Should Have Been Draw: Looked like Win?

First off, so that the usually kind but also always fussy Blunderprone can look at this post without jeapordising his career as an 'engineer in embeded technology' in a state so liberal, that it makes Ralph Nadar look like a 'staunch Republican' there, I am leading off with a lovely photo of the delightful 'Mrs. Helmsley.

Just think about the fact that the beautiful woman in the lead photo of my last post is so indecent that in some places of work it is considered inappropriate yet this below photo is appropriate or non-offensive but so ugly. Remember 'The Joker' in Batman? [0. de facto insert]:

Since this is a chess blog, now is not the time to glorify her many 'ugly miss deeds' and ranchorous life, cronicled in the New York Times here. I simply note, that when she recently died, she and her widow had scraped their way into a four billion dollar fortune, squandering oppulent luxuries and along the way filling tabloids and press alike with page after page or misdeeds, conflict, betrayal, and the worst vindicitive form of hatred.

When she died, to the chagrin of her beneficiaries, she 'left left her Maltese (a Dog! Photo and text clip at link), Trouble, a $12 million trust fund to take care of his upkeep. I cannot but wonder if she had directed that money to poor children in schools if she might have died a less indignified death, partially redeeming her irredeemable life.

















Remarkably, 29. ...f6 in deep analysis seems to almost hold in all lines: 30. fxe4 is a draw, and 30. Nd7 seems to win, but only after deep analysis [1.]

In the game below--which I convincingly won--I had to wonder if my opponent had played 'the only move' to try to hold the game, if theoretically the game could have been held by my opponent, but only after very deep work across many lines could I find the win.

For days [2.], I couldn't help but wonder if LikeForests [3.]could find a solid draw [4.]. And while it is very, very, very rare for me to send GM Seirawan my games, knowing he can read a game score blindfold without recourse to a viewer, I think that he could tell me if there is a draw, and will probably send it to him, after conducting then concluding my analysis:


[0 insert: I came to the independent conclusion of the obvious 'joker' similarity before checking now, after posting, to see if I might find an even better photo, and it appears others saw the same thing shown here. Some other flattering images. Really Ugly face? No. I have met many severely disfigured persons at my job {5.} and none of them are ugly. But ugly soul? Yes.]

[1.] Analysis not concluded, but indicated at 4. below]

[2.] It's nice to present new posts. But I strongly debated NOT posting this game. For the more we show, the less it seems can readers distinguish something as special. At the same time, the more we show, the more readers come to the conclusion that renewed visits will result in fresh content. Sometimes we only want to show our best, and not the flavor of the day, three or four times a week. But I have worked on this ending for two long sessions now.

[3.] Remarkably, LikeForests notified me of his new post, but I was writing this post the last hour, without knowing he had analysed my last posted game, here!

[4.] 29. f6 30.Nd7 Rc1 31. Kf2 Rc2+ 32.Ke1 Bxf3 33.Rb7 f5 34.Nf6+ Kf8 35.Nxh7+ Ke8 36.Ng5 Bg4 37.h3 Bh5 38.Nxe6 Re2+ 39.Kf1 Rxe3 40.Ng7+ Kf8 41.Nxh5 gxh5 42.Kf2 Re4 43.Rh7 f4 44.gxf4 Rxf4 45.Ke3 Re4+ 46.Kd3 Rh4 47.Kc3 Ke8 48.Rg7 Rxh3 49.Kb4 Rh2 50.b3 Rb2 51.Rh7 he 52.Ka4 Rh2 53.b4 Kf8 54.b5 and wins!


{5.} I estimate that after 100,000 phone calls in buying 100 to 150 million dollars worth of stock, that in my new career that I have met 500,000 persons (at least 1,500 persons per week). Other persons similarly engaged as I am with a wide and random public come to similar conclusions--or more!