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How to blow a 53 point advantage in one move

Wow! Yeah man, it sucks when you have such a good advantage and then lose the thread of the game.
I didn't notice the bishop pin could be taken advantage of (which I even went 'ok, I got your bishop pinned'!) but my attention went elsewhere. Basically I stopped paying super close attention once I took his knight pair. So yeah...painful, PAINFUL lesson.
you can say " I stopped paying super close attention once I took his knight pair" or "when I took two knights for a pawn on move 8" lol.
In the words of Ben(the cute fat GM): TERRIBLE!
On move 35 in reply to Rxd5+, you should have taken the rook instead of Kb6. You end up in a rook vs bishop ending if he takes back, or a rook and queen vs bishop and queen if he doesn't. Your move actually put you into a mate in 6 position.
@CheekyChild Yeah, I should have done that. I was running at that point and furious at myself for blowing such a massive advantage.

@MorningCoffee I can only imagine his reactions if he saw this game, lol.

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