The Scandinavian Defence James PlaskettFirs published in 2004 (© james Plasket 2004 IBN 0713489111 tis Library Cataloguing in-Publation Data: ‘Acatalogue record for ths book is valabe from the Betsh ibrar. [Allright reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced, by any means, without prior permission ‘ofthe publisher Printed in Great Britain by Creative Pint and Design (WAles), Ebbw Vato for the publishers BT Basford “The Chrys Bung Bramley Road London wio ese Animpint ot Chyaataooks repre Distribute in the United States and Canada by Sterting Publishing Co. 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, USA ABATSFORD CHESS BOOK Contents leoduction s Chapter 1: 68 65.2 exds Wad 364.05 1 (Chapter 2 The Main Line 1 e4 dS 2 exdS Wad 3 03 Was 9 Chaper 3: 1 04652 exd Wad 3 Be Was x0 Chapter 164652 exdS Wad 3 3 86 38 (Chapter 5: The Pater Variation | of dS 2exdS Wads 33 WeS+ 89 (Chapter 6: The Modern Scandinavian I et &5 2 exdS 0x6 100 Chapter 7:1 04 dS 2 exdS 63 25+ 02 Chapter 8: Main Lines 04 dS 2 exd5 16 3 84 nds m (Chapter 9: The Scandinavian Gambit | 06 d5 2 exd5 163.04 c6 127 Chapter 10: The eeandie Gambit | 4 d5 2 exd5 083 e4e67 131 (Chapter 11: The Portuguese Variation | of 452 exd5 06 3 64 Sgt? 146 (Chapter 12: ta Coelusion 14 Index of Variations 190Introduction The Scandinavian Defence, arising ater 1 ef dS, i in reality two distinct ‘openings under te same heading, Inte irs we see Black responding 10 2 (dS with 2d. A fist glance this seems a besiner’s ero, in that ater the natural 3 {ed Black will cede White some time since his prematurely developed ‘gen wll have to move again, But White will not be abl stops the pawns advan, Many of the resultant, solid middlegames may have alot in common ‘with those arising from lines ofthe Cae-Kann Defence. Secondly thee is the ine with 2.26 to develop a brosd centre as his knight now a pseudo-gambit (or should White wish it, an authentic and valid one) where the intent is almost always to take the pawn back with the kaight By {doing Black avoids the loss of time associated with 2. Wd, but permits6 Inmoduction White vo build up a pawn centre. The middlegames here may allow Black treater Madity of development, with 5, gs, and leo Fanchetos of Fis kings bishop are frequently seen, This opening was originally known, as indeed it stl sometimes s the centre Counter Defence 1 acquired the Nordic soubriquet through the patronage of Larsen, Hansen and other masters fom the non of Europe ames Plaskett Playa Flamenco February 2004 Chapter 1 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Wxd5 3 d4 e5 ‘Against this move order Black may, of couse tempt to angle playback ‘no recognised ines. But he should tke is chance for 3.8t Akin to the caries interpretations ofthe Centre Counter, this poste was ‘most recenily uted in Ferandez Gueia ~ Karpov, Basque Country vs The World, Advanced Chess as Garry Kasparoy eal i). 400 4e Firman - Granda Zuniga Amsterdam 1996 saw White geting it even sore wrong, 4 dxes Waal 5 dxdl 216 6 £8 05 73 O00" 8 del (619 ‘BbS fue 10 xe6 bxes 11 eS eS 12 DP Di 13 gs n6 14 Wd gS 15 iD nid~ 16 dnt? Ct 17 segs St 18 hé exbs+ 19 xb 7 20 {5 BhgS 21 Bans @ifo- 22 Hps Ded and Black soon won,8 Fob dS 2 exd5 Weds 3 d6 08 4.06 § ed Kidd 6 Ba? ned 7 Axed of 8 Des Dues 9 dues De7 words Seas "Nota very exciting postion ou ofthe opening, but the sort Karpoy likes mas Neither was the board on fie after the 11 a2 IS 12 0-00 00 13 Hel ‘Rfel 14 £4 exf3 15 pxP He6 16 bl of Pazos ~ Granda Zuniga, Yerevan ‘Olympiad 1996, and although the tomato farmer pressed with Black until ‘move 85, limaiely e had to concede the draw. Dibt 12 RDS* 66 13 dad Reb 14 23 05 15.63 D448? Action!” 16 ed Dag 17 sea? LES 18 Zhgl 4 19 ae 19.206 20 xed xed 21 Hed 0-0-0 22 be? D6 “The knight might yet outlass the bishop in sucha setting. 23 ed H67 24 Hh4 Has 25 £4 g6 26 Zh3 g7 27 £0 has?! Allowing a capture. 27.0h5 had to be a beter try to make something oft 28 Exh: Ka2+ 29 v3 ©e6 30 ed He? 31 Let Ha? 32 be Hz 33 NS ahs 34 Bxhs nf4 35 xfs Drawn. Chapter 2: The Main Line 1e4 d5 2 exd5 Wxd5 3 Ac3 Was "he traditional and sil the most poplar interpretation of tis opening, "here are some lines, older ones, where Black attempts a ropid 5 afer 1 Wa5, but hase are in disrepute’ There are others involving 3..WaS and 2c6, but a those are viewable as asng fom a separate opening ~ 1 ot {6 2 03 a5 3 end Wad 4 ed they are not considered in his Work Bent Larsen brought 3.5 out of mothballs and int the limelight in the late 1970 Karpov Larsen ‘Menizeal 1979, 14 dS 2 exdS Wad 3 Des Was 4 a4 216 5 Ra? [Not one ofthe main lines. People noted ofthe then World Champion that, he was nt so comfortable against offbeat openings, which, at hat time, the Scandinavian was. This very game helped to salvage it fm obscurity. The nex yeut Miles beat hm with le a6. Swag? 6 hed10. The Main Line 1 dS 2 exdS Wd5 3 3 Was New position? fixe? 7 Dene? WO6 8 03 Dba 9 0-0 6 ‘Grabhing the 62 pasen was not completely ut ofthe question 10.4 Re7 11 4 0-0 12 2 Trupdling 12,06 13 We2 WeT 14 Efel b6 15 a5 “Ths does not really lead him anywhere. 15. 58 16 26 BS 17 c5 Das A ice lodge. 18 et Be8 19 Odd Lads 20 g3 20621 Hed D8 22 hd azar Soli as Alcaraz 23 gd Heat 24 gt He may have felt it incumbent upon itn to be about something, since he ‘war World Champion playing with the White pieces. But, ultimately it weakens him, Kasparov explained tome that inthe inal game of ther 1985 match ~ the ‘one which made him World Champion ~ Karpo’s fundamental err was Embark upon an unjustified, over ambitious and weakening plan of txpansion in front of his own king It started with g2-e6 The Main Line I ef dS 2 exd8 WedS 3 D3 @aS 1 M4..e8 25 5 Ld8 26 Dfes Hde7 27 A14 WeB 28 93 6 A last the counter demonstration begins. Andi oon stars to tell 29-000 BET 30 Wad fags 31 Dags BOS 32 Has Dg6 33 DO Bers 34 4 fe O05 35 BeS EO Now it is clear that White only damaged his own king's position through _nvaneing his pawa, and the consequences are die. So Hat? Batt est rit, we 17 Sixhe Bxdt 38 Was DEY wins 7..Sixg3 38 fag3 WaT! 39 WE Eat 40 at Dada ent was very tactically ale. Now 41 x4 Wid win easly. 41 Eal Wxds 42 Les Was, black now had no difficulty in realising his advantage 43 Of Whs+ 44 dp? Das 45 Tres N6 46 Lad EN7 47 ZO dA 48 0 es 49 cogs Wel 50 hs Wed SI gS hS $2 Hel hd> $9 2 b3 54 Zh WL2e 55 ila Ded White reigned Larsen beating the world ckampion with Black. He came last in that, ‘vent Later the same year he was to win one in Buenos ites three points ‘leat of Spassky, Pevosian, Anderson, Miles, et. {Later in the sme tournament he played the Scandinavian again, Spassky ~ Larsen ‘Menzel 1979 Leb dS 2 exds Wad 3 e3 Was 4 44 216590 Boris had had the chance to see what Bent had already done to Anatly in this even Swf S 6 82 bd 7 Sed 068 We? 06212 The Aan Line | 4 dS 2 exdS WsdS 3 D3 Was AA serious inaccuracy, permitting White a favourable, line-opening ssvanee. Better §. WT 9 451 exds 10 Duds Wes He might have done beter to stl bck to 8, nea CCeates a bit of gash inthe White quecnside, but the attacking play it serves to generate more than compensates. 11 tb# was also tong 11.88 12 Date gute 13 dd g6 14 nd hs 1S £4 7 16H Sry wa at his very et in sch pits with open ise play and 16.87 On 16,,0-0 comes 17 Bg} h7 18 5! exf5 19 Wed and curtsns. But ‘Bors was soon to wan his sights on the Black king a5 i sought sanctuary con the other side 17 0-0-0 Wb6 18 Bet 0.0.0 19 bs bs 20 Zadse! ads 21-2 Wes 22 Bsa O47 23 31, Tidving up. 23..Wed 24 fed £16 25 Hs We6 26 Qds Wad 27 Outs Wras+ 28 stat Ware 29 Bet Babs 30 Ss 2631 Wes Was and Black resigned, The Main Line [ef dS 2 exdS WedS 3 23 WaS 1 ‘Aer that neither Larsen nor any oe top GM slowed a d! 1 be ten People we ming stat Wat wo as at wok the Scandinavia, and one concept which developed as a consequence of ‘Spasiy's win in Montreal wat that of dibf and. discs. Ht became ampecated tat the Tos ofthe bishop pair was not so tebe in te 6 a2 After 6 Sc4 Old? 7 We? 6 8 Ad? b4 9 0-00-0 1043 xed 11 xed ($06 12 bs a5 13 ad? c6 14 a? ho (14.1927? lost the queen) 15 He} Bios 16 63 Ags 17 Babl We7 18 13 las the White bishops were Having dificult im making an pectin Dre ~ Larsen, Copenhagen 6 667 Bed o6 8 Wed Ls No dtd trick now, 90014 The Main Line 04 dS 2 exdS WedS 3 03 Was [Ate the more aggressive 90-00, 9b i flexible, After Dolmatov's move 10 bl, Hjartasson — Hansen, Rekyavik Zonal 1995, continued To 2t6 17 Sb} xc3!? 12 Qxe3 West, Often inthe Scandinavian Black feck to increase his control ofthe light squares, Here he even cedes the bishop pao achieve i 13 Wxbs exbS 14 Des a5 15 a3 Set! 16 Bhel 0-0 17.0 as 18 xd ‘dS 19 £42 Ot and Black was the more comfortable, and won, Following 10 03 xc} 11 Sixc3 WeT the complications in Brynell Hodgson, Bundesliga 2002, resolved themselves into. something not tuniavourable to Black ater 12 es bS 13 Ad 0-0 14 dfs exfS 15 WES {Bus Uo Wats Qixcd 17 xd? Od 18 Qxf8 Bais 19 Excl Wed 20 Wed ‘Wher ce In Zagtebelny ~ Danielten,Petemacnnchen, 1999, White had played 13 Ab3, whereupon 13.hed! 14 @xd7 Wxd7 15 b4 Ad> 16 Bus Wha3 17'Wes as! 18 eS Wues 19 dues DAS let an ending where ‘oth sides Had largely achieved their stategic goals, and after 20 Rs Black ‘ugh fo have played 204 to eave things about balanced. "A mmajor divergence iso take om e5, with 12..Cxe5 13 dxeS 5, which has often been seen, eg in A Rodriguez ~ Varas Pamplona Open 1999, 14 Lo? 0-0-0 15 p4 Sige 16 (4 WS! AR imporsnt bid for ar forthe pieces at g6 and h8. 17 hs hag 18 xp with balanced chances 9.00 10 a3 xe3 11 Bxe3 We7 12 a2 Obd7 13 gS ho 14 bs WEE 18 a3 Bfes 16 g3 Sixd3 17 Wad Wes 18 W3 BS and Blacks slid fame granted him a draw at move 81 Karpov — Rogers [BBC Master Game, Bath 1983 ef 452 exds Wrds 33 Was In the 1980s Ian Rogers wrote that he relly believe that this was a good ‘opening. He cetsinly ha given it any an outing. ‘The Main Line 14 d8 2exd8 Wsd8 3 G3 WaS 15 448.016 500 gs 63 hs The key move ofthis system. 6.-Bxf3 7 Wat cedes White the bishops so tn ge, The cal psn el fom Whit tow contig the 7 gt Bg6 8 Des [A move favoured by Alekhine. Black must watch out for Bot ‘mbarrassng his queen Reb on White harasses the 6 bishop, gains space and prepares the entry of his ‘ung rook into the game via hi This is much moe tothe point than 9342. ‘Against that Black may try 9..06, asin the important game Karpov — Laren, Mar del Plata 1982, 10h @bd7 11 Ses Was 12 Af! 85 15 B51? ined 1d Ware? bret 15 gS ds 16 Wed with a double edged postion by so means clearly worse for Black, who went onto win fom hee in Beriona ‘Sopp, San Luis 1990 with 16, aba, Even 9. Ret!? 10 1 06 was not clearly worse for him in, Antal — Worsok, Hungarian Championship, 1995: 110-0 {47 12 f4 xg? 13 xg? 14 Be3 0-0 15 WES Wa6 16 Bet xeS 17 dveS Bc6 Drawn. 9..Wa6 may be a good option too. 9b 9, has been ied, 1ozhs ‘Avante garde, and spectacularly successful here, but ater focus switched 10 Raz 10.06 ‘Must always Keep an eye out for Det 11 a2 WO6 12 BS ed 13 Zest16 The Main Line I 4 dS 2exd5 WdS 3 Bei 130 xed Unfortunately for Black 13..¥d$ fils to 14 xed Ones 15 Sxb+ xe5 16 Sp? £5 17 ext ext 18 ed fees 19 Wet and wins. 14 Bxe3 LAS 18 g5 Ded 16 Wet D6 17 0-0-0 White as managed a big build up. 174.847 18 Ret Ques 19 dxe8 IS 20 Eh3 04-021 of “Trapping it in broad daylight 21,,WeS 22.94 26 23 Had8+ Eudh 24 Wad Wres 25 3 Was 26 a3 244 27 Wal} 24S 28 ATS Wide 29 Bed Black resigned, Undetereed, lan went into his workshop and patched the thing up. ARer ‘which he soon showed, in games with thee good Grandmasters that Blac ay gett together with 10. ixe3* 11 bxe3 (11 Bxe3? Bes) 11. ‘Arnason and Timman each continued 12 Gd? xd7 13 hS ed, but ‘Black swifly casted long and stood fine, Lobron took on g6 at move 12 and after 12. hxg6 13 Hol 0-0-0 14 Hhs Wad 15 Hb3 Web! 16 g5 Deb 17 ‘Wes Db6 1g dg? Wot the Black queen never ran out of squares frm which io elude ber pursues, and Black won the game The Main Line | ef 82 exdS Wid 3 c3 Wa 17 ‘As these games illustrated thatthe dening of White's queenside did not em to help him, they started to play 10 42, with ides of hS and 93 Most games fiom here featured 10,,b6, but I want to look at another Goldsteln - Creasey Correspondence 1994 10..0d7!? 11 Bed Wa 12 nS ‘There ate no tactics to exploit the queen at 06 Hrdhaes isn 13s ot wit comely. 13.8062 143m OF exe in 15 1 baany 16 Ona? Qagh OF 15 Bgl Wats 16 edad of 19 Hd Wats Io ded nut 17 BOS Looe ae cone 16 Wal Wigs 171 when White had it play for his pawn. 7 ee18. The Main Line | 4 d5 2 exdS Wrd5 5 8c3 Was Anand —Lautier ‘Bel 1997 Let d5 2 exd5 Wrds 3 D3 WaS 4 dd O16 5 D1 6 '5.et? was a silly experiment which actually led 1» quick Black win in Grosopeter ~ Reprintsey, Pardubice, 1958 ence Speman, Geom Manes uise waye promis les In Chemin — Speman Gibco Maser ogi snk Wie peed s bet Aer 6c 100 OhdT# Be Sn ain wt 1 han 12 e400 190 3 14 Des Wis 1S Bae agent de Sac Cera ited afervars a 5 ard oy acy net dnt understand wy, Pung eet the pw cy so make oi, AROUE Pee tim Oped 981,040 700 eka 8a 69 Bot WET Sika amo, eas e586 Sigh 9 BO 10 Sys7 Oud 11 HS Bed 12 ae Teck 0 tome. Anand goth avatge ot of his nein ike Some tees fom te Karpov = Rogers ae ae sae rude 4 263 85 The Main Line | e4 452 exdS WidS 3 2c3 WaS 19 iso An important improvement on the known 15 Hg3. White offer up bis sok reasoning thatthe guy at g2 will not get home. Often the White king ‘sil walk across and eat i and it tas out that Black may not ifit suicint damage elsewhere to compensate him for that 15d The clutch of pawns with which Black emerges from the sequence 1s Biec3 16 due} Whe}+ 17 d2 Wxds 18:92 2x03 19 dx0 es 20, 442 isnot enough to grant him equal chances, teen he king i strong piece. we) Aer 16,.2xc3 17 bxc3 Shxe3 18 Hb1 dixds 19 doug? Sexed 20 Axed the bishops ae way better than the rook and the pawns. 