[Event "Teters Memorial"]
[Site "Mechanics Institute"]
[Date "2019-08-22"]
[White "Jamie Brotheridge"]
[Black "Rodney Jacobs"]
[WhiteElo "1548"]
[BlackElo "1670"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.a3 b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Bxf6 {With the idea of getting in e4. But gives Black the two bishops. (RJ)} Bxf6 7.e4 d5 8.e5 Be7 9.Nf3 O-O 10.b4 {Doesn't really get White anywhere. Deep Shredder likes 10. cd  ed  11. Bd3, aiming at Black's kingside. (RJ)} f6 {Maybe returning the favour. The engine much prefers 10......dc  11. Bxc4 c5! breaking up White's centre pawns. (RJ)} 11.c5 a5 {Nd7 is much better. I didn't play it, wrongly worrying about the response b5, not seeing that it fails to bc. I did notice it on the next move. (RJ)} 12.Bd3 Nd7 13.O-O {ef is probably necessary. (RJ)} fxe5 {ab is preferable. (RJ)} 14.dxe5 {Nxe5. (RJ)} bxc5 15.Qc2?! h6 {I looked for a long time at ab, but wasn't game. The computer says it's fine and that White can hold out White's kingside attack. (RJ)} 16.bxa5 Rxa5 {Deep Shredder here goes for Rxf3ch!, with an advantage of 2. (RJ)} 17.Rfb1 Bc6 {An interesting position. Black's king has almost no protection, and Black is terribly weak on the White squares around the king. But White has no Black squared bishop and Black dominates the Black squares on the kingside. (RJ)} 18.Bh7+ {Doesn't really do anything. (RJ)} Kh8 19.Qg6? {Looks very scary, but in fact nothing is threatened. (RJ)} d4 {Not bad, but Rxf3! followed by Nf8 picks up White's bishop. (RJ)} 20.Ne4 Bxe4? {Giving away most of Black's advantage. Again Rxf3! is the move. (RJ)} 21.Qxe4 Nb6 22.Bg6 Nd5 23.Qg4 Nf4 {After I made this move Jamie now thought for a long time. White he was, I noticed that the White bishop can't retreat because of the response h5, trapping the White Queen. After a little longer, Jamie swore under his breath. Perhaps he then noticed it too! (RJ)} 24.Nd2 {Making an escape route for the queen. (RJ)} Nxg6 {Deep Shredder points out that d3! is much stronger, with the idea of playing Qd4 followed by the advance of the c pawn. (RJ)} 25.Qxg6 Qd5 26.f4 {Qd3 is better. White doesn't have to protect the e5 pawn because he would have knight fork on c4. (RJ)} c4 27.Rf1 Raa8 {Overly worried about the back rank. c3! is better. (RJ)} 28.Ne4 d3 29.Rad1 Rf5! {Looks dangerous, but works. (RJ)} 30.Ng3 Qd4+ 31.Kh1 Rxf4 32.Nh5 Rxf1+ 33.Rxf1 Qxe5 34.Nf4 Rf8 35.Qg4 Kg8 {Quicker is 35.....Rxc4  36. Qxf4  Qxf4 37. Rxf4  e2. (RJ)} 36.g3 Qe4+ 37.Rf3 d2 {#T}