C45 Scotch Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Qh4 5.Qd3 Nf6)

In this post I share with you all a game that was played in a tournament called 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen III. The ongoing tournament is played at Red Hot Pawn and it started August 11th 2014. It is a 21 player tournament where all players play against each other two games and all of those games are played simultaneously. There are only two players left to fight for the win of the tournament but I can only fight for third place at the moment. Even the third place finish is still long way to go as my opponent in this game is currently third and he has finished all his games having scored 97 points, I have games still in progress and my maximum possible score is 99, which does require me to win all my remaining games. That may prove too difficult a task for me but we will see how it goes. My opponent's rating in the notation is very low but when we played our game, he was rated over 2000. For some reason or the other he started to lose his games on time. I have added today one puzzle to the following: mate in one, two, four, five and seventeen.

[Event "Grand Seven Fourteen"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.08.11"] [Round "1"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "z4"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C45"] [WhiteElo "1871"] [BlackElo "1264"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "30"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Qh4 {C45 Scotch Game: Steinitz Variation } 5. Qd3 Nf6 {C45 Scotch Game} 6. Nxc6 dxc6 7. Nd2 Bc5 {0.11/22} (7... Be6 $17 {-0.89/18}) (7... Ng4 8. Qg3 Qxg3 9. hxg3 {1-0 (45) Fleischmann,A (1971) -Patzer,J (1793) Grieskirchen 1998}) 8. Qg3 $11 {The position is equal.} Qxg3 9. hxg3 Ng4 {0.83/22} (9... a5 $11 {0.00/21 remains equal.}) 10. f3 $16 Ne3 11. Bd3 {aiming for Nb3.} Be6 ({But not} 11... Nxg2+ $6 12. Kf1 $16 (12. Ke2 Ne3 13. Nb3 Bb6 14. Bxe3 Bxe3 15. Kxe3 Bd7 16. Nc5 O-O-O 17. Nxd7 Rxd7 18. Rad1 h6 19. Be2 Rd6 20. Rd3 Rg6 21. Kf2 Rg5 22. Rhd1 f6 23. f4 Rc5 24. Bg4+ f5 25. Bxf5+ Rxf5 26. exf5 Rf8 {Gil,O (1307)-Zniszczol,W (1028) Szczyrk 2014 1-0 (50)} )) 12. Rh2 $146 {-0.42/20} (12. Ke2 $14 {0.66/20} Bb6 13. Nb1 (13. Nf1 Nc4 14. b3 Nd6 15. Bb2 O-O 16. g4 h6 17. a4 a5 18. e5 Nc8 19. g5 hxg5 20. Bh7+ Kh8 21. Nd2 g6 22. Bxg6+ Kg7 23. Bd3 Rg8 24. Ne4 Ne7 25. Nxg5 Nd5 26. Rh7+ Kf8 27. Ba3+ Ke8 {Neifeld,I-Povarnizyn,D (2067) Gornozavodsk 2009 1-0 (46)})) (12. Nb3 Bb6 13. Bxe3 Bxe3 14. Ke2 Bb6 15. c4 a6 16. Rh5 O-O-O 17. c5 Ba7 18. Rc1 h6 19. Bc4 Rhe8 20. g4 b6 21. Bxa6+ Kb8 22. cxb6 Bxb6 23. Na5 Ka7 24. Bd3 Bxa5 25. Rxa5+ Kb7 26. a3 Rd6 {Fleischmann,A (1971)-Patzer,J (1793) Grieskirchen 1998 1-0 (45) }) 12... O-O-O {[#] Threatens to win with ...Rxd3!} 13. Nf1 $2 {-3.29/18} (13. Ke2 $1 $11 {-0.13/26 and White stays safe.}) 13... Rxd3 $1 $19 14. cxd3 Nc2+ 15. Kd1 Nxa1 0-1