17 bed Wed 18 EbI Was Taking the f pawn alo woud have left him clearly worse after 18...xf3 1 Wxt3 Wxdt 20 Eb 19307 9.8 Trying to hang on tothe bishop fora ta longer with 19.083 would allow White some eute and highly disruptive tacts (similar to those We are shout to se inthe game) based upon the unprotected placing ofthe Black ‘queen, je. 20 Bxf7! e521 BIS! e322 xed Wo2 25 Bxcs 0-024 g3! Sod the White king stl prety safe over there ait, at lst, gts he bishop. (On 19, 4 also isnot hanging together for Black after 20 3 Wd6 21 4423 when neither 21. 2xh5+ 22 xg? We3+ 25 fl, nor 21. Waa 22 ‘Lot, with the White pizces now about to pour in, gets him off the hook Now Anand weaves some magic in order 10 breach the Frenchman's ‘efence. 20 Rot gxh6?20 The Main Line 106 dS 2exdS Wad 3 Bc3 Was Losing, but in the most wonderfilly concealed manner, He had to ty 20..Gxe) 21 xed WeS 22 bop? Bg8 23 Wg! Saf 24 dnt with White Clearly beter, but there would sl be a game, 2 be Flos. uber ‘The points ae that the queen at dt hangs and aking the White one permite mate by 22 Byebe Sit 23 ahve See 24 a0) 21.0 22 {Enos wat? 25 2x17 Snes would allow White fo fish i off ‘Shaws duab 28 Se and the shops sil behind bars 25.43 26 bea? saps. 22 Wadd Baad 29 Bast A sinple way of bringing tings ta close The scene shits from one of tocee quem and cheats toe pose win of tapped hop 3a.Bas 24 Zudhe aa 25 403 nd as 25..Sib 26 2 Ket 27 266 wins aly, Black resigned One ofthe great games. Kasparov ~ Anand PCA World Championship Match, New York 1995) tetas. A first at this level, 2 exd5 Wad 3 e3 WaS 446 O65 0 06 ‘A useful structural move alo permitting retreats for his queen 624s 66 Ad? was tied in Timman ~ Belyavsky, Ubeda 1997 and continued 60 BIS 7 O87 gd 8 Led xed 9 Wred Wa! 10 WHS e611 0-0-0 dT 12 Bhet 0-0-0 when Black had equalised and lter won. Gu? The Main Line | e4 dS 2 exd8 WadS 3 Bc3 WaS 21 ‘The repatation ofthis move advanced as a consequence ofthe poston ‘van reached ftom te opening of his game. 6 AS renin schons shematve The 7 Bet, 7 Bet and7 2 ar atematves Jn Morvan - Gomaly Liceld 2000 White emerged with bi le, Tet aot 8 Sct Wes 9 gs D7 10s ads 11 ad ee {402 e713 Buc? Woe? 1400060 15 Os In Comp When Wall, Usratd Cup Boston 1995 Patch refered the Bog Waraad seb 2206 1010 Gas 11 Bet aT 12 Dede Ande 13 Adore ie reo bnas 15 Det Gr 16 6 ie 17 ct de 8 Holes 19 ed ‘Ped Black emerged to an ening which he Stay wet ont wie The ‘nal eat the cine! 7b? jhe Gancheto was een aeady in Fedoowice — Read, Buenos Aires 1991 Tog § 00 Bg" 9 Det (Henig for fo har te yo) 9h 10 La We 11 Ae Ces 12 anes WaT IDO DEA les ffs quate) 14.5 18 deeS Had 16 At and Whi stood orae a Minaan — Soppe fom the flloving years Olympin, White sgmtinied more dirty with 9 Wed Od? 10 hed Ancd 11 Bed Wel 12 WOO TE Res wih, asin ast edge.22 The Main Line Ie6 dS 2 oxdS Wud 3e3 Was an In my opinion this was a mistaken concept. 8 xd was known, and used in Sax Simonenko, Saint Vincent 2000. After 8..2xd7 9 0-0 digs (Also 5.6 10-461 Wo 12 Sed eS was playable, asin San Segundo ~ Ricard, DBenos Aires 1995) 10 13 &h5 11 Wel go 12 Rxg6 nage 13 Wes WS (la bot?) 14 Lee Dhs (14, BhsI7) 15 sed o6 16 Det eT Black was Solid (1-0 in 44 moves.) In Kaminski ~ Van der Wiel, Groningen 1992, ‘White preferred 10 e2 and play was unclear following 10..c6 11 ¢3 6 12 Wed Wer 13 W3 Rs 14 Hel ge 15 gs hs 16 dnc Bas 17 Wedd xf 18 WEB 15 19 o8 00-0205 es ‘Aller Kasparov's choice White can emily end up ite less than equ. Bur itis better than the stpid 8 ict? of Plaskett~ Bertoa, Pilar de ls Horadada Rapiplay, 200, after which Black tok it and was a clear tempo upon the linge wth 7 ed 46! 90.0 g7 LO tnL BIS LY es 17 Bxfs gxfS would have left Black with «total grip on the important light squares 116 12 02 BS [Necessary fo hang on to his threatened bishop. But here it is logical move, and 1 took # Kasparov to later make anything out ofthe weakening fof a Black kngside which i must entail 13 es Batt ‘Shrewd prophylaxis, Wag 001s 26 15.048 Excellent though this pawn sructurealtering move was, he had a stl better one, which would have brought the sigifieance of his 13h move ito Folie, in 15..eS!, Then neither 16 xb? @xeS 17 fxe5 Ops nor 16 Wel Cad 17 Sad fne5 18 Ane BAT left White adequately placed. 16 Dxa5 esa ‘The Main Line | ef 45 2 exdS WadS 3 D3 WaS 23 Anand declined a daw offer, a decison justifiable from his situation in sncmatch and on the Board 17-2 We7 18 el f6 19 43 Hes 20 b3 26 21 a4 Dek Towards ef 22.04 W123 a8 AIH 24 cxdS cxdS 25 hd 06 26 26 6? lus taking it was safe, more nual and much beter. Now the a6 pawn us great potential vale in many ofthe endgames snes What's this! Gary jumps ta chance to spice things vp before Vshy sna guest one ree Vi til ines ate er th acceptance: 27.5 28 fas Det 29 Bad Hust 90 a ag i dag’ Sage 32 Wag OD+ 33 BaP Wak 34 igo R47 38 Ber and hei lack woud ofr th win he nt ade thc and ede the ook on th sventh a the a pvt ‘koa 2c, ining fw! he knight carer tthe dence othe ing, he would ave fa ive ian unwelcome seventh ak “horn stine ke 9 Aad adh 90g gh 31 Ags et 32 er, ‘evel, i nora all car hat Black is worse afer 27. eb wowing te tessa et mata he Ui fy ns ow diferent the game would hive Bee ade cpr on 26 2 et bxgs 29 Dues in org i then 23-87 wa open ae i asthe ecepation of he upon, with ieresingcounerchanses ser 29,..BeA!? 30 He bs!? 7 sozer “hero lade on is most efficent squire with tempo, ai snow sheatening to take the bishop. _ son fed 31 De3!24 The Main Line | ef 52 exd5 Wad 3 83 Was 3.hs (On 31.6 32 Exg7# dong? 33 QatS+ gut 34 Hel and 38 Lxe$ and the White men pour in onthe defenceless Black king. 32 gl! ‘All of White's kingsde paces are now not only functioning a8 attackers, but also in the defence of thei own king. ‘32ng8 33 ded! Sgt M Wags Wags 36 Hxgt Dd6 36 £1! 05 37 b7 Hee 8 St Dag 39 xed ‘Landing at glorious, sgerssve, blockading outpost 39,08 40 247 Ee2? ‘A last tine trouble eror. He could have put up abit more resistance with 40.263, ‘Hed Black resigned [Anhistrie Scandinavian gem int great one. Garry escape agai, “The good player is svays lucky" J. R, Capablanca White deters aga 3.805 A are of tomaton where White dl or shogetbr pases ove the aan ht have bce sd Aso might ogi play ed be les tuples Wie plays 3 Soli, but quiet. I would recommend a response of fanchetoing one’s ‘own king's bishop. The Main Line 1 ef dS 2 exd8 WsdS 3 Qc} Was 25 ‘Tiviakov ~ Ricard, Najdorf Memorial, Buenos Aires 1996 104 dS 2exds Wad 33 aS 493 $6 § hg? Ricari did alright with the same formation against De as Heras, atthe ‘arn anior event, Boca 1997, after $3 66 g2 Sig? 7Oge2 0-08 0-0 15! Very often they play 6, and argue thatthe White king's bishop bites grate. But why not grab yourself some space? If he will nt play ste, the let Black 9 d3 co 10 62 We7 11 Wel 86 12 46.267 13 aa? dag? 14 Wed Bids, when he had completely equalised Sut ‘Very sound, but the strong German GM, M.Wahls showed tht the set up wit is well playable to in his game as Black against Maia from the 1994 German Championships, 5..c6 6 013 5 70-066 8 3 h6 9.3 {bg U1 We? eT 11 230-0 12 Seb Rh? 13 BS WeT 14 BxkS+ At 15 oI Efe with fll equal ‘bo 6 Bge2 SES 7 bil? Wer! 8 BS 26 9 bxc6 Deb 10 0-0 5 eave quality in Ashley Rogers, Saitek US Masters, Hawaii 199826 The Main Line | ef dS 2exdS Wad 3 Bc} WaS Another approach was to take advantage of White's deferal of and stake ones own claim in the mide with 5.5! in Anand ~ Ivenchk, London INTEL, 1994. Afer 6 ge? S46 70-0 G-08 dt 269 gS exdé 10 xfs dxc3 11 xed WhS 1264 Wad 13 Haxdl ES chances were oon [Nether di the earth much move in Keilinghaus ~ Waitin, Budapest (as Josh looking for Bobby Fischer?) 1997 afer, by transposition, 63 e6 Ts Bg) § Bu 0-0 9 ds Was 10 xf6r Rafe 11 cd Oud 12 Oe? eS 130-0 6 with equal chances “ig 7 0-0 008 83 WHS"? Many otber deployments suggest themselves in a setting with so litle contact, but Ricardisis noteworthy. 9Gd2 gd"? 103.3 11 xh Wehd 12 Ded Heo 13 4 Uncharateitclly dreary play from Sergei Tivinkov. Riese takes sdvantage 13. fONS! 14 ed Ong 1S hays Wag3 16 Gt DS A joke. 17 Dabs Drawn. wi te plays St ‘Speetman — Summerscale ‘British Championship, Eastbourne 1980 164 452 exdS Wxd5 3 23 Was $15 016 5 3 5 Set Bp 6 3 AHS 8 gf BgG 9.3 o6 10 a? WT 11 We? Obd7 12 (0-0-0 war equal in Mascarinas~ Rogers, Sydney 1979. 5.IS 6 Se 06 70-0 Dba7 8 d3 c6 9 Hel 00.0 10 214 Ob6 1142 ‘The Main ine I e4 dS 2exd5 WrdS 3 Qe} Was 27 A year before this game, Jonathan Spelman was ranked Sth the work ‘ot long afer it asked him to explain some opening eccentricity of send epi don't know anybing sow te teory of th game” Gate Impression he mestt it, oo. 11..ObdS 12 xd5!? exds 13 Dh3 Was 14 Dad g6 18 Debs ‘Whipping up an atack from somewhere. 15.08 Hastening a defender round to help, Wad Qa6 17 War Zar 18 Dxe6 te6 19 Exes 44 To take c3 away from his quee, but snot enough use, 20 Sg 7 21 Kade! 9146-22 Oxd6+ Bade 23 Wd and i's Zi EMS 24 WIT Hes 25 WIS+ eG 26 Het Eade 27 Hes black resign I you have diy in following the ea midlegame, remember ht ‘Speciman played White, . ¥ = nn White plays ez ‘Short - Rogers Tilburg Rapid 1992 Tet dS 2 exds Wad 3.03 aS 4.003 Jn ut - House, Bish Championship 200, lack decided that sth lin, ee she ss ctllenged by e® that she sot ke afi flancheto and demonstrated comforable equality afer thea ge Fi8 a? 660 Bie 7 aco kis 009 3 Ohi 10 Wi Ke and be 4026 5 Bet28 The Main Line 104 dS 2 exd5 Wad 3 Bc} Was Shor seems to have a penchant for home cooked Se? systems, eg his | of cb2d4d5 3.05 A154 D5 065 he? aginst the Caro-Kann. Sgt The fiancheto also worked well in Glek ~ van det Wiel Porto San Giorgio Open 1998; 5.26 60-0 AgT 7 Hel 00 8 hed Set 93 xt 10 WxPS Heo TI 3 and Black stood well ater 11.4, as he would have one ater 11.6, to. 63 ans rot ‘The point. 7..WxbA? 8 Zbl and 9 Exb7 is defintely in White's favour. 7068 0-0 6 I looks like the developing move 8.e6 was superior. In Naiditsch — Kosteiuk, Hoogovens 1996 Black equalised following 9 Xb) Le7 10 64 6 11 BS ibd 1 bes Wres 13 EES 0. 9 bt Nigel hopes to make something ofthe b pawn battering ram. 9.06 1005 WET 11 64 LG 12 bre bres 12.26? 13 OS wins 13008 deed 1. SixeS 14 BxhS favoured White Wae2 0-0 15 Sed Dbd7 16 Dixds Wade 17 ZA The Main Line 14 dS 2exdS WedS 3 Qc3 Was 29 White isa ite bee. 17.006 18 Zs Hes 19 WES Odds 19.8 20 a3 was also slighty in Whites favour 20a White's lst thee moves have gained him cent Teverge, a bight 'post, and control of the b file. ie 22.05 23 4 WaS 24 es Waa "cannot believe tht due game 25 xl gxf6 26 Ded ‘made that capture with any great confidence in aod the pen fl 825.547 met with 27g Sot pow mide stort hi of he weakened Black Ling” TL 2st 7 Gao gs (00 27,2028 HT power 28 ugh Kagh 29 B07 Wict 30 7 05.31 Was 7 32 Wes Was32 OL he 34 We WpS38 Ways ag’ Jo RioT dn 37 Le) dpe gt ‘sand way ling wih Bc tnighs 7 M8 39 He? $16 40 Bed gs 41 Baas 816 42 Be7 Rxe6+ g7 44 Dxe6 Dts 45 Bar ‘and Black resigned, TtChapter 14 d5 2 exd5 Wxd5 3 Ac3 Was Stonewalling or what?! With this move Black either expresses no the inital stages of the game, but rather he is aiming to avoid exposing the ‘queen o early harassment fiom White's pieces whilst developing his peces {0 sensible squares. Or he plays 4 quite eilferent formation involving 3 (quick fancheto ofthe king’ bishop initate play against d. I he stonewall approach is okay, then, as with the variation 3..WeS+, ‘is may be telling us tht the slight loss of time Black eedes with his two carly queen moves realy is not so significant a all afer White prevents ‘insel from putting up a two pawn cente by 3 Be ‘The earliest known Scandinavian game, as reported by Lucena, featured this very retreat. Castellyt— Vinoles as 1 of dS 2 ord Wad 3 ed Wa 4 ed O16 5 DO gs 6 nd x63 7 Wi es? "7..06 would be the moder interpretation, lam sure #8 Wxb7 Dhd7 9 QS Heb 10 Dxa7 OG M1 Ores Deeb 12 dd DAG 13 Abst habs 14 Was Da7 Jef dS 2 exd8 Wsd5 303 Wd8 31 1S d5 exdS 16 ed Ado 17 Hai WY6 18 Baas Woo 19 4 Lxt4 20 aT 200 21 Was mate Michael Adams liked this opening whenever he was playing with the ack pieces against one ofthe big boys in Frankfurt 1999, Svidler - adams Frankfurt West Masters 1999 ed 482 end Waa 3 D3 Wa 4 a4 46 Set Afr, by wanposton, $ © 66 gS Adams chose o defend with «AE apint Leto inte same event Fay cntinsed 7 al? ext 8 422 Bevand twas nvm stave 3, Aer § 28, Kowonias played 5.66 ve Taermisdanas at Kateri 183 and play continued 6 Ret c6 TAN ANS 8 00 eT 9 cd Le? 10 ‘#re2 00 11 Wbs Wes wih an eqaiy similar olnes of the Ackine In Baklan— Lopez Marines, Anos Open 2001 Whit developed ss stally ih gS 6 Wad cO7 Ope, but he ead show no ee52 Jeb ds 2exds WedS 3 Oe3 Was Jes dS 2 exd8 Weds 3.03 Wd8 33 ater 706 8 Dg eG 9 Dee? DindT 100-00 S611 hi Hs 12 LEA eT {3 cd Was 14 dS Bad’ 15 Wxd3 00-0, and the game was drawn in 42 a ferent response, 9-H? 10 a3 Axci 11 bxed det 12 1 al In Markov ‘Yegoslav championship 2002, White threw the reponse, i, The 1 ie ee Mees Ged Rpt? 705 Lis 8 gd Bg6 9 Mt ‘lacing ofthe bishop atc allows time for this extrication manouevre. 