| Jan-07-15 | | Albums Dummyflap: [Event "MC"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.10.12"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Morrison, William"]
[Black "O'Brien, Matt"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B50"]
[WhiteElo "2356"]
[BlackElo "2230"]
[Annotator "MJO"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "
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[PlyCount "13"]
31... Kb6 ▢ 32. Rgd2 e5 (32... Be5 is a draw 33. Rd7 Qc6 34. Qd8+ Ka6
35. R1d6 Bxd6 36. Rxd6 g2 37. Rxc6+ bxc6 38. Qc8+ Kb5 39. Qb7+ Kc4 40. Kc2 (40.
Qa6+ Kd5 41. Qd3+ Ke5 42. Qe3+ Kd6 43. Qg1 I pointed out this line out after
the game. f5 44. Kc2 e5 ♗lack's advantage will be decsive. (44... f4 45. Kd2
f3 46. Ke3 Rg3 47. Kf2 Rh3 48. Qc1) 45. Kd1 (45. Kd3 f4 46. Ke2 (46. Kc4 f3 47.
Qxc5+ Kd7 48. Qxa7+ Ke6 49. Qc7) (46. Ke4 Rg3) 46... Rg3 (46... e4) 47. Kf2 Kd7
(47... e4 48. Qd1+ Kc7 49. Kg1) 48. Qd1+ Kc7 (48... Ke6 49. Kg1) 49. Kg1 f3 50.
Qe1 Rh3 51. Qxe5+ Kb7 52. Qe7+ Ka6)) 40... Kd5 41. c4+ (41. Qd7+ Ke4 42. Qxc6+
Ke3 43. Qxc5+ Ke2 44. Qg1 f5) 41... Kxc4 this looked drawn as we also looked
at a bit 42. Qd7 (42. Qxc6 g1=Q 43. Qe4+ Qd4 44. b3+ Kb5 45. Qb7+ Ka5) 42...
g1=Q 43. b3+ Kb5 44. Qb7+ Ka5) 33. Rf1 Qe7 (33... Rh6 34. Rxf7 Qc6 35. Qxc6+
Kxc6 36. Rg7 e4 37. Re2 Rh4 (37... Kd5 38. Rg5+ Be5 39. Rg4 b5 40. Kc1 Rh2 41.
Rexe4) (37... Rh1+) (37... Bf4 38. Rxe4) 38. Rg6) 34. Qxe7 Bxe7 35. Rxf7 g2 (
35... Bd6 36. Rg2) 36. Rxg2 Rxg2 37. Rxe7 Re2 I saw this but wanted something
more. As it turned out, our analyses of of ...♔b6 was surprisingly accurate.
---- In the game, I conveniently forgot my analysis of ...♕d7; I had seen
the tactic I lost to 15 minutes before I forgot about it. ---- I don't
know the evaluation of this endgame and neither did my opponent, whether it
was a win or a draw. I would be interested to know. ---------- The games
that feature my most single move embarrassing decisions have often seemed to
make the published databases: (move 19 and 32 in this game --- re: move 19, I
realized the move f4 in the key variation while my opponent planned the
erroneous ♗g5.) ----- At the time I needed a win for the chance to qualify
for Millionaire Monday (to play for $40,000) --- as it turned out, surprisingly, a
win would not have been enough as , of the players who were a half point ahead
of me in my class section, most or all won their games. Only chess
considerations matter at the board. -------- I only scored 3.5/8 in my last
8 games of this tournament despite very promising positions in all of them,
including two losses and a draw in positions that should have been very simple
wins for many chess players. My blunders surprised me despite my relative
inexperience at long controls compared to every other player in the open
section (this was only my 2nd participation in a 9 round tournament in an open
section). I would estimate and like to think my two weakest games of that
tournament (besides my round 1 and 4 losses, and my round 9 win) were the ones
posted to this site. ------ My wins in round 5 and 2 especially were quite
nice though, even Stockfish was impressed especially by the latter game. One
of those wins (the former) deviated from a 2014 game between Caruana - Svidler,
where Caruana resigned about 5 moves after where my opponent deviated
(unsuccessfully and lost similarly) as I was amused to discover after the game.
Whereas in my round 2 game, I was pleased to discover that Caruana had
previously adopted the exact approach I used in the opening. Although in both
cases I was just making stuff up and was serenely oblivious to Caruana's
preferences as I am largely oblivious to his chess insights. ----- I
performed well in a few of the postmostems, where I managed to defeat my
opponents in behind-the-scenes variations in a few instances after the games.
I did not gain any rating points for this, but it was fun. ---- Thanks again
to the Santa Claus (es) for the premium membership and to the O♙ for his
interest in my chess play this game. (37... Rg5) 1-0 |
Kibitzing
sac: 26.Qd3