ANNOTATED GAME

Helsinki v England 65+ 3rd team
Aulikki Ristoja (1726) vs. Charles L Higgie (1945)
Annotated by: charleshiggie (2222)
Chess opening: Old Benoni defence (A43)
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38... a4
I advance again. I don't think the next few moves need annotations - I basically slowly advance my queen side pawns as she tries checks and tricks to stop them. Black has a large advantage now.

 
39. Rh5h8+ Ke7 40. Re1+ Kd7 41. Ree8 a3 42. Rea8 b4 43. Rhb8 Qb2+ 44. Kg3 a2 45. Rb7+ Ke6 46. Rba7 b3
I give up my f pawn but my a and b pawns cannot be stopped.
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47. Ng5+
She checks

 
47... Kd5
King goes to support the queen side pawns, also to shelter from checks there.

 
48. Nxf7
She takes.

 
48... Qc3+
Moving out of the way of the b pawn's advance.

 
49. Kg2
King moves.

 
49... b2
Pawn advances.

 
50. Ra7xa2
She takes. I should have just promoted to a queen here.

 
50... Qg7+
But I decide to pick up the knight.
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51. Kh2
So that I don't take the knight with check. I should have played Qh7+ here followed by queening my b pawn.

 
51... Qxf7
But I took the knight.

 
52. Rxb2
She takes the pawn. Qf4+ is correct here.

 
52... Qh7+
With the idea that the king moves onto the g file and then I have a fork of king and rook with Qg7+. What I missed was that she could now play Kg1 and meet Qg7+ with Rg2.

 
53. Kg2
But luckily she didn't notice that.

 
53... Qg7+
The fork comes in

 
54. Kh3
King moves.

 
54... Qxb2
I take the rook

 
55. Rg8
Presumably trying to get her rook and king working together, but...

 
55... Qb3+
I check

 

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