[continued from the previous post]
As mentioned, I had gotten some attention from the Bear Bot at Chess.com, so I decided to follow through there.
perrypawnpusher - The Bear Bot
Chess.com, 20216
20.O-O
I flinched.
I looked at the danger that my opponent's King was in, and began to worry about my King.
Readers who excel in attack will find 20.Rd7+ Kh6 21.Qh3+ Kg5 (or 21...Qh5 22.Rd6+ Kg7 23.Qxh5 winning Black's Queen; or 21...Kg6 22.Qg4+ Kh6 23.Qh4+ Kg6 24.f4 Rcf8 25.Qg4+ Kh6 26.fxe5 Bf2+ 27.Ke2 Rhg8 28.Qh3+ Kg5 29.Qxh7 b6 30.Rg7+ Rxg7 31.Qxg7+ Kh4 32.Qh6+ Kg4 33.h3+ Kg3 34.Qg5#) 22.f4+ Qxf4 23.Rd5+ Kf6 24.Rf5+ Qxf5 25.Qxf5+ Ke7 26.Qe5+ Kd7 27.Qg7+ Kc6 28.Rf1 Rhf8 29.Rxf8 Rxf8 30.Qxf8 Kd7 31.Qf7+ Kc8 32.Qe8+ Bd8 33.Nb5 b6 34.Qc6+ Kb8 35.Nd6 Bh4+ 36.Ke2 b5 37.Qb7 checkmate
20...Rc7 21.Qg3+
As I related 16 years ago, in Blackburned! #1
My first chess book was Reuben Fine's Chess the Easy Way – available in paperback these days, used, for under $5.00 [currently, about $10.00; also at the Internet Archive] – and it gave me the idea (rightly or wrongly) that much of chess can be boiled down to: win a pawn, exchange everything else, win the K + P vs K endgame...
It should have been possible to find 21.Qg4+ Kf8 22.Rd8+ Kf7 23.Rd5 Qg7 24.Qf4+ Ke8 25.Rfd1 Qe7 26.Rd8+ Qxd8 27.Rxd8+ Kxd8 28.Qf6+ Kd7 29.Qxh8 when White has a Queen and 4 pawns for a Rook.
21...Qxg3 22.hxg3
The game is no longer quick, it is more of a grind.
22...Rxc3
Interesting and dynamic, breaking up White's Queenside pawns. At this point, Black has to come up with something.
23.bxc3 Rc8 24.Rd3 Ba5 25.f4 Rc4 26.e5 h5
27.Rd7+
The right idea, attacking the enemy King, not worrying about losing a doubled pawn.
27...Kh6 28.Rfd1 h4
29.R1d6+
This should checkmate in 8.
29...Kh5 30.Rh7+
This is fine, although 30.Rg7 mates faster.
30...Kg4 31.Rxh4+
See the above note
31...Kxg3 32.Rh8 Kxf4 33.e6
33...Bc7 34.Rd4+
See the note to move 21.
34...Rxd4 35.cxd4 Bd6 36.c4 Ke3 37.d5
Instead, 37.e7 Bxe7 38.Re8 Kxd4 39.Rxe7.
[to be continued]
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