[Event "Tuesday Night Marathon"] [Site "Mechanics Institute"] [Date "2014.7.4"] [Round "4"] [White "Nagle"] [Black "Robert Frank"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteELO "1402"] [BlackELO "1340"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 {I knew from looking at my opponent's past games that he plays the Petroff. I saw he lost a game to an expert against a particular line, so I decided to play that one.} 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 {While the other Petroff lines focused on having a pawn at d4, which seemed nice for center control, the plan here seemed so clear to me -- make use of the two open files in the middle! I liked that I could understand where this line was going and that helped me pick it. The line prep stops roughly here.} 6... Nc6 7. Be3 Bg4 8. Be2 Qf6 {This queen move felt maybe premature to me. I'm not sure, but it definitely got me looking for combination / attacking ideas, because it seemed premature.} 9. Bg5 {Maybe too aggressive. Perhaps this wastes my advantage, moving this piece twice, and I should've just castled. But I was really trying to figure out why felt ...Qf6 felt off to me.} 9... Qe6 {Lining up the queen and king begins a first tactical impulse to get a rook on that file...} 10. O-O h6 11. Bf4 {I could've just played Re1 straightaway here! It takes me another move to realize it. } 11... g5 12. Re1 O-O-O {A friend of mine pointed out I had Nxg5! here, which I totally didn't look at over the board. Complicated line but it looks like White can win the exchange and a pawn here (Nxg5 ...Bxe2, NxQ, BxQ, NxR, Bf3, NxN, BxN.) Anyhow, that didn't cross my mind OTB. I think it takes me a little bit to realize that the light squares tactical theme of the king and queen being on the same diagonal. } 13. Bd3 Bxf3 {I feel like this just helps me with my development / putting rooks on the d and e files plan, and helps get my queen to a square that's tactically important now (since after ...O-O-O, the light squared bishops wants to go to f5.) I think this was not the move he wanted here.} 14. Qxf3 Qd7 {That's trouble for Black. Now it's just a matter of getting to Bf5.} 15. Bxg5 {!} 15... hxg5 16. Bf5 Bh6 17. Bxd7+ Rxd7 {And it's straightforward from here...} 18. Qf6 Rh7 19. Re8+ Nd8 20. Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Qf5+ {and Black resigned.} 1-0

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