Friday, 23 February 2024

21-02-24 Grangemouth A v Stirling B

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

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