[Event "Saturday Night Special G15+2"]
[Site "St. Louis"]
[Date "2018.03.31"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Akobian, Varuzhan"]
[Black "Wilson, Matthew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A61"]
[WhiteElo "2725"]
[BlackElo "2083"]
[Annotator "Wilson,Matthew"]
[PlyCount "65"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3
g6 7. Bf4 a6 8. a4 Qe7 9. e3 Bg7 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O Nbd7 12. Nd2 Rb8 13. Nc4
Ne8 14. e4 {The pawn is immune} Ne5 15. Nb6 ({
I had taken a long time on the previous move because I was concerned about} 15.
Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Bxe5 Qxe5 17. f4 {White's center is on the move and Black has
lost much of his dynamic potential after trading off his dark-squared bishop.
But then I saw 16...dxe5 and realized that Black is okay. The knight will be
transferred to d6, where it will block White's passer and support ...b5.})
15... Nf6 16. Qd2 Nfd7 17. Nxc8 Rfxc8 18. Rae1 c4 19. Bg5 f6 20. Be3 Nc5 21.
Bxc5 Rxc5 22. f4 Nd7 {The right square for the knight, so that I can meet...}
23. Bg4 {with...} Nf8 24. Re2 {
Stockfish thinks this move blows White's advantage} b5 25. axb5 axb5 26. Re3
Re8 27. Kh1 {I don't remember if he played Re3 before Kh1 or after Kh1, but
this position definitely occurred.} h5 {I was trying to make 27...f5 work, but
I wasn't happy with 28.Bf3. So I forced the bishop to commit itself. Stocky
isn't fond of this move. In my defense, I was very low on time.} 28. Bh3 Bh6
29. Ree1 b4 $6 {I was down to around 10 seconds and had to make a move. But
this gets Black in trouble.} 30. Na4 Rb5 31. Qd4 $1 {
And it's not easy to hold onto all my pawns. I lunged forward:} f5 $2 (31... c3
32. bxc3 Bg7 $1 {is actually playable (Stockfish), but you don't see these resources
when you're down to 10 seconds!}) 32. Qxc4 Rbb8 33. e5 {
and Black soon collapsed} 1-0
Good luck in the US Championship, Var!
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