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18... g4 19. Nxb7
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After the game, my opponent stated that 19. a6 was the better move and he indicated that this would have won more quickly. I assume the line would have been 19.a6 b6 20. Bxa8 bxc5 |
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19... e4
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This move cuts off my LSB protection of Nb7 and directly attacks my DSB, which is en prise. |
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20. Bxf6
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This was the only move that made sense to me. |
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20... Bxb7 21. a6
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I would have happily exchanged by DSB for Blacks LSB at this point as that would have also led to the loss of the a7 pawn. |
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21... Bc8 22. Bd4 Ng5
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At this point I had a good, long think. Clearly, I have nice space on the Q-side but it appeared only a matter of time until Black broke thru on the King side. I went thru a variety of variations until I finally came up with a line that pleased me. My thought was when I went into these moves, the worst I should come up is a point down in material but I would have hopefully minimized Black's K-side pressure. |
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23. f3 gxf3 24. Nxf3
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It didn't matter to me which pawn, g or e, that Black retook with, I was taking back with my N. |
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24... exf3 25. Rxf3
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And there is the point of this. If Black moves 25. Nxf4 26. Bxf4 and then if say, 26...Be6 27. Bxh5 If Black doesn't move his LSB, then the Ra8 is lost. |
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25... Ne4
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But Black sees all of this and thus White is down one material point. |
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26. g4
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After the match my opponent gave an ! to 26. g4 My thought was that Nh5 must move. Black cannot play 26...fxg4 27. Rxf8+ and no matter how Black retakes, Bxe4 and Ra8 falls as well. |
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26... Ng7 27. Raf1
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I had a long think on this move as well. I could nothing that was immediately "game changing" so I sought to improve my position. After looking for a bit, I realized that my R on a1 was not part of the game and it appeared that including him helped my position. |
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27... Qg6
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Now here, I ran thru a multitude of variations. However, just about everyone ended up with my LSB pinned to my K and White losing material. After thinking a bit, I figured I had time to move my K |
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28. Kh1
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A primary point was to now insure that Black could never be allowed to move Ng3 |
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28... c5
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I didn't expect this move but it didn't bother me. I had run thru several variations where I moved Rf4 but I had difficulty getting around Ne6, attacking Rf4. I hated giving up the B-pair but it just made sense to me to do so. |
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29. Bxg7 Kxg7 30. Rf3f4
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Pinning the Black N for the moment. All the while, Black still cannot move fxg4 |
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30... Be6
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I believe that Black was thinking to attack the base of my pawn chain while also freeing the pin on his N. |
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31. gxf5
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I was quite pleased with this move and what came next. I could not see how Black could refuse to respond 31...Bxf5. At this point, His N is en prise, so moving Qh6 would only lose the N (White would have to take the N because otherwise 32. fxe6?? Ng3+ and it's game over.) |
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31... Bxf5 32. Rg1
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I was pleased I found this--With White's next move, 33. Bxe4, either the Q will be pinned to the K or it will be discovered check. |
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32... Rae8
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Black sees this as well and it's time to exchange off a bunch of pieces. |
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33. Bxe4 Bxe4+ 34. Rxe4 Rxe4 35. Rxg6+ hxg6
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And now it's a Q v 2 Rooks. I figured with my Q-side pawn advance, I should be able to obtain at least a draw. |
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36. Kg2
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My first thought is to bring my K into the action. I had two hopes at this point: exchange my Q for the Rooks or find a way to take a7. |
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