The game below is my most recently finished game from Chess.com. This was played in a team match called Limitless Chess vs Команда ЦФО (Russia Central Federal District). I am playing on board 28 for Limitless Chess and the current score in this match that consists of 80 boards is 47.5 - 48.5 in favor of Команда ЦФО (Russia Central Federal District). Every game counts in this evenly fought match and I am happy to have helped our team with a win. My other game against Andrey-25 is still in progress and depending on the result of that game, I may be either satisfied with my efforts or slightly disappointed with the way I have played in the match. At least complete disaster has been already avoided with this win.
I was very happy to see that my opponent did not go for the Portuguese Variation of the Scandinavian Defense (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4), but played something that I had not faced before instead. 4.c4 seemed to me like the most natural reply to the move 3...Nxd5. Andrey-25 retreated to b6 with the knight, which is a good square for the knight to go to. Other option would be to play the knight back to f6. Going for the move 4...Nb4 is not something that should be considered, even though that variation has a name in opening theory, B01 Scandinavian Defense: Kiel Variation. White should be clearly better after the ill-advised knight advance. After the knight had gone to b6, I played 5.Nc3. I did also think about 5.Nf3, but I did not like my position after 5...Bg4. I thought that if I had continued with 6.Be2, then Bxf3 would make me take back on f3 with the pawn because if I take back with my bishop, then Nxc4 wins a pawn. However, I missed the fact that Nxc4 would have been a big blunder due to Qa4+ that wins the knight from c4. Andrey-25 blundered and played 5...Nc6, which allowed me to gain some advantage. With his 6th move, Andrey-25's position went more down the drain. His best option was to play 6...e5, it would have been the only move that could have kept my opponent in the game. The move played in the game closes the bishop behind the pawn chain and makes it more difficult for my opponent to activate his pieces, the bishop on c8 and the rook on a8, for instance. My advantage grew even bigger when my opponent decided to play 12...f5, after that I should have a winning advantage, at least according to Stockfish that is. While I did not find the best moves, I was able to keep the advantage on my side for the rest of the game. I renamed one of my posts today and added one game to that post. I did that in order not to make a mistake like I was typing about in the post yesterday. The post that has been renamed and has one more game is called C50 Four Knights Game: Italian Variation. I have added one mate in one, one mate in two, two mate in three and one mate in five puzzle today.
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