13, Hs 10 ege2!? haa 11 4 LS 12 Sen gf 13 ft Was 14 WE Hed cS 14 of eb 15.03 WeT 16.AE wba Gretasson ~ Monell Camarasa, Bolagaguer Open 2001 saw quite a s 14, bxc2!? Cheeky, 15 Hel h7 16 Os Wa? 17 Wb3 06 18 d5 cxd 19 and Black decided it was time for some fun, 24s Sue to iat bes 21 Hacd nes 22 ua, ot ter espe in Teudap 7 pt abl 18s Was 19 Obs Weed 20:82 et ‘sccenpleaton and war le Many aden aed, tthe hy a otf te, ad Bek ‘sino eh andl toe antigo ce pie sincere ane mae aghnn Sng a fhe 201 Nore Opesn Sere ater’ Ac 6 WR TO Than srag elect och bos wot wll Whi eToowersaners acoder moot oots 100-0 rato TS Ac To Wied Wade ade lack pe dct ot pba Ink gue ay sera fa ge 14 ngs Wet 19 Aaa oh connie stacking chances for Whit, instead in LPerez Lopez Martinez Varadero, 00 we saw splendiéadventures ater 10..,uxc2 11 Wke2 Wad 6S In Fressnet ~ Milnic, European Championship, Sait Vincent 2000, lack hep the bishop behind the pawns with 6-DS'7 bd 06 8 00 Le? and siood slightly worse after 9 05 0-0 10 Hel a5 11 a4 b4 12 @e2 Dds 12 Wen! (12 £4 is ceainly worth a lok) 12.-Sixe3+ 13 bxe3 Wre3+ 14 ar “402 Waal 15 Hdl We 16 Ab? WES 17 QxI7 0-0 18 Axl! gxl6 19 7 eS 06 8 gh p69 bt ‘Wro6 and the atack triumphed. By analogy with lines of 3.._aS where Black permits his bishop to be 10. dS also fared edly in, eg van Wissen ~ Del Rio Angelis afer the eran bant reaction of 11 xd! exdS 12 We2 sxc3+ 13 bxed WeS [4 hs!34 Ded dS 2 exdS WedS 5 D3 Was Wacde, 15 I Weal 16 West De6 17 Deb 0-0 18 He7+ HB 19 hres 16 20 Wht Baed 21 2 and Back resigned, ‘Asad day forthe romantics, as Knowledge beat The River ofthe Anges 10247 Wea A recapture not possible in the othe ine. 11hS Sed 12 Ores Dred be “Two days Inte hit position occured asin n Lat — Adams, and White said succesfully wi 12 Le) 0-00 14 WD as Michael wat tempted fo lake the bit and after 4. Bibtr 153 xe} 16 bxe3 Sxe3+ 17 He? Axal 18 Hxal (5 19 pxf5 exiS 20 451 exd5 21 3, Black's game was too ragged. White was onthe way fo consolidating afer 21.68 22 WES Ga 25 Wd b6 2424 £8.28 Wet Bos 26 AS, and he won at move 63. 13,.040-0 16 We2 06 15 A? 246 16 040-0 ZheB 17 £4 We7 18 WO. ss “The standard bid for counterpay, 19 dxeS cS 20 $1 We 21 Wae6+ bxc6 22 Be? Ded 23 Bet Peter must sil have hoped to make something of his bishops. 23,.ste7 24 Bras Heat 25 Eat De dS 2 exd$ Wad 33 Was 35 1 would have kept rook on the boat, following the advice which David Kumens told’ me he received ffom Kagan at the 197677 Hastings ‘ourament on how to exploit the posession ofthe bishop pat 25. nd 26 ad 96 27 bug6 hxg6 28 ££5 26 29 04 D7 30 er oS M a3 exC4 32 Ratse Sede 33-3 a5 34 Ra? bs 36 bd axbd 36 ards Shoring it up 37S e838 ed (8 39 guts gat 4043 £4141 Rats Drawn, Pethaps Mickey is more ambitious with Black in other German cites? ‘nd against weaker players, Fischer -Robatsch Varna Olympiad 1962 1 ef 452 exds Wd 3.03 Wat 4 4p The Fanchetoweatment Marinkovie~Vukovie Nisic 1996 saw White do it 10: 4.8 5 6 6 yer 709 deo d ge Wes 9 et BW 10 Hes hus 11 OOO 1D #220 adie game was drawn move 38 sac Mying to acute the dark squared bishop. in Dein — ama Fg Nes ork pip 1993, Roman went $00 dg? Bed ‘ub? W308 Rts As 9 Wed a6 10 ph Leb 11 00-085 12 409 AT “tha comple station fom which he machine eventually best the man White ok on he dragon in diferent mode in Zntinov ~ Koti Nis, 91. wih $80 ine 6 ps g7 7 Waa BS 80-0 be 9-AL gS 10 ses eS 1 Qxes Oa 12 with an ee, and in et anther mata in Saat Payen, Capel a Grande Open 2000, wit SOE) Ag? 6 At One ap 00546-00969 Het 0-010 Ba The gt 12 eS ed 13 #4502 and agin ed merged wih supe36 1 e4 dS 2exds Wed Os Was But none of these is superior to Fischer's charactersically direct S87 ‘The point of $ 244i wo cross up the plan with 06, FS and S67 bby mecting 5.ih6 with 6 es! wat Fischers novelty, and stil regarded a very good one. 6.216 On 6..Wsds 7 Wxdd Ards 8 Obs! White will emerge with the advantage of the pat of bishops, or even more should Black blunder with B.-BAb27 9 HDL 6..Lxd4? 70-00 gives a rampant intaive 70-0.066 On 7.045 & ANG?! Lxh6 9 Wans xc3 would grant Black good counterpiay against the weakened White king, But 8 Lest isthe correct Fesponse with White ont, ne Seaght to work 8.0.02 alk about casing into it 8..ixh6 9 Wah 215 was a beter chance Black's game is already rial hat ‘Simplest and best Bobby went straight forthe throat 9a 10 NS gxhs Opening the g line and spliting his pawns, before White peels open the h line 10,-xhS 11 Be? 26 12 xg? dong? 13 HG sys 14 gt! Has 15 5 ‘]hs 16 abs exhs 17 Hxhs 45 would have seen the Fist of tree curious ‘nd important possible pins in ths game; 18 g6! and wins 1 as Qva7 Det dS 2 exds Wad5 5 Oct WAS 37 11,45? ran into double bishop pinning in 12 Ws. 12 ger Bas eet lg is lost in the face of such a rampant atack. Had Black played Bing then afer 1 Hdgl the poston i mentioned at Tim Keabbe's ‘pun Chess Diary, Bry 234, on January 4th 2004, He describes it at nother kindof double minor piece pinning, a it al pins both the ight at ‘andthe bishop at 7. Although either might eaptre the bishop ath it “ald only be opin the er bythe rok a He also ineludes at hat entry 2 question involving the nature of hal pins, ns and noa-pts, the solution te which involved a game between myselP "nd he very well-mannered GM, Jonathan Parker 13.0 14 gas O06 15 Bagh 15,.cob 16 xg7+ Qixg7 17 Whe Heb 18 Hes Was 19 Engi OS 20 AxfS Black resigned, Robert James deemed that one ofis 60 Memorable. In his saner daysChapter Four: 1e4 d5 2 exd5 Wxd5 3 Dc3 Wd6 ‘may be tht the Bulgarian GM Donchev and ex-World Championship challenger, David Bronstein deserve It ofthe eet for the populrisaton ‘ofthis move, as they started to deploy it with frequency from the end ofthe 1980s. It porcular appeal has been in conjunction with a swift, & move a serve a pve he may fro steep he White ight Lato payed so aginst Kap in 1979, but without sss. Busine the the iden as segue some highly ranked OM sepponers,s0petape ths sees to give fuer afimatton to len Tinman's commen fom a0 ineovsw i (080, that there are many viable and untied Hess Inthe pening oven before the AS move {Avalid observation even after the coming ofthe machines!? OF the four essayed queen moves at move three for Black, i is fur 0 observe that, whereas with the others its more likly to be a safety fist, "spproach inthis lin, far more often than with the other thee, we see Black ‘eying foc active counerchances inthe opening stages ofthe game. With 3. stil mainaining its status as most popular choice, itis 3.86 currently challenging for top spot in the lies stemming from 2 Wd, vi still many untapped veins of ideas rich in potent. Led dS 2 exd5 Was 33 Was 39 white plays 3 White plays #3 White plays hos White plays es Whit plays 3 Barly eS and aters White plays 263 Karpov — Lutikoy [USSR Sparakiad 1979 1 of d5 2 exds Wad 3 2e3 W464 a4 4.086 [Aer the very different approach of 4.061? 5 e3 6 6 Wed £15 7 foged eb 8 Os gO DHA HO LOKS Ah7 11 ds dxd3 12 Wedd Black ‘was equal in Pavlovic ~Cieak, Zurich open 2000, and went on o win, sme story in Jans — Cicak, Passau, 2000, afer 4..c6!? 5 OD figs 6 de} 06.73 BAB 8 WaEd 2G 9 006-0 Dba 10 A Wes, and OF at ‘moved, In Kovacevie ~ Radibatovc, Yugosay team Championships 200, play went $203 gs 6 hed Dad? 7 ed Dg 8 Wed 06 9 4 Whi 10 23 Was 10-0 le? 12 fel 0-0 13 hs hs 14 bt Was with balanced chances. 308) I you are ever unsure as Black where to put your queen bishop, bear these episedes in mind: Shor ~ Sulava, European Team Championships i oo, "3 £3876 WA Cope ek 7 ho 068 A WOE 9 ‘ge? Best?40 1 eh dS 2 exd8 WrdS 5 Be3 WA W0Lc7 OOPS!, and 11 a3 came with eect (10,25 11 WS wins). And then there was Andre ~ Dobosz, Dortmund, 1976 where after the canny 5 hi ‘215? was alto played snd swifly regreed, 6 Ws! WeG+ 7 ‘Tet o6 $ 0-0-0 Wes 9 age? e6 10 gt gs 11 te We? 12 ht RDA TS HS ‘Bach Lt hag a 15 gS and Black resigned. In Weaberg ~ J. Fres-Nielsen, Rilton Cup 2903, Tom took a radical approach to the eft of the bishop a 67 by 5 ed a6 6 Wd2 OS 7 BP. hay took a tum for the ungsualafler 7. AB? B 3 Qlbd7 9 Zge? 6 10 eal? Bed TT fred eS 12 3 eT 13 O00 14 Bad cxdt 13 oxdd cS ‘with unclear hanes. White won at move 36, ‘Alternatively, 7 © b7 § Se? Dba? 9 0-0 6 10 a4 D4 11 a? Le7 got him nowhere in Mazi ~ Sermek, Bed Open, 1999. Sua6 Blacks teatment was no ctve enough in Bologan Muse, Berlin 1995, and aller 5 pe 6 h3 £13 7 WxI3 c6 8 Bed £6 9 0-0-0 We7 10 bl ‘iid? 11 Bt Eiko 12 g¢ HG 13 he his postion was passive and worse and White won at move 48 ‘An uninspired muse, Ges 6.26 Zaragaski ~ Gofshin, Saerland Stern Hote, 2001 saw, Black fry the fiance, and very effectively, 6 BS 7 WE2 BOT 8 £14 WDS 9 Des 26 Let dS 2exd8 Wsd5 3003 Wd6 41 100-0-0 (10. bd71; 10,517) 11 Wed e517 12 dues BxeS 13 Wed DhS 14 Wes xf 15 Wet 0-0 with a superd type of Sicilian for Black, who won at move $0, In Fernando ~ Spragget, Portuguese Championship, 2001, Black came uta the opening ntact afer 6. (here beter timed!) 7 Wa2 €6 8 0-0-0 £69 0nd g6 105 B5 11 Dxgshxg6 12 De Ws, drawn in 35 moves, am a los o explain much ofthe following gamelet to you: Manaca Sulava, Lido Estenst Open, 2008, 6, 15.7 es eb 8 ga Ones 9 exlS Sgt 1OWWES 66 11 0-0-0 Exhz 12 Hah? Wh? 13 d5 Bed (13, We?!) 14 \xe6 Bxe6 15 xa6 WT 16 205 WHS 17 WHE eS 18 fhe6 Wes 19 27 106 20 Bxb7 Ha5 21 Bes Black resigned But, whatever those guys were on it was heady stuf In Vajda ~ Borisev, Eger 2002, he played 6...2g4 and events took a strange tam afer 73 Bhs 8 pit? gs es 9.0045 10 ig? Deed 11 fred o6 12 Dad £62! 13 Des bags 15 We ‘Wg3+ 15 SI and White's messed up game was less serious than Black's, nd he went onto win in 48 nove, Roman Dzhindhkashvli interpreted the opening in a more restrained manner as Black against Nick de Firmian in their game ftom the USA Championships of 1997, with 6.06 7 Wd2 Be? § dB 0-0 90-00 BS 10, DygS ABT IT AES Wes (2 bt42 Le dS 2 ecdS Wad5 3 D3 Wdb Wen de Fimian plays Whit, normaly not lng befor th action stats 12d (T2.daxg2? would have exposed him toa fearful atack down the g line after 13 Bhgl_) 13 We2. So imposing i the White build up ‘hat Dzhindhi understandably reasoned that, rather than making any counter emenstrtion of his own, it would be smarter to seek simplification Iuubit 18 Qed Bnet 13 nes C6 16 eS Exes 17 Sxek xed ‘Wros A.d6 and the svaps having brought Black to near equal chances, they apyed it drawn at move 36 {6.0647 ought, in principe, to be viable, but in Nijboer~ Sulava, Metz ‘Open 2000, Black regretted opening up the ezaze before his development was complete. 7 Led ef 80-0 e871 9 Wa2 exds 10 Axdd We 11 4 WS T2AG he? 13 Btel G8 Sad. 14 Od We 15 Wed ds 16 Redo Wes 17s and Sulava resigned. An experiment he was not o repeat 1a 723 brought White nothing in Koch - Pressnet, French Championship, 1999, after 7.068 ase? 90-0 0-0 10;WA2 US It Les Has Tad In Zhang Zhong ~ Arencibia, Ubeda Open 2001 Black tied 7.5 and ret with # Chinese response. 8 ht? ot? 9 x gx 10 1 0-00 Ti 0-0-0 Sg? 12 Sch c6'13 23 De? 14 G1 HAT 15 kbs eds 16 Dxds ‘ids 17 AAD BS Unvize weakener Lf d5 2exd5 Weds 3 Dc3 Was 49 18 gf? fags 19 fags c5 20.04 De7 21 ps Wes 22 dS exdS 23 cxds ul 24 duc! Hd? 25 By? Bua 26 Sed b427 axa exbs 28 et Has "VBI Sf 30 Rxbé Bos 31 ksh? Hho 32 iad a7 33 W5> Oi 34 ed QE 35 es! Heo 56 xd and Black resigned. Dazzingly creative ™ ‘ut 407 hasbeen seen, and White could then think of nothing beter, ‘ion 9 Gi, so there's perhaps a future for 7. A gst? st hiss wrong. With 8.6! Black may well retain equal chances. 948 Obs 10.6 268 11 Ded WaT 12 040-0 "heatening to stand the knight with 1323 12..0-0-0 13 ted would reimplement the threat, so Black isin some icles here. a6 13 dhcb Wad2+ 14 Huh aed 16 Oued Dre 16 Ort als shop pair, queensde pawn majority, contol ofthe d ine and weakened asm pawns, Nobody ever handled such advantages beter than Anatoly 170-0 18 Bhat e7 19 3 hS 20 45 xd? 21 End? 8 22 ba {2625 Sans Bano 2424 Zs 25 54 06 26 b5! russng him, 26g Q 27 We? axbS 28 axbS He.29 cf [utikov was not enjoying it and so here he resigned "hat game put people off 3.446, but Black had viable options at moves o7and “Morozevich - Kura}iea ‘Bled Olympiad 2002 1 ed 452 exd8 Wad 3 D3 Wa6 4 44 216 5 O19 06 6 Le WSM4 1h dS 2 exd5 Wad 5 Bet Was Fianchttoing erly witha vengeance. 7 hd 267 8 Wed 06 In Van Dijk ~ Hasangstin, Olomouc 2003, Black took the relatively unusual step in this opening of a double fisncheto, with 8.5. He rammed up enough counterplay to demonstrate a viable middegame afer Siad ba 10 Dit Bg? 11 hd? 0-0 12 0-0 Deb 13 Hid as 14 Biot Dred 15 Rxo4 @gt 163 Oecd 17 feed €5 18.63 Hac8. The game was drawn at move 71 900.0 In is game with Socko, also ftom the Bled Olympiad, Kurjca had o face 9 a8, Black having substitted« ©b47 for ..b7- After 9.