Real game exercise

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  Yancey Ward says:

  October 7, 2013 at 4:26 pm

  Definitely the wrong decision.

  1. cb5! Bb5 (alternatives below)
  2. Qa5 Ba6

  If black plays Bc6, leaving the a-file open, white can play Re3 with a deadly attack. Black can play h4 here, but white can take the pawn with advantage since the h8 rook protects the one at d8, but white can do even better, I think, with 3.Rb4 with another deadly attack on the black king. Continuing:

  3. Qc7 Ka8
  4. Ne4 Rc8
  5. Qa5 Qf5 (anything better?)
  6. Qf5 ef5
  7. Nf6 and white is up a pawn or more at the very least considering just how weak all of black’s remaining pawns are.

  Back at move 1, I don’t see how black does better with the alternatives to taking at b5:

  1. cb5 Bd5
  2. Qa5 Rd6 (what else?)
  3. b6!

  And I think black has to take at b6 or lose the rook at h8 to a skewere eventually:

  3. …..Qg5 (Qg7 4.Qa7 Kc8 5.Rc1+-)
  4. Qa7 Kc1
  5. Qa8+-

  Or

  1. cb5 Bd7
  2. Qa5 with the same threats of b6 and Qa7+.

  I have to assume white was low on time.

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  Anonymous says:

  October 7, 2013 at 6:11 pm

  It’s a fix.