Nice attack on the Schliemann
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Not to make a new thread I'll post another game in here. This game has a few innacuracies from both players but overall I don't think it was too bad. Anyway I sac'd a pawn for the center and the initiative and then was forced to offer a queen exchange. My opponent took the offer and from then on I just had to roll my center pawns and create some havoc. 26. ... e3 was a killer move I suppose. With it I divided my opponent field into two halves that didn't communicate at all. 27. ... Rg8 was part of my cramping plan: With my bishop on the h1-a8 diagonal and rook on the g-file both the white rook on h3 and bishop on f1 were tied up. At this point I certainlly full positional compensantion for my pawn. 29. ... Kc7?! was not my best move on that position but my thought was to make the king take a more active role in the scene of battle. 33. ... Bc6 had to be done because my bishop was a monster at this stage and exchanging it would be an outright blunder. 35 Na4? just hands more initiative to my side. Maybe he thought that since he was up in material exchanges would suit him best but all he did was lose a defender and gives me a passed pawn on the a-file. 33. Rd3 was a mistake for sure. It just gives another passed pawn and looking deeper into the position a queen. 40. ... e2!! forgime for this annotation but I think this move is probabily the best mve I have ever played. i'm saccing another pawn but this way the a-pawn will queen. 41. d4 white understand what will follow if he takes the pawn either with the rook or bishop and makes a pawn move but this too loses. I had an even more straightforward way to win but sometimes I just like to chomp away.
tonydal wrote: I think that in the second game if you played 33... Ra8 he would be forced to resign in a few moves; it looks like mate or massive material loss. And 41... a2 queens next move. That game was certainly the definition of a bind; your criticisms of his moves are I think a bit harsh, inasmuch as his position was a disastrous one from very early on.
YesI certainly wouldn't want to be in his place. That's for sure. I don't know if you noticed but I criticized his moves but haven't give any alternatives for them. So I think I have some sympathy for his situation. 
My 41th move was just made on a whim. I knew that I could queen and from then on mate was pretty easy to force but I wanted to do that. I knew I had the win anyway, unless of course I blundered I just wanted to be a sadistic guy.
And I totally missed 33. ... Ra8! I think that since I felt I was already winning I didn't try too much.
Thanks for the comments.
Cool games. The sacrifice seems to be sound, at least in the sense that I can't seem to refute it. I think I have, however, found ways for white to get out of the serious problems.
9.Kf3 is obviously a blunder. The discover is a big threat. So if no king moves, how about luring the queen to an inferior square where it can be attacked thus preventing or delaying the discover? hmm... Didn't black sacrifice a piece to reach this position?
9. Ng5!? Qxg5 (seems forced. Black's king is starting to look open too... But 9...0-0 10.d4 h6 11.f3 is excellent for white).
10.f4!? The queen is right where we want it.
10...Qg6 and now 11.Qe2+ Kd8 (on Kf8 it is more vulnerable to f5(which would happen immediately... The Bxf5 Rxf5+ would be with check, which is what makes it possible for white)), and now
Either
a) 12.Re1 seems to be only somewhat better for black. White is out of the woods for now. Somewhat inferior though I believe.
b) 12.Qd3+!? Seems to lead to massive structural weaknesses after Qxd3 cxd3, but I think there is more to this position than meets the eye. Brief analysis tells me that white is just ok, with nothing to fear. I think this one needs further analysis.
The lines seem to be rather forced too.
Once again, cool games.
grolich wrote:
Cool games. The sacrifice seems to be sound, at least in the sense that I can't seem to refute it. I think I have, however, found ways for white to get out of the serious problems.
9.Kf3 is obviously a blunder. The discover is a big threat. So if no king moves, how about luring the queen to an inferior square where it can be attacked thus preventing or delaying the discover? hmm... Didn't black sacrifice a piece to reach this position?
9. Ng5!? Qxg5 (seems forced. Black's king is starting to look open too... But 9...0-0 10.d4 h6 11.f3 is excellent for white).
10.f4!? The queen is right where we want it.
10...Qg6 and now 11.Qe2+ Kd8 (on Kf8 it is more vulnerable to f5(which would happen immediately... The Bxf5 Rxf5+ would be with check, which is what makes it possible for white)), and now
Either
a) 12.Re1 seems to be only somewhat better for black. White is out of the woods for now. Somewhat inferior though I believe.
b) 12.Qd3+!? Seems to lead to massive structural weaknesses after Qxd3 cxd3, but I think there is more to this position than meets the eye. Brief analysis tells me that white is just ok, with nothing to fear. I think this one needs further analysis.
The lines seem to be rather forced too.
Once again, cool games.
Thanks for all the analysis. Tomorrow I'll get back to you with my thoughts on this. But Ng5 certainly seems to be the right idea or at least a very nice idea.
It seems like the greek gift was sound. Maybe I had stronger continuations but I think this was the most fun one. White messed by moving his king to the f-file and from then on I was sure I was winning.