by greenpawn34 on Nov 11 2012 18:11 | 6604 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Nov 11 2012 18:22
Hi Guys.
Been a while since this last blog, been very busy.
In a moment of bravado I set up a 53 board 1 day 3 day time bank
challenge simul. I was going to go for 100 board simul but I found
it an annoying pain to keep setting up a new challenge.
You can only have a max of 15 up at a time so I’d have to wait till
some games got started then set up more challenges.
It came about due to a discussion in the forum about these lads
who hundreds of games on the go. How do they do it.
My answer is YOU CAN’T. You will make blunders.
I’ve looked at some of these games and the Blog is full of their
daft blunders. Now, and it’s only fair, I can add mine.
Here is an amusing blunder by me rushing to get the games going.
I had a few Latvians on the go and a few of lads were playing 3.Nf6
to which I was replying 3…Qf6. and moving onto the next game. This popped up
So right away I played 3…Qf6 and quickly onto the next game.
Except it’s not 3…Qf6. It’s 4….Qf6 and after 5.Qh5+ Black is lost.
No chance of pulling that one out of the fire. I resigned 3 moves later.
You would think that was a wake up call. No!
A few days later….This is hilarious. I saw it!
spankpheasant - greenpawn34 RHP 2012 Game 9629656 (White has just played Rc1)
What cheap trick is this? I take on b2 he checks on a8 I go Ke7
and he picks off the Rook with Qa3+.
He must have thought I was born yesterday if he thinks I’m falling
for that. On Qa8+ I’ll play Kd7.
So look at the position again.
How many Black checks are in the position? One.
I play Rxb2.
Now how many? Two! (Qd4+ and I lose the b2 Rook.) Brilliant!
Not many people catch me in two movers, three movers yes,
two movers no. Well played.
Of course I was rushing because I had a fair dozen or so games that
produced some super interesting positions and I could not help myself
but give these my full attention and could not wait to get back to the
real juicy ones.
Blundering a game or two or three (or four or five) is OK, I can live
with that when I’m was chasing brilliancies or setting some cute traps in other
games and just one or two very good win easily makes up for a mere
bucketful of losses (and about 200 rating points.)
Instead of blundering a Rook, this time I pick one up.
I was saccing pawns to get a wretched position in this game,
suddenly my opponent walked into a trick where I won his Queen.
for a Rook and a piece (see game) and we ended up here.
[FEN "3r3k/p1p3pp/8/P1q5/8/1P3P2/R2NK1PP/3R4 b - - 0 1"]
1... Qg5 {Hits the g-pawn. Played just to see what would happened and onto the next game. If White had played 1.Kf2 then I cannot see any real tricks.} 2. g3 {Ah there is wee trap here.} 2... Re8+ {Now will he use this move to get a super Knight on e4.} 3. Ne4 Qh5 {A nice wee sneaky sly boots. Hitting the h2 pawn threatening to win the a2 Rook and note the f-pawn is pinned so I'm also threatening Rxe4+. A double trap.} 4. Ke3 {Now I have a another clever move.} 4... Qh6+ {Now 5.Kd3 Rd8+ 6.Kc2 Qc3+ 7.Nc3 Rxd1 wins.} 5. f4 Qe6 {How’s That! (White resigned.) if 6.Rd4 Qxb3+ picks up the a2 Rook. and if....} 6. Ra4 Qxb3+ {Still picks up the a-Rook. Would like to say I saw all that when I hit the g2-pawn but I did not. That was a suck and see move.}
Staying with the theme of Rook blunders (and wonders…just got the
title for this thread.)
[FEN "r1b3k1/2q3p1/p1n1pr1p/1p1p4/7P/3B1N2/PPP1QPP1/2KR3R w - - 0 20"]
20. g4 {Charge! I'm now expecting 20...Qf7 21.Ne5 Nxe5 22.Qxe5 and White can outnumber the defenders. The c8 Bishop is a miserable piece.} 20... Qf4+ {Hell’s teeth! I missed the check. (AGAIN!)} 21. Nd2 Qxf2 22. g5 {No real choice. I cannot avoid the Queen swap.} 22... Qxe2 23. Bxe2 hxg5 24. hxg5 Rf4 25. Bd3 Bd7 26. Rh7 Rg4 27. g6 Ra7 {Mmmmmm! I like that one. With the back rank weak I now saw a wee trick.} 28. Rf1 Be8 {I'm glad other players blunder as well as me. This time I don't blunder the Rook, I sac it.} 29. Rh8+ Kxh8 30. Rf8
[FEN "8/pR6/knp2pp1/7p/1bqP1B1P/2pN4/2P1RPP1/6K1 w - - 0 1"]
1. Nxb4+ {Black took the Knight and I lost. Rats!. You would think for the sake of chess artistry he would have taken the Rook. When this happens.} 1... Kxb7 2. Re7+ {2...Ka8 gets mated with 3.R8+ and Rb8 mate. Black has to give up the Knight with Nd7 to run to b6. And 2.Kc1 just losses...but how it losses is superb. If Wolfgang had seen it he too I'm sure would have allowed it just to appear in the Blog.} 2... Kc8 {The win is fairly easy to see, just keep checking, three pieces always mate.}3. Rc7+ Kd8 4. Nxc6+ Ke8 5. Re7+ Kf8 6. Bh6+ Kg8 7. Rg7+ {7...Kf8 8.Rc7+ 8.Ke8 Re7 mate!} 7... Kh8 8. Ne7 {Mate with Nxg6 mate cannot be prevented. That would have brilliant. (wolfgang you are a Philistine.) Actually he did PM me saying against anyone else he would have grabbed the Knight.}
And now the main feature.
Some games are destined to live in the mind forever.
