[Event "George Davision Shield"] [Site "?"] [Date "2024.10.02"] [Round "?"] [White "Williams, Mark"] [Black "Elisseev-Siuda, Ivan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C47"] [Annotator "McCarthy,Damian"] [PlyCount "87"] [WhiteTeam "Culcheth"] [BlackTeam "Stockton Heath"] {[%evp 0,87,20,28,17,11,18,18,12,-8,-8,-8,14,-17,-7,-3,-3,11,7,6,-13,-351,-29,-23,9,-31,7,-23,6,4,25,4,13,-63,23,-4,41,-20,-10,-13,-3,-64,-78,-80,-81,-85,-10,-12,-12,-64,17,9,31,20,105,4,63,-3,-9,-9,46,-94,14,9,2,-42,-56,-400,579,-100,-103,-105,75,-247,161,175,187,184,204,202,220,140,166,196,217,208,257,255,989,1038]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O d6 (8... d5 {Is the most played move, but d6 is fine.}) 9. Bg5 h6 10. a3 {[%csl Ga2,Ya3][%CAl Ga2a3] I suspect Mark is going to be a budding tactician as several times in this game he seeks to find tactical solutions when a quiter move was possible. Unfortunatly for Mark with move, while creative should fail.} (10. Bh4) 10... Bc5 {Always double check your opponents moves! Ivan here believes his opponent and conforms with Bc5 missing his chance.} (10... Bxc3 {would win a piece as the Bishop protectes the Knight on f6.} 11. bxc3 ({or} 11. Bxf6 Bxf6) 11... hxg5) 11. Bd2 Bg4 12. Be2 Be6 13. h3 d5 14. exd5 Nxd5 15. Nxd5 cxd5 16. Re1 Re8 17. Bb5 Re7 18. Be3 Bxe3 19. Rxe3 Qd6 20. Rd3 c6 21. Bc4 {Both players have been playing nicely over the past few moves, again Mark elects to save his bishop by tactical means of the pin along the d file.} Rd8 22. Qd2 Red7 23. Bb3 Bf5 24. Re3 Bg6 25. Rae1 Kf8 {This move doesn't hurt much but I don't think he had to react to a potential Re8+ in this way, our king looks perfectly safe on h7 to me.} 26. Qe2 f6 {This move seriously weakens the e6 square} 27. g3 (27. Re6 Qc7 28. Qe3 $16) 27... a5 28. Ba2 Bf7 29. c3 a4 30. c4 Kg8 ({Here Black had a good positional sequence} 30... d4 31. Rd3 Re8 32. Qd2 Rxe1+ 33. Qxe1 Re7 34. Qd1 c5 {Black is much better here, the Bishop on a2 is entombed and Black has taken over the e file} 35. Rd2 (35. Qxa4 {would lose to} Re1+ 36. Kh2 Be8 37. Qa8 Qc6 38. Qxc6 Bxc6 39. g4 Rh1+ 40. Kg3 Rg1+ {is awful for white}) 35... Qe6) 31. cxd5 cxd5 32. Bb1 d4 33. Rd1 {[%csl Ye1] I think this is a similar moment to what happened early in the game with the move a3. Here Mark again elects to try and use tactical means to defend the rook on e3 by playing Re1-d1 pinning the d4 pawn to the Queen. Ivan again takes Mark's word for it but infact dxe3 would have been winning for Black!} Bb3 (33... dxe3 $1 34. Rxd6 Rxd6 {As well as having 2 rooks for the Queen, Rd1 is threatened so} 35. Kg2 Rd1 36. Be4 exf2 {Black is either going to Queen, or if the f2 pawn is captured Black will play either rook to d2 with a skewer.}) 34. Bc2 Bxc2 35. Qxc2 {Here dxe3 still works for Black with an advantage.} Qf8 36. Qxa4 $4 {It's clear that both players seem to have had a blind spot over the move dxe3 in this game.} Qf7 (36... dxe3 $1 37. Rxd7 e2 {This quiet move was not so easy to see, but Black again is winning here.}) 37. Red3 {Having managed to win the a4 pawn White now has a winning position, the connected passed a & b pawns will be too strong.} Qd5 {Ivan perhaps trying to complicate invites the exchange of Queen and pawn for 2 rooks, however this is not nearly so favorable now as it was earlier.} 38. Rxd4 Qxd4 39. Rxd4 Rxd4 40. Qb3+ Kh7 41. Qc2+ g6 42. a4 Rd1+ 43. Kg2 Ra1 {The final mistake but there was no stopping those pawns really anyway.} 44. Qc7+ 1-0