This was a strange game I played, from Round 2 of an online tournament.
I start out with a nice queen-side territorial advantage, and well posted pieces on the king-side. Things look good for white until 19. Ne5? — a blunder which loses me my d4 pawn. I reply 20. Rab1, seeing the coming forking of my queen and rook.
Black loses his material advantage with the blunder 25. ...Bc6 — he should have made the move 25. ...dxc3. I use this opportunity to try to further confuse black by capturing has pawn on a5. I want to get his queen-side rook off of the back rank, because I plan to use it.
With 29. Rh4 I further distract black, making him think that I'm attempting an attack on his king via the H file. 29. ...Qxc5 doesn't bother me one bit. With 30. Ne4, I hope to sacrifice my knight so that my d1 rook has safe passage to d8. Black falls for it, and upon doing so, immediately resigns, not wishing further punishment with 31. ...Re8, 32. Rxe8+ Qf8 33. Rxf8+ Kxf8, leaving black's army seriously diminished for the endgame.
I start out with a nice queen-side territorial advantage, and well posted pieces on the king-side. Things look good for white until 19. Ne5? — a blunder which loses me my d4 pawn. I reply 20. Rab1, seeing the coming forking of my queen and rook.
Black loses his material advantage with the blunder 25. ...Bc6 — he should have made the move 25. ...dxc3. I use this opportunity to try to further confuse black by capturing has pawn on a5. I want to get his queen-side rook off of the back rank, because I plan to use it.
With 29. Rh4 I further distract black, making him think that I'm attempting an attack on his king via the H file. 29. ...Qxc5 doesn't bother me one bit. With 30. Ne4, I hope to sacrifice my knight so that my d1 rook has safe passage to d8. Black falls for it, and upon doing so, immediately resigns, not wishing further punishment with 31. ...Re8, 32. Rxe8+ Qf8 33. Rxf8+ Kxf8, leaving black's army seriously diminished for the endgame.
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