Serious OTB games tend to stick because you have been looking at
that one game for usually 3-4 hours.
On RHP a lot of games just seem to get forgotten because you stare at
them for a minute or two and then onto the next game.
(in some cases it is a second or two and then onto the next game.)
This one will stick. It has everything and I mean everything.
An unsound double Knight sac.
White (me) ends up playing a Rook down.
Black goes in for the kill but in his haste to wrap it up he misses a move.
Now it’s White’s 1 Rook v Black’s 2 Rooks.
Suddenly I have a won game but I do not know it!!
I send my opponent an offer of a hopeful draw and skip on to
the more interesting games I have going. Let him dig out the win,
I pretty sure I can draw it, a Rook can sac itself for the my passed
pawns and it’s a Rook ending. I’m happy I’ve swindled a draw.
It’s what I’ve been chasing for the past 30+ moves.
My opponent misses the draw offer because his next
move was a conditional move! You could not make this up.
He makes a move and I am staring at a win.
I can’t believe it. I see it only because it threatens mate.
The one Rook beats the two Rooks by saccing the one Rook.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Bxc6 {The Delayed Exchange. I waited for Nf6 so Black cannot hold the e-pawn with f6} 5... dxc6 6. d3 {The plan as I explained in a previous blog was now to get a Knight on f5.} 6... Nd7 7. Bd2 Bd6 8. Bc3 c5 9. a4 {I want to use the c4 square for Knight on it's way to f5. It also stops all the Queenside stuff, this game is being played on the Kingside.} 9... O-O 10. Nbd2 Re8 11. Nc4 f6 12. Ne3 {So that's the Knight ideally placed. I'm not too concerned with the wasted time. The pawn on e4 and d3 are solid. he can only get at them with f5. Nf6 stopped that and d5 and my second move lured his d-pawn to c6.} 12... Nb8 {He too likes playing his Knights. His has gone from g8 to b8!} 13. Nh4 {And I'm getting a Knight on f5.} 13... Nc6 14. Nhf5 Be6 15. g4 {Make him think twice about chopping the f5 Knight. Knights on f5 v castled positions. I love 'em.} 15... Bf8 16. Qf3 g6 17. Rg1 {And the tricks start to appear.} 17... Kh8 18. Nh4 Bh6 {OK. He's coming in f4. Let's play Chess.} 19. Nxg6+ hxg6 20. Qh3 Kg7 21. Nf5+ {and the Knight finally hits f5 for one move.............(but it is with a check!)} 21... Bxf5 {Aw Rats! I never counted on this. All I saw was all the play I would get with the double Knight sac.} 22. gxf5 g5 23. Qh5 {Got to keep active.} 23... Rh8 24. h4 {Got to keep active.} 24... Qe8 25. Qg4 Nd4 {I was glad to see this and then again I was not. I had plans for that c3 Bishop but he has plans with that Knight which has traveled all over the board.} 26. Bxd4 cxd4 27. f4 {Got to keep active.} 27... exf4 28. Qxf4 Qd7 29. hxg5 Bxg5 30. Rxg5+ {Got to keep active. This is the only chance.} 30... fxg5 31. Qxg5+ Kf8 32. Qf6+ Kg8 33. O-O-O {I'm a Rook down and lost. But he may slip up.} 33... Qg7 34. Qe6+ Kf8 35. f6 Qf7 36. Qe5 Rd8 37. Rg1 Rh5 38. Qf4 Rd7 39. b3 {I got fed up looking at him playing Qa2 and annoying my King.} 39... Qe6 40. Kb1 {Have to keep all tempo gaining checks out of the position. I’m learning. If you are playing loads of multiple games then don’t allow checks! Now I’m waiting to pick a good moment to resign.} 40... Rf7 41. Rg6 Rh1+ 42. Ka2 {Kb2 was a no-no see next move.} 42... Qc6 {If my King was on b2 then the threat of Qc3+ mates me.} 43. Qf2 {Now 43...Qc3 should win. I was going to play 44 Rg8+ Kxg8 45 Qg7+ picking up the h1 Rook and threatening mate. Black plays 45...Rxf6 and the question is do I have a perpetual?} 43... Rc1 44. Kb2 {The move my opponent missed.} 44... Rh1 45. Qxd4 Qd6 46. Qc3 {I have to stay covering my f-pawn. I'm liking it for a fortress type draw here.} 46... c5 47. e5 Qd4 48. Qxd4 {Here I offered a draw. I'm now winning!! I know two pawns on the 6th beat a Rook but not with the King so close to the pawns.} 48... cxd4 {My opponent did not decline the draw he never saw it because of his conditional move.} 49. e6 Rfh7 {And now I saw it. It twigged in my tiny brain because the trick is a mating pattern. If he had played 49.Rc7 I fear I not have seen the trick. Remember I've have the draw mentality about this game since I sacced my second Knight.} 50. e7+ Kf7 51. Rg8 {See it. 51...Kxg8 52. e8=Q mate. I can see only the mates.} 51... Re1 52. Rf8+ Kg6 53. e8=Q+ Rxe8 54. Rxe8 Kxf6 55. Re4 Rd7 56. a5 {To stop b5 ideas blocking up the Queenside, his King is cut off from the action. Suddenly of course this game has my 100% attention. Black resigned a few moves later.}
This game is not over yet.
I created a new folder called ‘Finished’ and transferred all the finished games
to there so I could keep a score. (33 wins 2 draws 7 losses.)
I moved this game there, lost it, and it in turn created this small thread.
Loosing a game is much easier if I've had fun playing it or if I learned a lesson for future games. This game fits both criteria nicely. Thanks for the write up! -Ron
Ron Viebke
