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42... Bxh4
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? Premature.......consider 42...Qg4 43. Qg1 Qxh and black has the chance for some awesome pawn rollers. |
 
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43. Qg1
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?? ARGH! White misses the opportunity to win a free piece. 43. Qf4 ! Ka7 44. QxB. |
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43... g5
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Black protects both his g pawn and bishop, and starts the race up the board on the kingside. |
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44. Qxd4
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Gothicgirl gets something for her troubles while centralizing her queen. She now has a check threat. |
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44... Qc8
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Blocking the potential check threat. |
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45. e5
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As white has strength in the center, she decides to push it. She certainly must worry about black's connected outside passers, of course, but if she can control the initiative she may just be able to force the issue down the middle. I like black better here, but he is by no means out of the woods. |
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45... f5
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Black pushes his own advantage, and plans to win the pawn race. At this point, it is not necessarily a race to promotion, but a race to the threat of promotion. If black can divert white's pieces over to the kingside to defend, he should be able to press his pawn advantage. |
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46. e6
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? Blunder. 46. Re2 g4 47. Nd6 and white has much better chances. |
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46... Qxe6
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The correct capture. If 46...Rxe then 47. Nd6 QxR 48. KxQ. |
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47. Qh8+
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Wins the h pawn. White is now valiantly fighting to regain the initiative. |
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47... Kc7
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? Rc8 was the far better move. 47...Rc8 48. Qxh Qf6 49. Ka2 and black maintains his initiative. |
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48. Qxh5
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This is such a twisted game. Both players are having good ideas, but acting on them too prematurely. Better for white was 48. Qh7 Kb8 THEN 49. Qxh Qf6 Kb1. With the black king further removed from it's pieces, it would make an easier target to check in the future. Now, black has some tempo to force the issue. |
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48... f4 49. Qh7+
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The white rook is so incredibly passive right now. It was probably better to get him into play by the tempo gaining 49. Re2 (it would be safe from capture because it would have been protected by the white queen.) |
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49... Kd8
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? Kb8 would be an easier position to defend. Black has the wonderful threat of pushing the kingside, but is allowing white too many check threats. Better to just suck it up, waste a move if needed to secure his king, and then let the fireworks start by pushing the kingside. |
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50. Qb7
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? White is losing touch with reality (sorry gg:) Her rook is just screaming to get into the game, and while she targets the black b pawn valuable time is being wasted that will allow black to roll up the kingside. |
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50... Rc7
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? Black joins white in La La Land (sorry Charlie:) Be1 protects the b pawn and hastens Bc3 , and the text only threatens the queen that was moving anyway. |
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51. Qxb4 Qf6+
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Black emerges from his fog and rightfully gets things into gear. |
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52. Ka2
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Interesting choice. Qc3 may have been better, as it would encourage a queen swap. White's defensive priorities would be cut drastically to just stopping the black pawn advance. The text is not all together bad, however, as it puts the king on the opposite color of the black bishop. |
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52... f3
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Black has had enough, and commits to winning straight away. |
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53. Qb8+ Kd7 54. Qg8
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White ignores the promotion threat, and sets up another check threat. |
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