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Draw or fight on? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Doug Strout   
Wednesday, 29 July 2009

 

This is my best game from Saturday's Montgomery Dog Days II tournament.  I manage a relatively quick draw against an A player, Tim Bond, in a game that I was materially leading because of a won exchange.

Problem is that I think he had enough positional advantages with his well-posted f4 knight and his queen against my castled king that I could not press the material advantage.

The game ends on an agreed draw because of repetition of my king moves Kg1 and Kg2 in response to repeated checks by his knight.

 Obviously, at the time, I saw no viable alternatives and allowed Tim to force the draw.

However, even in post-game analysis, I found no paths for my king that don't result in big trouble.

For example, from the final position, 24. Kf3 invites 24. ...Qh5+ 25. Ke3 Ng2+, and his ...Rxd8 is a check if my king steps onto d-file.

Also, 24. Kh2 (or Kh1) invites 24. ...Qh5+ 25. Kg1 Qh3 (threatening mate at g2) 26. gxf4 Qg4+ with forced repetition draw.

Take a look.  Did I miss a winner here?

Enjoy.

 

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No. 1 :
I would consider 20. Nxe5 and then 21 h4 for White

Sill looking at your possibilities
Submitted by NimzoRevenge • 2009-07-30 21:33:08
No. 2 :
I would consider 20...Qg4 Black has a strong attack

If white makes a nothing move like 21. Rad1

then Nh3+ 22. Kg2 Qf6 might be possible but I don't think so. 23. Kxh3 and nothing seems to help Black that I can see so far

However Qg4 might be a good move anyway
Submitted by NimzoRevenge • 2009-07-30 21:39:07
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