[Event "County Shield"] [Site "?"] [Date "2014.01.08"] [Round "1"] [White "Watkins, Mark"] [Black "Kneebone, Robin"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E15"] [Annotator "Kneebone, Robin"] [PlyCount "110"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] {A fine win against the Cornwall champion in Robin's mature positional style.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Nc3 c6 ({ 7Nc3 is an aggressive option and already took me out my book knowledge, 7Bg2 is more common. I wrongly avoided 7 ...O-O} 7... O-O 8. e4 d5 9. cxd5 Bxf1 10. Kxf1 exd5 11. e5 Ne4 12. Kg2 {and black scores quite well}) 8. Bg2 d5 9. cxd5 cxd5 10. b4 O-O (10... Nbd7 11. b5 Bb7 12. O-O O-O 13. Qb3 Ne4 {was Pelletier-Sasikiran 2010}) 11. b5 Bb7 12. Ne5 {this doesn't work, and loses tempi allowing black equality. 12 O-O is better.} Nbd7 {after 10 minutes' thought, so I "had" to play it. I realised ... a6 might be simpler but if time has been invested then sometimes one has to take a risk.} (12... a6 13. a4 Ne4) 13. Nxd7 (13. Nc6 Bxc6 14. bxc6 Nb8 15. Qa4 Qd6 16. Nb5 Qxc6 17. Rc1 Qd7 18. Rc7 Qe8 $1 $15) 13... Qxd7 14. O-O Ne4 15. Rb1 Nd6 16. Bf4 Rfc8 17. Qd3 Rc4 18. Rfc1 Rac8 {black was hoping that white would play, or be forced to play, e2-e3 trapping his own bishop. ...Nf5 may be a threat.} 19. Bxd6 Bxd6 20. e3 Bb4 $6 ( 20... Ba3 {is even stronger, clearly winning, according to Fritz11}) 21. Ne2 Qxb5 22. Qb3 Qa5 (22... Rxc1+ $1 23. Nxc1 Qa5) 23. Rxc4 Rxc4 24. Nf4 Bf8 (24... Bd6) 25. Bf1 Rc8 26. Nd3 Ba6 27. Ne5 Bxf1 28. Kxf1 Bd6 (28... f6) 29. Kg2 Bxe5 30. dxe5 h6 31. Rd1 Qc3 32. Qxc3 Rxc3 {To my surprise the silicon beast tells me that this is not quite winning for black, so my previous few moves have been too cautious. But the beast may be wrong.} 33. Rd2 Kf8 34. Kf1 Ke7 35. Ke2 Kd7 36. Rb2 Kc6 37. Kd2 Rc4 38. Kd3 b5 39. f4 a5 40. Rf2 b4 41. f5 Rc3+ 42. Kd4 Rc4+ 43. Kd3 Re4 $2 (43... exf5 {which I scarcely considered, is winning easily } 44. Rxf5 Rc3+ 45. Kd2 Ra3 46. Rxf7 Rxa2+ 47. Kc1 Rxh2 48. Rxg7 a4 49. Kb1 a3) 44. fxe6 fxe6 45. Rf7 Rxe5 (45... g5) 46. Rxg7 Rf5 47. Re7 e5 48. Re6+ Kc5 49. Rxh6 $2 {falling in with my not-so-cunning plan} (49. Ke2 h5 {is not clearly won}) 49... Rf2 50. e4 $8 Rxa2 51. exd5 Kxd5 52. h4 e4+ 53. Ke3 Ra3+ 54. Kf4 b3 55. Rb6 a4 {The remaining moves were not recorded} 0-1