A00 Irregular Openings (1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 e5 3.d3 Nf6)

I managed to get over 1800 finally at Red Hot Pawn, took me about 10 years... Okay, I was not playing actively there in some of those years or at all but still. Had I remained a non-subscriber there it might have taken me many more years and or months. That is mainly because free members only get to play six games simultaneously there. Now I have over 140 games in progress there which, of course, helps to increase or sometimes decrease my rating much faster than if I only played only six games at a time. I seen people increase their rating around 300 points a day, but that of course is very rare as it needs a lot of games to end in the same day. I am hoping to get to 1900 there as well at some point but that might take several months or it could be a matter of days, it all depends how fast games end and if I manage to win more than I lose. I think I my winning percentage is around 72 there. It may seem quite a lot, but I guess I have mainly played against lower rated people there.

The game featured inaccurate moves during the first eight moves, but the first really horrible move of the game was played by me on move 9 when I moved my bishop to f5. It was actually so bad move that it could have been the losing move. The reason why the bishop is so badly placed at f5 is seen in the continuation 10.fxe5 Nxe5?? 11.Nxe5 Rxe5 12.d4 and the piece on f5 is lost. Therefore a better reply to 10.fxe5 would be 10...Nd7 and be content with the loss of a pawn.

Unfortunately for my opponent, he or she did not play the move 10.fxe5 and moved the king to h1 instead. With that move SavyNL went from a position where he or she had a winning advantage to being clearly worse. However, in order to get that clear advantage, I needed to play 10...e4. In the game I moved my queen to d7 in order to connect the rooks and maybe protect the bishop so that it could go to h3 and maybe trade the light-squared bishops later on. The next turning point in the game came after the move 16...Ne3. In that position my opponent moved the threatened rook to b1, which seems like a good idea at first, it is placed on a semi-open file where it attacks the pawn on b7, but the rook was already on a semi-open file where it could attack the doubled pawns on the f-file. Maybe SavyNL did not like to move the rook to f2, because it could be answered with Ng4 and repetition of moves would be possible.

I then played the very tempting move 17...Qh3 and the initiative was on my side, at least for the time being. It was not the most accurate move in the position and it did not start a dangerous attack, because my opponent was able to easily deal with the moves I came up with. The engine recommends the move 17...c5 at depth 33. The game continued to be played in a relatively equal way up to the move 24...R3e5. SavyNL moved the e-pawn to e4 in order to further protect the on f5, but it was insufficient because I had the square e4 under my control.

Because of that I won a pawn, but things were not that easy for me and actually I messed up very soon after I had won the pawn. The game continued with the moves 25...dxe4 26.Qe2 and then I foolishly took the knight on f5 with my rook. I should have taken on d3 with my pawn first, so that I could have remained clearly on the driver's seat. The knights would have been traded in both cases, but I would have had an extra pawn and the king could have taken the knight on f5, allowing it to have more squares to go to. The next diagram shows the position in which the last blunder of the game was played.

I moved the attacked rook to e5, which allowed the very nasty check at g4 with the queen. I had to go to h6 with my king and then SavyNL played 32.Rxe5 and I was lost no matter what I did, so I resigned after seeing the move. The pawn can't take the rook because of the reply 33.Qg5# and if the rook takes it, then Qxd7 wins the game.

