on the part of white as my next move was going to be to pin his Kt to his Rk.
I would have liked to done that and then trade (again) bishop for Kt only this time the other way around, so that the world was right again.
But he saw through this obvious ploy, although I'm not sure that he was onto my actual motives yet.
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13... Bxb1
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However, Moving his rook couldn't protect the still threatened b1 Kt and I captured |
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14. Rxb1
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Now, I'm up 3 in material. This is where those pawns really start to add up! |
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14... b6
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I have to move my pawn out here in order to avoid losing one of my own pawns to Rkxb7, which would bring my material lead down to 2 and that would just be silly. |
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15. Bd2
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connecting his rooks? I'm not sure what his plan was here... |
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15... f6
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I do know that he has a pawn at d4 however that is incapable of moving. My plan is to move ...pe5 so as to initate an even pawn trade. Whether I take first or he does is inconsequential.
... pd5
pxp ... pxp
and I'm in pretty good position to then move ...pe4 and put some pressure on his Kt and also start getting my pawn into uncomftorable territory. The more serious implication of this is that now the f file is opened up and simple rook move will pin his Kt to his King, very unpleasent.
And if I take first then he'll just retake |
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16. Rge1
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again.. I have no idea.. I guess he's probably sensing that I'm about to attack his d pawn and wants to have some sort of support on the e file? I really don't know at this point. |
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16... Nc6
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This may have been a wasted move on my part as I could have easily moved p e5 at this point to initiate the exchange.
I made this move on the chance that White would continue to give me free moves. If so, then I could move pe5 on my next move while giving it triple support and also attacking the d4 square. |
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17. e4
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Now I see what he was up to. He wants to take my d pawn which forks my Knight and e Pawn, and I can't recapture because my e pawn will be pinned to my King. |
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17... O-O-O
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Thankfully I moved my Knight ;) which meant I cectould 0-0-0 to my still reasonably protected Queen side. This unpinned my King which meant I retake his pawn in the event of pxd5 which would be fine with me because it would be an equal exchange. |
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18. e5 fxe5
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I have no problem taking this..
Mainly because I misread the board. For some reason I thought that if:
pxp I could reply with bxP
and after Ktxb .. KtxKt I would come out on top, but I forgot about his Rook up there at e1. |
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19. dxe5 Be7
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I retreat, just happy not to have followed this horrible line any farther and also get out with a pawn for pawn even trade.
Also, I saw the oppurtunity here to disguise a tactical move as a retreating move. I had noticed a few moves back that he had put his King on the same Dark diagnal as his Rook, which screamed "Pin ME!!", so here I have the chance to move bh4 and trade a bishop for a Rook. I'll have to figure out how to get rid of the Kt at f3 first though because it is protecting the h4 square that I would need to move my bishop to in order to get the pin. |
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20. Ke2
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Busted..
For all the weird moves white made towards the beginning of this game, he suddenly has become very observant.
This move removes the threat of me pinning his King to his rook. |
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20... d4
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I'm still trying to trade pieces off the board.
If he captures my pawn with his I can capture his pawn my Kt putting White's King in Check.
pxp .. Ktxd4
At that point white is left with the choice of Taking back with his Kt which I in turn take with my rook even exchanges all around. Or, he can move his King out of the way and I will take his Knight.. still even. (well.. me 3)
The other main choice he has is to do something else totally unrelated, at which point I can move my pawn up to d3 to put him in check (my pawn is protected by my rook). Ideally this will have the effect of chasing him right back onto that Dark diagnal where my bishop can go after the pin (after I get rid of the Kt of course). |
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21. c4
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Not the choice I thought he would make, but maybe he's wise to my plan. |
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21... d3+
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Not one of the choices I thought he would make, but it allows me to excute my contengiency plan of moving my pawn up to check.
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22. Kf2
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I really thought he would put his King at d1 so as to avoid this situation again of having his rook pinned.
Although moving to d1 presents a lot of problems in and of itself because from d1 as long as my pawn stays at d3 he can not move anywhere except for c1 which could probalby be comprimised a number of ways. I don't know them, nor do I
care to figure them out at this point. Needless to say, white was on the run at this point and I was still up on material. |
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22... Rdf8
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this of course Pins his Knight to his King meaning that if given the chance I can now move to b4 and he can not capture with his Kt.
I should have moved my h8 Kt to this position however, as we will see in the next move. |
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23. Ke3
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Problem solved eloquently by White. This unpins both his Kt and his Rk and attacks my now undefended d pawn (doh!) |
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23... Rfd8
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Now I have to waste a move in order to reprotect my d pawn. |
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