C55 Two Knights: 4.d3, 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 and Max Lange Attack (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.d3 Nf6 5.O-O O-O 6.Nc3 d6 7.a3 Bg4)

This was originally shared in the post C50 Italian Game: Hungarian Defense. The remainder of the post was mostly typed when I originally shared this game. This short game was played in a team match called We are alive and it is played between psychedelic lollipop and GOTHIC. This was played on ten boards and the match ended with a score 9 - 11 in favor of GOTHIC. I played on board 1 for psychedelic lollipop and won both of my games against Erikson15 on time, due to the fact that his account was closed by Chess.com because of cheating apparently. My opponent was rated over 2000 when this game started if I remember right, but when it was time for these games to timeout, his rating had dropped several hundred points which meant my rating was only minimally affected by these games.

This game followed the first game in the post C55 Two Knights: 4.d3, 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 and Max Lange Attack (7 moves of theory), up to the move 4...Nf6. In that game JogadorAmador played 5.Nbd2 and Erikson played 5.O-O in this game. While there is nothing really wrong with either move, I prefer the move 5.O-O. My last two moves of the game, 9...d5 and 10...Qd7 were inaccurate and I am actually clearly worse in the final position.

[Event "We are alive - Board 1"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2015.06.09"] [Round "?"] [White "Erikson15"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C55"] [WhiteElo "1568"] [BlackElo "1945"] [Annotator "Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT (30s), TV"] [PlyCount "20"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7 {Italian Game: Hungarian Defense} 4. d3 (4. d4 exd4 5. c3 Nf6 6. e5 Ne4 {Italian Game: Hungarian Defense. Tartakower Variation }) 4... Nf6 5. O-O O-O 6. Nc3 d6 7. a3 Bg4 {C55 Two Knights: 4.d3, 4.d4 exd4 5. e5 and Max Lange Attack} 8. h3 Be6 (8... Bh5 9. Nd5 (9. Bg5 Nd4 {1/2-1/2 (9) Gonzalez Diaz,E (1280)-Dos Reis Cabrera,J (1203) Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2016}) 9... Kh8 10. Ne3 Qd7 11. g4 Bg6 12. Nh4 Ng8 13. Nhg2 Nd4 14. f4 exf4 15. Nxf4 Ne6 16. Nf5 Bf6 17. c3 Rae8 18. Qf3 b5 19. Ba2 Ne7 20. Bd2 Nc6 21. Nd5 Bd8 22. Rae1 a5 23. h4 {Nikolaidis,K (2245)-Blatny,P (2495) Corfu 1991 1-0 (36)}) 9. Ba2 $146 (9. Nd5 Bxd5 10. exd5 Nb8 11. Bd2 Nbd7 12. Ba2 Kh8 13. c4 Ne8 14. Bc3 f5 15. Re1 Bf6 16. Nd2 g6 17. Rc1 Ng7 18. b4 b6 19. Nf3 Qe7 20. Nd4 Qf7 21. Nc6 g5 22. Rc2 Qg6 23. Rce2 h5 {Kampia,R-Perry,Z Hatfield 1999 0-1 (38)}) (9. Re1 Na5 10. Bxe6 fxe6 11. d4 Nd7 12. d5 Nb6 13. dxe6 Nc6 14. Nd5 Rc8 15. a4 a5 16. Nxb6 cxb6 17. Be3 Nb4 18. c3 Na6 19. Qd5 Qc7 20. Red1 h6 21. Nd2 Kh7 22. Nf1 Rf6 23. Qb3 Nc5 {Radlovacki,J (2420)-Starcevic, G (2149) Belgrade 2011 1-0}) ( 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. Re1 Kh8 11. b4 Nd7 12. b5 Nd4 13. Nxd4 exd4 14. Ne2 e5 15. Ng3 Bg5 16. Bxg5 Qxg5 17. Qh5 Qxh5 18. Nxh5 a6 19. a4 axb5 20. axb5 {1/2-1/2 (20) Pasc,C (2042)-Bilciu,C (2075) Eforie Nord 1999}) 9... d5 10. Ng5 Qd7 0-1