MetroWest CC - Ilya Krasik












(1) Krasik,I (2076) - Wasiolek (2006) [D43]
Continental Open, 2004,u2200 (4),
[ilya]

I was lucky that my opponent played his next move as he did because i was course lost here. He couldnt imagine that he can promote a second queen with check and yet lose. However i spotted a deadly shot, a great swindle.

28...Re2?
Hard to comment on this move, objectively it loses but what happens next came as as a big suprise for black. My opponet thought he had won the game already and i would just resign, so he was walking around talking to his friends and recieving high fives.

29.Qxe2 a2
Diagram

30.Rxf7!!+-
Amazingly Black is lost in all lines, as is easily seen from variations. My opponent sad down grabbing his head and thought for more than 30 minutes.

30...a1Q+ 31.Kg2
only now did black sink into a deep think, after all R:f7 isnt desparation before resignation, indeed it is a move which forces capitulation

31...Q1a5?!
Diagram [ 31...Rxf7 All other moves also fail 32.Qe8+ Kh7 33.Qxf7 Qa8 34.Bxa8 Qxa8+ 35.d5+- ; 31...Qd6 32.Rd7+ Qxd5+ 33.Rxd5 Qa8 34.Qf3+- ; 31...Qa8 32.Rxf8+ Kxf8 33.Bxa8 Qxa8+ 34.f3+- ; 31...Kh8 32.Rxf8+ Kh7 33.Rh8+ Kxh8 34.Qe8+ Kh7 35.Qg8# ; 31...Kh7 32.Rxg7+ mate in 4; 31...Rxf7 32.Qe8+ Kh7 33.Qxf7 Qa8 ( 33...Qc8 34.f6! here the idle pawn gets to play a role 34...Qg4 35.Qg8+ Kg6 36.Qe8+ Kg5 ( 36...Kf5 37.Qe6+ Kg5 38.f4++- ) 37.h4+ ) 34.Bxa8 Qxa8+ 35.d5+- ]

32.Rxg7+!! Kh8 33.Rh7+
this move was overlooked by my opponent by his own admission, but of course there was no way out.

33...Kxh7 34.Qe7+ Kh8 35.Qxf8+ Kh7 36.Qg8#
his disbelief led him to play until mate 1-0



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