[Event "Koelle 'B'"]
[Site "BCC"]
[Date "2016-10-20"]
[White "Andre Davis"]
[Black "Jasan Barnett"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo "826"]
[Result "0-1"]

{All comments by JPB (unless stated otherwise).} 1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 {I've played Alexhine's Defence as my standard reply to e4 for nearly 12 months now and have seen quite a few players reply with Nc3 as the second move for white. In my experience with Alekhine's Defence, playing Nc3 (a refutation of sorts I suppose) gives black an opening advantage by playing 2... d5 (threatening the e4 pawn with two pieces). If I played white I would always play 2. e5 as my second move. Chessmaster 10th ed. describes 2. Nc3 as one of the most innocuous responses to the Alekhine's Defense and cannot hope for maintenance of first move advantage.} d5 3.d3?! {Permits 3....dxe4. Taking back with 4.dxe4 results in 4....Qxd1+ 5.Nxd1 Nxe4 (losing a pawn) or 5.Kxd1 to keep the pawn but lose the ability to castle.} dxe4! 4.d4 e6 5.Bd2!? {I'm going to classify this as a trap that I didn't see coming considering what follows.} Qxd4 6.Nb5 Qd8 7.Bf4! {I thought this was white's best move of the game. (Even though the analysis engine prefers something else.) White is threatening to move the knight to c7 on move 8 with a check & rook fork with the queen unable to take the knight at c7. Also, the black queen is under attack (discovered) by the white queen. If black's next move is not good enough, then white is winning.} Nd5! {Black's game saving move (potentially). Others, I'm sure would have found it more quickly than I did, but, in the end, it took me about 25 minutes to find this move. My original thoughts were that I couldn't rescue the situation and would have to suffer material loss here, which is why I was looking first at possibilities such as 7....Na6, Bd6, Qxd1, g5 (all of which were flawed). Finally I found Nd5 (which seems to be the only good move here) and breathed a sigh of relief.} 8.Qd2 c6 {Very keen to get rid of that pesky knight.} 9.Bg5? {The knight should have been moved away before attempting something like this.} f6 10.Nh3? {c4 would have made things interesting once again. Black would have lost the ability to castle (perhaps).} cxb5 11.Rd1? {Losing the bishop at g5. Bishop taking pawn at b5 (check) would have been better).} fxg5 {I have three sets of doubled pawns, I only have developed 1 knight but white is about -8 pawns down according to the analysis engine.} 12.Nxg5 Qf6 {e3 was apparently the best move, but the exchange combination following it is too wild for my liking.} 13.Rb1 a6 {The engine still wants me to do e3} 14.Nxe4 Qe5 15.Bd3 Nc6 16.c3 Ncb4!? {Hoping for 17.cxb4 18.Bxb4 (and the white queen is lost)} 17.Qc1?? Nxd3+ 18.Ke2? {Allowing another check on move 19.} Nxc1+ 19.Rbxc1 Qxe4+ 20.Kd1? {Moving into a forced mate, which was followed through...} Qd3+ 21.Ke1 Nf4 22.Rg1 Qe2#