[Event "RoW Championship 2024 Semi-Final 4"] [White "Schroeer, Egbert"] [Black "Ellis, James R."] [Site "ICCF"] [Round "?"] [Annotator "Schroeer,Egbert"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Date "????.??.??"] [ECO "A16"] [WhiteElo "2165"] [BlackElo "2378"] [PlyCount "87"] [GameId "2103290277384164"] [EventDate "2024.09.30"] [EventType "corr"] {[%mdl 32768][%evp 9,87,34,39,33,33,30,27,14,17,14,18,16,19,17,16,17,15,16,15,17,22,22,16,18,17,4,0,0,0,2,6,3,6,5,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. h4 {[%CAl Bh2h4,Bh4h5,Bh5h6][%mdl 32]} Bg7 6. h5 {A16: English Opening: 1...Nf6 with ...d5.} Nc6 7. g3 e5 8. h6 {White has an edge.} Bf6 {The position is equal.} 9. Bg2 Nxc3 $5 (9... O-O {Just one game with this line, and it looks promising for White. The great David Howell lost with Black} 10. O-O {1-0 Sargissian,G (2689)-Howell,D (2693) EU-chT (Men) 20th Reykjavik 2015 (4.2) CBM 170} Re8) 10. bxc3 $14 {½-½ McNabb,M (2479)-Olofsson,D (2504) Wch42 ct1 corr ICCF 2022 ICCF 2023 Four games with this line in the database (combined Mega Database and Ultracorr)} O-O $1 11. Qc2 Bf5 12. e4 Be6 13. d3 {[%CAl Bd2d3,Bd3d4][%mdl 32] [#]} Qd6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Qd7 14. Ng5 Bg4 15. O-O Qe7 16. Nf3 Rad8 17. Be3 Be6 18. Rad1 b6 19. Qa4 Bd7 {1-0 Zavrazhnov,A (2358)-Norchenko,K (2379) RUS-chT9 final email ICCF email 2020}) 14. Be3 Rad8 15. Rd1 b6 (15... Qe7 16. O-O) 16. Rd2 {[#] Rd2 was never played but castle at this point.} (16. O-O {½-½ Zavrazhnov,A (2309)-Roques,P (2363) 12 LSS CUP P-010 corr LSS 2021 LSS standrd/IECG/CFC new And now d4 would win.} Qe7 17. Qc1 Bxa2) 16... Qe7 17. d4 {d5 would now be deadly. 17. d4 Bg4 18. Nh2 Bc8 and the white pawn has time to move19. d5 before being stopped by exd4} Bc4 18. Bf1 Na5 19. Be2 Rfe8 20. dxe5 Bxe5 {White can play forcing 21. Rxd8 Qxd8 22. Nxe5 and White intend to play f3} 21. Rxd8 Qxd8 22. O-O {Rd1 is the strong threat.} Bd6 $5 23. Re1 {[%CAl Oe4e5]} Qa8 24. Bxc4 Nxc4 25. Bf4 Bf8 26. Nh2 {[%CAl Oh2g4]} ({Certainly not. Reject} 26. Bxc7 Bxh6 27. Qd3 Na5) 26... Qc6 27. Qd3 b5 28. e5 {And now Ng4 would win.} g5 {[%mdl 64] [#] Deflection} 29. Bxg5 Rxe5 30. Rxe5 Nxe5 31. Qe3 {[%csl LRa7,LRe5]} Qd5 32. Qxa7 Qd1+ 33. Kg2 {[%CAl Oa7d4]} Qd5+ 34. f3 c5 35. Qa6 Qd3 36. Qf6 Qe2+ 37. Kh3 Nd3 38. Qf5 Qc2 {[%CAl Yf5c8,Yg5d8,Rc2f5,Yg5e3,Yh2g4,Yf5d5,Rd3f2] White must now prevent ...Nf2+.} 39. Qd5 {Be3 is the strong threat. Now the best continuation is 39. Qd5 .. 40. Be3 Qb1 41. a3 Qd1 42. Qg5+ Kh8 with a decisive advantage to White} Nf2+ 40. Kg2 Ne4+ {Black can go for threefold repetition} 41. Kh3 Nf2+ 42. Kg2 {Strongly threatening Bd2.} Ne4+ 43. Kh3 Nf2+ 44. Kg2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.01 (flawless) /Black=0.00 (flawless) . OK: White=20 Black=26 Best: White=3 --- Strong: --- Black=1 And as predicted, threefold repetition and draw. A sharp line} 1/2-1/2