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First win of the season! Hurrah .

[Date "2014.11.26"] [White "N. Chorley"] [Black "A. Rutkowski"] [Result "1-0"] [FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 e6 7.Bd3 Ne7 8.Be3 Nd5 9.Bxg6 hxg6 10.Qd2 Qb6 11.O-O-O Bb4 12.Qd3 Bd6 13.Ne4 Bf4 14.Bxf4 Nxf4 15.Qf1 {I saw Nd6+ in game, but couldn't make it work. It looks like I have Qa3 to follow, threatening Nc4+ if the king moves to the a3-f8 diagonal. It's not forced, though.} Na6 16.g3 Nd5 17.Qe1 O-O 18.Nc3 Rfd8 19.Ne5 Nab4 20.Kb1 a5 21.a3 Nxc3+ 22.Qxc3 Nd5 23.Qf3 Nf6 24.Qf4 Rd5 25.Rd3 a4 26.g4 Rb5 27.Nc4 Nd5 28.Nxb6 Nxf4 29.Nxa8 Nd5 {I expected Nxd3 from him. Not sure why he played Nd5.} 30.c4 Ra5 31.cxd5 Rxa8 32.dxc6 bxc6 33.Rc1 Rd8 34.Rxc6 Rd5 35.Ra6 Kh7 36.Rxa4 {I'm still winning here, but Rh3+ is better.} Kh6 37.b4 Kg5 38.Ra5

27...Nd5?? was rather helpful. A queen move and it's anyone's game.

It’s more usual to attack the bishop on g6 with a h4, h5 push in that line and only offering the trade with Bd3 after black had played h6 (so he can’t recapture with the h pawn and is probably forced into taking on d3 himself. White can then try and do something against the weak f7 square

I played quite a nice game in this line last year, against up and comer Becky Kearton, you will find it on Youtube - just ignore the bit at the end where I say “I’ve no idea why she went mad here and sacked the Rook” - She was loosing her Queen if not