[Event "National K-12 Grade Championships 2022"] [Site "National Harbor, Maryland, Uni"] [Date "2022.12.09"] [Round "2.4"] [White "De La Colina, Nicolas"] [Black "Hoshino, Meilin"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2257"] [BlackElo "1676"] [Annotator "Hartmann,John"] [Variant "Standard"] [ECO "B31"] [Opening "Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack, Fianchetto Variation"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/D59ifJA3/iUjGCMbL"] [Orientation "white"] { [%evp 0,81,19,38,40,41,51,32,72,38,31,47,35,40,34,38,44,10,13,43,52,58,48,38,40,45,45,34,57,47,31,23,60,66,58,20,83,42,76,77,97,73,64,61,60,54,59,51,57,33,55,33,67,48,51,46,48,38,36,32,66,-20,14,-9,15,0,0,-2,11,-11,-6,-10,0,-10,-11,-8,0,0,0,0,0,-128,-135,-129] } 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 Nf6 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Be3 b6 9. Qd2 Be6?! (9... e5) (9... Re8) 10. Bh6 Qc7 11. Bxg7 Kxg7 12. O-O Rad8 13. Rfe1 Bc8 14. Qe3 e5 15. a3 a5 16. Reb1 { An interesting decision to try to break open the queenside pawn wedge. } 16... Be6 17. Ng5 { This does strike me as a bit of mixing of plans. Why not go full speed ahead with } (17. b4 axb4 18. axb4 Nd7 19. b5!?) 17... Rfe8 18. b4 axb4 19. axb4 Nd7 20. bxc5 (20. b5! { [%csl Bc6,Bd5] }) 20... Nxc5 21. Na4 Nxa4 22. Rxa4 { [#] } 22... Rb8 23. Rba1 h6 24. Nf3 (24. Nxe6+ Rxe6 { only aids in the defense of the b- and c-pawns. }) 24... Rb7 25. Qc1 b5 26. Ra5 f6 27. Qb2 Bf7 28. Nd2 Reb8 29. Ra6 c5 30. Qa3 b4 31. Qa5 g5 32. Qxc7 Rxc7 33. Ra7 Rbc8 { The bishop is vastly better than the knight, and White has no real way to pressure the queenside pawn duo. } 34. Rxc7 Rxc7 35. Ra4 Be8 36. Ra8 Bf7 37. Ra4 Be8 38. Ra5 Bf7 39. Rb5 Be8 40. Rb8? Ba4! 41. Nb3 { 1/2-1/2 The game is a draw. } (41... Bxb3 42. cxb3 Rd7 43. Rc8 Rxd3 44. Rxc5 Rxb3 { . De La Colina is a bit fortunate to share the point here. }) 1/2-1/2