C64 Spanish Game: Classical Defence (3...Bc5) except 4.O-O Nf6 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5 4.c3 Nge7 5.O-O Bb6 6.d4 exd4 7.cxd4 d5 8.exd5 Nxd5)

I am still a bit feverish but still manage a daily schedule in the blog updates. Speaking of which I have updated mate in one, two and three puzzle pages. The game below features an opening variation I thought I had already covered but when I looked at the posts I have done, I could not find it, so here it is. This was quite a difficult game for me to play especially when my opponent had pressure on my e6 pawn, it would have been easy to make mistake there.

[Event "Roy Lopez Classical Tournament - Round"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2014.09.07"] [Round "?"] [White "aesculap"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C64"] [WhiteElo "1687"] [BlackElo "1787"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "58"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 {C64 Spanish Game: Classical Variation. Central Variation} (4. O-O Nge7 {1-0 (29) Ziatdinov,R (2355)-Crepan,M (2380) Belgrade 1989}) 4... Nge7 5. O-O Bb6 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 d5 8. exd5 Nxd5 { C64 Spanish Game: Classical Defence (3...Bc5) except 4.0-0 Nf6} 9. Bg5 Qd6 10. Nbd2 {-0.04/17} (10. Re1+ $14 {0.43/18 feels stronger.} Be6 11. Na3) 10... O-O $11 11. Ne4 {The position is equal.} Qb4 12. Bxc6 (12. Qd3 $5 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 Qxd4 14. Qxd4 Bxd4 15. Rad1 $11) 12... bxc6 13. Rc1 $146 {-0.86/20} (13. b3 $11 {-0.22/21 remains equal.}) (13. Qc2 Bxd4 14. Rad1 Bb6 15. Bd2 Qb5 16. a4 Qa6 17. a5 f5 18. Ng3 f4 19. Ne4 Bf5 20. axb6 Rae8 21. Rfe1 Qxb6 22. Qc4 Kh8 23. Bc3 Ne3 24. fxe3 Bxe4 25. Ng5 Bg6 26. Rd7 Rf6 27. Bxf6 gxf6 {Ziatdinov,R (2355) -Crepan,M (2380) Belgrade 1989 1-0}) 13... Qxb2 $17 14. Rxc6 Qxa2 15. Rc2 Qa3 16. Nh4 {-1.94/13} (16. Bc1 $17 {-0.86/18} Qa5 17. Bd2) 16... Be6 {-1.01/21} ( 16... h6 $19 {-1.94/13} 17. Bxh6 Qe7) 17. Qh5 {-1.80/21} (17. Nc5 $17 {-1.01/ 21 was called for.}) 17... Bxd4 $19 18. Ng3 {-2.17/19} (18. Re1 {-1.71/16 was necessary.}) 18... Bf6 {-1.28/21} (18... Qa4 $19 {-2.17/19} 19. Qd1 Bb6) 19. Ne4 Bxg5 20. Nxg5 {[#]} Nf6 21. Qe2 Qd6 {-1.04/19} ({Black should play} 21... Bd5 {-1.45/21} 22. Rxc7 h6) 22. Rd1 Qe7 {-0.73/19} (22... Bg4 $142 {-1.27/24} 23. Rxd6 Bxe2) 23. Nxe6 fxe6 {-0.57/20} ({Black should try} 23... Qxe6 $17 { -1.11/20} 24. Qxe6 fxe6 25. Rxc7 a5) 24. Rc6 Rfe8 25. Re1 Kf7 {0.10/22} (25... Nd5 $15 {-0.64/21} 26. Nf3 Nb4) 26. Qe5 Rac8 27. Nf3 h6 28. Nd4 Qd7 29. Rxe6 $2 {-3.61/19 [#]} (29. Qc5 $11 {-0.19/20}) 29... c5 $2 {-0.88/19 Accuracy: White = 7%, Black = 33%.} (29... Rxe6 $19 {-3.61/19 is more deadly.} 30. Qxe6+ Qxe6 31. Nxe6 Re8) 0-1