[Event "BCCCA 2018"]
[Site "BMI"]
[Date "2018-05-24"]
[White "Rob Loveband"]
[Black "Rodney Jacobs"]
[WhiteElo "1744"]
[BlackElo "1697"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Bd6 6.Be2 O-O 7.Ne5 {Thinking to open things up a bit and hopefully swap a knight for a bishop(RL)} dxc4? {An innacuracy, ceding the centre. I had thought about c5; Stockfish 7 says it's best. Deep shredder prefers Ne4. (RJ)} 8.Nxc4 Bc7 9.O-O Nbd7 10.Qc2 {Really should have pushed f4 but after overextending and losing on the weekend to Nigel, I was playing safely. (RL) Yes, after this, it's equal again. (RJ)} e5 {My programs both go for this. (RJ)} 11.Rd1 Qe7 12.b3 {Forcing Black to do something about the nasty threat of Ba3. (RJ)} b5! 13.Nb2 a6 {Rodney thought for 30 minutes before a6... Komodo says he had the right idea, a6 and Nb6 with both knights converging on d5 (RL)} 14.Bf3 exd4 15.exd4 Re8 16.Bd2 {Nd3 better (RL)} Qd6? {Nf8 is the move. (RJ)} 17.g3 {Best. (RJ)} Nb6 18.Ne4 {Bf4 is stronger. Now it's even. (RJ)} Nxe4 19.Bxe4 Nd5 20.Bxh7+ {Komodo give an advantage to black after taking the pawn. Re1 better. (RL) Mine agree that Re1 is the move, but suggest Black's advantage is very slight. (RJ)} Kf8? {Rh8, with the idea that g6 really is a threat, is better. (RJ)} 21.Nd3 {My programs like Re1 better, and say it's now even. (RJ)} Re2? {The first 'bad' move by black. (RL) Yes, but it'd leave out the polite quotation marks. I had in mind a subsequent Ne6 and if fe, Rxa7, followed by Qxb6. But it doesn't work anyway. After Rxh7 Ne4! stops it all. After Re2 White has an advantage of +2. (RJ)} 22.Nf4? {Returning the favour. Now it's even again. (RJ)} Nxf4? {And again. Black here has 22......Rxd2!  23 Qxd2  Nxf4  24. Qxf4  Qxf4  25. gf  g6. Messy, but even. (RJ)} 23.Bxf4 Qe6? {That was possibly the losing move; better was Qxf4 and losing the exchange but trying to trap the white bishop later on (RL). Yes. (RJ)} 24.Qc5+ {Now the engines say White has an advantage of about 5. (RJ)} Ke8 25.Bxc7 {d5 or Bd3 better} g6 26.Qg5 {White's first 'bad' move; Komodo took off 4 points! (RL)} Bb7 27.Be5? Qd5 28.Bf4 Qf3 29.Be3 c5 30.Qe5+ Kd8 {There's now a mate in 8 moves after dxc5+, but I couldn't see it and was fearful of the mate threat by the black queen (RL)} 31.d5?? {Allowing Qxf2+, Bxf2 RxQe5 and nearly equalising from a lost position! Luckily, Rod didn't see it. (RL)} Kd7 32.Qf4 Qh5 33.Qxf7+ Kc8 34.Bxg6 Qg4 35.Bf5+ {Black resigned} {#r}