C01 French: Exchange Variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.exd5 exd5 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bd3 O-O 7.O-O Bg4 8.Bg5 Bxc3 9.bxc3)

This time I will present a game that was played at Chess.com in the first round of a tournament called Maximum ! So far I have finished 11 games in this tournament and because there are 12 players in a group and you play each player twice, I have half of the games still left to finish. I have gathered 6,5 points in those eleven games and that puts me in eight place at the moment. The player who leads our group is the opponent I had in this game, chramer. He only has one draw in this tournament and has won 20! His only game left is against me. Interestingly this player started the tournament with a rating of 1259. According to his rather bad statistics on Online Chess otherwise, I would think that this is his best tournament. I have added two mate in ones, two mate in twos and one mate in four.

[Event "Maximum ! - Round 1"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2014.09.11"] [Round "?"] [White "chramer"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C01"] [WhiteElo "1612"] [BlackElo "1846"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "55"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 (2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. exd5 exd5 {1/2-1/2 (33) Turzak,M (2010) -Retkovsky,M Slovakia 2008}) 2... d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 (3... Nf6 4. exd5 exd5 5. Nf3 { 0-1 (46) Machin Arbelo,P (2134)-Suez Panama,G (2032) Gibraltar 2009}) 4. exd5 { C01 French Defense: Winawer Variation. Delayed Exchange Variation} exd5 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bd3 O-O 7. O-O Bg4 8. Bg5 Bxc3 (8... c6 9. h3 Bh5 10. Be2 Nbd7 11. Ne5 Bxe2 12. Nxe2 Qc7 13. f4 Ne4 14. Bh4 Bd6 15. Ng3 Nxg3 16. Bxg3 Nf6 17. c3 Ne4 18. Bh2 c5 19. Rc1 Rac8 20. Qb3 cxd4 21. Qxd5 Nf6 22. Qf3 Qb6 23. Kh1 {Romero, M (2240)-Duque,D Bogota 1991 0-1 (35)}) 9. bxc3 {C01 French: Exchange Variation } Nbd7 {0.50/18} (9... Qd6 $11 {-0.24/23}) 10. h3 $146 (10. c4 Qc8 (10... dxc4 11. Bxc4 h6 12. Bh4 Nb6 13. Be2 Nbd5 14. Qd2 Qd6 15. Bg3 Qa3 16. c4 Ne4 17. Qc1 Qxc1 18. Rfxc1 Nxg3 19. hxg3 Nf6 20. Rab1 Rab8 21. Rb2 Rfd8 22. d5 c6 23. dxc6 bxc6 24. Rcb1 Rxb2 25. Rxb2 {Turzak,M (2010)-Retkovsky,M Slovakia 2008 1/2-1/2 (33)}) 11. h3 Bh5 12. Be3 c5 13. dxc5 Nxc5 14. cxd5 Nxd3 15. cxd3 Nxd5 16. g4 Bg6 17. Nh4 Nc3 18. Qd2 Nb5 19. Nxg6 fxg6 20. Rac1 Qd7 21. Bc5 Rf3 22. Kg2 Rxd3 23. Qb4 Qd5+ 24. f3 Nd4 {Gorter,Y-Postma,D Hengelo 2001 1/2-1/2}) (10. Rb1 b6 11. Bb5 h6 12. Bh4 g5 13. Bg3 Ne4 14. Rb3 Ndf6 15. Be5 a6 16. Be2 b5 17. h4 Nd7 18. hxg5 hxg5 19. Bh2 f6 20. Nd2 Bxe2 21. Qxe2 Nxd2 22. Qxd2 Nb6 23. f4 Nc4 24. Qd3 Kg7 {Machin Arbelo,P (2134)-Suez Panama,G (2032) Gibraltar 2009 0-1 (46)}) 10... Bh5 11. Rb1 {0.10/21} ({White should try} 11. Re1 $16 {0.76/19}) 11... Rb8 {0.73/20} (11... b6 $11 {0.10/21}) 12. Re1 h6 {1.13/19} (12... Re8 $14 { 0.46/22}) 13. Bf4 {0.18/24} (13. Bh4 $1 $16 {1.13/19}) 13... Nb6 $11 14. Rb3 { 0.00/23} (14. Be5 $14 {0.53/20}) 14... Re8 {0.70/20} (14... Nc4 $11 {0.00/23}) 15. Rxe8+ {0.09/24} (15. g4 $1 $14 {0.70/20} Bg6 16. Ne5) 15... Nxe8 16. Qe2 { 0.05/23} (16. g4 $14 {0.47/20} Bg6 17. Bxg6 fxg6 18. g5) 16... Nd6 17. g4 Bg6 18. Bxg6 {0.00/27} (18. Kg2 $14 {0.47/20 is more appropriate.}) 18... fxg6 19. Qe6+ Kh7 $1 20. Bxd6 cxd6 21. Ra3 {-0.74/25} (21. a4 $11 {0.00/28}) 21... a6 { -0.03/25} (21... Nc4 $1 $17 {-0.74/25} 22. Rb3 (22. Rxa7 Qb6 $15) 22... Qg8 23. Qxg8+ Kxg8) 22. Rb3 Qc7 $2 {1.48/23 [#]} (22... Nc4 $11 {-0.03/25}) 23. Nh4 $16 g5 24. Nf5 Rd8 $2 {3.25/22} (24... Nc4 $1 $14 {0.67/24}) 25. Rxb6 $1 $18 Qxb6 26. Qf7 {[#]} Rg8 27. Nxh6 $1 {Threatening mate with Nf5.} Rd8 $2 {#5/26} ( 27... Rc8 $18 {3.12/26}) (27... Kxh6 28. Qh5#) 28. Nf5 {Accuracy: White = 21%, Black = 20%.} 1-0