If all seems totally lost, if I don't quit. I always got checkmated. As a 1300.
Never give up!!
If all seems totally lost, if I don't quit. I always got checkmated. As a 1300.
I suppose the point is that over confidence in a winning position can lead to a blunder or two. In this case I should not have been allowed to promote a pawn and it wasn't hard to stop. Maybe at your level that is a lot less likely!
I can't seem to load the game on the Android app, am I doing something wrong? It just shows 1. e4 and no other moves.
Fortunately the promotion 50...h1=Q+ comes with check. It was that saving moment for Black.
Sadly 40. Rxh4 is the simplest move I would have played, which many lower-rated players would hesitate to play since the rook would be lost to the weaker pawns, not realising that White is already pieces up,
This is a game that I should not have won. I'm posting it to encourage other beginners like me not to quit even when all seems totally lost. I made some bad mistakes in opening and it went down hill from there. By turn 35 I was down to 3 pawns playing against two rooks and two pawns and my opponent should have easily won. Yet at turn 46 I realised he was relentlessly pursuing mate and not watching or even attacking my pawns. I couldn't have predicted what followed.