D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted: 3.e3 and 3.e4 (1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 b5 4.a4 c6)

The game that I will share with you now, I played against Arayn, who is my most frequently played opponent at Red Hot Pawn. I have now played 10 games against this player but some of those games I have not analysed yet. The game below is from the first round of a tournament called 2014 October Long Haul Split I. You get 21 days for your every move in this tournament and there is no timebank which is probably a good thing, considering the already quite long thinking times. 24 players started this tournament and they were divided into two 12 player groups. I am playing on group 2 which is played quite a lot slower than group 1 which is even already decided, so the winner of that group is already known. In group two, however, there are still seven players that have chances to win the group. The winner or winners of the group will advance to the second round. I am doing quite well so far in the tournament as I have not suffered any loss of points in the first six games. There are still 16 games for me to finish, so it is too early to tell how well I am going to finish the tournament. If I start at some point getting my game load down enough, maybe even these games will speed up a bit. Couple of days ago my game load did increase with about ten games as one of the tournaments that I am playing at went to its second round. I had completely forgotten about that tournament of course since the time between the rounds for me were most likely weeks that may turned into months at some point. Time seems to go so fast for me that it is really hard to keep track of all the things like that at this point. I have added one mate in one, two mate in twos, one mate in three and one mate in eleven.

[Event "Long Haul Split"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.10.24"] [Round "1"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "Arayn"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D20"] [WhiteElo "1895"] [BlackElo "1263"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "69"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 b5 {D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation. Greco Variation} 4. a4 c6 {D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted: 3.e3 and 3.e4} 5. axb5 cxb5 6. Nc3 b4 $146 {3.07/18 [#]} (6... a6 $1 $11 {0.15/22 and Black stays safe.} 7. Nxb5 axb5 8. Rxa8 Bb7 9. Ra1 e6 10. Nf3 (10. f3 Nc6 11. Ne2 Na5 12. Be3 Nb3 13. Ra2 Bb4+ 14. Nc3 Ne7 15. Bd3 Nc6 16. d5 exd5 17. exd5 Qxd5 18. Be4 Qe5 19. O-O O-O {1/2-1/2 (19) Bluebaum,M (2530)-Nisipeanu,L (2665) Bad Wiessee 2014}) 10... Nf6 11. e5 (11. Be2 Bb4+ 12. Bd2 Bxd2+ 13. Qxd2 Nxe4 14. Qb4 Qd5 15. Ra5 Nd6 16. Ne5 Qxd4 17. Rxb5 Nxb5 18. Qxb5+ Nd7 19. Nxc4 Bd5 20. Ne3 Ke7 21. Qxd5 Qxd5 22. Nxd5+ exd5 23. Kd2 Rb8 24. Kc2 Ne5 25. Ra1 Nc6 {Mamedyarov,S (2764)-Kasimdzhanov,R (2706) Baku 2014 1/2-1/2}) 11... Ne4 12. Be2 Bb4+ 13. Kf1 O-O 14. h4 Nc6 15. Be3 Ne7 16. Ng5 Nf5 17. Rh3 Nxe3+ 18. fxe3 Nxg5 19. hxg5 Be4 20. Rg3 Be7 21. Qd2 Bxg5 {Suarez Garcia,C (2449)-Martinez Fernandez,A (2212) Elgoibar 2018 0-1 (101)}) 7. Qa4+ {1.32/22} (7. Bxc4 bxc3 8. Bd5 cxb2 $11) (7. Nb5 $1 $18 {3.07/18 is the precise move to win. Threatens to win with Bf4.} Nc6 8. Nf3 (8. Bxc4 a6 $16)) 7... Bd7 $16 8. Qxb4 {Strongly threatening d5.White is clearly better.} a5 {2.28/19} (8... e5 $16 {1.27/22} 9. Qxc4 exd4) 9. Qxc4 $18 e6 10. Nf3 Bb4 11. Be2 Ne7 12. O-O O-O 13. Be3 Nbc6 {2.37/17} (13... Bc6 { 1.81/22 might work better.} 14. Nd2 Nd7) 14. d5 exd5 15. Nxd5 Rc8 {2.22/24} ( 15... Nxd5 $16 {1.54/21 was necessary.} 16. Qxd5 (16. exd5 Ne7 $16) 16... Qe8) 16. Qd3 f6 $2 {3.63/22 [#]} (16... Nxd5 $16 {1.40/21} 17. Qxd5 (17. exd5 Ne7 $16) 17... h6) 17. Rfd1 g5 $2 {7.96/20} (17... Be6 {2.89/20} 18. Bb6 Qe8) 18. Nxe7+ Qxe7 19. Qxd7 Qxe4 20. Bd3 Qe7 21. Qxe7 Nxe7 22. Nd4 Nd5 23. Bd2 Bxd2 24. Rxd2 h6 25. g3 Nb4 26. Ne6 Rfe8 27. Bf5 Nc6 28. Rd7 Re7 29. Rxe7 Ne5 30. Rxa5 { White mates.} Nf3+ 31. Kg2 Ne5 32. Raa7 Nc6 33. Rg7+ Kh8 34. Rh7+ Kg8 35. Rag7# {Accuracy: White = 31%, Black = 34%.} 1-0