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Oswestry Chess Club
[Event "Club Championship 2024/5"] [Site "Oswestry"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "Rd 4"] [White "Read, Stephen"] [Black "Grocott-James, Al"] [Result "0-1"] [Annotator "Al Grocott-James"] [PlyCount "82"] [Variant "Standard"] [Termination "Resignation"] [FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"] 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c6 {prevents 4.Nb5 targeting the c7 square.} 4.e3 Nbd7 {Now the knight blocks my bishop. Stockfish admonishes me -- 4... Bf5 first.} 5.Nf3 Nh5 {What do you know? I made an engine recommended move.} 6.Bd3 Nxf4 {And another.} 7.exf4 e6 {A pawn formation that favours my dark square bishop (dsb), but not so good for its light square twin,(lsb) especially since White's lsb is so powerful.} 8.O-O Bd6 9.Qd2 O-O 10.Qe3 Qf6 {I want to stop any nonsense from the White queen.} 11.Ne5 Qh6 12.Ne2 Nxe5 13.fxe5 Qxe3 {and I do. Admitedly this opens the f-file for White's rook, but you can't have everything.} 14.fxe3 Be7 15.Rf3 Bd7 16.Raf1 c5 17.c3 c4 {I knock the bishop back a square, but to no real purpose. 17...b5 or Rb8 are slightly stronger, initiating counter play on the queenside.} 18.Bc2 a5 {18...b5 followed by 19...b6 is more logical.} 19.Rh3 g6 20.Rh6 Bg5 21.Rh3 Be7 {A quick two-step by the rook and bishop.} 22.Rff3 Be8 {adding protection to the threatened g6 square.} 23.Rfg3 {? The evaluation has dropped to -2.0 with this move. White has plenty of ordnance trained on my kingside defences but he has immobilised his f and g pawns by placing his two rooks in front of them. They cannot now be used to soften up my position.} 23...f5 {Stockfish wants action on the queenside with 23...a5.} 24.exf6 Rxf6 {Now I have the f-file. I need to swap off pieces to nullify White's aggression.} 25.Nf4 Ra6 {I know the theKnight is headed for h5 to attack both my f6 rook and my e6 pawn, so the rook lift protects the pawn allowing me to withdraw my rook.} 26.Nh5 Rf8 27.Nf4 Rf6 {Here SFish is nagging for 27...a4, but I want to counter the three attackers of the g6 pawn with three defenders.} 28.Rh6 Bf8 29.Rh5 Bd6 {Aha, I have survived White's kingside assault and now he has pinned his knight to the g3 rook giving me the chance to eliminate pieces.} 30.Rg4 Bxf4 31.Rxf4 {Better for Black is 31.exf4, not allowing me to swap offrooks.} 31...Rxf4 32.Rxh7 {Giving up his remaining rook for a pawn gives White time to snaffle my f4 rook.} 32...Kxh7 33.exf4 {I am a rook tothe good. let theendgame begin.} 33...a4 34.b3 axb3 35.axb3 Ra1+ 36.Bd1 Rxd1+ 37.Kf2 Rd2+ 38.Ke3 Rd3+ {Now I can feast on pawns.} 39.Ke2 Rxc3 40.Kd2 Rxb3 41.Kc2 Ba4 0-1
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