[Event "Welsh Championships"]
[Site "Cardiff"]
[Date "2017.04.17"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Young, Alan J"]
[Black "Pleasants, Allan J"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A43"]
[Annotator "Allan"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2017.04.14"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "WLS"]
{Final round and I only needed a draw, whilst my opponent had to win. I needed
to play actively.} 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. f4 Nf6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 {
This seems to be a bit of a do nothing move after committing to the big pawn
centre.} ({perhaps} 6. e5 dxe5 7. fxe5 Nd5 8. Bc4 Be6 9. Qe2 Nxc3 10. bxc3 Bxc4
11. Qxc4) 6... c5 {Immediately attacking the white centre} 7. d5 ({White
declines the offered pawn} 7. dxc5 Qa5 8. cxd6 Nxe4 9. dxe7 Re8 10. O-O Nxc3
11. bxc3 Nc6 $15) 7... e6 8. O-O (8. dxe6 Bxe6 9. Ng5 Nc6 10. Nxe6 fxe6 11. O-O
{is about equal} (11. Bc4 d5 12. exd5 Na5 {favours black})) 8... exd5 9. exd5 {
The white pawn on f4 makes play against the d6 pawn more difficult, whilst the
knight on c3 blocks the c-pawn from protecting the d5 pawn.} Na6 {Black wants
to attack the d5 pawn and doesn't want to block the c8 bishop which controls
f5.} 10. a3 {I don't see the point of this as I wasn't threatening to go to b4
anyway.} Nc7 11. Kh1 Rb8 12. a4 a6 13. a5 b5 14. axb6 Rxb6 15. Rb1 Rb8 16. Be3
Re8 17. Bg1 {With all my pieces in good positions I can take the central pawn.}
Ncxd5 18. Nxd5 Nxd5 19. Qxd5 Rxe2 20. Ne5 ({I hadn't seen Ne5 and immediately
worried about the threats to the isolated e2 rook and the f7 pawn.} 20. Qd3 {
White should expel the rook, but black is winning.} Re8 21. b3 Bf5 $19) 20...
Bb7 21. Qxf7+ Kh8 22. Nf3 Qe8 {To remove the white queen, but the engines
prefer Rcx2.} 23. Qc7 Qc8 {Setting up a tactic as I knew white was unlikely to
exchange queens given the tournament situation. However perhaps he should have
exchange queens and offered me a draw. I may have accepted!} 24. Qxd6 {Now the
fun begins as black demonstrates the power of the white square bishop.} Rxg2 $1
25. Rbd1 (25. Bxc5 Rxc2 26. Ba3 Ra8 $1) 25... Rxg1+ $1 26. Kxg1 Qg4+ 27. Kh1
Bxf3+ 28. Rxf3 Qxf3+ 29. Kg1 Re8 30. c3 Bd4+ $1 0-1