-b8 10 Det Was 114 Ha7 12 0-0 eT 13 ef bxe3 14 bxe3 0-0 15 ef he stuck his ‘queen on Reti’s favoured square, 15. Mab 16 Begs 6 He thn regrouped acute n ner to eal. 7 Bas 18 ed hae 9 aed Suet Woes Waet D kaed SOP $eh aS an they agro dw a move 3. ou Forcing mater, We have yetto se 9, 07d out. 1001 47 11 Dba Hastesng back on othe pitch, Leb dS 2exd8 Wed 3 Dc3 WAS 45 1..b6 12 0103 WAS 13 1 WHS 14 Zhe The fist shades of attack MDa 15 4 his pawn is already an atacking unit, and it was o prove decisive. 15,.WaS 16 Des Qed 17 ha Qxd2 18 End? D6 19 Zed ‘he concentration of White's forces inthe centre makes it hard fr Black ‘o ompletehis development and get the hing ou! of there unscathed. 1907 20 BeSt Bxe5 24 dxeS eS moxt 00 Manful resistance, but his king's defences are in a bad way, and the «cond wave ofthe White atack wont belong. 23 DS WoT M4 Sed Das 25 Dot Moro was nity with his knights that day 25.04 Infietng a8 much collateral damage as possible 26 bxe3 hxg6 27 of ing safety is such an important fctor in middlegames. Here, a in so ‘vany game, it proved to be the decisive one, forthe Black palace was the ‘wore casilyasalable 27afuxed 28 Wred Zac8 29 Wags 206 30 Wes WET 31 121433 Wes Zand 34 ded ‘Again a concentration of eental force forees 2 concession, this time saficent to bing the game toa conclusion. 4. Hs 35 Bue 2 36 6 See earlier remarks 36.82 37 WaeT WHA 38 WOT and Black's defences cannot stave off the imminent penetration, s0 he vesined Short has observed that Morozevich has a unique style, There you saw shat he was geting at 1 Is 32 bd45 1 ef dS 2 exdS WadS 3 03 Wal ‘White plays £3 [Not only isthe deployment ofthe bishop in fanchetto logical in itself, but 83 also prepares the possible aival ofthe other one at 4 with gain of {empo. Black's setups depend on where he develops his queen bishop. It Inns gone 0 £5, g# and b7 Movsesian- Cieak Czech Championship 2001 1 eh dS 2 exd5 Wads 3.23 WAS 4d 6 Annriy, 5 3 016 6 g? 215 7 ged 06 80-0 WaB She goes back home, and could have eached this same postion via a 93 ast? Hardly a classical weatment, but none of the White pices is that aggressively posted, and Ccak makes 5 work. NOD 2a6 11 3 Qic7 12 b4 Qed 13 Hs BS 14 Ket WaT 15 Oibt ‘A sa sight from a man rated 2661, 15nd 16.21 Db6 17 Dd? AS Let dS 2exdS Wed5 3 De3@d5 47 Radiant cenalised, re bt as Via the most unusual play Black has gained superior 1g beas Bea 0 09a 21 OH and 2 aad Sau) 23 Oe a7 awe ‘Some drawbacks of ..AS become apparent. Thos, in coxjunction with ors generated by the entenched knight at 5, make the realisation of lacks pawn advantage very difficult 24-025 ZeS Eat Playing iste 26 Dans Debs 27 Zahs Zal 28 Haat Weal 29 Wes hes 30 O43 ‘And3 31 exd3 as 32 Wha 6633 Zh8+ 217 34 WHS+ Drawn. Kharloy -Vokarov Rassan Cup, Moscow 1998 Tet dS 2 exdS Wad 3 03 WAG 4 3 O16 § 92 06 60 LIS 10.0 e68a4 47 9 Des Aotto be said for9 2848 Deb dS 2 exd5 Wad 3 D3 Was as Wow! 1083 Dba7 11 £4 D6 23 wl ow rn ito 11 bd, 2, sine Re has no cmstne guces move, Kho dcr omen a, is spn war el ges o one * 12 gi? bog 13 hagd Ong 14 age Sage 18 Wags Wiad 16 anieatoiacoooauelwe Obscurity 20,9186 Both sides seem to have difficulty in showing a constructive way forward from here 21 W963 Deb 22 4 HAT 23 Wes Staring an odd five move escapade 23.65 24 Wes ER? 24,.hdf 25 aft Hef dS DexdSWadS 4 2c3 Was 49 CCenainly a funetional move, gaining room and enabling the advance JsbS to come later Not sure what all of the other moves of each sie oreabouts ate fo. 25, 9826 Whs B16 27 WI ack fom her trp around the houses, 7.2 Finally things clarify, and we can now see that White has come out wel -osudinated for defence and stack, 28 Axe? xa? 29 05 Natural, and extremely effective 29,2246 30 We nd Black ein a bad way, M0847 31 WxaTt Weed 32 Wad eT 33 b+! Gxb6 34 ZDI+ wes 8 Wart died 36 Arle Ha3 37 Gadd Bxa3 38 Hal eS and Black resigned. Surprising, and in some ways a shame that, afer such vigorous and ‘onaginative playin the opening apd early middlepame, the Black ideas shen “cup and twas White who took over the wheel Kengls -Belyavsky ‘Bled Olympiad 2002 of dS 2 exd Wrds 3 ed Was 4 d4 O16 § OS a6 6 23 BS 7 er 078006 Black was not careful with his timing in Tringov ~ Donchev, Bulgarian championship 1991, with B..c5% 9-4 Woo 10 Bet Qba7?" 11 €3!7 bo iatba?50-106 dS 2 exd5 Wad 3 Det Was 13 Qd2! Wa7 (13.bxed 14 Bod and 15 Od6+ would have won) 14 ot 8 What else? 13 Sed a5 equivalent o resignation. 16 x6 Axf5 17 Bes set 18 Bic6 Whe 19 Wed Dds 20 Anas hacé 21 RACH" A switch in direction ends it all 21x47 22 We6r $8 23 Bad 1-0 One ofthe ate Tringov's nicest games. 9s 9 Shes has been seen, but 9..Sixg2 10 dng? ought to pose Black no serious problems. 9.86 ‘A natural square for her to be shunted off to, But they"ve been known to drop back to bas. I cannot fathom why 9.8 might have been prefered, butt sufficed for draws in these two games; Uribe ~ Sermek, Istanbul 2000, ier 10 eS ng 11 Sn? A (a aveuredepigyment of Semmes) 12 Wes e317 13 Wra8 xb? 14 Hab) Bed 15 WH WdS 16 CT WHS? 17 Dx Has 18 Bas a7 and Black stonewalled it out until a draw at move 28. And in Grischuk ~ Hauchard Ubeda 2000 10 eS Sixg2 11 xp? cS ‘Black hada less cosy time of i but drew in $2 moves ater 12 23 Ba? 13 eS Bxe5 14 gs he? 15 Qed WAS 16 xs gxf5 17 Ward exdS 18 ‘Be3 He? 19 Qad3 Bac? 20 Bac] Hel 21 Bre} a7 22 Qs d8 23 xd eb 24 ied Hes 25 Gas a8, but twas not easy Le dS 2 exd8 WedS 5 e346. 51 1008 Going forward, but the move leads to no real advantge for White. In Neshukov ~ Hasangain, MKC Cafe Cup, 1999, White also emerged with no superiority afer 1034 a6 11 es gat? 12 a2 016 13 Wed o6 14 De (0.15 Qed eT 16 axbS cxbS! 17 Ox5+ x5 18 Det Be? 19 Led S120 Ges Sag? 21 xg2 Da! 22 Ged Wo7+ 23 gh Waa 2403 2215 and the game was dawn in 49 moves. Kurajica handled it cifferetty “when he faced Almas also athe 2002 Bled Olympiad, and opened things up with 11-eS. But after 12 axbs axbs 13 We? Bal 14 Bal xf 15 AheS! xed 16 Bes! WyeS 17 BAP ba 18 Ded xed 19 Wred 0-0 20, ‘Est he hd problems due tothe vulnerbiliy of his basen and lost n 50 inoves, Taking on 46 brought White nothing in Satyapragyan ~ Sermck, Goodricke Cup, Caleuta 2002 and afer 11 x6 oxd6 12 axbs axb 13 1Wab b4 14 ad WAS 15 eh bxcd 16 Wre3 Wyed 17 bxe3 Dhd7 Black was comfortable tag? 11 song? WoT Equlising comfortably 128 Wa+ 13 x0 Dbd7 13. ib did not prove quite so comfy a ride for Black 10 the shared point but Sermek,afieianado of 3.46, managed it afer 144 Sexe3 15 acd beng 16 Bxad Qs 17 04 Zn 18 xd 19 Oa} eG 20-65 exdS 21 exd5 Qe? 22-04 WE? 23 Kia Hhds 24 Baas Das 25 Taxa o6! and drawn at move 31 in Pavatovie ~ Sermek, Vidmar Memorial, Portree Soot 14 D6 Black had no problems afer 14 x47 2xd7 in Hossain ~ Sermek, Dhaka 2002, and even won in 37 moves 14.006 15 a4 bi 16 Ded 0105 17 25 De 183 a3 ‘A Belyavslyan escapade. He had hopes of string up complications. 1918fet bs 20 a2 (5121 Des eS!S214 dS 2exdS Wad 3 D3 Wal Trying his hardest to weeak a meaningful advantage out of the opening with lack. 22 Kel e4t 23 gp Duds 24 Duds cS 25 Oat 0-0 26 Ded Bad8 27 er hed 26 fixed ined 29 Exe} LA2 30 Sfl Zxe2 31 Heed eS An active 100k on the seventh and the queensde pawn majority leave Black clearly better in this double rook ending 32 HeS h6 33 hd Hes 34 Hal Hxhs 36 HxeS Hb2 36 Et La? 37 gd b3 385 Gh7 39 45 Hs 40 Xb1 Rha at ys Beat White cannot cope. 42 Ba b2 43 Eo Ee3+ 44 6 Zxb6 45 axb6 Zb3 White ‘A powerful game from a great player. Signed Gallagher ~ Gouret France 2002, ef 452 exds 016 3 068 Wad 4 es Ws Via transposition we each the fui ines. 5.44 06663 Sgt In Kundin — Gofshein, Israeli Championship 2001, Black reached equality with 6,6 7 214 WS 8 Se? c6 90-0 ke? 10 Wd? 0-0 11 Bret Ded dS 2 exd5 WedS 3 Dei Was 53 SS. This is an important move order, 3s games where White has not played 48 before easing have resulted in mayhem, afer Black went 00, Tig? Im Glek ~ Kekeidze, Boebingen Open 2000, White changed direction afer TAS Bxf3 WHE 6 9 Ses DbT 10-0-0017 6 11 id Wd 1233 “aS and, afer many adventures, they drew at move 38 To 80-0 Obd7 9 83 LS 10.4 WD 11 Wa2 Maher 116 to prepare the way home might have been better nas 45 coming 12.045 “Tis inadequate, Black's bishop athS ends up a bit ou oft. 13 Dd exd 14 Des 246 1514 De Forced 16 Res dxes 17 4 Be6 sas 18,5 (6 and Black, a wile fortuitously, escapes.54 06 dS 2 exd8 Wed 3 Des Was 18.ReS 19 Ded Sxed+ 20 Wed Weed+ 21 Dred Joe has angled play into an ending where the blockading. knight outclases the bishop and where also hs pawns are the more mobile 21,.f6 22 Bad! 0-0-0 23 e4c§ 24 Edel he 25 S12 e726 He bs Precipitating the eis 27 bat a6 27--cab 28exbS andthe White rook wil soon pour in, Oreven 28 52. 28 bxeSt ducS 29 exbS axbS 30 He2+ b631 Ztel Now i’ king hunt SILABAT 32 HeG seas 33 B1cS chad 34 HaGt 435 Oat and there is nothing o be done about a3 mate, so Black resigned, Bojan Kura vo that of White has used the fancheto oF his own king bishop in response ‘bu with litle jo. Sakaey - Kurafiea Istanbul 2003, 1 d5 2 exds Wid5 3 Ded Wa6 4 dd O16 5 O13 266 3 26 Let dS 2 exd5 Wrds 3 Bc3 Wab 55 vas Mather a prospectess and dreary middlegame awaits Black here. In Assan Karajien fom the same event play went 7p? Sg? 80-00-09 1s Was 10 Wa2 cé and he was jurt ax short of counterplay. 11 Hfel igé 10.8 eo 13 Badl ba 14 Wel Qb6 15 bo Wes 16 2x47 dxg7 17 eb BAB 18 OS and Whit is clearly on top. Kurajica here blundered with 18..2.g4 and sssigned before White won the paw [At the Ljubljana Open of 1999 he developed the Knight to of versus evedihny, But when the positon opened up i favoured the beter veloped party White, 9 Hel eo 10 £4 Wd8 11 48 Qs 12 es 06 13 ‘eb ves 14 xb? Hos 15 A065 16 Kel Be8 17 Wad Zoxdb 18 ‘icp Gag? 19 Hes! BxeS 20 dxeS Heb 21 xe Qa7 22 Dds x2 23 ide? pT 24 EbL a3 25 Qe puts 26 Hal 6 27 sd Odd 28 ‘Zed and, withthe loss of his a pawn imminen, Black resigned that one, 7.8 8 De5 479 Sg? 0-0 100-06 11 Wa? Les Thee is litle Black ean undertke, His position isa sort of poor man's Alekhine Defence 12 Biel OS 13 Ah6 Lxn6 14 Wah6 xed 15 bred Las 16 xa cud 17336 L065 2exds WedS 3 c3 Ws ‘A simple and powerful anack 17.0618 g4 W16 19 gS Wp7 20 Ws (6 21 Dgs Already winning, 21..fugs 22 Wags D6 23 Heb Had8 24 Kael Ens 25 Hie3 17 26 1206 Wig? 27 Lathe Wat 28 06 We7 29 Eh3 hs 30 20 Rubbing tin Black resigned, Koch - Fressinet French Championship 1999 14 d52 exds WxdS 3.03 Wa6 4 €4 26 5g Without 23 Black gets presented withthe chance fo Mick in known, nasty interference move Sgt 1 salute this disruptive probe. 6.8657 Las In Turov ~Brastker, Budapest 2003, White eventually got around tthe fancheto. Pay went 7 ft Wa 8 WAP c6 90-00 6 10 g8 46 II dc? Ded dS 2 exd5 WedS $3 WAS 57 ‘Well, at leat tis move forces the opponent's queen back to 7, 11..B26 35 WeT 13 g3 Qe? 14 hi h6 15 kp2 WAT 16 BS 7. GM Turow was thas not sats with his game as he now venture a speculative pawn Serfee with 17 ed, but my wife's exboyfiend took it and had few ‘voblems although White won in $9 moves Taka 8 Wadd De Active development is certainly right here 9 es Oba 10 War Wess? Eyeing thea snd e pawns. nga Definitely not what you want to play, but on 11 22 WS! V0 12 el eS 13 ge? WIS 1443 D6 15146 White has serambled towards poston of sons, but Fressinet continues vo play vigorously. 16 Hat gs 17 hs Ged 18 Wred exds 19 Drs 19. Hed 20 Edd es Wining. 21 gd nad 22 Wadd Cad 23 gxlS Dats 24 24 Bas 25 Eas De3 26 1Eb3 Had 27 a a6 28 Eb6 Eats 29'b3 BP 30 Ged Ene2+ 31 $1 BeT 3258 Ded d5 2 exdS WedS 3 Bc3 Was Das ps 33 Lbs Md7 34 Ded DAS 36 Hed We7 36 Des Hees 37 dred {ta 38 x7 Dxh3 39 ed eT 40 d3 WG 41 eS gS 42 es ONT AD Digs ico 44 Sed 6 48 FW 0S 46 Zips of 47 DT 7 48 OI hs 49 (84 g6 and White, not before time, resigned, [And that’s not the only nuance to try out against 3 before Smirin —Kurajiea Solin 1959 1 of dS2 exdS Wxd5 3 D3 WAG 4g O16 5g? HSI? ‘Yeah! Let's play some chess! By transposon this postion was also reached in Bologan ~ Hauchard, Belfort 1998, and Black chose 5. 6 6 ge? BI. Perhaps Bologan now decided that he was unhappy with normal formations with the pawn at di, for he came up with 7 b4?. Yer afer Gonos 8 3 06 90-0 WT he had lite to show for i, but managed a dase stove 46 Gash Perhape, as her boy entered his sixth decade, Bojan’s mum started feeding ‘him on Faw meat!? 7 R66 Wo6 8 ige? c6 9 WA3 D610 a3 hugh 11 fag Les 120.040 6, ‘This time he eschewed the tamer fiancheto of his king bishop, and a completly unustal position arose fom the opening moves. 