Chess Game Analysis: Herby vs XM9000 (Sep 4, 2021)

Hi all! Continuing with the series of posts and video on chess training, I think this is the fourth installment. As usual, we are going to review some games of our own to improve our play and learn some chess concepts. That is very important when training and should not be disregarded. I explain everything in the video.

This time we'ge going to use the method of analysis of own games to a game played between @schamangerbert and @maciejficek (AKA Herby vs XM9000 on Lichess). Actually, I planned to cover two games but after some tries I realized the video would be too long. So, I'm expecting to cover the other game as soon as I've got time! The game shown belongs to the Quarantine Cup 3 Arena played a few days ago.

I think the video is self-explanatory, so I hope you enjoy watching it. Don't forget to support me by sharing it, upvoting it and let me know what you think in the comments.

After a bunch of turns, we get to this position where black could have gone with it. Tell me the winning move and the plan behind it. It's not that hard. I also cover a lot more things in the video, by the way.

Here is the game PGN:

Game 1:

[Event "Quarantine Cup 3 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/wwycq4YE"]
[Date "2021.09.04"]
[White "HerbyW"]
[Black "XM9000"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2021.09.04"]
[UTCTime "19:00:12"]
[WhiteElo "1696"]
[BlackElo "1523"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+3"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-5"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "60+1"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Opening "Modern Defense"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]


1. d4 g6 { A40 Modern Defense } 2. Bf4 Bg7 3. e3 e5 4. dxe5 Qe7 
5. Qd4 c5 6. Qd5 Na6 7. Nc3 Nc7 8. Qd6 Qd8 9. Bc4 a6 10. O-O-O b5 
11. Be2 Bb7 12. Qxc5 Bxg2 13. Bf3 Bxh1 14. Bxh1 Ne7 15. Bxa8 Qxa8
16. e6 Nxe6 17. Qd6 Bxc3 18. Qxd7+ Kf8 19. Bd6 Qe8 20. Qxe7+ Qxe7
21. Bxe7+ Kxe7 22. bxc3 Rd8 23. Rxd8 Nxd8 24. Nf3 Ne6 25. Nd4 f5
26. Nxe6 Kxe6 27. Kd2 h5 28. Kd3 g5 29. f4 g4 30. Ke2 Kf6
31. Kf2 Kg6 32. Kg3 h4+ 33. Kxh4 Kf6 34. Kg3 Kg6 35. h3 gxh3
36. Kxh3 Kh5 37. Kg3 Kg6 38. Kf3 Kh5 { Black offers draw }
39. e4 fxe4+ 40. Kxe4 { Black resigns. } 1-0

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