Friday, January 29, 2010

Analysis of Damjanovic's blunder :-)


This is a game by grandmaster Damjanovic vs Langeweg at Beverwijk. Here, here, Mr. Damjanovic misplaced his queen from e6 to f7. He had a misconception that Queen's occupying the opponent's "throat" f7 would lead to success. It's not the case here. For any kingside attack as we did our analyses in the previous games, it's paramount to checkmate the opponent as efficient as possible.
The correct analysis is as follow. The White bishop controlled the main diagonal. This meant the g7-pawn was pinned, it was immobilized! So the White queen should move from e6 to h6 where she was safe from attack. Once the Queen reached the h-file safely, she definitely had the edge over her opponent. It's not hard to see what follows in the next move is to push the pawn to g6, then the h7 pawn was pinned too. All we had to do was to capture the h7 pawn with our Queen and checkmated the opponent. Sadly, Damjanovic made a draw for this situation!

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