B01 Scandinavian Defence (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Be2)

The amount of different opening variations covered here will be 200 in a few days. It is still hard to believe that I faced so many different ways to play. Then again not that many things really surprise me anymore. The fact that I may be one win away or really good draw away from reaching 2200 at Queen Alice Internet Chess Club is something that I may not have believed if you told me this year ago. My rating progress has been for the time being at least taken a bit of a dive in almost every site I play. At Chess.com I have dropped below 1900 which is maybe the biggest drop on any site at this time after going steadily up there for months. My rating at Red Hot Pawn has also dropped but not as much only 22 points or so. It is of course no catastrophe yet and maybe these drops are forced at some point in time as I can't win them all. I can only hope that I can somehow change the course back to new heights but it may continue its dive for some time at least at Chess.com. I have added new puzzles to mate in two, three, nine and eleven today.

[Event "Corr game 30.4.2014-22.5.2014"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.04.30"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "kwikarlo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B01"] [WhiteElo "1863"] [BlackElo "1602"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "91"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 {B01 Scandinavian Defense: Main Line} 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Be2 {B01 Scandinavian Defence} Nd7 {1.53/18} (5... e6 $14 {0.33/21} 6. O-O) 6. O-O {0.26/20} (6. b4 $16 {1.53/18} Qb6 7. Nd5) (6. d4 c6 7. O-O { 1-0 (36) Mikhailovskaya,M-Dib,R Kharkov 2003}) 6... Ngf6 {1.25/19} (6... e6 $11 {0.26/20} 7. d4 c6 8. Bf4 {1-0 (41) Romero Muller,A (1256)-Garcia Cruz,F (1542) Tenerife 2016}) 7. d4 {0.26/20} (7. b4 $16 {1.25/19} Qb6 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Bxf3) 7... c6 {1.27/16} (7... e6 $11 {0.26/20}) 8. Bf4 {0.39/20} (8. h3 $16 {1.27/16} Bxf3 9. Bxf3) 8... e6 $14 9. Ne5 {0.12/24} ({White should play} 9. a3 $16 { 0.87/17}) (9. Re1 Bb4 10. Bd2 O-O 11. a3 Bd6 12. Nb5 Bxh2+ 13. Kxh2 Qb6 14. Nd6 Qc7 15. Ne5 Bxe2 16. Qxe2 Qxd6 17. Bb4 Qxd4 18. Bxf8 Rxf8 19. Nxd7 Qxd7 20. Rad1 Qc7+ 21. Kg1 Qf4 22. Rd3 Nd5 23. Red1 Qf6 {Mikhailovskaya,M-Dib,R Kharkov 2003 1-0 (36)}) 9... Bxe2 10. Qxe2 {0.08/22} (10. Nxe2 $14 {0.51/20} Nxe5 11. Bxe5 (11. dxe5 Nd5 $11)) 10... Be7 $146 {0.92/20} (10... Nxe5 $11 {0.08/22} 11. Bxe5 (11. Qxe5 Qxe5 12. Bxe5 Be7 $11) (11. dxe5 Nd5 $11) 11... Be7) (10... Bb4 11. Nxd7 Nxd7 12. Ne4 O-O 13. c3 Be7 14. b4 Qd8 15. a4 Nf6 16. Nc5 Qc8 17. c4 b6 18. Nd3 Rd8 19. Be3 a5 20. b5 cxb5 21. cxb5 Qb7 22. Ne5 Rd5 23. Rfd1 Ne4 24. Qf3 f5 25. Rac1 {Romero Muller,A (1256)-Garcia Cruz,F (1542) Tenerife 2016 1-0 (41)}) 11. Nc4 {0.00/21} (11. Rfd1 $16 {0.92/20}) 11... Qd8 {0.71/21} (11... Qh5 $1 $11 {0.00/21}) 12. Nd6+ Bxd6 $1 13. Bxd6 Nb6 {0.87/19} (13... Nf8 $14 { 0.40/21} 14. Be5 N8d7) 14. Bc5 {0.30/22} (14. Be5 $1 $16 {0.87/19}) 14... Nbd7 $11 15. Ba3 {0.14/21} (15. Bb4 $16 {0.76/21}) 15... Qb6 $2 {1.72/19} (15... Qc7 $11 {0.14/21 and Black is okay.}) 16. Rad1 $36 {1.04/21 White is in control.} ( 16. Rfd1 $1 $18 {1.72/19}) 16... h5 {2.35/19} (16... O-O-O $16 {1.04/21}) 17. Kh1 $2 {0.69/23} (17. d5 $1 $18 {2.35/19}) 17... O-O-O $14 18. Qc4 $2 {-0.38/24 } ({White should try} 18. f3 $16 {1.24/19}) 18... Nd5 $2 {1.34/21} (18... Qc7 $15 {-0.38/24 stays ahead.} 19. f3 Nd5) 19. Ne4 $16 {[#] Hoping for Nd6+.} N7f6 $2 {2.38/18} (19... Qc7 $1 $14 {0.64/23}) 20. Nd6+ $18 Rxd6 21. Bxd6 Kd7 22. Ba3 Ng4 {...Qc7 would now be nice for Black.} 23. Qd3 g5 $2 {4.91/19} (23... Qc7 {2.21/24 might work better.} 24. Qh3 Rh6) 24. c4 Ndf6 {7.58/20} (24... Qc7 $142 {4.82/22} 25. g3 Nb6) 25. Kg1 h4 {8.25/19} (25... Qc7 $142 {4.63/24} 26. g3 h4) 26. d5 $1 exd5 (26... cxd5 27. h3) 27. cxd5 c5 28. d6 h3 29. Qf5+ Kd8 30. g3 c4 {11.32/19} (30... Re8 $142 {5.09/25} 31. Rfe1 (31. Bxc5 $2 Qc6 $19) 31... Rxe1+ 32. Rxe1 Qxd6 33. Bxc5 Qd5 34. Qxd5+ Nxd5 35. Bxa7 Kc7) 31. Qc5 $2 {3.17/24} (31. d7 {11.32/19}) 31... Qxc5 32. Bxc5 b6 {5.20/21} (32... Re8 $142 {3.50/24} 33. Bxa7 Nd7) 33. Bd4 Re8 34. f3 Ne5 35. f4 gxf4 36. Rxf4 Nfd7 37. Bxe5 Nxe5 {Endgame KRR-KRN} 38. Kf1 Kd7 39. Rh4 f5 {4.70/19} (39... Re6 $142 { 3.00/22} 40. Rxh3 Rf6+ 41. Ke2 a6) 40. Rxh3 Ng4 $2 {6.64/18} (40... Nd3 { 3.39/20} 41. Rh7+ Kxd6 42. Rxa7 Kc6) 41. Rh7+ {White is clearly winning.} Kc6 { Black hopes to continue with ...Ne3+.} 42. Rd2 a5 43. a4 {[#]} Kc5 44. Rc7+ Kb4 45. d7 Rd8 46. Rc8 {Accuracy: White = 26%, Black = 16%.} 1-0