[Event "Teters 2018"]
[Site "BMI"]
[Date "2018-08-09"]
[White "Jasan Barnett"]
[Black "Harrison Harrison"]
[WhiteElo "997"]
[BlackElo "1611"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.h4!? {(J.Barn) Harrison is well known for throwing his opponent out of their comfort zone by playing extraordinarily unexpected openings.  He has done this to me many times before.  I decided I wanted to do what I could to dictate play in this game, so I looked up many unusual first moves and considered them (even though they are unsound).  I settled for this one, the Desprez Opening.  My preparation for this game was to work out a number of best 2nd moves for White, depending on black's first move, as well as a rough board position (after move 8 in this case) that I would try to achieve, if possible.  (This line will be shown as a variation).} c6 {Harrison's response to h4 was to break out into a huge grin, realising that I was playing his style of opening against him.  In my preparatory work, I had 2nd move responses ready for 1...d5, 1...c5, 1...d6 and 1...e5.  Not, 1...c6, unfortunately.  The variation that follows is what I was hoping to achieve from this opening.  My next series of moves was my attempt to get the position similar to the variation (particularly the knight at f4 and the bishop at g2 attacking the d5 square, along with the queen)} (1...e5 2.g3 d5 3.d4! exd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qd1 Nf6 6.Nh3! Be7 7.Nf4 O-O 8.Bg2 {Here, the f4 knight is well placed and white has a good position.}) 2.c3 {The best response to 1...c5 was 2.c4 so I hoped that responding symetrically to 1...c6 with 2.c3 would be ok.  Chessmaster 10th ed., however, says 2.Nf3 is best.  I wasn't going to play 2.Nf3 otherwise it would be harder to get the knight to f4 like I wanted.  In hindsight, maybe I could have played g3 here, but there was no damage done with 2.c3} h5 {I was wanting black to play both d5 and e5, so I could play d4, but Harrison was making things difficult here.} 3.g3 {I only have 3.g3 or 3.Nh3 left in my line to play.  Of the two, g3 is best according to Chessmaster.} b6 4.Bg2 a6 5.Nh3 Bb7 6.e3 {With no moves left in the line I want to play, I slowly creep the e3 pawn forward, still hoping black might play d5 and e5.} d5 7.d3 {Hoping for 7...e5} Nf6 {Here I abandoned recreating the position for white I hoped and just starting playing each move on its merits} 8.f4 Nbd7 9.Qe2 e6 10.Bd2 Be7 11.Na3 Ng4 12.Ng5 Nc5 13.O-O-O $17 {Permits 13...Nf2.  Queen cannot take knight on f2 due to 14...Nd3+ and the queen is lost.black is better Fritz 11 saying by-0.86} Qd6? {Missing the fork.} 14.e4 $17 {Black is better again -0.73 jb} dxe4 15.dxe4 Nd3+ 16.Kc2 Nxb2! {Wins the pawn.  17. Kxc2 is answered with 17...Qxa3+} 17.Nc4?? {No good.  I didn't want to swap knights as I was too scared to let the queen come down to a3, but this move doesn't work.  Black plays the correct follow-up moves to show why.now this is losing by -1.80} Nxc4 18.Qxc4 Nf2 $19 {Black is now up an exchange and a pawn and the game looks poor for white.} 19.Be3 Nxd1 20.Rxd1 Qc7 21.Nxe6 $19 {Psychology in chess combined with a sharp attacking line is an interesting thing.  This move clearly loses (Chessmaster says Black leads by -3.61 after this move).  However, I calculated a few moves ahead here and realised that black, though winning, is now approaching a knife-edge.  One bad move and white might win.  Afterwards Harrison said that he was very worried during this line and thought a few moves later on that he had lost the game.} fxe6 {Black must take the knight or he is losing.} 22.Qxe6 Rh6? {White is back in the game (still about a pawn behind, though).  Best was c5. -0.03 now Fritz is saying} 23.Qg8+! Bf8 {Black's only move.  More comments to follow later.  Still a lot to say about this game including Harrison being one move away from losing (but finding the saving move) my missed perpetual to save the game and then a long endgame draw which White could have found but didn't.} 24.f5 Qxg3 $10 {dead equal jb} 25.Bxh6 Qxg2+ 26.Kb3 Qxe4 27.Bxg7 Qxf5 28.Re1+ Kd7 29.Rd1+ Kc7 30.Bxf8 Rxf8 31.Qg3+ Qf4 32.Qg6 Qf7+ 33.Qxf7+ Rxf7 34.Rg1 Rf4 35.Rg7+ Kd6 36.Rxb7 Kc5 37.Rg7 Rxh4 38.Rg5+ Kd6 39.Rg6+ Kd5 40.Rg5+ Ke4 41.Rg6 Rg4 42.Rxc6 h4 43.Rxb6 a5 {Ka4 Kf3+ Ka5 H3 Rh6 Kg2 A4 H2 Kb5 Re4 A5 Re5+ Kb4 Fritz 11 is saying its a draw jb} 44.a4 Kf3 45.Rb5 h3 46.Rh5 Kg3 47.c4 Rh4 48.Rg5+ Kf2 49.Rf5+ Ke2 50.Re5+ Kd2 51.Rd5+ Kc1 52.Kc3 h2 53.Rd2 Rxc4+ 54.Kxc4 Kxd2 {#R}