Cheerio! Another win!

I had to play my T4545 round 3 game early today, because my opponent was 8 hours ahead of me in the UK. Here’s the game:

[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[White "PeteyDaddy"]
[Black "OldBoy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1133"]
[BlackElo "1498"]
[Opening "Réti: King's Indian attack (Barcza system)"]
[ECO "A07"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O Bd6 5. d3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 O-O 7. e4 dxe4 8.
dxe4 e5 9. b3 Qe7 10. Bb2 Bg4 11. Qe1 Bxf3 12. Bxf3 Rad8 13. Nc4 b5 14. Nxd6
cxd6 15. Ba3 Nd4 16. Bd1 Qb7 17. f3 Qb6 18. Rf2 Nxf3+ 19. Bxf3 Rc8 20. Rc1
Rc3 21. Qxc3 {Black resigns} 1-0

I was happy to see him let me develop my King’s Indian fully. We were playing fairly evenly through the middlegame. After my move 14. Nxd6, I was hoping that he would retake with his Rook and thus allow me to pin his Rook to his Queen with Ba3, but he saw through that and retook with his c pawn. At that point, I thought that I was in for a long battle to the bitter end.

Then he started pushing his Knight up the board, and in his eagerness to check my King, he ended up trading his Knight for a Pawn. This took me by surprise. I thought that surely I was missing some tactic that would allow him to take control, so I looked at the position for a bit but could find nothing.

Two moves later, he leaves his Rook completely unprotected. I thought for sure that there was some counterattack that he would mount to destroy me, but I couldn’t find one. So I took the Rook, and he promptly resigned. I guess his move was just a blunder. I’m not really sure what he was trying to do.

Usually I’m the one doing the blundering, so it’s kinda refreshing to see someone else do it.