Almost Lost this game, until I found a brilliant solution

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This was a little game I played online at lichess, I almost thought I had blown the game, but more on that in the commentary.

1.e4 b6


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B00 Owen Defense This is funky way to play the opening black resigns the center to white for the moment, but plans to strike at it later, I have played this in a real rated game a couple of times.



2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3


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White wants to play the most complicated line here, that line occurs after 3...f5 there is lines where black survives with a rook up, and then there are some variations where black get checkmated.



3...d6 4.f3


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This looks suspicious to say the least.



4...Nd7 5.b3 Ngf6 6.Bb2 e6 7.Ne2 Be7


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This is the setup I play for white black, though this is mostly my bullet system.



8.Nd2 a6


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This is a little move that prepares an expansion on the queen site.



9.c3 Rc8 10.Qc2 c5 11.Rc1 O-O


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This might not be a necessary, although it should be a good move.



12.Qb1 b5 13.O-O Re8 14.c4 b4




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This might have been a rather suspicious move, I did miss what happened here, although I had a rather "clever" solution to the problems presented.



15.e5 dxe5 16.dxe5 Nh5 17.Bxh7+


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This is a rather silly move, it does in fact change nothing about the upcoming "solution"



17...Kh8 18.g4


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This is "the problem"



18...Bg5


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This is "the solution"



19.Ne4 Be3+


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Although in reality this might be more of a solution.



20.Nf2 Nf4 21.Nxf4 Bxf4 22.Rce1 Qh4


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White resigns.

No real way to defend this position.


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I would like to spend some more time on the position I had


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Before I played 14.-b4.
I think I could have played this position better, but it happened that I had no idea that I was facing a tough move in 15.e5!
I might still have played 14.-b4 if I had realized the entire position, but I did not realize any of it, but I then stumbled on a nice solution to my own laziness.
Although had I seen the move 15.-Bg5 I would have probably played the whole sequence anyway, I like it that much.

Almost Lost this game, until I found a brilliant solution | Ecency