C72 Spanish Game: Deferred Steinitz: 5.0-0 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.O-O a6 5.Ba4 Bg4 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3 Qf6 8.d3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Qxf3 10.gxf3)

This was played in round two of the 28th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800). I am currently fifth in group #18 that has six players in it, so things are not looking that bright for me if I want to win the group and advance to the next round. I probably would have wanted to advance all the way to the last group when this tournament started but these days I just want to minimize the amount of games I have in progress at the same time. The way some of the games are going, it is very unlikely that I would be able to advance to the next round. My opponent in this game, Andrei25, has half a point more than me at the moment and is on fourth place. This tournament started on September 1st 2014 and chances are it will end sometime next year. I had chances to win the game below but was always able to mess things up so that the position withered finally to a draw.

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.0-0 a6 5.Ba4 Bg4 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3 Qf6 8.d3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Qxf3 10.gxf3 C72 Spanish Game: Deferred Steinitz: 5.0-0 Nge7 11.Be3N 11.f4 exf4 11...Na5 12.Bc2 exf4 13.Bxf4 Ng6 14.Be3 Be7 15.a4 0-0 16.Nd2 Nc6 17.f4 b4 18.Nf3 Rab8 19.Rab1 b3 20.Bd1 f5 21.Nd2 Na5 22.exf5 Rxf5 23.Bg4 Rf6 1/2-1/2 (23) Litov,M-Kazakov,N (1943) Tula 2006 12.Bxf4 Ne5 13.Bc2 N7g6 14.Bg3 Nf3+ 15.Kg2 Ngh4+ 16.Bxh4 Nxh4+ 17.Kg3 Be7 18.f4 f5 19.e5 d5 20.Nd2 Rf8 21.Bb3 c6 22.c4 dxc4 23.dxc4 Rd8 24.Rfd1 Rd3+ 25.Kf2 Bc5+ Rodionov,A (2053)-Kazakov, N (1990) Tula 2007 0-1 (64) 11.a4 Rb8 12.axb5 axb5 13.f4 g6 14.Be3 Bg7 15.Nd2 0-0 16.fxe5 dxe5 17.f4 Bh6 18.d4 exf4 19.Bxf4 Bxf4 20.Rxf4 Kg7 21.Nf3 f6 22.d5 g5 23.Rg4 h5 24.Rg2 Nd8 25.Nd4 Kh8 Vasques,A (2200)-Cordovil, J (2184) Amadora 2011 1-0 (57) 11.Rd1 Na5 12.Bc2 c5 13.Be3 Ng6 14.Kf1 Be7 15.Bd2 0-0 16.a4 Nc6 17.Na3 b4 18.Nc4 a5 19.Rdb1 Rad8 20.Nb6 Bh4 21.Nd5 f5 22.Bb3 Kh8 23.Be3 fxe4 24.fxe4 Rf3 25.Bd1 Rf7 Kudenko,A (1933) -Niks,Y (1882) Moscow 2007 0-1 (47) 11...0-0-0 11...g6= remains equal. 12.a4± d5 White is clearly better. 13.axb5 axb5 14.Bc5 White should play 14.d4± 14...dxe4 14...Kb7 15.dxe4 f6 16.Na3 Ng6 17.Bxf8 17.Be3!± Bxa3 18.Rxa3 17...Rhxf8 18.Nxb5 Kb7 19.Rfd1 19.Bd5± 19...Nh4?

Black should try 19...Nce7 20.Bd5+- Kb6 21.Na3! Nxf3+ 22.Kg2 Nh4+ 23.Kg3 g5 23...Ng6 24.Nc4+ Kb5 24.Nc4+ Kb5 25.Ra2 Ra8?

25...f5 keeps fighting. 26.Rda1 Rxd5 27.Na3+ 27.exd5 Kxc4 28.dxc6 Rd8 27...Kc5 28.b4+ 28.exd5 Ne7± 28...Kd6 29.exd5 Kxd5 30.Rd1+ Ke6 26.Rda1? 26.Na3++- Kb6 27.Rda1 26...Rxa2± 27.Rxa2 Ng6 28.Ne3 Nge7 28...Nf4 29.Bc4+ 29.Kg4 29...Kb6 30.Kg4 Na5 31.Be6 h5+ 32.Kg3 32.Kxh5± Kh6 is the strong threat. Rh8+ 33.Kg4 32...c6= The position is equal. 33.b4 Nb7! 34.Nc4+ Kc7 35.Rd2 Rd8 36.Rxd8 Nxd8 Endgame KBN-KNN 37.Bh3 Ng6 38.Bf1 Nf7 39.Be2 Nf4 40.Bd1 Nd6 41.Nxd6 Kxd6 KB-KN 42.Kf3 c5 43.Bb3 cxb4 44.cxb4 Nd3 45.b5 Kc5 46.Bf7 Kxb5 47.Bxh5 Kc5 48.Ke3 Nf4 Accuracy: White = 49%, Black = 43%. ½–½

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Vierjoki,T

1923

Andrei25

1771

½–½

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