[Site "Santa Monica, CA"]
[Date "2013.12.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Baran, David"]
[Black "Cooper, Michael"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D96"]
[WhiteElo "1883"]
[BlackElo "2062"]
[Annotator "Cooper,Michael"]
[EventRounds "3"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Qb3 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bg7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Bf4 Be6
8. Qxc7 Qxc7 9. Bxc7 Na6 10. Be5 Nb4 11. Rc1 {I doubt this can be right. It's true it can be a good idea to try to equalize by returning your extra pawn, but in this position, White cannot gain equality in this manner.} Nxa2 12. Nxa2 Bxa2 13. Rc7 {No sense of danger.} Rac8 14. Rxb7 Rc1+ 15. Kd2 Rfc8 {This most natural of moves is actually a grave inaccuracy, as White could bail out now with 16. Bxf6 Rc2+ (16... Bxf6 17. Rb8! and with the bishop lured to f6, there is no check on the c1-h6 diagonal as the knight covers g5, while 16... exf6 17. Ne1 holds) 17. Ke3, and 17... Bh6+ does not work because of 18. Bg5. Black is clearly better in all these lines but there is no immediate forced win. Correct was 15... Bh6+! 16. e3 Rfc8 (now the White king cannot escape via e3) 17. Bxf6 (trying to run to e4) 17... R8c2+ 18. Kd3 Bb1! 19. Nd2 Rd1!! is crushing.} 16. Rb8 {Now it's easy.} Ne4+ 17. Ke3 Bh6+ 18. Kxe4 {To be fair, 18. Bf4 Bxf4+ 19. Kxf4 Rxb8 20. Kxe4 Rxb2 offered no hope.} f5+ 19. Kd3 Bb1# {"It's as if White suffered some strange sort of chess seizure that paralyzed the right side of his position" - my good friend NM John Chernoff.} 0-1
