[Event "WDCL Div 1"] [Site "?"] [Date "2020.03.09"] [Round "?"] [White "Burriss, Nick"] [Black "Harrison, Steve"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B30"] [Annotator "Nick Burriss"] [PlyCount "127"] [WhiteTeam "Culcheth B"] [BlackTeam "Northwich B"] {[%evp 0,127,16,28,97,43,66,24,74,72,67,45,79,17,59,64,52,46,47,38,33,31,17,33, 32,44,133,98,101,83,71,87,76,70,98,79,90,81,120,137,160,104,254,158,176,143, 222,217,212,205,196,200,231,218,247,202,232,189,193,222,232,244,239,204,177, 157,141,136,136,93,197,168,183,201,281,292,285,130,137,109,126,102,102,116,120, 130,152,114,136,134,132,138,152,127,131,123,168,166,202,78,200,195,220,195,195, 195,244,289,297,233,289,311,393,391,391,409,569,707,797,637,1320,1436,1370, 1491,1711,1269,1277,1560,1658,1886]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Nf6 6. Re1 e6 {Unnecessarily restricting his QB} 7. d3 Be7 8. Nc3 h6 9. h3 O-O 10. Be3 Qc7 11. a4 Rd8 12. a5 b5 (12... e5 {was better}) 13. axb6 Qxb6 { And now White has 3 targets on the c-file: the pawns on c5 & c6, and the square c4.} 14. b3 Qc7 15. Qe2 Nd7 16. Na4 Bf6 17. Rab1 Be7 18. Nd2 Qe5 { Now my Knight gets to the target square with a tempo} 19. Nc4 Qc7 20. f4 { Consistent, but it might have been better to change plans and play 20. Qg4 and if 20…..Nf6, 21. Bf4 Qb7; 22. Qf3 with advantage.} f5 {A serious mistake which I fail to capitalise on.} 21. e5 {Much stronger is 22. exf5 and if 22. …..exf5; 22. Bd2 Re8; 23. Qe6+ is winning} a5 22. Qf2 Kh7 {I’ve heard of ‘mysterious Rook moves’ but not mysterious King moves} 23. Nxc5 Nxc5 24. Bxc5 Bxc5 25. Qxc5 {Two out of three ‘targets’ achieved – pity about the missed winning line. But a pawn is a pawn.} Rd5 26. Qf2 Rb5 27. Nd6 Rbb8 28. Qc5 Bd7 29. Ra1 Qb6 30. Qxb6 Rxb6 31. Nc4 {Ra3 was more accurate} Rba6 32. Ra3 c5 33. Rea1 a4 34. bxa4 Bxa4 35. Nb2 {This obvious move is inferior to 35. Nd2, because if 35……Bb5; 36. Rxa6 Bxa6; 37. Nb3 wins the c- pawn (aka Target 3)} Bb5 36. Rxa6 Rxa6 37. Rxa6 Bxa6 38. Na4 {38. c4 followed by Na4 wins the c-pawn and wins comfortably. Now it’s tough.} c4 39. dxc4 {And this is questionable. 39. d4 is better but either way it’s now tough to win.} Bxc4 40. h4 Kg6 41. Nb2 Bd5 42. c4 Bc6 43. c5 Kh5 44. g3 Kg4 45. Kf2 g5 46. hxg5 hxg5 47. fxg5 Kxg5 48. Nd3 Kg4 49. Nb4 {Wrong plan. 49. Nf4 was correct} Bb7 50. c6 Bc8 (50... Bxc6 {50……Bxc6 draws. Now the win is easy.} 51. Nxc6 f4 52. gxf4 Kxf4 53. Ke2 Ke4 54. Kd2 Kd5 55. Nd8 Kxe5 56. Nxe6 Kxe6) 51. Nd3 Ba6 52. Nf4 Bc8 53. Kg2 Kg5 54. Kh3 Kh6 55. Kh4 Kg7 56. Kg5 Kf7 57. Nd3 Ba6 58. Nc5 Bc8 59. Nb7 Kg7 60. Nd6 Ba6 61. c7 Kf8 62. c8=Q+ Bxc8 63. Nxc8 Ke8 64. Kf6 { Black resigns} 1-0