The RHP Jewel of Doom + The Ducks' Travels Continue

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35. Rf7+ Ke8 36. Rb7 Bc5+ 37. Kh1 {White is threatening Rb8+ skewering the h8 Rook.} 37... Kf8 38. Rxb5 Bf2 39. Rxa5 {White is 6 pawns up.} 39... Kg7 40. e6 Kf6 41. Ra6 Bg3 42. Rc6 Rf8 43. Bxh6 Rb8 44. Bc1 {How about that for greediest 'I want it all' move of the decade. White is 7 pawns up and refuses to give one back.} 44... Ke5 {Black charges up the board with his King to attack a precious White pawn,} 45. Rxc4 {White holds the e4 pawns and is now 8 passed pawns up.} 45... Rf8 {Black is actually threatening mate in one. A threat that can easily be prevented by Be3.} 46. Kg1 Rf2 {Being 8 pawns down does not phase Black at all. He seizes the 7th rank. Active pieces are more important than daft pawns.} 47. a4 {White has been thrown into disorder. Players this many pawns up cannot think correctly. Their brain is overloaded with Pawn Lust. e2 wins on the spot.} 47... Re2 {Again threatening mate in one. The defence is 14.Bd2 Rxd2 15.Kf1. White panics.} 48. Bf4+ {Now mate cannot be prevented.} 48... Kxf4 49. e5+ {Now Kewo makes the worse move of his life. He had within his grasp the chance to become truly immortal. If he had played 15...Ke3 he could have mated White whilst still being 8 passed pawns down.} 49... Kxe5 {Instead he took one back.} 50. Rd4 Re1 {Despite that one minor imperfection (15…Kxe5) a brilliant and instructive game.}

[FEN "8/8/4P3/3PP3/P1R5/2P1k1bP/1P2r1P1/6K1 w - - 0 50"]

50. Rf4 Re1+ 51. Rf1 Bf2+ 52. Kh2 Rxf1 53. e7 Kf4 {Threatening Bg3 mate.} 54. g3+ Kf3 {Still refusing to take a pawn.} 55. h4 {The threat is Bxg3 mate in one, The White King needs some running room.} 55... Bg1+ 56. Kh3 Rf2 57. e8=Q {What else?} 57... Rh2 {You don’t seen many final positions like that down at your chess club.}

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Bc4 e6 6. d3 g6 7. O-O Bg7 8. Re1 {Deep, very deep, deeper than the deepest ocean in it's deepest bit. White places the Rook on e1 as future bait.} 8... O-O 9. Bxd5 exd5 10. Bg5 Qb6 11. b3 {White opens the a1-h8 diagonal for the g7 Bishop and Black wastes no time in opening up the diagonal.} 11... d6 12. exd6 {The Rook is yours Black, in return White gets....} 12... Bxa1 13. c3 {All those dark squares around your King.} 13... Bd7 14. Qd2 d4 15. Bf6 Bxc3 16. Qh6 Bxe1 {That is the 2nd Rook taken by the Bishop in this game.} 17. Qg7 {Checkmate on g7 in a fianchettoed position. A perfect example.}

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 Nge7 6. Nd6 {I told you Knights were tricky. (by the way this has happened with the exact same move order 3 times on RHP.)}

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 {There is the Queen’s Bishop taking up it's station.} 3... e6 4. e3 {Adding an extra defender to the d-pawn and preparing Bd3. (yes that note has been lifted from Chernev’s Logical Chess.} 4... Be7 5. Bd3 O-O 6. h4 Nc6 {OK after 6 moves everything is in place.} 7. Bxf6 {Chops the defender of h7.} 7... Bxf6 8. Bxh7+ {Sac on h7} 8... Kxh7 9. Ng5+ Bxg5 10. hxg5+ Kg8 11. Qh5 f6 12. g6 Re8 13. Qh8 {Checkmate. How easy was that.}

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Bg4 {Already the White player should be thinking about moving that f3 Knight. Just because it is pinned to the Queen does not mean it cannot move. Only pinned pieces to the King cannot move. Please remember that.} 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. b4 {Exceptional Brilliance. This is why nature gave us imagination. The concept becomes clearer on the next move.} 5... Nxb4 6. Nxe5 {See it now? If the Black Knight was still on c6 than Black could play 6...Nxe5 here. Now go back one move and stare at the diagram till your eyes water. You will only see such moves once in a millennium.} 6... Bxd1 7. Bxf7+ Ke7 {A slight flaw in the plan. The intention was now 8.Nd5 Checkmate. That Knight on b4 stops that. So White ignores the Bishop and offers up the a1 Rook.} 8. a3 Nxc2+ 9. Kxd1 Nxa1 10. Nd5 {I'm breathless and broken hearted. I have just handed my cheapo crown to Indosmart. That was marvelous. Thank You.}

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. a3 Nf6 5. b4 Bd4 6. Bc4 Ng4 7. Bb2 {White ignores the attack on his f2 pawn. If people are going to waste opening moves attacking pawns then your first thought must be what happens if I just let it go.} 7... Nxf2 8. Qe2 Nxh1 {One Rook gone and one Knight out of the game.} 9. Nxd4 Nxd4 10. Qf1 {The backward attacking move feinting a hit on the h1 Knight and offering a1 Rook. A subtle move of great depth.} 10... Nxc2+ 11. Kd1 Nxa1 {Black ran around to his girlfriend who lived in a house on wheels. "Look I have won two Rooks, will you marry me now?" She was warned by her Mother this would happen one day but she could resist the two Rooks and said, "Yes!". They were married that very afternoon….} 12. Qxf7 {...next day they got a divorce.}