E39 Nimzo-Indian: Classical, 4...c5 5.dxc5 O-O (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 c5 5.dxc5 Bxc5 6.Nf3 O-O 7.Bg5 Be7)

This was played in a team match called Vikings know no limits. It was being played on 69 boards between Great Viking Warriors and Limitless Chess. I played on board 22 for Limitless Chess and lost both of my games. I tried to play as well as I can, but Raho1967 played better chess than me. Well, now that I looked the match results on August 24th, 2017, I noticed that my opponent's account has been closed due to violating the fair play policy.

The game went reasonably well for me until it came to my 13th move. The position below is the one in which I played 13...Ne5, the first step towards a loss. Had I played 13...Bd7, I might have been able to hold on for a draw with accurate play.

13...Bd7 seems like a better move than 13...Ne5.

My final mistake was to play 21...axb5, after that there was no coming back for me. You can see the position when I played that move below this paragraph.

Taking on b5 with the bishop was better than capturing with the pawn.

The rest of the game only featured my futile attempt to change the way the game was going.

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 c5 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation. Berlin Variation 5.dxc5 Bxc5 5...Bxc3+ Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Berlin Variation, Steiner Variation 5...0-0 6.a3 Bxc5 7.Nf3 b6 8.Bf4 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation, Berlin Variation, Macieja System 6.Nf3 0-0 7.Bg5 Be7 E39 Nimzo-Indian: Classical, 4...c5 5. dxc5 O-O 8.e4 d6 9.Rd1 Qa5 10.Be2 Nc6 11.a3 a6 12.0-0 Rd8 13.h3N Covers g4 13.Bc1 Rd7 14.b4 Qd8 15.Na4 b6 16.Be3 Rb8 17.Nd2 Rdb7 18.Nb3 Bd7 19.Nc3 Ne5 20.f4 Neg4 21.Bc1 b5 22.c5 dxc5 23.e5 cxb4 24.exf6 Qb6+ 25.Kh1 Nxf6 26.axb4 Rc8 27.Qd3 Bxb4 Nikolov,S (2390)-Kubala,P (2260) Decin 1997 0-1 (54) 13...Ne5 14.Nxe5 Qxe5 15.Be3 Qa5 16.f4 Black has a cramped position Bd7 17.g4 Bc6 18.g5 Nd7 19.h4 Rab8 19...Rac8 20.Qd2 Qc7 21.h5± 20.h5 20.b4!? Qc7 21.Rc1 Nf8± 20...b5 21.cxb5 axb5 21...Bxb5!? 22.b4 Qc7± 22.Nd5 Bxd5 22...exd5 23.Qxc6 dxe4 24.Qxe4± 23.exd5+- Rdc8 24.Qb1 24.Qe4 Qa4 25.Rd4+- 24...Nb6?? the pressure is too much, Black crumbles 24...b4 25.a4 Nc5± 25.dxe6+- fxe6 25...Qa7 no good, but what else? 26.exf7+ Kh8+- 26.Qe4 Nc4 27.Bd3 27.Bd3 Kf7 28.Bd4+- 1–0

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Raho1967

1945

Vierjoki,T

1861

1–0

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