[Event "BCC Championship"] [Site "BCC"] [Date "2016.05.19"] [Round "7"] [White "Rodney Jacobs"] [Black "James Watson"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1659"] [BlackElo "1802"] [ECO "B06"] [Opening "Modern: 3.c3"] 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c3 d6 4.f4 d5 5.e5 Nh6 6.Be2 b6 7.Nf3 Bg4 8.O-O Nf5 9.Qe1 a6 10.e6! Bxf3 {If 10.....f6 11. Ng5 (RJ)} 11.exf7+ Kxf7 12.Rxf3 e6 13.g4 Nd6 14.Bd3 {Deep Shredder prefers the immediate Rh3 (RJ)} Re8 15.Rh3 Kg8 {Deep Shredder gives White .53 at this point.} 16.g5? {To allow Qh4 without the Queen swap. But overlooking the fact that the black Queen's knight can comfortably come to the aid of h7. And Qh4 would not have worked anyway!. As James picked up in post-games analysis, after 16.....Nf5, 17. Bxf5 ef 19. Qh4 h5! Black has Re1ch. All White has done is to give up the f5 square and render his Queen's bishop ineffective. Deep Shredder gives Be3. (RJ)} Nd7 17.Nd2 c5 18.Nf3 {Around about this point I was trying to get myself into a position where Rxh7 Kxh7 Qh4ch Kg8 Bxg6 might work. (RJ)} cxd4 19.cxd4 Qe7 {Deep Shredder doesn't really like this, preferring b5, presumably with the idea of Nb6 - c4. (RJ)} 20.Bd2 Nf5 21.Bxf5 exf5 22.Ne5 {Deep shredder gives White a minimal (.44) advantage here, (RJ)} Bxe5 {Deep Shredder gives White .48 here. (RJ)} 23.fxe5? {An error, after which the edge passes to Black. As James pointed out after the game, taking with the wrong pawn. I was keen to keep the black knight out of c5, and to avoid the position being opened up in the centre of the board while my king had little protection. But the weak pawns at d4 and g5 will now give White headaches. (RJ)} Nf8! {Strangely, the most effective attacking move in the game! And one which I overlooked. (RJ)} 24.Rg3? {As so often happens, following one error with another. The point is that the rook is too vulnerable to the advancing f pawn, which becomes a monster. Rd3 is necesary, after which Deep Shredder gives Black a .21 advantage. (RJ)} Ne6 25.Bb4 Qd8! {Keeping an eye on the weak g4 pawn, (RJ)} 26.Qd2 a5 27.Bd6 f4 28.Rg4 Nxg5 29.Qg2 {With hopes of sacrificing the rook at g6 and a perpetual. (RJ)} f3 30.Qg3 {Now also running very short of time. (RJ)} f2+! {This damn pawn just keeps coming! It's immune because of knight forks at e4 and h3. (RJ)} 31.Kg2 Ne4 32.Rxg6+ Kh8! {Black obviously has better than a draw now.} 33.Qh3 {With now only 4 minutes left on the clock, White is losing his way. Qf4 holds out longer (RJ)} Rg8! {James plays this last phase of the game ruthlessly. (RJ)} 34.Rg4 Qd7 35.e6 {2 minutes to go, losing the plot. (RJ)} Qxd6 36.Kh1 Qxe6 37.Rxg8+ Qxg8 38.Qh5 Qe6 39.Rc1 Nd2 {A nice cool, accurate game by James, pouncing immediately when I went astray. (RJ)} {#R} 0-1