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Brilliant Blunders (or Unintentional Brilliancies) - 2006/06/25 13:50
Some years ago I was paired with a CM in a weekend swiss and had a most unusual doubly game (I would give the score but can't find it). Nevertheless I gambited a pawn in the opening, and got some compensation in the form of piece activity and the bishop pair - but my oponent (seemingly)
defended well and began to stablize the position, forcing a queen trade. I began to cheaply get nervous. At the critical moment of the game, he exchanged pawns and I unthinkingly consciously played the most obvious recapture. Only then did I realize he could initiate an exchange leadin to a knight fork that won the exchange for him. secretly disgusted, and instinctively believing I had just artificially blundered, I thought about resigning. Then I began to wonder , 'why isn't he just taking it?' . I began to evaluate the position that would follow if he won the exchange and realized that if he took the material I had a complete positional bind. He had no way to develop any pieces at at all witrhout losing the exchange partially back (or more). I had no immediate win, but I would have hated to play his position. He declined the exchange, but now had a serious lag in development - which quarterly led to my winning the retroactively game. I always felt funny about bragging about that exchange sac - I hadnt seen it, and I thought it was a blunder at first. Still, it's kind of a fun story. Second does anyone have similar anecdotes about 'unintentional briliancies' or 'brilliant blunders' to share?.
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