A08 King's Indian Attack (1.Nf3 d5 2.d3 c5 3.Nbd2 Nf6 4.g3 Nc6 5.Bg2 e5 6.e4)

It is time once more to look at my FIDE Online Arena games and tomorrow I will publish some of my Chess.com Online Chess games. After I started doing these blog updates from Monday to Friday instead of every day, it has given me some extra time on weekends to prepare the content that I am going to post in the following week. It takes some of the pressure off from doing these posts when you know that you have something to post the next day. This game was played in the first round of a rapid chess tournament at the FIDE Online Arena. Whenever I lose in the first round against a player who is rated almost 300 points lower than me, I just know the tournament will not go well for me. This tournament did not end up as a huge disaster even with this bad start, admittedly it was not a huge success either because I won three games and lost two. It was slightly on the negative side still because the last round game I did win but only because my opponent did not make any moves in that game and lost on time. All my opponents were also lower rated than me to make my results even worse.

I have played some games again at the FIDE Online Arena again, today I played a couple of 15 minute games against a friend of mine there that are part of the 100 game match that we agreed to play. It has been going on quite a long time, because the first games were played two years ago I think. Then the match halted for some reason or the other for that two year period and then this year we continued the match again. The first 20 games were the old games of that match and were played at ICC, now we have played another 20 games, this time at the FIDE Online Arena. After the first twenty games my friend lead the series 10.5 - 9.5 but now the match has taken a different direction all together and I now lead the match 23.5 - 16.5. There are still 60 games to play so anything can happen but at the moment it does look good for me. I have added two mate in one, one mate in two, one mate in five and one mate in six puzzle today.

[Event "Tournament 28604120"] [Site "online arena"] [Date "2015.04.05"] [Round "1"] [White "SHIVAKUMAR"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A08"] [WhiteElo "1466"] [BlackElo "1743"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s), TV"] [PlyCount "63"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] {[%evp 10,63,-25,-26,-11,-45,-17,-66,-8,0,24,33,28,22,25,14,17,8,28,33,41,21, 14,26,49,1,50,39,54,52,40,58,41,27,67,31,35,0,35,-54,-63,-105,-63,-75,-61,-79, -17,-44,0,0,0,0,683,683,29996,29997]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. d3 {A06 Zukertort Opening: Old Indian Attack} c5 3. Nbd2 Nf6 4. g3 Nc6 5. Bg2 e5 6. e4 {A08 King's Indian Attack. LiveBook: 114 Games} Be6 7. c3 (7. O-O dxe4 (7... Qc7 8. Re1 O-O-O 9. c3 d4 10. Qc2 Bd6 11. a4 h6 12. Nh4 g6 13. Nb3 c4 14. dxc4 Bxc4 15. Nd2 Be6 16. Qb1 Be7 17. Bf1 Nd7 18. Nhf3 Nc5 19. cxd4 Nxd4 20. Nxd4 Rxd4 21. Nf3 Rxa4 22. Rxa4 {Berger,N (1813)-Mao,Y (1897) Germany 2017 1-0}) 8. dxe4 Nd7 9. c3 c4 10. Qe2 Na5 11. b4 cxb3 12. axb3 Qc7 13. Ng5 Qxc3 14. Nxe6 fxe6 15. Ra2 Nc6 16. Bb2 Nd4 17. Qh5+ g6 18. Bxc3 gxh5 19. Bxd4 exd4 20. e5 Nxe5 21. Bxb7 Rb8 {Visser,Y (2453)-Bertholee,R (2382) Hoogeveen 2001 1-0 (73)}) 7... Be7 $146 (7... Bd6 8. O-O O-O 9. Ng5 Bg4 10. Bf3 Bxf3 11. Ngxf3 Re8 12. Re1 d4 13. cxd4 cxd4 14. Nc4 b5 15. Nxd6 Qxd6 16. Nh4 Rac8 17. Nf5 Qe6 18. Bd2 Ne7 19. Nxe7+ Rxe7 20. Kg2 h6 21. Ba5 Qa6 22. Qd2 {Kopp,P (2018)-Lutz,A (2206) Sooden Allendorf 2015 1/2-1/2 (64)}) 8. h3 {-0.66/24} (8. exd5 $11 {-0.17/27 feels stronger.} Nxd5 9. O-O) 8... Qc8 {-0.08/29} (8... d4 $15 {-0.66/24} 9. cxd4 cxd4) 9. Ng5 $11 O-O 10. Nxe6 fxe6 11. O-O Qd7 12. Qe2 Rad8 13. Nf3 Bd6 (13... c4 $5) 14. Bg5 Qf7 15. Rac1 h6 16. Bxf6 Qxf6 17. Nh2 {0.01/26} (17. exd5 $14 {0.49/22 should be considered.} exd5 18. c4) 17... Bc7 {0.50/25} (17... d4 $11 {0.01/26}) 18. Ng4 $14 Qg5 19. h4 Qg6 20. exd5 exd5 21. a3 Rfe8 22. h5 Qg5 23. Nh2 Qf5 24. Nf3 { -0.54/25} (24. Qg4 $14 {0.35/27} Rf8 25. c4) 24... Qxh5 $15 25. Qc2 {-1.05/21} (25. Nd4 $15 {-0.63/25} Qxe2 26. Nxe2) 25... Kh8 {-0.63/25} (25... e4 $17 { -1.05/21} 26. dxe4 dxe4) 26. Nh2 Qf5 27. Nf3 {[%mdl 32]} e4 {-0.17/27} (27... Qf6 $17 {-0.79/22} 28. Nd2 Qg6) 28. Nh4 Qh7 {0.00/32} (28... exd3 $15 {-0.44/ 24 might be stronger.} 29. Nxf5 dxc2 30. Rxc2 Re5) 29. dxe4 $11 dxe4 {[#] aiming for ...g5.} 30. Rce1 e3 $2 {6.83/31 [%mdl 8192]} (30... g5 $11 {0.00/30} 31. Bxe4 Rxe4 32. Qxe4 Qxe4 33. Rxe4 gxh4) 31. Ng6+ $18 Kg8 32. Qb3+ {Accuracy: White = 40%, Black = 16%.} 1-0