E16 Queen's Indian: 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4+ (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Bxd2+ 7.Nbxd2 O-O 8.O-O d6 9.Qc2 Nbd7 10.e4 e5)

It has become extremely difficult for me to come up with good moves or even decent moves for that matter. Most part of the day, it is my move on 100+ games, this has becoming a habit that I can't seem to shake so easily. The biggest reason for the difficulty to come up with anything good to play is that I don't have a good plan or can't even formulate a plan of any kind. This is mostly annoying because some of my opponents move almost immediately after I have moved and still manage to make good enough moves that I can't take any advantage of. While all this lack of finding good plans has been going on, it has not luckily affected all my games and I have actually managed to get my rating at Queen Alice Internet Chess Club to 2141. That may go down a bit since few of my opponents are quite tough. I even got challenged there by a player whose rating was close to 2500. I accepted the challenge of course because even if I lose both my games against him, my rating should not drop all that much. It will be interesting to see how long I can last against such a strong opponent. The quality of my games differs a lot and I did lose a game today or resigned a game that had gone only 15 moves, the game was lost a couple of moves earlier but still wanted to see the game forward a bit.

[Event "Let's Play!"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2012.01.29"] [Round "?"] [White "drodah"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E16"] [WhiteElo "1741"] [BlackElo "1890"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "78"] [EventDate "2012.??.??"] 1. d4 (1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 (2. c4 e6 {0-1 (87) Nguyen,T (2393)-Le,H (2122) Ho Chi Minh 2017}) 2... e6 {1-0 (45) Egeto,J (1865)-Al Hosani,O Iasi 2013}) 1... Nf6 ( 1... e6 2. c4 b6 3. Nf3 Bb7 4. g3 {1-0 (42) Jimenez Bandera,M-Dean,M Malaga 1999}) 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 (3... Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Bxd2+ 5. Nbxd2 b6 6. g3 Bb7 { 1-0 (45) Egeto,J (1865)-Al Hosani,O Iasi 2013}) 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Bb4+ {E16 Queen's Indian Defense: Capablanca Variation} 6. Bd2 Bxd2+ 7. Nbxd2 O-O (7... d6 8. O-O {0-1 (87) Nguyen,T (2393)-Le,H (2122) Ho Chi Minh 2017}) 8. O-O (8. Qc2 d6 {1-0 (45) Egeto,J (1865)-Al Hosani,O Iasi 2013}) 8... d6 9. Qc2 Nbd7 10. e4 e5 {E16 Queen's Indian: 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4+} 11. d5 {-0.46/19} (11. a3 $14 { 0.42/22}) 11... Rc8 {0.37/21} (11... c6 $15 {-0.46/19}) (11... Nh5 12. b4 a5 13. a3 Bc8 14. c5 bxc5 15. bxc5 Nxc5 16. Nxe5 Ba6 17. Nc6 Qd7 18. Rfe1 Bb5 19. e5 Rfe8 20. f4 Qg4 21. Re3 Bxc6 22. dxc6 Ne6 23. h3 Qg6 24. Qxg6 