[Event "Teters 2019"]
[Site "Mechanics Institute"]
[Date "2019-07-25"]
[White "FM Simon Rutherford"]
[Black "Rodney Jacobs"]
[WhiteElo "1995"]
[BlackElo "1670"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 d5 {I had looked on the net at the first few moves of about 75 of Simon's games, to try to find out what would be best to play. There was only one centre counter game. There Simon played 2. ed. So I was confident that would be the line he would play. And, yes, I would take it up to him. Wrong! (RJ)} 2.Nc3 {I had never seen this,(RJ)} dxe4?! {Already losing my way. Chessbase shows the most popular move as c6, followed by Nf6. de is the fifth best move. (RJ)} 3.Nxe4 e5?! {Again far from the best move. Bf4 is the most played move, followed by Nf6. (RJ)} 4.Bc4 Nf6? {Played carelessly, not noticing the reply. (RJ)} 5.Ng5 {The position is now looking similar to a two knight's defence, with the Fried Liver Attack to come. I knew I was already in deep trouble. (RJ)} Bc5? {In desperation, looking for a type of Traxler position. Much better is 5....Nd5 after which Black has a tough game but holds on for a while. (RJ)} 6.Nxf7 Qd4 {Bxf2ch is slightly better, but still losing. (RJ)} 7.Qe2 Rf8 8.Nf3 Qe4 9.N7xe5 {Black is now two pawns down with no compensation. I was simply outclassed and out of my depth from move 2. Very briefly afterwards Simon showed me some of the lines he had seen. It was really impressive. A good lesson! (RJ)} {#r}