C47 Scotch Four Knights and Four Knights with 4.g3 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 dxc6 7.Qxd8+ Kxd8)

Today I finally hit the 300 games in progress milestone. That may change to something else quite quickly though, I saw in one of my games a huge blunder again... Made by me, unfortunately it was in a team match, had it been in a tournament game that may have not mattered that much as I would have been the only one affected by that move. Now also the team I represent may have to face one loss on my board. Well, I may have time to make things better on the second game when it starts. Then again the game where I made that blunder is still ongoing, so if I manage to same kind of luck as in my over the board game, I still have a chance. I doubt that there will be that much I can do but as it is a team match, I will try to fight on as long as there is some play left. The game below is another quite unevenly matched one but maybe some of you can learn from it still. I have updated mate in one, four and five pages today and added a new page for mate in 13 moves puzzles.

[Event "Corr game 29.11.2010-2.1.2011"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2010.11.29"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "brajensen75d"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C47"] [WhiteElo "1831"] [BlackElo "714"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "57"] [EventDate "2010.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 (2... Nc6 3. d4 (3. Nc3) 3... exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 {1-0 (35) Qian,J (855)-Shi,Y (1327) Montreal 2010}) 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 {C47 Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation. Accepted} 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 dxc6 7. Qxd8+ Kxd8 {C47 Scotch Four Knights and Four Knights with 4.g3} 8. Bg5 {0.03/22} (8. Bd2 $16 {0.88/19}) 8... h6 {0.95/18} (8... Bxc3+ $11 {0.03/22 keeps the balance.} 9. bxc3 h6 10. O-O-O+ Bd7 11. Bxf6+ gxf6) 9. Bxf6+ {0.12/19} (9. Bd2 $1 $16 {0.95/18}) 9... gxf6 $11 10. Kd2 $146 {The position is equal.} (10. O-O-O+ Ke7 11. Bc4 (11. Bd3 h5 (11... Be6 12. Ne2 a5 13. a3 Bc5 14. Rhf1 Rhg8 15. Ng3 h5 16. h4 Bd6 17. Nf5+ Bxf5 18. exf5 Rxg2 19. Be4 Rg4 20. Rde1 { 1/2-1/2 (20) Burshaide,L-Kabuye,E (2360) Novi Sad 1990}) 12. Rhe1 Be6 13. h3 h4 14. e5 f5 15. Rd2 Rad8 16. a3 Ba5 17. b4 Bb6 18. Na4 Bd4 19. Bf1 Rd5 20. Rde2 b5 21. c4 Rd7 22. cxb5 cxb5 23. Nc5 Bxc5 24. bxc5 c6 25. Re3 Rd5 {Ferron Garcia,C (2305)-Munoz Pantoja,M (2404) Mataro 2005 0-1 (48)}) (11. Ne2 Be6 12. Ng3 Bd6 13. Bd3 a5 14. Kb1 a4 15. Rhe1 Rhe8 16. Re3 Bc5 17. Re2 a3 18. b3 Bd4 19. Ba6 Rxa6 20. Rxd4 c5 21. Rd1 Rd6 22. Red2 Red8 23. Kc1 Kf8 24. h3 Kg7 25. f4 Kf8 {Aydincelebi,K (2096)-Inan,T (1340) Izmir 2016 1-0 (53)}) 11... Be6 12. Bb3 Rad8 13. a3 Bxb3 14. axb4 Rxd1+ 15. Nxd1 Bc4 16. Ne3 Be6 17. f4 Rg8 18. f5 Bd7 19. c4 Kd6 20. Rd1+ Ke7 21. Kc2 h5 22. Kc3 b6 23. Kd2 a6 24. Ke2 Bc8 { Qian,J (855)-Shi,Y (1327) Montreal 2010 1-0 (35)}) 10... f5 {0.21/22} (10... Bc5 $15 {-0.42/20}) 11. exf5 Bxc3+ {1.08/20} (11... Bxf5 $11 {-0.12/22 remains equal.} 12. a3 Be7) 12. Kxc3 $16 Bxf5 13. Bc4 b5 {1.57/19} (13... Ke7 $14 { 0.65/22}) 14. Bxf7 Rf8 15. Rad1+ Bd7 $2 {7.63/19 [#]} (15... Ke7 $16 {1.50/24}) 16. Be6 $18 Ke7 17. Bxd7 Rad8 18. Rhe1+ Kf6 19. Bxc6 Rxd1 20. Rxd1 {Endgame KRB-KR} Rb8 21. Rd7 Rb6 22. Rxc7 Kg5 23. Bf3 b4+ 24. Kb3 a5 25. Rc5+ Kf4 26. Rxa5 h5 27. Ra4 h4 28. Rxb4+ Rxb4+ 29. Kxb4 {Accuracy: White = 56%, Black = 2%.} 1-0