Posted on March 11, 2016October 21, 2016 by PaulHHabershon-Borrowdale / County Individual Rd 3 [Event "Beds. County Championship "] [Site "Open University"] [Date "2016.03.10"] [Round "3"] [White "Habershon, Paul"] [Black "Borrowdale, Graham"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A32"] [Annotator "Paul Habershon"] [PlyCount "56"] [EventDate "2016.03.10"] 1. Nf3 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c5 4. e3 d5 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Be7 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O dxc4 9. Bxc4 a6 10. b3 {Not good. Better would be e4 to develop the QB to e3.} b5 11. Bd3 Bb7 12. Bb2 Nc6 13. Nxc6 Bxc6 14. Rc1 Rc8 15. Bb1 Qb6 16. Qd4 (16. Qc2 Qb7 17. f3 b4 {is dreadful for White.}) 16... Qb7 {Black could get a superior endgame with 16...Qxd4 but rightly goes for more.} 17. f3 Rfd8 18. Qh4 g6 (18... Rd2 $1) 19. Rfd1 Qb6 20. Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Nd1 Ne4 $1 {I thought he could not play this because of 22 Qxe7.} 22. Qe1 (22. Qxe7 $4 Rxd1+ 23. Rxd1 Qxe3+ 24. Kh1 Nf2+ 25. Kg1 Nxd1+ 26. Kh1 Qe1#) 22... Bb4 23. Nc3 Nxc3 (23... Nd2 $1) 24. Bxc3 Bc5 $2 25. Kf2 $2 {Missing Ba5!} Ba3 $2 26. Rd1 $2 {Missing Ba5 again! Both sides very short of time.} Bc5 27. Rxd8+ Qxd8 28. Qd2 Qxd2+ 1/2-1/2 your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts