Winning chance here with passed pawn?

Dave147

I'm black and have sac'ed 2 pawns to get this passed pawn, do I have a realistic chance of winning or does he have too much material?

Edit: Don't know how to show the board, just click the link.

Bubs101

I think black should easily be able to force white to swap the rook for a pawn

Dave147

Yeah I think so too, but do you think I would then lose my rook trying to prevent his pawns promoting, leaving me with just a king vs king and pawn.

RoundTower

I think you can win the rook for your a-pawn but White will always be able to get his pawns moving fast enough to draw an eventual endgame of R vs P or R vs PP. It needs a closer look though and you definitely have winning chances if White plays badly.

Dave147

Yeah well your man is rated 1600 so he's probably going to play it well, he's got 4 pawns vs my king and rook. I'm trying to get my king over to assist but it's not going to be straightforward. Might offer him a draw and see if he accepts.

Dave147

White played well and I resigned. Bah!

RoundTower

post the rest of the game!

Dave147

Tell ya what, I'll post a current game, that game I never had a chance really..

Playing this one at the moment against a player out rating me by about 250 points. I'm Jasperov.

[Event "February 2009 Grouped Random VIII"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2009.02.26"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Jasperov"]
[Black "mfoolb"]
[WhiteRating "1321"]
[BlackRating "1541"]
[WhiteELO "1321"]
[BlackELO "1541"]
[Result "*"]
[GameId "6054486"]

1. c4 Ng8f6 2. Nb1c3 e6 3. g3 d6 4. Bf1g2 Bf8e7 5. Ng1f3 Nb8d7 6. e4 b6
7. O-O O-O 8. d3 c5 9. a3 Bc8a6 10. b4 cxb4 11. axb4 Nd7b8 12. Nf3d4 Ba6b7
13. f4 Nb8d7 14. Rf1e1 e5 15. Nd4f5 Ra8c8 16. Bc1e3 h5 17. Nf5xe7 Qd8xe7
18. Ra1xa7 Rc8c7 19. fxe5 Nd7xe5 20. Be3g5 Rf8a8 21. Ra7xa8 Bb7xa8
22. Bg5xf6 Qe7xf6 23. Re1f1 Ne5f3 24. Bg2xf3 Qf6xc3 25. b5 Rc7a7 26. Bf3xh5 Qc3d4
27. Kg1g2 g6 28. Bh5e2 Ra7a2 29. Kg2h3 Kg8g7 30. g4 Ra2a3 31. Rf1f3 Ra3a1
32. Qd1c2 Ra1h1 33. Rf3f1 Qd4e3 34. Kh3g2 Rh1xf1 35. Be2xf1 *

I think I've played pretty well so far and held my own. It's about as good as I can play, RoundTower if you wouldn't mind analysing it and find some better moves for me Also what is your name? Would I know you from the icu site?

Bubs101

Dave147 wrote: »

Also what is your name? Would I know you from the icu site?

Taking this bit to PMs is probably for the best

Dave147

Bubs101 wrote: »

Taking this bit to PMs is probably for the best

I assumed RT would have the wisdom to PM me with that info

RoundTower

lol my name is all over the internet from the poker forum, I can't hope to be anonymous any more

it's David Murray

Bubs101

From the chess I always assumed it was John O'Shea

Dave147

RoundTower wrote: »

lol my name is all over the internet from the poker forum, I can't hope to be anonymous any more

it's David Murray

Ah, from Gonzaga? You know Sam Collins? I don't know him but I read all about his performance at the Olympiad years ago.. Alex Lopez is a personal friend of mine, only got into chess myself a year ago, starting to improve now, finally

RoundTower

yeah I know them both well though I haven't seen Sam in a long time.

I don't think it would be very fair for me to advise you on your ongoing game, I did take a look at the finish of the original game you posted and I'm pretty sure you should have at least drawn it. 4 pawns against the rook = hard to win, 3 pawns against the rook = hard to lose when they start off so far back, you shouldn't have given up your extra kingside pawn without a fight.

Dave147

RoundTower wrote: »

yeah I know them both well though I haven't seen Sam in a long time.

I don't think it would be very fair for me to advise you on your ongoing game, I did take a look at the finish of the original game you posted and I'm pretty sure you should have at least drawn it. 4 pawns against the rook = hard to win, 3 pawns against the rook = hard to lose when they start off so far back, you shouldn't have given up your extra kingside pawn without a fight.

Yeah Alex seems to have disappeared aswell, I've pretty much won these two games against this opponent. I have a queen and 3 pawns to just his queen. I don't see how I can lose it, the other game I have 3 pawns and a knight whereas he has a knight and one pawn, one square from promotion but my knight is protecting the square. This would be two good wins for me, especially seeing as it's a tournament game on RHP I was hoping you'd analyse the game thus far, not tell me how to win it!