My cold was still streaming, but I turned in a 178 performance against players graded 180-200.
It could have been even better had I taken my chance in round one ...
Position after White's 42nd move in Spanton (169) - John Cooper (199) |
Here he had to accept the inevitable draw that follows 42...Rxg3 43.Rxf6. Instead the game went:
42...Ke5? 43.f4+ Kd5
JC offered a draw. Much worse than the text would have been 43...gxf4+? 44.gxf4+ Kd5 45.Kf3.
44.Kf3 Rg1?
Another mistake. I expected 44...Rb2, with good drawing chances.
45.Rxf6 gxf4 46.gxf4 Rh1 47.Rf5+ Kd4 48.g5 hxg5 49.fxg5 Rg1
Here I rejected the winning 50.Ra5 because I could not see how the pawn would advance, but in fact the White king is perfectly able to see to that. Instead I played ...
50.Rf4+??
.... and the game was quickly drawn after:
50...Ke5 51.Rg4 Rf1+ 52.Ke3 Kf5 53.Rg2 Kg6.
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