A34 Symmetrical English: 2.Nc3, lines with ...d5 (1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 Nc6 6.O-O O-O 7.e3 d5 8.cxd5 Nxd5)

I will go through my Red Hot Pawn games for a maybe day or two and then I will start adding games from other sites again. Maybe I will shift back and forth between the sites at some appropriate times to keep the games from the various sites as close to recent games as possible. There are of course a load of over the board games that I would like to go through as well but at the moment they are not that important to me as I do not intent to play any official over the board games anytime soon. The game below is from a tournament called 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen III and it is a 21 player tournament in which all players face each other twice. When the tournament started on August 11th 2014, all of my 40 games started at the same time and out of those I still have six in progress. The win has slipped my grasp a long time ago and now I just try to play the remaining games as well as possible and not to lose too many rating points. As there were no rating restrictions in this tournament the rating difference between the highest and lowest rated player has been quite a huge one. The highest rated player, NN Cheap, has a rating of 2112 at the moment and the lowest rated player, kjl281, is rated 922. Not only that but even the difference between the two highest rated players is close to 200 points. It probably was higher at some point but I have been able to close the gap a bit recently. I have added two mate in ones, one mate in two, one mate in three and one mate in four today.

[Event "Grand Seven Fourteen"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.08.11"] [Round "1"] [White "2advent"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A34"] [WhiteElo "1720"] [BlackElo "1895"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "74"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. c4 (1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 {0-1 (53) Gomez,A (1656) -Vargas,L Cali 2014}) 1... Nf6 2. Nc3 {A16 English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Queen's Knight Variation} (2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O c5 6. Nc3 {1/2-1/2 (51) Utkin,V (2025)-Sichinava,Z (2305) St Petersburg 2013}) 2... c5 3. Nf3 (3. g3 g6 {0-1 (20) Scheunemann,D (1299)-Meyer,S (1851) Bad Salzdetfurth 2004}) 3... g6 4. g3 Bg7 (4... Nc6 5. e3 Bg7 6. Bg2 O-O {0-1 (20) Scheunemann,D (1299)-Meyer,S (1851) Bad Salzdetfurth 2004}) 5. Bg2 Nc6 6. O-O O-O 7. e3 d5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 {A34 Symmetrical English: 2.Nc3, lines with ...d5} 9. Nxd5 {-0.78/21} (9. d4 $11 {0.07/22 keeps the balance.}) 9... Qxd5 $17 10. Nd4 {-1.04/22} (10. d4 $15 {-0.40/21}) 10... Qd6 $1 11. Nxc6 {Black is better.} bxc6 12. Qc2 {-1.74/19} (12. Qa4 $15 {-0.65/22} Bd7 13. Rd1 Rab8 14. Qa3 Rb7 15. d4 cxd4 16. Qxd6 exd6 17. exd4 Rb4 18. Bf4 Rxb2 19. Bxd6 Re8 20. Bf3 a5 21. a4 Rb3 22. Ra3 Rb2 23. Rc3 Ra2 24. Bxc6 Rc8 25. Bd5 Rxc3 26. Bxa2 Bg4 27. Re1 { Utkin,V (2025)-Sichinava,Z (2305) St Petersburg 2013 1/2-1/2 (51)}) (12. d4 cxd4 13. exd4 Qxd4 14. Qxd4 Bxd4 15. Bh6 Rd8 16. Rad1 Rb8 17. b3 c5 18. Bf4 Ba6 19. Rfe1 e5 20. Bg5 Rdc8 21. Bf6 c4 22. bxc4 Bxc4 23. Bxe5 Bxe5 24. Rxe5 Bxa2 25. Ra5 Rb1 26. Rxb1 Bxb1 {Gomez,A (1656)-Vargas,L Cali 2014 0-1 (53)}) 12... Ba6 $19 13. Re1 Bd3 $36 {Black is on the roll.} 14. Qa4 Bb5 $146 {-0.75/25} ( 14... Rfc8 $19 {-1.79/22 is more deadly.} 15. Bf1 c4 (15... Rab8 16. Bxd3 Qxd3 17. Qxa7 Bxb2 18. Qxc5 Bxa1 19. Ba3 Bf6 20. Bb4 Rb5 {0-1 (20) Scheunemann,D (1299)-Meyer,S (1851) Bad Salzdetfurth 2004})) 15. Qa3 {-1.20/21} ({White should play} 15. Qf4 {-0.75/25}) 15... Rfd8 {-0.09/23} (15... Rac8 $17 { -1.20/21}) 16. Bf1 $2 {-1.82/19 [#]} (16. d4 $1 $11 {-0.09/23}) 16... e6 { -0.93/26} (16... a5 $19 {-1.82/19} 17. Rb1 Bxf1 18. Rxf1 a4) 17. Bxb5 {-1.63/21 } (17. e4 $17 {-0.93/26}) 17... cxb5 18. Qb3 a6 19. Rd1 $2 {-3.15/22} (19. d4 $17 {-1.50/23 is a better defense.}) 19... c4 20. Qc2 Qd3 21. Qxd3 Rxd3 ({ Weaker is} 21... cxd3 22. Rb1 $17) 22. Kf1 Rad8 23. Ke2 b4 {Hoping for ...c3.} 24. Rb1 c3 $2 {-1.02/23 [#]} (24... f5 $19 {-2.83/21 has better winning chances.} 25. Rg1 h6) 25. bxc3 $17 bxc3 {0.12/25} (25... Bxc3 $1 $17 {-1.33/25} 26. Kf3 (26. dxc3 Rxd1) 26... a5) 26. Rb3 {-0.30/21} (26. Rb8 $142 {0.12/25}) 26... c2 27. Rf1 (27. Rg1 {with more complications.} Rxb3 28. axb3 a5 29. d4 e5 30. Bd2) 27... Rxb3 28. axb3 $11 {Endgame KRB-KRB} Rb8 29. Kd3 Rxb3+ 30. Kxc2 Rb7 {0.47/24} (30... Rb8 $11 {0.00/27}) 31. d4 {0.00/26} (31. Ba3 $14 {0.47/24} ) 31... Bf8 {0.78/24} (31... e5 $11 {0.00/26}) 32. Bb2 {0.00/27} ({White should try} 32. Bd2 $16 {0.78/24}) 32... Bb4 33. Ra1 a5 34. Rb1 Rc7+ 35. Kb3 Kf8 36. Ba3 $2 {-7.12/22} (36. Rc1 $11 {0.00/27} Rxc1 37. Bxc1) 36... Rc3+ $19 37. Kb2 Rxa3 {Accuracy: White = 18%, Black = 22%.} 0-1