[Event "Social game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1998.08.28"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Farrell, Keith"]
[Black "Porter, Les"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C42"]
[Annotator "Keith Farrell"]
[PlyCount "20"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Be2 $6 {
the first signs of being slack} 5... Nxe4 6. Nd4 $6 6... Qf6 $1 7. f3 $2 {
absolutely preposterous, clearly I thought somehow I could do anything no
matter how much of a 'start' I gave Les. Perhaps thinking that I could later
get back in the game with aggressive combinations and force of personality,
Les had recently shown much improvement however and this time just kept his
cool.} 7... Qh4+ 8. g3 Nxg3 9. fxg4 (9. hxg3 Qxh1+ 10. Bf1 Bh3 (10... Bd7 11.
Nc3 Qh2 12. Qe2+ Qxe2+ 13. Ndxe2 Nc6 14. Bg2 $19) (10... Nc6 11. Qe2+ Kd7 12.
Nxc6 Bxf3 13. Ne5+ dxe5 14. Qxe5 $19) 11. Qe2+ Be7 12. Nc3 $19 12... Bxf1 $19)
9... Nxh1+ 10. Kf1 Qf2# 0-1

[Event "Albury Open"]
[Site "Albury, Australia"]
[Date "1984.06.10"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Warren, A."]
[Black "Farrell, Keith"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D10"]
[WhiteElo "1150"]
[BlackElo "1300"]
[Annotator "Keith Farrell"]
[PlyCount "86"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bd7 5. Nf3 5... e6 {
the whole idea of 2..c6 is to avoid blocking the white Bishop} 6. a3 Be7 7. Qc2
O-O 8. cxd5 cxd5 9. Bd3 Nc6 10. e4 Rc8 11. e5 Ne8 12. Bxh7+ Kh8 13. Bd3 13...
f6 $6 14. Be3 fxe5 15. Nxe5 Bf6 16. Ng6+ Kg8 17. Qe2 {getting ready to make
the kill rather than the rather mundane affair of winning the Rook - it
doesn't look as if black can escape since Qh4 sets up discovered check} 17...
Nxd4 18. Qh5 Kf7 19. Ne5+ Ke7 20. Bxd4 {And now I concluded I had truly blown
any chance in the game; and the only interest I had left was to just 'see' how
far my King could wander onto the Queenside, THEN I'd resign} 20... Kd6 21. f4
Kc7 22. Bxa7 $2 22... b6 23. Ba6 23... Ra8 {Even though this is pretty much
the ONLY move, you can see my only ambition to get King on a8  } 24. Nb5+ Bxb5
25. Bxb5 Rxa7 26. Nc6 Qd6 27. Nxa7 Bxb2 28. Rb1 28... Bc3+ {Round about here
it dawned on me that I was still in the game, I also became aware of my
opponents growing frustration at not finding 'the quick kill', or perhaps I
was giving him emotions *I* would suppose *I* would be feeling} 29. Kd1 Qxf4
30. Qe2 Nd6 31. Bd3 Qa4+ 32. Qc2 Qg4+ 33. Be2 Qd4+ 34. Qd3 Qa4+ 35. Qc2 Qd4+
36. Bd3 36... Qg4+ {I offered a draw, Allan (who had certainly not bee rushing
his moves, not like me but then I had had a game that was pretty much shot)
said thoughtfully 'I think I can find a way out'. The way out was *not* good
for white.} 37. Qe2 Qa4+ 38. Kc1 Qxa3+ 39. Kc2 Bd4 40. Rhc1 40... Qa4+ {
The text is not the strongest line by any means but played for 'psychological'
reasons - also to 'rush' the last few moves up to the time limit (which is
faulty reasoning anyway).} (40... Rf2 41. Kd1+ Kb7 42. Nb5 Nxb5 43. Qxf2 Bxf2
44. Bxb5) 41. Kd2+ Kb7 42. Qxe6 Rf2+ 43. Ke1 43... Qa5+ {
White had used 107 mins; Black 32 mins} 0-1

[Event "Ettalong Winter B"]
[Site "Ettalong NSW"]
[Date "1998.09.22"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Farrell, Keith"]
[Black "Porter, Les"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "1313"]
[BlackElo "1066"]
[Annotator "Keith Farrell"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "1998.??.??"]

{I had won the first game of the double round} 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4.
Bb5 {I've alway had this weakness for pinning pieces just for the sake of the
pin alone, I've mostly recovered from that habit though sometimes I have a
relapse} 4... Bd7 5. d4 Nf6 6. e5 Ne4 7. O-O Na5 8. Bxd7+ Qxd7 9. Re1 d5 10. e6
$6 10... Qxe6 11. dxc5 Rc8 12. b4 Nc4 13. Qd4 f6 14. Nfd2 Ncxd2 15. Nxd2 Qf5
16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. Qxe4 {I thought I'd get it all out of the way early on,
already (in hindsight) you can see evidence of my rushed play (not so much in
time though by the tebnth move I had used 8 mins and by the 16th 11 mins only).
Certainly shallow play, missing the most accurate in trying to force the issue.
} 17... Qd7 18. Be3 e5 19. Rad1 Qc7 20. f4 $1 20... b6 21. fxe5 fxe5 22. Bf4 (
22. Rd5 Be7 (22... bxc5 23. Rxe5+ Be7 24. Bxc5 $18) 23. Rxe5 Kf7 24. Qd5+ Kf8
25. c4 25... Bf6 $18) 22... Be7 23. Bxe5 Qc6 24. Qxc6+ Rxc6 25. Bd6 bxc5 26.
Bxe7 {missing the following line, though I didn't see what I had missed until
long after, this is probably the starting point of indecisive and unsure play
- perhaps through a greatly reduced tension over the board} (26. Rxe7+ Kd8 27.
Rxa7 Rxd6 (27... cxb4 28. Bxb4+ Kc8 29. Ra8+ Kc7 30. Rxh8 h6 31. Rhd8 $18) 28.
Rxd6+ 28... Kc8 $18) 26... cxb4 27. Bxb4+ {the second best move - almost
immediately after playing this I saw that Rd8 was much more powerful. After
using 19 mins on the 1st 25 moves I raced thru the following 10 moves in
something like 2 mins} 27... Kf7 28. Rd7+ Kg6 29. Rd6+ $6 29... Rxd6 30. Bxd6
Rd8 31. Bb4 h5 32. a3 {I thought at the time this was simply a conservative
preparation to unleashing my own rook on the while ensuring black's rook could
not snatch my queenside pawns. Muddy thinking though since it restrics the
Bishop so.} 32... Kh6 33. Kf2 g5 34. Ke3 {*inviting* the exchange, which I
certainly wouldn't mind, not exactly positive play though and really a sign of
sloppy, lazy thinking.} 34... Rd5 35. Re2 a5 36. Be7 {Ke4 simpler} 36... Rd1
37. Rd2 {I thought, wrongly, that this move and the previous both allowed a
check that would win the Bishop, a panic set in and I actually thought I might
play worse with each new move. Thus I offered a draw, Les didn't take long
before accepting.} 1/2-1/2

