C96 Closed Spanish Game: Chigorin Defence: 11.d4, replies other than 11...Qc7 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nd7 12.Nbd2 exd4 13.cxd4)

This was played in the second round of the WORLD OPEN RAPID tournament that was held at the FIDE Online Arena on April 13th 2015. This is the last tournament I played there for now at least and it started quite badly, I lost my first two games. On the last three rounds I did manage to be victorious, so this was an ok tournament for me. Third round game I assume won on time, it is the only game missing from my database but I think I might have deleted it because there were no moves played in that game. This game started to go wrong for me on move 17 and I did make the losing move on move 18. After that there was no real chances for a comeback.

I have found something new to post on Friday, so I am still able to find new openings to cover even though the chances for new things to appear decreases with each post I make. I need to go through more and more games per week and I would assume that the amount of games I post in this blog will be each week far greater than I can complete these days. This should not be all that big of a problem for quite some time, because there are thousands of games to go through still. And I would even prefer a situation where I would need to play games in order to get games posted here to the current situation where I can't play all that many games because I seem to have very little time for them.

[Event "Tournament 28908568"] [Site "online arena"] [Date "2015.04.13"] [Round "2"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "guverner"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C96"] [WhiteElo "1695"] [BlackElo "1887"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "110"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Nd7 12. Nbd2 exd4 13. cxd4 {C96 Closed Spanish Game: Chigorin Defence: 11.d4, replies other than 11...Qc7} Nc6 14. Nf1 Bf6 15. Be3 Bb7 16. Ng3 {LiveBook: 3 Games} Rc8 {0.58/25} (16... g6 $11 {0.00/27}) 17. a3 $146 {-1.03/24 [#]} (17. Nf5 $14 {0.58/25}) (17. Rc1 Re8 18. Bb1 g6 19. b3 ( 19. Qd2 Qa5 20. e5 cxd4 21. Rxc6 Qxd2 22. Bxd2 Bxc6 23. exf6 Bxf3 24. Rxe8+ Rxe8 25. gxf3 d5 26. b3 Ne5 27. Kf1 Nxf3 28. Bb4 Re6 29. Ne2 Rxf6 30. Kg2 Kg7 31. Kg3 g5 32. Kg2 Nh4+ 33. Kf1 Rc6 {Giri,A (2690)-Nakamura,H (2774) Monte Carlo 2011 1-0 (54)}) 19... Bg7 (19... cxd4 20. Nxd4 Nxd4 21. Rxc8 Qxc8 22. Bxd4 Be5 23. Qd2 Bxd4 24. Qxd4 d5 25. Rd1 Qc5 26. Qxc5 Nxc5 27. exd5 f5 28. Rc1 f4 29. Nf1 Ne4 30. Bxe4 Rxe4 31. d6 Rd4 32. Rc7 Be4 33. d7 Kf8 34. g3 { McClymont,B (2262)-Morris,J (2398) Adelaide 2013 0-1 (53)}) 20. Qd2 Qa5 21. Qxa5 Nxa5 22. Red1 c4 23. Bd2 Nc6 24. bxc4 Nxd4 25. Nxd4 Bxd4 26. Bb4 Be5 27. cxb5 axb5 28. Rxc8 Rxc8 29. Bd3 Nf6 30. Bxb5 h5 31. a4 h4 {Froeyman,H (2308) -Kazhgaleyev,M (2568) France 2004 0-1 (58)}) 17... cxd4 18. Nxd4 $2 {-3.49/30} (18. Bf4 $17 {-1.06/26}) 18... Nxd4 19. Bxd4 Bxd4 20. Qxd4 Rxc2 21. Nf5 {[#]} Qf6 22. Qa7 $2 {-7.27/28} (22. Qxf6 {-3.50/29} Nxf6 23. Nxd6) 22... Bxe4 $1 23. Nxd6 (23. Rxe4 Qxf5) 23... Qxd6 24. Rxe4 Nf6 25. Re3 Qd2 26. Rg3 Rc1+ 27. Rxc1 Qxc1+ 28. Kh2 Qxb2 29. Qxa6 Ne4 30. Rf3 Nxf2 31. Qb6 Qe5+ 32. Kg1 Ne4 {-7.15/30 } (32... Qe1+ $142 {-#22/26} 33. Kh2 Qh1+ 34. Kg3 Ne4+ 35. Kf4 Qxg2 36. Qc6 Ng5 37. h4 Ne6+ 38. Ke3 Rd8 39. Qc3 Nd4 40. Qxd4 Qg1+ 41. Rf2 Qg3+ 42. Ke4 Qg4+ 43. Rf4 Qe2+ 44. Qe3 Re8+ 45. Kd5 Qxe3 46. Kc6 Qxf4 47. Kd7 Re6 48. Kd8 Qb8+ 49. Kd7 Rd6+ 50. Ke7 Qf8#) 33. Re3 Qc5 34. Qxc5 Nxc5 $19 {Endgame KRN-KR} 35. Re5 Rc8 36. Kf1 f6 37. Rd5 Kf7 38. Ke2 Ke6 39. Rh5 h6 40. Rh4 Ra8 41. Rb4 Rxa3 42. Rxb5 Nd7 43. Rb7 Ra2+ 44. Kf3 Ne5+ 45. Kg3 g5 46. Rh7 Nf7 {Black mates.} 47. Rg7 f5 48. Rg6+ Ke5 49. Rg7 Kf6 50. Rg8 f4+ 51. Kf3 Ne5+ 52. Ke4 Rxg2 53. Rh8 Re2+ 54. Kd4 Kg7 55. Ra8 f3 {Precision: White = 8%, Black = 54%.} 0-1