Spot that win!

Greetings players and fellow patzers 🙂

Thought it would be both instructive and fun to make a thread for people to show positions from games they either lost or drew, when in fact a win was there.

I'll start by showing 2 of mine, both from games where a draw was agreed.

#1 - Game 10610816 - I missed it three times in this game 🙁

Black to play




#2 - Game 10440191 - This one just makes me sad

White to play



Coming in with a fresh mind, I can imagine many of you getting these straight away.
Isn't it funny how perspectives change over time?


Show all of your howlers, so that we may [possibly] learn something! 😀

Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
Greetings players and fellow patzers 🙂

Thought it would be both instructive and fun to make a thread for people to show positions from games they either lost or drew, when in fact a win was there.

I'll start by showing 2 of mine, both from games where a draw was agreed.

#1 - Game 10610816 - I missed it three times in this game 🙁

B ...[text shortened]... s change over time?


Show all of your howlers, so that we may [possibly] learn something! 😀

Hi,

can I just check the answers?

I'm pretty sure of the first one (I put white on the bottom to get the pgn right)

Originally posted by tvochess
Hi,

can I just check the answers?

I'm pretty sure of the first one (I put white on the bottom to get the pgn right)
[pgn]
[FEN "8/6p1/3k2p1/8/1R5P/5P2/1p3K2/1r6 b - - 0 0"]
1.. Rh1 2. Rxb2 {If not the pawn will queen.} Rh2+ {White loses his rook.}
[/pgn]
(I notice that black's moves appear in the left column in the pgn viewer. Is there a way to s ...[text shortened]... 7 {Secures a safe path for the pawn to promotion. Black's pawns are too far to promote.}
[/pgn]