C69 Spanish Game: Exchange Variation with 5.0-0 f6 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O f6 6.d4 exd4 7.Qxd4 Qxd4 8.Nxd4)

As new opening variations keep coming from these 15 minute tournament games, they keep getting into the highlight of my daily posts. This is from the third round of the third WORLD OPEN RAPID tournament that I have played at the FIDE Online Arena. My poorly played games continued in this third round as well. The positions in this game were quite good for me at times but like so many times before, I self-destructed and let the good positions die out. I think my opponent in this game was one of those underrated elo players who had their unmonitored elo much higher than official elo rating. Due to some distractions I could not play more rapid games at the FIDE Online Arena yesterday but I should be able to play more today. I do not feel, at least for now, at all tired and I hope that it continues until I have played that tournament. I still have quite a lot of moves to make in my correspondence games that I would like to do today. I have managed to decrease my game load quite a bit from my most active times as I only have 246 games in progress anymore. That would be much less of course if I would not start new games from time to time. Sometimes I would like to start even more games and truly have several hundred games in progress at the same time. Luckily I have avoided that quite well so far... I have added one mate in two, one mate in three, two mate in four and one mate in six today to the puzzle pages of this blog.

Game number two. This was played in the second round of the WORLD OPEN RAPID tournament that was played at the FIDE Online Arena on March 30th 2015. After two rounds I had two points but there were still more to come in this tournament. This has been the only tournament that I have played at the FIDE Online Arena that I have with a score of 5 out of 5! Maybe there will be more someday but that would mean I would need to start playing these again and at the moment I do not feel like playing tournaments there, only challenges.

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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 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.0-0 f6 C69 Spanish Game: Exchange Variation. Gligoric Variation 6.d4 exd4 7.Qxd4 Qxd4 8.Nxd4 C69 Spanish Game: Exchange Variation with 5.0-0 f6 Bc5 8...Bd6 9.Ne2 9.Rd1 9...Ne7N 9...Bd7 9...Be6 10.Nbc3 0-0-0 11.Bf4 Ne7 12.Rad1 Ng6 13.Bg3 h5 14.h3 Ne5 15.Bxe5 fxe5 16.b3 g5 17.Rxd8+ Rxd8 18.Rd1 Rf8 19.Rf1 g4 20.hxg4 Bxg4 21.Nc1 Bd4 22.N3e2 Bb6 23.Ng3 h4 24.Nh1 Wegerle,J (2382) -Zanatta,F playchess.com INT 2004 1-0 (68) 10.Bf4 10.h3= remains equal. 10...Bd6?

10...Bg4! 11.Nc1 0-0-0 11.Nd2 11.Bxd6 cxd6 12.Rd1 11...Bg4 11...Bxf4 12.Nxf4 Kf7 12.f3 Be6 13.Be3 13.Bxd6 cxd6 14.b3 13...0-0-0 14.Nd4 14.Rfd1= 14...Bf7 15.Rad1 Better is 15.a4 15...Bc5? Not 15...Bxa2 16.b3= 15...Rd7 16.f4 Bc5 16.N2b3 16.Nf5!= keeps the balance. Nxf5 17.Bxc5 16...Bb6 Black should play 16...Bd6 17.Kh1 17.Kf2= 17...g6 17...c5 18.Ne2 c4 18.c3 Rd7 19.Nc2 Bxe3 19...Rhd8! 20.Rxd7 Rxd7 20.Rxd7!= Kxd7 21.Rd1+ 21.Nxe3= Bxb3 22.axb3 21...Kc8 21...Bd4 22.Nxe3 Be6 22...Bxb3 23.axb3 Rd8 23.Nd4 23.Kg1 23...Bxa2 24.Ng4 White should try 24.b4 24...f5 White is under strong pressure. 25.exf5 Nxf5 26.Nxf5 gxf5 Endgame KRB-KRN 27.Nh6 27.Nf6 27...Rf8-+ 28.g4 28.Re1 28...fxg4 29.fxg4? 29.Nxg4 Rxf3 30.Kg2 29...Rf2 30.Nf5 Bd5+ 31.Kg1 Rg2+ 32.Kf1 Rxb2 33.Ne7+ Kd7 34.Nxd5 cxd5 35.Rxd5+ KR-KR Ke6 35...Kc6-+ 36.Rh5 b5 36.Rh5 Rc2 37.Rxh7 37.h4 37...Rxc3 38.Kf2 38.Rh8 38...a5! 39.h4 a4 40.Rh8 40.Rh6+ Kf7 41.Rh7+ Kg8 42.Rh5 40...Rc4 40...a3 Strongly threatening ...b5. 41.Rb8 b6 41.g5 Kf7? 41...Kf5-+ 42.Ke2 b5 43.Rf8+ Kg6 44.Rf6+ Kh7 42.h5!= Kg7 43.Rd8 a3 44.Rd7+ Kg8 Threatens to win with ...Rh4. 45.Rd8+ Kf7

aiming for ...Rh4. 46.g6+! Kf6? 46...Kg7= 47.Rd7+ Kf6 47.Rf8++- Kg7 48.Rf7+ Kg8 White mates. 49.h6 Rh4 50.h7+ Kh8 51.Rf8+ Kg7 52.Rg8+ Kf6 53.h8Q+ Rxh8 54.Rxh8 Kxg6 KR-K3P 55.Ra8 Kf6 56.Rxa3 KR-KPP Ke6 57.Ke3 Kd6 58.Kd4 b6 59.Rh3 Kc6 60.Rh6+ Kb5 61.Kc3 c5 62.Rg6 Ka5 63.Kc4 b5+ 64.Kxc5 b4 65.Rb6 Accuracy: White = 36%, Black = 30%. 1–0

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

sergofan	1237	Vierjoki,T	1799	1–0
shiva0585	1112	Vierjoki,T	1699	0–1

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