B59 Classical Sicilian: 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Be3 O-O 9.O-O)

This was played in the second round of a rapid chess tournament that was played at the FIDE Online Arena on April 5th 2015. In the first round of this tournament I lost against a player who was rated almost 300 points lower than me, so the tournament had not gone all that well and winning on this second round against a player who was lower rated by over 500 points was only a small consolation. Tomorrow I will post a third round game from this same tournament and I will type more about this tournament then.

I would like to thank all of you who have followed me on Google+ and Twitter and also people who have shared my posts, it is much appreciated! After this post there are 882 analysed chess games of mine posted in here and 374 different opening variations are featured in those games. Out of those 882 games, I have won 568 (64.4%), drawn 74 (8.39%) and lost 240 (27.21%). It might be also interesting to note that the most featured opening variation in this blog, A20 English Opening: King's English Variation. General, has only 30 games in it which means that learning opening theory might not be all that useful because I faced the exact same line only about 3.4% of the time. And most of the variations have only one game in them which means most of those opening variations I have only faced about 0.1% of the time. Admittedly that is not the most theoretical opening and most of the games that were played in that variation were played years ago when my main opening move with White was c4. In those times I knew very little about different openings or how they are supposed to be played. I may not be expert on openings even to this day but I have much better knowledge of them since I started blogging again. I have, for instance, started to remember the ECO codes of some lines quite well, I mean after nearly 900 games of searching for the opening played in a game, I should start remembering something about them... I have added one mate in one, two mate in two, one mate in three and one mate in four puzzle today.

[Event "Tournament 28604120"] [Site "online arena"] [Date "2015.04.05"] [Round "2"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "kbskk2004"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B59"] [WhiteElo "1743"] [BlackElo "1225"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "83"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] {[%evp 16,82,14,14,33,19,32,10,97,91,99,93,119,91,130,118,298,291,281,281,275, 71,78,0,928,946,954,908,1341,891,907,911,1409,1395,1404,1363,1383,1297,1295, 1271,29979,6334,29988,29989,29991,29992,29992,29993,29993,29994,29994,29995, 29996,29995,29995,29994,29994,29995,29995,29996,29997,29997,29997,29998,29998, 29998,29998,29999,29999]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 {B59 Sicilian Defense: Boleslavsky Variation} Be7 8. Be3 O-O 9. O-O {B59 Classical Sicilian: 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 LiveBook: 208 Games} b6 (9... h6 10. Bf3 Be6 11. h3 Na5 12. Nxa5 Qxa5 13. Qd2 Rfc8 14. Kh2 a6 15. g4 Nh7 16. Be2 b5 17. f4 b4 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Bf6 20. g5 exf4 21. gxf6 fxe3 22. Qxe3 Nxf6 23. Rxf6 gxf6 24. Rg1+ {Sousa,N-Leonardo,J (2245) Portugal 1993 0-1}) 10. Qd2 ( 10. f4 Bb7 11. Bf3 Rc8 12. a3 Nd7 13. f5 Nc5 14. Nd5 Bg5 15. Bf2 Ne7 16. Nxc5 dxc5 17. c4 Nc6 18. Bg4 Ra8 19. Qd3 Nd4 20. b3 Bxd5 21. cxd5 Bf6 22. Rac1 Rc8 23. Be3 Rc7 24. Rc3 Qe7 {Kabanova,I (1997)-Buldakova,I (1762) Russia 2012 1/ 2-1/2 (47)}) 10... Bb7 11. Rad1 Na5 $146 {0.97/23} (11... Nb8 $11 {0.10/24 keeps the balance.}) (11... Rc8 12. Bg5 Ne8 13. Be3 Qd7 14. h3 Nf6 15. Bg5 Ne8 16. Bg4 Qd8 17. Bxc8 Bxg5 18. Bxb7 Bxd2 19. Rxd2 Qc7 20. Ba6 f5 21. Rfd1 fxe4 22. Nxe4 Qf7 23. Bb5 Ne7 24. Rd3 d5 25. Rf3 Nf6 26. Nxf6+ {Van Willenswaard,C (1463)-Van der Vlies,F (1406) Enschede 2010 0-1 (51)}) 12. Nxa5 $16 bxa5 13. f3 Rc8 14. Bxa7 d5 15. exd5 {[#] Threatens to win with d6.} Bc5+ $2 {2.98/27} ( 15... Bb4 $16 {1.18/26 is a better defense.}) 16. Bxc5 $18 Rxc5 17. Qe3 Qd6 18. Nb5 $2 {0.71/27} (18. Qf2 $18 {2.75/23 has better winning chances.}) 18... Qb6 $16 19. Nc3 {0.00/30} ({White should try} 19. Na3 $16 {0.78/24}) 19... Rd8 $2 { 9.28/23 [%mdl 8192] [#]} (19... Qd6 $11 {0.00/30}) 20. Na4 $18 Qb4 21. Nxc5 Nxd5 22. a3 Qb6 23. Qf2 h6 24. Nxb7 Qxb7 25. c4 Qxb2 26. cxd5 Qxa3 27. Qb6 Ra8 28. d6 a4 29. d7 {White mates.} Qf8 30. d8=Q Qxd8 31. Rxd8+ Rxd8 32. Qxd8+ Kh7 33. Bd3+ g6 34. Qd7 Kg7 35. Qxa4 h5 36. Rc1 Kh6 37. Rc7 f5 38. Qd7 Kg5 39. g3 Kh6 {[%tqu "En","","","","d3f5","",10]} 40. Bxf5 $1 Kg5 (40... gxf5 41. Qg7#) 41. h4+ Kf6 42. Qe6# {Accuracy: White = 22%, Black = 12%.} 1-0