13 b3 O68 14 WHS DAS 15 g4 QT 16 Spd eT 17 ht WaS 18 et WeT19 Det Let dS 2 exdS WedS 3 83 Wd6 59 9.8 Securing the knight's outpost at dis of primary importance 20 digs dined 21 Wrest a6 22 el We7 23 gS 0-00 24 Zh3 16 25 a2 ba 26 Hos as ‘Safely stowed 27 Bhi GacT 28 bt Zo 29 Was fags This may not have boon best. The White bishops start to show an sncreased effect and Smirin gets the beter oft ‘30 dings WaT 31 2ig3 be 32 Ded eds 33 Ret Zh 34 Dads Waals 38 We eb 36 £3 Ged 37 Hues Hees 38 Wre6 Wee 39 SLxe6 ZIl+ oan sia ‘Yet another bummer at move 41.41 xd was the move. ALatbxat ‘And Smirin saw that he had tapped his own rook. Kurjca made no mistake now 442 ind axb3+ 43 x3 exd5 44 brod deed 48 a3 7 46 AS HES 47 46 eg 48 bs Zost 49 sexed Bah2 $0 ed Db) $1 R04 a7 52 ns Eade 83 Les B47 $4 dd ds 58 214 de $6 Rel 265 $7 2s pe 58 tis 6 59 b2 Zh7 60 sig? gS 61 Gu6 GS 62 SexaT gd 63 D6 43 64 Hab gd 68 Rds Hxh6+ and White, at st, resigned,601 04 dS 2 exdS Wd 3 D3 Was White plays et MeShane —Lalie Gibtelecom Masters, Gibraltar 2003, 164 d5 2 exds Wads 3 ed Wa6 4 dd D165 ed Saab 5.6 6 ge? StS 7 ft Was 8 Dg3 g6 90-066 10 Wa? left White facion beter in Sieberg ~ Pytl, Biel 1976 “Things were murkier in Al Modiahki ~ Ciak, Villa de Beansque, 1999 after 70-0 26 8 igs igo 10 £4 WAT, when Whit later went over the top tnd los. In Oral ~ Sehleiter, Quebec Open, 2001, Black wied the rarer option of | the fianeheto. It sufficed to give him equality aftr 5.26 6 3 p77 0-0 (0 € h3 26.9 a6 cS 10 dues WxeS 11 We? Qe6 12 al 5, although White won at move 37 In Gain Feoktistov Russian Championship, 1999, Black experimented with 56 6 Ege? e3. Aft 70-0 a6 & dxeS fhxeS 9.43 Wadi 10 Bal ‘Bags 11 Hel Ade he was near equality 6 Dger An inspired, and already known, pawn strife. Let dS 2 exd8 WdS 203 Wd5 61 {6 b3 happened in Kupreicik Fll, Wiesbaden Open 1998, After 6..06 7 Oge? ig? 8 AM Wad 9 Wa2 0-0 10 Sh6 Vikior Kupreichik one of the world's most dangerous atacking players, was se 0 0 to work, So his opponent tied o bail ov with 10..e5 but afer 11 eS fxdD* 12 Bxd2 a 13 G4 06 14 0-0-0 Le 15 £3 SbGT 16 Oa ek 17 hel 6 18 Ag hs 19-2 Black war not equal, and lost in 40 moves Kurajca handled it better against Vallejo Pons at Villarobledo in 2001, by 6.06 7 Bge2 bs 8 4 Wa8 9 ds e5! 10 dxe6 Wxdl* 11 xd Gncd 12.00 £7 13 g3 Da and Black had no problems a al He also made 6.06 ) ge? c$ work aginst Janey at Mondara, 2000, vie 8 4 Was 9 des Wadl 10 Bedl Sixes 11 00 BS 12 d6 Dba 13 Hel ADT 14D 0015 ba 16 Gad beds 17 Had eS 18 Bed Bed 19 Ob mb 20 exb3 20,,Hd4! 21 Hel+ bs 22 Of a8 23 Hos Bas and he won» piece and the game. In Mitkov ~ Nikolov, opie 1998 things got realy sharp afer Black bit stright back inthe cenize with 6.26 7 Sige? eS, Play went 8 dS 25 9 ‘e3 Gxt (He might have done beter to have delayed tat the bishop's ‘ot going anywhere) 10 axb3 35 11 gs Sigs 12 13 0-0-0 13 Saget WET 14 Get gut 15 We? dbs 16 Bxa6! Wxdst 17 Hat and Black's king was, undereandably, never secure. White won in 55 moves. By contrast & dxeS didnot lead 10 much62 Fe dS 2 exdS Wd5 3 3 Was afer 8..Wudl+ 9 Oud! Qnes 10 de3 AT 11 Sg 7 in Kuczyna Disehinger Essen, 2001 In Tiviakov ~ Christiansen, FLD E World Championship Knock Out, Moscow, 2001, Lary ventured 6,..ig4"? Atle 7 ge? 6 8 314 Wxi8!? 9 xf Bed 10 Brat bs 11 fed Dba 1243 Sas he had equality ‘But 6.25? is not the brightest of moves as after 7 WES Black had 0 put it back again in Tiviakov ~ Boricsev, Golden Cleopatra Open, Cairo, 2002, In all ~ Gause,Politiken Cup 1998, White played 6, yet after 6.05 chose the hardly consistent? a3 Black developed and quickly equalised, R67 8 We2 hd 9 a4 ba (..c6!7) 10 Bed Ones IT dhxed doxed 12 Wet o6 13 0-0 66 14 04 bre} 15 bxe3 fe and drawn in 33 moves. In Stevie ~ Borgo, Leipzig 2002, he played 7 3 and met with the diet 7 ss! After § dxeS Wadl+ 9 Dud o6 10 a4 b4 11 a5 Dot 12 Rade BAT 13 Mad?» Dad 14 06 des 1563 Hed 16 Des {5 17 Ded Wxc6. Black had at lst recovered his pawn, He stood well and won st move 55, Neither had 8 4 gotten White anything in Hamdouchi ~ Kurjca, Villsobiedo Open, 2000, after 8..b4 9 Be? 26 10 4 WaB 11 a. Bojan took itll calmly: 11. de? 12 Axb8 Exb8 13 QeS 67 14 adr dW 15 ee Reo 16 Sxc6 WeT 17 AF g6 18 dacs dixcS 19 0-0 Hd8 20 Wel ‘hg? with no problems, anda draw agreed at move 48, 7.7 was also playable a8 shown in Pergel ~ Cocbe Hungarian Championship 2001, afer 8 Dies 069 8 WO6 10 98!7 Abs 11.00 cot? Black was okay, and won at move 46 White's play was alo somewhat more effective in Lanka ~ Michaelis, Nord West Cup 1999, 6.067 0-65 8 b3 Ab7 9 Bel e7 10.45 0-0 11 We2 Dda7? 12.451 BxdS 13 Axd5 and Black resigned. In Varga ~ Kalinsthew ~ Budapest 1996, it was Black who crashed trough toa quick victory after 6 3 ¢6 7'We2, aiming to castle long. ToS 8 Ab3 67 9 Led Bete to have gone on to 5, pethaps!? 9, bq7 100-040 e711 Mhgh cSt 12 dxcs We? 1b d3 2 exdS Wed 1 Qe3 WAS 63 ‘sor of Skin formation materiales, and Black i very comforuby nace, 13 1 Exed T4 ge Now realy going anywhere 1 63 15 Ixib xs 6 Snds nds 7 gS 0-0 Blk way thead athe nce and sto won fe IR a5 19 2 it 20 abs WO) 21 Hy3 wxb3 22 cxD3 SO 33 Ser be white esined In Crosa — Giaccio, Uriguay Championship 2002, White pulled the bishop ack and e wn the wit itor after 8-879 0-0 he? 10a¢ NP @et wes 12 ator ats 13 0b bued 14 bxcd 0-015 BOL es 13 Cr Whs 17 Let Wt 18 JS end 19 exdS He8 20 Bos Sad 21 xd and ick reigned. Buta couple of saps tet at move leven would fave olded mich noble Kobaja~ Kanes, European Championship, Ord 2001 sw White ao saesop ay ep Gambiting wih at 6 ARS. ARer 6.06 7 0 78 “Egs Dou) White wen fora simple and dee tacking pose. 9 We2 £8be 100-000-011 Set Was 12 at Clearing path, [2x6 1d “2G 18 ed bs 15 Wel gS 16 8b) 2517 bt a4 18 ad dee 19 WD 8520 gt er 21 Dogs 22 eS! and he bashed through to victory by move 36. Doce such © game make you dsie to play an early ..bS with Black? Does me Finally, in Sutovsky ~ Kudischewitsch, Israeli Championship 2000, White tried to tle out any bishop landing at g4 with 6 RS. Kudischewitsch passed66 Les dS 2 exdS Wad 3 ci Was over 6..We6 7 1, which would cerainly have pleased many a player of the Black pices, in favour of 6.c5 7 dxcS Wes 8 A} 66.9 eS Was 10 Dyed BS 11 WA2 040 12 0-0-0 OT 13 gt Axed 14 Weed eS, Batt turned out that White was doing to his king wae just that bit more Sgniicant dan what he could do to White's, afer 15 4ig3 Qxb3+ 16 ex63 e717 BI bs 18 DHS! Debs 19 gas “This poston sos king cess ad safety, not pan sce. 19.8 20 igh c¥ 21 his Wi7 2 4 eo 25 hl go24 onl 25 Wat abs 36 Bob e727 Het s+ 26 Gn g5 29 We WIT 30.047 andthe Back eines are breached, 30, And?” 3) kd? leading tora dei fencrtion, So e ved 30. Rbd8 ‘31 Cet th 35 bs 35 Ws cd 38 Een ro 86 In Patigras ~ Sveusin, Closes Memorial, Bucharest 2002, Black declined nd reached eye, with 6,09 7 Ab) AUT 8 AG (GW) 9 00.c6 10 Bes de 11 kgs Be? 12 Bet 00 13 oS ‘Ning tap the bhop with ct. 1. 60es eo oI Zaller = Seagjen, Geman Chmpionhip 30, 9.7 worked okay afer 10 weirder was Let dS 2 exd5 Wad 3 Dc3 Was 65 (Note an addtional significance to 26 ~it stops the queen fiom being pinned!) Bogdan elects to accept. He is known to work extensively in ‘reparation with computers, and they often assess positions with an extra yarn as favourable, even when other factors might lead sttong GMs to iter He also simultaneously offered a draw, ‘A complex man 73 Ribshtein ~ Kentslr, Israeli Championship 2001, White speculated with 7 W3 Wag2 & Wel Wah? 9 64 Wh3 10 gS. In his notes, Kanter, Who won this game, suggested that with more Mair and attacking ideas ‘White might have adequate chances ere ‘But the cynic in me believes tht he just appended that annotation inthe hope that some other mug would throw those pass his wa’ inthe tre 7oalag2 Hel Wh 8. Wxh2 9 464 and 10 x7 obviously grants White a lot of play 8..WHS!7 may be wort a go. In Feletsr ~ Kurajiea Pula 1999 Black retumed the pain fr sil development and avery involved situation arose fier 9-£f4 BS 10 xe? Ab? 11 Wa? Oba7 120-00 Hes 13 AEBS Ta had Bs, 9 ats 9.847 Back home with the booty. Later Lalic suggested 9..06 as a possible improvement. Cersily 9,65? 10 xe? was disasvous for Black in ‘Atdeleana~ Heim, Romanian Championship, 1990, 10803 Novelty, Previous games had seen 10 and 10 Wa2. MeShane wil met, 10,-g6 with 11 Wes, ezaining the pawn66 1 et d5 2 exdS Weds 3 Bes Was 10.266 11 a3 1145 a5 snot so clea 1106 120-0-0 ‘White's big development lead grant him mighty compenstion, 12.261 CContortng his way out 13 Les igs 14 Bats gxf6 18 a5 05 Blick has a chock a 6 to wrigle out ofthe fotcoming tactic. He returms the pwn pet developed But sl a wel of 16 Rad 0S 17 Dabs h6s 18 SDI 04 19-Dbe3 Was (On 19..Wa8 20 or 20 D3 are excelent. Late hopes to make a go of ‘twit a plug onthe Kings, bat Whi’ ply inte mile proves by farthe more significant 20 Wet Tocach a pawn ig? 21 We? gh 2206 The big one 22.1823 7 Kad 4a Overpoeton oF, bu 24 Was was alo song. 24.inst (00 26,.Wxh2 25131 forces the bishop oa worse square a8 25.04 would be inposbe 25 et Win Now 26 2 is met by the interference move 26..812!, so Black has regained his pawn, but the 47 phenomenon means be is sil show of scaly. 26 Wes e427 Las Let dS 2exd8 Wsd5 383 Wis. 67 2.482 Tactical inaccureies against, McShane rarely go unpunished. Here 27.08 is suonaly mot by 28 Og3, eg 28.03 29 Hat Wy? 30 Red e8 31 Balt ats 32 Kgl WO 33 Wes digs 34 Wh2 and White wins Inu tougher line was coordinating va 27.225! when White has nothing ‘mumediate but retain alge plus afer something ike 28 63 hS 29 ed ‘s Now it ends quickly 28 xfs Wef8 29 Der! Woe 29, daxe2 30 xe? 6331 3 would not help Black 3004 “The horse drops into wreak havoe. 30.5 aa ‘Very cool. The move clears the path back to another action zone anda bocks the Tong diagonal, libering the Knight to genuinely teaten the Black kingside Shad Hence this but the bishop was a key piece68 Jed dS 2 exdS WaiS 3 Bch Was 32 Was Wes 33 aL! Preparing oki the lst Black defender. Bud M gd Wagt 38 Bt [An elegant finale, Black will die down the g line 10 Ponomarioy -Fressinet European Team Championships, Batunt 1999 164 452 exd5 Wxd5 3 Dc3 WAG 4 DO DI6 Sd a6 6 Res 47 7 0-0 bs dbs 77? Very unwise. 8.26! 99st Near decisive 9.6 10 Zed No guesses what happened next 10.67 Vet dS 2 exdS WadS 3 Oc3 Was 69 What lee? 15 axb4 WS 16 We2 Oph 17 as Wre 18 Os as 19 bs! a6 20 ba fic6 21 04 28 and now he did pack tin. 1-0 White plays es | had two Inet games in Ite 2003 featuring White meeting 3.1846 with gS in conjunction with Wd2 and 0-0-0, and sariices at 7 Plaskett—Tyomkin, ‘World Chess Network Internet Masters, September 2003, 1 e445 2 exdS Wd 3 3 Was 444 016 5 25 a6 ‘Another explrable move isthe itt 5. .2g8"7, here not as much of pain a after 3g. Gullaksen-Guerero, Gbtelecom Masters 2003 continued (515 {5 7 WD De6!? & Zbs Wess 92 0-00 10 ¢3 Wa ar which a Sif e5 let Black excellently placed and he won in 39 moves, [imagine Wa Bice 7 ha isa better line for White. In Conquest ~ Babanotis, Athens Open 1997 we saw another one forget that an unprepared 50S? nay be met by 6 WES! a2 570 In Rudolf - Hassangatin, European Cup 2002, play was unclear after 7 AnfS exo 8 ded Ab7 9 AD AAD 10 23 OUT IT af B42 Got Was wes Ton A very dynamic aod interesting continuation. OF course one significance is White now no longer has the most active diagonal for his king's bishop ailble at70 104 dS 2 exds Wed5 3 Oc} Wdb Ate, by transposition, 8 243 Oipd? White really lost the plot in Van den ee Karin, Boye 1999.9 We2 6 10000 de? 11 Bh Sasi? 12 Ged dest 13 Sieg We? 14 We bs 15 0 Dd 16 017 Leos! 17 Bret 16 18 Heel Gxa2 19 $b] bs 20 Oes 0-0 and Kuralicn had icked a nice pawn. 21 ga Qbds 22 g5 hxgS 23 Wags 0h? 28 Wes Wes 25Wh3 anda dispusted White resigned 8.069 a3 06 100-0-0 247 11 Zed Everybody onthe playing feld now. MnBb4 12 a3 eT 13 Det Staring to ster the men kingwards. 12S 14 gS gS 15 Wags 0-0 [At move 13 or 14 queenside casting may have been the sounder option, [Now I went fo him, 16 005 0116 17 Dator Oif6 18 Zed Here come the guns. 18.86 19 Whd Had 20 23 hs 21 3 c522 Bhs exds 23 WES Des 24 alr! Qe 25 Exh6+ 10 ‘That game was played with exch player having just three minates for all moves, soit may not tell us too much. But I enjoyed it Det dS 2 exdS WedS 3 De3 846 71 ‘he nex day atthe European Club Cup, in Crete, this occured, Svidler~ Cheak. 1 ef dS 2 exdS Wads 3 ed Was 4 a4 6 5 gs O16 6 War 15 7 bad 06 823 bd on Presumably to deny the queen b, and o threaten 10 3% 10,87 10 Des eT 11 4 86 12 af Dxf6 13 dd add 14 Weeds Aas is #1 0.00 ‘Whites conceded the bishop pair but retains a spatial advantage. His is the freer game and, once again, there ar similarities withthe (Caro-Kann, 16 Bad seb8 17 1 a6 18 Lhd Zhe 19 g3 Waiting and strengthening 19.407 20 Wed a7 21 O13 Taek 21.68 22 Det 16 Something happens!72 Lod dS 2 exdS Wed5 3 D3 Wds 23.Hes gs Altogether an unwise adventure, Svidler sights on the softened spots on thee tine 4.23 O98 CCicak must have hoped to pull back with a snap atack from the back that ‘might nibble ator even hack at the White structure, and make it rac, but 2s 6s! Peter percepively prefered to part with a pawn for pressure from a powerfl pin 25.cenf5 26 dS! ‘Threatening 27 46 26.005 27 Hel g6 28 Hes implementing the threat of 46 2.98 Forced. 2924 Des ‘Again forced, but his postion as suffered terbly, 02x85 Dob d§ 2 exdS WadS 5 003 Wd6. 73 ‘Now Black's game quickly fs aan. 30.ch8 31 QxeT ExeT 32 Buf6 e633 WR Brel + 4 Wret dd 38 wes Bis 36 WIS Deh? 37 HET Wade 38 Wh7 WHE 39 Cad Whs 40 os! WH341 Des [And defence of is impossible. 20 1-0 Abo, bout a month later. Plaskett~ Zatonshih ‘World Chess Network 25 minute game, ‘October 2003 14 dS 2 exdS Wad 3 03 WAG 4d 6 Anna commented that thie 4th move i rarity Siagse? 5.06 6 Wa? 6 dict gh? 729 BIS 8 Dyed 06 9 Wal fe? 10h Ns 11 EH Ws led ‘to equal chances in Trischey ~ Gubniki, USSR, 1968. 