24.g3
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Giving my king a bit more liberty, perhaps. Meanwhile closing in on black's queen.
She can't move forward without being snatched.
Nice move. Not so much all correct responses as I see it. Especially in the opening where I tried to play out a gambit that left me poorly developed, retreating, and playing extremely cautiously across the board for the midgame transition or thereabouts.
I'll have to ponder the immense strength of your attack in the back of my mind until I get home from work. There are some options here. Forcing the queen to move with a pawn is my first instinct. Perhaps I should move my queenside rookman out from under my queen's protective wing. My queen even has a bit of mobility here.
Gotta run out the door right now though.
26.f4
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It isn't the strength of pressure applied upon a piece, necessarily, as it is more the strength of the piece upon which pressure is being applied.
I wanted to push my pawn last move. Moving him this move still seems like it's a bit premature, but I think there's a small need to divert the attention away from my knight with a minor offensive at the immediate present. I considered h4 briefly too, but h4 leaves my kingside rookman sadly trapped behind a chain of pawns.
I don't know what other options I have.
All my bigger, royaler pieces are royally tied up at the moment.
27.Rc2
Well so sorry if it's "annoyingly positional." Most of my pieces are annoyingly tied down. You've tripled up on my knight, so I'm figuring he's basically a goner in one or two more moves. If I move him, I open up a lane for you to put me in check. Moving up my rook a rank to prevent check.
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28.Ne3
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Ah, forget it, it's all right. I thought you'd take my knight last turn. One nice thing about your Qd5 move is that now my b-pawn is in the clear. And that frees up my queen a little. However, my strategy from last move and my first impulse here is to move the knight, and I'd rather like to keep the bugger for a while. The one major thing that really irks me about this game is that not one other person besides you has commented on previous moves.
Okay, so I know my opening wasn't my best with the flawed execution of a gambit pawn, but I thought I should remain confident and agressive at the beginning. I wasn't expecting this to be as tough a game as it's become. You decided to play slow with a double fianchetto. The defense I have now is full of holes because of a flawed opening; and you having every initiative and all at this point, you basically can pick and choose your targets. My queenside was significantly weakened after the breach I permitted at c-file. And I realized then that you couldn't NOT castle because of the strength of a two rook base, each rook mutually guarding the other. And what's left of your pawn structure is still rock solid defending your king. Compared to mine. My king sticks out like a sore thumb. Perhaps I should have moved h4 instead of f4 on move 26. My rook is still closed off anyway. A pawn push at this point seems a bit useless. Your knight is in a crazy place now, just chillin', and I want to push him back. But that would block off my rook's defense of the bishop. Thus, queen check.
29...Qd4
All right…my queen, knight, and bishop are being threatened…so I have to distract you to move them out of the way…
Obviously my queen is more important so I’ll have to move it…I like my move because the knight is pinned (it can’t move or the rook will be taken)…
If White decides to take my bishop…I can cut the endgame down to queen versus bishop:
30. Bxa6 Qxe3+ 31. Kf1 Rd8 32. Rg2 Nd2+ 33. Qxd2 Rxd2 34. Rxd2 Qxd2
If White decides to (and why would White do this?) sacrifice his queen…I can cut the endgame down to queen and rook vs. knight and rook…
30. Qxe4 Qxe4 31. Kf2 Bxe2 32. Kxe2
If White decides to move his rook to g2 to support his bishop…
30. Rg2 Qxe3 31. Kf1 Rc8…at which point White has to give up his queen to avoid a checkmate…32. Bxa6 Rxc2
30.f5
That notation especially from a 14 year old is some serious precision. How long did it take you to figure that out? You doing as well on your schoolwork? I've spent half my day off pondering this board. Well, I guess it isn't a question of whether or not I'm going to lose, it's just a matter of how.
hmmm... I can see how taking the bishop in my turn would be fairly easy to predict. But with your queen about to strike my knight that would put me in check instantly; and, you're right, I can't think of anything better than Kf1 to defend my rook after that. Then your move, Rd8, is a very good idea, and what I'm not looking forward to. Afterall you certainly have plenty of time to develop anything you want since I don't see my team of caucasian prolateriats performing a coordinated offensive strike anytime in the near future. Regarding your hypothetical though, beyond Rd8, at move 32, I think I might be more apt to move 32.Kf2 because of check from the knight, that is, of course, if I'm not overlooking anything significant. Then again with Rd8 at my throat you'll definitely have my King's head on a plate sooner more than later anyway.
Just looking at the board it's obvious, future looks pretty grim for White.
I'll play it through to the end though, and try to make it as creative as possible since it'll probably be done in a minute.