My Most Beautiful Combination

Is there a combination in one of your own RHP games that is your favorite ? Do you want to share it with us ? Please do !
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Originally posted by ivanhoe

Is there a combination in one of your own RHP games that is your favorite ? Do you want to share it with us ? Please do !
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Originally posted by Pereira
My move 25 in the linked Game 426331
The combination may not be the best but gave me a won ending.

Originally posted by ivanhoe

Is there a combination in one of your own RHP games that is your favorite ? Do you want to share it with us ? Please do !
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Originally posted by iamatiger
I also liked my move 25 in Game 398371
Maybe there's something about move 25?

Originally posted by iamatiger
I also liked my move 25 in Game 398371
Maybe there's something about move 25?

Sigh. I have to contribute sort of an offbeat combination-that-never-was. I'm about to resign a dead lost game. Game 477672 I burned too much material in an attack against a fianchettoed king that went nowhere. So before I resign, I see a last, kind of beautiful in a swan song sort of a way combination. There's no point, really, except as a last, defiant, tactical swipe.

*dylan thomas moment*

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The combination in question was
25. e4

with the expected, and indeed, only logical continuation
25. ... Bxe4
26. Ne6+, K moves
27. Nc7 (forking the rooks)

Sacrificing a pawn to win the exchange. Now, obviously, this wasn't going to be nearly enough to save the game. I was going to resign, my honor intact, after a last piece of combinational prettiness.

So what does my opponent do? He just #$^@&# GIVES me the exchange for the pawn! 25. ... Rxc5, 26. Rxc5 Bxe4. Same material consequences, but a lot less pretty.

Such is the transience of life. The lotus petals drift away. I feel a haiku coming on in a bit.

But now I'm making him mate me. Even if it takes 80 moves. That's what he gets for taking away my swan song. 😠

Game 477672

For what it's worth, here's my best win to date...the game completely changed with black's 21st move.

Mark
Game 475796

I like the combination that starts with whites 29th move Pg3xh5 in the following game . Thanks Hughes 🙂

Game 350277

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Originally posted by ivanhoe

I like the combination that starts with whites 29th move Pg3xh5 in the following game . Thanks Hughes 🙂

Game 350277

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Originally posted by iamatiger
Nice one - a good knight's work!

The game from http://www.redhotpawn.com/core/playchess.php?gameid=407557 is not bad. What do you think about the 16th move N-D4? I think he was not expecting it! Really not a bad game or combination.

It's not a combination but white moves Nb1a3 on move 11, I presume to stop me taking his last rook. This resulted in a great King chase to my pawn ranks. Game 426348