C41 Philidor Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Be2 O-O 7.O-O a6)

This game was played in the first round of the 2014 August Banded Quartets I 1700-1800 tournament. Our group number was 1 and it was the only group from the five groups that had five players in it. Other groups had only four players. Only the winner from each group advances and I was able to be one of the winners, so I advanced to the second round. I have added one mate in one, two mate in three, one mate in seven and one mate in eight puzzles today. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts!

Game number two. The game below was played in the 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III tournament at Red Hot Pawn. I am clinging on a very small chance of winning this tournament still but at any given time I may be out of the fight for the win as the current leader only needs to get two more points to get higher amount of points that I can gather in my remaining games.

Game number three. This one was played in a team match called "LEGENDS ARE FOREVER OPEN CHALLENGE 2016". It consists of 55 boards and it is between SHETOS and Chess School. I played on board 8 for Chess School and I was able to win both of my games against Silent_Venom. The current score in the match is 34 - 68 in favor of Chess School and therefore we have secured the win in the match quite nicely. SHETOS has lost 21 games so far on time and Chess School has lost 4 games due to timeouts.

The game below is a rather silly one in that for some reason I made my life harder by not taking the free piece on a5 after 15...f5. I do not know what was I thinking at the time or if I even was thinking at all... Sometimes my brain just goes to vacation without my permission. I was able to play reasonably well, but this could have been much easier for me had I kept my eyes open.

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Move	N	Result	Elo

1.e4	1,166,623	54%	2421
1.d4	947,298	55%	2434
1.Nf3	281,602	56%	2441
1.c4	182,102	56%	2442
1.g3	19,702	56%	2427
1.b3	14,265	54%	2427
1.f4	5,897	48%	2377
1.Nc3	3,801	51%	2384
1.b4	1,756	48%	2380
1.a3	1,206	54%	2404
1.e3	1,068	48%	2408
1.d3	954	50%	2378
1.g4	664	46%	2360
1.h4	446	53%	2374
1.c3	433	51%	2426
1.h3	280	56%	2418
1.a4	110	60%	2466
1.f3	92	46%	2436
1.Nh3	89	66%	2508
1.Na3	42	62%	2482

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 C41 Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation 5.Nc3 Be7 5...a6 6.Be2 Be7 7.0-0 1/2-1/2 (29) Blazek,M (1992) -Sunal,J (1740) Slovakia 2017 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 a6 C41 Philidor Defence 8.Be3 Nc6N 8...Re8= keeps the balance. 8...c5 9.Nb3 9.Nf3 Nc6 10.a3 b5 11.Nd2 d5 12.exd5 Nxd5 13.Nxd5 Qxd5 14.c4 bxc4 15.Bxc4 Qe5 16.Qf3 Bd7 17.Bd5 Rac8 18.Bf4 Qxb2 19.Nc4 Qf6 20.Nb6 Nd4 21.Qe3 Nf5 22.Nxd7 Nxe3 23.Nxf6+ Bxf6 Both,G (1523)-Bernhardt,W (1463) Frankfurt 2018 1-0 (64) 9...b5 9...Be6 10.f4 Nc6 11.f5 Bxb3 12.axb3 Rc8 13.Qd2 Ne5 14.Rfd1 Qd7 15.Bf4 1/2-1/2 (15) Martins,J (2355)-Limp,E (2395) Rio de Janeiro 2008 10.a3 Bb7 11.e5 Ne4 12.Nxe4 Bxe4 13.exd6 Bxd6 14.Nxc5 Bxc5 15.Bxc5 Qg5 16.Bf3 Rd8 17.Qe2 Qxc5 18.Bxe4 Nc6 19.Bxc6 Qxc6 20.c3 Re8 21.Qc2 Re6 22.Rfe1 Rae8 23.Qd2 Dreesbach,T (1455)-Zemella,J (1636) Dortmund 2005 1/2-1/2 (45) 8...Bd7 9.f4 Nc6 10.Bf3 Qc8 11.h3 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 Bc6 13.e5 Bxf3 14.Rxf3 dxe5 15.fxe5 Ne8 16.Rd1 Qe6 17.Nd5 c6 18.Nxe7+ Qxe7 19.Qb6 Qxe5 20.Bc5 Nf6 21.Bxf8 Rxf8 22.Qd4 Qe2 23.Rf2 Blazek, M (1992)-Sunal,J (1740) Slovakia 2017 1/2-1/2 9.Nxc6± bxc6 10.h3 10.f4± 10...Re8 10...Nd7= remains equal. 11.Bf3 11.Bc4± 11...Be6 11...Bb7 keeps the upper hand. 12.e5 Nd7 12...Nd5! 13.exd6 White should play 13.Bxc6+- Rb8 14.b3 13...cxd6 14.Bxc6 Qc7?

14...Rb8 15.Rb1 Qc7 15.Bxa8+- Rxa8 16.Qd2 Ne5 16...Rb8 keeps fighting. 17.Bd4 Ne5 17.Nd5 Bxd5 18.Qxd5 Rc8 19.c3 White is clearly winning. Rb8 20.Rab1 Rb5 21.Qa8+ Qb8 22.Qxb8+ Rxb8 23.b3 f5 24.Rfd1 Kf7 25.Rd5 Rb5 26.Rxb5 axb5 27.Rd1 h6 27...Ke6 28.Kf1 g6 28.Rd5 Accuracy: White = 44%, Black = 18%. 1–0

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Vierjoki,T	1876	gilaadm	1603	1–0
Vierjoki,T	1914	rkmmax	1512	1–0
Vierjoki,T	1838	Silent_Venom	1795	1–0

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