E14 Queen's Indian: Classical Variation (4.e3) (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 b6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.e3 O-O 7.Bd3 d5 8.O-O Nbd7 9.a3 Be7 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Nxe4 12.Bxe4 Bxe4 13.Qxe4)

This is one of those openings that could have appeared in this blog before and actually the second game in this post was previously under a different post. Only when I searched for the opening variation used in this game, did I notice the mistake and corrected it. The game below was played in tedjj's mini-tournament XLIII. I am currently sixth and I can only either remain sixth or be overtaken by another player and end up on seventh place but those are my only options in this tournament anymore. This has not gone all that well and if I indeed lose all my four remaining games, this will be a real disaster of a tournament for me. I guess things could have gone even worse so maybe I can find some solace in that at least.

Both in Red Hot Pawn and Chess.com I have started losing a lot more recently than I lost in my most active correspondence chess days about seven months ago. Now that I have only 106 games in progress, almost 200 games less than I had in January this year, the moving accuracy has also decreased for some reason. Maybe I just want to get my game load decreased as much as possible and not that keen on making the most accurate moves. I do admit that it has become a bit of a chore instead of something that I would like to do, the moving in those games that is. Even though I should have more time to spend on each game, somehow I may spend even less time on my moves than I did when I had 300 games to worry about. In those days I even did these blog posts every day... Those were really busy days. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts!

[Event "tedjj's mini-tournament XLIII"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?"] [Date "2015.08.22"] [Round "?"] [White "frericks"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E14"] [WhiteElo "1610"] [BlackElo "1746"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "32"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 b6 5. Qc2 Bb7 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 d5 8. O-O ( 8. a3 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 dxc4 10. Bxc4 c5 11. a4 Nc6 12. Ba3 Na5 13. Be2 Qc7 14. O-O Rfd8 15. Rfd1 cxd4 16. Nxd4 a6 17. c4 Rac8 18. Rac1 h6 19. c5 bxc5 20. Qxc5 Qxc5 21. Bxc5 Nc6 22. Rb1 Ne4 {Pomar Salamanca,A (2510) -Zuidema,C (2430) Vienna 1972 1/2-1/2 (42)}) 8... Nbd7 9. a3 Be7 $146 (9... Bxc3 10. bxc3 (10. Qxc3 dxc4 11. Bxc4 c5 12. Rd1 Qc7 13. Be2 Rac8 14. b3 Ne4 15. Qb2 Rfd8 16. Bd2 cxd4 17. Nxd4 e5 18. Rac1 Ndc5 19. Nf3 Nxd2 20. Nxd2 Qe7 21. b4 Nd3 22. Bxd3 Rxd3 23. Rxc8+ Bxc8 24. Qc2 Qd8 {Moro,A (1941)-Pomar,M (2055) Florianopolis 2017 0-1 (39)}) 10... h6 11. cxd5 (11. Qe2 Ne4 12. Bb2 f5 13. cxd5 exd5 14. c4 Re8 15. Rac1 dxc4 16. Bxc4+ Kh7 17. Rfd1 Qe7 18. Ba2 c5 19. h4 a5 20. Bc4 Rac8 21. dxc5 Ndxc5 22. Ba1 Bc6 23. Ne5 Qxh4 24. Nxc6 Rxc6 25. Bb5 Ree6 {Zenzera,A (2047)-Skokov,B (2102) Omsk 2008 1-0 (40)}) 11... exd5 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Ne4 14. Bb2 Nc5 15. Be2 Qe7 16. f4 Rfd8 17. c4 dxc4 18. Bxc4 Be4 19. Qe2 Bf5 20. Rad1 Rxd1 21. Rxd1 Rd8 22. Rd4 Be6 23. f5 Bxf5 24. e6 {Veljkovic,D (2174) -Savic,M (2129) Belgrade 2017 0-1 (52)}) 10. e4 dxe4 11. Nxe4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Bxe4 13. Qxe4 {E14 Queen's Indian: Classical Variation (4.e3). LiveBook: 3 Games} Nf6 14. Qc2 c5 15. Bf4 cxd4 16. Nxd4 $2 {-4.55/26 [#]} (16. Rad1 $11 { 0.09/28 and White stays safe.}) 16... Qxd4 0-1