[Event "Don Macuilatis Memorial 2023"] [Site "DCC"] [Date "2023.09.16"] [Round "3"] [White "Peter Clark"] [Black "Akshayan Minivannan"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1"] [BlackElo "1"] [PlyCount "38"] [EventDate "2023.??.??"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 {London system was having a quite bad reputation until a new world champion Ding Liren launched improvements in it!} Bf5 3. c4 e6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bd6 (5... Bb4 {is good too}) 6. Qb3 (6. Bxd6 Qxd6 7. Qb3 Qb6 {white keeping a minimal advantage}) 6... Bxf4 7. Qxb7 $2 {A very costly advanture of Peter!} Nbd7 (7... Bxe3 $1 8. Qxa8 Bxd4 {black is clearly better}) 8. exf4 O-O 9. b3 $2 {Last chance to save the game with c5 is gone} (9. c5 Rb8 10. Qa6 Rxb2 {roughfly equal game}) 9... c5 $1 {So proud of my former student seeing this classical move leading to a huge attack! Open the position in the centre while opponent king is long from safe castling!} 10. dxc5 Nxc5 11. Qb5 d4 {even if Nfd7 is keeping a huge advantage for black I understand that Akshy pose a much more complicated variations for his opponent, so many moves to go wrong} (11... Nfd7 12. b4 d4 13. Nd1 e5) 12. Na4 $4 {so easy to make blunder in this type of position, the biggest reason why our juniors hate to analyse games they lost in already lost position (they think "their" blunder is nothing to analyse, not why they came in "lost" position} (12. Qxc5 {certainly a better move but not near to hope to save a game} dxc3 13. Nf3 Ne4 14. Qe3 Qa5 {It"s not easy to find a best defence for Peter but position is already lost}) 12... Nce4 13. f3 Rb8 14. Qa6 d3 $1 {Attack must continue, in situation when white king is very far from castling the value of pieces is not knight=3 & so on...} 15. fxe4 $2 (15. Qxa7 {Please don't try to understand this best move for white, it won't help your understanding for chess, position is already lost!}) 15... d2+ $1 16. Ke2 Qd4 $1 17. Rd1 Qxe4+ 18. Kxd2 Rfd8+ 19. Kc3 Qc2# {normal} 0-1