Draws/wins vs. superior players

Post games that you managed to draw or win against players that you feel would normally beat you the majority of the time.

He could have gotten the win, and was only one move away from it but agreed on a draw. Not sure why.

Game 1578924

I won because he didn't spot my last move for some reason.

Game 1460078

The position got really closed on this one, I'm surprised I managed to pull out the draw.

Game 1459370

A really disappointing game for me, because I was actually winning and had to settle for the draw. Too anxious for the win I guess.

Game 1712160

player about 200 points higher than me.
I played the ruy lopez and fell for the noah's ark trap,
so I was a bishop down from the start, sacced the bishop on f7
and held on for dear life...

The thing is - the game came down to King vs King, and it was drawn,
not another piece on the board. A great fight if I may say so!
I thought near the end that I could have won, still unsure...


Game 2156372

[iA really disappointing game for me, because I was actually winning and had to settle for the draw. Too anxious for the win I guess.

Game 1712160[/b]

At move 35 here White had NxB and a win.

Game 1578924
"He could have gotten the win, and was only one move away from it but agreed on a draw. Not sure why."

How would he have gotten a win? You had perpetual check or better if white tries to avoid it.

Originally posted by malinga
At move 35 here White had NxB and a win.

White can't capture a bishop on move 35.

Originally posted by Mephisto2
Game 1578924
"He could have gotten the win, and was only one move away from it but agreed on a draw. Not sure why."

How would he have gotten a win? You had perpetual check or better if white tries to avoid it.

Now that I look closer at it, I see that I did have perpetual check. I thought he could escape it somehow.

Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Must mean move 39.

If he had done Nxd6, I would have responded with Rxf2. Maybe that made him nervous for some reason.

None on here......yet. But I had a nice one on playchess. I never really play blitz and im not fantastic at it when I do so this was quite a sweet win for me 🙂

[Event "12m + 0s"]
[Site "Main Playing Hall"]
[White "Naked Jammy Tart"]
[Black "Samoht"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C00"]
[BlackElo "2589"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[TimeControl "720"]

1. e4 {1} e6 {5} 2. d4 {2} d6 {10} 3. f4 {7} Nf6 {8} 4. Nc3 {3} Nbd7 {20} 5.
Nf3 {3} g6 {11} 6. Bd3 {13} Bg7 {7} 7. O-O {2} e5 {10} 8. f5 {11} exd4 {9} 9.
fxg6 {2} dxc3 {23} 10. gxf7+ {1} Kxf7 {35} 11. Ng5+ {2} Kg8 {40} 12. Bc4+ {10}
d5 {27} 13. Bxd5+ {2} Nxd5 {3} 14. Qxd5# {(Lag: Av=0.33s, max=0.5s) 1} 1-0

Managed to draw against Sicilian Smaug about 400 points above me, i thought i played well. didnt see the prepetual check he did me with. though to be fair he did get revenge afterwards

never again will i walk through the park alone

Game 2001634

quite an interesting game i think

Fluked a decent win on playchess, wasn't rated but decent result for me
😀

[Event "Friendly Game, 5m + 0s"]
[Site "Main Playing Hall"]
[Date "2006.10.02"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Extrasolid"]
[Black "Taipan1982,"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2156"]
[BlackElo "1718"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[EventDate "2006.10.14"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. d4 {4} Nf6 {1} 2. g3 {1} g6 {1} 3. Bg2 {0} d6 {1} 4. Nd2 {3} Bg7 {1} 5. e4 {
1} O-O {2} 6. f4 {2} Nc6 {1} 7. Ne2 {2} e5 {1} 8. fxe5 {5} dxe5 {1} 9. d5 {0}
Nd4 {3} 10. c3 {1} Nxe2 {2} 11. Qxe2 {0} Bg4 {1} 12. Nf3 {6} c6 {2} 13. c4 {4}
cxd5 {2} 14. cxd5 {1} Nxd5 {9} 15. exd5 {3} e4 {1} 16. O-O {7} exf3 {2} 17.
Bxf3 {1} Re8 {2} 18. Qd3 {9} Qb6+ {9} 19. Kg2 {3} Bxf3+ {6} 20. Rxf3 {3} Rad8 {
6} 21. Bf4 {20} Qxb2+ {7} 0-1

I only really have 2: 1 win and 1 draw.
Game 913545
Game 1514982

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Originally posted by Wildfire
Post games that you managed to draw or win against players that you feel would normally beat you the majority of the time.

He could have gotten the win, and was only one move away from it but agreed on a draw. Not sure why.

Game 1578924

I won because he didn't spot my last move for some reason.

Game 1460078

The position got really ...[text shortened]... winning and had to settle for the draw. Too anxious for the win I guess.

Game 1712160

The first game was a draw because you could put him in check for ever. There was no square that the king could move to to avoid check so he has to accept a draw. Also, you could have potentially set up a pin against his Queen if he had accidentally wandered onto the c1-h6 diagonal. 😉

Originally posted by Ragnorak
I only really have 2: 1 win and 1 draw.
Game 913545
Game 1514982

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Rag, the second game is just masterful!!! Awesome play, you kept up the initiative brilliantly, nice one. 😀