I want to share with you today the craziest, most beautiful game that I ever played.
It was in august 2009, at the HZT vlissingen. I had three mediocre rounds before. In the 4th round I was going to play vs the talented S. Harini from India. This is what happened
I hope you enjoy it.
[Event "HZT Vlissingen"] [Site "?"] [Date "2009.08.05"] [Round "4"] [White "Van Kesteren, Y.."] [Black "Harini, S."] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B85"] [BlackElo "2109"] 1. e4 {So, Here I am playing a stronger opponent. She crushed a friend of mine (currently 2300) in the same year. At this time I dint even have a Fide rating just 1700 national.} c5 {I knew she was going to play this opening and I prepared a bit on it beforehand.} 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Be2 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. f4 a6 10. a4 Qc7 11. Nb3 {The 30 minutes of preperation paid off, 11 moves and I'm still alive, I felt something was possible here.} b6 12. g4 {I'm an aggressive player and ofcourse I wanted to show this to her. Following a normal plan would have made it easy for her.} Re8 13. h4 Bb7 14. g5 Nd7 15. h5 Nc5 16. g6 fxg6 17. hxg6 h6 {My 'stronger opponent' showed weakness. Why would she let me do the attacking? I was eager to put up the pressure some more.} 18. Bc4 Bf6 19. Nxc5 {This move took me about 45 minutes, time I would have elsewise used on the opening. Here I already spotted e5 and the candidate move Rf8.} bxc5 20. Qg4 Bc8 21. e5 Bxe5 { I was, just as her, 100% sure she had to take that pawn with her bishop. Only the next day my computer told me differently.} 22. fxe5 Nxe5 {Ofcourse I had thought this through.} 23. Qe4 Bb7 24. Nd5 Qc6 25. Rad1 Nxc4 26. Rf8+ {I thought About this move for a long time. Conclusion: A beauty. Rxf8 wins a queen. Kxf8 is mate!} Kxf8 {She took the rook with her king. I couldn't believe it. Was I really gonna win from a stronger opponent from India?} 27. Qf4+ Kg8 28. Qf7+ Kh8 29. Bxh6 Rg8 30. Kf2 $4 Qxd5 {And I resigned. I sacrificed so much that a queen sacrifice and that bad anymore. If I had played 30. Rd3!! I would have celebrated the win only moments later. I was really sad that night about srewing up this beautiful win. But even without me finishing the job, this is still the best game I ever played and in the end I'm happy I had the opportunity to play this Crazy Crazy game.} 0-1
Can someone show the win for black? I can see black ends up 3 pieces for the queen but doesn't white still have an attack that could lead at least to a perpet? Considering if black goes R on a to F8 figuring to pin the queen, then bishop takes pawn check, rook takes bishop forced, then queen takes rook check and rook to g8 and the queen keep looking at h7 mate which seems to require the rook keep going up to f7 and then queen check, rook to f8 etc?
Originally posted by sonhouse Can someone show the win for black? I can see black ends up 3 pieces for the queen but doesn't white still have an attack that could lead at least to a perpet? Considering if black goes R on a to F8 figuring to pin the queen, then bishop takes pawn check, rook takes bishop forced, then queen takes rook check and rook to g8 and the queen keep looking at h7 mate which seems to require the rook keep going up to f7 and then queen check, rook to f8 etc?
Black ends up two rooks and a bit for the queen, not just three pieces. And since those two rooks defend the back rank quite well where they are, he doesn't move them. Instead, he uses his extra piece to take the sting out of white's attack, and then moves his rooks in for the kill.
Richard
(Voice from the back of the room: look at him talking, as if he is capable of managing a proper attack...)
Originally posted by sonhouse Can someone show the win for black? I can see black ends up 3 pieces for the queen but doesn't white still have an attack that could lead at least to a perpet? Considering if black goes R on a to F8 figuring to pin the queen, then bishop takes pawn check, rook takes bishop forced, then queen takes rook check and rook to g8 and the queen keep looking at h7 mate which seems to require the rook keep going up to f7 and then queen check, rook to f8 etc?
31. Rxd5 Bxd5!
White is instantly trapped:
- When the queen moves of the seventh line the bishop can be taken.
- When the bishop moves to make way for the queen the queen can be pinned.
- The g6 pawn can be attacked (Ne5) while white can't do anything.
You are right that 31. Rxd5 Raf8?? is a forced draw, but I'm sure that wouldn't have happened in the game.
I hope this answers your question.
Originally posted by greenpawn34 Good game and a smashing effort.
Not many post a game that they blew at the critical moment.
It has been my experince after studying blunders for over 40 years.
(I really should write a book about them....I have 100's of examples).
Players are very error prone when playing the 'winning move' (here 30.Ke2).
Everyone has done it, and those tha ...[text shortened]... s player.
Those that have been back rank mated and those who going to be back rank mated."
Hahaha!
My first win against a fellow soldier who inspired me to get better (by destroying me repeatedly and refusing to teach me) was a back rank mate!
I saw the mate in one and asked, "what's stopping me from checkmating you?" I surely thought there must be something I did not see. This guy is so good!
So he angrily replied, "Nothing! God dam it!" and started resetting the pieces. 🙂
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