C54 Giuoco Piano: 4.c3 Nf6, main lines with 5.d4 and 5.d3 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Nxe4)

This game was played in the first round of the 2014 October Glacial Super Casual Banded I 1650+ tournament that is held at Red Hot Pawn. Today I lost one of the games in this first round and it meant that I can no longer win group 1 and therefore I also can't advance to the second round. It is still very unclear on what place I will end up in the final standings because I still have six games left to finish. I am currently on fifth place but theoretically I can finish on second place if all goes well for me in the remaining games. Takinitez007 (1875) is the current leader of group 1 with 50 points and he has also the highest maximum possible score so things are looking good for him. A player called jankrb (2152) is currently on second place with 40 points and third place belongs to caissad4 (1793) who has 38 points at the moment I type this.

[Event "Glacial Super Casual Banded"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.11.03"] [Round "1"] [White "adehaan"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C54"] [WhiteElo "1544"] [BlackElo "1835"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (30s)"] [PlyCount "72"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 Nxe4 $1 {C54 Giuoco Piano: 4.c3 Nf6, main lines with 5.d4 and 5.d3 LiveBook: 150 Games} 8. Qe2 {-1.25/26} (8. O-O $15 {-0.48/27} Bxc3 9. bxc3) 8... Qe7 9. Bg5 $2 { -2.65/22 [#]} (9. Bd2 $17 {-0.94/28} Nxd2 10. Kxd2 (10. Qxe7+ Bxe7 11. Kxd2 O-O 12. Nd5 Bd6 13. Rhe1 b6 14. Re2 Na5 15. Bd3 Bb7 16. Nc3 Bf4+ 17. Kc2 Bxf3 18. gxf3 Nc6 19. Re4 Nb4+ 20. Kb3 Nxd3 21. Kc2 Nb4+ 22. Kb3 Bd6 23. Nb5 a5 24. a3 Nd3 {Scholze,B (966) -Wachtel,A (1324) Oppenheim 2015 0-1 (34)})) 9... Nxg5 $146 (9... f6 10. Bh4 d6 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Bxc3+ 13. Kf1 Bxa1 14. d5 Qxe2+ 15. Bxe2 O-O 16. dxc6 bxc6 17. Bc4+ d5 18. Bb3 Ba6+ 19. Ke1 Bc3+ 20. Kd1 Rab8 21. Kc2 Ba5 22. Rc1 Rfe8 23. Kb1 Rxb3+ 24. Ka2 {Hulleman,C-Hermanns,J Rijswijk 2013 0-1 (38)}) 10. Nxg5 {Black has a decisive advantage.} O-O {-1.16/26} ({ Don't take} 10... Nxd4 11. Qxe7+ Bxe7 12. Nxf7 $17) (10... Qxe2+ $19 {-2.52/23} 11. Kxe2 Nxd4+ 12. Kf1 Ne6) 11. O-O $2 {-5.05/24} (11. Qxe7 $17 {-1.16/26 is a better chance.} Nxe7 12. O-O) 11... Qxg5 12. d5 Nd4 13. Qe4 Bxc3 14. bxc3 Nf5 15. f4 Nd6 16. Qd3 Qf6 17. Bb3 b6 18. Bc2 {[#]} Qh6 19. Rf3 g6 20. Raf1 a5 21. Rh3 Qg7 22. g4 Ba6 23. Qf3 Bxf1 24. Kxf1 Rae8 25. g5 Re7 26. f5 gxf5 27. Bxf5 Nxf5 28. Qxf5 Qg6 29. Rf3 Qxf5 30. Rxf5 Rfe8 31. Kg2 Re2+ {Black mates.} 32. Kg3 R8e3+ 33. Kg4 Rxc3 34. h4 Rg2+ 35. Kh5 Rc4 36. Re5 Kg7 0-1