[Event "ICCD World Individual Championships"] [Site "Yerevan, Armenia"] [Date "2016.05.17"] [Round "1"] [White "Kreuzer, Chris"] [Black "Orsag, Milan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B90"] [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 {Oh dear. I had carefully prepared for 2...e6. Despite trying to get back into my preparation, the game steadily went down different lines.} 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e6 7.Be3 Qc7 8.O-O b5 {At this point, I put my preparation to one side and concentrated on the position on the board. I had been aiming to get g4 in at some point, and was now looking to see if this was possible.} 9.a3 Bb7 10.f3 Nbd7 11.Qd2 Be7 12.Rad1 O-O {Having waited for him to castle kingside, I thought for a bit about g4 and then went for it!} 13.g4 h6 {I considered various options here, but eventually decided to go with what my instinct had told me to play here. It turned out I had missed something obvious, but is not actually that bad.} 14.h4 d5 {Oops. The Black queen is aiming to land on g3 with check... I was very annoyed here and thought I was going to lose quickly now. But after thinking for about half an hour (mostly on 15.Bf4 and eventually rejecting that) I played 15.f4. This is actually the best reply and White is doing fine here.} 15.f4 dxe4 (15...Nxe4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.Nxe6 fxe6 18.Qxd7 Qxc2) 16.g5 Nd5 17.Nxd5 (17.Nxe4 {I had intended to play this, but rejected it as too complicated and decided I wanted to keep the bishop pair.}) 17...Bxd5 (17...exd5 18.Nf5 Bc5 19.gxh6 {This is a complicated line. Luckily my opponent avoided it.}) 18.Nf5 Bc5 19.Bxc5 {Objectively, there are better moves for White, but I was running short of time here.} Qxc5+ 20.Qd4 {I was very surprised my opponent didn't play the obvious 20...Rac8 here. He was probably distracted by the 'easier' line he played where he correctly thought I'd missed a tactic.} exf5 21.Qxc5 Nxc5 22.Rxd5 {Back on move 19, I had looked this far and thought I was winning the pawn back. I had missed my opponent's next move, which leaves me in all sorts of trouble.} Ne6 23.c4 {Desperately trying to break out.} (23.Rxf5 Nd4) 23...Rfc8 24.b3 Rc5 25.Rxc5 Nxc5 26.b4 {Hoping for 26...Nd3.} Ne6 (26...Nd3 27.Bxd3 exd3 28.c5) 27.c5 Rd8 {At this point, I realised that my planned 28.Rd1 would not work, and accepted that I was totally lost and decided to try and swindle my way out of trouble - trying to create complications, even though I had much less time than he did.} 28.a4 Rd2 (28...bxa4 29.Bxa6 Rd4 {This is easily winning for Black. In the game, my opponent (maybe over confident) decided to attack my bishop, allowing me to sacrifice it.}) 29.axb5 {Going all in and sacrificing the piece. Normally when I do this, things fizzle out and I lose quickly. This time would be different!} Rxe2 30.b6 {When playing this sacrifice, I had seen as far as move 32 and found the right move there, but was not sure if it was winning or drawing or losing!} Rb2 31.c6 Rxb4 {One possible move here is 32.c7, but that is just lost after Black sacrifices the knight back. My only chance is to play 32.b7 (I had seen this when playing 29.axb5), which fortunately appears to be winning for White (there are several lines to look at, so I am not 100% sure of this yet). My opponent did not play the best defence, and collapsed quickly. I was told later that he had not played chess very often over the past few years and was out of form (he had obtained his IM title back in 1993).} 32.b7 {What can Black do to prevent White's plan of R-d1-d6 and taking the knight and playing c7?} h5 33.Rd1 g6 34.Rd6 Nc7 35.Rd8+ {My opponent resigned here. This is easily my best-ever win and first win against a titled player. However, objectively it is not really a very good game as I was lost at one point. This was definitely a swindle, but still really nice to get this result.} {#r} 1-0