C55 Two Knights: 4.d3, 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 and Max Lange Attack (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.Re1)

It is a very rare occurrence that I am able to conduct a successful attack but it does happen and this game is an example of that. This is also the very few games that I can actually say that I enjoyed of playing because it felt so effortless. In most cases I just try to put my pieces in to good squares and hope that things work out. Sometimes I just do not have any idea on how to play a position and I may end up looking at it for a long time and still have no good ideas on what to do. Playing a lot of simultaneous games at the same time has given me some ideas on certain openings that I have able to put into use in my blitz games but as I mostly play games that have at least three days per move, I have become quite slow mover in blitz. I noticed it again yesterday when I tried to play blitz at the chess club yesterday. Well, my slowness might have been due to the fact that I had not played blitz over the board in couple of months. It was also a bit distracting when the pieces were not always completely centralized and I sometimes needed to adjust their position. Yes, I am a bit obsessed with that little thing, one of the reasons I prefer to play on the internet, the pieces are always neatly placed on their squares... ;-)

[Event "Let's Play!"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2010.11.21"] [Round "?"] [White "vliet"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C55"] [WhiteElo "1692"] [BlackElo "1680"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "32"] [EventDate "2010.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 (2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nf3 {1-0 (40) Kovacs,T (2145)-Sztepa,S (2090) Gyongyos 1998}) 2... Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 {C55 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense} 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 {C55 Two Knights: 4.d3, 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 and Max Lange Attack} d5 6. d3 {-1.24/20} (6. Bb5 $142 {-0.79/21} Bc5 7. d4 exd4 8. Nbd2) 6... dxc4 { -0.67/23} (6... Nxf2 $1 $17 {-1.24/20} 7. Nxe5 Nxe5 8. Rxe5+ Be7) 7. Rxe4 $15 cxd3 {[#] And now ...Bf5 would win.} 8. Nxe5 {Black is slightly better.} Nxe5 9. Rxe5+ Be6 10. cxd3 Bd6 11. Re1 $146 (11. Rg5 h6 12. Rh5 Qd7 13. Qf3 O-O-O 14. Ra5 a6 15. Rxa6 Qb5 16. Ra8+ Kd7 17. Rxd8+ Rxd8 18. Nc3 Qe5 19. g3 Qe1+ 20. Kg2 Kc8 21. Rb1 Bb4 22. Bg5 Qxb1 23. Nxb1 hxg5 24. Kg1 Re8 25. Qe4 Bd6 { Kovacs,T (2145)-Sztepa,S (2090) Gyongyos 1998 1-0 (40)}) 11... Qh4 12. g3 Qh3 13. Nc3 O-O-O $36 {[#] Strongly threatening ...Bg4. Black fights for an advantage.} 14. Be3 {-1.97/17} (14. Qe2 $15 {-0.59/16}) 14... h5 $2 {-0.43/7} ( {Black should try} 14... Bg4 $1 $19 {-1.97/17} 15. Re2 (15. f3 $2 Bxg3 16. Re2 Bxf3 $19) 15... Rhe8) 15. Rc1 $2 {-2.35/16} (15. Qd2 $15 {-0.43/7}) 15... h4 $19 16. Nb5 $2 {-24.45/13} (16. Qf3 {-2.35/16}) 16... hxg3 {Accuracy: White = 18%, Black = 49%.} 0-1