E12 Queen's Indian: Unusual White 4th moves, 4.a3, 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 and 4.Nc3 Bb7 (1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 e6 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 O-O 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Bd3 b6 10.Rc1 Bb7 11.O-O c5)

The move order in the game below is not the one you would find in theory, the theoretical move order for this variation is 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7. I should maybe point out from now on if the move order played in the games differs from the theoretical one, so that there are no misunderstandings. Sometimes in my older posts I have pointed out the difference, but not in all of the posts where it has been the case. The game below was played in a club tournament that I participated in 2004. For some reason or the other, I have not marked the round from which this game is from and it kind of annoys me, because it would be interesting for me to know now. If only I could go back in time to correct this and many other things that my current knowledge would fix in my past. Then again tempering with the past might not be that good of an idea and I could make things even worse trying to fix things.

Even though I am not sure of the round on which the game below was played in, I think I know at least one other score from this same tournament, I won my other game from this same tournament, but I had not marked the round it was from either, so I can't really say for certain what the rounds were. This was played later than the other game, so this is at least from round two, but it might be from a later round as well. I could of course check if my opponent has the notation for this game still somewhere and maybe get an answer to this "mystery".

[Event "Kerhoturnaus"] [Site "?"] [Date "2004.06.16"] [Round "?"] [White "Tocklin, Tomi"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E12"] [Annotator "Stockfish 6 64 BMI2 (30s), TV"] [PlyCount "35"] [EventDate "2004.05.19"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 O-O {Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense} 7. cxd5 (7. Bd3 {Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Botvinnik Variation}) (7. Qb3 {Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rauzer Variation}) (7. Qc2 c5 8. cxd5 {Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Variation, Flohr Line}) 7... Nxd5 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Bd3 b6 10. Rc1 Bb7 11. O-O c5 {E12 Queen's Indian: Unusual White 4th moves, 4. a3, 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 and 4.Nc3 Bb7} 12. e4 cxd4 {N} (12... Nf4 13. Bb1 cxd4 ( 13... Ba6 14. Re1 cxd4 15. Qxd4 Nc5 16. Rcd1 {1/2-1/2 (16) Schneider,S (2320) -Krejci, J (2140) Pardubice 1998}) 14. Nxd4 Qg5 15. Qf3 Ne5 16. Qg3 Qf6 17. Nde2 Neg6 18. Nxf4 Nxf4 19. Rfd1 Rfd8 20. Qe3 e5 21. a3 Bc6 22. b4 Bd7 23. Nd5 Qg5 24. Nxf4 exf4 25. Qe2 Be6 26. f3 h5 27. Kh1 {Gonzalez Velazquez, A-Valenzuela Martinez,H (1770) Aguascalientes 2009 1/2-1/2 (56)}) (12... Nxc3 13. bxc3 cxd4 14. cxd4 Rfc8 15. Qe2 Qa3 16. Rc2 Rxc2 17. Qxc2 Rc8 18. Qb3 Qxb3 19. axb3 Rc3 20. Bb5 Nf6 21. e5 Nd5 22. Nd2 Nc7 23. Be2 Kf8 24. f4 Rc2 25. Rd1 Nd5 26. Bd3 Ra2 27. Bb1 {Danjec,V-Zivanovic,N (2198) Golubac 2008 0-1 (38)}) 13. exd5 (13. Nxd5 exd5 14. exd5 Bxd5 15. Nxd4 g6 {=}) 13... dxc3 {=/+} 14. dxe6 Qxe6 (14... fxe6 $5 15. Rxc3 Bxf3 16. gxf3 Rad8 {=/+}) 15. Bxh7+ {=} Kh8 16. Ng5 {White threatens to win material: Ng5xe6} (16. Rxc3 Bxf3 17. Rxf3 Kxh7 18. Re1 {=}) 16... Qc6 $4 {lets it slip away} (16... Qd5 {this is the best way to fight back} 17. Qxd5 Bxd5 {=}) 17. Be4 {+-} Qc7 (17... Qh6 {otherwise it's curtains at once} 18. Bxb7 Rad8 19. Nxf7+ Rxf7 20. Rxc3 Qf6 21. Rh3+ Kg8 {+-}) 18. Qh5+ (18. Qh5+ Kg8 19. Qh7#) 1-0