C70 Spanish Game: 3...a6 4.Ba4, Norwegian and Delayed Schliemann (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3)

I may have a problem of sorts, albeit I have tried to mostly not enter anymore tournaments and otherwise increase the amount of games that I play, I did enter a couple more tournaments today... Mainly due to the thinking times being long enough and one tournament even was a Ruy Lopez thematic tournament that I allowed myself to join those tournaments. This will most likely increase the amount of simultaneous games back over 200 but so be it. It is somehow still maintainable amount of games but it might drive me mad if most of games start to be in situations that I do not know what to do. This many simultaneous games has also affected in my logging into ICC or Playchess, I just have no time for it anymore which I would obviously want to change at some point. Then again I would most likely just play blitz in either of these sites and not playing blitz might have increased my overall strength. My steady climb at Red Hot Pawn seems to continue at least for now as I got to my highest ever rating there yet again, new peak at 1848. I wonder how long I can keep that nice progress going and when the eventual downhill starts.

The second game in this line is from the 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen III tournament that is held at Red Hot Pawn. It is a tournament where there are 21 players who play against each other twice, once with both colors. Joining these kind of tournaments increases your games in progress by 40 games instantly when they start. Third place finish is the highest I can hope for to get as the players in front of me are too far for me to reach as I have lost too many points in the tournament. In the game below the rating difference is just too great to make this an even battle for victory.

