A43 Schmid Benoni (1.d4 c5 2.Nf3 cxd4 3.Nxd4 e5)

Today I had to do something that I do not normally do, due to time restraints. I skipped a few games in my database in order to reach this game in time, so I could get a post done today. I did check the opening on those skipped games and as they did not offer anything new, I had to leave them for now. I will go through them eventually, maybe even tomorrow but today I just did not have enough time. The game below was played in the first round of the Maximum ! tournament that is held at Chess.com. I am currently on eight place and I have gathered 10,5 points. I have still six games left to play in round one and if I win all of them, I will finish third and that would mean that I would advance to the second round. Even though I do not look forward on advancing to the second round in this tournament, I will not lose on purpose just to avoid that. I have added two mate in ones, one mate in two, one mate in three and one mate in five.

[Event "Maximum ! - Round 1"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2014.09.11"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "jfl2011"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A43"] [WhiteElo "1909"] [BlackElo "1580"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "37"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. d4 c5 {A43 Benoni Defense: General} 2. Nf3 cxd4 3. Nxd4 e5 {A43 Schmid Benoni} 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nd4 d5 {0.67/19} (5... Nc6 $11 {0.01/25} 6. c3 Nf6 7. Bg5 Qb6 8. Qb3 Nxd4 9. Qxb6 axb6 10. cxd4 Nd5 11. Nc3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 f6 13. Bf4 d6 14. e3 Be6 15. Bb5+ Kf7 16. c4 g5 17. Bg3 h5 18. h4 d5 19. cxd5 Bb4+ 20. Ke2 Bxd5 {Ochirbat,L (1951)-Tuvsanaa,N (2210) Ulaanbaatar 2016 0-1 (43)}) 6. e3 { -0.25/19} ({Better is} 6. Bf4 $1 $14 {0.67/19}) (6. c4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Qxd2 Nf6 9. e3 O-O 10. cxd5 Qxd5 11. Nc3 Qa5 12. Bc4 Qg5 13. Bf1 Bg4 14. Nde2 Bxe2 15. Bxe2 Nc6 16. O-O Ne5 17. h3 Nf3+ 18. Bxf3 exf3 19. g3 Qf5 20. Kh2 Rfd8 {Degue,S (1582)-Zito,A (1629) Salta Teresita 2016 0-1 (34)}) 6... Nf6 7. Be2 { -0.90/19} (7. c4 $1 $11 {0.10/20}) 7... Bb4+ $146 {0.01/21} (7... Bc5 $17 { -0.90/19}) (7... a6 8. O-O Bd6 9. h3 O-O 10. Bd2 Qe7 11. f4 exf3 12. Nxf3 Re8 13. Bd3 Ne4 14. Qc1 Nc6 15. c3 Ne5 16. Qc2 Nxf3+ 17. Rxf3 Qe5 18. Kf1 Qh2 19. Qc1 Qh1+ 20. Ke2 Qxg2+ {0-1 (20) Deakne Baranyai,A (2005)-Debreceni,M (1864) Hungary 2012}) 8. Bd2 $11 {The position is equal.} Bc5 9. Nb3 {-0.68/23} (9. c4 $11 {-0.10/23}) 9... O-O $2 {4.69/19 [#]} (9... Be7 $15 {-0.68/23 keeps the upper hand.}) 10. Nxc5 $18 {White is clearly winning.} a6 11. O-O Qd6 12. Nb3 Nc6 13. Bc3 Bd7 14. Nd4 Nxd4 15. Bxd4 b5 16. Nd2 Rae8 17. Nb3 Ng4 18. Bxg4 Bxg4 19. Qxg4 {Accuracy: White = 28%, Black = 8%.} 1-0