[Event "Tourney"]
[Site "MyTown"]
[Date "2007.04.09"]
[Round "1"]
[White "opponent (1600)"]
[Black "jusah (2000)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[Annotator "me"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[TimeControl "300"]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. Nge2 O-O 6. O-O Nc6 7. a3 e5 8.
Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. d5 Ne7 12. Bd3 Ng6 13. h3 Nhf4 14. b4 Bd7
15. a4 Qc8 16. Bxf4 exf4 17. Ra3 f3 18. Ng3 fxg2 19. Re1 g4 20. hxg4 Bxg4
21. Be2 Bh3 22. Bf3 Nh4 23. Nce2 Qd8 24. Nf4 Bd7 25. Nxg2 Be5 26. Bg4 f5
27. Bh3 f4 28. Bxd7 Qxd7 29. Nxh4 fxg3 30. fxg3 Qg7 31. Nf5 Rxf5 32. exf5
Bxg3 33. Re6 Rf8 34. Rg6 Bf2+ 35. Kh1
1-0
Here is the position after whites 19th move (19.Re1). I was black.
How does this look to you? Do you think black has little advantage, huge advantage or totally won position? I think its somewhere between =+ and -+. I am a pawn up, and if I want to, I can instantly grab h-pawn and be two pawns up. Also, I have great outposts for my knights on e5 and f4, he has bishop pair and both of his bishops are active. White, on the other hand, has nothing: he has backward e-pawn, bad bishop, knight under attack and kingside ripped off. So we all agree black has huge advantage here. Even more, I used only few minutes to reach this position, in fact, thanks to the 30sec/move increments, I had about 65 minutes time left here. Thats pretty good when you have 60 minutes at the beginning. But watch this: I'll show you how quickly I can make it all my advantages vanish...
So I played 19...g4. Why didn't I grab the pawn? Now that I review this game I would not even consider anything else. But in game I did consider something else, something worse. I thought that taking the pawn is just lame (thats right: lame!) and I wanted to finish him off quickly and in style. Also, I thought that in this position almost any move is fine.
So...eleven moves later I am in this position.
Things didn't go very smoothly. Ten moves earlier I was so sure I had him on ropes I actually, move by move, worsened my position. I didn't bother to take my time and play accurately enough, and here is the result.. Now its me who is down a pawn, and it is me who is in worse position, and its me who still has over 1h time left. I totally blew it.
The saddest thing is that I had seen this position few moves earlier move, and I evaluated this as better for black. The key move, so I thought, is Rxf5. By saccing an exchange I get his great knight out of the game and, more importantly, I can take the g3-pawn on next move. So I thought: "After Rxf5 exf5 Bxg3 his rook is hanging, plus it'll be check after I move my bishop away from g3. I'll gain time, and rip the remainings of his kingside open. I'll be down an exchange, but I have strong bishop and strong passed h-pawn. There is now way I could lose, especially against 1600-rated."
Of course I missed his simple reply after Bxg3.
2 comments:
horrible! :D
how much time did you take on the Bxg3 move itself? I bet you blitzed that like the opening. :)
well under a minute. but that was because I had seen it earlier. in fact just before I was going to play Bxg3 I saw Re2 (so that he could play Rg2 pinning my queen) and for a moment I thought "this is it". but then I saw Bxg3 Re2 Bf4+ Rg2 Bg5 which saves me. So I played it, and Re6 was total surprise.
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