D06 Queen's Gambit: Symmetrical and Baltic Defences (1.c4 d5 2.cxd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd8 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 e6 6.e4 Bb4 7.Bd3 Nc6)

Yesterday I managed to get a very good draw in my correspondence chess game against a FM Juergen Kaufeld, his Online Chess rating at Chess.com is 2456 and mine is currently 1910. I will post that game analysed sometime in the future. This year has been the best year for me against titled players, never before have I managed to not only draw against a FIDE Master but also beat two International Masters, IM Aleksei Holmsten in an over the board blitz game and the young Polish IM Kacper Drozdowski in a Online Chess game at Chess.com!! Before this year, the highest titled player that I had beaten was a Finnish FM Tapio Salo and that was some years ago in a OTB blitz tournament. Both of those over the board victories came when I flagged my opponent but where I did manage to play quite well for the most part of the game. The game I am sharing with you now is from my early chess playing years. At the time when this game was played I had played my first tournament only a bit over three years ago. Well, I consider my so called chess career to have started around 2001 with my first tournament appearance albeit I had played chess before that to some extent but only some practice games. I have updated today mate in one, two, four and five pages.

[Event "Corr game 27.5.2004-14.6.2004"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2004.05.27"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "ashukla"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D06"] [WhiteElo "1849"] [BlackElo "1333"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "55"] [EventDate "2004.??.??"] 1. c4 (1. d4 d5 (1... Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nf6 {1-0 (16) Korol,V (2217)-Allayarov,D Satka 2011}) 2. c4 Nf6 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. e4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 {1-0 (34) Vaskevicius,A (1521)-Rudzkis,M Kaunas 2013}) 1... d5 {A10 English Opening: Anglo-Scandinavian Defense} 2. cxd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 e6 6. e4 Bb4 7. Bd3 Nc6 {2.35/16 D06 Queen's Gambit: Symmetrical and Baltic Defences} (7... c5 $16 {1.07/21}) 8. Be3 (8. O-O Nxd4 (8... O-O 9. Bc2 b6 10. Qd3 a5 11. Rd1 Ba6 12. Qe3 Qe7 13. Qg5 Bxc3 14. bxc3 Be2 15. Re1 Bxf3 16. gxf3 Nd7 17. Qg3 e5 18. Ba4 Ncb8 19. f4 exf4 20. Bxf4 Nf6 21. Bxc7 Nxe4 22. Qf4 Qg5+ 23. Qxg5 {Desoye,G (1767)-Thullen,A (1570) Bayerisch Eisenstein 2018 1-0 (51)}) 9. Nxd4 O-O 10. Nde2 h6 11. h3 e5 12. Bc4 c6 13. Qxd8 Rxd8 14. Be3 b5 15. Bb3 Ba5 16. f3 {1-0 (16) Korol,V (2217)-Allayarov,D Satka 2011}) 8... Bd7 {2.38/18} (8... O-O $16 {1.46/19}) 9. O-O $18 h5 $146 {3.31/18} (9... Ba5 $142 {1.85/21} 10. a3 Ne7) (9... O-O 10. Qc2 Qe7 11. e5 Nd5 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. Bxh7+ Kh8 14. Bf5 Bxf5 15. Qxf5 g6 16. Qh3+ Kg8 17. Bg5 Qe6 18. Qh6 Be7 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 20. Ng5 f5 21. Qxg6+ Kh8 22. e6 Nd8 23. f4 Rf6 24. Qh5+ {Vaskevicius,A (1521)-Rudzkis, M Kaunas 2013 1-0 (34)}) 10. Bg5 {White has a decisive advantage.} Qe7 $2 { 6.44/18 [#]} (10... Be7 {2.43/20} 11. a3 Ng4) 11. e5 O-O-O 12. Ne4 Qf8 13. exf6 g6 14. a3 Bd6 15. Qc2 e5 16. d5 Nd4 17. Nxd4 exd4 18. h4 Bf5 19. Nxd6+ Qxd6 20. Bxf5+ gxf5 21. Qxf5+ Kb8 22. Rac1 Qb6 23. Bf4 Rc8 24. Rxc7 $1 Rxc7 25. Rc1 Rhc8 26. Qd7 Ka8 27. Rxc7 Rxc7 28. Qd8+ {Accuracy: White = 66%, Black = 10%.} 1-0