Club Championship Game

Here's the first in what I hope will be several games from the recently concluded Clermont Chess Club Closed Championships. Here's my final round game against Connor Eickelman, which I lost. In fact, I lost all three of my games in the tournament (and received a full point bye in one round), so I hardly covered myself in glory. Still, a couple of my games have interesting features, at least for the winners, and this is one of them.

It features joint analysis, designated as such in the notes. I hope someone enjoys this, because I certainly didn't!

A Tactical Mess: Solution TIme

Many posts back, on March 13, I put up the following position and asked what White should play.

Eickelman-Slade (analysis)

White to play

 On March 21 I wrote:

With the Connor-Theo inspired position I posted the other day I've got pure madness, and lots of it. I've pretty much taken up residence in Bedlam. Putting all that together in a reasonable, digestible form may not be possible for a player/writer of my caliber, but I'm stuck having to try. So it's taking a while.

I've finally written up my solution. See below the fold.

A tactical mess

Playing through Eickelman-Slade from the club championship, I came across this position in analysis.

Eickelman-Slade (analysis)

White to play

Far afield of any position from the game itself*, Black has played 28...Bc5xf2 attempting to win White's queen and create even more chaos on the board. What should White's response be? Just giving the first move only gets partial credit.

* Seriously, gentlemen, good luck figuring out how I got here!