64 square madness that some of us call chess...: C60 Spanish Game: Unusual Black 3rd moves and 3...g6 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7 4.O-O g6 5.d4)

C60 Spanish Game: Unusual Black 3rd moves and 3...g6 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7 4.O-O g6 5.d4)

For the unforeseeable future I am posting games that I have not posted before. When I have gone through my older posts and changed the names of the posts according to the way I am naming them now, I will get back to posting my previously shared games in case that the games in the older posts would no longer be categorized the same way as the other games in that post. So, now for the game I am sharing today. It was played on the first round of the EXPECT NO MERCY - NAZARETH TOUR!!! I managed to get 6.5 points in 8 games, due to which I won the group with a half a point difference. This game was especially important because my opponent in this game, csabiu, was second in the final standings of group 7. Only the winner advanced to the second round, so I was the only one to advance to the second round that is currently in progress. On round two I am on second place in the standings and I have finished 3 out of the 8 games that I need to play on this round.

This game featured only one critical moment and it was seen after my 7th move Be2. Csabiu moved the knight to a5, which was maybe the worst square for the piece. The reason for it was that the knight had no safe squares to which it could go. I took advantage of that fact and threatened the knight with my b-pawn.

The best square for the knight was d4.

Csabiu's best move might have been to move the knight back to c6, because in that case my opponent would have at least been able to get something in exchange for the knight. In the game csabiu played 8...d6 and did not even try to get a pawn for the knight. This meant that the rest of the game was really easy for me to play. Only a bit later did my opponent get a free pawn, but it did not really improve csabiu's chances and after my 22nd move Rab1 csabiu resigned.

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Move	N	Result	Elo

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7 4.0-0 g6 5.d4 C60 Spanish Game: Unusual Black 3rd moves and 3...g6 Bg7 6.d5 a6 6...Nb8 7.d6 Nec6 8.Bg5 f6 9.Be3 b6 10.Nc3 cxd6 11.Qxd6 Qe7 12.Qd2 0-0 13.Nd5 Qd8 14.Rfd1 Kh8 15.Bh6 a6 16.Be2 Ne7 17.Bc4 Nxd5 18.Bxd5 Bxh6 19.Qxh6 Ra7 20.Nh4 Qe8 21.Nxg6+ Groenegress, W (2220)-Fritsch,J (1787) Bad Wiessee 2003 1-0 7.Be2N 7.Ba4 Na7 8.d6 cxd6 9.Qxd6 Nb5 10.Bxb5 axb5 11.Nxe5 Ra6 12.Qc5 Re6 13.Nf3 Rc6 14.Qxb5 Rxc2 15.Qb3 Qc7 16.Na3 Re2 17.Nb5 Qb8 18.Qd3 Bxb2 19.Bxb2 Rxb2 20.Nd6+ Kf8 21.Qd4 1-0 (21) Romero Funieles,R (1747)-Febrero Perez,L (1545) Barcelona 2016 Worse is 7.dxc6 axb5 8.cxd7+ Bxd7= 7...Na5?? 7...Nd4 would hold out 8.b4+- d6 8...Nac6 9.dxc6 Nxc6+- 9.bxa5 c6 10.Qd2 10.dxc6 and White can already relax Nxc6 11.Be3 Qxa5+- 10...0-0 10...cxd5 doesn't change the outcome of the game 11.exd5 0-0 12.c4+- 11.Na3 11.c4 might be the shorter path c5+- 11...cxd5 12.exd5 e4 13.Nd4 Nf5 13...Nxd5 does not solve anything 14.Nc4+- 14.Bb2 Nxd4 15.Bxd4 Bxd4 16.Qxd4 Qxa5 17.Nc4 Qb4 17...Qc7 does not save the day 18.a4+- 18.Rfb1 Qc5 19.Qxc5 dxc5 20.Nb6 Ra7 20...Rb8 does not help much 21.c4+- 21.Rb3 a5 21...Rd8 does not improve anything 22.Rc3 Bf5 23.g4+- 22.Rab1 1–0

White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Vierjoki,T

1827

csabiu

1656

1–0

Here are the top three games that I could find in my reference database that reached the position after 5.d4.