Jan-01-08
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| whiteshark: Where did things go wrong for white ? |
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Jan-01-08
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| Gilmoy: 12.Bxc5 Qxc5 13.f4 <opens the Philidor diagonal, inviting an eventual ..Ng4.> 17.Qh4 <looks like a fork, but it's empty:> f5 <solves both.> 18.exf6 (e.p.) Nxf6 <may have liquidated too soon -- it leaves Black solid, and White is running out of targets.> 20..Re7 <offers a poisoned pawn (21.Rxe6? Bc8), and Black is winning the race to double Rooks.> 22.Qg3 <looks like it loses a couple tempi -- maybe White is already losing here.> 22..Qh6 <prepares an unanswerable quadruple-attack on weak f4.> 23.Kg1 <unpins his g-pawn, hoping for g3 -- but after Black's tempo-fork> 23..Nh5 24.Qh4 Ref7 <25.g3 fails to simply g5, as f4 is pinned to White's still-single Rook>. White's in a criss-cross, with three lines of pressure to stop: (a) long Bb7, (b) Rooks on f, and (c) Q to his back rank. White sacs his doomed f4-pawn to stop (b), and snuffs (a), but Black uses those tempi to rip f open again, renewing (b) and (c). In the end, White has no defense against 36..R(either)f4+ 37.Kg5 Q(h4,h6)#. |
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