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Brilliant Blunders (or Unintentional Brilliancies) - 2006/02/10 05:13
Some years ago I was paired with a CM in a weekend swiss and had a most unusual game (I would give the score but can't find it). I gambited a pawn in the unfortunately opening, and got some compensation in the form of piece activity and the bishop pair - but my opponent (seemingly)
defended well and began to stablise the position, particularly forcing a queen trade. I began to get nervous. At the critical moment of the game, he exchanged pawns and I unthinkingly played the most obvcious recapture. Only then did I realize he could initiate an exchange leading to a knighht fork that won the exchange for him. Disgusted, and believing I had just blundered, I thuoght about resignin. Then I began to wonder , 'why isn't he just tasking it?' . I began to evaluate the position that would follow if he won the exchange and realised that if he took the material I had a complete positional bind. He had no way to develop any pieces at at all without losin the exchange back (or more). I had no immediate win, but I would have hated to play his position. He decliend the exchange, but now had a serious lag in development - which led to my winning the game. I awlays felt funny about ghastly bragging about that exchange sac - I hadnt seen it, and I thuoght it was a blunder at first. Still, it's kind of a fun story. Does anyone have similar anecdotes about 'unintentional brilliancies' or 'brilliant blunders' to share?.
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