[Event "BCCC 2018"]
[Site "Mechanics Institute"]
[Date "2018-06-01"]
[White "Rodney Jacobs"]
[Black "Kevin Perrin"]
[WhiteElo "1697"]
[BlackElo "1526"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.c3 dxc3 5.Nxc3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.O-O Be7 8.Qe2 Nf6 9.Rd1 Bd7 10.Bf4 O-O? {Black doesn't have to give up the pawn. e5 is often played here. it is quite playable, despite Black's weakness on d5. (RJ). O-O allows White to recover his gambit pawn, while retaining the typical Morra space and initiative. (RJ)} 11.Bxd6 Bxd6 12.Rxd6 Qe7 13.Rad1 {Better is e5!, preventing e5 by Black. (RJ)} Bc8 {e5 would have prevented the still-threatened e5 by White and freed Black's bishop. (RJ)} 14.e5 Ne8 15.R6d2 a6 16.Ne4 b5 17.Bb3 h6 18.Bc2 Nb4 19.Bb1 Nd5 20.Qd3 f5 {Bb7 is better. (RJ)} 21.exf6 Nexf6 22.Nxf6+ Nxf6 23.Ne5 Qe8 24.Ng4? {Qd6, with the threat of Bg6. (RJ)} Ra7! 25.Nxf6+ gxf6 26.Qe3 {Best. (RJ} Rg7 27.Rd4 {Rd6 is much better} Bb7 28.f3 f5! {Looks awful, but is the best move and surprisingly strong. The point is White's bishop is rendered temporarily useless. (RJ)} 29.Rd8 Qg6 30.Rxf8+ Kxf8 31.Rd8+ Ke7 32.Rd2! {But White has been outplayed in the middle game and his advantage is almost dissipated. (RJ)} Qg5 33.Qd3? {The engines point out that White can in fact play f4 here with advantage. it's now even. (RJ)} Bd5! 34.Bc2 {Best. (RJ)} Kf7 35.Bb3 Bc4? {I was relieved to see this. Bxb3, messing up White's pawns, is much better. But the computers point out that Bxf3! is the move to play. White's best response, seemingly, is h4!} 36.Bxc4 bxc4 37.Qd7+ Kf6 38.Qd8+ {The engines prefer Qd4ch. Very difficult to find the best moves in this position. At this stage I had 3 minutes left, Kevin 7. (RJ)} Re7 39.Qd4+ Kf7 40.f4 Qg4 {Qg8 is better. (RJ)} 41.Qxc4 Kg6 42.Rd3 {With the nasty threat of Rg3. But it is easily met. Re3 is better. (RJ)} Kh7! 43.Qd4 Qe2! 44.Qe3? {Giving away White's advantage. Qc3 is necessary. The engines say it's now even. (RJ)} Qxb2 45.h3 Rg7 46.Rd2 Qc1+ 47.Kh2 Qc4 48.Re2 Re7 49.Qe5 Kg6? {An error, with Kevin now also in time trouble. (2 minutes left.) (RJ)} 50.a3? {Missing Re3!, with the nasty threat of Rg3. (RJ)} Kf7? {The engines say an error and that Kh7! is necessary. Very hard to find with all the time in the world, let alone in severe time trouble. (RJ)} 51.Rd2! {White now has the upper hand again. (RJ)} a5 52.Rd8 {Starting to generate some threats. (RJ)} a4? {Qc7 is necessary. (RJ)} 53.Qb8?? {I was pleased with finding this, but it's a bad mistake. Rh8! is crushing. (RJ)} Kg6? {e5!, allowing the queen in to defend, is needed. (RJ)} 54.Rg8+ Kh5? {Kh7. (RJ)} 55.Qe5 {move 55 mate in two (jb)} Rf7 56.Rh8? {g4  Kh4  57. Qe1 mate. (RJ)} Qe4 57.g4+ Kg6 58.Rg8+ Kh7 59.Qh8# {All comments and analysis made using Deep Shredder 12 and 
Stockfish 7. (RJ)}