Chess Game

[Event "Utah Senior Championship"]

[Site "Park City Utah"]

[Date "2014.06.21"]

[Round "2"]

[White "Coffey, John"]

[Black "Gordon, Steve"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "A80"]

[WhiteElo "2018"]

[BlackElo "2100"]

[Annotator "Coffey,John"]

[PlyCount "100"]

[EventType "swiss"]

[TimeControl "75"]

1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 c6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. e3 e6 6. Bd3 Bd6

7. Ne5 {Apparently not good.  The game is now equal.  Instead White can castle with a

sliight advantage.} Qc7 8. O-O Nbd7 9. Nxd7 Bxd7 10. Ne2 O-O-O 11. b4 Rdg8 12.

a4 {Apparently Bxd6 or c4 or Rb1 were slightly better.} g5 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14. b5

Ng4 {Suddently black has a slight advantage.} 15. g3 h5 16. bxc6 Bxc6 17. h3

Nf6 18. Kg2 {Now I am lost.  With f3 white maybe hangs on.} h4 19. Rh1 Ne4 20.

Bxe4 dxe4 21. g4 Rf8 22. d5 {A miscalculation on my part.} exd5 23. gxf5 Rxf5 {

Now I realized that the Nd4 that I had planned on playing, to be followed by

Qg4, fails to Rxf2+.} 24. Qd4 {Kg1 and Rh2 puts up more resistance.} Rhf8 25.

Raf1 Qf6 26. Qxf6 R5xf6 27. Nc3 {

Seeing nothing else, but I am better off letting the pawn go.} d4 28. exd4 e3+

29. d5 Rxf2+ 30. Rxf2 Rxf2+ 31. Kg1 Rxc2 {Apparently Bd7 was better.   From

here I try to put up a little bit of resistance.} 32. dxc6 Rxc3 33. cxb7+ Kxb7

34. Kg2 Rc5 {For reasons we will soon see, Rc2+ followed e2 was stronger.} 35.

Kf3 Re5 36. Ke2 Kc6 37. Rg1 Kd5 38. Rg4 Ke6 39. Rb4 Kf5 40. Rc4 Re4 41. Rc5+ {

Apparently Rc7 is significantly better.} Kf4 42. Ra5 Rb4 {

Re7 intending g4 is better.} 43. Rxa7 Rb2+ 44. Ke1 Ra2 45. a5 Kg3 46. Re7 Kxh3

47. Rxe3+ {Here he almost played the natural looking Kg2 which would lead to a draw after Re2+. Since he didn't fall for my trick, everything goes downhill quickly.} Kg4 48.

Re4+ Kf3 49. Re5 g4 50. Rf5+ Kg2 0-1