C44 Ponziani Opening and Scotch Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 Nf6)

Another oldie as I go through my Red Hot Pawn game database but with each game I am getting a little bit closer to recent games. There are some years even completely missing when I did not play there at all. Getting to more recent examples should not therefore take all that long. So far I have been lucky with the different openings as there have not been all that many games between ones that feature an opening I have not yet covered in this blog but I might be getting really close to it. As I type this, I have not a certain opening to cover tomorrow which might mean that I will have to fall to my backup plan which has definitely something that I have not covered in this blog before. I have been saving it to moments where I can't find a suitable game to do this normal stuff. So we will see what happens with tomorrow's post. I have added 10 more puzzles today divided in to mate in one, two, three and four pages.

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Move	N	Result	Elo

1.e4	1,166,623	54%	2421
1.d4	947,298	55%	2434
1.Nf3	281,602	56%	2441
1.c4	182,102	56%	2442
1.g3	19,702	56%	2427
1.b3	14,265	54%	2427
1.f4	5,897	48%	2377
1.Nc3	3,801	51%	2384
1.b4	1,756	48%	2380
1.a3	1,206	54%	2404
1.e3	1,068	48%	2408
1.d3	954	50%	2378
1.g4	664	46%	2360
1.h4	446	53%	2374
1.c3	433	51%	2426
1.h3	280	56%	2418
1.a4	110	60%	2466
1.f3	92	46%	2436
1.Nh3	89	66%	2508
1.Na3	42	62%	2482

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 Nf6 C44 Ponziani Opening and Scotch Gambit C44 Ponziani Opening: Jaenisch Counterattack 4.Bd3 Bc5 5.0-0 0-0 5...d5 6.exd5 Qxd5 5...d6 6.h3 0-0 7.Bc2 Bb6 8.d4 Qe7 9.Re1 h6 10.Be3 Nh7 11.Nbd2 a6 12.Nc4 Ba7 13.dxe5 Nxe5 14.Ncxe5 Bxe3 15.Rxe3 dxe5 16.Qd5 Re8 17.Rd1 Nf6 18.Qd2 Bd7 19.Nh2 Bc6 20.Rg3 Fernandez Cuneo,C (1714)-Barboza,M (1919) Montevideo 2017 0-1 (52) 6.b4 6.Bc2!= keeps the balance. 6...Bd6N 6...d5! and life is bright. 7.Qc2 dxe4 8.Bxe4 Nxe4 9.Qxe4 Bd6 6...Bb6 7.Ba3 d6 8.Qc2 Nh5 9.c4 Nd4 10.Qd1 Bg4 11.Be2 Nxe2+ 12.Qxe2 Nf4 13.Qd1 Qf6 14.c5 dxc5 15.bxc5 Ba5 16.Nc3 Qg6 17.Kh1 Bh3 18.g3 Bg2+ 19.Kg1 Qg4 20.Nh4 Qh3 21.gxf4 Rodriguez Lloret,R-Castillo Martinez,A Santa Eulalia de Roncana 2013 0-1 (31) 7.Qe2 7.Bc2± 7...Ne7 7...a6= 8.Na3? 8.Bc2!± 8...Ng6! 9.g3 9.Re1 9...c6 9...Re8-+ 10.Nc2 Bf8 10.Nc4 10.Nc2 10...Bc7-+ 11.Ba3? 11.Bc2 keeps fighting. 11...Re8 12.Rab1 d5 13.b5 13.Na5 was forced. Nxe4 14.Bxe4 dxe4 15.Qxe4 13...dxc4 14.Bxc4 Bg4 15.Qe3? 15.bxc6 bxc6 16.h3 Bxf3 17.Qxf3 15...Bxf3 15...Bb6 16.Qe2 Nh5 16.Qxf3 Qxd2 17.Rfd1 Qg5 18.Bc1 18.bxc6 bxc6 19.Rb7 18...Qg4 19.Qxg4 Nxg4 20.Rd7 Re7 21.bxc6 bxc6 22.Rxe7 Nxe7 23.Rb7 Bd6 24.Be3 Nxe3 25.fxe3 Kf8 26.Rd7 Bc5 27.Kf2 Rb8 28.Kf3 Ke8 29.Rd3 Rb1 30.Bb3 Nc8 31.h4 Nd6 32.g4 Rf1+ 33.Ke2 Rh1 34.h5 Nxe4 35.Ba4 Rh2+ 36.Kf3 Ng5+ 37.Kg3 Rxa2 38.Bxc6+ Ke7 39.Rd7+ Ke6 40.Kh4 h6 41.Rd8 Rh2+ 41...Bxe3 - 42.Bd5+ Ke7 43.Rd7+ Kxd7 44.Be6+ fxe6 45.Kg3 Bf4+ 46.Kh4 Rh2# 42.Kg3 Black is clearly winning. Rh3+ 43.Kf2 Rxe3

Hoping for ...Rd3+. 44.Re8+ Kf6 45.c4 Rc3+ 46.Ke2 Rxc4 47.Bd5 Rxg4 48.Bf3 Nxf3 49.Kxf3 Rf4+ 50.Ke2 e4 51.Kd2 Kf5

... e3+ is the strong threat. 52.Ke2 Accuracy: White = 15%, Black = 41%. 0–1

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

brummiered

1350

Vierjoki,T

1841

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