[Event "Berkeley Friday Night Marathon"] [Site "?"] [Date "2014.6.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Nagle"] [Black "Gerl Jenkins"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteELO "1402"] [BlackELO "1557"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 d6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. a3 O-O 7. h3 Nd4 8. Be3 Bd7 9. Nge2 c5 10. f4 Bc6 11. Ng1 {Surely black is better after 11. Ng1. BUT how? I was thinking a lot about minor pieces -- freeing my dark squared bishop, diminishing his active light squared bishop, trading off what felt like my inactive f6 night. It doesn't feel like the right plan though -- by move 24 I'm losing and by luck he misses some good moves. What is the right plan here?} 11... Nd7 12. Nf3 Nb6 13. Ba2 Na4 14. Nxa4 Bxa4 15. b3 Bd7 16. f5 Qa5+ 17. Bd2 Nxf3+ 18. gxf3 Bh4+ 19. Kf1 Qb6 20. Rg1 c4 21. Qe2 cxd3 22. cxd3 Rac8 23. Bh6 Bf6 24. Rg3 {This is lucky for Black. 24. Qg2 and I think at a minimum black is losing the exchange, but really white has a ton of pressure that would be hard to defend, for example with a h4-h5 plan after either forcing Black to play g6 or just straight up playing Bxg6.} 24... Bb5 25. Rd1 Qd4 26. Bb1 Kh8 27. Be3 Qc3 28. Ba2 Qa5 29. a4 Ba6 30. Qg2 Bxd3+ {Time control!!! I would have lost on time, and so I played this on total instinct. I thought I had a combination rolling here, but then saw that his e3 bishop covers any combinations involving Rc1+. Still, I manage to stay equal here materially...} 31. Rxd3 Bh4 32. Bd2 Qa6 33. Bb1 Bxg3 34. Qxg3 Rc6 35. Kg2 Rfc8 36. Re3 Qb6 37. f4 f6 38. h4 Qc5 39. Bd3 Qa3 {Does black have a good plan here? I couldn't find it. I was trying to see if there was a way to break into the c file, or somehow keep enough of his pieces locked up to prevent a breakthrough kingside.} 40. Bc4 Qb2 41. Re2 Qa3 42. h5 h6 43. Kh3 a6 {Prepping b5... but I think move may have been a bad one. It gives him the plan of Be3 - Bb6, headed for e7, and threatening Bxf6. I suppose he could also go Be1 - Bh4, moving the queen on the way. I felt like if he got one more piece active in his attack, I was sunk, and after playing a6 wondered how sound it was. It did give me ..b5 as a way to try to break into the c-file, which I do end up playing.} 44. Rg2 R8c7 45. Kh4 Qa1 46. Rg1 Qd4 47. Qg2 {The game turns into a blitz game, which I win on time. I play ...b5 at some point, and sac a pawn to open up the c file. I stopped taking notes from time. This gives me play, but I have no idea if it was sound. At this point I just was looking for complicating moves to play the clock. With his light square bishop so active, and pressure on the g-file -- for example White could play Qg6 and then Bf6 -- it's hard for me to believe Black could hold this given more time, but perhaps if I was attacking enough pieces from the queenside I could have defended.} 0-1

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