E22 Nimzo-Indian: 4.Qb3 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qb3)

The game below is from a third round game from the WORLD OPEN RAPID tournament that was played at the FIDE Online Arena March 20th 2015. After three rounds I had two wins and one loss. I have not played tournaments at FOA anymore and only finished three games after I received my title. Even though I would like to get a better title than the one I currently have, I do not seem to have enough time to play there. I have been able to cut down my game load quite a lot though from the busiest days, currently at 227 games in progress. There are still quite a few games that could end at any given moment, so I should get even more free time in the near future to do other things than to move in my correspondence games. One of the four sites I have played correspondence chess I have even managed to get a new peak rating that lasted two days. I peaked at 1889 at Red Hot Pawn on April 16th 2015. It is still lacking from the best rating I have ever had in correspondence chess but I feel that it is slowly getting closer to it. My highest rating has been 2201 so far and that I managed to get at Queen Alice Internet Chess Club earlier this year. Since then it has dropped a bit but I have kept it close to 2200 and I think I should be able to go over it some time in the future as well. I have added two mate in ones, one mate in two, one mate in three and one mate in four today.

[Event "Tournament 28102454"] [Site "online arena"] [Date "2015.03.20"] [Round "3"] [White "maestrovecchio"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E22"] [WhiteElo "1737"] [BlackElo "1819"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "50"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qb3 {E22 Nimzo-Indian: 4.Qb3 E22 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Spielmann Variation} Be7 (4... a5 5. a3 Be7 6. e4 d6 7. Nf3 e5 8. Qc2 Nbd7 9. b3 O-O 10. Be2 Re8 11. O-O exd4 12. Nxd4 c6 13. Be3 Bf8 14. Rad1 Ne5 15. h3 Bd7 16. a4 Qc7 17. Rfe1 Rad8 18. f4 Ng6 19. Bd3 {Malaniuk,V (2635) -Onischuk,A (2495) Hamburgo 1993 1-0 (51)}) 5. e4 d6 6. Nf3 {0.61/20} (6. Be2 $16 {1.24/19}) 6... Nc6 $146 {1.19/21} (6... O-O $14 {0.61/20} 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. Bf4 b6 9. O-O-O Bb7 10. Qc2 Nh5 11. Bg3 Bg5+ 12. Nxg5 Qxg5+ 13. Kb1 f5 14. exf5 exf5 15. f4 Qf6 16. Qe2 g6 17. Qf2 Nxg3 18. hxg3 a6 19. Rh6 Rae8 20. Rdh1 Re7 21. R1h4 Rfe8 {Valotta,M (1855)-Vasta,G (1655) Amantea 2011 1-0 (47)}) 7. Bd3 { 0.65/23} (7. Be2 $16 {1.19/21}) 7... e5 {1.12/17} (7... O-O $14 {0.65/23}) 8. d5 $16 {White is better.} Nb8 9. h3 O-O {1.51/20} (9... Nh5 $142 {0.81/21}) 10. Be3 {0.88/23} (10. Qd1 $142 {1.51/20}) 10... c6 {1.64/19} (10... Nh5 $16 { 0.88/23 was necessary.}) 11. O-O-O {0.25/22} (11. a3 $18 {1.64/19}) 11... cxd5 {0.84/20} (11... a5 $11 {0.25/22}) 12. exd5 Na6 {1.43/20} (12... b6 $14 { 0.63/21}) 13. Kb1 {0.33/22} ({White should try} 13. a3 $16 {1.43/20}) 13... Rb8 {1.57/19} (13... b6 $14 {0.33/22}) 14. g4 {1.01/22} (14. Bxa7 $142 {1.57/19} Ra8 15. Bb6) 14... Nd7 {1.54/17} (14... b6 $142 {1.01/22}) 15. Qc2 {1.12/23} ({ And not} 15. Bxa7 Ra8 $11) ({White should play} 15. Qa3 {1.54/17}) 15... g6 16. h4 $2 {-1.34/19 [#]} (16. Bxa7 $6 Ra8 $14) (16. Be2 $18 {1.83/19}) 16... Nb4 { 0.00/22} (16... Ndc5 $17 {-1.34/19 White must now prevent ...Nb4.} 17. Bxc5 Nxc5) 17. Qd2 {-1.08/20} (17. Qe2 $11 {0.00/22 remains equal.}) 17... Nxd3 $17 18. Qxd3 a6 $2 {1.66/19} (18... Nf6 $1 $17 {-1.25/21 stays on course.} 19. Nxe5 (19. Bxa7 $2 Ra8 $17) 19... dxe5) 19. h5 {1.01/23} (19. Ng5 $1 $18 {1.66/19}) 19... Qe8 {2.50/20} (19... b6 $16 {1.01/23}) 20. Bh6 $2 {0.53/23 [#]} (20. Rdg1 $18 {2.50/20}) 20... Nc5 $14 21. Qc2 $2 {-1.52/21} (21. Qe3 $16 {1.47/21 is necessary to keep the advantage.}) 21... b5 $2 {1.49/20} (21... Bxg4 $17 { -1.52/21} 22. Nd2 Bxd1 23. Rxd1 b5) 22. hxg6 {0.63/22} ({Much less strong is} 22. Bxf8 $6 Qxf8 23. Rhg1 bxc4 $16) (22. Rdg1 $16 {1.49/20}) 22... fxg6 23. Bxf8 Qxf8 24. Rh3 $2 {-8.17/21} (24. Nd2 $16 {0.85/24}) 24... Bxg4 $19 25. Rg3 Bf5 {Accuracy: White = 10%, Black = 21%.} 0-1