B00 Queen's Fianchetto Defence, Nimzowitsch Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.Be2 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.d5 Ne7)

I may need to think about the way I name I posts again because the stuff I put between () signs may not be accurate to all games that end up in the post due to move order. The only reason I put anything there at all is that I need to differentiate between games that follow theory different amount of moves, but the name of the opening played in the game would still be the same. Maybe I should have put all the games featuring the B00 Queen's Fianchetto Defence, Nimzowitsch Defence, for instance, in the same post and then only typed about the theoretical difference of the games, but somehow I still prefer the way I do these posts now.

The game below was played in a team match called The Simpsons New Match. It was played on 50 boards between "SIMPSONS" and Chess Champ. I played on board 7 for Chess Champ and I was able to win both of my games against Ruferto1944. I think this game was the last one to finish in this match, it was not the first time that my game was the last one to end and it most likely will not be the last time, considering how much time I use for each move, most of it does not go into the actual thinking of one particular position, but instead many positions at the same time need solving. And I need to sleep at some point too... My time per move is 1 day and 20 hours currently at Chess.com, so I have made my moves a bit quicker on average than in the past when the time I use per move was over 2 days on average. My hastened moves have also reflected negatively on my rating because it just keeps going steadily down. It is not the only reason for it, but it is a major contributor to the results.

The move 3...Bg4 I have seen quite a few times and this was the second time that I chose to play 4.Be2 in response. In the first game to feature the position after 4.Be2 Arayn played 4...h5. Ruferto1944 played 4...Nf6 in this game, which is obviously a better alternative. Ruferto1944 made some inaccuracies, which when added together, resulted in a clear advantage for me when my opponent played 9...Qd7 in the position below.

The game continued with the moves 10.Bg5 Bg7. Then I played 11.Be2, which gave some of my advantage away. With his 12th move Ruferto1944 took another wrong path. My opponent played 12...a6 in the position below. In reply I played 13.Qg3, throwing some of my advantage away once again.

The game continued with mistakes done by both players and shifted quite a lot until we reached the position you can see below. I was on only slightly better side of the board, but because Ruferto1944 played 29...Ne3, I had another chance to get a clear advantage.

I was accurate enough to not only get a clear advantage, but also prevent my opponent to get back into the game. Then on his 34th move Ruferto1944 made the blunder that quickly ended the game because 34...Kh6 allowed a mate in two moves.