657 040-0 In Thachiev ~ Gerard, Pars Open 1997, Vyecheslav tried 7 @ge? and play went 7. bd7 8 13 e57! Unwise t open it up hee. 9 0-0-0 Le? 10, {Wel!? Bas Nether did this atempe to sor things out didnot work well. 11 xe? ZueT 12 gt Sg6 13 Wy3 1621 14 dxeS Wres 15 f4 Was 16 Odd cS 17 Wes G8 18 Set and, as you ean imagine, Black di not ast out Tong 1.247 8B 06 In Smisin ~ Fercee, Croatian Championship 2000, 8..n6? worked out badly ater9 4 Wd74 Jed dS Dexd8 WsdS 3 D3 Wdb 10 st Qxds 11 Qxds Wadd+ 12 Hed? exdS 13 de Hing 1 and bs. 13.5 14 Qs ext 15 Zxd5 0-0-0 16 ed eT 17 Hhdl a6 18 ESA? g6 19 Ge Hh? 20 Oe? 1 21 xP e722 and Black was shot of equality and let t move 60, 9 ed QD6 10 £3 WeT 11 Hhet 0-0-0 12 De £46 13 We? W6? Missing a tick, 13.808 was beter. 14 Bato gx 15x07! WHET 16 66 Keoeking out the prop. 16.044 17 $b rea She had no satisfactory cotinaton, 18Wxe2 e058 (On 18.he8 1945! nasty 19 Hxe6 Wg? 20 h3 Zi 21 Zdel (5 22 gets Wedd 73 Lal We7 2416 ual 25 Wad Wy6+26 ed Sic7 27 Wed 27g left some hope, Now another serifce brings it al toa clos. 28 He7 Ws 1 of d5 2 exdS Wad5 3 Be3 Wd6. 75 29 Exe! xe7 30 WI4+ as 31 Wa6t DA7 32 DeS WhTs 33 hed ‘Bat 34 Subs heh 35 Axh7 Bade 36 Dadse 10 "liked that one, to. ‘White plays £03 (an Rogers2 Buropean!?) Tet dS 2exdS Wxas 3.03 Was Interesting that long time Scandinavian stalwart Rogers moved on t this ‘modern interpretation when giving his pet opening its toughest tes. 444 0165 a3 tn Sturun~ Ye Rongguang, Groningen 1998, Black succesfully played 2 quick 5, viz, $ Qi a6 6 h3 Most White players have sp ‘igs 206.06 7 Bas Dhd7 8 0-0 5 9 Med eT 10 We? 0-0 1 Bad Wer" and he bad equalised and won at move 39. In Grunfeld — Kundischewisch, Tel Aviv, 2001, he went fora fancheto instead and afer76 1 ef d5 2 exdS Wud 3 Des Was 6057 R3 67 8 Wed £69 Sigs Dba 10 a4 be 11 Det Was 124 bred 15 2ixe3 Was there were chances for bath ides ‘And in Zelcic ~ Keumpak, Ljubljzna Open 2001, he played another formation ently, with 6. es 7 dB Sa 8 e217 ¢51? ¥dnes CxS 10 yes WreS 11 AI? Wb? 120-0 with unclear pay, where White won at move 64 Saget ‘The familiar probe, After the staid 5..c6 White got a small edge in Suipunsky ~Lein, USA Championship, Seale 2008, 6 ge? 06 7 0-0 Be 8 Bet Dros 9 det 0 10 Wd w6 11 Sho Hes 12 Bad Oa? 13 Hel {618 5, and drawn in 28 moves. Neither man searched his imagination too deeply that afternoon 6.2ns Now ground already. 7 ger Ta {wonder whether this is quite so significant here”! Pethaps just 7.6, a5, in racek ~ Kantorik,Pardobice, 2002, with Black okay after 8.04 @d7 9 84 go 10 bs Sixd3 11 Wad es 12 00-0 0-0-0, although Waite won in ‘46 moves. In Jurkovic~Sermek, Pula 2002, Black equalised with 7..2e6!? 8 4 Wa 9 Wd o6 10-0600 Rb IH 3B as 12 gh Sg 13 xg hugs 14 bf bs 15 45 Dads 16 Zinds Wad5. Neither, in tis line, did 9 a5 GudS 10 Buds Wad ae rng Whe mtn in Steve — [Nadanian, Saint-Vincent, 200 after 11,48 12 tg} WaS, ete hn Wa7 9 ast? Gary, as ever, strives to wring the maximum chance of advantage from the postion, but Rogers refues fo let himelf berated. 9.Big6 10Wd2 dd 11 Wd got 12 0-0-0 g7 13 Wed 6! 14.46 1 dxo6 Wxe6 gave nothing. of dS 2 exdS Wad 3 Bed Was 77 Ma Very coo iso 15 cxeT Wxc7 16 6 did not win the exchange because ofthe check on «3 Now White asthe deat, 15, 16 gh exd6 17 Sxd6 Wes 18 Wres Bes 19 Dged Od7 20 gh bs | Pire-type setting, with Black equally placed 21 a3 Ores 22 Dred 06 23 82 Dd5 24 4 Sensibly removing one of Black's best pieces. 41525 46 26 bd Sill hoping t get somewhere. Nobody ever won a game by agreeing it rs, dix 27 Eads pT 285 re..baet Probably an inaccuracy. The a pawn is now a potenti lib 29 a4 24620 a678 Ded dS 2 exdS WeiS 5 Be3 Wal In these endings with rooks and knights the result may hinge on tiny ‘nuances, suchas a pawn being slightly the more vulnerable ora knighton 8 fractionally more effective crit, 30..e3 31 206 gs 31... might have been tougher as then 32 g5 Dxhs 33 gxhs+ doxho 34 [BRIT Hut? 35 Qh ep is certainly not clearly to White's advantage ‘There is now an awful ole at 32 S+ Gh7 33 xed path 34 Dest ying the a pawn, 34.048 35 Rel dig7 36 Hes 6 37 BO+ des 38 Hes+ 16 39 Ket ‘Activating the king. 40.2! nd 41 Secs ys 42 Das Perfectly placed now as it hols 3 and has cent influence. 42.248 (Close toa record, as only now does the rook make its Fist move, 43 dict De 4 3 bueS 45 bued HB 4642 ZS Intime pressure, Rogers loses the thread, 47 ©e2+ x09 48 Bats and Black resigned. A shame that fr sch enterprising and eestve ply, lan Rogers could ‘not quite hold the position. = ‘But Gary is Gary. Mnatsakanian ~ Utai ‘Budapest 1990 14 dS 2 exdS Waa 3 Oe3 WG 4 44 016 5 OF u6 6 a3 Deb In Movsesian ~ Kurjiea, Sarajevo 2003, Bojan once again showed his penchant forthe occasional kngside fancheio inthis system. And, agai, {id not serve him wel Let dS 2exd5 Wad 3 Dc3 WAS 79 6.96 7 0-0 247 8 ps B69 43 bt 10 et Det 11 Axed and he lected to ensure he got the bishop though the weakener 11... White won in.d0 moves, 700 Alioing he in, Mest pope have ot. Aer (yarn 7.3 flack went 7.-£ib4 in Tomes Martinez ~ Narisco Dublan, Litas Open, 2001 and was nota all worse afer 8 dof Seo 9 Sixc6 Wes 10 ‘hes f¥s 11 nds Ord 12 WED g6 13 0-0 xed 14 feed hs 15 Biel Wes 16 Wes 00 ‘They agreed to a draw at move 64 Todt He pins. The interpretation of the opening i simple enough; pressure on the dpa. ore ‘Shirov handled it differently in his game with Romero Holmes from the 1992 Spanish Championship: 8 83 ARS 9 Det!? (Starting his stack!?) 9, yet 10 Axed o6 11 3! 62! 12 WbS 0-00 13 Hel fT 14 ef. Black ‘ght now to have attempted a bail cut with 14..Wb. Instead his 18.957 ‘rat punished in classe Shirovian manner. 15 eS W750 1 dS 2 exdS Wad 3 De3 Was 16 Sings!, and since 16.5 17 eS leaves him splatered he was reduced to grovelling on with 16..20g7, but 17 Abt left White stil with attacking play and the better game but also now an extra pawn, which he Soon converted to victory. A better line had been seen in Hadimanclis Halkias, Patras open, 2001, with simply 11. eT. After 12 Was bs 13 Hel he was ill advised to play 13.2215? as 14 AND lef him simply worse, despite his ulimate victory at move 47. Beter js 13.00, In Kzzakov ~ Ovetchn, Nefteyugansk, 2002, Whit played similarly but without the interpolation of h3 hs, ie. 8 De4 Bred 9 xed 0-0-0. Now he took play into a slightly favourable structure va 10 txe6! Wic6 11 Des Aixdl 12 Geb bxc6 13 Zxdl 06 14 At, and managed to win at move SI, although Black is ony a itl worse there. UIE Anderson, and some others, ‘would sertainly have prefered the ending ater 12..uxe2? insend Things took relly cute tun in Mortensen ~ Sermek, Bled Olympiad 2002 with 8..Wd5!? 9 h3! ed 10 hxgd do 11 ¢3 040-0 12 We2 with ‘White and his bishops clearly beter 8.040.093 2x13 10 WHE 5? Taulbut and Harman assess the consequences of 10..Sid4 11 xd Wad 12 Hadi ae dangerous for Black a they believe that White then has strong initiative 1 am far ftom convinced after, say, 12.Wb6. I imagine that Maatiakanian’s idea was 12 Sxa6! when taking the bishop loses to 13 Wa8+ hd7 14 Wxa6 and Black has no satisfactory defence tothe threat of 15 Zadl, eg. 14,.de8 15 Kad WS 6 Bxd8e dxd8 17 Hal Oat 18 Wo8s WS 19 WES mate. Sill, Black could decline with 12..Wo6! and iis not clear to me that his chanees there are any the worse, Cerny it would have been far beter than what aow befill im 11 Bett xed 12 xed exdd 13 Badd Visious initiative Let dS 2exdS Wed5 33 WAS. 81 13,.WeS 14 Lxe6 bres The eng ater 14 Hac 15 Wa bes 17 Aad i prey eas Dreadful queenside pawns and still a development lag. * 15 WaT wes 15.3 16 Wes+ won the rook 16 24 Wer 17 Wes Black i up the creek. 17.86 17.867 18 Bad was dreadful, oo. 18 WaaGs a7 19 WaT! Wats 19. and 20 Bx would also have won for White 20 Reads Was 24 Z6a Leb 22 and Black resigned, Early Qe5 and others Ponomarioy - Hauchard Belfort 199882 14 dS 2 exdS Wad 3 D3 Was By analogy with ines afer 3..Wa5, Whit rie thie carly knight advance. 6.06 6..657 worked badly in Palac ~ Fresinet, Cannes, 1998. Palac sighted on the holes inthe queenside, and after 7 ett Wes (7..Wxdt? 8 OP wins) 8 ed cxd 9 Wrst Hes 10 WE bS 11 406 HOS 12 ed go 13 We7 LET 14 ES and the pressure caused Black 10 concede a structural weakness with 14.8146 15 Wrd6 end, White continued 16 0-0-0 and won in 64 7 O06 7 E47 made litle sense in Kostenk — Ovetchin Samara, 2002 and Black just played 7.xd and won a pawn and the game. 7.6 sac 8.5 Wd6 9 Rcd ought not to have caused problems for Black in Spasov = Panbukchian, Bulgarian championship, 1996, aller 9.05 10 tb3 AT ‘with 0-040 to follow. And in Paicic ~Zeieic, Croatian Championship 2001 ffter 10 Le? 67 11 0-0 Black ought just to have carted queensde witha comforuble game. In Golubev ~ Kekeidze, Neckar Open, 1997, 9 e3 b5 10 Wd4 e6 11 dees Wxo6?! 12 040-0 dG 13 21 -Axt4 14 Walt led to a White ‘advantage, but Black could just have taken back at e6 with his bishop. 8 WES 96 9.45 Was 10 Le3 2g7 11 0-0-00-0 12 he? tS 13 Wa2 bs was balaned in Slobodjan ~ Suave, Arco Open 1999, In Yemelin Ketel, Talim Open 2001, White produced te speculative gambit 8 te2!? Play went 8..Wxg2 9 £3 Whi 10 206. ".orih play forthe pawn. 10.0611 Bgl hS 12 dS Sed 13 pS xt 14WxE WaT 15 00-0005 Det ds 2 exdS Wad 5 Bes Was 83 Lo Buds? ex 17 nds Hed 18-55 W6 19 Dek Wr 20 Wet and whiehada pret ine 8nikg4 919 S610 2 10 A} brought no advange Zale — Horath, Spi 2000, afer vo ggtt wea gy 129000013 bt Oa, and Black won at moe 3 10.0.0 1 Aes Od move, Ih g6 would row be fine, but Haschac) completed slp inact dh 12 843 o6 13a? 6 ‘White as ch ot of he pein 14 Bf gxf6 150-0 Engh 16 HA 15 17 xed Wed 18 b3 We6 19 Wad ‘go 20 Eat Bh6 21h Lys 22 4¢1 Higo 23 o4 Wa 24 a4 bs ‘White has insuficient pieces to continue the tacking bud up, soe just sic igh instead 25 6 eT 2603 ‘Geting ou ofthe way s the rook can dodge the bishop's prod. 2bndnd 27 Bed c6 28 Wed We7 29 Wes WaS 30 Ead3 Sigh 3114 St 32 Hea (6 33 Wel We7 34 20 bd 35 We3 Bes 36 Ral? Was 37 Zag Eg} 382 Sxt3+ 39 gxf3 Wo 40 Dez84104 dS 2 exd5 Wed 5 Deh Was 14741 i Wa3 42 We3 Wa2 43 a5 WI 44 Del dg7 45 bd HG 46 Ded g7 47 Dict eB 48 ded ne 49 EE Se 0 Ged he SI Wel ‘g7 52 as Ws 53 Wand Was Forcing repetition, 54 05 Wh3+ Dra Podlesnk ~ Pavasovie ‘Hubljana 2002 Let d5 2 exdS Wid5 3 D3 Was 4 4 O46 In Gallagher ~ Cicak, Bundesliga, 2000, Black put up the shutters and ‘merged with a draw at move 65 afer 4.06 § OS gd 6 he? 67 NS BAD 8 AX 66 90-0 Sibd7 10 Hel 0-00 11 es We? 12 Wed do, ete, ‘A tough carapace to crack oberg ~ Cicak, Swedish Team Championships, 2002, continued 7 0-0, Dei 8 gS 06 9:Wa2 We7 Must get out ofthe way before A comes. 10 S14 S511 gs ings 12 begs ads? 13. BA 0.0007 With interesting play. Black won in 51 moves. 16 dS 2exd8 WrdS 5 03 WAS. 8S In Rogers ~ Leong. Singapore 1998, after 4..c6, White played in a more ‘esrained way but came out ofthe opening clearly beter after $3 S45 MB 7 BAP 6 80-0 259 Hel Se? 10S! Was 11 3 0-0 12 Des, and went on to win in 39 moves. Neither was Black's interpretation of this opening, with .Se4 against, Led, a complete success in Glinert ~ Spragget, Canadian Championship, Richmond 2002, 4.26 5 O13 Sige 6 £e2 Be6 70-0 Hi 8} AAS 9 Led ist? 10 Wd2 6611 Hadi Ser 12 te Wd7 13 Wes! 0-0 14 Des Wed 15 134 Bg6 16 Qigong 17 Sc7 Ec 18 3 and Black was lucky to daw. {A rich and complex struggle occurted in Kozakov ~ Hauchard, French ‘cam Championships 1999 after 7h S 8 g8 Sg6 9 Des Deo 10 Des Wes 11 LE Wo 12 LeS> 0-0-0 13 We2 ASI? 14 00-0 bape 15 xpd Exh 16 Bahl Wd6 17 g5 @47 18 92 Obs!7 19 WH eo 20 Bal est? 21 Wess Wes 22 Wreb feo6 23 Rixch onda! 24 Axb7+ (24 AE deed 25 ‘ab? bab? 26 Had8 exf2 27 HP Af5 of 27 Hdl 5 28 EN. 26S and “Bhs ) 24. xb? 25 Baad Bed 26 dxdt £6 and it was drawn at move 42- Imaginative guy that Hauchard sO gert? In Dervishi — Perez, St Vincent, 2002, Black put the knight on d7; 5 ©03 166 Re? Oba7 700.0686 Te dS 2 exdS WeiS 3 Beh Was 8 Bg5 Le? 9 Wa2 bS 10 A Ws 11 a4 D4 with equality. This quiet spproach also brought White litle in Damijanovie ~ Kuraie, Sarjevo 2008 afr 8 Hel e7 9 gS 00 10 did3 bs II 24 bs 12 Ded Dred 13 ‘xed Hs 14 Wa3 ho 15 dxe? Wre7 16 a5 016 17 26 Wds when Black ad equalised. Neither did 8 g3 lead toa White edge in Grichuk ~ Sermek, Porto San Giorgio Open, 1999 after 8..e7 9 14 Whe 10 31? 0-0 11 b4 BMS 12 ads exdS 13 of and 13..dked can be met by 14 d5 followed by Axed (14.5 15 Oe). The game was drawn at move 4, 8 gsi? was tied in Ljubicie ~ Sermek, Croatian Championship 1999 and Black equalised with .c5 9 3 exdd 10 dnd eT 1] Seed Qxod 12 xed WEE I3 a3 0-0 14 Hel e5, and drew at move 31 One of the games that set this fashion ball rolling was JPolgar ~ DDonchey, European Team championships, 1989, where Judit also could not show an edge after 8 e3 cS 9 dues Wadi 10 Haxd! xcS 11 dacs Sees 12 es er 13 A Ged7 14 Bis Ha7! 15 of b6 16 Bd He? and Black had succesfully got i together. 