The position above is from Hunt Vs Weldin, round #2 of the Open Section 2010 Bluegrass Games. It is Black to make his 20th move; find the move I had forseen on move 17. You shouldn't need more than 30 seconds; take a hard look before checking out the game score below.
S. Hunt vs G. Weldin , Bluegrass State Games Open Section 10 July 2010
1.c3 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.Qc2 b6 4.e4 Bb7 5.Bd3 c5 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Nd2 d6 8.Ngf3 Nbd7 9.Rc1 a6 10.0-0 Rc8 11.Qb1 b5 12.e5 dxe5 13.dxe5 Nd5 14.Bxe7 Nxe7 15.Bxh7 g6 16.Bxg6 Nxg6
17.Ne4 Ngxe5 18.Nd6+ Kf8 19.Nxe5 Nxe5 20.Nxb7 Nf3+ 21.gxf3 Qh4 And White Resigned.
8 comments:
This is called a master move dear
You are a sharp mined player.who did win so much trapped game.You are genius.
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Nice combo!
at first I thought Qg5 then check w/ knight but that's stupid because it gives white options.....yours was very insightful...Welldone, Weldin.
What does black play if 22. Rfd1 making an escape route for the King? 21 Qg5+ Kh1 22. Qh4 now mates.
Mr. Amback, it looks like you are right. I didn't look at this closely enough. 21...Qg5+ 22.Kh1 Qh4 forces mate.
In the game line, white could play 22.Rfd1 Qh3 23.Qe4 Rg8+ 24.Qg4 Rxg4+ which gives a small advantage to black.
Fritz agrees with Ernie and resigned after
24...Rxg4. The shock of 20....Nf3+ probably caused the resignation in the actual game; the follow up was faulty but led to a winning position. The game occurred in "real time" as pointed out by the Chinese commentator; without the benifit of an 8 day later look.
I plugged it into Fritz after analyzing this and, yes, it agrees with my line. However it did not agree with my evaluation that black has a small advantage. According to Fritz, black has a HUGE advantage because of the dynamics that still exist in the position, thanks to the loose knight on b7 and openness of the white king.
Jerry, I agree with your point about the difference in real-time and post-mortem. That is always going to be true when analyzing game positions on here.
p.s. I deleted that Chinese commentator. :-)
Looking at this I only considered Qg5 first. Only took a few seconds to see the mate. Best wishes, John.
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