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Sir Ralph
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Long live teh Schwampel!
Dec 2001
time: 06:30
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No, I deemed this premature. I had a thought or two for it, but then decided to increase the pressing on the queens side first, trying to bind as many black pieces there as I could. In closed positions time doesn't matter that much. You need patience.
In move 27, I begun preparations for the second front. Goal was not a direct attack, but to force the creation of a second weak point on the kings side. I got even 2, the weak tile g6 and the threat of a sacrifice at h6. There were several kinds of threats present, the brute force break in over h6 was only the most obvious.
The opening of the diagonal c8-h3, which is very weak for black, made the black defense very difficult, if not impossible. I can break in at will with my bishop via e6-f7 (after which the sacrifice at h6 is crushing), the threat Qc3-c1, and Ng4 becomes dangerous and still my rooks dominate the b file ready to break in at the 7th or 8th row and decide the game. To prevent it will already cost black material.
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:30
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No need to get that elaborate.  41 Bd7 followed by 42 Rb8 (regardless of how black recaptures at d7) ends things by a much more direct approach. The two white rooks can double up on b8 and c8, and black can't defend the knight and/or bishop.
When I started maneuvering the knights on their little death ride several moves back, I didn't look into the fxg5 capture in enough depth to see the coordinated entry possibilities from h3-c8-b8.
At a8 and b6, the knights were ugly, but they did shut down the rooks and have at least a potential threat against the c4 pawn.
after .... e5, which was bad, Kh8 was just a wasted tempo, and two if you consider Kg8 as a potential response to Ng6+. Even so, had I sufficiently considered the h3-c8-b8 potential, I would have tolerated the knight on g6 as an additional irritant, or let you exchange it off against the dark square bishop.
If I had retained any real sense of how to play the game, I think I could have held the position (even though if I had any real sense of how to play, I wouldn't have gotten into it ), by not moving the King prematurely, keeping the knights where they were, and once your second knight was firmly on it's way to the K side, using those tempi to move the rooks to b7 and a7, with the assumption that if you sac a piece at h6, I can countersac the exchange to break up your attack.
A very well played game on your part, and a good lesson for me in the current weaknesses in my game I need to address if I want to be half decent again.
Thank you.
Dr. Spike - I was hoping for quick, Nearderthal-style attacks on the K-side. I could defend against those and come out material ahead, and have an opening to gain back initiative.
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