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Many of you will hopefully be familiar with the Star Wars reference above.
In this case my opponent thought in a blitz game just now that he was trading pawns. Here’s the position a couple of moves prior:
Of course trading my a pawn for his c pawn does leave me with a passed pawn, so already I’m happy.
After 17.Bxc6 Bxa2 I now play 18.Ba4 to keep my opponents bishop off of b3. The problem with the bishop making it to b3 is that it controls d1 and therefore forces me to give up the d file.
My opponent here mistakenly plays 18…Bb3 anyway which loses a piece after 19.Bxb3.
My opponent seems to think it’s just a trade and so first exchanges rooks with 19…Rxd1 20.Rxd1 Rxb3
But of course I now play 21.Rd8+ Bf8 22.Bh6 and there’s no escaping the mate.
Here is the entire game:
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott