[Event "Rated Classical game"] [Site "lichess.org"] [Date "2021.08.09"] [Round "?"] [White "Adimenmaizua"] [Black "Paul H."] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B35"] [WhiteElo "1937"] [BlackElo "2001"] [PlyCount "78"] [EventDate "2021.??.??"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2013.12.29"] [SourceQuality "1"] {[%evp 0,78,27,30,39,57,71,63,89,80,49,50,46,32,48,27,30,23,50,43,37,33,33,21, 21,21,28,28,49,31,92,85,151,197,197,19,21,9,58,-55,-79,-119,-135,-150,-96,-101, -100,-108,-36,-17,-12,-51,-51,-51,-51,-43,-53,-56,-56,-49,-49,-52,-50,-65,-47, -43,-42,-47,-14,-32,0,-32,-32,-271,-186,-541,-563,-29997,-29998,-29999,-30000] } {Having lost the last two classical games (as White no less) I wanted to re-establish my focus and play a quality game of chess.} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 ({Also possible is} 4. Qxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Qa4 d6 7. e5 dxe5 8. Nxe5 Bd7 9. Nxd7 Qxd7 10. Be3 Bg7 11. Rd1 Qc8 $11) 4... Bg7 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 O-O 8. Bb3 Qa5 9. O-O d6 10. h3 Bd7 11. Re1 Rac8 {Up to now, all theory.} 12. Qe2 a6 ({Stockfish likes} 12... Nxd4 {right away.} 13. Bxd4 Nh5 14. Bxg7 {If the bishop moves to e3 then Black wins a pawn with Bc3.} Kxg7 {Keeping the knight on h5 is important because Nf4 is a strong move and if White plays g3, he hangs his h3 pawn.} 15. Qd2 Rfd8 $11 16. Qd4+ e5 17. Qe3 ( 17. Qxd6 Bxh3 18. Qe7 Rd7 19. Qh4 Be6 $11)) 13. Rad1 Rfe8 {I'm focusing on playing developing moves without overextending my pieces.} 14. f4 {White seizes the center but doing so loosens the squares around his king.} (14. Nd5 Nb4 15. Qd2 Nfxd5 16. exd5 Rc5 17. Nf3 Bxb2 18. Bxc5 Qxc5 19. c4 Ba3 20. Qh6 f6 21. Rd4 Bf5 22. Rh4 g5 23. Nd4 Qc8 24. g4 Bg6 25. Ne6 Qxe6 26. Rxe6 Nd3 27. Ba4 b5 28. cxb5 Nc5 29. b6 Nxa4 30. b7 Kf7 31. Qxh7+ {1-0 (31) Kreisl,R (2389) -Lenic,L (2574) Rogaska Slatina 2009}) 14... Qh5 $2 {Offering a trade where none was needed. It is moves like these that get me in trouble. I played it out of rote, thinking this must be the way to continue. Instead, trading on d4 makes sense to liquidate some of White's army and resposition my pieces toward the center.} (14... Nxd4 15. Bxd4 Be6 16. Qf2 Rc6 17. Rf1 Nd7 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Bxd4 20. Rxd4 Rc7 $14) 15. Nf3 {Correct. There is no reason for White to trade queens.} Be6 $2 $146 {Offering to trade off White's good bishop but the e6 pawn is critically weak.} (15... h6 {To stop Ng5 which pressures f7.} 16. Bf2 Na5 17. e5 $18) 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. Ng5 $4 {The right idea but attacking e6 the wrong way.} (17. Qc4 $1 d5 18. Qb3 h6 19. exd5 exd5 20. Nxd5 e6 21. Nxf6+ Bxf6 $18) 17... Qxe2 $11 18. Rxe2 Nd8 $2 {Logical but too passive.} 19. Bb6 $2 (19. e5 $1 Nd5 20. Nxd5 exd5 21. Rxd5 dxe5 22. fxe5 Nc6 23. Bb6 Nb4 24. Rd7 $16 ) 19... h6 {Just in time to evict the knight.} 20. Bxd8 $4 (20. Nf3 Nh5 21. e5 Nxf4 22. Re4 $15) 20... hxg5 21. fxg5 Rexd8 (21... Nd7 22. Ba5 b6 23. Bb4 Rc4 24. Ba3 b5 $19) 22. gxf6 Bxf6 $19 23. Rd3 {Protecting the knight with some ideas of lateral movement to g3.} Be5 $2 (23... Bxc3 $1 24. bxc3 e5 $19 { Simple but very effective. White has no breaks and a terrible pawn structure.}) 24. Nd1 Rc6 25. b3 b5 26. Ne3 Rdc8 27. c4 Bf4 28. cxb5 axb5 29. Kf2 Rc1 30. g3 Be5 31. Ng4 $11 Bg7 32. e5 d5 33. Rdd2 b4 34. Rd4 Rb8 35. Ke3 Rc3+ 36. Kf4 $4 { The game was headed to a draw before this move.} Kh7 (36... Rf8+ 37. Kg5 Kh7 38. Nh2 Rf5+ $19) 37. Rdd2 Rf8+ 38. Kg5 Rf5+ 39. Kh4 Rh5# 0-1