Annotated chess game

I spent a lot of time tossing up between 65...Red8 and ....Ree7, still thinking I was in with a chance. My gradual disillusion with doubling on the file led me to double along the 2nd rank. But after this move, it gradually began to sink in that the game had gone. So 62...Rd7 had been a mistake after all.

It's already too late in the day for this to have much chance of succeeding.

My next game wil be a symatrical with Peta  

The 'club rules' are to play the thing out as far as possible, though I tend to interpret it as 'until there is no play left'. I could with a clear conscience have resigned after 67.Qh4, which I thought showed conclusively enough that White knew he was winning already and knew how to win. If now [a] 76...Bxa7 77.Qd8 Rc7 78.Qd2ch Kf5 79.Qd3ch Ke6 80.Qd6ch Kf5 81.e6! (on second thoughts, I ought to have played this line out...) or [b] 76...Rxa7 77.Qd8ch Kf5 78.Qd3ch Re4 79.Qf3ch and wins a rook. Well played, bigpeta. A tough, evenish, sort of game in which the scales gradually tilted towards my opponent.