A87 Dutch Defence: Leningrad System: 5.Nf3 (1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O c6 7.Nc3 Ne4 8.Qb3)

This game was played in a team match called Nueva Vizcaya. This 25 board match is played between Philippine Critical Movers and Kopaonik. I am playing on board 5 for Kopaonik in this match. The current score in the match is 17,5 - 25,5 in favor of Kopaonik which means that after all the games are finished, Kopaonik is declared the winner. The game below is one of the nicest wins I have had recently, especially the ending position is something I like in this game. And even though I did not find all the strongest moves which might have resulted in nicer combinations than seen in the game, I am quite satisfied with the way I played this game.

I have less than 200 games in progress at the moment which has not happened in several months!! This I realized while typing this because it interested me to know how many more games I need to play, so I calculated the total amount from four different sites and it added up to 199. There are also some games that should finish at any point now, so things are looking a bit better for me at the moment as the pressure from the games is easing up a bit. I have added one mate in two, one mate in three, one mate in four and two mate in seven puzzles today.

[Event "Nueva Vizcaya - Board 5"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2015.02.13"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "nosaj2013"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A87"] [WhiteElo "1851"] [BlackElo "1867"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "65"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. d4 (1. Nf3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. d4 f5 4. c4 {0-1 (78) Czuczai,J (2255)-Forgacs,J (2300) Hungary 1995}) 1... f5 (1... c6 2. c4 f5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O {1-0 (51) Bacrot,E (2613)-Anic,D (2487) Vichy 2000}) 2. c4 (2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 {1/2-1/2 (42) Jakobsen,P (2250)-Kristiansen,J (2455) Tastrup 1995} 5. O-O O-O {1/2-1/2 (60) Rustemov,A-Korzubov,P (2465) Minsk 1993}) 2... Nf6 3. Nf3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 {A87 Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation} O-O 6. O-O (6. Nc3 c6 {1/2-1/2 (42) Jakobsen,P (2250)-Kristiansen,J (2455) Tastrup 1995}) 6... c6 7. Nc3 Ne4 8. Qb3 {0.62/19 A87 Dutch Defence: Leningrad System: 5.Nf3} (8. Qc2 $16 {1.29/19}) 8... Nxc3 {1.17/18} (8... c5 $14 {0.62/19}) 9. bxc3 $16 d6 $146 {1.52/18} (9... c5 $142 {0.85/21}) (9... Kh8 10. Bf4 (10. Ba3 d6 11. c5 Na6 12. cxd6 exd6 13. e4 fxe4 14. Nd2 Nc7 15. Nxe4 Nb5 16. Bb2 d5 17. Nd2 Bg4 18. a4 Nd6 19. Ba3 Rf7 20. Rae1 Bf5 21. Re3 Bh6 22. f4 g5 23. c4 gxf4 24. gxf4 Bg7 {Bacrot,E (2613)-Anic,D (2487) Vichy 2000 1-0 (51)}) (10. c5 b6 ( 10... Na6 11. Bf4 Nc7 12. Rab1 Ne6 13. Be5 b6 14. Qa3 Bb7 15. Rfd1 g5 16. c4 Bf6 17. Rd2 Kg8 18. Bxf6 exf6 19. Rb4 d6 20. cxd6 Qxd6 21. c5 Qe7 22. cxb6 axb6 23. Qb2 b5 24. d5 cxd5 25. Rxb5 {Rustemov,A-Korzubov,P (2465) Minsk 1993 1/2-1/ 2 (60)}) 11. cxb6 axb6 12. Re1 d5 13. Bf4 Be6 14. Ne5 Bxe5 15. Bxe5+ Kg8 16. e4 fxe4 17. Bxe4 Nd7 18. Bg2 Nxe5 19. Rxe5 Bd7 20. Qb4 Rf7 21. c4 e6 22. f4 Bc8 23. Bh3 Rfa7 24. Bxe6+ Bxe6 {Jakobsen,P (2250)-Kristiansen,J (2455) Tastrup 1995 1/2-1/2 (42)}) 10... d6 11. Rad1 Qe8 12. d5 Na6 13. Be3 c5 14. Rfe1 Nc7 15. Bf4 b5 16. cxb5 Qxb5 17. c4 Qxb3 18. axb3 h6 19. h4 Kh7 20. Rd3 Bf6 21. Bd2 Rb8 22. Ba5 Na6 23. Nd2 Nb4 24. Bxb4 {Czuczai,J (2255)-Forgacs,J (2300) Hungary 1995 0-1 (78)}) 10. Bg5 $2 {0.00/20 [#]} (10. c5+ $16 {1.52/18} Kh8 11. cxd6 exd6 12. Bf4) 10... Qe8 $2 {1.62/18} (10... h6 $1 $11 {0.00/20 and Black is okay.} 11. Be3 Nd7) 11. Rfe1 {0.85/21} (11. c5+ $18 {1.62/18} Rf7 12. Be3) 11... h6 12. Bd2 {0.53/24} (12. c5+ $16 {1.01/18} d5 13. Bd2) 12... Qf7 13. e4 $36 {White is pushing.} Na6 {1.94/17} ({Black should try} 13... fxe4 $14 { 0.54/23} 14. Rxe4 e5) 14. e5 {0.85/23} (14. exf5 $18 {1.94/17 and White stays clearly on top.} g5 15. c5) 14... Rb8 $2 {3.09/23 [#]} (14... g5 $16 {0.85/23}) 15. Bf4 $18 Rd8 16. exd6 exd6 17. c5 $1 Be6 $2 {8.77/19} (17... dxc5 {2.36/24} 18. Bxb8 Nxb8) 18. Qxe6 Rbc8 19. Bxd6 Re8 20. Qxf7+ Kxf7 21. Rab1 Rxe1+ 22. Nxe1 b5 23. cxb6 axb6 24. Rxb6 Nc7 25. Rb7 Ke6 26. Bxc7 c5 27. d5+ Kf6 28. f4 { 61.16/24} (28. Be5+ $142 $1 {#7/27} Kxe5 29. Rb6 Rc6 30. Rxc6 f4 31. Re6+ Kf5 32. Bh3+ Kg5 33. Nf3+ Kh5 34. g4#) 28... g5 29. Be5+ {White mates.} Kg6 30. Rxg7+ Kh5 31. d6 g4 32. Bd5 Ra8 33. Bf7# {Accuracy: White = 28%, Black = 14%.} 1-0