ANNOTATED GAME

Challenge from patapum
patapum (1751) vs. 12barblues (1801)
Annotated by: patapum (1200)
Chess opening: French (C16), Winawer, Petrosian variation
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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Qd7
Not frequent move in French defense. The most usual way is 4 ... c5.

 
5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 b6 7. Qg4
Attack! It is first move leading to interesting position where I went into complications and losed.

 
7... f5 8. Qg3 Ba6 9. Bxa6 Nxa6 10. Ne2 Nb8 11. Nf4 Nc6 12. Nxe6
Long thinking about move... Decision is simple - towards interesting game! Great acknowledgement to my opponent - the game was beautiful!

 
12... Qxe6 13. Qxg7 Qg6 14. Qxh8 O-O-O
The Queen is catched! But it didn't look simple to eat it!

 
15. O-O Rd7 16. c4
Maybe this move was a mistake! I didn't see 18th move of my opponent. While annotation I cosidered 16. Rd1 h6 17. c4 Rh7 18. Qxh7 Qxh7 19. cxd5 It is better for white than those what happened.

 
16... h6 17. cxd5 Nxd4 18. e6
I seemed situation is good for me: how can Black win the Queen now? The answer was short!

 
18... Nf3+ 19. Kh1 Rg7
And White can't play 20. g3 because 20 ... Qh5 21. h4 Nxh4 or 21. Kg2 Nh4 22. Kg1 Qf3 with checkmate. So White get only Rook for their Queen. And lose a little bit more...

 
20. Qxg7 Qxg7 21. Bxh6
Rook at a1 was under attack! Once more pay for 16th move!

 
21... Qxh6 22. gxf3
White formally have material advantage, but I think game is losed. Central pawns don't make real threat when opened position of White King gives Black good attack.

 
22... Qf4 23. Rfe1 Qxf3+ 24. Kg1 Qg4+ 25. Kh1 Qf3+ 26. Kg1 Qg4+ 27. Kh1 Nf6 28. e7 Kd7 29. Re6 Ke8 30. Rf1
Rxf6 was impossible because Qd4. The end...

 
30... Qf3+ 31. Kg1 Nxd5