C80 Open Spanish Game: Sidelines and 9.Nbd2 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.Re1 Nc5 7.Bxc6 dxc6 8.Nxe5 Be7 9.d4 Ne6 10.Be3 O-O 11.Nc3)

With this post I am at least for the time being going back to going through my Red Hot Pawn games. After this there are four games that I played there before 2014, so I am catching up a bit. Not sure what the reason might be but I just seem to get into really horrible positions quite quickly. It just seems that I am losing games under 20 moves left and right because I have started to blunder pieces away without any good reason. Maybe I am experiencing some sort of burnout, having used most of my awake time to do something chess related for the past six months or so. It is of course not likely to change in the upcoming months, so I have to somehow get the game load decreased a lot as soon as possible, in order to enable some much needed rest away from the game for some time. I have also thought of doing some other brain exercises in order to make it more efficient. The hope is that I could find the solutions to my chess problems faster and therefore have more time for other stuff. I have added some puzzles to mate in one, two, three and five pages.

[Event "Corr game 16.1.2011-30.4.2011"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2011.01.16"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "rolendo60"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C80"] [WhiteElo "1873"] [BlackElo "1887"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "67"] [EventDate "2011.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 {C80 Spanish Game: Open Variations. Open Variation} 6. Re1 Nc5 7. Bxc6 dxc6 8. Nxe5 (8. d4 Ne6 9. Nxe5 {1-0 (38) Wisker,J-Zukertort,J England 1875}) 8... Be7 9. d4 (9. Nc3 O-O 10. d4 Ne6 {1-0 (38) Tierraseca Montero,P (2063)-Antoli Royo,J (2279) Toledo 2003}) 9... Ne6 10. Be3 O-O 11. Nc3 {C80 Open Spanish Game: Sidelines and 9.Nbd2} f6 12. Nf3 Bd7 $146 (12... f5 13. Qd3 f4 (13... Bd6 14. Rad1 Qf6 (14... Kh8 15. Bc1 Qf6 16. Ne5 Nc5 17. Qf1 Ne6 18. f4 c5 19. d5 Nd4 20. Qf2 Rd8 21. Be3 b6 22. b4 Nb5 23. Nxb5 axb5 24. bxc5 bxc5 25. Bxc5 Rxa2 26. Bd4 Qf8 27. Qh4 Kg8 28. Nc6 Re8 29. Rxe8 {Bronnikova,E (2287)-Skrjabin,I (2083) St Petersburg 2007 1-0 (32)}) 15. Ne5 f4 16. Bc1 Ng5 17. Ne4 Nxe4 18. Rxe4 Bf5 {1/2-1/2 (18) Boidman, Y (2450)-Holzke,F (2485) Germany 2008}) 14. Bd2 Bd6 (14... Ng5 15. Nxg5 Bxg5 16. Ne4 Be7 17. f3 Bd7 18. Qb3+ Kh8 19. Rad1 b6 20. a4 Qc8 21. c3 Rb8 22. Qc2 Be6 23. b3 a5 24. c4 Bg8 25. Qc1 Bh4 26. Nf2 b5 27. Re4 bxc4 28. bxc4 Qa6 29. c5 {Tierraseca Montero,P (2063)-Antoli Royo,J (2279) Toledo 2003 1-0 (38)}) 15. Ne4 Kh8 16. c4 b5 17. b3 Bb7 18. Bc3 Qd7 19. Rad1 Qf7 20. Qe2 Rfe8 21. c5 Be7 22. Ne5 Qf5 23. Rd3 Rad8 24. g4 Qf8 25. Rh3 Kg8 26. Qd3 g6 27. b4 {Wisker, J-Zukertort,J England 1875 1-0 (38)}) (12... Rf7 13. Qd3 Nf8 14. h3 Be6 15. Rad1 Bb4 16. Bd2 Qd7 17. Ne4 Bd6 18. c4 b5 19. b3 Re8 20. Nxd6 cxd6 21. d5 cxd5 22. cxd5 Bf5 23. Qd4 Rfe7 24. Rxe7 Rxe7 25. Re1 Rxe1+ 26. Bxe1 Ng6 27. g4 { Hidalgo Santana,F (2161)-Molina Rodriguez,B (2172) Isla de la Palma 2018 1/2-1/ 2 (41)}) 13. Qd3 Re8 {The position is equal.} 14. Ne4 f5 15. Nc3 g6 16. Re2 Bd6 17. Rd1 b5 18. Ree1 Qf6 19. d5 $36 {White has good play.} cxd5 20. Qxd5 c6 $2 { 7.35/16 [#]} (20... b4 $11 {0.07/21} 21. Ne2 Qf7) 21. Qxd6 $18 {White is clearly winning.} b4 22. Na4 b3 {8.52/17} (22... f4 $142 {5.04/11} 23. Bc5 b3 24. axb3 Qg7 25. Qxd7 Qxd7 26. Rxd7 Nxc5 27. Nxc5 Rxe1+ 28. Nxe1 Re8) 23. axb3 f4 24. Bb6 Qe7 25. Qxd7 Qxd7 26. Rxd7 Ng5 27. Rxe8+ Rxe8 28. Rd8 Nxf3+ 29. gxf3 Kf7 30. Rxe8 Kxe8 31. Nc5 Kf7 32. Nxa6 Ke6 33. Nb4 Kf5 34. Nxc6 {Accuracy: White = 50%, Black = 23%.} 1-0