My best chess results of 2019

The games that I will post here are maybe not the best games that I played in 2019, but they represent the best results I had in my chess games last year. Apart from the games you see here, there was one notable over the board game I played, where I drew against a Grandmaster, but unfortunately that game can't be shared here, since it was a blitz game, played in the Finnish Team Blitz Championships. It was the first draw against a player who was rated 2500+ at the time, well 2523 to be exact. I have to say though that I got completely outplayed in that game and the draw was only due to my opponent running out of time and me only having a king left on the board. He was quite close to even delivering checkmate, he would have only needed a couple more moves. By the way, in case you are wondering why my games against Mateusz_Dubinski are included because his rating seems clearly lower rated, the reason for including the games is that he is actually a FIDE Master. The only other opponent that has a title that I know of is FM Kosnl.

It is also interesting to me that most of these best results are from the 2019 Autumn Marathon, during which I played 130 games if I recall correctly. The fact that all but one of these games in this post were played at lichess.org also does not surprise me, since it is the place where I play most often these days. Before I forget, happy new year to all!!

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Move	N	Result	Elo

1.e4	1,166,623	54%	2421
1.d4	947,298	55%	2434
1.Nf3	281,602	56%	2441
1.c4	182,102	56%	2442
1.g3	19,702	56%	2427
1.b3	14,265	54%	2427
1.f4	5,897	48%	2377
1.Nc3	3,801	51%	2384
1.b4	1,756	48%	2380
1.a3	1,206	54%	2404
1.e3	1,068	48%	2408
1.d3	954	50%	2378
1.g4	664	46%	2360
1.h4	446	53%	2374
1.c3	433	51%	2426
1.h3	280	56%	2418
1.a4	110	60%	2466
1.f3	92	46%	2436
1.Nh3	89	66%	2508
1.Na3	42	62%	2482

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 3...g6 4.0-0 4.c3 a6 5.Ba4 d6 6.h3 Bg7 7.d4 Bd7 0-1 (51) Shemet,M (1627)-Goerke,J (2120) Pfarrkirchen 2018 4...Bg7 5.c3 a6 6.Ba4 d6 7.h3 0-1 (32) Jaszcz,M-Smolenska,O Krynica 1998 4.Ba4 d6 C71 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense 4...g6 5.0-0 Bg7 0-1 (34) Mossong,H (2200)-Mikhalchishin,A (2542) Bled 2002 5.h3 5.0-0 Bd7 6.c3 g6 7.d4 Bg7 1/2-1/2 (41) Jackson,J (2126)-Conquest,S (2501) North Shields 2012 5...Bd7 6.c3 g6 7.0-0 Bg7 8.d4 C76 Spanish Game: Deferred Steinitz: 5.c3 Bd7 6.d4 g6 8.Re1± 8...Nf6 9.Re1 9.Bc2± 9...0-0 10.Bg5 Better is 10.Nbd2± 10...h6 10...b5= 11.Bc2 11.Bb3 h6 1/2-1/2 (41) Jackson,J (2126)-Conquest,S (2501) North Shields 2012 11...h6 11.Bh4 11.Bxf6± Bxf6 12.d5 11...b5 11...Qe8 12.Bc2 Nh5 13.Na3 g5 14.Bg3 Nxg3 15.fxg3 exd4 16.Nxd4 Qe5 17.Nxc6 Bxc6 18.Qd3 b5 19.Rf1 Rae8 20.Rae1 Re7 21.Nb1 Rfe8 22.Nd2 b4 23.Rf3 Bb5 24.c4 Bc6 25.b3 f5 26.Rfe3 Mossong,H (2200)-Mikhalchishin,A (2542) Bled 2002 0-1 (34) 12.Bb3 Qe7N 12...Qc8= 12...g5 13.Bg3 g4 13...Qe7 14.Nbd2 g4 15.hxg4 Bxg4 16.d5 Nb8 17.a4 Nbd7 18.Bc2 Nh5 19.Nf1 Qf6 20.Re3 Nf4 21.N1h2 Bh5 22.Qf1 Qg6 23.Nh4 Qh7 24.Nf5 Nb6 25.axb5 a5 26.Bxf4 exf4 27.Rh3 Bg6 28.Qd3 Shemet,M (1627)-Goerke,J (2120) Pfarrkirchen 2018 0-1 (51) 14.hxg4 Bxg4 15.dxe5 Bxf3 16.Qxf3 Nxe5 17.Qf5 Ng6 18.Qxg6 d5 19.Qf5 dxe4 20.Bh4 Qd6 21.Bc2 Rfe8 22.Bxf6 Bxf6 23.Bxe4 Bg7 24.Na3 Rad8 25.Re3 Be5 26.Rae1 Kf8 27.Bc2 Jaszcz,M-Smolenska,O Krynica 1998 0-1 (32) 12...Re8 13.Nbd2 Rb8 14.a3 Qc8 15.Rc1 Nh5 16.Nf1 Na5 17.Ba2 Nc4 18.Qc2 Be6 19.d5 Bd7 20.N3d2 Nxd2 21.Qxd2 g5 22.Bg3 f5 23.exf5 Bxf5 24.c4 bxc4 25.Rxc4 Nf4 26.Bxf4 gxf4 27.Bb1 Jackson,J (2126) -Conquest,S (2501) North Shields 2012 1/2-1/2 (41) 13.Qd3 13.Nbd2± 13...g5 14.Bg3 Nh5 15.Bh2 Na5 15...Nf4= remains equal. 16.Bxf4 gxf4

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Vierjoki,T	1916	Mateusz_Dubinski	1758	1–0
Mateusz_Dubinski	1865	expectnomercy	1913	0–1
davel09	2228	Vierjoki,T	1919	0–1
astro5	2334	Vierjoki,T	2018	0–1
Vierjoki,T	2014	MNRX	2276	1–0
Vierjoki,T	1895	Kosnl	2440	1–0
VV1000	2204	Vierjoki,T	2019	0–1
Deja___Vu	2252	Vierjoki,T	2014	½–½
BraveHorsey	2214	Vierjoki,T	1915	½–½
Vierjoki,T	2002	DVRazor	2230	1–0
DVRazor	2266	Vierjoki,T	2027	½–½
Flukton	2264	Vierjoki,T	2047	0–1
Capi48	2233	Vierjoki,T	2066	½–½
Zselic	2232	Vierjoki,T	1976	0–1

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