14-10-2014, 11:27 PM
Interesting game. Don't know if you put the game into an engine and you are saying black was better as in winning, or just better of position wise playing 26. c x b3 ?
If it had went 26. Be3 cxb3 27. Nf6+ NxN 28. RxQ BxR then 29. Bc1 initialy looked to me like it gives white a good chance to stop the b pawn promotion threat. Looking at it further I can see your white square bishop is going to be out of the game for quite a few moves and if black plays Re8-c8 the follow up threat of Rc2 is dangerous for white. I am just looking at this in my head and might have it wrong. But if not you would expect a 2400 to see that much in which case I see why you say that you got lucky there.
Maybe sometimes even good players minds can play tricks on them and the idea of exchanging a queen for material other than a queen clouds the positional judgement. What ever happened, a win is a win as we say and well done.
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If it had went 26. Be3 cxb3 27. Nf6+ NxN 28. RxQ BxR then 29. Bc1 initialy looked to me like it gives white a good chance to stop the b pawn promotion threat. Looking at it further I can see your white square bishop is going to be out of the game for quite a few moves and if black plays Re8-c8 the follow up threat of Rc2 is dangerous for white. I am just looking at this in my head and might have it wrong. But if not you would expect a 2400 to see that much in which case I see why you say that you got lucky there.
Maybe sometimes even good players minds can play tricks on them and the idea of exchanging a queen for material other than a queen clouds the positional judgement. What ever happened, a win is a win as we say and well done.
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