C50 Hungarian Defence and Giuoco Pianissimo (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O d6 5.d3 Bg4 6.h3)

This game was played in the first round of the 2014 September Glacial Super Casual I tournament that is still in progress at Red Hot Pawn. This has the longest thinking times that I have ever had in any of my games. For each move you have 21 days and not only that but you also have 21 days in the bank. If this tournament would run its maximum duration it would take a very, very long time. There were eight groups that contained eight players on round 1, which meant that 64 players started in this tournament. This tournament started September 13th 2014 and it is currently on its second and possibly last round. Possibly because, in case of a tie, the winners would need to play on the third round. In this game it was me who blundered first. On move 7 I moved my queen to d7, not noticing that 8.Nxe5 was a possible response. This could have therefore been one of the humiliating losses I have suffered against players whose ratings are clearly lower than mine.

Luckily for me, golfnaturl did not notice this golden opportunity and played 8.Bb5 instead, which was much less harmful move. Interestingly, I did not probably notice the possibility of Nxe5 at all during the game because I did not do anything to prevent it. After a few moves of equal play, I messed up again and merely developed my knight to e7 on move 12, when I should have prevented the move Nxe5 by moving the bishop to f7, for instance.

My 12th move was the last blunder that I made in this game that would have allowed a huge upset to take place. The game continued with the moves 13.d4 O-O-O and then, for the first time in this game, golfnaturl made a huge mistake that allowed me to get a winning advantage. Golfnaturl played 14.b3, which allowed me to capture the knight on c3 for free and after that the game was easily winning for me.

[Event "Glacial Super Casual"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.09.13"] [Round "1"] [White "golfnaturl"] [Black "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C50"] [WhiteElo "1169"] [BlackElo "1813"] [Annotator "Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT (30s)"] [PlyCount "52"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O d6 5. d3 Bg4 6. h3 {C50 Hungarian Defence and Giuoco Pianissimo} Bh5 7. Bg5 {White threatens to win material: Bg5xd8} (7. c3 h6 8. Nbd2 Nf6 9. b4 Bb6 10. Re1 O-O 11. Nf1 Qd7 12. Ng3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 a5 14. b5 Na7 15. Bxh6 Nh7 16. Nf5 gxh6 17. Qg4+ Ng5 18. Nxh6+ Kh7 19. Qxg5 Rg8 20. Qh5 Kg7 21. Bxf7 Rgd8 {Heyme,S (2140)-Kovacevic,B (2340) Liechtenstein 1995 1-0}) 7... Qd7 $146 (7... Nge7 8. Be3 Bb6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Nd5 Kh8 11. Nxb6 axb6 12. g4 Bg6 13. Ng5 Na5 14. Bb5 c6 15. Bc4 b5 16. Bb3 Nxb3 17. axb3 d5 18. Rxa8 Qxa8 19. Qa1 d4 20. Bd2 f6 21. Ne6 Re8 22. Qa5 {Schinelli,N (1377) -Melograni,F (1730) Erice 2009 0-1 (53)}) (7... Bxf3 8. Qxf3 f6 (8... Qd7 9. Be3 Nd4 10. Qh5 Nxc2 11. Bxc5 dxc5 12. Nc3 Nxa1 13. Rxa1 Nf6 14. Qxe5+ Qe7 15. Bb5+ c6 16. Qg3 cxb5 17. Qxg7 Rg8 18. Qh6 b4 19. Nd5 Nxd5 20. exd5 Qg5 21. Qxg5 Rxg5 22. d6 Rd5 23. Rc1 {Knof,H-Kim,O (1309) Neumuenster 2002 0-1 (42) }) 9. Qh5+ g6 10. Qg4 fxg5 11. Qe6+ Qe7 12. Qg4 Nd4 13. Nc3 h5 14. Qd1 O-O-O 15. Nd5 Qd7 16. c3 Ne6 17. a4 a5 18. Qb3 c6 19. Nb6+ Bxb6 20. Qxb6 g4 21. Qb3 Nf4 22. g3 {Jayawarna,T-Sedykh,S (49) Coventry 2015 0-1 (54)}) (7... f6 8. Bh4 Nd4 9. Nbd2 Ne7 10. c3 Nxf3+ 11. Nxf3 Ng6 12. Bg3 c6 13. Bb3 d5 14. exd5 cxd5 15. c4 d4 16. Ba4+ Kf7 17. Qe2 Rf8 18. Qe4 Kg8 19. Qxb7 Rb8 20. Qd5+ Qxd5 21. cxd5 Bxf3 22. gxf3 {Mesaros,F-Fuerst,A (1395) Schwarzach 2008 0-1 (37)}) (7... Nge7 8. c3 $11) 8. Bb5 (8. Nxe5 $142 $5 Nxe5 9. Qxh5 Nxc4 10. dxc4 $16) 8... a6 $11 9. Bxc6 {White forks: d7+b7} Qxc6 {Black has the pair of bishops} 10. Nc3 f6 11. Be3 Bxe3 12. fxe3 {White has new doubled pawns: e3+e4} Ne7 (12... Bf7 13. Nh4 $11) 13. d4 (13. Nxe5 $142 Bxd1 14. Nxc6 Nxc6 15. Raxd1 $16) 13... O-O-O 14. b3 $4 (14. Qd3 $142 $11 {the rescuing straw}) 14... Qxc3 $19 15. Re1 (15. Qd2 {doesn't improve anything} Qxd2 16. Nxd2 d5 17. dxe5 fxe5 $19) 15... Bxf3 16. Qxf3 exd4 17. Qg4+ (17. exd4 {cannot undo what has already been done} Qxd4+ 18. Kh1 Ng6 $19) 17... Kb8 18. Qxg7 (18. exd4 {doesn't change anything anymore} Qxd4+ 19. Kf1 Qe5 $19) 18... Nc6 19. Qxf6 (19. Qg3 {the only chance to get some counterplay} Nb4 20. Qf2 $19) 19... Rdf8 20. Qh4 dxe3 21. Qg3 Rhg8 22. Qh4 Qxc2 (22... Rf2 23. Kh1 Rfxg2 24. Rg1 Qxc2 25. Qf4 Nd4 26. Qf8+ Ka7 27. Qf4 Nf3 28. Qxe3+ Kb8 29. Qf4 Rxg1+ 30. Rxg1 Rxg1#) 23. g4 Rf2 24. Rf1 (24. Qg3 {is not much help} Nd4 25. Rxe3 Rgf8 26. a3 Nf3+ 27. Rxf3 R8xf3 28. Qxf3 Rxf3 29. Ra2 Qxa2 30. a4 Rxb3 31. h4 Rb1#) 24... Rg2+ 25. Kh1 Rh2+ 26. Kg1 Qg2# 0-1