(04-02-2020, 04:53 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote:

(04-02-2020, 06:27 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I did win.  I won the way I almost always win.  Not with some pretty checkmate, but by getting a material advantage, trading down, pushing a pawn or two to the end rank, creating a couple of queens and getting an eventual checkmate.  

In this case, I eventually got that pawn to the 8th rank, D8.  

If you look at that position, both his bishops are very badly placed; they have nowhere to go and are effectively out of the action, and black's white bishop is keeping his rook out of action.  Black is in a terrible position, for sure.  There's no way to stop that white pawn from getting to the 8th rank barring some huge sacrifice of material.  

His next move was to move his rook to A7, getting away from my bishop.  I don't remember how it went from there, but looking at the board, I can see playing pawn to d7, and depending on what he does in response, I play pawn to g3, he has to move his bishop, and I take his pawn on e5.  From this position, there's no way an evenly matched opponent can stop me.  Of course, a better opponent could probably wiggle out of it.  

But of course my point was, when I run the analysis on these games, it shows me so many obvious blunders, like this one, failing to see that I could have just taken that rook, that it's humbling.  How can I miss a gift like that?  But I suppose that's just par for the course at my level, which is 1100-1200.

I definitely would tried BE4 --- BH7. You still would have the rook pinned if they saw the King.

1) My first move is pawn to d7.  There's nothing he can do about that.  I have 3 pieces defending that square.  Knight, queen, and rook.  I can even bring another piece to the defense of that pawn if I play my Bishop on f3 to c6.  

2) Then I want to get that pawn on e5 out of the way of my rook on e1, because if I do that I can threaten rook to e8.  To do that, I have to get that bishop which is guarding the pawn on e5 to move.  So I move my pawn on g2 to g3.  He has no choice but to move his bishop from f4 to g5.  

3) Then I play rook takes pawn on e5.  

He has no defense at that point.  Notice that no time during this sequence can he play his pawn on f7 to f6 to defend his pawn on e5 because I can then play knight to e6, forking queen and rook.

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