[Event "British Championships 2017"] [Site "Llandudno"] [Date "2017.08.28"] [Round "1"] [White "Litttlewood P E, 2361."] [Black "Simons M J, 2026."] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A57"] [Annotator "Doe,John"] [PlyCount "82"]   d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 d6 5. cxb5 a6 6. e3 g6 7. Nc3 Bg7 8. e4 Nbd7 bxa6 Qa5 10. Bd3 Nxd5 $1 {A bolt from the blue!} 11. exd5 Bxc3+ {White decides to give up the exchange when 12.Bd2 Bxd2+ 13.Qxd2 Qxd2+ 14.Nxd2 Bxa6 15.Bxa6 was a forcing line keeping damage to a minimum.} 12. bxc3 $2 {White decides to give up the exchange when 12.Bd2 Bxd2+ 13.Qxd2 Qxd2+ 14.Nxd2 Bxa6 15.Bxa6 was a forcing line keeping damage to a minimum.} Qxc3+ 13. Qd2 Qxa1 14. O-O Qg7 $6 {Concern over his queen and rook being skewered leads Martin to retreat his queen immediately, but 14...0-0! would have accomplished the same escape act and after 15.Bb2 Qxa2 16.Qc3 Nf6 another pawn is pocketed and the mating threat nullified.} 15. Bb2 f6 16. Ng5 $5 Qh6 17. f4 O-O 18. Ne6 Nb6 $2 { 18...Bxa6! is the correct way to give the exchange back, as after 19.Nxf8 Qxf8 20.Bxa6 Rxa6 21.a3 Black is a safe pawn to the good.} 19. Nxf8 Qxf8 20. Qa5 { Now it becomes clear that, safe or otherwise, a pawn advantage may not even be there for the taking because, in order to pick up the advanced a-pawn, Black must weaken his own on the c-file.} c4 21. Be2 Rxa6 22. Qb5 Qd8 23. Bd4 $1 Qd7 a4 {Bowing to the inevitable and the flurry of exchanges that follow leads to complete equality.} Nxa4 25. Qxc4 Nc5 26. Bxc5 dxc5 27. Qxc5 Qa7 28. Rc1 Qxc5+ 29. Rxc5 Ra8 {and although a draw was not agreed for another ten moves it could have taken place here.} 30. Rc7 Ba6 31. Rxe7 Bxe2 32. Rxe2 Ra1+ 33. Kf2 Rd1 34. Re8+ Kf7 35. Rh8 Rxd5 36. Rxh7+ Ke6 37. g4 Ra5 38. Rg7 g5 39. fxg5 fxg5 40. Rg6+ Kf7 41. Rb6 Ra2+ 1/2-1/2