[Event "Let's Play!"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2014.05.18"] [Round "?"] [White "SavyNL"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "1807"] [BlackElo "1773"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "63"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] {[%evp 9,63,-68,-66,-69,-74,-81,-35,-69,-41,-79,191,-86,-58,-46,-47,-55,0,0,45, -10,-10,-13,-17,-26,-47,-102,-52,-59,-37,-35,-11,-8,-11,-11,-12,-41,0,-26,0, -27,0,-108,-108,-120,-42,-42,-41,-53,-48,-47,-29,-43,923,897,6804,5689]} 1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 e5 3. d3 Nf6 {A00 Irregular Openings} 4. f4 Nc6 5. Nc3 (5. fxe5 Nxe5 6. Nf3 (6. Bf4 Nc6 7. Nf3 Bc5 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. c3 Ng4 10. d4 Bd6 11. h3 Bxf4 12. gxf4 Ne3 13. Qb1 Nxg2+ 14. Kf2 Nxf4 15. e3 Ng6 16. Qc2 Qf6 17. Ke2 Bf5 18. Qb3 Rfe8 19. Raf1 Nf4+ 20. Kd1 Rxe3 {Suva,K (1588)-Abhiraaj,A Zirndorf 2017 1-0 (57)}) 6... Nxf3+ 7. exf3 Bc5 8. d4 Qe7+ 9. Kf2 Bb6 10. Re1 Be6 11. Bh3 O-O 12. Bxe6 fxe6 13. Kg2 c5 14. Be3 Rae8 15. dxc5 Bxc5 16. c3 e5 17. Bg5 Qe6 18. Nd2 Bb6 19. a4 Qf5 {Ratolistka,J (2059)-Studnicka,T (2310) Prague 2005 0-1 (63)}) 5... Bb4 $146 (5... Be6 6. Nh3 Bc5 7. fxe5 Ng4 8. Na4 Ne3 9. Bxe3 Bxe3 10. c3 b5 11. d4 bxa4 12. Qxa4 Qd7 13. Nf4 Bxf4 14. gxf4 Ne7 15. Qa5 Bf5 16. b3 O-O 17. Rg1 f6 18. c4 c6 19. exf6 Rxf6 20. e3 {Gibson,J-Wallace,P Mulcahy 1974 0-1} ) 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 O-O {-0.35/26} (7... e4 $17 {-0.81/21}) 8. Nf3 {Black is slightly better.} Re8 9. O-O Bf5 $2 {1.91/25 [%mdl 8192] [#]} (9... e4 $17 { -0.79/25 and life is bright.} 10. Nd4 Bg4 11. Nxc6 bxc6) {[%tqu "En","","","", "f4e5","",10]} 10. Kh1 $2 {-0.86/25} (10. fxe5 $1 $18 {1.91/25} Nd7 11. Nh4) 10... Qd7 11. fxe5 Nxe5 {[%mdl 32]} 12. Bg5 Bh3 {0.00/27} (12... Neg4 $15 { -0.55/21}) 13. Bxf6 $11 {[%tqu "En","","","","h3g2","",10]} gxf6 {0.45/22} ( 13... Bxg2+ $1 $11 {0.00/27} 14. Kxg2 gxf6) 14. Qd2 {-0.10/27} (14. Nh4 $14 { 0.45/22}) 14... Bxg2+ 15. Kxg2 Ng4 {White should prevent ... Ne3+.} 16. Kh1 Ne3 17. Rfb1 {-1.02/24} (17. Rf2 $15 {-0.47/27}) 17... Qh3 {-0.52/29} ({Black should try} 17... c5 $17 {-1.02/24} 18. a4 Re7) 18. Rg1 $15 Ng4 {[#] [%tqu "En","","","","g1g2","", 10]} 19. Rg2 $1 Re3 20. Rb1 b6 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black has some pressure.} 21. Rb4 Rae8 22. Rf4 Kg7 {0.00/30} (22... R3e7 $15 { -0.41/28}) 23. Nd4 Kg6 (23... Kf8 $5 24. c4 dxc4 $11) 24. Nf5 {[%tqu "En","", "","", "e3e5","",10]} R3e5 $1 25. e4 {-1.08/27} (25. Nh4+ $11 {0.00/28 remains equal.} Kg7 26. Nf3) 25... dxe4 $17 26. Qe2 {[%tqu "En", "","","","e4d3","",10] } Rxf5 {-0.42/28} (26... exd3 $1 $17 {-1.20/26} 27. Rxg4+ Kxf5 28. Qf3+ Ke6 29. cxd3 Ke7) 27. Rxg4+ $15 Rg5 28. Rh4 Qd7 29. Rxe4 Re6 30. h4 Rge5 $2 {9.23/29 [%mdl 8192]} (30... Rxe4 $15 {-0.43/27} 31. Qxe4+ f5) 31. Qg4+ $18 Kh6 32. Rxe5 {Accuracy: White = 34%, Black = 24%.