TL Chess Match - Page 26

ummm this was a bad move. Now we can get the c-pawn. ...cxd 16. cxd Rac1 17. Rb4 d5 and the pawn is ours.

Actually no wait, it can still be pushed after 18. exd exd. but then it's a simple matter of ...Nd7

16. cxd4 Rfc8 17. Rb4 d5 18. c5 bxc5 19. Qxc5 Qxc5 20. dxc5 Rxc5 and white resigns

this is gg for white

huge blunder from white here with 15 e4.

either white resigns via jfrazz's line or

16 cxd4 Rac8
17 Ba3 Nxc4
18 Nxc4 Qxc4
19 resigns

well this was fun.........maybe we should start voting for who should we play next ?

jfrazz

motlob

cascades

myself

anyone else ???

I cant see a checkmate, but we're a pawn up regardless

there is no checkmate, but we can take a dominant position on the c-file, pressure the weak a-file pawn, activate our minor pieces MUCH more easily and we are a pawn up. Cruisey position!

White is still playable from this position, but looks really tough.

Ziziyo

Black has a huge advantage. Bar any gross blunders we should definitely win.

this line should put us up a pawn with the reinforcement of a rook on c8. that's as far as i can see

This is over for white

It was much tougher on white than I had previously thought.
16. cxd4 Rfc8 17 Rb4 d5 18 Bb2
is probably best for white.

Q is stuck along b1 to d3 to protect the e4 pawn allowing black to take that would be even worse than c4.
b4 R is stuck there.
d2 knight is stuck there as well in protection of d4 and c4. The a5 knight on c4 would be intolerable.
e4 cannot take d5, could push to e5.
can't really do anything in that situation but move the Queen along the diagonal from b1 to d3. Allowing black to take on e4, dxe4 is just brutal.

16. ... Rac8 17 Ba3 would be a closer battle

pawn up + better position = yay us!
Seriously though, we've gained a bit of tempo each one of the last few moves while retaining a rock solid position. Without a blunder, I just can't see us losing.

obvious move is obvious