B01 Scandinavian Defence (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qe5+)

This is one of the games that have been shared in this blog before, I have changed the name of the opening played in the game according to the way Deep Fritz 14 classifies them. I have added some commentary to the post that was not in the original post. Originally this was in my post B01 Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotroc Variation. There is only one critical moment in this game and it can be viewed in the diagram below. My opponent was already way behind in development, but billy23xx still moved the bishop to g6 in order to keep the pawn structure intact. I answered to the move 11...Bg6 with 12.Nb5 and threatened a fork on c7. It would not have won material yet, had billy23xx played 12...Na6, but I should have the advantage on my side. Billy23xx played 12...Kd7 in the game and after I answered with 13.Nc7, it was quite clear that I was heading towards a relatively easy game.

This game was played in the first round of a tournament called Smaller Tournament and it was played at Chess.com. I was 6th in the final standings. According to the Chess.com statistics, I played 12 games in the tournament, out of which I won 10 and drew 2 and did not lose a single game. That being said, when looking at other statistics from the tournament, they do not seem to be correct.

[Event "Smaller Tournament - Round 1"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2015.03.03"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "billy23xx"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B01"] [WhiteElo "1839"] [BlackElo "1268"] [Annotator "Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT (30s), TV"] [PlyCount "25"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 {Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotroc Variation} 3. Nc3 Qe5+ {B01 Scandinavian Defence} (3... Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. h3 { Scandinavian Defense: Lasker Variation}) (3... Qd6 4. d4 c6 (4... Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 {Scandinavian Defense: Bronstein Variation}) 5. Bc4 Nf6 6. Nge2 Bf5 7. Bf4 Qb4 {Scandinavian Defense: Schiller-Pytel Variation. Modern Variation}) 4. Qe2 Qxe2+ 5. Bxe2 Nf6 6. Nf3 c6 7. O-O (7. d4 Bf5 8. Bd1 h6 9. h3 e6 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Bf4 Bb4 12. Ne2 g5 13. Bh2 O-O 14. c3 Be7 15. Rc1 Bd3 16. Re1 c5 17. Bc2 Ba6 18. Rcd1 Rac8 19. Ng3 Rfe8 20. Ne4 Nxe4 21. Rxe4 Nf6 {Marcos Pinto,L (2015) -Cruz,C (2451) Aviles 2007 1-0 (52)}) 7... Bf5 8. d3 (8. d4 e6 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. cxd3 Bd6 11. Bg5 Be7 12. Rfe1 O-O 13. Rad1 Nbd7 14. Ne5 Nxe5 15. dxe5 Nd5 16. Nxd5 cxd5 17. Bxe7 Rfe8 18. Bh4 Rac8 19. Rc1 Rxc1 20. Rxc1 h6 21. h3 b6 22. Rc7 a5 {Senekal,F (779)-Malan,H (813) Bloemfontein 2016 1-0}) 8... e6 9. Bf4 Nd5 $146 (9... Nbd7 10. Rfe1 Bb4 (10... h6 11. Bg3 Be7 12. Ne5 Rd8 13. Bf3 O-O 14. Rad1 Nb6 15. Re2 Bc5 16. Ne4 Nxe4 17. Bxe4 Bxe4 18. Rxe4 Nd5 19. c3 Nf6 20. Ree1 Be7 21. d4 Nh5 22. Rd3 Bd6 23. Kf1 Nxg3+ 24. Rxg3 Bxe5 25. Rxe5 {Nemcova, K (1505) -Thierry,R (1766) Hradec Kralove 2013 1/2-1/2}) 11. a3 Ba5 12. b4 Bb6 13. Na4 Nd5 14. Nxb6 N7xb6 15. Bd2 O-O-O 16. Nd4 Bg6 17. Nb3 Rhe8 18. Bf3 e5 19. Nc5 Nd7 20. Ne4 f5 21. Nd6+ Kc7 22. Nxe8+ Rxe8 23. g3 N7b6 24. Bg2 { Sarquis, M-Hegarty,S Oropesa del Mar 2001 1-0 (56)}) (9... Nbd7 10. Nh4 $11) 10. Nxd5 $14 cxd5 11. Nd4 Bg6 {Black is behind in development.} (11... Nc6 12. Nxf5 exf5 13. a3 $14) 12. Nb5 $16 Kd7 $2 (12... Na6 $142 $5 $16) 13. Nc7 $18 1-0