17 B3 aS 18 ed 26 19 bs Bes 20 ‘Dead es 21 ed gS and they dew at move 4 Rozenalis is known for superb technique, but also for dreary White openings. He got zlch agaist David Bronstein atthe Rekyavik Open 1996 With 6 se? 067 00 Se? 8 es 69 Anes Wes 10 3 WHS 11 93 0-0 12.04 Was 13 Wa2 ds 14 Brel xfs 15 Wal HOS 16 Mad bS 17 Des ‘a6 18 Wed bs 19 2s aS and drawn in 28 moves. lack mined his systems in Aveev —Pridorozh, Petrov Memoril, 2002, yup Seo7 Oo Kise kes goo wel der 10 ks Was TEaI 60 as Le 65 2 exdS Weds 3 D3 Was. 87 Asse now hit yon the most emarabl lan of a slow mos vin of 2 pice, 13 Bel! WaT (13-5) da} beds 15 Ads ads 16 AB 06 17 UGE 18 ake ahs 19 Wis ies 20 Bcd 5 21 exdS ends 22 dads? ‘$si523 Bes and White won ‘An ately diferent approach isto immediately rash out £75, as ‘ick did in Hinks Edwerds ~ Haver, French Team Championships 1909, oho es? 7 dteS WyeS 6 Ad} QbI79O0 ob 10 el Bet, and they reed i eawn at move in Rosandic ~ Zecic, Budapest 2003, White conned with hind of 1h en fancied 06 6-03 Bice 7 ye? AIS 8 RC WA 9 esp 00-010 Bat co 1123 Bs 12) g5 13 3 de wis equality. tn his tne 73% dd ot work so wel in Brodsky ~ Kalle, Obonart 1995, vz hacer bees 900 Ais 10 dues Waal It Heal gt 12 004 a7 13 IRF and White won in 29 moves But Black did win with tin Reznn Sm, Lyla open, 2000 ae 8 Wes 9 dnes Sgt 10 Wes Who 11 UO eg 2 Wet As 1 Madr Ag? AWG We, Bet id all 2B shy Blek's response wan most ciealte Soak Nadi, Satt-Vigen, 2000 617 Spe? gS 8 ed Ge6-9 Os gh 10 ed BY Wad e612 00 0-00 wih chances or both ides. Seb881.04 dS 2 exd8 Weds 3 Det Was The odd game Landa — Koenig, Deizisau, 2001 went 5.06 6 6 Wh4 7 eT? €6 Forced, #33 We7 9 eS bd? 10 WEB 6611 Bg} Rb? 12 Deed Dred 13 xed axes 14 des WAT 15 We3 0-00 16 a3 £571 17 ex xf 18 040-0 Rh6> 19 bl We? 20 Bet and Black relied that his sof tsa 6, e6 and, above all d6 are indefensible, eg. 20..e5 21 Wh3~ win bishop, so here he resigned Kuporosov ~ Voss, Seefeld Open 1998 tumed into species of (CarorKanm after 5.415 6 £4 Wd8 7 3 96 8a b6 9 hs Ah? 10 ds ‘xd 11 Wad c6 12 0-0-0 6 13 Bhet Obs 15 WE o6, White won iat move 49, 6AM WaB 7 gs 068 he? Des [might hve preferred going for a swift cS here, In this game Black did 1 goed job oF sing Whites ambitions. 9 e3 46 10 Dges e7 110-0 0.0 1214 ‘Aggresson.but it leads nowhere. Infact he was never to ge aunt even as far advanced a the pawn reached atthe second move 12..45 13 Bel B6 14 265 Sb7 15 Der DaS 16 O2g3 WAT 17 a3 Radi “Mobilisation now complete. Black is under no threat here. 18 Wet Bhar? 19 nL ISI? 20 Zhe ag 21 hug 246 22 La? x03 23 gad Des 24 ds We6 25, Da3 Bes 263 Draw 23.4619 Currently, where it's atin The Scandinavian!” Chapter 5: The Patzer Variation 1 e4 d5 2 exdS Wxd5 3 Ac3 Wes+ How audacious! If this works then we might ask what could nt be 2 ‘able testment™? But English Condiate Grandmaster, Andrew Martin trgues thatthe move is worth Lok, In principle, a with 3.Wd, Blick is going to stonewall it, and challenge [White to show that his exta moves really count ina seting where there i= rot yet much direct conta beoven the wo armies, The known route ofthe ‘een to eT takes four moves via dS-aS-c7, allowing for c6, and i alo ‘kes fou this way. Inthe 19th century 9 guy called Preston Ware played the move a few ‘es, but he sem to have lost al of those games, Perhaps he was a patze!? Personally, 1 find the iden riiculous..but, then, whetes the sense in 1.8 0) ‘Ask Adams. 1 have heard that he considers himself to. have an understanding ofthis game superior to mine, Black can reply 4 Le? and 4 ged. 412 doesnot eave White Bete, a8 you might imagine, 4 Ber90 The Pacer Variation I e4 dS 2exdS WadS 3 Be} Wess A healthy developing move, but aither as dynamic aso 3 nor toe. 4.06500 In Zhao Jun ~ S. Buckley, Oropesa del Mar 2001, White experimented with 64 Wer 6 8 15 7 ger 06 8 0-047 OI 9.6 10 Hel 26 11 g3 6 12 Deed Bxod 13 Axed Dred 14 ‘}xet? and sill nobody understands why Black didnot now safely capture the A pawn suWleT 6 a4 205 How ought White to proceed? Variation | ef dS 2 exdS WadS 2 De3 Wes 91 7 Sot was played in Rendle — Rogers, England 2003 and Black inverpreteditmuch asa. Was line, 706 8 We? Qe 9 es bs"? 10.89 ‘hd 11 0-0-0 Bxe3!7 12 decd nes 13 dees QdS 14 RA? 0-00 15 pe 396 16 F4 St With counterplay. In Cheparinoy ~ Garcia Ortega, Andora la Vela, 2002, White developed cally, 7 00 66 8 ded Qo? 9 WD igh 10 hi “Ag6 (10.:n6!? might have even been Better here) Il Qh go 12 Oxg6 itsg6 13 3 with equality. ‘These mialepames tend to be tuning into 45 Caro-Kann types where ‘white may nominally be a move or two ahead in geting his men off the ‘wok line, bu there's not that much for them o be doing. White red to force the pace, but without sucess, in R. Webb -S. Buckley Portsmouth 2003 ras Early contact, but nt ofthe mos threatening sort 72M6 8 dxe6 x06 9 DS WHF 10 Dad LAT 11 0-0 eS Black has an extra central pawn and is probably already slightly beter. ‘White's seventh move served only to accelerate Black's development92 The Pater Variation | of dS 2 exdSWrdS 5 Bei West 12 Qxee Sxe6 13 Hel dG 14 a3 040 15 gs We7 16 Ded Ores 17 xed Heads 18 We2 xed 19 Wxed £5 20 Wel of ‘Black is emerging on wp, 21 na Edeb 223 14 Intending to do serous damage with 23 Wet Forced, bu it splits his pawns ro dreadfully that eis already close to lot, it not over he ede 23..Wred 24 bred S525 a4 EIS Buckley handles the technical phase smoothly 26 Ba e827 xeS Kec 28 fre} xe 29 Hse fre ‘The rook ending is lost, 30 Het xed 31 Zed Ziad 32 He7 B43 3 “Another losing line was 33 $72 a8 34 shed a 38 hd? HbL 36 e323 37 ‘Rete 7 38 Has bs), et 3..Hb6 34 o4 a8 35 5 EbS 36 He7 a4 37 Heb+ 17 38 HeT+ hes 39 (66 Ba! 40 Hag dhaes and White resigned Rauch — Goldstern ‘Germany 2001, Here White developed quitly.for the nex few moves anyway. 70-0668 Eel 47 The Pater Variation I ed dS 2exd8 Wed8 3 @e3 Wes 98 9 gs Der 9, dle? would have been safe houses, [Now White stized a chance to complicate, but I am not 100% convinced vit 10 0517 exd5 11 Axf6 gxf6 12 Dad gs 13 Dads Wes 14 b4 Wes 18 AfG a8 16 We2 Ans 17 Hadi xed 18 Lxd5 Wes 19 Sxe6 tres 20 Baars het 21 Wares Gr 22 Oecd Hes 23 Wal+ and Black resigned Well, that escapade may have ben sound, but Iam not going to dissect it many deta To avoid such stuff, just play 9.71, and Black is quite equal Conquest - Spain New Zealand 1999 sae saw Stuart developing more at 6 gS! 16 6.5, with 247 and only then Dg 10 note way, low was, of course,94 The Pater Variation | ef dS 2exd5 WxdS 3 ci West 2 IS 8 06 9 Lx gxF6 10 Dns Se6 1114 Me ‘Martin's proposed 11.46 could be better here, and I concur that afer 123 Oa chances would be about eq Sil Spins weamentcntisus by aslo wit fenton sng Gam the | 'e6 2 dds 3 Ou dot 4 Ores 05 5 OxfOr gate line of the CCaro-Kann, and there is something tobe said fort 120-0047 13 a3 ig7 14 Zadl 0-0 15 ht Zads 16 Wed Obs I would ve kept it nearer my king 17 DG Ans 18 De xe? 19 Dine? DAT Right, 20..xe821 Changing the stracture. Might have done beter to have sat and waited, ‘Conquest soon reduces Black's role to tha of a spectator, 21 tyes oh 22 Wh Bs 23 4 ‘A very natural and very effective place forthe horse. The atack shapes op ‘The Patzer Variation I 4 dS 2exdS Wad 3 Dei WeS+ 95 24Hhg7 24 Has Kags 25 E1 Planing quesnsde expansion, o just if to the third rank? 86 26.646 27 cS More space. Black is tssed 27.08 28 Hbb3 a5 29 Zh a4 30 Zha3 Was 31 Ens Oe Necessary, for afer the thd White major piece gets othe h file mate via fen7 wil be hreatene ast (Cute Just as inthe previous game, the White d pawn experiences an ‘unexpected Nimzowitshian lst to expand, Sted (0n32,.0x85 33 Wr, a3Zans ‘The gan of a passed d pawn will not prevent Black fom soon being owed into a wll gzwang, 33.WeT 34 6 WA8 35 WIG! Wal6 36 ex16 Hgt 37 43 and Black, smovebound, resigned 37.48 387 3 39 xd Hos 40 Be will kil him quickly ‘Schripchenko -Tothuizen ‘Aosta 2003 S.HeT 6 a4 es Here White's 7 eS was rational.96 The Pacer Variation 1 ed dS 2 exdS Wed8 3 Be3 Wess White aims for 24 which wil pinpoint the exposed postion ofthe Black ‘queen. That cannot be effectively anteipated by placing the bishop st d6 a8 the preparatory 7.6 leaves te other one up the creek, eg. 7.-c6? 8 a4 ‘Bg6 9 hd Abd 10 6 WdB 11 93 xed+ 12 bxed WdS 13 3 and Black ‘annot adequately cope withthe threat af 14S. ‘So the counter 7.47 was a beter move, when 8 Dd? Wxd7 9 0-0 e6 ‘squite equal, so the sharper sa was played BPixe5 9 B05 WG [Now 10 a2 ef is soi, so Almira experimented with 10 daa? [Now Black ought to have mixed it with 10,.WaS 11 3 f6!? with sharp pila, Instead he grovelled before her wit 10.8 ‘nd White soon showed a clear edge 11.08 Wo 12 0-0 6 13 ba! BI 14 EDI a6 15 04 xcs [After this concession he wil na Ist long 16 bxeS Was 17 2x67 ‘The Patzor Variation | e4 dS 2 exdSWrd 3 Dei Wes+ 97 17.cxad 18 a3 ind 19 Wadd 0-020 EOL Black's queen is right ou ofitand he isin a dreadful mess. Black resigned. 4 Oger ‘Lipman - Sarkar Foxwoods Open, Connecticut 2003 sus 4” 26s ealy, og, 5 4 Was 536 6 Ay? 815 70-066. A pos unknown in pracce, bt sound a8» pound. Could it prove tat White's ‘ven tempo, 8 Black fkes tres mover ater than the stl evo to get he {ueen 025, oie authente value bere? a4 We7 6.216 Ws ‘Ought nt to take four moves o gett there, and White has ben gaining ‘ine siing be about Bu tl, ay White show anything? 7 Wt? 06 8 3 Rest?9 The Pacer Variation 1 04 dS 2exdS Wads 3 Be3 West imagine that 8..Wxb2 would really be aking for it and that ae 9 b1 'Wa5 White ought fo continue with 1 x06 Hxbs 11 2g? intending Sixes ‘or even the speculative 10 d5!. But neither i 100% cleariy nonviebe for Black. Given that development is non-comsmital, Black pefered th 9 42 06 100-0 loco 10..0a7 14 Det Something of an admission thatthe knighton e2 was not wel placed, 1 ieT 12-03 13 Hfel WG [Not tity necessary: there was no threat tothe bishop. 1468 e20.0 lack is fine, White lacks a constructive plan and has mode nothing of| any ime gained through 3. Wes 15 Qed Ded 16 Rxed xed 17 Waed 2817 18 ad R41? 19 He? Was Sarkar conecives a plan of queenside ction 20 Bal bs 21 axbs cxbs Progress. A kindof minority attack scenario. 221903 0423 Det a6 24.043 bs The Patcer Variation 104 dS 2exd8 WdS 3 Bc3 Wes 99 ‘Simple chess. The a pawn is going home. 25 DS ieS 26 dueS e527 Hed Bra, ‘Swapping off potenti stacker. Black need only fend off any last ich tack fo havea decisive advantage onthe queens 19 Hat Zea 29 Bans Insufficient. 29..gxh6 30 WHS 28! ‘Scarperng to vetry 31 WahG+ eh 32 2 Kat 33 Wha ha 34 WS. ‘And now Black attacks. 33,8114 35 03 Wa2+ 36 gt WES+ White resigned. ‘An impressive defensive game. Sil ite theory, but nobody yet sems 1 have found a route toa clear advantage Wil the Patzer, like 3.846, become a respected addition to the sen, of the modem Seandinavian,.or tts load of eap? Watch this spaceChapter 6: The Modern Scandinavian 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Dt6 In fact in the frst decades of the 20th century the world’s strongest players were already trying this out It featured in the games of such az Rubinstein, Marshall and Bogolyubov, and also those of future world champions. Here ison carly experiment, Michelson ~ Capablanca ‘New York 1915 1 tds nds 016344 3c leds ply tak ito an anodyne vation of the Abin’ bere i ch as ie ye erpinn nt Egr3s ads Bet Oh ce ale oay) 325 6406 8 0-0 Re7 9 RES 7 il aiden The Modern Scandinavian 1 24 43 2 exdS Qf 101 and here 9.00 would have been fine, Instead, in Mok Tze Meng ~ ‘Wohl, Jakarta 1993 Black went aftr a bishop with 9.225 10 Wed ©xb3 11 axb3 040 and stood equal aie 12 HEU c6 13 Dot G5 14 Be be 3 AxdS 4 OO gh 5 Le? €6 60-0047 7 4 DS Better here than at 6, 8 ed 069 4S bs 10 dxc6 bxoh 11 Wad xed 12 xed 0-07 13 Waes Heb 14 Wae Des 15 Wad CMfed 16 Red Hes 17 HA We7 18 xcs Hes 19 Rad Af 20 009 Has 21 Wh? Shes 22 Hal Ha 25 War ho 24 Bes h7 25 Has Bhs 26 gs Wer 27 he? That di ot lp 27. Wsh 28 tg2 WpS 29 We2 g6 30 247 Oxa7 31 Ed WIS [And the e pain can be dealt with 32 c6 Ea} 33 ib? Bxcd 34 06 Has 36 Wat Bxd7 36 cxa7 Was 37 Was, ed 38 13 He2+ 39 wigs as! 40 d8—W Wel 41 t4 o5- 42 Ways InxgS+ 43 dings diyT 44 Wade 06 45 Wad Wels 46 14 Hed and White resigned. José Racal rarely misasesed the value of gambit, ad so such high lass patronage made people si up and pay atetion,Chapter 1e4 d5 2 exd5 Af6 3 2b5+ ate te mos tao sponses the Mode Scanian, na cre of eg ex-World Champion Spay. Ia down one snot of tery player of he Waite pes wed ew 7 3) 3.ba7 baukeT 3) 3.f0baT Dai is patomge fom some ce players, this move doe nt cxpmeoe Arde 6 ANUS ean eta ve pane ching obs Sad 7 Bd Ab7 8 St co 9 bs Hace To 0 AS ve5 4)5%6 12.4 and White is simply better. camaiaainl ot dS 2exd8 OY6.3 RbS+ 108 Alternatively, Thorallasson ~ Rocha, Itanbol Olympiad 2000 also saw ‘Black filo get ittogetber with 7.506 8 Sc? e5 9d axbS 10 Oxbs 36 11 © c3 exit 12 Was Bes? 13 Wag WA 14 Webs e715 g3! Woe 16 Wash? 67 17 ed Qe 18 6 Weo 19 ps HaS 20 Safo> Wale 21°Ws Ho 3.067 silly, 0 1b) Sea ithas to be. Now: bipd der rorrey 44 xd? Wadi just acclerating Black's development and so making the gambiae Set oo 6 dco Onc ll the mare sifectve, eg. 7 0365 # (0 e89 Hel 0-00 10 gs WES! 11 @eT kes 12 Bit Ops 13 ahs {Dati 14 Wel Bie 15 dé snd bere, in De Rivere—Duboi, Pars 1855, ‘Black should ave capped off his swashbuckling 19th ceatary escapade with LSeud! 1607 Wat) 17 hed Oh3? 