Coffee for Dessert

[Event “?”]
[Site “Chess.com iPhone”]
[Date “2024.08.04”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Guest6328100328”]
[Black “Guest6580900900”]
[Result “0-1”]
[FEN “rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq – 0 1”]
[WhiteElo “1600”]
[BlackElo “1600”]

1.d4 g5 2.Bxg5 Bg7 3.e3 c5 4.Nf3 Qb6 5.b3 cxd4 6.exd4 Bxd4 7.Nxd4 Qa5+ 8.Qd2 Qe5+ 9.Be2 Nc6 10.Be3 Nf6 11.Nc3 Rg8 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Bf3 Ba6 14.O-O-O Rb8 15.Bd4 Qa5 16.Bxf6 Qa3+ 17.Kb1 exf6 18.Qxd7+ Kf8 19.Rhe1 Bc4 20.Re7 Bxb3 21.cxb3 Rxb3+ 22.axb3 Qxb3+ 23.Kc1 Qxc3+ 24.Kb1 Qb3+ 25.Kc1 Qc3+ 26.Kb1 Kg7 27.Rxf7+ Kg6 28.Rxh7 Rb8+ 29.Ka2 Qb2# {0-1}

Black had no business winning any tactics in this game after giving away the dark square bishop with 6. ..Bxd4 | yet black never gave up and forced all of the pieces to be involved in the recovery effort. With many pawns available for an eventual end game, white was able to proceed casually through the middle game with bias towards exchanging major pieces | explore the transition to end game with a drawish blunder by white with 20. Re7?? –which was completely missed..Black failed to recover the free piece (20. ..Qxe7!)..instead black opted for a dubious desperado tactic 20. ..Bxb3?! — white continues to casually exchange and takes the free bait 21. cxb3?? – huge mistake – this allows black to complete the desperado and force repeating checks after removing white’s queenside pawn structure with 21. ..Rxb3+ and then the Queen can perpetually check on b3-a3-c3 — but the result was no draw…black senses a potential mating net if white doesn’t attack accurately and so after 26. Kb1 Kg7? — white should be finishing the game in 4 moves. However, they missed a key moment, and hunted pawns — after 28. Rxh7 , black could resume perpetual check on b3-a3-c3 , but chose instead to test the defense of white with interesting idea 28. ..Rb8+?! — at this point white must sacrifice the queen on b7 to survive with 2R+B vs Q , but they immediately touched their king in check, with only one legal space, black wins with mate in 1, 29. Qb2#, last blunder loses!