I am still going through my team match games from Chess.com and this one was played in a team match called 3.) 1/1/2016. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016=SRETNA NOVA 2016.GODINA. It was played between MY FRIENDS International MY FRIENDS--MOJI PRIJATELJI and ISK Crvena Zvezda on 12 boards. I played on board 5 for MY FRIENDS International MY FRIENDS--MOJI PRIJATELJI and in addition to this draw, I was able to win my other game against vladoo76. The match ended with a score of 15 - 9 in our favor! While this game ended in a draw, there were few moments in the game where I could have seized a clear advantage. First of which came when my opponent played 23.Rf2. I had already a small advantage at that point, due to the inaccurate move 20.Nf3, so the combined effort of the 20th and 23rd move of vladoo76 led into a position where I was clearly better.
In the game I replied with 23...c6, which was not as good as the move 23...Nxd5. Knight can take on d5 due to the pin on the e-file. It is rather embarrassing that I did not see the obvious way to win a pawn. That being said my move is maybe good enough for a clear advantage. Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT at depth 37 seems to think so. Vladoo76 continued with 24.dxc6 and then I chose the wrong capture, I took on c6 with the pawn when I ought to have captured the pawn with my queen. The next moment in the game where my opponent started to go towards a clearly inferior position was seen when vladoo76 chose to play 30.Qc4.
Moving the queen off the b-file enabled me to play 30...Qb6+ without having the possibility for my opponent to trade queens. It was actually the best reply and the continuation 31.Kh1 Ng4 was the right idea, but then I deviated from the correct plan when I replied to 32.h3 with the move 32...Nf6. I should have played 32...Nf2+, which was the logical continuation for the sequence of moves started by 30...Qb6+. My 32nd move was not completely awful, I should still be preferred in the position, but the game would likely end up being a draw. We did end up agreeing to a draw a few moves later, but unfortunately for me, I did not understand how bad the last move 35.Qa6 actually was.
It turns out that I was in a winning position and agreed to a draw. It was not the first time I have made a bad judgement call on a position and it definitely is not going to be the last time. The game could have continued 35...Nh5 36.Rc2 d5 37.Qd3, for instance, and vladoo76 should be clearly on the defensive side of the board.
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