[Event "Let's Play!"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2010.11.30"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "GerryCanavan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C70"] [WhiteElo "1710"] [BlackElo "1378"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "47"] [EventDate "2010.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 {C70 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Caro Variation} 5. Bb3 {C70 Spanish Game: 3...a6 4.Ba4, Norwegian and Delayed Schliemann} Nh6 {0.66/21} ({Black should try} 5... Nf6 $11 {0.13/21}) (5... Be7 6. O-O d6 7. c3 Bg4 8. h3 Bh5 9. Bd5 Qd7 10. a4 Rb8 11. axb5 axb5 12. Ra6 Nd8 13. Nxe5 dxe5 14. Qxh5 Bf6 15. f4 g6 16. Qf3 c6 17. Bb3 Qc7 18. fxe5 Bxe5 19. d4 Bd6 20. e5 {Rivera Kuzawka,D (2265)-Mateo Mateo,A Valladolid 1986 1-0}) 6. c3 $146 (6. Bd5 Bb7 7. Nxe5 Bd6 8. Nxc6 dxc6 9. Bb3 a5 10. c3 a4 11. Bc2 Bc5 12. d4 Bf8 13. Bxh6 gxh6 14. Nd2 f6 15. Qh5+ Kd7 16. Qf5+ Ke8 17. Qe6+ Be7 18. Nf3 Rg8 19. Qxg8+ Bf8 20. Qe6+ Be7 {Parfenov,E-Atamyradov,G Kimry 2012 1-0}) ( 6. O-O Bb7 7. Re1 Qf6 8. d3 O-O-O 9. Bg5 Qd6 10. Bxd8 Kxd8 11. Nbd2 f5 12. Ng5 Qf6 13. Ndf3 Nd4 14. Nh3 Nxf3+ 15. Qxf3 Be7 16. Bd5 c6 17. Bb3 Rf8 18. Qe2 Qh4 19. exf5 Rxf5 20. Qe4 d5 {Contreras Acevedo,A (1527)-Santos Caballero,E Santander 2012 1-0 (35)}) (6. d4 d6 7. h3 exd4 8. Nxd4 Bb7 9. Bxh6 gxh6 10. O-O Qf6 11. c3 O-O-O 12. a4 b4 13. Qd3 Nxd4 14. cxd4 Rg8 15. Nd2 Bg7 16. Nf3 Qf4 17. Rac1 Qxe4 18. Qc4 Rd7 19. Rfe1 d5 20. Qxb4 Bf8 {Rodriguez Gomez,V-Cerezo Camacho,A Madrid 2000 1-0 (47)}) 6... b4 {0.91/21} (6... Na5 $14 {0.46/18 should be considered.}) 7. O-O $16 d6 {1.52/21} (7... Bb7 $142 {0.91/17}) 8. d4 {Hoping for dxe5.White is clearly better.} Bg4 {1.97/18} (8... Rb8 $16 {1.47/20 } 9. dxe5 dxe5) 9. Ba4 Bd7 10. d5 Na5 {2.05/25} (10... Ne7 $16 {1.57/21 is a better defense.} 11. cxb4 Ng6) 11. cxb4 $18 Nc4 12. Nbd2 Nxd2 13. Bxd2 Bxa4 14. Qxa4+ Ke7 $2 {3.90/21 [#]} (14... Qd7 {2.10/20} 15. Qc2 Be7) 15. Rac1 f5 $2 { 12.11/17} (15... Ng4 {3.67/22} 16. Rc6 Nf6) 16. Bg5+ Kf7 17. Bxd8 Rxd8 18. Rxc7+ Kg6 19. exf5+ Nxf5 20. Qc2 {[#] White threatens g4 and mate.} Kf6 21. Qd2 Be7 22. Qg5+ {White mates.} Kf7 23. Qxf5+ Ke8 24. Qe6 {Accuracy: White = 46%, Black = 11%.} 1-0 [Event "Grand Seven Fourteen"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.08.11"] [Round "1"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "golfnaturl"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C70"] [WhiteElo "1871"] [BlackElo "1309"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "65"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 {C70 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Caro Variation} 5. Bb3 {C70 Spanish Game: 3...a6 4.Ba4, Norwegian and Delayed Schliemann} Qe7 {1.65/19} (5... Nf6 $11 {0.17/20 and Black is okay.}) 6. c3 (6. O-O Nf6 7. d3 d6 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Bg4 11. Nbd2 Qd7 12. c3 Be7 13. a4 O-O 14. Qc2 Be6 15. Bxe6 Qxe6 16. d4 Qc8 17. Rfe1 b4 18. dxe5 dxe5 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20. Bxe5 Ng4 {Metzdorf,M-Szigeti,A (895) Mureck 2015 1-0 (39)}) 6... Nf6 ( 6... Bb7 7. O-O Nh6 8. d4 exd4 9. cxd4 g6 10. Nc3 Bg7 11. e5 O-O 12. Bg5 Qe8 13. Nd5 Rc8 14. Bxh6 Bxh6 15. Nf6+ Kh8 16. Nxe8 Rcxe8 17. a3 g5 18. Qd3 Ne7 19. Rac1 g4 20. Nd2 Rc8 21. f3 {Koliopoulos,V-Anastasiou,K Athens 1999 1-0 (46)}) 7. O-O $146 (7. d3 d6 8. Nbd2 Bb7 (8... Be6 9. O-O Qd8 10. Re1 Be7 11. Nf1 O-O 12. h3 Na5 13. Bc2 h6 14. Ng3 Nc6 15. Nh2 h5 16. Nxh5 Nxh5 17. Qxh5 g6 18. Qf3 b4 19. Ng4 Bxg4 20. hxg4 Kg7 21. Ba4 Qd7 22. cxb4 Rh8 23. Bd2 {Borekcioglu,Z (1708)-Tetik,M Konya 2011 1-0 (64)}) 9. O-O O-O-O 10. a4 b4 11. d4 h5 12. d5 Na7 13. cxb4 Rg8 14. Nc4 Nxe4 15. Be3 Kb8 16. b5 g5 17. Na5 Bc8 18. Bxa7+ Ka8 19. Nc6 Qf6 20. Nxd8 Qxd8 21. Be3 g4 {Camacho,L (1772)-Salamanca Chaparro,L (1336) Yopal 2012 1-0}) 7... Qd6 {2.92/19} ({But not} 7... Nxe4 8. d4 $16) ( 7... d6 $16 {1.53/21}) 8. d4 $18 {White has a decisive advantage.} Nxe4 9. Re1 Qg6 $2 {6.31/20 [#]} (9... f5 {2.89/21} 10. Nxe5 Nxe5) 10. dxe5 $2 {2.26/21} ( 10. Nh4 {6.31/20} Qf6 11. Rxe4) 10... Bc5 $2 {4.36/19} (10... Nc5 {2.26/21} 11. Bc2 Qh5) 11. Be3 $2 {1.74/24} (11. Rxe4 $1 {4.36/19} Qxe4 12. Bxf7+ $1 Kd8 13. Bd5) 11... Bxe3 12. Rxe3 {Hoping for Bc2.} O-O $2 {4.51/21} (12... Nc5 $16 { 1.50/21}) 13. Bc2 ({Less strong is} 13. Nh4 Nxf2 14. Kxf2 Qh6 $18) 13... f5 { 6.69/17} (13... Nxf2 $142 {4.05/25} 14. Kxf2 Qh6) 14. Qd5+ $2 {1.14/26} (14. exf6 $18 {6.69/17} Qxf6 15. Qd5+ Kh8 16. Rxe4) 14... Rf7 $2 {3.27/21} (14... Qe6 $16 {1.14/26 keeps fighting.} 15. Bxe4 fxe4 16. Qxe4 Bb7) 15. Bxe4 $2 { 0.66/22} (15. Bb3 $18 {3.27/21}) 15... fxe4 $14 16. Qxe4 ({And not} 16. Rxe4 Bb7 $15) 16... Rf5 $2 {3.59/23} (16... Qxe4 $16 {0.98/22} 17. Rxe4 Bb7) 17. Nh4 Qh5 $2 {8.77/20} (17... Rxe5 {3.16/23} 18. Nxg6 Rxe4) 18. Nxf5 $18 d6 19. Ng3 Qd1+ 20. Re1 Qa4 21. Qxc6 {[#]} Bb7 22. Qxb7 Rf8 23. Nd2 Qf4 24. Nde4 Qxe5 25. Rad1 d5 26. Qxd5+ Qxd5 27. Rxd5 c6 28. Rd7 {White mates.} Rc8 29. Nd6 Rf8 30. Ree7 h6 31. Rxg7+ Kh8 32. Rh7+ Kg8 33. Rdg7# {Accuracy: White = 26%, Black = 1%.} 1-0