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Originally Posted by ah123
I really thought I had you on that game…but that was a brilliant (in estimation) escape!
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I thought you did too. I didn’t realize what a blunder taking on h6 was, because it let your queen in and suddenly I was staring down the barrel of a brutal attack.
And then I made it worse by running the king to f7. After 30. Qxh6, stockfish finds Rc6 for black, claiming the open file. I didn’t even consider that, because it blocks the diagonal and the a8 rook is undefended—so I thought I was losing material after white plays Rh1 and Qh8+, picking up the rook on a8. But it turns out that doesn’t work, because black has Rc2+, revealing the attack on the queen with check, and picking up the white queen on a8.
The computer is savage. It finds the most insane lines to hold things together.