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Joop Theo Simmelink vs Alan Shaw
EM/MN/005 (1998) (correspondence), ICCF Email, May-25
Spanish Game: Open Variations. Main Lines (C80)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Nov-18-12  brankat: A pretty wild game <perfidious>. Double edged all the way through. Perhaps You guys should have continued the play after <36.Qb6+>. Risky for both, yes, but all sorts of a potential was still there.
Nov-24-12  achieve: <perfidious> - I must say the tactics involved had me decide to have an engine run along for blunder checking, although of course I know you were playing correspondence -- but when I put on my positional/strategical cap on I do see several opportunities for improvements. Well, promising ideas, is probably better worded. I do see the powerful plan to basically luring the WQ into taking the "poisoned" pawn at <a6> - but it seems it was very hard to prove it on the board.

Or was/is it?!

This is the critical juncture after 30.Kf2 :


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I do think Black has winning chances here. The idea is to of course infiltrate with the Queen, but this must be prepared in order to discourage or avoid counter initiatives with the WQ harrassing you with checks. An idea might be to play 30...g6 here, opening the way for the BK to move to g7-h6 safety, AND white is shy in finding a defence to the <Ng4 & Qe3> incursion. Taking the b-pawn is not an option for White, so what to play??!


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31. g3 Kg7!! - what can White do to fend off the threats of Ng4 & Qe3+ ??

32. Qc6 Ng4+ 33. Kf1 Qe5! 34 Qb7+ Kh6


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...and now this looks winning for Black! Forcing line, really, White needs to play Qf7, Black plays Ne3+ and you end up winning a piece, and surely then it is winning for Black.

It actually is! :)

Jan-16-13
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  perfidious: <achieve> While I meant to respond to your post long ago, I never quite got there. Oops!

In the aftermath of this game, I could never escape the feeling that I had blown it-my feeling was that the opposite bishops should confer an advantage on Black as his dark-squared bishop has no opposite number and White's poor knight is overstretched.

Creating the bolt-hole with ....g6 appears to be the clincher which I overlooked in my analysis during the game.

Your analysis looks sound indeed-well done, sir!

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