[Event "Barrow-van Riel 2018"] [Site "Bendigo"] [Date "2018.05.20"] [White "Leigh Healey"] [Black "Rodney Jacobs"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1697"] [BlackElo "1697"] [ECO "B01"] [Opening "Scandinavian: 2...Nf6 3.Bb5+ Bd7"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bc4 c6 5.dxc6 Nxc6 6.Nf3 e6 7.O-O Bc5? {Bd6 (RJ)} 8.d4 Bb6 9.c3 Qc7? {Bc7 (RJ)} 10.Bd3 O-O-O 11.Bg5? {Na3 (RJ)} h6 12.Bh4 Rde8? {Be8 (RJ)} 13.Na3 g5? {Qb8 or Qd8 (RJ)} 14.Bg3 Qd8 15.Nc4?? {Nb5! and it's pretty much all over. (RJ)} Bc7 16.Bd6 {Nb6 is a bit stronger (RJ)} Kb8 17.Re1 Reg8 18.b4 Bxd6 19.Nxd6 Qe7 20.Nc4 g4 21.Nfd2 {The engines say White has an advantage of 2 here. (RJ)} Nd5 22.Qb3 Nf4 23.Bc2 h5 24.b5 Nd8 25.a4? {Ne4 (RJ)} h4 26.Qa3! {Forcing the exchange of queens. I had not anticipated this.(RJ)} Qxa3 27.Rxa3 g3! {Black has hauled White's advantage back to 1.2. (RJ)} 28.fxg3? {Ne3. (RJ)} hxg3 29.h3 {It looks as if White has withstood Black's kingside attack. But Black has a resource....} e5! {The engines say it's now even. (RJ)} 30.Ne3? {Nxe5 is better. The position is to complex that it's very difficult to assess over the board. (RJ)} Bxh3! 31.gxh3 Nxh3+ 32.Kg2 Nf4+? {Now Black goes astray. The programs say Ne6! is best. developing another piece does make more sense. (RJ)} 33.Kf3 Rh2 34.dxe5? {Now it's -3. Ne4 was necessary. (RJ)} Nde6? {Afterwards Tom said to me he thought I would have made something more of the position around this point. He was right. This is the critical mistake.. 34........Rxd2 and if 35. Kxf4 Ne6ch 36. Kf3 Rf2ch 37. Ke4 Rf4ch 38. Kd3 Rd8ch etc. This was just all too much for me to calculate.(RJ)} 35.Ne4 g2 36.Raa1! {Now it's even. (RJ)} Rh3+ 37.Kf2 Rh2 38.Kf3 {Implicitly offering a draw. (RJ)} Nh3 39.Nxg2? {Short of time, and panicking unnecessarily. Rg1 and it's even. (RJ)} Rhxg2? {R8g2. (RJ)} 40.Bb3 Rb2 {Nhg5ch (RJ)} 41.Bc4? {Bxe6. (RJ) Even again.} Nhg5+ 42.Nxg5 Rxg5? {Nxg5 (RJ)} 43.a5 {Ra2 is stronger (RJ)} Rgg2 {Rf5 is better. (RJ)} 44.Rh1 Kc7? {Ng5 ch. (RJ)} 45.Rh7 Ng5+ 46.Ke3 Nxh7 47.Bxf7 Ng5 48.Bd5 Rge2+ 49.Kd3 Rxe5 50.c4 Ree2 51.Rf1 Rf2 52.Rh1 Rb3+ 53.Kd4 Rd2+ 54.Ke5 Re2+ 55.Kf5 Nf3 56.Rh7+ Kd6 57.Rxb7 Nd4+ 58.Kg4 Nxb5 59.Bf3 Ree3 60.cxb5 Rxf3 61.Rxa7 Rg3+ 62.Kf4 Rbf3+ 63.Ke4 Re3+ 0-1