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36. g4 Kc6
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I ignore White's dubious pawn advance and head toward White's passed pawn. Now that White realizes he will lose his passed pawn, he has to threaten my pawn. |
 
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37. Re1 Rxa6 38. Rxe6+ Kb7 39. gxf5 gxf5 40. Re5 Kc6
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Here If White takes f5, then Ra2 followed by Rxh2, and it seems like that variation gives White the best winning chances rather than the variation he played, which is drawn, but I managed to outplay him based on his miscalculation |
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41. Ne1 Ra1 42. Kf2 Ra2+ 43. Kg3 Ra1
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Here I was thinking I should just repeat moves since White seems to have better winning chances, but White didn't want to, and instead went into an ending where I am better |
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44. Kf2 Ra2+ 45. Re2
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This is a blunder. White maybe thought his knight would be better than my bishop because it can attack my light-squared f-pawn, but bishops are almost always better than knights in dynamic endgames like this. but this is probably still drawn, White just severely decreased his winning chances with the rook trade |
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45... Rxe2+ 46. Kxe2 Kd5 47. Kf2 Be7
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Here I want to restrict White's knight from coming to g5 or h4. Another good thing about bishops is that they can waste moves and still attack the same diagonal, unlike knights which cannot control the same squares when they move. |
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48. Nf3 h6 49. Kg3 Bf6
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Here it seems like the ending is pretty much drawn. White can safeguard his f-pawn with his king and later his knight, and I cannot breakthrough at all. |
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50. Nh4
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After Ke6 I can try to fight for a win, but I wasn't confident that I could win that ending. Instead, I go for a cheapo that isn't easy to see for someone who doesn't calculate thuroughly |
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50... Bxh4+
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After the minor pieces go off the board, I will maneuver my king to capture White's d-pawn, while White captures my h-pawn, and then it will be a pawn race, where White has a drawing move. White's losing plan is to defend his d-pawn with his king, where I can simply waste moves until White is in zugswang and must move his king away from defending his pawn |
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51. Kxh4 Kc5 52. Kh5 Kb4 53. Kxh6 Kc3 54. Kg5
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54.Kg5?? is a losing blunder.
54.Kg7?? is also losing.
54.Kg6 is White's only drawing move (you'll see after the pawns promote)
If White had calculated thoroughly, then he would've seen that Kg5 is losing. White probably only calculated that his pawn promotes right after mine does, so he thought he would have an easy draw in the resulting queen ending, and that it didn't matter where his king was. After the pawn race, you'll see why Kg6 was the only drawing move |
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54... Kxd3 55. h4 Ke4 56. h5 d3 57. h6 d2 58. h7 d1=Q 59. h8=Q
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This position is lost for White because after Qg1 White's king is forced to the h-file since Kf6 loses to Qd4 skewer. After the king moves to the h-file, I have Qh1 skewer forcing a queen trade, then my king just takes f4-pawn and I promote the last pawn and win. If White's king was on g6, then I wouldn't be able to force a queen trade and the ending is drawn. If White's king had moved to g7 then Qa1 forces a queen trade. |
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59... Qg1+ 60. Kh6 Qh1+ 61. Kg7 Qxh8+
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White resigned, I win easily after taking White's pawn and White's king is not in a position to interfere with my promotion. If White's king was in front of my pawn, like around f1, then it would be a draw. |
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