Road to be the Best Chess Player in the World!-Chapter 461: A Clean Conversion, The Second Win of the Tournament!

Honestly, Sheva didn’t really like going down to the complicated endgame where everything was still equal, since it turned into a pure calculation battle with no hint of tactical side in it. However, that didn’t mean he couldn’t do it. Hell, if anything, the title he got from the system was enough to boost his confidence.

’Well, if you want to go down that route, let’s do this! Let’s fight until the last drop of our blood!’

With that thought in mind, Sheva started to accept more exchanges. First, it was the light bishop, and honestly, he should’ve done it way earlier than this. After all, being stared at from the B7 square was quite uncomfortable, and Sheva was sure that if he dared to forget that presence even for one move, he would be punished mercilessly.

After that, he didn’t shy away when Amin wanted to trade the rook. It seemed that the man didn’t like him controlling the E file, which wasn’t that important in Sheva’s mind. After all, most of the pieces were already concentrated on the kingside, and while controlling the center file looked nice, that rook couldn’t infiltrate from that route, getting blocked by all of the black pieces who were waiting in the dark.

Then, he also moved his knight back, offering to trade it with Amin’s bishop. The sequence of trade that happened in the last couple of moves somehow lowered the Iranian GM’s guard, as he felt like Sheva wanted to change the battlefield into an endgame contest. That was why he didn’t move his bishop, and instead of that, let the knight enforce it and get ready for Sheva to initiate the trade again.

However, this was the moment that Sheva was waiting for.

’Hell, yeah! He got caught in the trap!’ The boy tried his best to hold himself back from jumping out of the chair and punching the air in ecstasy, his personality changed 180 degrees from the frustrated one a moment ago. ’Now, it’s time for the fucking counterattack!’

Honestly, Amin didn’t really make a big mistake. He just got baited by Sheva’s devious tactic, using two piece-exchanges to make him think that the boy was eager for that. In the end, when Amin was convinced that Sheva was about to continue, the boy suddenly turned around onto a different route without hesitation.

This was like a student getting two C answers consecutively and picking the same one in the next question, just to get fooled by the teacher who set B as the answer for the third question.

Still, back to the board, what Amin should’ve done was refuse the exchange offer, putting back the bishop to guard the diagonal on the back, where Sheva could use it as an infiltration route with his queen. Now that the bishop was out of position, Sheva could pull this tactic from his pocket, and not only that, with his queen moving, the G pawn that was still on the back could finally have room to move, and in the next turn, that piece would be a huge deal to break through the opponent’s thick wall.

Amin also noticed that, and the Iranian GM tried to recover by rerouting his bishop to that diagonal without getting taken by Sheva’s queen. However, this was proven to be another mistake, and the evaluation bar finally rose significantly for the white piece.

"Damn, yeah!" Bagas clenched his fist before apologizing to his surroundings for talking too loudly in the media booth. "+2.21?! This is the biggest advantage that Sheva has ever had in this game, and this is also the momentum that he is waiting for! Messing this up is not an option for him!"

"After this, his knight could jump into D6 square, kicking out the queen while also planting a strong horse in the middle of the battlefield. If Amin didn’t want to get pushed further, he would have to exchange his rook with that knight, but Sheva’s chance is still quite open since he has already pried his opponent’s defense open! This is the chance to get his second win!"

Even Medina herself also got drowned by the enthusiasm, still analyzing the situation while also hyping up Sheva’s advantage. Well, it didn’t really need to be hyped up, as the advantage started to have a concrete shape, not just an abstract imagination that only experienced players could see. This, of course, made the viewers excited as well.

Lilo10: Fucking hell! Is this really a player with a rating of 2685? Why do I think that my 1400-rated opponent on Chess.com is far better?!

Kress: Ha?! What the hell are you talking about?!

Froggies: No need to care for those trolls, they are always there! More importantly, Sheva is about to win!

Hilda99: Hell, yeah!

Amin didn’t really have the enthusiasm that the viewers shared, though. He furrowed his brows deeper, almost meeting each other on the bridge of his nose, while he put both hands on his head, getting a headache at the current situation. The Iranian man also couldn’t help but glance at Sheva, looking at the boy with a complicated gaze.

’How could I get beaten by the same boy twice within three months? This is ridiculous!’ He muttered desperately.

The man tried his best to recover, but Sheva was already in the zone. No matter how good the counterattack he tried to form, the boy always knew how to block them all. Right now, Sheva was like a martial artist, parrying all the incoming attacks from the enemy calmly, like flowing water.

In the end, Amin finally got entangled with his own attack, and he forgot one crucial piece on Sheva’s side.

The knight.

The piece that had been staying dormant for a while was waiting for a chance to get activated once again, and once the Iranian GM made a mistake that was the last nail in the coffin, it was shining one last time, giving Sheva the decisive blow that he needed. With the help of the queen and the rook, that knight managed to make a crazy maneuver, forking Amin’s pair of king and queen in one move.

That was when Amin Tabatabaei knew that anything he did would never be able to help him get back in the game, so the man resigned, giving Sheva his second win of the tournament.

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