hxg6 25. exd6 cxd6 26. Nc4 {Gheorghiu,F (2540)-Kraidman,Y (2470) Manila 1974 1-0 (35)}) ( 11... a5 12. b3 Qe7 13. a3 Rfb8 14. Nh4 Bc8 15. Nf5 Qe8 16. h3 Ra7 17. Rfc1 Nf8 18. Ne3 Ng6 19. Nd1 Bd7 20. Nc3 Qc8 21. Nb5 Rab7 22. Kh2 h6 23. Nf1 Ra8 24. Ne3 h5 25. Rf1 h4 26. Nf5 {Nguyen,T (2393)-Le,H (2122) Ho Chi Minh 2017 0-1 (87)}) 12. Bh3 $146 {-0.45/20} (12. b4 $14 {0.37/21} c6 13. Qa4 (13. Qb3 cxd5 14. cxd5 b5 15. Bh3 Ra8 16. Rac1 Bc8 17. Bg2 Bb7 18. Nh4 Qb6 19. Nf5 Kh8 20. Rc2 Rfc8 21. Rfc1 Rxc2 22. Rxc2 Rc8 23. Rxc8+ Bxc8 24. Qc3 Bb7 25. h3 Nf8 26. Nb3 Ng6 27. Na5 Ba6 {Jimenez Bandera,M-Dean,M Malaga 1999 1-0 (42)}) 13... cxd5 14. cxd5 a6 15. Rfc1 Qe7 16. Bf1 b5 17. Qb3 Nb6 18. Qe3 Na4 19. Bh3 Nd7 20. Nb3 Rxc1+ 21. Rxc1 Rc8 22. Na5 Rxc1+ 23. Qxc1 Nb8 24. Qe3 Ba8 25. Qc1 Nb6 26. Nd2 g6 27. Ndb3 {Egeto,J (1865)-Al Hosani,O Iasi 2013 1-0 (45)}) (12. Qb3 Nc5 13. Qc2 c6 14. b4 {1-0 (42) Jimenez Bandera,M-Dean,M Malaga 1999}) 12... c6 { 0.11/21} (12... a5 $15 {-0.45/20}) 13. Qd1 {-0.54/19} ({White should try} 13. Qd3 $11 {0.11/21}) 13... cxd5 14. cxd5 Rc7 {0.12/22} (14... a5 $15 {-0.42/19}) 15. Re1 {-0.33/22} (15. Nh4 $11 {0.12/22}) 15... Nc5 {0.31/23} (15... a5 $15 { -0.33/22}) 16. Re3 {-0.64/19} ({White should play} 16. Nh4 $14 {0.31/23}) 16... Bc8 {0.02/20} (16... b5 $15 {-0.64/19}) 17. Bg2 {-0.95/21} (17. Bxc8 $11 { 0.02/20} Qxc8 18. Rc1) 17... Bg4 {0.10/22} (17... Ng4 $17 {-0.95/21} 18. Rc3 f5 ) 18. Qe1 {-0.78/21} (18. b4 $11 {0.10/22} Na6 19. Qa4) 18... Qc8 {0.00/23} ( 18... Qb8 $17 {-0.78/21}) 19. a4 {-1.14/19} (19. Bf1 $11 {0.00/23 keeps the balance.}) 19... Nb7 {0.25/21} (19... Nxa4 $1 $17 {-1.14/19} 20. b3 (20. Rxa4 $2 Rc1 $19) 20... Bxf3 21. Rxf3 Nc3) 20. b4 {-0.53/18} (20. b3 $11 {0.25/21}) 20... Rc3 {0.38/24} (20... h6 $15 {-0.53/18}) 21. b5 {-0.93/23} (21. Bf1 $14 { 0.38/24}) 21... Qc7 {-0.10/25} ({Better is} 21... Rc2 $17 {-0.93/23}) 22. Rxc3 $11 Qxc3 23. Rc1 Qb4 24. Rc4 Qa3 25. Rc7 Bc8 {0.73/23} (25... Rb8 $11 {0.00/24} ) 26. Qd1 $36 {White has good play.} Qb2 {1.32/21} (26... Rd8 $14 {0.38/25}) 27. Nc4 {0.44/23} (27. Ne1 $16 {1.32/21}) 27... Qc3 $1 $14 28. Ng5 $2 {-1.27/ 21 [#]} (28. Qe1 $14 {0.54/24} Qc2 29. Qf1) 28... h6 $1 $17 29. Nxf7 $2 { -3.90/26} (29. Nf3 $17 {-1.06/22}) 29... Rxf7 $4 {1.79/22} (29... Bg4 $19 { -3.90/26} 30. Nxh6+ gxh6) 30. Rxc8+ $18 Rf8 31. Rc7 $2 {0.27/25} (31. Rc6 $1 $18 {2.03/23}) 31... Na5 $11 32. Qe2 {0.00/23} (32. Bf3 $14 {0.51/26}) 32... Qa1+ {1.21/22} (32... Ng4 $1 $11 {0.00/23}) 33. Bf1 $1 $16 Qxa4 $2 {6.11/19 [#] } (33... Nb3 $16 {0.73/27}) 34. Nxd6 $18 Nb3 35. Re7 $2 {2.02/25} (35. Qc2 { 5.39/21}) 35... Nd4 36. Qe3 $4 {-15.34/20} (36. Qc4 $18 {2.12/25} Qd1 37. Nf5 ( 37. Rxa7 Nf3+ 38. Kg2 Ne1+ 39. Kg1 Nf3+ 40. Kg2 Ne1+ 41. Kg1 Nf3+ $11) 37... Nf3+ 38. Kg2) 36... Ng4 $19 37. Qc3 Qa2 {Black mates.} 38. Rxg7+ Kxg7 39. Bg2 Ne2+ {Accuracy: White = 13%, Black = 17%.} 0-1