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39. Rxh5
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And white partakes of the forbidden fruit! After the double attack of ...Qg6, white has the choices of:
A) 40. Rh8 Ke7
41. Rxd8 Kxd8
and the King wins the d pawn after the white bishop moves
B) 40. Rc5 trying to protect the bishop
40...Qd6 forking the rook |
 
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39... Ke7
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But black misses that and continues to play with his king. |
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40. Re5+
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White's best chance to cause some confusion. |
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40... Kd6
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This king maneuver is totally unnecessary, but black is so far ahead that he can win with almost any sequence. And this turns out to be a winning sequence. Long, slow, messy, but winning. |
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41. Re8
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The best try. |
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41... Rxd7
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And black finally makes a good move. |
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42. Bxd7
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Even though it leaves him with a losing Q vs. R ending, this does win material, and is the best white has. |
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42... Kxd7 43. Rg8
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Might as well attack something, but this allows black a nice move. |
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43... Qb4
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Which he doesn't find. The text defends the g pawn and attacks the a pawn, but misses ...Qh7 forking the rook. In a Q vs. R ending it is very difficult for the rook to stay active and avoid getting forked at the same time. |
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44. Kg3
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Threatening to win the pawn. |
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44... Qxa4
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And again missing a fork to win the rook with ...Qb3 . |
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45. Rxg4
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Can't blame white for trying to put up resistance, especially since black doesn't appear to be looking for a way to win. |
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45... Qa3+
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What is black's plan now? He must be wanting to push his passed a pawn, but then why did he leave the queen blocking the a file? ...Qb3 would have cleared the pawn's path with the tempo gain of a check. |
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46. f3 a5 47. Rd4+
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Again, "Patzer sees check...". Is there a point to this move? If white wants to queen one of his pawns, he will need to cut the black king off, so Re4 would accomplish that and after Kf4, the g pawn could get moving. This move just lets the black king take a free move. |
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47... Kc6 48. Kf4 Kc5 49. Re4
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And now the position we should have been at, but white has lost a tempo. |
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49... Qb3
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And black figures out his pawn can't walk through the queen and gets out of the way. Another lost tempo, so I guess we are even. |
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50. g4 a4
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And the race is on. Since black will queen first, white must be very careful where his pieces are. |
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51. g5 a3 52. g6 a2 53. Re5+
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An interesting intermezzo that gives black a chance to go wrong. After:
53...Qd5
54. Rxd5 Kxd5
55. g7 a1=Q
56. g8=Q
it is white who queens with check and black will have to be careful to hold the draw. |
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53... Qd5
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As white hoped. |
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54. g7
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And this transposing of moves ruins the game. By letting the exchange happen on e5, white lets black queen with check. |
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