[Event "Spielvogel 2019"] [Site "Mechanics Institute"] [Date "2019.02.14"] [Round "2"] [White "Caitlin Barnett"] [Black "Rodney Jacobs"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1183"] [BlackElo "1657"] [ECO "D20"] [Opening "QGA: 3.e3 e5"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 e5 4.d5 Nf6 5.Nc3 c6 6.dxc6 Qxd1+ 7.Nxd1 {Probably a bit better to take with the king (RJ)} Nxc6 8.Bxc4 Bf5 9.Nf3 Bb4+ 10.Nc3 Ne4 11.Bd2 Nxd2 12.Nxd2 Bxc3 13.bxc3 O-O {Playing by rote without really thinking.The engines prefer Ke7!. This makes sense. White's bishop had uncomfortable nagging pressure on the f pawn after this, and I had to lose some time getting out of the pin. (RJ)} 14.O-O Rac8 {After the game Caitlin, rightly, said she felt this was inferior to putting a rook on the open d file. Due to White's nice little manoeuvre which follows, the rook on the c file gets nowhere. (RJ)} 15.e4! {Shuts this bishop out of the game for a while. (RJ)} Bg6 16.Bd5 b6 17.Rac1 Kh8 18.Rfe1 f6 19.a3 Bf7 20.c4 {Cements the bishop at e5, for better or for worse. I was pretty happy to get d4 for my knight. (RJ)} Nd4 21.a4 {I wonder about this. This pawn later becomes a target. (RJ} Rc5 22.Kf1 Be8 23.Re3 Bxa4 24.Ra3 b5 25.Rb1 Rc7 26.cxb5?! {After this, White's rooks have no files to work on and are out of play. (RJ)} Bxb5+ 27.Kg1 a6 28.h3 Rfc8 29.Kh2 Rc2 30.Rd1? Be2 31.Rb1 Rxd2 32.Rc3 Rc2 33.Rxc2 Nxc2 34.Be6 Rd8 35.Rb7 Nd4 36.Bd5 Bb5 37.Ra7 h6 38.Bb7 Nc6 39.Bxc6 Bxc6 40.Rxa6 Bxe4 41.f3 Bf5 42.g4 Rd2+ 43.Kg3 Bd7 44.Ra8+ Kh7 45.Rd8 Rd3 46.Kf2 Bb5 47.Rb8 Bc6 48.f4 Rf3+ 49.Ke2 Rxf4 50.Rb6 Bg2 51.h4 Rxg4 52.Kf2 Bd5 {Caitlin had not seen the opening before and handled it pretty well. Her post-game analysis was impressive. She at many stages was seeing more than I was and had a really good positional sense. (RJ)} {#R} 0-1