[Event "2023 NHS Championship Unrated"] [Site "Washington D.C."] [Date "2023.04.02"] [White "Mohit Maringanti"] [Black "Shahzad Arshad"] [Result "1-0"] [Annotator "Lang,JJ"] [Variant "Standard"] [ECO "C62"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/gWVmQS5K/DEeCmJ3w"] [Orientation "white"] { Annotations by JJ Lang } 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. O-O Bg4 5. d3 Be7 6. Be3 f5 7. exf5 Bxf5 8. Ng5 Bxg5 9. Qh5+ Bg6 10. Qxg5 Nf6 11. Bc4 d5 12. Bb5 e4 13. Bc5! { Keeping Black's king in the middle. } 13... Kf7 14. f3 Re8 { Black had the nice idea to manually castle, but it's too slow. That's a phrase that gets tossed around a lot in chess discussion. What makes this *too* slow? Simply put, in the time it takes Black to play ...Kf7-g8, White is able to open the f-file and create too many threats. } (14... exd3 { Now the whole game should slow down, allowing Black to find slower plans. }) 15. fxe4 (15. Re1) 15... dxe4 16. Bc4+! Re6 17. Nc3! { Do not hurry! } 17... h6 18. Bxe6+ Kxe6 19. Qxg6 $18 Qe8 20. Qxg7 Qf7 21. Qxf7+ Kxf7 22. Nxe4 Kg6 23. Rxf6+ Kg7 24. Raf1 Ne5 25. Be3 Ng4 26. Rf7+ Kg8 27. Bd4 h5 28. Rg7+ Kh8 29. Rxg4+ Kh7 30. Rf7+ Kh6 31. Be3# { 1-0 White wins. } 1-0