B54 Sicilian: 2...d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4, Unusual Lines (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6)

Only one game to share today and probably tomorrow as well but after that there might be more games per day again. This game was played in the first round of the 2014 October Glacial Super Casual Banded I 1650+ tournament. There are 23 players in this tournament and they were divided into two groups, one group consisting of 12 players and the other 11 players. I am playing in the larger group and I am still one of the six players who are fighting for the win of group 1. This tournament is called Super Casual because the thinking times are the longest you can get at Red Hot Pawn. At least I have not seen any longer time controls than those that are used in this tournament. It has timeout of 21 days and there are 21 days in timebank. The tournament description also says: "No need to hurry, take a 3 week break." Well, my playing speed has been really slow but as more and more of my games will end, I will be able to play faster. When I am finally going to finish this and similar long tournaments, I will only going to play shorter tournaments in order to force a faster playing speed from me. Quite recently I even got into a point where I had only one game left where it was my turn to move in the games I play at RHP. It was a thing that had not happened in several months, so I am happy about the way things are going in that regard. I have added one mate in two, two mate in three, one mate in four and one mate in six puzzle today.

The name of this post was changed from B34 Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon to its current name on August 8th, 2019. The former name also had an incorrect ECO code there, which is also now corrected. It should have been B54 in the original title as well, I am sorry about the mistake I made.

[Event "Glacial Super Casual Banded"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.11.03"] [Round "1"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "adehaan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B54"] [WhiteElo "1887"] [BlackElo "1476"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "27"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 (2. d4 d6 {1-0 (20) Salomon,H (1621)-Sievers,H (1043) Ellwangen 2003}) 2... d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 {B54 Sicilian: 2...d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4, Unusual Lines B54 Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon} 5. Bc4 e6 { 1.31/19} (5... Bg7 $11 {0.00/23 remains equal.} 6. c3 Nf6 7. f3 e6 8. O-O O-O 9. Be3 h6 10. Qd2 Kh7 11. Bd3 Nc6 12. f4 Ng4 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. Be2 Nxe3 15. Qxe3 Qa5 16. Nd2 Rb8 17. Nc4 Qc7 18. Rab1 Ba6 19. Kh1 Bxc4 20. Bxc4 d5 { Meza Galvan,V (1703)-Molina,L (1649) Bogota 2017 1/2-1/2 (38)}) (5... a6 6. Nc3 e5 7. Nf3 Bg4 8. Nxe5 Be6 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. Nf3 Be7 11. Bf4 Qb6 12. Qd2 Nd7 13. O-O-O Rd8 14. Be3 Qa5 15. Nd4 Nc5 16. Kb1 Nf6 17. f3 O-O 18. h4 e5 19. Nde2 b5 20. Nd5 {Mitkovski,Z (2185)-Topalov,N Skopje 2012 1-0}) 6. O-O {0.85/23} (6. Nc3 $142 {1.31/19}) 6... Bg7 $2 {2.62/16 [#]} (6... a6 $16 {0.85/23 was called for.}) 7. c3 $146 {0.02/22} ({White must play} 7. Nb5 $1 $18 {2.62/16}) (7. Nc3 Nf6 8. Bg5 O-O 9. Qd2 Qc7 10. Be2 Nc6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Bh6 Bb7 13. Bxg7 Kxg7 14. Bf3 Rab8 15. b3 a6 16. Rfe1 e5 17. Rad1 Rfd8 18. Re3 Qa5 19. Rd3 d5 20. exd5 cxd5 21. Bxd5 Nxd5 {Castro,C-Garcia,D Rio de Janeiro 2001 1-0 (44)}) (7. Be3 Bf6 8. c3 a6 9. a4 Ne7 10. Bh6 Rg8 11. Nd2 Bg7 12. Bxg7 Rxg7 13. b4 Nbc6 14. Re1 Ne5 15. f4 Nxc4 16. Nxc4 f5 17. e5 d5 18. Nd6+ Kf8 19. Nxb7 Bxb7 20. Nxe6+ {1-0 (20) Salomon,H (1621)-Sievers,H (1043) Ellwangen 2003}) 7... Nc6 $2 {2.02/17} (7... a6 $11 {0.02/22}) 8. Be3 $2 {-0.04/21} ({White has to play} 8. Nb5 $1 $18 {2.02/17}) 8... Be5 $2 {1.64/21} (8... Nf6 $11 {-0.04/21}) 9. f4 { 0.66/21} (9. Na3 $18 {1.64/21}) 9... Bg7 $2 {2.31/20} ({Better is} 9... Bxd4 $1 $14 {0.66/21} 10. Bxd4 (10. cxd4 d5 $14) 10... Nxd4 11. Qxd4 Qb6) 10. Nb5 $18 d5 $2 {3.53/20 [#]} (10... Bf8 {1.85/21} 11. f5 exf5) 11. exd5 Na5 $2 {6.25/22} (11... exd5 {3.35/24} 12. Qxd5 Be6) 12. Be2 $2 {0.50/20} ({White should try} 12. dxe6 $18 {6.25/22} Bxe6 13. Bxe6 fxe6 14. Qe2) 12... exd5 $2 {2.99/21} ( 12... a6 $1 $14 {0.50/20}) 13. Qxd5 $1 Bd7 $2 {23.10/21} (13... Qxd5 {2.48/21} 14. Nc7+ Kf8 15. Nxd5 b6) 14. Nd6+ {Accuracy: White = 7%, Black = 0%.} 1-0