[Event "BCCC2019 "]
[Site "Mechanics Institute"]
[Date "2019-05-02"]
[White "Caitlin Barnett"]
[Black "Rodney Jacobs"]
[WhiteElo "1183"]
[BlackElo "1613"]
[Result "0.5-0.5"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 {Played on the spur of the moment to put Caitlin off her preparation. Wrong. (RJ)} 3.dxe5 d4 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.a3 {The second most played on Chessbase, the first being g3. White stops Bb4ch, and thereby avoids the Laskar trap (RJ)} Bg4 {Again the second most popular move, the first being Nbd7. (RJ)} 6.Bf4 {Hanging onto the gained pawn for dear life. The fifth best move according to Chessbase. (RJ)} Nge7 $10 7.Nbd2 Ng6 8.Bg3 a5 {Looks logical, but takes the game off the beaten track, and is probably the start of the rot. The book moves are are those Deep Shredder and Stockfish 9 like, namely Qd7 and Qe7 respectively. (RJ)} 9.Qb3 {This looked pretty good to me. But the engines say h4 is even stronger. (RJ)} Rb8 {A bit timid. The engines like 9.....a4  10. Qxb7  Bd7. (RJ)} 10.Qd3 {h4 instead of queen d3 and white is better by fritz16 [jb]} Be7 {Bc5 is much better. (RJ)} 11.e3 dxe3 12.Qxe3 O-O 13.Be2 f5!? {The engines like Re8 better. (RJ)} 14.exf6! {In fact forced. (RJ)} Bxf6 {I was hoping that this position, leading from f5, with a slight lead in development, open lines and a bit more space, would give me some compensation for the gambit pawn. But the awkward position of my queen meant that was a faint hope. (RJ)} 15.O-O-O! {Jason was really getting into the spirit of this game. He was following closely and dripped sweat onto our table. Having gained zero initiative for my gambit pawn and simply playing a pawn down, I was nearly doing the same.  (RJ)} Re8 16.Ne4 Qe7 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.Qd2 {Stockfish 9 puts it at +.33 here. (RJ)} Rbd8 19.Qc2! Bxf3 {Nf4 is much stronger. (RJ)} 20.Rxd8 Rxd8 21.Bxf3 Nd4 22.Qc3 Qg5+? {Seeing things which are not there. simply Nxf3, after which White's edge is small. (RJ)} 23.Kb1 Qf5+ $14 {Accuracy white is 51 per cent and black 48 per cent according fritz16 good game by you both [jb]} 24.Ka2 Nxf3 25.Qxf3 Qxf3 26.gxf3 Rd7 27.Re1 Kf7 28.Re2 {Kb3 is a little better. (RJ)} c6 29.b4?! {The engines feel this gives White's advantage away, and again prefer Kg3. (RJ)} axb4 30.axb4 Rd4 31.Re4 Rd2+ 32.Kb1 Rd3 33.Re3 {Stockfish 9  now says its 0.00! A fine, virtually error-free game by Caitlin, following up some obviously pretty good preparation. I had to fight hard to get the draw and perhaps was a bit fortunate to get it.  (RJ)} {#d}