Wonderful Ding Liren Game.

Bai, Jinshi - Ding Liren, Chinese Chess League 2017.

Didn't Blak have check-mate already in 29th move:
29. ...Bg6+
30. Nxg6 fxg6 checkmate??
Or I missed something?

Edit-- Okay, I did miss something: white King can now capture Pg4, since Be6 doesn't control the field g4 any more.
Typical oversight, all right - to forget changes on the board during calculation-in-head.

I couldn't resist, though, to check the game on chessbomb.com with their computer analysis.

"My" 29....Bg6 was still 4th best solution with 4.08 advantage!
😏

29. ...Bg6+ 30. Nxg6 fxg6+ 31. Kxg4 Nxf2+ 32. Kf3 Rb8 33. Qxb8 Nxb8 34. Rh2 Kxh6 35. g3 Ne4 36. Rg2 Rd1 37. Be2 Nd2+ 38. Kf2 Rc1 39. Rg1 Ne4+ 40. Kg2 Rc3

Originally posted by @greenpawn34
Bai, Jinshi - Ding Liren, Chinese Chess League 2017.

[pgn]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 O-O 5. Bg5 c5 6. e3 cxd4 7. Qxd4 Nc6 8. Qd3 h6 9. Bh4 d5 10. Rd1 g5 11. Bg3 Ne4 12. Nd2 Nc5 13. Qc2 d4 14. Nf3 e5 15. Nxe5 dxc3 16. Rxd8 cxb2+ 17. Ke2 Rxd8 18. Qxb2 Na4 19. Qc2 Nc3+ 20. Kf3 Rd4 21. h3 h5 22. Bh2 g4+ 23. Kg3 Rd2 24. Qb3 Ne4+ 25. Kh4 Be7+ 2 ...[text shortened]... e5+ {White resigned here. The mate is....} 33. Nxe5 Bf5+ 34. Kh5 Kg7+ 35. Bh6+ Rxh6# 0-1
[/pgn]

A fascinating game. Is it really just about white bringing his Queen out and never getting castled? Nunn's openings only gives 7. cxd4 for example. Later, when Black gives up his Queen and two pawns for a Rook knight and two pawns it seems to be about better piece activity and control of kingside squares and yet his light squared bishop is not developed until move 27.

One of the most intricate and prolonged king hunts I've ever seen.

Analysis of this game by NM Jerry at chessnetwork:

YouTube

Just ridiculous how he's able to throw everything at him,
saccing the Queen so early on move 15.

Originally posted by @moonbus
One of the most intricate and prolonged king hunts I've ever seen.

Originally posted by @ragwort
A fascinating game. Is it really just about white bringing his Queen out and never getting castled? Nunn's openings only gives 7. cxd4 for example. Later, when Black gives up his Queen and two pawns for a Rook knight and two pawns it seems to be about better piece activity and control of kingside squares and yet his light squared bishop is not developed until move 27.