This was the second round in a Swiss tournament I am playing on Tuesdays currently, this was the strongest opponent I have ever beaten, so I think this game will go in my "99 most memorable games" notation book I have.
I could have won the game in about 1 hour less than what it ended up taking, but I got a very valuable lesson in endgame technique from playing the endgame, I didn't know the position with 2 connected pawns versus a queen, so I had to figure it out over the board.
I have put some notes to the game, at some interesting points and there is some diagrams, but not so many.
1.c4 d6 2.g3 e5 3.Bg2 f5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.e4 c6 7.Nge2 O-O 8.O-O Na6 9.d4
Played to make his plan a lot harder to achieve. The plan is to put the knight on d4 as Na6-c7-e6-d4, preventing this seemed to be important, but it allowed him other chances to make the game complicated.
9...Nxe4 10.Nxe4 fxe4 11.dxe5 d5
This is a more complicated line, also this is the only real way for black to try for a victory. [11...dxe5 12.Qxd8 Rxd8 13.Bxe4 This was something I was not afraid of, so I was sort of aiming for this, but he wanted to play a more complicated variation.]
12.cxd5 cxd5 13.Nf4
So I choose this to put pressure on d5, also I was not particularly scared of the sacrifice on f4.
13...Nc7
[13...Rxf4 This would be the sacrifice, but I don't think black can put pressure on white with his central pawns.]
14.Qb3 g5
This was a surprise to me, I hadn't expected this, but there is only one way forward here.
15.Nxd5 Qxd5
Obviously the only move I did not look at, but then I really began to like my position since it is a lot easier to play with the white pieces.
16.Bxe4 Qxb3 17.axb3 a6 18.Be3 Nb5 19.Bd3 Bd7 20.Rfd1 Bc6 21.f4 h6 22.f5 Rad8 23.f6 Bxf6 24.exf6 Bd5 25.Bc5 Bxb3
This position is a lot more tricky than it might appear, but I found a strong response to the problem, it seems he did make a mistake when he played Rad8.
26.Be7 Bxd1 27.Rxd1 Rc8 28.Bxf8 Kxf8 29.Bg6 Na7 30.Rd7 Nc6 31.Rh7 Ne7 32.Rh8+
[32.Rxe7 This is resigns, but I honestly missed this, not really sure why or how.]
32...Ng8 33.f7 Kg7 34.Rxg8+ Rxg8 35.fxg8Q+ Kxg8 36.Be4 b6 37.Kf2 Kf7 38.Ke3 Ke6 39.Kd4 Kd6 40.Bb7 a5 41.Ba6 h5 42.h3 h4 43.g4 Kc6 44.Kc4 Kd6 45.Kb5
This is only played since I have another draw later, but I was also beginning to think that white is simply winning this ending.
45...Ke5 46.Kxb6 a4 47.Ka5 Kf4 48.Kxa4 Kg3 49.Bf1 Kf2 50.b4 Kxf1 51.b5 Kg2 52.b6 Kxh3 53.b7 Kxg4 54.b8Q Kh3 55.Qb3+ Kg4 56.Qd1+ Kf4 57.Qf1+ Kg3 58.Qg1+ Kf4 59.Qf2+ Kg4 60.Qg2+ Kf4 61.Kb4 g4 62.Qf2+ Kg5 63.Kc4 g3 64.Qf3
Black is not in complete zugzwang (meaning: he has to move, but any move he makes worsen his position, here it drops both pawns.
Black Resigned
1-0