E06 Closed Catalan: Early deviations (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Nc3 d5 8.Ne5 c6 9.cxd5 cxd5)

After a quite lot of rapid chess games, it is time once again to look at one of my recently finished correspondence games. It was played at Red Hot Pawn, in a tournament called 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III. This tournament started September 11th 2014, so the game below is one of the longest games I have ever played. I actually still have two games left to finish from those games that started with this tournament over a year ago. One of those games is against the opponent I had in this game, caissad4. Both players are partly responsible for the slow pace. When these games started, I had already taken maybe a bit too many games to play and at the start my moving pace was quite slow. It may have improved a bit now that I have maybe 200 games less to play than I did back then. My opponent on the other hand I think has played insane amount of games at the same time, I think he has kept his games in progress around 1000... The most I had in progress at the same time was 300 and that actually lasted only a few hours because the games ended in a suitable time.

This tournament was decided some time ago already but there are still games left to play. The tournament winner is a player called kopsov (1866). Kopsov has one game left to finish, but it does not really matter anymore as the tournament is concerned that is. The player who finishes second is still unclear, it can go to either Luft (1971) or to Reverb (1728). It will depend on what happens in Reverb's last game. If Reverb wins that last game, he will be second, but in all other results, he will be on third place. In case of a loss, he might be in a shared third place though with me, in case I manage to win both of my remaining games. If I can't win both of them, I will finish fourth.

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Move	N	Result	Elo

1.e4	1,166,623	54%	2421
1.d4	947,298	55%	2434
1.Nf3	281,602	56%	2441
1.c4	182,102	56%	2442
1.g3	19,702	56%	2427
1.b3	14,265	54%	2427
1.f4	5,897	48%	2377
1.Nc3	3,801	51%	2384
1.b4	1,756	48%	2380
1.a3	1,206	54%	2404
1.e3	1,068	48%	2408
1.d3	954	50%	2378
1.g4	664	46%	2360
1.h4	446	53%	2374
1.c3	433	51%	2426
1.h3	280	56%	2418
1.a4	110	60%	2466
1.f3	92	46%	2436
1.Nh3	89	66%	2508
1.Na3	42	62%	2482

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.0-0 0-0 7.Nc3 d5 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Traditional Variation, Nimzowitsch Line 7...Na6 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Tiviakov Defense 7...Ne4 8.Qc2 Nxc3 9.Qxc3 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Traditional Variation, Main Line 8.Ne5 c6 9.cxd5 cxd5 E06 Closed Catalan: Early deviations 10.b3 10.f4 Nc6 11.Kh1 Nxe5 12.fxe5 Ne8 13.Bh3 Qd7 14.Qd3 Nc7 15.Bf4 Rac8 16.Rf2 Ba6 17.Qf3 Nb5 18.Qg4 Kh8 19.Bd2 Nxd4 20.Qxd4 Bc5 21.Qf4 Bxf2 22.Qxf2 d4 23.Ne4 Rc2 24.Bg2 Qb5 Lukman,R (2355)-Wong,M (2415) Singapore 1997 0-1 (76) 10...Nc6 11.Nxc6 Bxc6 12.Bb2 N 12.Qd3 Qd7 13.Bb2 Rfd8 14.Rfc1 Qb7 15.e3 Rac8 16.f4 g6 17.Bf3 Ne4 18.Rc2 f5 1/2-1/2 (18) Ulaneo, M (1976)-Izquierdo,S (2021) Paysandu 2010 12...Rc8 13.Rc1 Qd7 14.Qd3 Bb4 15.Rfd1 Rfe8 16.a3 Bd6 17.b4 Qe7 18.b5 White threatens to win material: b5xc6 Bb7 19.a4 Rc4 Black can be proud of that piece 20.Ra1 Rec8 21.Rdc1 Bb4 22.Na2 Bd6 23.e3 Consolidates f4 23.Nc3 h6 =/+ 23...Rxa4 24.Rxc8+ Bxc8 Black has a new backward pawn: a7 25.Bf1 25.e4!? must definitely be considered e5 26.exd5 = 25...Rc4 +/- 26.Qb3 Rc7 27.Nc3 Qd7 28.Bd3 Be7 29.Kg2 Ne8 30.Bf1 Nd6 31.Bd3 31.Ba3 Qd8 +/- 31...g6 31...Nc4 32.Kg1 +/- 32.h3 32.Ra4 Bf8 +/- 32...Nc4 33.Bxc4 Rxc4 34.Qa2? 34.Kg1 Qc7 +/- 34...Rc7 34...Bb4 would have given Black a clear advantage 35.Rc1 e5 -+ 35.Qb3 +/- Bd6 36.Rd1 Qe7 37.Ne2 37.Ra1 Bd7 +/- 37...Bb4 37...a5!? 38.Rc1 -+ 38.Rb1 Bd7 39.Nc3 39.Bc3 Bd6 +/- 39...Rc4 40.Ba1 Qe8 41.Na2 Ba5 42.h4 42.Nc3 Bxc3 43.Bxc3 e5 -+ 42...Qc8 43.Kh2 43.e4 dxe4 44.Qe3 f6 -+ 43...Rc2 43...e5 keeps an even firmer grip 44.Rb2 exd4 45.Qd1 -+ 44.Kg2? 44.Rb2 Rc7 -+ 44...Qc4 44...Bxb5!? might be the shorter path 45.Qxb5 Rxa2 46.Qb3 -+ 45.Qxc4 Rxc4 45...dxc4?! 46.Nb4 Bxb4 47.Rxb4 -+ 46.Kf3 Kf8 46...Kg7 makes it even easier for Black 47.g4 -+ 47.g4 Ke7 47...Ra4 and Black can already relax 48.Nc1 Rb4 49.Rxb4 Bxb4 50.Na2 -+ 48.Nc1 48.Bb2 Ke8 49.Ba1 e5 -+ 48...Rb4 48...Bxb5 seems even better 49.Nb3 Bb4 -+ 49.Rxb4 Bxb4 50.Nd3?? White has lost his nerve... understandable when you consider his position 50.Na2 Ba3 51.Nc3 -+ 50...Ba5 50...Bd6 keeps an even firmer grip 51.Bc3 -+ 51.Bb2 Bxb5 52.Nf4 52.Ba3+ doesn't do any good Ke8 53.Nb4 Kd7 -+ 52...Bb4 53.g5 53.e4 a fruitless try to alter the course of the game dxe4+ 54.Kxe4 a5 -+ 53...a5 0–1

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

caissad4

1753

Vierjoki,T

1855

0–1

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