D08 Albin Counter Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 d4 4.e3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 dxe3 6.Bxb4 exf2+ 7.Ke2)

I have played many short games in my time both as the winner and the loser. This game belongs to the latter. If I am not mistaken, I have faced this same idea quite recently in a couple of my games. Not sure how well they are going but I should be a bit better than I was back in 2008. Then again as I am bit lazy sometimes and maybe not learn some openings properly, my adversaries may be able to win quickly if they play some gambit that I am not that familiar with. It does not help that I am quite horrible at tactics. Maybe I am bad at tactics because of the aforementioned laziness. The game below is from 2008 and it was played in a site called Red Hot Pawn. It is the site where I started playing correspondence chess and also where I have played most correspondence games, Chess.com starts to be quite close to it though, both in finished games and games in progress. I have added five more puzzles divided in to mate in one, two and three pages. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts.

[Event "Corr game 9.7.2008-13.8.2008"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2008.07.09"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "stoffer"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D08"] [WhiteElo "1831"] [BlackElo "1460"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "20"] [EventDate "2008.??.??"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. e3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 dxe3 {D08 Queen's Gambit Refused: Albin Countergambit. Lasker Trap} 6. Bxb4 exf2+ 7. Ke2 {D08 Albin Counter Gambit. Black is clearly winning.} fxg1=N+ 8. Ke1 Qh4+ 9. Kd2 Qf2+ ( 9... Nc6 10. Bc3 Bf5 11. Kc1 Qf2 (11... Nh6 12. Rxg1 Qxh2 13. Be2 Ng4 14. Rh1 Qg3 15. Bxg4 Bxg4 16. Qe1 Qxg2 17. Rg1 Qf3 18. Qg3 Qxg3 19. Rxg3 h5 20. e6 f6 21. Re3 Rd8 22. Nd2 Rd6 23. e7 Rd7 24. Kc2 Rxe7 25. Rxe7+ Kxe7 26. Re1+ { Pendyala,R (1385)-Magana,B (2116) Nairobi 2015 0-1 (49)}) 12. Nd2 (12. e6 Rd8 13. exf7+ Kxf7 14. Nd2 Nf6 15. c5 Ne4 16. Bc4+ Kf8 17. Qxg1 Rxd2 18. Qxf2 Rxf2 19. Be1 Rxg2 20. Rf1 g6 21. Bd3 Ke7 22. Rf3 Nxc5 23. Re3+ Kd7 24. Bxf5+ gxf5 25. Kd1 Re8 26. Rh3 Rxe1+ {Willert,C (1453)-Zinkl,T (1861) Greifswald 2002 0-1} ) 12... O-O-O 13. c5 Nd4 14. Bxd4 Rxd4 15. c6 Ne7 16. cxb7+ Kb8 17. Ba6 Rhd8 { 0-1 (17) Klocker,B (2253)-Konrad,E (2190) Oberwart 2012}) 10. Kc1 Bg4 $146 ( 10... Nc6 11. c5 (11. Bc3) 11... Nxb4 12. Rxg1 Qxc5+ 13. Nc3 Qe3+ 14. Kb1 Bf5+ 15. Qd3 Bxd3+ 16. Bxd3 Qxd3+ 17. Kc1 Qc2# {0-1 (17) Grigorian,S (1023) -Kreyssig,R (1403) Willingen 2007}) 0-1