IN round four I was under pressure for much of the game before swopping off into a fairly even ending.
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| Position after White played 35.Nc5-e6 |
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White has the better minor piece for cooperating with a queen, but I felt my king was safe behind a barrier of black pawns.
In fact the king is technically in front of the barrier, but is behind the pawns from the viewpoint of the white queen and knight.
What I failed to properly consider is that the king only has three vacant squares to which it can potentially move - g7, g5 and h5 - and two of these are covered by the knight.
When a king has only one move, and that move would take it away from its pawn-cover, alarm bells should be ringing.
Unfortunately for me the bells only rang after I played 35...Qb4?? - several moves draw including, as my opponent pointed out, 35...a5 - and I had to spend a miserable minute or so waiting for White to double-check that Black cannot avoid mate after 36.Qd8.
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