[Event ""] [White "Shelvin,Kevin"] [Black "Dawson,Phil"] [Site ""] [Round ""] [Annotator "damia"] [Result "0-1"] [Date "2023.11.15"] [WhiteElo "1400"] [BlackElo "1361"] [PlyCount "69"] {[%evp 0,69,23,18,63,75,71,34,29,28,53,49,76,-12,12,14,14,-8,3,-40,-15,-51,-45,-76,-27,-404,-414,-470,-479,-492,-472,-621,-661,-650,-661,-776,-780,-819,-728,-789,-755,-963,-770,-842,-570,-595,-528,-560,-564,-591,-679,-684,-491,-603,-557,-595,-627,-824,-652,-646,-660,-708,-658,-664,-690,-725,-725,-793,-775,-771,-775,-775]} 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nh4 $2 {The loss of time involved in gaining this bishop for the Knight is a bad trade off for White, much better would be to continue developing and get castled more quickly.} e6 7. Nxg6 hxg6 8. Bc4 Nf6 9. d3 Bd6 10. Bg5 Bxg3 $6 { In the same vein as my opinion of White's earlier Nh4 I would much rather Black continued developing with something like Nb-d7. But Phil is tempted by the prospect of forcing fxg3.} 11. fxg3 Qd4 {Unfortunately for White he misses the threat posed by this last move} 12. h3 $4 Qe5+ {Winning a piece! Loose pieces drop off which is the case for the Bishop on g5. Perhaps if White hadn't wasted time earlier in the opening the King would not have been caught in the middle like this.} 13. Qe2 Qxg3+ $1 {Phil spots that instead of capturing the Bishop straight away he can bag an extra pawn first!} 14. Kd1 Qxg5 15. Bxe6 {White makes a desperate attempt to open up Black's King} fxe6 16. Qxe6+ Kd8 17. Qf7 Qxg2 $2 {From a practical point of view why take this pawn? Already 2 pieces up the only way Black doesn't win this game now is for the King to get caught, therefore perhaps a more seasoned played would prefer a plan of Nb-d7 and Kc7 to get all the pieces developed and get the King to safety. We are so far ahead in material as things stand that the extra pawn on g2 being won really is not needed.} 18. Re1 Re8 19. Rxe8+ Nxe8 20. Qxb7 Qf1+ (20... Nc7 {would also be fine} )21. Kd2 Qxa1 22. Qxa8 Kc8 $2 ({perhaps} 22... Qxb2 {reactivating the queen and protecting b8 was most accurate} 23. Qxa7 )23. Qxa7 {White plays on for a few more moves but 2 knights down with no pieces besides the Queen is just too much and it wasn't long until White decided to resign. The game continued..} Qxb2 24. a4 Nc7 25. Qc5 Kd7 26. a5 Qb5 27. Qd4+ Kc8 28. Qa1 Nba6 29. Qxg7 Qxa5+ 30. Kc1 Qg5+ 31. Kb2 Nd5 32. Qf8+ Kb7 33. Qa3 Qe5+ 34. Kc1 Qe3+ 35. Kb2 {resigns} 0-1