C41 Philidor Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.dxe5 Nd7 5.exd6 Bxd6 6.Be2)

I have to thank some of opponents because without them I could not have played this many different opening variations. I have still a lot of my games from Red Hot Pawn to go through and there might be more opening variations to discover from those. The game below is from the 2014 September Octet I 1700-1800 tournament that is still in progress at Red Hot Pawn. The winner has been decided some time ago already but the fight for the second place still continues. The only two remaining games in the tournament are between me and veca and both want to finish second in the tournament. This tournament started September 10th 2014 as did all the games that are played in it. Today I have added two mate in ones, one mate in three, four and five puzzle.

[Event "Octet"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2014.09.10"] [Round "1"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "rabarber"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C41"] [WhiteElo "1832"] [BlackElo "1496"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "37"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 (1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 d6 3. Nf3 Bg4 {1-0 (32) Hernandez Onna,R (2440) -Hernandez,J (2335) Cienfuegos 1985}) 1... e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Bg4 4. dxe5 Nd7 { C41 Philidor Defense: Alapin-Blackburne Gambit} 5. exd6 Bxd6 6. Be2 {C41 Philidor Defence} Bxf3 (6... Qe7 7. Nc3 Ngf6 8. Nd4 Nxe4 9. Nxe4 Qxe4 10. f3 Qe7 11. fxg4 Qh4+ 12. Kf1 Bc5 13. c3 O-O-O 14. Qe1 Qf6+ 15. Qf2 Qe7 16. Bd2 Rhe8 17. Re1 Qd6 18. Bb5 c6 19. Rxe8 Rxe8 20. Be2 Qe5 21. h4 {Hernandez Onna,R (2440)-Hernandez,J (2335) Cienfuegos 1985 1-0 (32)}) 7. Bxf3 {1.01/21} (7. gxf3 $142 {1.42/17} Qf6 8. Nc3) 7... c6 $146 {7.01/16 [#]} (7... Qe7 $16 {1.01/21}) (7... Ne5 8. Nc3 (8. O-O c6 9. Be3 Qc7 10. Be2 O-O-O 11. Qc1 f6 12. Nd2 g5 13. Nb3 c5 14. f4 gxf4 15. Bxf4 h5 16. Kh1 Ne7 17. h3 N7g6 18. Bh2 Qg7 19. Qe3 b6 20. Rad1 Kc7 21. a4 Rdg8 22. Rg1 Nh4 {Kabachienko,A (2135)-Zozulia,A Kiev 2009 1-0 (35)}) (8. Bf4 Nxf3+ 9. Qxf3 Bxf4 10. Qxf4 Ne7 11. Nc3 c6 12. O-O O-O 13. Rfd1 Qb6 14. Rab1 Ng6 15. Qg3 Rfe8 16. Kh1 h5 17. f4 h4 18. Qg4 Qc7 19. f5 Ne5 20. Qxh4 f6 21. Ne2 Kf7 22. Nd4 Rh8 {Tassone,A-Stone,G Edmonton 2000 1-0}) 8... c6 9. Be2 f6 10. f4 Nf7 11. Bc4 Ngh6 12. Be3 Qc7 13. Qf3 O-O-O 14. O-O-O Rhe8 15. Bxa7 b6 16. e5 fxe5 17. Ba6+ Kd7 18. fxe5 Nxe5 19. Qh3+ Ke7 20. Qh4+ Kf8 21. Rhf1+ Kg8 22. Bd3 {Bereziuk,Y (2072)-Zozulia,A Kiev 2009 0-1 (31)}) 8. Qxd6 $18 {White is clearly winning.} Qa5+ 9. Bd2 Qe5 10. Qxe5+ Nxe5 11. Be2 Ne7 12. Bc3 f6 13. Nd2 O-O-O 14. O-O-O h5 15. Bxe5 fxe5 16. Nc4 Ng6 17. Nd6+ Rxd6 18. Rxd6 Nf4 19. Bf3 1-0