E15 Queen's Indian: 4.g3 sidelines, 4.g3 Ba6 and 4.g3 Bb7 early deviations (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 d5 6.Bg2 Bb4+ 7.Bd2)

The game I am sharing with you all today was played at a mini team match called 1800-1900 CHESS Lounge vs TPOC. The reason why I call it a mini team match is because it was played only on one board between THE POWER OF CHESS and CHESS Lounge. I played for CHESS Lounge and I managed to win both of my games against Solomonar. I won both games on time and the only one of those two games worthy of going through is the game below. In our other game I only played two moves before my opponent ran out of time. I am not 100% sure, but I think that this was my first team match representing CHESS Lounge. I am currently part of 80 clubs, formerly known as teams at Chess.com and it is sometimes very hard to keep track on how many times I have played for them in these matches. While the result of this match was very good for us, had these two games continued past the points they were interrupted by time, the result of the match might have been completely different. The reason why I think that is mainly due to this game and how the game started to look like from my point of view towards the end of the game.

I think this game was played quite well by both players, up to my 27th move, but I think somewhere along the way it became harder for me to think of good moves than it was for my opponent. With the move 27...Kc7, I started to make playing with the black pieces in this game even harder for me because my plan turns out to be a bad one. My plan was at this point to get my king to defend against possible pawn pushes on the queenside and put my rooks on the kingside. Couple of moves later I think that my king is needed on the kingside, so I start to make my way there. I knew that I was worse at this point in the game, but I thought I should continue the game and see what happens. My position gets worse over time, but not to a point that I would see a clear win for my opponent, so I played as resistantly as I could, so that maybe at some point I could turn the game around. I usually only resign at a point where I consider the game to be lost without a shadow of a doubt. I have added one mate in one, two mate in three and two mate in four puzzles today.

[Event "1800-1900 CHESS Lounge vs TPOC - Board"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2015.12.30"] [Round "?"] [White "Solomonar"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E15"] [WhiteElo "1759"] [BlackElo "1826"] [Annotator "Stockfish 7 64 POPCNT (30s), TV"] [PlyCount "74"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 {Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Nimzowitsch Variation, Quiet Line} d5 (5... Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 {Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Check Variation, Intermezzo Line} (6... Qe7 {Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Check Variation, Modern Line})) 6. Bg2 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 {E15 Queen's Indian: 4.g3 sidelines, 4.g3 Ba6 and 4.g3 Bb7 early deviations} Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 O-O 9. Ne5 (9. O-O Qe7 (9... c5 10. dxc5 bxc5 11. e4 Nc6 12. exd5 exd5 13. Re1 dxc4 14. Nxc4 Bxc4 15. bxc4 Qc7 16. Qa4 Rab8 17. Rab1 h6 18. h3 Rfd8 19. Rb5 Nd7 20. Rxb8 Rxb8 21. Nh4 Nce5 22. Nf5 Nf6 23. Qc2 Re8 24. Qc3 {Demidov,M (2465)-Kovalenko,I (2621) Izhevsk 2013 0-1 (38)}) 10. Ne5 c5 11. dxc5 bxc5 12. e4 dxc4 13. Ndxc4 Nfd7 14. Re1 Nxe5 15. Nxe5 Qc7 16. f4 Rd8 17. Qh5 Bb7 18. Rac1 Na6 19. Bf1 Rd2 20. a3 Rad8 21. Bc4 g6 22. Qh6 Qd6 23. Nf3 Ra2 {Inarkiev,E (2675)-Wang,H (2691) Ningpo 2008 0-1 (49)}) 9... Bb7 10. O-O Nbd7 {N} (10... Nfd7 11. Nxd7 Nxd7 12. e4 c6 13. Rc1 Rc8 14. b4 Qe7 15. Qb3 dxc4 16. Nxc4 Rfd8 17. Rfd1 Nf6 18. e5 Ne8 19. a4 Rb8 20. Qa3 Ba8 21. a5 Nc7 22. Nd6 Nb5 23. Nxb5 cxb5 24. Bxa8 Rxa8 25. a6 { Skrbin,K (2176)-Konic,Z (2082) Porec 2005 1/2-1/2 (45)}) 11. Qc2 Rc8 12. b4 c5 13. Nxd7 Qxd7 14. dxc5 bxc5 15. b5 {This push gains space} Rfe8 16. Rfd1 d4 { Black gets more space} 17. Bxb7 Qxb7 18. f3 {Prevents intrusion on e4+g4} e5 19. Ne4 Nxe4 20. Qxe4 Qxe4 (20... Qd7 21. g4 {=}) 21. fxe4 {A double rook endgame occured} Re6 22. a4 Kf8 23. a5 Ke7 24. Rab1 Rb8 25. Rd3 Kd7 26. Rf1 f6 27. Kg2 Kc7 (27... h5 $5 {= should be considered}) 28. g4 {+/-} Rbe8 (28... Kd6 29. Rg3 {+/-}) 29. h4 R8e7 30. Rdf3 Kd7 31. R1f2 Rd6 32. Kf1 h6 33. Ke1 Ke6 34. Rg2 {White plans g5} (34. g5 hxg5 35. hxg5 Kf7 {+-}) 34... Re8 (34... Rf7 $5 { +/-}) 35. g5 {+-} hxg5 (35... fxg5 36. hxg5 h5 37. g6 {+-}) 36. hxg5 Rf8 (36... Rd7 37. gxf6 gxf6 38. Rg6 {+-}) 37. gxf6 gxf6 0-1