ANNOTATED GAME

Challenge from tomwhufc
tomwhufc (1525) vs. maaarten (1335)
Annotated by: tomwhufc (1200)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B23), closed
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26... hxg4 27. hxg4 Bxg4 28. cxd6
Here I offered to sacrifice my rook temporarily in return for two bishops. It was a last ditch effort!
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28... Bxf3
??????????????????Yes!! He accepted I could salvage my position and even possibly checkmate him while he was off his gaurd. Better would have been declining the sacrfice e.g. 28...Bd8 29. d7 Qxd7 30. Qg6 (if 30.... Kh8 white will win with the better position after 31. Bd4 .) Qg7 31 Qxg7 Kxg7 32. Bd4 and the position is equal.

 
29. dxe7
Now the queen has to take...

 
29... Qxe7 30. Nxf3
And I am a pawn up!

 
30... g4
This attacks the knight and at first sight seems a good move. But have you seen what maarten missed. He has let me back into the game....

 
31. Qg6+
! This has put me back into the game and threatens mate along the a1-h8 diagonal.

 
31... Kh8
???????????????? This loses the game. Better would have been 31.... Qg7 which would have kept his king alive. However I would have exchanged queens and taken advantage of my massive queenside majority.

 
32. Bd4+
Maaarten finally realises the fatal consequences of his mistakes. He realises he had me by the throat and concentrated on ripping my throat off while I kicked him in the balls and killed him when he was distraught from his unsuccesful attack. The moral of this game is that you are in the gravest danger when you are in the middle of a powerful attack. I would like to say thankyou to my good friend Maaarten for a fantastic game. If you find any mistakes in this anotations or any missed sub variations please PM me. Thanks for the advice from raskerino on this annotation.
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