A42 Modern Defence: Averbakh Variation (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 g6 5.d4 exd4 6.Nxd4 Bg7 7.Be3 Nge7 8.Nxc6)

This is another around ten year old game but the analysis is done only recently. I wonder how good I would be in this game if I had analysed my games right after I had finished them or at least in the same week. Analyzing games only after a decade has gone by is maybe a bit too slow progress rate but there might still be something to learn from the old games. I have managed to decrease my game count from 290 to 277 so maybe I am not that hopeless case after all. That being said, I still have one tournament that has not started yet which will increase the amount of games I play a bit again. I have updated puzzles from mate in ones to mate in six moves today and all in between. I have also started typing about chess basics but it will take me a bit more time to get it in the shape I want to get it before I consider it something I want to publish. There will be quite a few games still from my Red Hot Pawn games that I will publish before going at least briefly back to my Chess.com games.

[Event "Corr game 14.6.2004-8.7.2004"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2004.06.14"] [Round "?"] [White "ashukla"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A42"] [WhiteElo "1333"] [BlackElo "1849"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "56"] [EventDate "2004.??.??"] 1. e4 (1. d4 d6 (1... g6 2. e4 (2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 {1-0 (61) Naumkin,I (2446) -Mauro,A (2225) Estensi 2001}) 2... Bg7 3. c4 d6 4. Nc3 e5 5. Nge2 (5. Nf3 exd4 {1-0 (61) Naumkin,I (2446)-Mauro,A (2225) Estensi 2001}) 5... exd4 {1/2-1/2 (34) Kramnik,V (2751)-Reinderman,D (2542) Wijk aan Zee 1999}) 2. c4 e5 3. Nf3 exd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. e4 {0-1 (37) Genov,P (2395)-Azmaiparashvili,Z (2505) Albena 1986}) 1... e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c4 {C44 King Pawn Game: Dresden Opening} d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bg7 7. Be3 Nge7 8. Nxc6 {0.37/22 A42 Modern Defence: Averbakh Variation} (8. Be2 $16 {0.79/19}) 8... Nxc6 {0.95/18} (8... Bxc3+ $14 {0.37/22} 9. bxc3 Nxc6) 9. Qc2 $146 {0.12/19} (9. Qd2 $16 { 0.95/18} O-O (9... Be6 10. Be2 Qd7 (10... O-O 11. O-O a6 12. Rad1 Ne5 13. b3 Qe7 14. h3 f5 15. f4 Nc6 16. exf5 Bxf5 17. Bf3 Rae8 18. Bf2 Kh8 19. Nd5 Qd8 20. Rfe1 Be6 21. b4 Qd7 22. b5 axb5 23. cxb5 Bxd5 24. Qxd5 Nd8 25. Rxe8 {Naumkin,I (2446)-Mauro,A (2225) Estensi 2001 1-0 (61)}) 11. O-O O-O 12. Rad1 Rad8 13. Bh6 (13. Rfe1 f5 14. Bg5 Rde8 15. exf5 Bxf5 16. Nd5 Be6 17. Be3 Ne7 18. Nxe7+ Rxe7 19. b3 b6 20. Bf3 Bg4 21. Bd5+ Kh8 22. f3 Bf5 23. Bd4 Rxe1+ 24. Rxe1 Re8 25. Bxg7+ Kxg7 26. Qc3+ Kh6 27. g4 c6 {Yakovich,Y (2450)-Kantsler,B (2405) Uzhhorod 1987 1-0 (70)}) 13... f6 14. Bxg7 Qxg7 15. b3 Kh8 16. Nd5 f5 17. exf5 Bxf5 18. f4 Rde8 19. Rfe1 h5 20. Bf3 Nd4 21. Rxe8 Nxf3+ 22. gxf3 Rxe8 23. Kf2 c6 24. Ne3 {Kramnik,V (2751)-Reinderman,D (2542) Wijk aan Zee 1999 1/2-1/2 (34) }) 10. Be2 f5 11. exf5 Bxf5 12. O-O Qf6 13. Rfd1 Kh8 14. Rac1 Rae8 15. b3 b6 16. Nd5 Qf7 17. Bf1 Ne5 18. f3 Bc8 19. Bh6 Bxh6 20. Qxh6 Bb7 21. Qd2 Bxd5 22. Qxd5 Qf4 23. Rc3 a5 24. Qd4 {Genov,P (2395)-Azmaiparashvili,Z (2505) Albena 1986 0-1 (37)}) (9. c5 Be6 10. cxd6 Qxd6 11. Qxd6 cxd6 12. O-O-O Bxc3 13. bxc3 Ke7 14. Kc2 Rhd8 15. Be2 Ne5 16. Rd2 Nc4 17. Bxc4 Bxc4 18. Rhd1 Ke6 19. Bc5 Rac8 20. Bxd6 Rc6 21. Bf4 Rxd2+ 22. Rxd2 Ra6 23. Kb1 Ra3 {Kastek,T (2255) -Engelbert,C (2220) Hamburgo 1988 1/2-1/2 (39)}) 9... O-O 10. Rd1 {-0.52/21} ( 10. h4 $14 {0.43/20}) 10... Be6 {0.93/21} (10... f5 $15 {-0.52/21 stays ahead.} ) 11. c5 {-0.56/21} (11. Be2 $16 {0.93/21}) 11... Qe7 {0.26/21} ({Black should try} 11... f5 $1 $15 {-0.56/21} 12. exf5 Rxf5) 12. cxd6 $11 cxd6 13. Nb5 $2 { -2.05/19 [#]} (13. Be2 $11 {0.24/20 and White has nothing to worry.}) 13... Rfd8 $19 ({Don't do} 13... Bxa2 14. Be2 $17) 14. Be2 a6 {-0.98/24} ({Much less strong is} 14... Bxa2 15. Qa4 $17) (14... Rac8 $1 $19 {-2.09/21 is more deadly. Strongly threatening ...Nb4.} 15. Qa4 Bxb2) 15. Nxd6 $2 {-5.68/18} (15. Nc3 $17 {-0.98/24 is more resistant.}) 15... Rxd6 {Black is clearly winning.} 16. Bc5 Rxd1+ 17. Bxd1 Qg5 18. Be3 {-14.36/18} (18. O-O $142 {-5.14/20} Nd4 19. f4) 18... Qxg2 19. Rf1 Qxh2 20. Qd2 Rd8 21. Qc2 Bh3 {[#] ...Nb4 is the strong threat.} 22. Be2 Bxf1 23. Bxf1 Qe5 24. Be2 Qxb2 25. Qxb2 Bxb2 26. Bg5 Re8 27. f3 Kg7 28. Kf1 h5 {Accuracy: White = 3%, Black = 14%.} 0-1