(January 22nd, 2014, 15:30)pindicator Wrote: Do you honestly think I had realistic shot at a draw? If so then I don't see the plan: I had lost the initiative, was about to be pushed out of my central positioning, and was now just down 2 pawns and passiving guarding against backrow mate and preventing you from queening a pawn. Honestly, that the ranking is only -1.1 is surprising to me. How would you have played it as black?
Why not trade queens? After my move 39.Qe4 the sequence is
39...Qxe4
40. fxe4 Rxa7
41. Rxa7 Bxa7
(and here I intended Kh2 (1.12) ,but stronger is g4 right away (2.31)
So you basically play a bishop endgame with 3 vs 4 pawns. It might be won for White, but if you manage to trade kingside pawns, you could do things like sacrifice your bishop for the last remaining pawn. I don't know how likely that is, but seeing what happened earlier it might have been worth a shot.
Quote:Honestly, Qf2 wasn't on my radar when I played Qd5; I thought I had you there.
Funny enough, 30.Qf2 was a mistake as well (only 0.0), 30.a7 is the only move that wins (3.3).
GG, MJW...I would not have accepted the draw offer if I wasn't overwhelmed with the number of games going on, but the reality is I probably would have messed something up and lost my advantage .
(January 22nd, 2014, 16:59)darrelljs Wrote: GG, MJW...I would not have accepted the draw offer if I wasn't overwhelmed with the number of games going on, but the reality is I probably would have messed something up and lost my advantage .
Oh! I see what you mean. You know I had focused so much on forking the Queen and Rook I didn't really pay much attention to where he had moved his Bishop on 15 .
I don't think this really counts as I've spent much longer per move. Much like how novice/zak beat me. My big focus was to stop that light square Bishop from coming in.
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Have to think on this one