Saturday 23 December 2017

CHESS: A BUMBLED DRAW

I played a game at club level against Fritz Online and remembered that one needed a premium account to export files in PGN format. So I took a screenshot of the PGN displayed on Fritz Online and tried unsuccessfully to use OneNote and Google Docs to convert the image to text. Apparently it can be done but it defeated me. I turned to Google Keep and fortunately it was a very straightforward process. So I pasted the text into ChessX and things worked fine, so now I'm pasting the game into this blog. It's a game I should have won I'm sure but in the end was lucky not to lose, having overlooked a pin to my Queen from Fritz's Rook.
[Event "Casual Match"] [Site "Spring Hill"] [Date "2017.12.23"] [Round "4"] [White "Fritz: set to club player handicap"] [Black "Sean Reeves"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "E15"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Bg2 c5 7.e3 Nc6 8.0-0 Rc8 9.a3 h6 10.Nbd2 Be7 11.b3 0-0 12.Bb2 cxd4 13.exd4 Qc7 14.Rac1 Rcd8 15.Rfe1 g5 16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Nh7 18.Be4 Bxe4 19.Nxe4 Qc6 20.Rcd1 b5 21.c5 Rb8 22.b4 Ra8 23.Nd6 Rab8 24.Rd2 Rbd8 25.Red1 Kg7 26.g4 Kg8 27.Rd3 Rb8 28.Rh3 Kg7 29.Ne4 Rfe8 30.Rd6 Bxd6 31.exd6+ f6 32.Nxf6 Nxf6 33.Bxf6+ Kxf6 34.Rxh6+ Ke5 35.Qc3+ Kd5 36.Qd3+ Ke5 37.f4+ gxf4 38.Rh5+ Kf6 39.g5+ Ke5 40.g6+ Kf6 41.Rh6 Rg8 42.g7+ Kxg7 43.Qg6+ Kf8 44.Rh8 Rxh8 45.Qf6+ Kg8 46.Qg6+ Kf8 47.Qf6+ Kg8 48.Qg6+ Kf8 1/2-1/2
It would seem that 39.g5+ was not the best move and that better would have been 39.Qh7 after which it's clearly curtains for Fritz. White has the luxury of not being able to be checked by the Black Queen, even though quite exposed. The g pawn is a shield against the Black Rook but this pawn was lost when I followed the line that I did.

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