Chris - Narz
Santa Cruz Weekly Tourny (Borders Book Store), 2007
Round 3

1.e4 c5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.d3 e6 6.Be3 d6 7.Nf3 Nge7 8.Qd2 a blunder, now I win a piece for a pawn (or at most two pawns) 8...d5 9.exd5 exd5 10.Bb5 10. Bxd5 Nxd5 11. Bxc4 was probably better * 10...d4 fork 11.Ne5 dxe3 12.Qxe3 Qd4 13.Qf3 Bxe5 14.fxe5 Qxe5+ 15.Kd1 O-O 16.Re1 Qd4 17.Re4 Qg1+ 18.Re1 Qxh2 I suppose I could have just taken h2 right away 19.Kd2 Nd4 20.Qf6 Qxg2+ Fritz prefers Nd5 21. Nxd5 Qxg2+ 22. Ke3 Nf5+ & then the queen must sacrifice herself or else 23. Kf4 Qg3 24. Ke4 Nd6+ 25. Qxd6 f5# but I didn't see all that fancy stuff 21.Re2 Nxe2 22.Nxe2 Bg4 a big blunder, giving up the knight but he misses it 23.Bc4 Qxe2+ 24.Kc3 b5 Fritz gives me a ! for that one, if takes knight fork wins queen 25.Rh1 bxc4 26.Qg5 h5 completely unnecessary but under time pressure I didn't have time to analyze and wanted to make sure counterplay was impossible 27.Qh4 Nf5 Nd5 instead leads to mate in six, 28. Kxc4 Qxc2 29. Kxd5 Qxd3 30. Kxc5 R(f)c8+ 31. Kb4 Rab8+ 32. Ka4 Qa6# * 28.Qf6 Ne3 29.Qa6 amazing how people's games fall apart after an opening blunder, this is one of my advantages, I do my darnest not to fall into a downward spiral 29...Qxc2# 0-1