E12 Queen's Indian: Unusual White 4th moves, 4.a3, 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 and 4.Nc3 Bb7 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Bd3 b6 8.O-O Bb7 9.Rc1 dxc4 10.Bxc4 c5 11.Qe2 Ne4 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Rfd1)

This is the 400th opening variation that has appeared in this blog!! Never would have I thought when I started doing this blog that I would be able to cover this many openings this easily. Way back then I thought that I played pretty much the same openings all the time. It turned out that I was really wrong with that assumption. I have also reached another milestone today in this blog because I now have 600 chess games published where I was the winner. I also have 267 losses and 81 draws published, so of course I am not publishing only games that I have won. I will eventually publish all the games I have a proper notation of, so that these stats would be as correct as possible.

The game below was played in the second round of a rapid chess tournament that was played at the FIDE Online Arena on April 11th 2015. In the first round of this tournament I managed to win against a player who was rated 1450 at the time. I lost all of my remaining games in this tournament aswell, so I only won one out of four games, which is not a result I could be happy with in any circumstances. Until Monday, my fellow chess enthusiasts!

[Event "Tournament 28807979"] [Site "online arena"] [Date "2015.04.11"] [Round "2"] [White "singarams"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E12"] [WhiteElo "1740"] [BlackElo "1699"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "59"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. Bd3 b6 8. O-O Bb7 9. Rc1 dxc4 10. Bxc4 c5 11. Qe2 Ne4 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Rfd1 {E12 Queen's Indian: Unusual White 4th moves, 4.a3, 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 and 4.Nc3 Bb7} (13. Nxe4 Bxe4 14. Bb5 cxd4 15. Rc7 d3 16. Bxd3 {1/2-1/2 (16) Stohl,I (2450)-Nun,J (2460) Namestovo 1987}) 13... Ng5 {0.59/26} (13... Nxc3 $11 {0.00/26} 14. Rxc3 Rfd8) ( 13... Rfd8 14. d5 Nxc3 15. Rxc3 exd5 16. Bxd5 Nf6 17. Bxb7 Qxb7 18. Rcd3 Qc7 19. h3 h6 20. e4 Nh5 21. Qd2 Rxd3 22. Qxd3 Nf4 23. Qd7 Qb8 24. Qf5 Ng6 25. Rd7 Qe8 26. Qd5 Rb8 27. Rxa7 Rd8 28. Qb3 {Tran,L (2035)-Nguyen,M (1507) Ho Chi Minh 2017 1-0 (61)}) 14. Nxg5 $14 Qxg5 {[#]} 15. f4 Qe7 $146 {White is slightly better.} (15... Qh4 16. d5 e5 17. Nb5 exf4 18. Nd6 Rab8 19. e4 Ne5 20. Nf5 Qf6 21. b3 Bc8 22. d6 Bxf5 23. exf5 Rbd8 24. Qe4 Rxd6 25. Rxd6 Qxd6 26. Qxf4 Nxc4 27. Qxc4 Re8 28. Qg4 Qd2 29. Rd1 Re1+ {0-1 (29) Fleischmann,D-Braso, J Uruguay 1983}) 16. d5 exd5 17. Bxd5 Nf6 18. Bxb7 $1 Qxb7 19. e4 Rfe8 {1.35/26 } (19... Rfd8 $142 {0.83/26}) 20. e5 $16 Nd7 {2.06/25} (20... Rab8 $16 {1.46/27 } 21. Rd6 Nd7) 21. Qg4 Re6 {2.14/22} (21... Rad8 {1.68/28 was called for.} 22. Nb5 Qe4) 22. Nd5 {1.04/28} (22. Rd5 $18 {2.14/22 is more deadly.}) 22... Rae8 23. Ne3 g6 24. Nf5 {0.81/27} (24. Nc4 $142 {1.41/23}) 24... Rf8 {1.56/23} ({ Black should try} 24... Qe4 {0.81/27}) 25. Nd6 $36 {White is on the roll.} Qc6 26. b3 {0.78/26} ({Better is} 26. Qh4 $1 {1.52/22}) 26... Kg7 $2 {4.42/24 [#]} (26... Nf6 $16 {0.78/26 is more resistant.} 27. Qe2 (27. exf6 Rxd6 28. g3 Rfd8 $17) 27... Rd8) 27. Rd3 $2 {1.64/26} (27. Nf5+ {4.42/24} Kg8 28. Nd4 $1) 27... Re7 $2 {13.07/26} (27... b5 {1.64/26} 28. Qg3 Kh8) 28. Rcd1 $2 {3.12/28} (28. Nf5+ {13.07/26} Kh8 29. Nxe7 Nxe5 30. fxe5) 28... Nb8 $2 {#19/29} (28... Kh8 $18 {3.12/28} 29. Qh4 f6) 29. Nf5+ Kh8 30. Nxe7 {Precision: White = 28%, Black = 5%.} 1-0