Road to the Grandmaster title - Game 13 - Rossolimo - Victory against the top player

Yesterday I played with the Top rated player, Fide-master Bence Nagy, rated 2396 FIDE.

I arrived around 5 minutes late to the game. e4 was already on the board.

I decided to play the sicilian with 2nd Nc6 instead of g6, to preavent the d4 cxd4 Queen takes d4 lines, which I need to study more.

Looks like my Nc6 move was a surprise for him, probably because I played 2...g6 in my recent games.

He started to think and instead of d4, he played the Rossolimo, 3.Bb5

I like to play against the Rossolimo, because black has space and good control of the center.

He choose a new plan, to advance the a-pawn and attack my c5 pawn with the bishop and knights.

I temporaly sacrificedd the pawn with c5-c4, but won back and one more. He got a queen on d6 to prevent me castling, but he made the mistake to open the a-file, which I used for attacking his a4 knight. In an inferior position he sacrificed the knight, but got only a pawn and a few attacking moves.

My technique was much better this time, then in the last two games