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28... g5
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Protecting the f pawn to activate the f8 rook. |
 
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29. d5
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White loses the thread of the game completely and gives away one of his connected passed pawns. |
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29... Qxe5
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Accepting the gift and eyeing the b pawn. |
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30. Rd1
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Ignoring the threat to the b pawn, white puts a rook behind his passer. Normally the best strategy, but here it is just too little, too late. |
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30... Qxb2
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Accepting another gift and destroying white's 2-1 queenside majority. After this, white can resign with a clean conscience. |
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31. d6
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Desperation, as the pawn has no chance to queen, but if white is to play on, he must move something. |
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31... Qc2
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Threatening the a pawn, which would give black a passer, and taking the c6 square away from the bishop. Nice move! |
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32. d7
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Ignoring the threat to the a pawn in order to advance the passer. |
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32... Rd8
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But black successfully blockades the passer and can win it at his leisure. |
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33. Bg4
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Protecting the pawn to allow the rook to head for e8, but this is too slow and black will have plenty of time to counter. For example, ...Qc7 puts a second attacker on the d pawn and freezes both white pieces in their tracks. |
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33... f3
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But this is unexpected. Perhaps black was hoping white would blunder with:
34. gxf3 Qxd1
but really I have no explanation for this move. |
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34. Bxf3
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Avoiding the blunder. |
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34... Qf5
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And now the reason for 33...f3 is clear. It was a deflection sacrifice to allow the black queen the f5 square. But really, 33...Qc7 would have been better. |
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35. Bd5+
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This is worse than just a wasted tempo, it actually helps his opponent. The bishop has to get to c6 to protect the pawn, and by checking first, the black king gets a free move to get activated. |
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35... Kf8
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Taking the tempo gift to get closer to the action around white's passer. |
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36. Bc6
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Forced, to get a second defender on the passer, but now ...Qe6 will force the bishop to abandon its protection and the passer will fall. |
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36... h5
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But black doesn't find ...Qe6. Is he thinking of a pawn storm to destroy the pawn wall in front of the white king? |
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37. Rd5
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White has to move something, but this still allows black to consolidate his won position with:
37...Qe6
38. Bb7 Rxd7
39. Rxd7 Qxd7
40. Bxa6 Qd1
winning the a pawn, after which the queen will dominate the bishop. |
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37... Qb1+
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But instead, black gives a check. What does he have in mind? I don't know, but I am anxious to find out. |
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38. Kh2 g4
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Uh, this was the big follow up to 37...Qb1 ? I guess I still don't see the point of this line. Except that it sets a trap for white if he should take the h pawn. |
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