2015-03-21 - Meadows, Michael 1-0 Hughes, Roy
[Event "4NCL Division 3"] [Site "Daventry Court ENG"] [Date "2015.03.21"] [Round "7.68"] [White "Meadows, Michael"] [Black "Hughes, Roy"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1918"] [BlackElo "2023"] [EventDate "2015.03.21"] [PlyCount "41"] [WhiteTeam "Downend & Fishponds"] [BlackTeam "Broadland Bitterns [1]"] 1.e4 d5 2.d4 {Jerry hadn't explicitly forbidden it.} 2...dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Bf5 {The Gunderam Defence.} 6.Ne5 c6 7.Bc4 e6 8.O-O Nbd7 $2 {A very surprising opening oversight.} ( 8...Bg6 9.Bg5 Be7 ) 9.Rxf5 exf5 10.Nxf7 Qe7 11.Nxh8 Nb6 12.Bb3 Nfd5 13.Qf1 {I was very pleased with finding this move, but it's 3rd choice for Stockfish. It still keeps me fighting to extract my knight.} ( 13.Nxd5 cxd5 14.Bf4 O-O-O 15.Qd2 ) 13...Qf6 14.Nxd5 {Allowing the pawn capture with check and relying on both my knight being safe and gaining a huge amount of compensation against the central king and undeveloped pieces.} 14...Nxd5 15.Bxd5 Qxd4+ ( 15...cxd5 {Recapturing the other way is no better for black.} 16.Qb5+ Qc6 ( 16...Ke7 ( 16...Kd8 17.Bg5 Qxg5 18.Nf7+ ) 17.Bg5 Qxg5 18.Qxb7+ ) 17.Qe2+ Kd7 18.Nf7 {And the knight has finally escaped.} ) 16.Kh1 Qxd5 17.Bg5 Bd6 18.Rd1 Qc5 19.Qd3 Be7 20.Qd7+ Kf8 21.Qe6 {Qf7# cannot be stopped.} 1-0
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