C54 Giuoco Piano: 4.c3 Nf6, main lines with 5.d4 and 5.d3 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.e5 d5 7.Bb5 Ne4 8.cxd4 Bb4+ 9.Bd2 Nxd2 10.Bxc6+ bxc6 11.Nbxd2 O-O 12.O-O Bg4)

The game I am sharing with you today was played at GameKnot in a tournament called tedjj's mini-tournament XLIII. This tournament has not gone all that well for me and I am currently in ninth place. There are still some games left in the tournament, so I can try and improve my place a little bit. The game below is just one more example of the ridiculous losses I have suffered in the nine games that have finished in this mini-tournament. If I were to win all my remaining 11 games, I would finish in second place which would be a decent result for me to get after a bad start. This eleven player mini-tournament started on October 20th 2014. Even though the tournament started on that day, not all the games started then and some have not even started yet. It will take quite a long time to finish with this pace. I have added two mate in twos, two mate in threes and one mate in six.

[Event "tedjj's mini-tournament XLIII"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?"] [Date "2015.03.24"] [Round "?"] [White "jivko"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C54"] [WhiteElo "1590"] [BlackElo "1725"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "37"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. Bb5 Ne4 8. cxd4 Bb4+ {C54 Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit Anderssen Variation} 9. Bd2 Nxd2 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. Nbxd2 O-O 12. O-O Bg4 {0.98/20 C54 Giuoco Piano: 4.c3 Nf6, main lines with 5.d4 and 5.d3} (12... c5 $11 {0.02/20} 13. a3 Bxd2 14. Qxd2 Bg4 15. dxc5 Bxf3 16. gxf3 c6 17. Rfe1 Qd7 18. Qd3 Rae8 19. Re3 Re6 20. f4 f6 21. Rh3 h6 22. Re1 fxe5 23. fxe5 Rf4 24. b4 Qe7 25. Rf3 Qg5+ 26. Kf1 Rh4 27. h3 Rc4 {Sveshnikov,E (2565)-Aleksandrov,A (2645) Moscow 2002 1/2-1/2 (35)}) 13. Qa4 {0.55/22} (13. Rc1 $16 {0.98/20}) (13. h3 Bh5 14. Qa4 c5 15. Rac1 Rb8 16. dxc5 Qe7 17. a3 Bxd2 18. Nxd2 Qxe5 19. b4 a5 20. bxa5 Qb2 21. Qf4 Ra8 22. Nf3 Qxa3 23. Nd4 Qxa5 24. Nc6 Qa2 25. Qxc7 Qd2 26. Qe5 Be2 27. Rfe1 Bc4 {Kinsiz,O (2204)-Ertan,C (2379) Ankara 2018 1-0 (43)}) 13... c5 14. dxc5 Bxc5 $146 {5.25/18 [#]} ({Better is} 14... Rb8 $14 {0.46/26}) (14... Bxd2 15. Qxg4 Ba5 16. Nd4 Qe8 17. a3 c6 18. Qg3 Bc7 19. f4 Qd7 20. Rf3 Rab8 21. b4 f5 22. Qg5 Bd8 23. Qh5 Rc8 24. Re1 g6 25. Qh6 a6 26. Rfe3 Re8 27. e6 Qe7 28. Rg3 Qf6 29. Rd1 {Johannsdottir,J (1662)-Thorfinnsdottir,E Reykjavik 2007 0-1 (66)}) 15. Qxg4 $18 {White is clearly winning.} Rc8 16. Nh4 Bb6 17. Kh1 c5 18. f4 Re8 19. Nf5 1-0