[Event "Crown City Open"]
[Site "Pasadena, CA"]
[Date "2012.10.26"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Michael Cooper"]
[Black "Tony Kukavica"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2080"]
[BlackElo "1843"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann: advance variation"]
[ECO "B12"]
[NIC "CK.04"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 Bg6 6. Nge2 Nd7 {6... c5!. If Black fails to contest White's center, then White just has a free hand and a clear advantage.} 7. h4 h6 8. Be3
Bb4 {Giving up the bishop just means that Black will have weak dark squares.} 9. a3 {Shabalov - Burnett, St. Paul 2000, saw the move order 9. h5 Bh7 10. a3. I guess White doesn't want to lose the option of meeting ...h5 with Ne2-f4, but if Black has to give up his dark-squared bishop to play ...h5, I'd still be happy.} Bxc3+ {White is pleased to see either the text or 9... Ba5 10. b4.} 10. Nxc3 Ne7 11. h5 Bh7 12. Bd3 Bxd3 13. Qxd3 {Now might be a good time for 13... c5.} Qb6 14. O-O-O O-O-O 15. f4 Kb8 16. f5 Rc8 17. f6 {An enterprising idea, although White probably does better to preserve the tension and aim to build up more pressure with 17. Kb1 or 17. Rhf1.} gxf6 18. exf6 Ng8 {18... Nxf6 19. Bf4+ Ka8 20. Be5 Nxg4 21. Bxh8 Nf2 22. Qh7! Nxh1 23. Rxh1 Nf5 24. Be5 is winning.} 19. g5 hxg5 20. Bxg5 Ngxf6 21. Qf3 Nh7 22. Be7 f5 23. Qe2 {It is time to cash in that check. After 23. Qf4+ Ka8 24. Qd6 Nhf8 (ugly, but otherwise Black has no trumps at all) 25. h6! the outside passer is ready to bring the pain.} Nhf8 {The placement of Black's knights make his position distinctly unenviable despite the extra pawn.} 24. Bxf8 {It is too soon to recover the pawn. Now 24... Rcxf8 25. Qxe6 Qd8! regroups and gives Black excellent chances to defend. Instead 24. h6 or 24. Qh2+ and 25. Qd6 keeps up the pressure.} Rhxf8 {24... Nxf8 25. Qe5+ wins a rook, but this is the wrong rook. Black's king rook should keep minding the store on the h-file for now.} 25. Qxe6 Qc7 26. Rde1 {White has been far to reticent in advancing his h-pawn. This would have been a good moment, before Black gets counterplay with his own passer.} Rf6 {Beginning an ill-conceived plan which contains a tactical flaw.} 27. Qe7 Rcf8 28. h6 {Better late than never.} R6f7 {I should point out that Black was practically blitzing, even though he had over an hour for twelve more moves, to White's mere ten minutes. This is a terrible strategy. It just creates artificial mutual time trouble, thereby actually negating the time advantage. You should use the time that you have.} 29. Qxf7 Rxf7 {Rolling over, although it looks to me like 29... Qf4+ 30. Kb1 Rxf7 31. Re8+ Kc7 32. h7 Rxh7 33. Rxh7 Qf1+ 34. Ka2 Qc4+ 35. Ka1 Qf1+ 36. Nb1 Qf4 37. Ree7 is still probably winning for White.} 30. Re8+ Qc8 31. Rxc8+ Kxc8 32. h7 1-0
