[Event "Cumbria Mid-Week League"] [Site "?"] [Date "2024.10.14"] [Round "1"] [White "Dacre, Ian"] [Black "Mackenzie, Matthew"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C51"] [WhiteElo "1498"] [BlackElo "2129"] [Annotator "Mackenzie,Matthew"] [PlyCount "50"] [GameId "2100965385109560"] [WhiteTeam "Ulverston C"] [BlackTeam "Barrow A"] {[%evp 0,50,21,13,20,18,18,18,18,-39,-39,-30,-1,-56,-44,-162,-139,-173,-173,-224,-213,-241,-197,-227,-223,-291,-274,-269,-251,-289,-238,-358,-443,-811,-842,-1179,-1037,-1405,-1452,-1487,-1487,-29995,-1225,-1192,-1226,-1226,-1251,-1267,-1315,-1435,-1465,-1608,-1945]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 {He has played this against me before, but I have never lost an Evans Gambit!} Bxb4 5. c3 Be7 {my usual reply against it} 6. O-O {our previous league game in 2019 went} (6. d4 exd4 7. O-O (7. Qb3 $1 {is best here}) 7... Nf6 8. e5 Ne4 9. Bd5 Nxc3 10. Nxc3 dxc3 11. Qb3 O-O 12. Qxc3 Nb4 13. Be4 d5 {and in this position White has insufficient compensation for his two pawns, so Black duly consolidated and won}) 6... Nf6 7. Ng5 $6 (7. d4 {is obvious and best here}) 7... O-O 8. Nxf7 $2 {and this is simply insufficient, White does not have enough attacking firepower at his disposal to make this work} Rxf7 9. Bxf7+ Kxf7 10. d3 Kg8 11. Be3 d5 $1 {Black is basically simply winning once he gets all his pieces out} 12. exd5 Qxd5 13. c4 Qf7 14. Nc3 Qg6 15. Re1 Bh3 {I presumed he had played his previous move so he could get in g3 here, but...} 16. Qf3 $4 Bg4 $1 {and after 17 Qg3 Nh5! his Q is trapped - he thrashed around for a time but could easily have resigned at this point} 17. Qd5+ Nxd5 18. Nxd5 Bf3 19. Nxe7+ Nxe7 20. g3 Qh5 (20... Qf5 $1 {instead would have forced mate in a few moves, not that it really matters now}) 21. h4 Qg4 22. Kh2 Nf5 23. Bg5 h6 24. Rxe5 hxg5 25. Rae1 gxh4 {and (finally)} 0-1