D30 Queen's Gambit Declined: Systems without Nc3 (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Bd3)

This time I share a game that was played almost ten years ago at Red Hot Pawn. I did not originally like to share this because it was won by timeout but now that I have shared some shorter timeout wins as well, I thought why not share this one as well. It turned out that it also featured an opening I had not covered in this blog before, so that was also a factor which contributed in sharing this game. While I got all my other pgn-files from Red Hot Pawn, I noticed something interesting, I played one of my current opponents also over ten years ago. During that ten year gap, not a single game but now I got a few games against him. There is also one other player there that I played against the very first time in 2004 and my second game ten years later in 2014. I could have been completely lost in the game below but as games can be decided on time as well, I got the win. The ratings are taken yesterday, so they are not even close to the ones that they were back in 2005. I have added one more tactics puzzle, one mate in four, one mate in five and two mate in seven puzzles today.

[Event "Challenge"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2005.09.28"] [Round "?"] [White "romang"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D30"] [WhiteElo "1368"] [BlackElo "1887"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "26"] [EventDate "2005.??.??"] 1. d4 (1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 {1-0 (55) Shabalov,A (2564)-Zhang,C (2273) Chicago 2018}) 1... d5 (1... Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 {1-0 (48) Dehesdin,W (2060)-Batteau,V (1840) France 2003}) 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Bg5 {D30 Queen's Gambit Declined: Traditional Variation} Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 {-0.20/21 D30 Queen's Gambit Declined: Systems without Nc3} (6. Nc3 $14 {0.50/19}) 6... dxc4 $11 (6... b6 7. Ne5 dxc4 {1-0 (48) Dehesdin,W (2060)-Batteau,V (1840) France 2003}) 7. Bxc4 b6 {0.39/20} (7... c5 $15 {-0.32/22}) 8. Ne5 {-0.11/21} (8. O-O $14 {0.39/20} Bb7 9. Qe2 Ne4 10. Bf4 Nd7 11. Rd1 Ndf6 12. h3 Qc8 13. Bd3 c5 14. Na3 Qc6 15. Ne5 Qa4 16. Rac1 cxd4 17. Bb5 Qa5 18. Rc7 Bxa3 19. Rxb7 Bxb2 20. Qxb2 Nc3 21. Rb1 Nxb1 22. Qxb1 dxe3 23. fxe3 {Shabalov,A (2564)-Zhang,C (2273) Chicago 2018 1-0 (55)}) 8... Bb7 {The position is equal.} 9. O-O (9. Nc3 Nbd7 {1-0 (48) Dehesdin,W (2060)-Batteau,V (1840) France 2003}) 9... Nbd7 {0.17/22} (9... c5 $15 {-0.41/19}) 10. Nc3 c5 $146 (10... h6 11. Bh4 c5 12. Qe2 cxd4 13. exd4 Rc8 14. Nxf7 Qc7 15. Bxe6 Rxf7 16. Rfe1 Re8 17. Bg3 Qc6 18. d5 Qc5 19. Rac1 Qa5 20. Nb5 Bb4 21. Nc7 Ree7 22. d6 Rxe6 23. Nxe6 Bxe1 24. Rxe1 Qd5 25. f3 {Dehesdin,W (2060)-Batteau,V (1840) France 2003 1-0 (48)}) 11. Qb3 {-0.73/25} (11. Qe2 $11 {0.14/23}) 11... Rc8 $2 {1.61/22 [#]} (11... cxd4 $1 $17 {-0.73/25 and life is bright.} 12. exd4 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Nd7) 12. Rad1 {0.80/24} (12. Bxe6 $1 $18 { 1.61/22 and White stays clearly on top.} Nxe5 13. dxe5 (13. Bxc8 Qxc8 14. dxe5 Bxg2 $11) 13... fxe6 14. Qxe6+ (14. exf6 Bxf6 15. Qxe6+ Rf7 $16) 14... Rf7 15. Rad1 (15. exf6 Bxf6 16. Bxf6 Qxf6 $16)) 12... Nxe5 {2.10/21} (12... Nd5 $16 { 0.80/24}) 13. dxe5 $18 Nd7 {2.71/24 Loss on time!?} (13... Nd5 $142 {1.96/24}) 0-1