[Event "WDCL Division 1"] [Site "?"] [Date "2023.09.27"] [Round "?"] [White "Cook, Nick"] [Black "Burriss, Nick"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "D80"] [WhiteElo "1458"] [BlackElo "1687"] [Annotator "Nick Burriss"] [PlyCount "64"] {[%evp 0,41,19,9,42,-10,55,47,69,29,36,36,23,-15,20,16,1,-17,-24,-20,-4,-19, -19,-19,-13,-53,-53,-44,-41,-24,-29,-93,-42,-42,-28,-23,13,11,11,-18,-1,-45, -14,-65]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 Bg7 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Qb3 Nxc3 7. bxc3 O-O 8. Bc4 Nc6 {And here's why. Na5 is threatened and White has to move either his Q or KB once again. Actually 8...c5 is objectively even better.} 9. Qc2 b6 10. Ne2 Bb7 {Threatening Na5 winning a pawn.} 11. O-O Na5 12. Bb3 { 12. Bd3 was more accurate} Nxb3 {There was no need to rush this. Either 12..... ..e5 or......c5 was much better.} 13. axb3 e5 14. Rd1 exd4 15. Nxd4 {Of the 4 possible recaptures only 15.......Rxd4 was worse.} Qd5 {Frankly banal. There were at least 3 better Q moves, the best of which was 15..........Qh4 menacing White's K-side in general.} 16. f3 {The best antidote to Black's last.} Rfd8 17. e4 Qh5 18. Bf4 Qc5 19. Be3 Qe7 20. Bf2 a6 {There was no reason to delay ... ........c5, but I was needlessly concerned about White's Knight going to b5 and the weakness of the pawn on a7} 21. Rd3 {This cedes Black the open d-file.} c5 22. Ne2 Rxd3 23. Qxd3 Rd8 24. Qc2 Qd7 25. Rb1 Qd2 26. Qxd2 Rxd2 27. Kf1 a5 28. c4 Be5 29. Bg3 Bxg3 30. hxg3 Kf8 31. Nf4 Ke7 32. Nd5+ {This apparently very natural move is a serious mistake. Why?} Bxd5 {Well, because after this even more obvious recapture Stockfish demonstrates that Black has a forced mate in 60! Regrettably I missed this obvious continuation and offered Nick a draw which he accepted.} 1/2-1/2