[Event "Ladies' WCCC Final"] [Site "ICCF"] [Date "2014.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Irina Perevertkina"] [Black "Toni Halliwell"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2480"] [BlackElo "2316"] [Annotator "Stockfish 18"] [PlyCount "79"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] {[%evp 16,79,54,51,58,59,78,85,91,94,75,65,103,105,109,105,117,106,130,103,161, 156,161,166,160,166,196,207,201,199,212,201,187,178,229,232,232,205,228,212, 258,257,259,253,253,253,236,257,247,238,302,299,299,277,339,329,322,307,379, 365,368,355,357,352,332,357] C11: French: Classical System} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qd2 O-O 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. O-O-O {It's probably around this point that black should be lookinh for opening innovations.} Qa5 11. a3 a6 12. Bxc5 Qxc5 13. Bd3 Re8 {Black has also played 13...b5 here, bit the best option id probably 13...f6} 14. Ne2 b5 15. Ned4 Nxd4 {In a game played in 2012 black tried 15...Rb8 and managed a draw although against either move white has a comfortable position. It may be here that 15...Nxxd4 was the suggestion of the engine of the day. The older Fritz 5 (1997) suggested 15...Bb7 with complete equality.} 16. Nxd4 Rb8 {From this point black's position deteriorates little by little and it's probably safe to say that under the circumstances black is alrady lost.} 17. c3 Qb6 18. b4 Qc7 19. Bc2 Nb6 20. Qd3 Kf8 {Hoping to flee to safety. However, after this move black is lost, but t's hard to suggesy a really good move.} 21. Qh3 a5 22. Rd3 {The initial Tactical Analysis with Fritz suggestion was 22.Nxb5 and 22.Bxh7 also somes into consideration, but Stockfish finally settled on 22.Rd3.} axb4 23. cxb4 h6 24. g4 {A human might fall for the nuch less strrong 22.Nxb5, but not an engine, not even an old one.} Ke7 25. g5 hxg5 26. Qg3 Kd7 27. Qxg5 Ba6 28. Qxg7 Kc8 29. h4 Kb7 {An amazing joirney by the K, but ut;s been for nothing.} 30. Rg1 Rh8 31. Qf6 Rbg8 32. Rgg3 Ka7 33. f5 exf5 34. Nxf5 Rf8 35. Nd6 Qc6 36. h5 Kb8 37. Rc3 Nc4 38. h6 d4 39. Be4 Qb6 40. Rc2 {Black resigned. Accuracy: White = 97%, Black = 69%. Black's problems originated right out of the opening, so this game seems to reinforce the claim that in today's engine assisted correspondence play opening research is a #1 priority.} 1-0