ANNOTATED GAME

Chess game
Geoffrey Herbert (170BCF) vs. me (158BCF)
Annotated by: charleshiggie (2211)
Chess opening: Sicilian defence (B30)
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21. g4
This seems poor, helping my knight on its way. Computer likes Bh6 now, but I played....

 
21... Nd6 22. Nd4
So he hits my queen

 
22... Qa6
I retreat

 
23. Qa4
He attacks c6
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23... Nb5
And now everything is holding on Black's queenside

 
24. Nd2
He develops

 
24... Nxd4
I exchange before he can re-inforce his knight with Nd2-f3

 
25. Qxd4
He takes with the queen

 
25... Bg7
I continue to develop

 
26. Nb3
Still dreaming of queenside activity

 
26... O-O
I finally castle

 
27. Nc5
In comes the knight

 
27... Qe2
and I attack with the queen

 
28. Bd2
He finds a slightly strange way of protecting b2

 
28... f5
I attack his queen, also with threats of exchanging on g4 and opening up the f file against his king. He is more or less forced to exchange queens, into a lost ending

 
29. Qe3
So he moves the queen

 
29... Qxe3
I take

 
30. Bxe3
He takes back

 
30... f4
I hit his bishop

 
31. Bd2
He retreats

 

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