Annotated chess game: With a final touch...

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ANNOTATED GAME

With a final touch...
damafi (1595) vs. wierd_open (1534)
Annotated by: damalfi (1200)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn, Mason variation (D00)

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Another wild game, with a final thrust of good chessistic thinking, maybe sound enough to deserve an annotation.

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nbd2 Bd6 5. Ne5 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. c3

I know, you'll say that c4 was better... but this is just the way I play.

7... c4 8. g4 Nbd7

This move allows the tricky Nxf7. Black has to retake, the Q is threatened, and then BxBd6, winning a pawn. BUT it opens the f column for his R, and I am not sure I have a winning attack after that. So...

9. g5 Ne8

Now the Nxf7 threat is no more.

10. h4

Solidifying my pawn. He should play f6 now, I will have to go Ng4, then hold e5... no I have no real edge.

10... Bxe5 11. dxe5 g6

It makes my work a little more difficult. Anyway...

12. h5 Kg7

The plain hxg6 is answered with fxg6, and I have nothing really. I have to build some more.

13. Bh3

? I threat now hxg6 and if fxg6, Bxe6. But this is a mistake, since it gives him a very nice counterplay.

13... Rh8

Nc5, threatening the annoying Nd3+. He prefers to help the h column, but this gives me a tempo.

14. hxg6 fxg6

hxg6 would have been better, IMO, since after it I couldn't have swapped the e6 pawn. It was poisoned, nevertheless!

15. Bxe6 Nc5

Yesssss. The only good move for black. Now, I don't have any choice but to hold the countergame. I thought about Nxc4, avoiding the check, but black could have gone for NxB, and my piece sac won't give me anything solid (16. Nxc4, NxB or BxB, my N has to move, and 17. Nd6 just allows NxN, exN. After this move, thoug, I have Ne5 as a nice threat. Still, I wasn't sure about all this during the game. )

16. Bxc8 Nd3+ 17. Ke2 Qxc8 18. Qg1

Preventing Qg4+, followed by NxB, exN, Qxf4, and I'm almost lost.

18... Qf5

I expected NxB here. He is planning Nxb2, then get the Q to d3 with check. The point is: can I afford that, or there is a tactic that kills me? I bet there was none.

19. Qh2 Nxb2 20. Qh6+ Kg8 21. Nf3

This may be a losing move, but let's see if and how he takes advantage of it.

21... Qd3+ 22. Ke1 Qxc3+ 23. Kf1 Qd3+ 24. Kg2 Qe4

Pinning my N is a mild downside for such a terrible incursion. Now, his best chance were the c and d pawns, and I think that aftr d4 I am in very serious trouble.