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Originally Posted by Superfraggle
That was a really solid game. No blunders, misses, great moves, or brilliancies in the game review. Just small positional advantages from the opening and a couple won pawns ground out through the end.
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Not a ton of blunders, but there was a pivotal moment, I think, on move 20. I played Bd1, revealing an attack on your queen and (through it) the rook on c8. But that doesn’t work, because you can trade queens and then the threat of my attack is blunted (your rook on c8 is defended by the knight, and I’m down material so more trades don’t help.
Apparently, I needed to find 20. Bd3!, which does the same thing but also stops Qxf3, and forces the black queen away somewhere.
After that I don’t think I ever found any good threats. Then in the end game the two pawns were decisive.
Well played!