Annotated Game #309: Don't assume the move is good

In this next tournament game, I make two bad assumptions about a move being good, and am punished for it. The first one is the e3-e4 break in the Stonewall Attack, which has to be more carefully prepared. The second one is the result of a hallucination and assuming that I could escape a pawn fork, which in fact I could not. For whatever reason I was more mentally tired than I should have been during the game, which led to the unfortunate short-circuiting of my thinking process.

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1.d4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Bd3 e6 4.f4 Be7 5.Nd2 b6 6.Ngf3 Bb7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Ne5 c5 9.c3 Nbd7 10.Qf3 a6 11.g4 pursuing the standard Stonewall Attack kingside expansion plan. Nxe5 12.fxe5 Nd7 13.Qh3 g6 14.e4? this looks active, but unfortunately the e-pawn break idea is not supported sufficiently. 14.Nf3 f6 15.exf6 15.g5!? fxg5 16.Qxe6+ Kg7 17.Qg4 Bc8 18.Qg2= 15...Nxf6 15...Bxf6 16.g5 Bxg5 17.Qxe6+= 16.Bd2 Ne4 17.Bxe4 dxe4 18.Ne5= 14...Bg5?! this should let White escape after exd5, but instead I play 14...cxd4 15.cxd4 b5 taking away the c4 square from White's minor pieces. 16.exd5 Qb6 White's center is not sufficiently defended. 17.Nb3 Nxe5 15.Nf3?? my "internal board sight" failed here - of course after the Bc1 is exchanged the knight cannot go to g5, which I hallucinated, because of the Qd8 covering the square. I was mentally tired and prematurely cut off my own thinking process, with plenty of time on the clock. 15.exd5 Bxd5 16.Be4= 15...Bxc1 16.Raxc1 dxe4-+ and now the game is effectively over, although I try for a swindle based on a desperate kingside attack. 17.Qh6 exf3 18.Rce1 cxd4 19.Be4 Bxe4 20.Rxe4 f5 21.gxf5 Rxf5 22.Rh4 Qg5+ 0–1

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