[Event "Barrow KO"] [Site "?"] [Date "2020.01.20"] [Round "2"] [White "Mackenzie, Matthew"] [Black "Underhill, Chris"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2100"] [BlackElo "1530"] [Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "2kr4/pp1b4/1qn1pR2/3p4/1b1P4/2NBP3/PP1Q2PP/R5K1 b - - 0 17"] [PlyCount "12"] {} 17... Nxd4 18. Qf2 (18. exd4 {calling the bluff is best} Qxd4+ 19. Rf2 Bc5 20. Nd1 Kb8 (20... Rf8 21. Kf1 Rxf2+ 22. Nxf2 e5 23. Rc1 Kb8 24. Rc2 e4 25. Qf4+ Ka8 26. Qf7 a6 27. Qxd7 exd3 28. Qc8+ Ka7 29. Qxc5+ Qxc5 30. Rxc5) 21. Rc1 Bb6 (21... Bb5 22. Qg5 Bb6 23. Bxb5) 22. Kh1 e5 23. Rf1 Bf5 $1 24. Nf2 Bd7 (24... e4 25. Qf4+ Ka8 26. Qxf5 exd3 27. Qc8+ Rxc8 28. Rxc8#)) 18... Bc5 {the game continued with this move and it has a serious drawback.} 19. Nxd5 {the move white was aiming for which wins but i was still not sure of whether it did watching the game.} (19. exd4 Bxd4 { and Black is winning.} 20. Re1 Kb8 21. Nxd5 {this now makes things worse.} Bxf2+ 22. Rxf2 exd5) 19... Qd6 20. exd4 Qxd5 21. Rc1 (21. dxc5 Qxd3) 21... b6 22. Ba6+ Kb8 23. dxc5 {Chris said something extremely strange after the game when I asked whether the two players could set up the position. Now White is winning but to the human eye it still looks incredibly complex there are a lot of moves possible and it was possible after 7...Nxd4 Matthew could have faultered but Chris question why i at all wanted to put the position on the net like he either had super human powers of deduction or didnt understand the position was so complex, but his moves were ones you would expect from someone that understood the position.} 1-0
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