LIVE Blitz Chess Commentary #330: QGD, Slav w/ 4.e3

December 23, 2015 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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This is a blitz chess game I played as white with time control 5|0. The opening was the Queen’s Gambit Declined, Slav with 4. e3. We quickly arrive at a queenless middlegame position in this one with white acquiring the bishop pair and a deficient queenside pawn. The battle in the center for an appropriate pawn structure is, as one may expect, an extremely key factor in the game.

Playing site: http://www.chess.com?ref_id=1552369

PGN:
1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. d4 Nf6 4. e3 Bg4 5. Nc3 e6 6. h3 Bh5 7. g4 Bg6 8. Ne5 Nfd7 9. Nxg6 hxg6 10. Qb3 Qb6 11. Bg2 Qxb3 12. axb3 Na6 13. Bd2 Nb4 14. Ke2 a6 15. Rad1 Be7 16. e4 dxc4 17. bxc4 e5 18. d5 Nc5 19. Be3 cxd5 20. Nxd5 Nxd5 21. Rxd5 Nd7 22. Rhd1 O-O-O 23. g5 Kc7 24. Bf3 b6 25. Bg4 Nc5 26. Rxe5 Rxd1 27. Kxd1 Rd8+ 28. Ke2 Bd6 29. Rd5 Nxe4 30. h4 Bc5 31. Re5 Bxe3 32. Kxe3 Nd6 33. b3 Re8 34. f4 Rxe5+ 35. fxe5 Nb7 36. Bf3 Nc5 37. Bd5 Nxb3 38. Bxf7

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