Wednesday, 20 March 2019

No fun in winning

Sometimes I will win a game of chess, and find that I did not really enjoy it. This usually happens when I know I've played a number of awful moves, and it is only a mistake from my opponent that has given me the point.
This happened this evening at my club, where around 40 moves of plan-less play was redeemed by outplaying my opponent in a R+3P ending, with all the pawns on the same side of the board.
But the game I will show, is from an earlier round of the same tournament. My opponent went for the king side hack, offering a piece I shouldn't take. Instead I decided I  could take the piece, as I thought I saw how I could defend. However after my opponent played 16.Rh6! I realised I was in a bad way. If he had then played either 18.Rh7+!! (forced mate) or 19.Qh4! (covering g5) I would have resigned in short order, but instead he blundered with 19.Qh2? and the tables were truly turned. I converted the winning ending (and even then failed to calculate the best line), but left the club unsatisfied with the point.


Mayen,Gabriel - Press,Shaun [C55]
University Cup, 05.03.2019

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. a3 d6 7. Be3 a6 8. h3 b5 9. Ba2 Nb8 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. Bxd5 c6 12. Ba2 Qc7 13. Ng5 h6 14. h4 hxg5 15. hxg5 g6 16. Rh6 Kg7 17. Kd2 Qd8 18. Qh1 Rh8 19. Qh2 Bxg5 20. Rxh8 Bxe3+ 21. Kxe3 Qxh8 22. Qxh8+ Kxh8 23. Bxf7 Kg7 24. Bb3 Nd7 25. c3 Nc5 26. Bc2 Be6 27. d4 Bb3 28. Bb1 Ne6 29. Bd3 Nf4 30. Bf1 Rh8 31. g3 Rh1 32. gxf4 Bc4 33. fxe5 dxe5 34. dxe5 Rxf1 35. Rxf1 Bxf1 36. Kd4 Bg2 37. Kc5 Bxe4 38. b4 Kf7 39. Kd6 Bd5 40. f4 Ke8 41. e6 Kd8 42. Ke5 Ke7 43. f5 gxf5 44. Kxf5 Bxe6+ 45. Ke5 Bd5 46. Kf5 Kd6 47. Kf4 Ke6 48. Ke3 Ke5 49. Kd3 Be4+ 50. Ke3 Kd5 51. Kf4 Bb1 52. Ke3 Kc4 53. Kd2 Bf5 54. Ke3 Kxc3 55. Kf4 Kb3 56. Kxf5 Kxa3 57. Ke4 Kxb4 58. Kd3 Kb3 0-1



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