The need to be exact

Despite my attempts at keeping my CC games to a manageable level, I still have around 10 games on the go. Of course one way to reduce the number of games in progress is to have your hat handed to you by your opponent. This has been happening to me with some frequency, including a game I resigned just this morning.
It was part of the Australia v Germany Friendly, and was one the final games to finish. It was also a reasonably long game (in terms of time), having started in late 2012.
For a long time I thought that I might be holding the position, although my natural pessimism was telling me that I was worse. But as with most CC games, you need to be accurate with every move, and it appears around move 26 I missed a trick with 26.Be2! which would have kept the position equal. After that I was worse (without realising how bad the position was becoming), but played on till even I could see the mate. As for the rest of the match Germany pretty much dominated, leading 72-24 with 4 games to finish.


Press,Shaun - Fischer,Ronald [B07]
AUS v Germany, 09.12.2012

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. f4 Qa5 5. Bd3 e5 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be3 Nbd7 8. O-O Be7 9. Qe1 Bxf3 10. gxf3 exd4 11. Bxd4 Nh5 12. Be3 Qc7 13. Rd1 O-O 14. Kh1 Rfe8 15. Rg1 Rad8 16. f5 Bf6 17. f4 Bxc3 18. Qxc3 Ndf6 19. Bd4 Qe7 20. Rde1 c5 21. Bxf6 Qxf6 22. e5 Qh4 23. Bb5 Rf8 24. e6 fxe6 25. fxe6 Qe7 26. Qf3 Nxf4 27. Bd7 Kh8 28. Qxb7 Rb8 29. Qxa7 Nh3 30. Rg3 Nf2+ 31. Kg2 Rxb2 32. Qa4 Rb4 33. Qc6 Ne4 34. Rxe4 Qf6 35. Rge3 Qf2+ 36. Kh3 Rf3+ 0-1