Two Exchange Sacrifices

Dan O'Dowd · Post by **Dan O'Dowd** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:47 am

Played a game tonight and while I can reasonably trust a computer I'd prefer a human eye for the former question at least. No point dwelling in why I played the moves I did, if I did badly, hey we all have bad form sometimes.

Got to this position:

and played 18. Nxb5 Qxc2 19. Rxb7 intentionally, predicting 19...Qb3 20. Bd4 Qxd5 21. Rb6 and just feeling on intuition that it was very hard for Black to recoordinate. Is that me talking rubbish, and / or did I just miss a difficult concrete line? In the game, 19...Qd3? was played and later Black hung a piece. In time trouble I reached this position:

when instead of playing the simple 36. Re2, I played the re-sacrificing 36. h3 Rxc3 37. Rg4 Rxc8 38. Rxg6+ hxg6 39. Nd4.

Can Black to move draw/try to win there? It's interesting to me that given my summer fun I can still louse such positions up.

MartinCarpenter · Post by **MartinCarpenter** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:22 am

20 Bxd4 and 21 Rxd6 certainly seem like 'interesting' moves to have been considering

I presume you must mean something else?

Dan O'Dowd · Post by **Dan O'Dowd** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:34 pm

No, I intended what I wrote. Bd4 is necessary to hold up the breakout of Black's wayward pieces, and Rb6 is just defence.

Greg Breed · Post by **Greg Breed** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:46 pm

Dan O'Dowd wrote:No, I intended what I wrote. Bd4 is necessary to hold up the breakout of Black's wayward pieces, and Rb6 is just defence.

Although you have to admit that you did write it incorrectly initially.

I think in the final position Black can at least hold if not win if he can mop up the b pawn first.

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