Hey guys, just played a game against a guy from Utah in the Intercollegiate Chess Championship, played over ICC. Here it is, with me as black. I would love to analyze anything and ideas are always appreciated. I annotated it in chessbase, so if you have an engine or .pgn viewer of any kind it should come up great.
[Event "ICCL 60' 15""]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2007.02.25"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Bush, Rex"]
[Black "Rotella, Tony"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B50"]
[Annotator "Tony Rotella"]
[PlyCount "152"]
[EventDate "2007.??.??"]
[TimeControl "3600+15"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Nc3 {Disapointing. I was looking forward to a battle in
my favorite, the Dragon after 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6!?} g6 4. Nd5 $6
{Why was this move even considered? It threatens nothing, and moves the same
piece twice in the opening.} Bg7 5. c3 Nc6 (5... e6 $5 6. Nf4 Nf6) 6. d4 cxd4
7. Nxd4 $5 {
And now we are in some kind of weird Accelerated Dragon or something.} Bd7 $6 {
This move actually looks kind of foolish here on account of 8. Nb5!,embarassing
ly making 4. Nd5 a good move.} 8. Bb5 a6 9. Bxc6 bxc6 10. Ne3 {Now I was very
satisfied with my position on account of the two bishops, extra center pawn,
and better coordinated pieces.} Nf6 11. Qc2 c5 $1 {Looking to improve the
position of Black's Bd7 and push away the centralized Nd4.} 12. Nb3 Bc6 13. f3
a5 $1 {Further harassment of Whites funnily placed pieces.} 14. Bd2 a4 15. Nc1
{Nice Knight. Pysch!} Qb6 16. Nc4 Qa6 17. Ne3 Rb8 18. a3 $2 {I suppose he was
worried about ..a3, but that can always be met by b3. The weakness of the
b3-square and the b-pawn is much worse than the threat of ..a3.} Qb7 19. Nd3
O-O 20. c4 {I am not sure I like this move, but it's hard to find a decent
plan for White. Now I get a little speculative, but I wanted to play my type
of game.} Nxe4 $5 {I couldn't resist. Complete destruction of his center, a
very very annoying pin on the Nd3, queenside and kingside threats, in my
opinion, give me more than enough compensation for the 1 pt. deficit.} 21. fxe4
Bxe4 22. Rg1 $2 {Black already cracks! Let's look at some plausible ideas here:
} (22. Bc3 $5 Bd4 $1 23. Bxd4 cxd4 24. Nd5 Rfc8 $1 25. Qe2 Bxd5 26. cxd5 Qxd5 {
Looks very unclear, although I would take Black every time. His position is
much easier to play, and very few people have experience defending these types
of positions. Look at those center pawns and terrible queensidepawns!}) (22.
O-O Bxb2 (22... Bd4 23. Kh1 $2 (23. Rfe1 Bxg2 $15) 23... Bxe3 $1 24. Bxe3 Qb3
$1) 23. Qxb2 Bxd3 24. Qxb7 Rxb7 25. Rfe1 Rfb8 26. Nd5 e6 27. Nf6+ Kg7 28. Bc3
e5 29. Red1 Kxf6 30. Rxd3 Ke7 31. Rad1 Rb3 {
This also looks about equal, maybe slightly better for black.}) 22... Bxd3 $1 {
Giving up one of blacks strong bishops, but destroying his queenside, and
pretty much forcing white's king out from e1.} 23. Qxd3 Qxb2 24. Ke2 Rb3 $1 25.
Rgb1 $4 {This loses alot of material.} Rxd3 26. Rxb2 Bxb2 27. Rb1 Rb3 28. Nc2
Rfb8 29. Rf1 Bxa3 30. Nxa3 Rxa3 31. Rc1 Rb2 32. Kd1 Rd3 33. Rc2 Rxc2 34. Kxc2
Rxd2+ 35. Kxd2 {Now this is clearly winning, and my opponent refused to resign.
So what did I do? Screw around and try to get him to resign! It was very
unsportsmanlike, but if he wants to waste our time, I will gladly oblige and
raise the stakes.} e5 36. Kc2 e4 37. g3 e3 38. g4 a3 39. h4 a2 40. Kb2 e2 41.
Kxa2 e1=N 42. g5 Nf3 43. Ka3 Nxh4 44. Ka4 Nf3 45. Kb5 Nxg5 46. Kc6 Nf3 47. Kxd6
Nd2 48. Kxc5 Nxc4 49. Kxc4 f5 50. Kd3 Kg7 51. Ke3 Kf6 52. Kf4 g5+ 53. Kg3 h5
54. Kf3 f4 55. Kg2 g4 56. Kh1 f3 57. Kh2 h4 58. Kh1 g3 59. Kg1 h3 60. Kh1 Ke5
61. Kg1 Kd4 62. Kh1 Kc3 63. Kg1 Kb2 64. Kh1 Ka1 65. Kg1 h2+ 66. Kh1 f2 67. Kg2
h1=Q+ 68. Kxg3 f1=N+ 69. Kf2 Qh3 70. Kg1 Qg3+ 71. Kxf1 Qh2 72. Ke1 Ka2 73. Kf1
Kb3 74. Ke1 Kc4 75. Kf1 Kd3 76. Ke1 Qe2# {White checkmated} 0-1