My Greatest Move?!

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alphaous

In this position, I played what I considered to be my greatest move. Can you find it? White to move.

Here's the full, admittedly bad game:

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35779042377

If anybody wants to share their best move, please do it in puzzle form for instructive value!

alphaous

 

Another candidate. White to move

Full game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/22437576813

alphaous

White to move. A pretty move from this crazy game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/20474443137

 

 

 

alphaous

Which one of these moves do you think was my best?

BishopTakesH7

Maybe the third? I will say that is the saddest black king I've seen.

BishopTakesH7

One contender for my best move:

 

 

 

And the full game:

 

BishopTakesH7

My other contender from a couple months ago:

 

 
I predict we're going to see blueemu show up with his "Heroic Defense" game and probably some other 2100's with their amazing, positional, attacking games.
alphaous

Blueemu would never miss a chance to display his Mona Lisa.  And yeah, that Black king must've been experiencing claustrophobia.

alphaous
little_guinea_pig wrote:
BishopTakesH7 wrote:

My other contender from a couple months ago:

 

 
I predict we're going to see blueemu show up with his "Heroic Defense" game and probably some other 2100's with their amazing, positional, attacking games.

hi

white to move

 

 

 

Nice combo! 

alphaous
BishopTakesH7 wrote:

Maybe the third? I will say that is the saddest black king I've seen.

Funnily enough, that was an unsound attack and Black was winning until Rae8. That's why I was hesitant to put it in, along with the fact that it seemed kind of easy to find, but it turns out I'm trash at chess and I was struggling to find brilliancies, lol.

The second one was nice, but it was the finish that put it over the top for me.

I'm still proud of finding the first one in such a scary position, so it's a tough choice.

BishopTakesH7
little_guinea_pig wrote:

hi

white to move

 

alphaous

He's 2200. You were so off in your prediction that I can't even understand it.

BishopTakesH7
alphaous wrote:

He's 2200. You were so off in your prediction that I can't even understand it.

 

I was kinda guesstimating. I didn't actually check his rating.

alphaous

It doesn't really matter. It's close, and it was an awesome positional/tactical attack, so I think you were basically right.

alphaous

 

That is art. But I thought your greatest move would be your brilliant knight sac with g4 and h5, that went perfectly according to plan.

alphaous

@little_guinea_pig's best move*:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*littleguineapig played g4, which is not the best move but this was a sattirical post.

alphaous

The backstory of this brilliant move;

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/when-you-calculate-super-long-line-but-your-opponent-plays-very-simple-response-you-missed

 

alphaous

I found out later that this is still theory, but I'm still proud of calculating the complications in a blitz game:

 

Bonus  points if you know what opening this is.

alphaous

Full game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/34553453651

alphaous

https://www.chess.com/games/search?fen=r1b1kb1r/pp2pppp/2np1n2/qB2P3/3Q4/2N2N2/PPP2PPP/R1B1K2R%20b%20KQkq%20-%204%207 

Master games of this line.