From this year's Canadian University Chess Championships comes one of the best wins played by FM Michael Kleinman (second board of the McGill team) over Lloyd Mai of the University of Ottawa. The game is a great example of domination and how to disallow counterplay. See Louie Jiang's comments below!
[Event "CUCC"]
[Site "Ottawa"]
[Date "2014.01.17"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kleinman, M."]
[Black "Mai, L."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B08"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[EventDate "2013.01.03"]
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. Nf3 Nd7 5. Be3 Ngf6 6. h3 {A very solid line
for White.} e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Bc4 O-O 9. Qe2 c6 10. a4 Qc7 11. O-O b6 12. Rfd1
Nh5 $6 {A rather ambitious move; Black is aiming for the f4 square, but by
moving it to h5 rather than e6 (although faster) there is no going back.} 13.
Qd2 $6 $16 {White comes out of the opening with a clear edge.} (13. Ng5 $1 {A
lot sharper and seems to punish Black immediately for his weakening move. The
threat is actually rather hard to defend against, for instance if Black
ignores f7:} a5 (13... Ndf6 14. g4 Nf4 15. Bxf4 exf4 16. e5 Ne8 17. e6 $18 {
Shows why Nh5 is not a good place to put the knight.}) 14. Bxf7+ $1 Rxf7 15.
Nxf7 Kxf7 16. Qc4+ Kf8 17. Nb5 $1 Qd8 18. Nd6 $18 {White is completely winning.
}) 13... Ndf6 14. Qd6 {A queen trade would not allieviate Black's
discoordinated pieces.} Qb7 $6 {Now however, White can force a favorable trade.
} 15. g4 Ne8 {Forced.} (15... Nf4 16. Bxf4 exf4 17. Qxf4 $16 {Free pawn.}) 16.
Qd2 Nhf6 {Again, forced.} (16... Be6 $2 17. Bxe6 fxe6 18. Ng5 Nf4 19. Qd7 $18)
17. Nxe5 Nxe4 {Somewhat forced, otherwise White emerges a full pawn ahead with
very little if any compensation on Black's part.} 18. Nxe4 Bxe5 19. Bd4 $6 {
Missing a beautiful win:} (19. Bh6 $1 Bg7 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. Qc3+ f6 22. g5 Qe7
23. Re1 $18) 19... Qe7 (19... Bxd4 20. Qxd4 Qc7 21. Re1 Bb7 22. Rad1) 20. Qh6
Bxd4 21. Rxd4 {But really not changing much. White is much better. Black is
now in quite a spot of trouble; his pieces have no good places to go.} Qe5 22.
Rad1 Qg7 23. Qxg7+ Nxg7 24. Nf6+ {This is a simple and clean method of
converting White's advantage. Although objectively speaking White should have
kept the Queen's alive, this endgame is losing for Black. This way there is no
counterplay for Black.} Kh8 25. Bxf7 $5 {This actually gives Black an escape
route, better was:} (25. Nd7 $1 Bxd7 26. Rxd7 Ne6 27. Bxe6 fxe6 28. R1d6 $18 {
With an easy win.}) 25... Bxg4 $2 {Missing his final chance. Now White finds a
beautiful way of placing Black in zugswang.} (25... Be6 $1 26. Bxe6 Nxe6 27.
Rd6 Rxf6 28. g5 Rf5 29. Rxe6 Rxg5+ 30. Kf1 c5 31. Rd7 $14 {White is going to
have to work to convert this advantage.}) 26. hxg4 Rxf7 27. Rd8+ $5 {The start
of the end.} Rf8 28. Rxa8 Rxa8 29. Rd7 g5 30. Rf7 $1 {A very sly idea by White.
} c5 31. b3 a6 32. Kg2 b5 33. a5 Rc8 34. Kf3 c4 35. bxc4 bxc4 36. c3 Ra8 37.
Ke4 {Black can do nothing. All his pieces are tied down. White will simply win
all the pawns and Black can only shuffle his rook.} Rd8 38. Ke5 Ra8 39. Ke4 Rd8
40. Kf3 Rd3+ 41. Ke2 Rd8 42. Ke1 Rc8 43. Kd2 Rd8+ 44. Kc2 Rb8 45. Kc1 Rd8 46.
Kb2 Rb8+ 47. Ka2 Ra8 48. Ka3 Rb8 49. Ka4 Ra8 50. Kb4 Rc8 51. f3 h6 52. Ra7 Rf8
53. Rxa6 h5 54. Nxh5 Rb8+ 55. Rb6 {A wonderful game by White, denying Black
any counterplay whatsoever. Although certain moves could have been sharper,
there was no need to take the risks and allow Black a chance. Only one slight
hiccup marred White's execution, but the end zugzwang was arguably the
prettiest way to win.}
