1.e4 c5 2.f4 e6 {I'm afraid I don't know this opening well. I know an early g6 is common, but I'm not sure how to deal with f5. Things got scary enough on the kingside as is.} 3.Nf3 a6 4.Be2 Nc6 5.O-O d5 {This seems precipitous. Perhaps d6, to challenge the eventual e5? or maybe a simple Nf6?} 6.e5 Nh6 7.Qe1 Nf5 {I'm not so sure about my plan with this knight. I appear to have given him this g4 move with tempo. I thought it would be dangerous for him to open up his king so much, but in such a closed position its difficult to bring my pieces to bear on his king.} 8.c3 d4 {I want that long diagonal for my bishop.} 9.g4 Nfe7 10.d3 Nd5 {More bad plans with my knight! But I had to find some way to open up e7 for the bishop. Ng6 looks like a nice square, but I was scared of h4.} 11.c4 Ndb4 {With the idea that it would be good for me to drive his queen back to her home square. Of course, I end up sending my knight out of the game, so it was a poor decision.} 12.Qd1 a5 13.a3 Na6 14.Nbd2 b6 15.Ne4 Bb7 16.Qe1 Be7 {Its frustrating that both knight and bishop must stand guard over his threat of Nd6.} 17.Bd2 {A critical juncture in the game. I thought about h5 here, with the idea that after g5 I could maneuver a knight to f5. This seems like a powerful idea, but I realized that I'm stuck- the knight would have to pivot on e7, and if I move my bishop from that square/obscure it with my knight, he can drop Nd6 all over my position. So then I thought my plan should be to play g5, with my queen on c7. This an attempt to undermine the strong e5 pawn.} h6 18.Rb1 {? I have no idea what the point of this move is} Qc7 19.h4 O-O-O 20.Kg2 {or this move. Perhaps he doesn't see a pawn break he wants to enact, so he played a waiting move? Unfortunately, he stepped right into the path of my bishop, which is never a good idea} g5 {finally! he doesn't have to take with the f pawn, of course, but I was alright with sacrificing a pawn to open up lines towards his king.} 21.fxg5 hxg5 22.h5 {I didn't expect this. It looks like a healthy passed pawn for him though. There are still tactics for me to try to exploit, however} Nxe5 23.Nfxg5 {No hesitation. It seems dangerous to play right into a pin. I thought about simply Rdg8 here, but my poor f pawn is weak. So I had to Bxg5, to defend laterally with my queen} Bxg5 24.Bxg5 Rdg8 25.Qh4 {Stepping into a trap. I was very worried about the strong move 25. Bf4, a deadly counterpane. Calculating in moves before I had thought I'd be fine after Rxh5, exploiting the pin on the g file. But after 25. Bf4 Rxh5 Qg3 f6, things look very scary indeed. Note that after Bf4, f5 loses badly: 25. Bf4 f5 26. Qg3 fxe4 17. Bxe5 the tactics are dizzying but as far as I could calculate, white comes out ahead if he plays carefully.} f5 {The point! Now I get to exploit all the pins.} 26.gxf5 Qg7 27.f6 Qxg5+ 28.Qxg5 Rxg5+ 29.Kf2 Rf5+ 30.Ke1 Bxe4 31.dxe4 Rxf1+ 32.Kxf1 Nd7 33.f7 Ne5 0-1

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