D01 Veresov Opening (1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bg5)

The game I am sharing today was played nearly four years ago at GameKnot. The deciding moment of the game was seen after 11...Rfe8 when my opponent played 12.g4. Moving the pawn to g4 was a horrible idea that should be the losing move. While the king is still in the center, it may not be a good idea to start attacking. Sure the king was able to castle to queenside, but since the intention behind 12.g4 was to open lines in front of my king and it completely failing in view of my reply 12...f4, it was a waste of a move in my opinion.

The best move is 12.Qd3, according to Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT at depth 33.

After my reply 12...f4, it seemed obvious that I was on the better side of the board, my king was safe, I had some play against the central pawns and my opponent did not have any counterplay. My opponent then castled to the queenside and I replied with the sloppy 13...a5. A much stronger move for me would have been 13...fxe3. Had adamscheeks then taken back the pawn with its counterpart, I could have won a pawn with 14...Rxe3, the point is that Qxe3 would be horrible in view of Bf4. The rest of the game went downhill for adamscheeks and eventually I was able to end the game with a checkmate.

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1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bg5 D01 Veresov Opening Nbd7 4...Bf5 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Be2 e6 7.Nh4 h6 8.Bxf6 Nxf6 9.Nxf5 exf5 10.Bd3 g6 11.h4 h5 12.g3 Bb4 13.a3 Bxc3+ 1/2-1/2 (13) Herrera,F (2295)-Darcyl,T (2395) San Martin 1987 5.Ne5 5.Qd2 e6 6.g3 Be7 7.Bg2 h6 8.Bf4 Nh5 9.0-0 Nxf4 10.Qxf4 Nf6 11.e4 0-0 12.e5 Nd7 13.Ne2 Qb6 14.Qc1 Qb5 15.Re1 b6 16.Nc3 Qa5 17.Nd2 c5 18.Nb3 Qb4 19.a3 Qxd4 Julien Casteleiro,A (1585)-Aleman Sosa,B Las Palmas 2013 1-0 5...Qc7N 5...Ng8 6.Nxd7 Qxd7 7.e4 dxe4 8.d5 e6 9.dxc6 Qxd1+ 10.Rxd1 f6 11.Bb5 Kf7 12.Be3 Bb4 13.cxb7 Bxb7 14.Rd7+ Ne7 15.Rxb7 Rhc8 16.Bd2 f5 17.a3 Bd6 18.0-0 a6 19.Be2 Rd8 20.Rd1 Prangemeier,D (1377) -Skoecz,H (1401) Dortmund 2003 1-0 6.Nxd7 6.Bf4 with more complications. Qb6 7.Na4 Qa5+ 8.c3 Nxe5 9.Bxe5 Nd7 10.b4 6...Bxd7 7.Bxf6 exf6       8.e3 Black has an edge. Bd6 9.Be2 0-0 10.Qd2 f5 11.h3 11.Bd3= was preferrable. 11...Rfe8 12.g4 12.Qd3 was called for. 12...f4-+ 13.0-0-0 a5 13...fxe3-+ 14.Qe1 Re7 14.h4 14.Kb1 keeps fighting. 14...b5       15.Bf3 15.Kb1 was necessary. 15...a4 ...fxe3 is the strong threat. 16.e4?

16.Kb1 16...b4 17.Ne2? 17.exd5 bxc3 18.Qxc3 17...dxe4 18.Bxe4 Rxe4 19.f3 Re3 20.Ng1 b3 21.cxb3 axb3 22.a3 Be6 23.h5 Bd5 23...Bxa3 - 24.Ne2

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

adamscheeks

1391

Vierjoki,T

1666

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