Submitted by: | Ken Ashby | ||
Submitted: | 29 October 2016 4:39 pm | ||
White: | Ashby, Ken | ||
Black: | Solomatin, Yury | ||
Game Date: | 4 May 2014 | ||
Competition: | |||
Result: | 1-0 | ||
Private: | No |
30 October 2016, 11:11 am | Phil McConnell |
Very well played, Ken - a high class of chess. The game obviously turned on your rook sacrifice at move 23 - you correctly judged (a) that Black would take it and (b) that this would leave you with a winning attack on Black's king. What were Black's alternatives to taking the rook? 23. ... fxg6 would have been fatal. There were, however, a couple of options for Black which arguably made the rook sacrifice unsound: 23. ... fxe6 is a strong move, giving Black an advantage (according to Shredder) of 0.6 23. ... Qe3+ 24. Kb1 fxe6 gives Black at least equality. Still, you were playing a human being, not a computer, and against most players the rook sacrifice works. | |
29 October 2016 4:39 pm | Ken Ashby |
Very well played, Ken - a high class of chess. The game obviously turned on your rook sacrifice at move 23 - you correctly judged (a) that Black would take it and (b) that this would leave you with a winning attack on Black's king. What were Black's alternatives to taking the rook? 23. ... fxg6 would have been fatal. There were, however, a couple of options for Black which arguably made the rook sacrifice unsound: 23. ... fxe6 is a strong move, giving Black an advantage (according to Shredder) of 0.6 23. ... Qe3+ 24. Kb1 fxe6 gives Black at least equality. Still, you were playing a human being, not a computer, and against most players the rook sacrifice works. |
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