| Grangemouth A | v | Stirling B | ||
| Alan Bell John McLay Daniel Kitaev Ian Mason Alan Petrie |
1949 1948 1669 1603 1572 |
0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 |
1703 1520 1504 1499 1342 |
Graham Anderson Brad Duthie Nathanael Loch Douglas Heatlie Harry Feather |
| 3 - 2 |
Below is my game from board 1 where I had Black against Alan. After dropping the exchange, Alan decided he had to sacrifice it back, before I got lucky at the very end.
[Event "Grangemouth A v Stirling B"]
[Site "Grangemouth CC"]
[Date "2024.02.21"]
[Round ""]
[White "Bell, A"]
[Black "Anderson, G"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 d6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. O-O Nxd4
8. Bxd7+ Qxd7 9. Qxd4 Be7 10. Bf4 O-O 11. Rad1 Nh5 12. Be3
{
The original plan had been to follow up Nh5 with Bf6, but only now that the position has come up do I see 12 ... Bf6 13 e5 Bxe5 14 Qxe5 dxe5 15 Rxd7.
}
12... c6 13. e5
{
After c6, I'd intended to reply d5 after e5. But, again, now that the position has come up, have I noticed g4. Stockfish thinks I can get away with d5 but I couldn't see how.
13... d5 14 g4 Bc5 15 Qc4 Qe6 16 Qe2 d4 17 Bxd4 Nf4 18 Qf3 Bxd4 19 Rxd4 g5
}
13... f5 14. exd6 Bf6 15. Qc4+ Kh8 16. Bd4
{
When thinking about this originally, I thought Alan wouldn't play Bd4 because then I could just take back on d6. I still couldn't see what was wrong with it, so...
}
16... Qxd6 17. Bc5 Qc7 18. Bxf8 Rxf8 19. Ne2 f4 20. f3 Qe5 21. Rfe1 Qg5
{
21 ... Bh4 might have been better - make the rook go back to f1.
}
22. Nc3 Bd8 23. Rxd8
{
Alan said afterwards that he didn't want things to get too hairy after Bb6+, although Ne4 Bb6+ Nf2 seems to be OK for White.
}
23... Qxd8 24. Qc5 Re8 25. Rd1 Qh4 26. Ne4 Nf6 27. Nd6 Re1+
{
Black resigns, 28 Rxe1 Qxe1#
}
0-1
