[Event "BCC Championship"] [Site "BCC"] [Date "2016.06.02"] [Round "9"] [White "Rodney Jacobs"] [Black "Harrison Harrison"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1659"] [BlackElo "1706"] [ECO "B21"] [Opening "Sicilian: Smith-Morra Accepted"] 1.e4 {No opening preparation. Virtually impossible to prepare against Harrison!} c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 d6 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.Nf3 {6. e5 Nd7 (not de? Bf7ch! wins the queen) e6 was worth a shot, (RJ)} e6 7.O-O Be7 8.Qe2 Nbd7 {Nc6 is the more usual and better move. (RJ)} 9.Rd1 {Along with Qe2, a move a Morra player will play almost automically. (RJ)} a6 10.Bf4 {The Computer prefers e5 (RJ)} e5 {Deep shredder prefers b5. (RJ)} 11.Bg5 Qc7 {The Computer says this is OK, but I was very happy to the see the Queen on the file I intended to put a rook on. The queen often goes here in the Morra, but there is usually a knight in front of it.(RJ)} 12.Rac1 {Threatening Nb5 (RJ)} b5? {Disastrous. Qb8 was necessary. (RJ)} 13.Nxb5 {The knight can't be taken as Bxf7ch wins the queen. (RJ)} Qb8 14.Nc7+ {The knight is still immune (RJ)} Kf8 15.Nxa8 {Not the best move! 15. Bb3 and if Ra7? 16. Qc4! (RJ)} Qxa8 16.Bxf6 Nxf6 17.Bd5? {Missing Ng5. (RJ)} Nxd5 18.exd5 Bb7 19.Qd2 {Rc7 is much stronger. (RJ)} f6 20.Nh4 g6? {Bc8. (RJ)} 21.Rc7 Kf7 22.Nf3? {Missing Qb5!} g5? 23.Ne1? {Wanting to get the knight to the more useful square e3.. But Overlooking Nxg5 fg 24. Qxg5 Qf8 (if Re8 Rd3! forces mate) 25 Rxb7 (RJ)} Re8 24.Nc2 {Deep Shredder prefers h4. (RJ)} Qb8 25.Rc3 Bd8 26.Rh3 Kg6 27.Qe2 Kg7 28.Qh5? {I thought for a while about Nd4, but was was worried about Bc8. But Nd4 is the better move.(RJ)} Rh8 29.Qe2 Bc8 30.Rb3 Qa7 31.Nb4 Bb6 32.Nc6 Qc7 33.Rc3 h5 34.Rdc1 Qf7 35.a4 {I looked at Ne5, which is a bit stronger, but could not see through the complications. (RJ)} Re8 36.Qd1 Bg4 37.Qb3 Bc5 38.h3 Bf5 39.Qd1 {Renewing the threat of b4 (RJ)} Be4 40.b4 Bb6 {At the time I thought Qxd5 might have been stronger. The computer program confirms it is. (RJ)} 41.a5 Bd8 42.Nxd8 Rxd8 43.Rc7 Rd7 44.f3?? {Maybe relaxing after finally getting the position I was after. Simply not noticing that the rook was attacked twice.(RJ)} Rxc7 45.fxe4 {I tried to look calm to convince Harrison there was some deep strategy behind the giving up of the rook. But I don't think he was buying it. The computer now calls it dead even.(RJ)} h4 46.Rc6 Qd7? {A bad mistake, giving White a renewed advantage. Rxc6 was necessary. (RJ)} 47.Qc2? {Deep Shredder indicates Qg4, which I had considered and rejected, is much stronger. (RJ)} Ra7 48.Qc4 {There is not much in it, but Deep Shredder prefers Qe2, which also attacks the Black a pawn, but discourages b4. (RJ)} g4 49.hxg4 Qxg4 50.Qd3 {Rxd3 is stronger. (RJ)} Rb7 51.Qf3 Qg5 52.Rxd6 Rxb4 53.Rb6 Ra4 54.Rxa6 f5? {Ra1ch (RJ)} 55.Ra7+? {Qc3! (RJ)} Kh6 56.Ra6+ Kg7? {Again allowing White the opportunity to play Qc3, with the threat of check. Kh7! is necessary. (RJ} 57.Qc3 {Seeing it this time. (RJ)} Ra1+? {Not necessary. Black can play Kh7, but is still now lost. (RJ)} 58.Qxa1 Qe3+ 59.Kh1 {Black has no more checks. (RJ)} Qxe4 60.Qc1 {Preventing all checks and threatening 2 nasty checks.(RJ)} Qxd5 61.Qg5+ {Qh6 ch is a bit more accurate. (RJ)} Kf7 62.Qf6+ Ke8 63.Re6+ Kd7 64.Re7+ Kd8 65.Qf8# {A tension-filled, game with unbalanced positions, of the type where it is very hard to know what to do and any inaccuracies are blunders because of the severe consequences. All above analysis with aid of computer. (RJ)} 1-0