1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. Nf3 h6 4. Bh4 Be7 5. Nbd2 d5 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. O-O c5 9. c3 b6 10. Re1 Bb7 11. Qe2 Ne4 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Nf1 f5 14. N3d2 Ndf6 15. f3 Nxd2 16. Nxd2 Nh5 17. f4 Nf6 18. Nf3 Nd7

Ba6 was a candidate move here. Black has Bc6 if they don't want to exchange.

19. Qf2 a5 20. a4 Ba6

And in retrospect exchanging would have been better I expect. My thinking was that I needed to keep the bishop to prevent Ne4

21. Bc2 Kh8 22. Nh4

22. Ne5 Nxe5 23. fxe5.

22... Qf6 23. Qg3 g5 24. fxg5 hxg5 25. Nf3 Rg8

Candidate moves: Qc7, Qd6, Ne5. But I also wanted to exchange now. Rd1 then Bd3, but it's too late.

26. Ne5 Nxe5 27. dxe5 Qh6 28. Rad1 Ra7 29. Bxf5

14 minutes on the clock and I felt like I had nothing and might get something. Not sound.

29... exf5 30. Rxd5 Qh4

This is the move I didn't anticipate.

31. Qf2 Qxf2+ 32. Kxf2 Bc4 33. Rd6 Re7

Better here was probably Red1

34. Rxb6 Rd8 35. Rd6 Rxd6 36. exd6 Rd7 37. Rd1 Kg7 38. g3 g4 39. Kg2 Kf6 40. h3 gxh3+ 41. Kxh3 Ke5 42. Kh4 Rxd6 43. Rxd6 Kxd6 44. Kg5 Ke5 45. Kg6 Bb3 46. Kg5 Bd1 47. Kg6 Bxa4 48. Kg5 Bd1 49. Kg6 a4 50. Kg5

and I'm used to people messing up online. That didn't happen here. It would probably have been politer to have resigned long ago.

50... c4 51. Kg6 Bg4 52. Kg5 Ke4

0-1 Black wins.

0-1

Annotator(s): Damian Evans.

Source(s): Lichess (https://lichess.org/study/UpruGBZG/nwqCHSoH).

Event information: Tournament report.