[Event "Live Chess"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2016.07.21"] [Round "-"] [White "egor_tensin"] [Black "bennisimoh"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1719"] [BlackElo "1759"] [TimeControl "900+10"] [Termination "egor_tensin won by resignation"] [Annotator "egor_tensin"] {I was so happy to win a game against a 1800-rated player (my opponent was rated at 1809 when the game started) only to realized after the game it was only his 12th game, and the first loss he had suffered. He lost like 50 rating points after this game. But still!} 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nc6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Bf5 5.O-O e6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Nh4 Bg6 8.Nxg6 hxg6 9.a3 Ba5 10.b4 Bb6 11.e3 a6 12.Rb1 Ne7 13.a4 c6 14.a5 Bc7 15.Na4 Nf5 16.Qd3 Nd6 17.Re1 Rb8 18.e4 {I was trying to get my bishop on c1 to breathe. A bit prematurely, probably.} (18.Nc5 {was better, preparing the idea.}) 18...dxe4 19.Bxe4 Nfxe4 20.Rxe4 Nxe4 {I didn't sacrifice the exchange concisely... I was just trying to break in the center. Anyway, I'm simply down an exchange now.} 21.Qxe4 Rh5 22.Rb3 {Trying to get my rook to become active.} Qd6 {Giving me two extra tempi and preventing the queens from being exchanged.} (22...Qd5 {Not sure what I would've done had he chosen to try to exchange the queens.}) 23.Bf4 Qd7 24.Nc5 Qd8 {A big mistake.} 25.Nxe6 {I was proud to immediately see this. His pieces are so bad though, it doesn't feel like an achievement.} fxe6 26.Qxg6+ Kf8 27.Qxh5 Bxf4 28.Rf3 e5 29.Qxe5 g5 30.gxf4 g4 31.Qf5+ {And now irrespectively of where his king goes, I'm either winning the pawn on g4 with a check or deliver a deadly check with Re3+.} Ke7 32.Re3+ Kd6 33.Qe5+ Kd7 34.Qe6+ Kc7 35.Qf7+ Kd6 36.Re6+ ({The game could've ended after} 36.Re6+ Kd5 37.Qf5+ Kc4 38.Qc5#) 1-0