0186 SICILIAN DEFENSE
World Open, Round 1, July 01
Patrick McCartney (1895) Evan Ju (1713)
1 e4 c5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 g3 e6 4 Bg2 Nge7 5 d3 d5 6 f4 g6 7 Nf3 Bg7 8 0-0 0-0 9 Ne2 b6 10 c3 Bb7 11 g4 Ba6 (11...Qc7 is probably a better idea. Black has basically wasted a tempo here. The pin that the bishop gives on a6 does threaten to win the e-pawn, but if Black wanted to take this approach, he should probably have just gone ahead and played 10...Ba6 the previous move.) 12 e5 Qd7 13 Rf2 (Freeing the d-pawn) 13...Rad8 14 d4 cd4 15 Ned4 (Capturing with the pawn merely creates a weakness.) 15...Nd4 16 Nd4 Nc6 17 Be3 f6 18 ef6 Bf6 19 g5 (At the moment, the position is roughly equal, but Black must play very carefully, as he has a lot of pawns on light squares combined with the fact that White controls a lot of the dark squares on the board, hence making it somewhat difficult for Black to manouver his pieces around and maintain the proper communication to defend his king.) 19...Bg7 20 Bh3 Nd4 21 Bd4 Rde8 22 Bg7 Qg7 23 Qa4 Bd3 24 Re1 (Finally getting his last piece active, and at the same time, continuting to keep Black from advancing his e-pawn, as 24...e5? 25 fe5 Re5 26 Be6 Kh8 27 Re5 Qe5 28 Qd4 Qd4 29 cd4 gives White a big endgame advantage.)24...Be4 25 Bg2 Bg2 26 Kg2 Qf7 27 Re5 (Eliminating f5 as an entry point for the Black Queen.) 27...Re7 28 Qd4 Rc7 29 b3 (Eliminating the c4-post.) 29...Rc6 30 Kg3 (The closed nature of the position combined with White's control of the center allows him to bring the king to a more active place on the board.) 30...Rfc8 31 Rf3 Rd6 32 Rfe3 Rcc6 33 Kg4 a5 34 h4 Rd7 35 Rh3 (With the e6-pawn securly defended, White shifts over from a central domination to an attack on the wing by opening up the h-file.) 35...Qg7 36 h5 Rf7 37 hg6 hg6?? (This leads to an unstopable attack down the h-file where White triples his heavy pieces. Black could have put up more resistance and probably have gotten a draw by playing 37...Qg6, giving the queen possible entries into White's camp for counterplay on c2 or b1. While 38.Qd1 may stop this idea, it slows down White's attack, and makes the Queen play a passive roll. 37...Qg6 38 c4 dc4 39 bc4 Rfc7 40 Rh6 Qe8 41 Kg3 Qf8 42 Ree6 is only +/= according to Fritz.) 38 Qe3 Re7 39 Rh6 Rd6 40 Qd3!(Forcing Black to waste a tempo with his King.) 40...Kf7 41 Qh3 Kg8 42 Re2 Rc6 43 Rh2!! (Black is now lost. He has no way to prevent the loss of the Queen without being mated as 43...Rc3 fails to 44 Qh4 while 43...Qc3?? 44 Rh8 Kf7 45 Qc3 Rc3 46 R2h7 is mate) 43...Kf7(Black decided to play this game out to the Mate) 44 Rh7(And White went on to mate Black on move 64.) 1-0