[Event "VCCC"] [Date "2021.11.28"] [Round "4"] [White "FM Christopher Wallis"] [Black "Ruari Coffey"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2397"] [BlackElo "1837"] [ECO "A53"] [Opening "Old Indian: 3.Nc3"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 c6 6.e4 O-O 7.Nge2 e5 8.O-O Qc7 9.h3 Nbd7 10.Be3 b6 11.d5 Bb7 12.dxc6 Bxc6 13.Rc1 Rae8 {The threat was Nd5 and as I wanted to keep my bishop, I had to stop Ne7 as well. I had also wanted to not block my rook in after Qb8 so this was the only plan I could see. I am already in a fair amount of trouble. (R.C)} 14.Nd5 Qb8 15.Nec3 Nc5 16.b4 Ne6 17.f4 Nh5 18.f5 {The following threat is f6 with Bh6, completely shutting down my pieces so I had to do something. (R.C)} Bxd5 19.Nxd5 Nc7 20.Kh2 {Keeping everything safe from the h5 knight and also finding that f6 doesn't work. (R.C)} (20.f6 Nxd5 21.fxg7 Nxe3 22.gxf8=Q+ Kxf8 23.Qf3 Nxf1 24.Rxf1 Qc7 {I would have been fine with something like this but unfortunately was not meant to be. (R.C)}) 20...Nxd5 21.Qxd5 Nf6 22.Qd3 h6 23.Rf2 g5 24.Rd2 Rd8 25.Rcd1 Rd7 26.Qe2 Rfd8 27.h4 {A tough decision to be made here, either g4 and block everything up but allow white in on the dark squares or take and survive an attack on the g-file. In hindsight perhaps g4 was slightly better that what happened. (R.C)} gxh4 28.gxh4 b5 29.cxb5 d5 30.Bc5 d4 31.Bf3 Kh8 32.Kh1 Qb7 (32...h5 {Holds the draw apparently (stockfish 14+)} 33.Bxh5 d3 34.Qf3 Qxb5) 33.Qd3 Rb8 34.a4 Rc8 35.Rg2 Bf8 36.Bxf8 Rxf8 37.Qd2 Kh7 38.Rdg1 Ne8 39.f6 Nxf6 40.Rg7+ Kh8 41.Qxh6+ Nh7 42.Rxh7# {I figured it was a nice enough checkmate and whites attack was successful enough. (R.C)} {#r} 1-0