D79 Fianchetto Grünfeld: Symmetrical Variation (6.O-O c6 7.cxd5 cxd5) (1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.O-O O-O 5.d4 c5 6.c3 cxd4 7.cxd4 d5 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Bf4)

The game below is the 1000th analysed chess game to appear in this blog!! It has taken me a bit over a year to reach this milestone but it might very well be that the 2000th game will be added less than a year from now. I think it is at the moment realistic assumption because even though I do not make post everyday anymore, the amount of games that I do post per day is very likely to increase the longer this blog exists. Of those 1000 games I have won 630 (63%), drawn 87 (8.7%) and lost 283 (28.3 %). Those games have featured 411 different opening variations and there are still more to go. The variation that has the most games is still A20 English Opening: King's English Variation. General (30 games 3%) and it may be like that for quite some time, though other variations are catching up a bit. The reason why it has the most games is that when those games were played, I knew almost nothing of opening theory and playing 1.c4 in my first move with White was my favorite for several years. These days I do not play it all that often, there are some opponents however, against whom I have still occasionally played it. Second and third most common openings are C45 Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (23 games 2.3%) and C64 Spanish Game: Classical Variation (22 games 2.2%). So learning one particular line of theory would not help me all that much because I face the same openings so rarely. Then again I rarely face the same opponents which might contribute to the diversity of the openings. There are still maybe ten people who I have played hundreds of games against, but only three of those I have several hundred recorded games as well.

The game below is the 37th game in the 100 game match between me and a friend of mine, against whom I have played most over the board and online games or that is my assumption anyway because I do not have exact statistics of all the games I have ever played. With this win, Tomi was able to decrease my lead in the match to five points and the score after these 37 games was 21 - 16.

[Event "Challenge 32413613"] [Site "online arena"] [Date "2015.08.11"] [Round "1"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "Tocklin, Tomi"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D79"] [WhiteElo "1790"] [BlackElo "1672"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "82"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O O-O 5. d4 c5 6. c3 cxd4 7. cxd4 d5 8. Nc3 Nc6 9. Bf4 {D79 Fianchetto Grünfeld: Symmetrical Variation (6.O-O c6 7.cxd5 cxd5) LiveBook: 60 Games} Qb6 10. b3 Rd8 11. Na4 Qb4 $146 {The position is equal.} (11... Qa5 12. Rc1 (12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. dxe5 e6 14. Rc1 b6 15. Nc3 Bb7 16. a4 a6 17. Na2 Rac8 18. Rxc8 Rxc8 19. b4 Rc1 20. bxa5 Rxd1 21. Rxd1 {1-0 (21) Seinsoth,P (1455)-Stockter,J (1572) Willingen 2017}) 12... Ne4 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Bxe5 15. dxe5 Bd7 16. Qd4 Bxa4 17. bxa4 Qb6 18. Rfd1 Qxd4 19. Rxd4 Rac8 20. Rxc8 Rxc8 21. Bxe4 dxe4 22. Rd7 Rc4 23. Rxe7 Rxa4 24. Rxb7 Rxa2 25. e3 Ra5 26. e6 {Anilkumar,O (2235)-Mithrakanth,P (2370) Kolkata 1993 1/2-1/2 (42)}) 12. Qd2 {-0.83/26} (12. a3 $11 {0.23/27} Qb5 13. Re1) 12... Ne4 13. Qxb4 Nxb4 14. Be5 Bd7 {-0.61/30} (14... Bg4 $17 {-1.06/25} 15. Rfc1 Rac8 16. Bxg7 Kxg7) 15. Bxg7 $15 Kxg7 16. Nb2 $2 {-2.64/26 [#]} ({Better is} 16. Rfc1 $15 {-0.70/29}) 16... Bb5 17. Rfc1 Rac8 18. a3 $2 {-4.76/26} (18. Rxc8 {-1.81/28} Rxc8 19. a3) 18... Nc2 $19 19. Ra2 {intending Nd3.} Bxe2 {Strongly threatening ...Nxd4!} 20. Na4 Bxf3 $2 {-1.76/34 [#]} (20... Nxd4 $1 {-7.26/26} 21. Rxc8 (21. Nxd4 Rxc1+) 21... Rxc8 22. Rxe2 Nxe2+ 23. Kf1 Nc1) 21. Raxc2 Rxc2 22. Rxc2 Bxg2 23. Kxg2 { Endgame KRN-KRN} Rd7 24. f3 Nd6 $1 25. Rc5 $2 {-2.93/27} (25. Nc5 $17 {-1.28/ 31 only move.} Rd8 26. a4) 25... e6 {-1.47/31} ({Black should play} 25... Nf5 $19 {-2.93/27} 26. b4 Nxd4) 26. Nc3 $17 Kf8 27. Kf2 Ke8 28. Ke3 $2 {-5.23/28} ( 28. Ne2 $17 {-1.43/31}) 28... Kd8 $2 {-1.40/32} (28... b6 $19 {-5.23/28 and Black stays clearly on top.} 29. Nxd5 exd5) 29. Nb5 $2 {-6.62/29} (29. Kd3 $17 {-1.40/32}) 29... Nxb5 $19 30. Rxb5 {KR-KR} Rc7 $2 {-2.38/32} (30... b6 { -6.19/32} 31. a4 Rc7) 31. Kd3 $2 {-5.93/29} (31. a4 {-2.38/32}) 31... a6 { -2.56/30} (31... b6 $142 {-5.93/29} 32. Kd2 g5) 32. Rb6 Kc8 33. Ke3 $2 { -5.27/29} (33. a4 {-2.94/33}) 33... Rc6 34. Rb4 $2 {-6.98/29} (34. Rxc6+ { -2.92/27} bxc6 35. b4) 34... b6 35. Kf4 f6 36. g4 Kc7 37. g5 f5 38. Ke5 b5 39. a4 Kb6 {Black mates.} 40. axb5 axb5 41. Kf6 Ka5 {Precision: White = 13%, Black = 33%.} 0-1