[Event "British Champs Over 50"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2021.10.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Mason, Don"]
[Black "Waddington, Mike"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B28"]
[Annotator "Waddington,Mike"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2021.??.??"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 $1 {Psychologically brilliant. Of late Don Mason has been
playing 3.Bb5. Michael Franklin used to play this.} 3. c3 $6 {In my opinion d4
was the move rather than an Alapin looking system.} d5 $1 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4
Bg4 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O Nf6 8. h3 Bh5 9. c4 $6 {mixing systems. It does not look
very harmonious to me.} Qd8 $1 10. Qb3 Qc8 $1 11. d5 exd5 12. cxd5 Be7 13. d6
$2 {hoping for favourable complications but a lot of white's army is not
playing.} Bxd6 14. Ng5 $5 {The Big idea but now he had less than 30 mins.} Bg6
{calm play.} (14... O-O 15. Bxh5 Nxh5 16. Nxf7 $1 Rxf7 17. Qd5) 15. Bf3 Nc6 16.
Re1+ Kf8 {Black has been denied castling at the cost of a pawn but there is no
really good follow up for white.} 17. Rd1 $2 {moving the same piece at a cheap
looking shot.} Be7 ({avoiding a banana skin that really isn't} 17... Qc7 $1 18.
Rxd6 Qxd6 19. Qxb7 {but} Re8 $1 {highlights development issues.}) 18. Nc3 h6 $1
{removes a dangerous attacking piece and provides a square for the black king.}
19. Nge4 Ne5 $1 {The drawback of Nge4. White is in big trouble.} (19... Nd4 $6
20. Rxd4 cxd4 21. Nxf6 Bxf6 22. Bxb7) 20. Nd6 Nxf3+ 21. gxf3 Bxd6 22. Rxd6 Qxh3
$1 {Who has the safer king?} 23. Qxb7 Re8 24. Bf4 Bh5 $1 25. Rd3 (25. Bg3 Ne4
$1) 25... Kg8 26. Rad1 Kh7 27. Nd5 Re6 $1 {menacing Rg6+ or doubling rooks on
the e file.} 28. Bg3 Rhe8 {and here Don exceeded his time in this unenviable
position of having to stop a back rank mate without losing all of his pieces.}
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