[Event "Spielvogel 2019"] [Site "Mechanics Institute"] [Date "2019.02.28"] [Round "4"] [White "Rodney Jacobs"] [Black "Bas Van Riel"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1657"] [BlackElo "1794"] [ECO "A48"] [Opening "Neo-King's Indian"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d5 {A disappointment. I had prepared for a Kings Indian. (RJ)} 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.Bh4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 dxc4 8.Qa4+ c6 9.Qxc4 Be6 {This weird move does appear in some openings - for example the Rubinstein system against the Tarrasch Defence. Also Pillsbury when facing the Evans Gambit used to play 5. Bd6, blocking his queen pawn. But I don't think it works here. (RJ)} 10.Qb4 {Already awkward pressure on e7. (RJ)} Qc7 11.e3 a5 12.Qa3 f6 {A horrible concession, but, I think, intending on a later freeing f5. (RJ)} 13.Be2 Nd7 14.O-O Nb6 15.Bg3 Qd7 16.Nd2 {Keeping the knight out of c4. (RJ)} Nd5 17.Rac1 f5 {Leaves an awful hole at e5 (RJ)} 18.Nf3 O-O 19.Ne5 Qc8 20.c4 Nb4 21.d5 {With ideas of getting my bishop on the a2-g8 diagonal (RJ)} Bf7 22.Nxf7 Kxf7 23.Qb3 c5 24.a3 $18 a4 25.Qb1 Na6 26.Rfd1 Rd8 27.Bf3 Rd7 28.Rd3 Kf8 29.Rcd1 Nb8 30.d6 e6 31.Qb5 e5 32.Bd5 e4 {If Rxd6, Bxb7. (RJ)} 33.R3d2 Bc3 34.Rc2 Bf6 35.Be6 Qd8 36.Bxd7 Nxd7 37.h3 Qc8 38.Rcd2 b6 39.Qb1 {Starting to hesitate under time pressure. (5 minutes left to Bas's 10)} Qa6 40.Qc2 Qa5 41.Rd5 Rb8 42.Rc1 b5 {Bas cleverly conjures up counterplay. From here on, White's bishop, so powerful throughout the game, becomes irrelevant. Query whether at some point I needed to play f3, to bring it into the game via e1. (RJ). Yes, indeed. With white's bishop not playing, I felt that I had reasonable compensation for the exchange.(bas)} 43.cxb5 Rxb5 44.Rb1 Qb6 {Perhaps 44....Qc3 (!), 45.Qd1, Rxb1 and 46...Qb3!, followed by Qxa3 was stronger and more complicated in view of Rodney's time shortage (bas)} 45.Rxb5 Qxb5 46.Rd1 Qb3 47.Qd2 c4! 48.Qd5 c3 49.Qa8+ Kf7 50.Rd5? {A critical error with about 3 minutes left. (RJ)} c2 $19 51.Rc5?? Qb1+ $19 {Simply Nxc5 is crushing. (RJ)} 52.Kh2 c1=Q?? {Again Nxc5. (RJ)} 53.Qd5+ $10 Kg7 54.Rxc1 $18 Qxc1 55.Qb7 Qxa3 56.Qxd7+ Kh6 57.Qe6 {Bf4 ch is better. (RJ)} Qc3 58.d7 Bd8? {Bg5 (RJ)} 59.Bf4+ Kh5 60.g4+ Kh4 61.Bg3+ Kg5 62.Bf4+ Kh4 63.Qg8 {Each had 2 minutes left in the end. An interesting game, but marred by time trouble at the end. White was very, very lucky. (RJ) On the other hand, white had the initiative and was better most of the game (bas)} {#r} 1-0