[Event "The Simpsons New Match - Board 7"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2015.06.07"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "Ruferto1944"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B00"] [WhiteElo "1874"] [BlackElo "1642"] [Annotator "Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT (30s), TV"] [PlyCount "71"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 {Philidor Defense} Bg4 (3... Nf6 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. Ng5 (6. O-O O-O 7. Qe2 c6 8. a4 exd4 {Philidor Defense: Lion Variation, Sozin Variation}) 6... O-O 7. Bxf7+ Rxf7 8. Ne6 {Philidor Defense: Lion Variation, Forcing Line}) 4. Be2 (4. dxe5 Nd7 {Philidor Defense: Alapin-Blackburne Gambit}) 4... Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. d5 Ne7 {B00 Queen's Fianchetto Defence, Nimzowitsch Defence} 7. O-O g6 $146 (7... Ng6 8. Ne1 (8. Be3 a6 9. Nd2 Bd7 10. a4 Be7 11. a5 O-O 12. Nb3 h6 13. f3 Nh5 14. g3 Bh3 15. Re1 Bg5 16. Bf2 Nf6 17. Na4 Nh7 18. c4 f5 19. c5 fxe4 20. cxd6 e3 21. dxc7 exf2+ 22. Kxf2 Qxc7 {Bobrov,V (1925)-Liberman,E (2213) Samara 2012 0-1}) (8. h3 Bd7 9. Bg5 Be7 10. Bb5 Bxb5 11. Nxb5 Nxe4 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Re1 Qd7 14. Qe2 Nf6 15. Qc4 c6 16. dxc6 bxc6 17. Nc3 O-O 18. Ne4 Nh5 19. Rad1 Qc7 20. Rxd6 Qa5 21. Rxc6 Nh4 22. Qc3 Nxf3+ {Pokorna,J (1100)-Vlkova,A (1250) Kouty nad Desnou 2011 1/2-1/2 (57)}) 8... Bd7 9. Nd3 (9. Be3 Be7 10. Qd3 O-O 11. Nd1 c5 12. c4 Ng4 13. Bxg4 Bxg4 14. f3 Bd7 15. Rb1 a5 16. b3 f5 17. Kh1 Bg5 18. a3 Nf4 19. Qd2 b5 20. Nf2 h6 21. g3 Ng6 22. f4 exf4 23. gxf4 Bh4 {Kurukulasuriya,P (2092)-Eid,F (2390) Al Ain 2008 0-1 (41)}) 9... Be7 10. f4 exf4 11. Nxf4 Ne5 12. Nd3 Nfg4 13. h3 Nxd3 14. cxd3 Ne5 15. d4 Ng6 16. Bg4 O-O 17. Be3 a6 18. Bxd7 Qxd7 19. Qh5 Rae8 20. Rf3 Bd8 21. Raf1 c6 22. Kh1 {Scacco, M (2090)-Marzano,C (2225) Bratto 2003 0-1 (48)}) 8. h3 Bxf3 (8... Bd7 9. a4 $14) 9. Bxf3 $14 {White has the pair of bishops} ({Less advisable is} 9. gxf3 Nh5 $15) 9... Qd7 10. Bg5 { White threatens to win material: Bg5xf6} Bg7 11. Be2 O-O 12. Qd3 (12. Qd2 Ne8 $14) 12... a6 {Prevents intrusion on b5} (12... h6 13. Be3 $14) 13. Qg3 (13. f4 exf4 14. Rxf4 $14) 13... Nc8 $2 (13... Ne8 14. h4 $11) 14. Qh4 (14. f4 $142 $5 Ne8 15. f5 $16) 14... Ne8 $14 15. Bh6 f5 16. Bxg7 Qxg7 17. exf5 (17. f4 $11) 17... Rxf5 {Black has a cramped position} (17... gxf5 18. Qg3 $11) 18. Qb4 (18. Bg4 g5 19. Qg3 Rf4 $14) 18... b5 (18... Nb6 $142 $5 $11 {should be investigated more closely}) 19. a4 bxa4 $2 (19... Rf4 20. Qa5 bxa4 21. Bg4 $16) 20. Rxa4 $4 {White has let it slip away} (20. Qb7 $142 {and White has triumphed } Nb6 21. Nxa4 $18) 20... Nb6 21. Rxa6 Rxa6 22. Bxa6 Nf6 23. Bb7 (23. Bd3 Rf4 24. Qb3 e4 $16) 23... Qf7 {Now all is on d5} 24. Qb5 (24. b3 Kg7 $14) 24... Kg7 (24... Rf4 $5 $14) 25. f3 $16 Rf4 26. Rd1 (26. b3 $142 $5 $16) 26... Rd4 { Increases the pressure on d5} 27. Rxd4 exd4 28. Ne2 {White threatens to win material: Ne2xd4} Nbxd5 29. Nxd4 Ne3 $2 (29... c5 $142 $5 {is an interesting alternative} 30. Ne2 Qe7 $11) 30. Bc6 Qa2 (30... Qe7 31. Qe2 $16) 31. Kf2 (31. Qe2 Nf5 32. Nxf5+ gxf5 33. Qe7+ Qf7 34. Qxf7+ Kxf7 $18) 31... Nd1+ $16 32. Ke2 Nxb2 33. Qb3 Qa1 34. Ne6+ Kh6 $4 {causes even greater problems} (34... Kh8 $142 $16) 35. Qe3+ g5 (35... Kh5 {doesn't improve anything} 36. Qg5#) 36. Qxg5# 1-0