A35 Symmetrical English: 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.c4 Bg7 7.Nc3 d6 8.Be2)

This game was the second correspondence chess game that I played after taking a long break from it. I have taken maybe two several month breaks from chess during the last almost 14 years or so that I have played it in tournaments. Well, to be precise in May 2015, it will be 14 years from my first official chess tournament. Those days it was like giving free points to my opponents, I was really bad at chess back then. Sadly, I am not that good at it even now, albeit I have improved quite a lot from those days. I have added four more mate in ones and one mate in three today. I will post more Chess960 games when I get a replayer provided by ChessBase working with those games as well. I did contact support about the problem and hopefully they fix it when the new update to the program comes.

[Event "Corr game 15.11.2010-21.11.2010"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2010.11.15"] [Round "?"] [White "mrmoto"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A35"] [WhiteElo "1173"] [BlackElo "1831"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "32"] [EventDate "2010.??.??"] 1. e4 (1. Nf3 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. d4 c5 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 { 0-1 (27) Baumstark,T (2214)-Ivanov,M (2443) Ditzingen 2006}) 1... c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nxc6 {B34 Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon. Exchange Variation} bxc6 6. c4 Bg7 7. Nc3 d6 8. Be2 {A35 Symmetrical English: 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3} Nf6 {0.60/19} ({Better is} 8... Rb8 $11 {0.10/21}) 9. f3 { -0.40/20} (9. Be3 $14 {0.60/19} O-O 10. O-O Qa5 11. f3 {0-1 (27) Baumstark,T (2214)-Ivanov,M (2443) Ditzingen 2006}) 9... O-O {0.42/21} (9... Nd7 $15 { -0.40/20}) 10. O-O {-0.44/20} (10. Be3 $14 {0.42/21}) 10... Nd7 {0.18/21} ( 10... Rb8 $15 {-0.44/20}) 11. Be3 {-0.28/21} (11. Qc2 {0.18/21 deserves consideration.}) 11... Qa5 12. Bd2 $146 {-1.77/18 [#]} (12. Qd2 $11 {0.00/22}) (12. Bd4 Ne5 13. f4 c5 14. Be3 Nc6 15. Qd2 Rb8 16. Rfc1 Nd4 17. Bd3 f5 18. Rab1 e6 19. b3 Bd7 20. exf5 gxf5 21. Ne2 Qxd2 22. Bxd2 Nc6 23. Be3 Nb4 24. Rd1 Nxa2 25. Rd2 Nb4 26. Rbd1 Rfc8 {Baumstark,T (2214)-Ivanov,M (2443) Ditzingen 2006 0-1}) 12... Rb8 $2 {0.13/21} (12... Qb6+ $19 {-1.77/18} 13. Kh1 Qxb2) 13. Kh1 $2 {-2.37/18} (13. Rb1 $11 {0.13/21}) 13... Rxb2 $19 14. Qa4 $2 {-11.77/22} ( 14. Rc1 {-2.09/23}) 14... Qxa4 {Black is clearly winning.} 15. Nxa4 Rxd2 16. Rae1 Rxa2 {Accuracy: White = 0%, Black = 20%.} 0-1