B92 Sicilian Najdorf: 6.Be2 (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Bg5 Be7 9.O-O O-O 10.Bxf6 Bxf6)

This was played in tedjj's mini-tournament XLIII at GameKnot. I was on sixth place in the final standings of the tournament and I was able to gather 12 points in 20 games. The game below I ended up on winning on time because apparently my opponent could not decide what to do in that final position. The move I would have expected him to play was 26...Rd4, which I thought would be the best option for black. I guess the position is quite close to even but Black has more active pieces, at least for the moment. During the game I thought I was slightly worse and it was difficult for me to come up with decent moves. No matter how difficult a position is, one should still make a move to at least have some chance in the game and I will keep moving in my games until I see that resistance is futile. The game really did not feature any huge mistakes, only some small, relatively meaningless mistakes were seen, but I am not going to go deeper into those positions.

[Event "tedjj's mini-tournament XLIII"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?"] [Date "2015.07.15"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "bourne007"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B92"] [WhiteElo "1758"] [BlackElo "1735"] [Annotator "Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT (30s), TV"] [PlyCount "51"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 {Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. Opocensky Variation} e5 7. Nb3 Be6 (7... Be7 8. O-O O-O { Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. Opocensky Variation Traditional Line}) 8. Bg5 (8. O-O Be7 {Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. Opocensky Variation Modern Line}) 8... Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 {B92 Sicilian Najdorf: 6.Be2} 11. Nd5 Nd7 (11... Bg5 12. a4 Nc6 13. a5 Rc8 14. Bg4 Bh6 15. c3 Ne7 16. Nb6 Rc6 17. Bf3 g6 18. Nc1 Nc8 19. Nxc8 Rxc8 20. Nd3 Rc7 21. Nb4 Rc5 22. Qa4 Qe7 23. Rfd1 Kh8 24. Nd3 Rc7 25. Qb4 f5 26. Ne1 {Tomorhuyag,N (2360)-Vera Gonzalez Quevedo,R (2485) Novi Sad 1990 0-1 (42)}) 12. c4 (12. Qd3 Be7 13. Rfd1 Bxd5 14. Qxd5 Qc7 15. Qd3 Nf6 16. Nd2 Qc6 17. Bf3 Rac8 18. c3 g6 19. Nf1 Qb6 20. Qe2 Rfd8 21. Ne3 Bf8 22. Nd5 Nxd5 23. Rxd5 Rc5 24. Rad1 Rxd5 25. Rxd5 Rc8 26. Qd2 Be7 {Righi,E (2097) -Kelires,A (2223) Monaco 2013 1/2-1/2 (33)}) 12... Bg5 13. Qd3 $146 (13. Nd2 Rc8 14. Nb1 b5 15. b3 Bxd5 16. Qxd5 bxc4 17. bxc4 Qb6 18. Nc3 Qb2 19. Qd3 Nc5 20. Qf3 Ne6 21. Rab1 Qc2 22. Qd3 Qxd3 23. Bxd3 Nf4 24. Rfd1 Nxd3 25. Rxd3 Rxc4 26. g3 Rfc8 27. h4 Bd8 {Kambli,P (1710)-Paragua,M (2521) Mumbai 2012 0-1 (44)}) 13... a5 14. a4 {White has an active position} Nf6 15. Rfd1 (15. Nxf6+ Qxf6 16. Nc1 Qg6 $11) 15... Nxd5 16. cxd5 Bd7 17. Nd2 Bxd2 ( 17... f5 18. Qa3 Bxd2 19. Rxd2 $15) 18. Qxd2 $11 f5 {Black threatens to win material: f5xe4} 19. Bf3 (19. exf5 Bxf5 20. Rdc1 Qb6 $11) 19... fxe4 20. Bxe4 Bf5 21. Bxf5 Rxf5 22. Ra3 Qf6 23. Rb3 {White threatens to win material: Rb3xb7} Rf8 24. Rf1 Rf4 {Black threatens to win material: Rf4xa4} 25. Rxb7 Rxa4 26. Ra7 1-0