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.
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...Nxe410.Nxe4fxe411.dxe5d5
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.cxd5cxd513.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.Qb3g5
This was a surprise to me, I hadn't expected this, but there is only one way forward here.
15.Nxd5Qxd5
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.
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.
