In part you can chalk this win up to David Bush's reputation. At first I reconsidered the obvious |29.i16 move solely for that reason -- the theory that David would never have bothered to even make that move if the standard |29.i16 response would have led to a conventional win! In looking at |29.i16 further, however, I became worried about black's possibilities after |29.i1630.j2131.k17. I did not worry too much about this since I thought the move that white actually made, 29.l15, would lead to an easy win anyway -- which it would have, as David points out, with |31.o18 instead of 31.m17 -- except that I thought 31.m17 was a stronger move (oops!) ;-)
I would have taken that option if I had thought black would respond that way, because it looked like 65.v566.u867.q668.q369.s570.v371.u372.t273.s2 might lead to a white win from that setup. The move that worried me, and deterred me from talking |61.s16, was 62.r13. From there, I could not see a way for white to break through to the center group of white links for a win.
|22.i3 23.i4 24.h5 25.k5 26.k2 27.o3 28.m3 29.q12 30.r5
The line I missed was |28.f5 29.j2 30.h6 31.j6
White had a relatively easy win with |29.i16 instead of L15.
White still could have won with |31.o18 instead of M17.
If |43.e21 44.g19 45.h18 46.i15.
If |61.s16 62.r15 63.r14 64.o12
What I had worried about with |31.o18 instead of M17 was something like |31.o18 32.p20 33.p21 34.n19 35.q19 36.o17 37.p16 38.n15 39.q14 40.o12, which looked like a black win. In retrospect |31.o18 32.p20 33.m17 would have solved that problem.
Where white chose 47.f15, the other option would have been |47.f17 48.i15, but Black could win with |47.f17 48.i15 49.e15 50.f12 51.f11 52.e14
David comments: If |61.s16 62.r15 63.r14 64.o12
I would have taken that option if I had thought black would respond that way, because it looked like 65.v5 66.u8 67.q6 68.q3 69.s5 70.v3 71.u3 72.t2 73.s2 might lead to a white win from that setup. The move that worried me, and deterred me from talking |61.s16, was 62.r13. From there, I could not see a way for white to break through to the center group of white links for a win.
|31.o18 32.p20 33.p21 34.n19 35.m17 was winning for white.
After |61.s16 62.r13 63.r14 64.q16 65.s12 66.o12 it looks pretty much the same as the game.
|61.s16 62.r15 63.r14 64.o12 65.v5 66.u8 67.q6 68.q3 69.s5 70.t4 71.u3 72.u6 73.u7 74.s7 looks like an easy win for black.