This is from the 142 board match between BREAKING BAD and Baker Street Irregulars. I played board 10 in this match for Baker Street Irregulars and managed to get only a draw from the two games. In that drawn game I probably should have continued on and tried to play for the win but at that time no clear winning idea came to mind and thought that my opponent would have had his own chances in the lines I tried to look at before accepting the draw offer. This match ended with the score 167 - 117 in favor of BREAKING BAD.
Perhaps the first moment in the game when one of the players made a properly noticeable mistake was seen in the diagram position below. I played the move 13...f6 in the game. It both attacks the bishop on g5 and supports the pawn on e5. It also has the drawback of opening the diagonal from a2 to g8 and since both my queen and king are on the same diagonal, it can be a bit dangerous for me. Noticing that there might be a problem with the diagonal, I moved my king to h8 after the bishop had retreated to d2. However, it was a bad decision on my part and I should have played 14...Qe7 instead, which would have opened up the diagonal my light-squared bishop and from e7 the queen would have also helped to prevent the pawn from c3 advancing to c5 in two moves. The move 14...Kh8 was so bad that I should have been already in a losing position.
Gozetti played 15.Qe1 with the idea of playing c4 on the next move and winning a piece. It was not a good decision and my opponent should have played 15.c4 instead. The move played in the game resulted in an even position, while the move 15.c4 would have resulted in a winning position for Gozetti. I continued with the move 15...Ne7, in order to get myself out of the piece winning attempt. The next position of interest came after 21...Bb7 and you can see it on the next diagram. The position should be roughly even in the diagram position, but the path towards equality is a bit narrow and it is easy to go wrong.
At this moment in the game Gozetti started to go downhill for awhile. My opponent first played 22.Bb3 and when I replied by playing 22...Qe8, Gozetti then continued with the move 23.c5 and according to the engine Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT, I should be clearly better. The game went reasonably well for me until we reached the position that can be seen in the diagram below. In the game I played 28...Bd5.
I played it because I wanted to reply to the threat with a threat. I did not probably even consider the move 28...Bxe4 because it looks so bad, at least with first glance. It would have improved the pawn structure of my opponent and I liked to keep the weak pawn on d3 and I most likely thought that I can win that pawn. Unfortunately with my move all my advantage disappeared and the position should be about even again. I got my last chance for the advantage when Gozetti played 32.Nxd6 in the diagram position below.
For a few moves I was able to be on the better side of the board, but then I played the game losing move 35...Rg8 in the position below. I am not sure why I thought that 35...Rg8 is the move to play. I probably just wanted to prevent the move 36.Bg7+.
Instead of the passive move I played in the game, I should have played 35...Qd5, which both attacks the undefended rook on b7 and prevents the move Qe6 for the time being. In the game Gozetti replied with 36.Qe6 and it was clear at that point that I am going to lose, but I still played a few more moves until I saw that I can't prevent being mated, so I resigned after 39.Qe7.
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