Annotated Chess Game 10499828 by 64squaresofpain

A win that shouldn't have been

1. e4 c5 2. Ng1f3 d6 3. c4 Ng8f6 4. Nb1c3 Bc8g4 5. Bf1e2 e6 6. O-O Nb8c6 7. d4 Bg4xf3
Takes away a defender of d4, grabbing a pawn
8. Be2xf3 Nc6xd4 9. Bc1e3 Nd4xf3 10. Qd1xf3 b6 11. Ra1d1 Bf8e7 12. h3 O-O 13. e5 Nf6d7
Black gives the pawn back - perhaps Ne8 was possible here, watching d6
14. exd6 Be7f6 15. Rf1e1 Nd7e5 16. Qf3e2 a6 17. Nc3e4 Ne5d7 18. Ne4xf6 Nd7xf6 19. Qe2f3 Nf6e8 20. d7 Ne8f6 21. Be3g5 h6 22. Bg5xf6 gxf6
QxB wasn't played, as I didn't fancy the idea of trading Queens as long as that pawn was on d7, but this now leads to trouble for black
23. Re1e4 Kg8h7 24. Re4h4 Rf8g8 25. Qf3e4 Kh7g7
? Oh dear, white now has Rg4+ which leads to a forced endgame where white is a whole rook up
26. Qe4f4
White doesn't attack the King, but instead sees pawn grabbing opportunity
26... Rg8h8 27. Rd1d3 f5
There goes the g4 square... black's queen now has an eye on a rook
28. Qf4e5 Kg7h7 29. Rd3g3 Rh8g8 30. Qe5f4
Fritz suggests trading rooks, followed by Qf6 was better, and would have scored +5
30... Qd8f6
At this point, white still has an edge but it's much slimmer than it should have been
31. b4 e5 32. Rh4xh6
White sacs a rook for a lot of pawns... it just about evens the game out, and fritz now says the game is very drawish
32... Qf6xh6 33. Qf4xf5 Rg8g6 34. Qf5xf7 Qh6g7 35. Qf7e8 Rg6xg3 36. fxg3 Qg7g8 37. Qe8xe5 Ra8d8 38. Qe5e7 Kh7h8
A draw by repetition was possible here