[Event "Barrow-van Riel 2018"] [Site "Bendigo"] [Date "2018.05.20"] [White "Ruari Coffey"] [Black "Terry Mills"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1438"] [BlackElo "615"] [ECO "A13"] [Opening "English: 1...e6 2.g3"] 1.c4 e6 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Nc6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Nf3 O-O 6.O-O Re8 7.a3 {Forcing the bishop to make a choice (R.C)} Be7? {Bf8, otherwise blocking the rook (R.C)} 8.d4 (8.b4 d5 9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.Bb2 {Is also playable (R.C)}) 8...d5 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Re1 Bf5 11.Nh4 Be6 12.Nf3 {Doing nothing apart from maybe regaining the white squares for the queen (R.C)} Na5 13.e4 dxe4 14.Nxe4 Bb3 15.Qd2 Nc4?? {Giving white a decent advantage (R.C)} 16.Qc3 Nxe4 17.Rxe4 Nd6 18.Rxe7 Qxe7 19.Qxb3 Qe6 20.Qxe6 Rxe6 {two pieces for the rook, I now needed to somehow consolidate my position (R.C)} 21.Be3 Nc4 22.Ne5 Nxe3 23.fxe3 c6 (23...f6?? 24.Bd5 Re8 25.Bxe6+ Rxe6 26.Nc4 b5 27.d5 Re4 28.Nd2 Rxe3 29.Rc1 {With white possibly being better in terms of an endgame}) 24.Re1 f6 25.Nd3 Rd8 26.Nc5 {threat was Rxd4, exd4 Rxe1+ (R.C)} Re7 27.Kf2 {b4?? Rxd4 (R.C)} b6 28.Na4 {or Na6 also works (R.C)} Rc7 29.b4 {prevents any c5 push (R.C)} Kh8 30.Rc1 b5? {creates a hole for the knight and a backwards pawn (R.C)} 31.Nc5 Re8 32.Na6 Rce7 33.Bxc6 Rc8 34.Rc5 h6 35.Bxb5 Rd8 36.Bc4 {at first I thought this a mistake but somehow works out (R.C)} Rde8 37.Nc7 Rc8 38.Ne6 Rce8 39.d5 f5 $18 {Rd7 or Rd8 (R.C)} 40.d6 Rxe6 41.Bxe6 Rxe6 42.d7 Rd6 43.Rc8+ {#r} 1-0