[Event "Club Championship Playoff"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.07.23"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Hero"]
[Black "Villain"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Annotator "Doe,John"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[SourceDate "2012.02.19"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 {A surprise. I was going for} (3... Bc5 4. c3
Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Qb3 {
because I remembered the repetition after} Na5 (10... Nce7 {but actually this
has been played and looks ok.}) 11. Qa4+ Nc6 12. Qb3) 4. d3 (4. Ng5 {I'm sure
there must be a myriad of forced draws for White here, but I don't know it at
all.}) 4... Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. Re1 d6 7. a4 Kh8 8. a5 a6 9. Nbd2 (9. c3 Ng8 10.
d4 f5 {seems to be the main line, and it looks like there is a lot of theory
attached.}) 9... Ng8 10. Nf1 f5 11. exf5 Bxf5 12. Ng3 Bg4 {woops...somehow I
completely missed that the rook was also attacking f3} 13. Bd5 Nd4 (13... Nf6
14. h3 (14. Bxc6 bxc6 15. h3 Bd7) 14... Nxd5 15. hxg4 Nf4 {All lines look
better for Black, but it's maybe not so easy to tell which one is best.}) 14.
c3 Nxf3+ (14... Bxf3 15. gxf3 Nc6) 15. gxf3 Bc8 16. d4 exd4 (16... c6 17. Bb3
exd4 18. Qxd4 Rxf3? 19. Qe4) 17. Qxd4 Bf6 18. Qd3 Ne7 19. Bb3 Nc6 20. f4 g6
21. Bd5 {I felt quite optimistic around here, I think Black didn't make the
most of my mistakes.} Bg7 22. Ra4 Ne7 23. Bg2 d5 24. Be3 Bd7 25. Bc5!? (25.
Rb4 Bb5) (25. Raa1 {looks fine.}) 25... Bxa4 26. Bxe7 Re8 (26... Qe8 {was
definitely a possibility and will require some deeper analysis.} 27. Re3 (27.
f5) 27... Rf7) 27. Bxd8 Rxe1+ 28. Bf1 Rxd8 29. f5 Bb5 (29... gxf5 30. Qxf5) 30.
Qd2 Ra1 31. fxg6 hxg6 32. Qg5 Rd6 (32... Re8 33. Kg2 Bxf1+ 34. Nxf1 Ree1 35.
Ng3 {and the draw is close.}) 33. Qe7 Kh7 34. Qxc7 Re6 35. Kg2 Bxf1+ 36. Nxf1
Ree1 37. Ne3 Rab1 38. Qxb7 Re2 39. b4 Rbb2 40. Ng4 Rec2 {I assume I'm winning
here, but I saw the draw and went for it.} 41. Nf6+ Kh6 42. Ng8+ Kh7 43. Nf6+
Kh6 44. Ng8+ Kh7 1/2-1/2
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