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What move would you make here ?

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I recently moved from NYC to NZ and joined the chess club in the city I'm now living in. The set up in NZ in terms of how club champs and games are played is a bit different to what I'm used to (games are played with a time allowance and then a per move increment rather than a set time for a set number of moves followed by a set amount of time to finish the game). This is my first reasonably serious OTB chess in over 5 years. Anyway, I played in a 5 round club tournament (25 minutes plus 10 seconds per move) to qualify for the club champs. I played the first round of the champs (60 minutes plus 30 seconds per move) yesterday. I'm black against a guy FIDE rated 2235. Here is a position I reached as black with me to move. In my opinion its the crucial position of the game. There are a number of candidate moves for me as black. What would you have played ?

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Originally posted by st40
I recently moved from NYC to NZ and joined the chess club in the city I'm now living in. The set up in NZ in terms of how club champs and games are played is a bit different to what I'm used to (games are played with a time allowance and then a per move increment rather than a set time for a set number of moves followed by a set amount of time to finish the ga ...[text shortened]... ck. What would you have played ?

[fen] 4r1kb/p3p3/2pppnp1/q7/3BP1P1/2N2P2/PrPQ4/R3K2R [/fen]
White is threatening Rxh8+ so I think I'd play Kf7 followed by Rg8 if really necessary, though I'd be looking to play more aggressive moves such as c5 by preference.

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..c5, getting the bishop off the long diagonal and unpinning the knight of f6. There must be tactics on c3..

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Interesting.

If Black plays c5 then Rxh8+ looks OK for White. So Black probably has to play e5.

I assume White can still castle, there may be a 0-0-0 in there hitting the b2 Rook
and brining the a1 Rook right into the game.

Any chance we can see the whole game.

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I will post the whole game later, the candidate moves I looked at were :

a) e5
b) c5
c) Bg7
d) Reb8
e) Kf7

yes, white can still castle

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Here is the full game

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1.e4c5
2.Nf3d6
3.d4cxd4
4.Nxd4Nf6
5.Bc4g6
6.Nc3Bg7
7.Be30-0
8.f3Nc6
9.Nxc6bxc6
10.Qd2Re8
11.Bh6Bh8
12.g4Be6
13.Bxe6fxe6
14.h4Qa5
15.h5Rb8
16.hxg6hxg6
17.Be3Rxb2
18.Bd4c5
19.Rxh8Kxh8
20.Qh6Kg8
21.Qxg6Kf8
22.Bxf6exf6
23.Qxf6Kg8
24.O-O-ORb7
25.Rxd6Rf7
26.Qg5Rg7
27.Qe5Qc7
28.Nd5exd5
29.Qxe8Kh7
30.Qh5Kg8
31.Qd5Kh7
32.g5

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      Is this the chance that you missed? I've had a good look and I think White is winning anyway, but I might have overlooked something.

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      1.O-O-OQa3
      2.Nb1Rxb1
      3.Kxb1Rb8
      4.Ka1e5
      5.Qg6Kf8
      6.Qxd6Kf7
      7.Qxb8

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      Hi DF,

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      1.O-O-OQa3
      2.Kd2Qb4
      3.Rh1Qd4

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      was the line we looked at after the game but I guess we were a bit tired !, your line looks forced.

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      Good game, e5 instead of c5. The h8 Bishop will moan but at least
      it's not allowing the sac and an easier game for White to play.

      He's got the perpetual and his moves were not difficult, you on the other
      hand are in blunder land and need to play some exact spot on stuff and
      at 30 seconds a move it's a major accident waiting to happen.

      Out came Qc7 and he played Nd5.

      He could have wrapped it up neater. Had a blitz finish just like a few days ago.

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      1.Qe5Qc7
      2.Nd5exd5
      3.Qxe8Kh7
      4.Rh6Kxh6
      5.Qh5

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      If I can go back to the original position, rather than e5 I can't (now) see anything wrong with Bg7

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      (sorry can't get the FEN / PGN combo thing to work)

      with a c5 to follow, I believe Qh2 (and/or the h file attack in general) for white is harmless as long as I have the dragon bishop

      thoughts ?


      I agree. After 18. ... Bg7, White has nothing. In which case 18. ... c5 deserves two question marks!

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