[Event "Ballarat-Geelong match, board 1"]
[Site "Ballarat"]
[Date "2018-08-12"]
[White "Bas van Riel"]
[Black "Michael Sugrue"]
[WhiteElo "1789"]
[BlackElo "1864"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.c4 c5 5.O-O O-O 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Nc6 8.e3 Nxd4 9.exd4 d5 10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Nc3 Be6 12.Be3 Rc8 13.Qd2 Re8 14.Rac1 Qd7 15.Rfd1 b6 16.a3 Nxc3 17.bxc3 Bb3 18.Re1 Bd5 19.Bf1 Bc4 20.Bg2 e6 21.Bh6 {(bas) now it is white's turn to invite black to swap his good bishop against his weak colleague} Bh8 22.Bf4 e5!? 23.Be3 exd4 24.Bxd4 {(bas) Michael was convinced that he would win a pawn here. I was quite worried, I must admit} Red8 25.Qg5 {(bas) I thought for 15 minutes here, as there is a lot to calculate. My choice was simply between Qf4 or Qg5, though. Immediately after I played 25.Qg5, I had a sneaky feeling that I had made the wrong choice. It was only at the postmortem that we discovered that Qf4 indeed would have been the better choice as inthat case the d4-pawn would be poisoned: 25.Qf4,Bxd4; 26.cxd4, Qxd4?; 27.Re8!, and black will loose a rook. It turned out that both of us had overlooked this option during the game. Oddly enough, the same theme will bite black at the end of the game when disaster struck for him.} Bxd4 26.cxd4 Qxd4 27.Re4 $10 Qd1+! {(bas) white's only move. eg after Qb3, Qa4 or Qd3 white will win after 28. R4xc4 and black's rook on d8 hangs; or 27...Qd5, Re8+ with the loss of black's queen.} 28.Re1 {(bas) probably not white's best move, but I did not like my position, resulting from 28.Rxd1, Rxd1+; 29.Bf1, Bxf1; (threatening 30...Bh3 checkmate) 30.f3, Bd3+; 31.Kf2, Rc2+ etc. However, I overlooked the saving move 30.Qe5!, Rcc1 and white would have perpetual checks. Unfortunately, such deep calculation was beyond me, obviously....} Qd2?? {(bas) black, having a plus-pawn could have played Qd6 or Qd7, to exert pressure on white's weak 3 pawn and clearly play for a win. Instead, he overlooked the same trap which could have occured earlier. See comment at move 25.} 29.Re8+ $18 {#r}