When material just isn't enough

in this game, my opponent does just the opposite and his extra material just ends up being a useless burden...  also, when up in material, its always a good idea to look for ways that giving it back will drasticaly effect the position for your benefit, becuase if  you can't make good use of your advantage then its not really an advantage, is it?

An interesting and informative game.

Nice game I was playinga tournament game where I did not see my opponents possible reply. I lost a bishop. I built an attack, and his king ran to the other side of the board, I closed the position so that his pieces could not do anything anf we agreed to a draw even though he was up a bishop.

Comic annotations of a badly played game of epic proportions. By move 32 white had done well to make hard work of a won game, but still with 32Nd1 followed by c3 and Bb1 slowly improving peices should be winning.

nice game

TwoMove, 32. Ne2 Bxb2 with Bxa3 next.

32. Nxd5 might be a good try. After 32. ... cxd5 33. Bxd5+ white can try to nurse the one extra pawn, controlling the open file is even more promising, but I wouldn't relish trying to win this position.

Hello Loomis,

I was suggesting 32Nd1, keeping b2 defended not 32Ne2. Was trying to find the point in game where white still winning fairly easily. After 32Rd1? allowing BxN, and horribly beached bishop a2, maybe white is even winning here by throwing one of the c-pawns away and playing c3? probably not white is losing too many pawns.

Sorry TwoMove, I must have misread your post.

to those who like to insult how well other people play...

   we aren't all kasparovs ya know...   so lighten up.... i was very confident, overconfident even, (the "game set match comment" should have been put one move later) in my annotation becuase i knew who i was playing, were it one of you, i might not have taken it so lightheartedly... and you shouldn't be so harsh towards other peoples games... i bet a GM could take a look at any of your games and say they were badly played games of epic perportions too... heck, i could take a look at a game you played when you were a beginer and say that too...  but i don't think it would help anyone...

    if you've got criticism, you should make it constructive... otherwise, polite people will ignore you becuase all you end up doing is saying  "im awsome, and just to show how awsome i am i'll tell you how not awsome this guy is...   see how awsome i am that i figured that out."   and yes... i know he played poorly (myself too)... we're only average players ya know...   when you're up a peice that early, some people tend not to put their all into anymore...   the point was, that just becuase you messed up, you don't have to throw in the towel... nor do  you have to hope he blunders back, like hanging a peice as i did...   it is still up to them to prove that the advantage makes it a won game...

    and i already said that he had winning moves (the second sac attack i mentioned was the Nxd5 loomis pointed out)   ok so i didn't say anything about the Nd1...   but thats becuase i already saw the Nxd5 and wasn't really trying to find every way he could still win that i could do nothing about...

"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Tartakover    ; )

Not sure white is winning after 32.Nxd5 pxp 33.Bxpch kf8 34c3 Be3. There are the opposite coloured bishops, and difficult to get white's king in game.

                        White looks to be struggling to even draw after 32Rd1 maybe white can hold rook endgame after 35Bxpch pxp 36Rxp Rxp 37 Rxp Rxp 38Ra5 Rxp 39Ra6.

why not...  you turn the pawns on the queenside into a passed pawn on the a or c file...  it shouldn't be impossible,   and then trade rook for bishop. (white rook for black bishop)   and bring the king out...   and while black deals with the first passed pawn you make another one on f3...  stretch him thinner than he can go, while the bishop holds black off at both ends...

is any of that possible?  idk...   do i think its impossible, no... it could be though.    but either way, Nd1 would have held it best anyway...  but he didn't find that... and thats why i beat him...

This game is a great example of the pawn's power

thanks for sharing your game with us. I think a lot of readers are taking it too seriously. to me it was a fun game with comical annotations.  I was looking at 23. Nxd5. With the bish and queen posted well, and the kingside so open, it seemed pretty interesting to me. I'll have to check that with fritz when I get home from work, it looks like a fun move.