D07 Queen's Gambit: Chigorin Defence (1.Nf3 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3)

Well, so the time seems to again and I ended up having not as much time to do things as I would have liked and I still need to make moves in some of my games. At least tomorrow I should not have anywhere to go to, so I can keep things better under control. The game you see below is from the early part of 2009 when I ended up both losing and winning games on time. This week is and will be unnaturally busy for me as on Saturday I need to go and play a long over the board chess game. I have added five more puzzled today divided in to mate in two, four, five and ten pages. With this post I have now covered 174 different opening variations... Still a long, long way to go if I am at some point going to cover them all. It is, of course, doubtful that I would find examples of all of them.

[Event "Corr game 1.1.2009-28.4.2009"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2009.01.01"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "elohiym chanan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D07"] [WhiteElo "1831"] [BlackElo "1268"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "39"] [EventDate "2009.??.??"] 1. Nf3 (1. d4 d5 2. c4 (2. Nf3) 2... Nc6 {1-0 (17) Martin Luis,C (2184)-Leon Hermida,J La Laguna 2008} (2... e6 3. Nc3 Nc6 {0-1 (38) Manojlovic,B-Vujica,B Neum 2014})) 1... Nc6 2. d4 d5 {D02 Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation} 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 {D07 Queen's Gambit: Chigorin Defence} g6 5. Bf4 a6 (5... Qf6 6. Bxc7 dxc4 7. e3 b5 8. Nxb5 a6 9. Be5 Qe7 10. Nc7+ Kd8 11. Nxa8 h5 12. Bxh8 f6 13. a3 Qa7 14. d5 exd5 15. Qxd5+ Bd7 16. O-O-O Qxa8 17. Qxd7# {1-0 (17) Martin Luis,C (2184)-Leon Hermida,J La Laguna 2008}) 6. e3 Bg7 {1.46/20} (6... Bh6 $142 {1.00/20}) 7. a3 $146 {0.76/19} (7. Bd3 $142 {1.46/20}) (7. Be2 Nge7 8. O-O (8. a3 O-O 9. Rc1 Re8 10. O-O dxc4 11. Bxc4 Nf5 12. Ba2 Nce7 13. Ne2 c6 14. e4 Nd6 15. Nc3 Kh8 16. e5 Nb5 17. Qd2 Nd5 18. Nxd5 exd5 19. Bb1 Be6 20. Bh6 Rg8 21. Qf4 Bxh6 22. Qxh6 Qf8 {Hoensch,I-Ivanka Budinsky,M Hungary 1965 1-0 (37)}) 8... h6 9. h3 f6 10. Bh2 Rb8 11. Rc1 Bd7 12. a3 Na7 13. b4 b5 14. cxd5 exd5 15. e4 Be6 16. Nxd5 Rc8 17. Bxc7 Qd7 18. Nb6 Qxc7 19. Rxc7 Rxc7 20. d5 Bd7 21. d6 Rb7 {Boehme,M (1962)-Danninger,H (1228) Nuremberg 2016 1-0}) (7. Rc1 Nge7 8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O f6 11. h3 g5 12. Bh2 g4 13. hxg4 Bxg4 14. Qb3 Bxf3 15. gxf3 Na5 16. Qc2 f5 17. Ne2 Nac6 18. a3 Rf6 19. Nf4 Kf8 20. Rfd1 Bh6 21. Kf1 Qd7 {Manojlovic,B-Vujica,B Neum 2014 0-1 (38)}) 7... Nf6 8. h3 {0.52/21} ( 8. Bd3 $16 {1.15/18}) 8... O-O $14 9. Bd3 {0.46/20} (9. Rc1 $16 {1.16/21}) 9... Ne7 {1.35/20} ({Better is} 9... dxc4 $14 {0.46/20} 10. Bxc4 Nd5) 10. O-O { 0.27/20} (10. c5 $16 {1.35/20}) 10... b6 {1.34/20} (10... dxc4 $1 $11 {0.27/20 keeps the balance.} 11. Bxc4 Ned5) 11. b4 {0.47/22} (11. cxd5 $16 {1.34/20} exd5 12. b4) 11... Nd7 {1.51/18} (11... dxc4 $14 {0.47/22} 12. Bxc4 Bb7) 12. Qb3 {1.05/22} (12. Rb1 $142 {1.51/18}) 12... c6 {1.70/19} (12... Bb7 $16 { 1.05/22}) 13. e4 {1.04/22} (13. Rfd1 $18 {1.70/19}) 13... dxe4 14. Nxe4 { 0.80/21} (14. Bxe4 $142 {1.28/18} b5 15. Rfe1) 14... Nf5 $16 15. Rad1 Nxd4 16. Nxd4 Bxd4 17. Bc2 {0.71/20} ({White should try} 17. Bh6 {1.17/20}) 17... e5 { 1.93/19} (17... c5 $16 {0.71/20}) 18. Be3 {0.52/21} (18. Bg5 $18 {1.93/19} Qe8 19. Rfe1) 18... c5 $14 19. Bh6 {0.00/21} (19. f4 $1 $16 {0.87/19}) 19... Re8 $2 {1.76/20 [#]} (19... Bb7 $11 {0.00/21 and Black has nothing to worry.}) 20. Nd6 {Accuracy: White = 7%, Black = 28%.} 1-0