11/23/2005

How to lose in two moves

Black to Move

This is a position from one of my recent games on http://www.timeforchess.com where I had the black peices. Black's position here was looking pretty good and I had alot of pressure on white's kingside.

At this point I got pawn happy. I thought that the prize for building up so much pressure on white's king side was the collapse of his queen side and I hastened to capture 1. ... Qxb2 2. Rae1 Qxa2

Sadly at this point the black queen with its 2 prize pawns is stuck out of the game and is not able to return in time to save black's King from the onslaught of white peices.

3. Ng5 Nd6
4. Rxe8 Rxe8
5. Rxe8 Nxe8
6. Qe3! 1-0

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