[Event "Bournemouth Grand Congress - Minor"] [Site "Bournemouth"] [Date "2013.04.28"] [Round "4.65"] [White "Holton, Jake"] [Black "Carrick, Peter"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E04"] [WhiteElo "99"] [BlackElo "93"] [Annotator "Alan Dommett"] [PlyCount "65"] [EventDate "2013.04.26"] {Open Catalan [E04]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 Bd6 { Main line alternatives are 5...c5 and 5...a6, keeping White occupied on the queenside and stalling the queen check that recaptures the pawn. White, however, is not interested in instant equality and knows full well that the advance pawn is way out of its depth, with any thrown ...b5 lifeline likely to be a risky business.} (5... c5) (5... a6) 6. Nc3 c6 7. e4 Bc7 8. O-O O-O 9. a4 Re8 10. Qe2 e5 $5 {A good stab at contesting the centre that delays a levelling of material once again.} 11. dxe5 Bxe5 12. Nxe5 Rxe5 13. f4 Re8 14. Rd1 Qe7 15. Qxc4 {Equalising at last, but the previous passage of play has ceded a space and developmental advantage to White... it soon tells.} Be6 16. Qe2 Bg4 17. Bf3 Bxf3 18. Qxf3 Rd8 19. Be3 Rxd1+ 20. Rxd1 Nbd7 21. e5 Ne8 { Black feels the pressure and his opponent keeps piling it on.} 22. Qg4 Nf8 23. Ne4 $6 Qe6 $2 24. Qxe6 Nxe6 25. Rd7 {The queens may be back in the box, but swapping them off has done nothing to improve the situation for Black and this rook on the 7th rank is about to be as powerful as it looks.} b6 26. f5 Nf8 27. Re7 g6 $4 {The wrong pawn is pushed (c or h were the only viable movers) and White finishes clinically.} 28. Rxe8 $1 Rxe8 29. Nf6+ Kh8 30. Nxe8 gxf5 31. Nd6 Kg8 32. Nxf5 Ne6 33. Ne7+ 1-0