} 1-0 [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2014.10.29"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "Tocklin, Tomi"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "1605"] [BlackElo "1484"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "86"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 e5 3. d3 Nf6 {A00 Irregular Openings} 4. Nf3 c5 $146 (4... e4 5. dxe4 Nxe4 6. O-O Be7 7. c4 dxc4 8. Qa4+ Bd7 9. Qxc4 Nd6 10. Qf4 Bc6 11. Nc3 O-O 12. Rd1 Bf6 13. e4 Bxc3 14. bxc3 Qf6 15. Nd4 Bxe4 16. Qxf6 gxf6 17. Ba3 Bxg2 18. Kxg2 Rd8 19. Nb5 {Vavric,P (2369)-Fingerov,D (2300) Odessa 2018 1/2-1/ 2 (55)}) (4... Be7 5. Nxe5 O-O 6. O-O Bd6 7. Nf3 Bg4 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Bxf3 Nbd7 10. Bg5 c6 11. c4 dxc4 12. dxc4 Be5 13. Qc2 h6 14. Bd2 Nc5 15. Bb4 Qe7 16. Nc3 Bd6 17. Bxc5 Bxc5 18. Ne4 Nxe4 19. Qxe4 {Nascimento,P (1724)-Santos Barbalho,G Brazil 2010 1-0 (35)}) (4... Nbd7 5. Nbd2 Be7 6. c3 O-O 7. O-O c6 8. a4 e4 9. Nh4 exd3 10. exd3 Nc5 11. Ndf3 Ne8 12. b4 Na6 13. Bh1 Bg4 14. Ng2 Bf6 15. d4 Nd6 16. Ne3 Bh5 17. Qb3 Re8 18. Bg2 Nc7 19. Ra2 {De Winter,E (1823)-Newrkla,A (1969) Reykjavik 2013 0-1 (65)}) 5. c3 Nc6 6. O-O Bd6 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bxf6 $1 { The position is equal.} Qxf6 9. Nbd2 Be6 10. e4 O-O 11. Re1 {-0.54/19} (11. exd5 $11 {-0.01/21} Bxd5 12. Nh4 Bxg2 13. Nxg2) 11... Rad8 {-0.09/20} (11... d4 $1 $15 {-0.54/19 deserves consideration.}) 12. Qc2 {-0.64/16} (12. exd5 $11 { -0.09/20} Bxd5 13. Qe2) 12... Rc8 {-0.02/21} ({Black should try} 12... d4 $15 { -0.64/16}) 13. Re2 {-0.69/18} (13. exd5 $11 {-0.02/21} Bxd5 14. Rad1) 13... b5 {0.05/21} (13... d4 $1 $15 {-0.69/18}) 14. a3 {-0.74/17} (14. exd5 $11 {0.05/21 } Bxd5 15. Nh4 Bxg2 16. Kxg2) 14... a5 {0.06/22} (14... d4 $17 {-0.74/17}) 15. exd5 $11 Bxd5 16. c4 {-0.37/21} (16. a4 $11 {0.04/20} b4 17. Nh4 Bxg2 18. Nxg2) 16... bxc4 $15 17. Nxc4 $2 {-3.38/16} ({Better is} 17. dxc4 $15 {-0.36/18} Be6 18. Ne4) 17... Bb8 $2 {-0.01/22} ({Black should play} 17... Bxf3 $19 {-3.38/16} 18. Re3 Nd4) 18. Ncd2 Nd4 19. Nxd4 cxd4 20. Qa4 Bxg2 21. Kxg2 Qc6+ 22. Qxc6 Rxc6 23. Nc4 Rc5 {0.82/21} (23... a4 $11 {0.24/23}) 24. b4 $36 {Black is under strong pressure.} axb4 25. axb4 Rb5 26. Rb1 Rc8 27. Kf3 f6 {0.85/18} (27... f5 $14 {0.43/21} 28. Ra2 Bc7) 28. Ke4 {0.00/21} (28. Ra2 $16 {0.85/18}) 28... Kf7 {0.49/18} (28... f5+ $11 {0.00/21} 29. Kxf5 e4+ 30. Kxe4 Re8+ 31. Kf3 Rf5+ 32. Kg4 Rg5+ 33. Kf3 Rf5+ 34. Kg4 Rg5+ 35. Kf3 Rf5+) 29. Ra2 $14 f5+ $2 {2.10/17} ( 29... g6 $14 {0.49/18}) 30. Kf3 $2 {0.47/19} (30. Kxf5 $18 {2.10/17} Bc7 31. Ra7) 30... e4+ 31. Ke2 Kg8 {1.77/19} (31... Bc7 $14 {0.67/18}) 32. Ra5 $1 $18 exd3+ {2.35/18} (32... Rcc5 $142 {1.77/21} 33. bxc5 Rxb1) 33. Kxd3 Rb7 34. Kxd4 $2 {0.12/22} (34. Rxf5 $18 {2.23/18 b5 is the strong threat.} Rbc7 35. Rc1) 34... Ba7+ {0.56/22} (34... Rd7+ $1 $11 {0.12/22} 35. Kc3 Rdc7) 35. Kd5 $1 $14 Bxf2 36. Nd6 $1 Rd8 {[#] Strongly threatening ...Rb6.} 37. Ke6 {0.08/19} (37. Ra8 $1 $16 {0.82/21} Rb5+ (37... Rxa8 38. Nxb7) 38. Ke6 Rxa8 39. Nxb5) 37... Rb6 $11 38. Rd5 $1 Be1 {0.75/18 [#]} (38... Be3 $11 {0.07/18 keeps the balance. }) 39. Ke7 $2 {-0.99/18 [#]} (39. b5 $1 $16 {0.75/18 keeps the pressure on.}) 39... Rdxd6 $1 $17 40. Rxd6 Bxb4 41. Rxb4 Rxb4 42. Rd8+ Kh7 43. Ke6 Kg6 { Game drawn by mutual agreement. Accuracy: White = 12%, Black = 12%.} 1/2-1/2