Curtains vs PoG

[curtains]

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47. ... Ke7

vote draw !?
Vas o No Vas, NO VAS !

If he won't be a man, time to for us to crawl out of the cave...

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lol white obviously has no chance to win, you would have to play exceptionally terribly to lose. The good news is I think it's also true in reverse.

[ScottHoward]

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lol white obviously has no chance to win, you would have to play exceptionally terribly to lose.\

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i wonder if exceptionally terrible would be nd2, then nf3, then b5.

[durron597]

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47. ... Ke7

vote draw !?
Vas o No Vas, NO VAS !

If he won't be a man, time to for us to crawl out of the cave...

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he has opposition on us, we can't get out of the middle unless he moves to eat b7

[ScottHoward]

47 ...d2
48 Be3...Nf3
49 B?
whatever the 49 move for white, i thought we could move the pawn to draw the king away, then take out his pawns, perhaps including exchanging pieces

[StregaChess]

Lets vote...

Nd2
Ke7
NO VAS !

[StregaChess]

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lol white obviously has no chance to win, you would have to play exceptionally terribly to lose. The good news is I think it's also true in reverse.

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I agree sort of...
Black could find himself in a position and have one brain fart and put the knight on a square like Nd1 oppsss, Bd4!
I think white would have to make three brain farts to lose.
However having said that if my life depended on a win, I'd prefer black. It's the power of the "fork" the other white meat....

[chuckleslovakian]

Curtains plays 47. Bb6

1. c4 e5
2. g3 Nf6
3. Bg2 c6
4. d4 exd4
5. Qxd4 d5
6. cxd5 cxd5
7. Nf3 Nc6
8. Qd3 Nb4
9. Qb3 Bf5
10. Nd4 Be4
11. 0-0 Bc5
12. Nc3 Bxg2
13. Kxg2 Bxd4
14. Qxb4 Bxc3
15. Qxc3 0-0
16. b3 Re8
17. e3 Rc8
18. Qd3 d4
19. exd4 Qd5+
20. Qf3 Rc2
21. Bf4 Ne4
22. Be3 Rc6
23. Kg1 Rf6
24. Qg2 h5
25. Rac1 h4
26. Rc5 Qd6
27. Re5 Rxe5
28. dxe5 Qxe5
29. Rc1 Nc3
30. Re1 Rc6
31. Qf3 h3
32. g4 Nxa2
33. Qxh3 Qe6
34. Qg3 Qxb3
35. Bxa7 Qxg3+
36. hxg3 Rc1
37. Rxc1 Nxc1
38. Kg2 Kf8
39. Kf3 Ke7
40. Ke4 Nb3
41. Kd5 Kd7
42. Bb6 Nd2
43. Bd4 g6
44. g5 Nb3
45. Bb6 Nd2
46. Be3 Nb3
47. Bb6

Curtains

PoG

It is now PoGs turn

[StregaChess]

OK, I voted for Ke7 which is really the same as Nd2 but only in reverse logic...

Ke7
It forces white to move and leaves our knight in place (for now) if white moves the bishop we can play Na5 and back to Nc6 (a good square)

If Kc4 we check at Nd2 and if he continues to chase our knight at some point we'd get a free move and possibly move our king upwards to e6 or d6.

However if
47. Bb6 Ke7
48. Kc4 Nd2
49. Kd5 Kd7
We'll reach the position as if we had played Nd2
It's all the same only different, with Ke7 we allow him to try and chase our horsey but horsey's run faster than Kings...

[curtains]

Ok draw sounds fair! Any questions?

btw game was reasonably well played. Few days ago I ran it through Fritz and it seemed pretty normal. Of course you guys were all cheating with computers so that was to be expected from the black side, but I'm happy I managed to not blunder, although I admit I was perhaps close one or two times.

[chuckleslovakian]

Thanks for taking the time to do this. If you are ever up for a rematch I would be willing to set it up.