18 pubs xe3™ 19 2 Weer 420 We) Weds 205 Qe and Blick wins 8. dLeS was another tral way of geting a ees game in this ine bid er104 106 dS 2 exdS 65.5 Bbs+ A bit Timp, White ought not o emerge with plus, eg. Sedina - Ye Rongguang ‘Groningen Open 1998 42nd $4 g6t OF course 5.4/5 was playable, but 1 prefer the dynamism of the fiancheto, After 5.265 6 0 6 (6.05 7 dxeS Was+ # c3 Waxes 9 0-0 ©c6 may well be worth ago, despite the result of Dgsbaudze - Wameer, Haslem Open 2000, where Block resigned st move 16) 7 0-0 eT On 8 of bs, but I would prefer 8..Ob6!2, even, as in R Bellin — Georgie, Linares Open 1997" and Lanka ~ Prokopehuk, Russian Cup, Kasnodar 1997, and Black ought to havea variety of satisfactory methods of chiselling away against the White centre, 830.09 Het e5 10 W3 We7 11 os Ob6 12 Kf1 Deo 13 a3 26 14 dueS xcS 15 Det Ores 16 Wrot RA6 17 Bed ef 18 Zadl eS ‘quaised in Degraeve — Rausis, French Team Championships, 1998, 8 a3 0-0 904 6 10 Gc} £5 11 Sed Deb 12 b3 We? 13 5 dS 14 Dad ends 15 bd 36 16 Hel Fes 17 Wa2 hes with a healthy equality for Black in Sviier~ Teresbkin, St Petersburg Open 1994, He was less adequately placed in the early middlegame of A vanov Suenzwilk, Foxwoods Opes, Connectict 2001 after 10.6 11 23 tS 12K3 25 13 Hel WaT 14 8 Das 15 Ss b6 16 Was Bie 17 Kedl Dee? 184, with White exerting pressure. 600 £e7 ‘A moe testing move order is 6 c4 6 7 3 asin Bronstin-Lutikov, Leningrad 1960, when Black must watch out for 7.87 8 e5! Be 9 5 with vantage, 70.0 0.0 8 c4 0069 3 e51? 10 dxeS a Tet d5 2exd5 Gfo3.Rb5+ 105 aking imaginative use ofthe positioning ofthe bishop at 7. This anabe son vy nce for Beck 119843 Das? 12 at (On 12 xb? Dees and wil op. 12,0608 13 Was WoT 14 D6 tempting reduce ve ofthe pressure on his quensie. 1414815 ed (51916 2e3 Dac 17 bx b6 ‘The suctual damage has been infeed, and Ye sow sets shou incressing is positon 18.20 Zach 19 205 Abs! 20x05 23 Transformation of advantage, This pice ely a giant octopus 21 Leb 0522 Ags Ba 25 Hab ett Percoptvely appreciing that hee the piece at 6 ib ely ony coset and tha he Black tshop wl eat ett selene a 9 Whit rook Fendi clever thes Chins. 2 td 25 Wo sp? 26 hed x46 27 Wer Das106 164 dS 2 exd8 Bye 3 Bb5+ We des29 0 Wes Curtains, 30 Bret Despair 31.ofted 31 Wred Oxt2 32 Wo7+ Wh6 33 Ean Want wage 33 Eat Waitt 34 hI Hef and ta) 4 bes More challenging. Now: b21) 4.ig¢ and 222) 4.bs 021) 4uted 4-45? 5 Des bd 6 43 467 WO eth problem if Black does nt play wd int White ten does nt wan tpg ES ; 164 d5 2 exdS 0Yo.3.4bS+ 107 Spassky ~ Kudinoy Rusia 1960, so SRS Retreating to 8 is certainly an option. In Spassky ~ Ulmanis, Moscow 1972 White was beter after 6 Ded bd? 7 Sige? 6 8 AES g67 9 Ott ‘ig? 10 dt 00 11 hd and Boris went to work with one of his atacks. But ‘2x5 is viable, bat perhaps most noteworthy is 8.351, asin plana ~ Vescovi, Rio de Janeiro Open 1998. After 933 bxd5 10 Gxd5 eds 11 of BIG 12.446 13 ed Le7 14 000-0 15 4x3 06 16 ‘Wel a6 17 Hal eb!” 18 Dot C6 Black had equalised and later won. 683 Oba 7 Oger A big sternative in this line is 7 We2, bat an analysis by Anderson suggests that thas been drawn ofits poison,108 124 dS 2 exdS By 3 &AS+ 1.068 bs Wa7 9 4619s rky move used to be though of as 2 headache for Blac) 9. 6 10s WATT Wes Black may repue White's pawnegabbing chery effesvely with 11050-0123 Gea 6813 Bb) Ms 18 ae! Pt gg By hn Emme Te positon is prety unchare,alfoaph lack won the 1990 Corespondenes game Casey ~ Wright ae 15 Ded © Now the staal reet square ofc? denied he Back mages the queen aay toon Instore 163 16.051? 17 4 Obs and Black had the advantage and won afer 18 $1 eS 19 62 exd 20 dxd4 Sixbs 21 Bloxdt eS 22 3 RS when the ‘White king was one the happiest. ‘Thetis also 16..0b4 17 Ded eS 18 OFS ext, with the White king again forced to live in.he central street, of 17 cS 18 Dec3 645 19 ‘Bet SLb6 20 44 eS! and White had best scarper whilst he ean with 21 040 ‘exd4 22 a5 WybS 23 axbs Wsb6, a6 21 dyes Hhe8 would leave him inthe line of teri re. ‘Black has here an important American resource agaist 7 We? and9 Against 7 p4 b61 8 We2 Sc6 9 WS insists upon the retention ofthe ‘eta pawn, but at the cot of a somewhat uncomfortable placing of forces for White In Aronin ~ Shamkovieh, USSR 1959, Black came out well afer Let dS 2 exdS OY 3 25+ 109 9.96 10 63 Sig7 11 Sb2 04 12 0-040 a6 13 Sige? Axe4!? 14 bres BS! ‘when he started a characteristic and nimble Shamkovich attack ‘Aint Bois in Vancower 1971 Banks prefered 10.87, and White sth developed ‘a superiority after 11 0-0 bS?! 12 d4 0-0-0 13 Sb3 hd 14 Bie is wes lect Odo 7 Bec i Spasshy always liked to advance this pawn 11.06 12 0-0 eS+ Here regrouping with 12. e117 certainly hada fot tobe sid for it 13 dd e715 {5 extS 16 OaxfS £xf5 17 Bxf5 D6 18 3 and Whit had the bishops and pressure and realised the advantage at move $1 2) dubs § b3110 104 dS 2 exd5 GY 3 BbS+ Spassky — Hamid "Teheran 1992 Sgt ‘The stuctiral weaknesses with which Black emerged from the opening after 5.5 6 ad brad 7 dad dad § Brad WhdS 9 5 Wes? 10 Wed ‘Wre2+ TI dixe2 in Behm ~ Stenawilk, Allantc Open, Washington 2002, left him compromised, although he dd suceed in holding his much bigher rated opponent to a draw. In Losey ~ Maljtin Moscow 1990 he prefered 1 Bd 83 6.90.0 het 10 OeS Aad 11 Ha O90 wih unclear play 6.kc8 1083 7 We? is an atempt o exploit the early BS. ARer 7.06 838 b4 9 Wes ‘West? (9.06? 10 dees xe would fil foi] We2) 10 d3 €6 White payers have been known to decline the destruction of thei stuctures which would {Blow i ie Anes ol 12. abi i vara LAN Mawes Pakleza, Polish Championship 2000 went 12 95 2b7 13 Axf6 ext 14 Wes Da7 15 a2 rds 16 ed Red 17 Wres Ha and was drawn at ‘move 32. The Black route to a com life was even smoother in Grecihin jeako, Belavenets Memorial, 191 after 12 tg} Oks 13 @d2 £5 14 ‘Wind Sangh 15 Wags Wie 16 Det as, ee Tub4 8 Det Bxd8 9 dd o6 10 De? eT 1 of! bued 12 bred Whites slightly beter. Chapter 8: Main Lines 14 d5 2 exd5 Df6 3 d4 AxdS 1h dS2 end 06 348 Dua 4 4 Hastening to erect the broad pawn centre afforded him by Black's 2nd 2) 466 4.26 4.4 called the Kiel variation, but isa very silly move, 24.206 By farhe more popular move112 Main Lines 1 dS 2 exd5 Dy 3d als as Oe3 2505 ays Black equalised comfortably in Upton ~ Smagin, Cappelle la Grande Open, 1995 after $Se3 £517 6 d5 st 7 ed 00 B WHI a6 900-0 Wer 10 09 ts 11 at a7 12 Oxb6 axb6 Tereniow ~ Reshko USSR 1962 S08! ‘an excelent and log known gambit tthe principal reason why 5 ®c3 is not offen seen, 7 co | " 6We [Neither do the alteatives seem to lead 0 any advantage; 6 3 exdt 7 ind Oe6 8 Sed eo and, naturally, Black was doing fine in Paoli ~ Commons, Lublin 1978. Accepting the gambit with 6 des gives Black great play after 6..Wxd+ 1 Ord! Qe6, eg, BOE gd 9 Le 0-00 10.4 ADE 11 Ded Dad, as in Gronau — Przant, Hastings 1976, or 10 gS BeB 11 Ded xf) 12 gx bse 13 ft Ges, in Afek ~ Veinge, Israeli championship 1986. Akiba Rubinstein was one of the first 1 take on eS, but even he got no edge ‘agaist Walter, Moravska Ostrava, 1923, ater 8 £4 £6 (8...Le6 i also good here) 9 exf6 ib4+ 10812 gxf5 11 Led Reb, In Hubner ~ Dzhindhikashvili Chicago, 1982, White got no edge with 6 45 afer 6.61 7 BS cxds 8 exd8 ba'9 AbS+ 47 10Wb3 Axc3*, Also 8.26 equalised in Pappalardo ~ Zlochevski, Celle Ligure Open, 1995, affer9 gs 1510 Les 0-0, 6.015 may be adequately countered by the exchange on 44, eg. 6.exd4 7 Wadd 26 8 Wadd cds 9 24 BeG 10 ed go 11 b3 Mg? 12 Rb a7 with equality in Karpov ~ Didshko, Moscow 1966. Main Lines | ef dS 2exds 6 36 @edS 113, Geer? ln Sax ~ Pskur, Ljubljana Open, 001 we saw the experimental 6..We7 and play caved on in novel vei with 75. Playthrough a bunch of Gyula Sin games, and you will soon gather that this isa man more dangerous wnhen he gives pawn than when he takes i 7..Oa6 8 hed g6 9 We he? T0-0-0 0-0 11 dot? exd6 12 Wad Wds 13 Beds Qd7 14 00 Odes 15 bbb.ef 16 bxeS Sxc3 17 Ds Res 18 66 bxo6 19 ¢5 h6 20 xed Het 21 dB? gg7 22 dxa6 with White on top. ‘But 6, xd has eon seen to work beter, eg. 7 O13 WeS 8 OneS Seb 194 Re 10 eS Was with good ply for Black. Reshko's choice leads to aang ply 7 dues 68 203 8 00 5 might have been beter. R659 g6 10 Za Forcing hrm further back?LIA Main Lines 1 04 dS 2exd5 06 3 as ads 10..0b8 No way, Jost! 11 xb6 axb6 12 Batts Dea ‘With plans to pay him a Visit at e2 or. 13 Det Ze ‘And the est was all eeat an, 14 O42 Ode 15 a1 Daas 16 Get Lad 17 Obi Qdd+ 18 er {eds 19 ed Cied+ 20 Sine? eS 21 a2 eT 22 ht 22.4 ‘Another sacrifice to tat another mating attack! 23 doxdd xd? 2405 BS 25 6 Hat 26 eS Sed and White resigned. [Not so tad an opening this Scandinavian, eh? 32)5O0 5.86 Main Lines 1 06 dS 2 exd B63 d4 Oud 1S “The fancheto is very natural here 6.03 g7 7h ‘gd isnt deste. 720-0 823 6 9 WA The most principled: White lines up to tke on the Fanchetioed king's forrest. Quiter lines promise less, eg. 9 Le? e6 10 45 OT 11 0-06! and "BIS to follow, Knocking out the e3 bishop solves a lot of Black's problems 8 Both sides have played very logically, and Black plays the consequent counter in the cent. 1ods ‘The key parting ofthe way in this vai 221) 10.07 222) 10.098 121) 10,.0¢7 The older treatment. But the traditional view has always been hat tg gives White the edge. To justify his piece placement, BlackLUG Sain Lines 1 04 dS 2 exdS 846 3d4 Qed rst break outwith La, bute is Tet loosened and 12 M6 seems to lead wo 2 White edge, a. ‘Smagin - Basagle Harherg Open 1991 2otegd 13 xg? shag? 14 Dues andthe lines are opening around the ‘Black King, White's advantage. Black ied the sacrifice Lt..exd8?, but itis quite unconvineing and afer 1S @xd8 Dds 16 0-0-0! 6 17 Waals (wraeig Zaz gans 19 Wad Weds 20 Hts Bef 21 Sand Sah 22 Band Hes 23 Zd7+ Sg 24 2sd3 White soon consolidated and won, 222) 10,248 Forcing White's nex. The knight i igh out of at a8, it seems, but the Black game contains surprising resources, including possible ‘sevice at eo generate counter. Grischuk - Malakhov nibs White could not win a piece with 11 336? as 11.axb6 12 64? allows Black the escape hatch of 12.031, and meantime he will soon open Fire ‘with his now unopposed dark Square bishop with an. Main Lines | e4 dS 2exd8 yb 3.d6 Oed8. 117 Meet A big atemative is 11.15, asin eg S.Nikoic ~ Stefansson, Komotin 1093, where White did nor make the natural decision to exchange olf the dark Squared bishops with 12 Ah6, but prefered 12 dicS He8 13 ae? Od? (Or coutse he regroups with empo. 14 a3 6"? An interesting plan: he will, sonvel the knight ack into things via B7, andthe Blocking square a J6 beckons 15 2igS dih6 16 hs b6 17 462 and Black could have played “27 witha good game. White swapped in Mackie ~ Smagin Yugoslav Championship 1994 and 126 of 13 xp7 dag? 14 Dt cS led to a characteristic structure, is as in the last gam, i paving the way back forthe man at a8. 15 €3e2 (15 deco One6 16 0-00 lo was ‘qual in Suctin~ Stagin, Moscow 1984) 15. 247 16 ¢2 66 17 0-0 07 18! Opening the e line make sense. 18,.ex03 19 x03 5 20 Bel 6 21 WEN he and thre was itl int... £3 may be Black's safe, oa Other do not look beter. In Feher ~ Kiss, Hungarian Championship 1999, 12.06 was metas 12-cS ought to be-13 dace Anco 14 Bal WeT 15 yes bxcb 16 Be? £67 17 0-0 Bias 18 Wel Wes and White, coecty, relied on his structural supeioriy on the queenside to bring him the fdvantage, and so sought exchanges, 19 Zxd8* Exd8 20 El Kxdl* 21 ‘Dall AEG 22 WaD 5 23 WaS and 1-0 in S6 moves. 13 Ops Wes 14 0-0-0 The Whit pisces assume teats posture Me5 18 Det! [A novelty, ut I find tht odd, 15 dxe6? One is just helping Black and upon TS €hdb5 lack can get great dark aquare play forthe exchange with 15.96 16 8e7 WeS. Now Black isnot developing activity quite quickly ‘enough neither with 15.2ud7 1613 nor 15.87 166, {8 100% clear So the proper annotation to Black's next hasLIS Main Lines 1 0448 2exdS 0y6 3 a4 Bucs 15.Daxcd [Nols for this. ls just necessary 16 xed Daes 17 We2 Des! ‘Better than 17.-bS when 18 dt eaves White ontop, 1846 ere he ought to have played 18.4! 19 4 @d3+ 20 xd exd3 21 Wot! Wad 22 Dad eS 23 Ob2 a7 24 Oss b5 and Black has dynamic ‘compensation. In such situations the ntative i al 18..4347 19 Zud3 exd3 20 Wid3 £4 21 Le7 BIT and here 22 B45 (5 23 Wa2 intending to follow up with @eed was the securet way t0 demonstrate a White edge Another sensible approach oS 00 is $e, Lasker - Alekhine ‘StPetersburg 1914 14452 exd5 16 3 a4 Ded 4D Led 5 04 DDG Main Lines 14 65 2 exd8 GB 3 d6 dS. 119 Ly transposition, There ate, as you may gather, alot of opportunites for veangpostion in these OVE Se ps ome ‘Opening theory from so long ago is unlikely tobe eral ina computer cra Lasker, supe tactician though he vas, proved more often reliant on {aces and payehology than extensive pre-game preparations. He was also not averse to deliberately smoking low quality cigars atthe board and blowing the smoke directly imo the ther man’s face, oF even, in Toot postions, repeatedly jumping to his fet and shouting at the spectators to be quieter, taste which once did his chances no harm ina lest ending gsnat Maroc, sb he managed to draw it Tn fact the then World Champion's handling of this opening has been Inceutte and the man whose ahieverens in chess were said by Mikhail owinnik to be the greatest ever, staghtaway seizes his chance, 6 5 of 6 ‘Zed were beter After 6 ¢5 647! i really the only good respons, 35 GGUS 7 Wes! and 6.xtS 7 WHO Dds 8 WHI" BE O Best have both Tong been known o favour White. Afer7 Re4 e6 8 Sed Aco 9c} Le? TO'K3 Black hos fair counterplay either with 10..2x03 11 Wx 0-0 ot 0. Bhs! 11 a) eSI? 12 65 Cid? which led on to a Black victory in Guyot -Goldenburg, Belfor 1987 608!120 Main Lines 1 64 dS 2 exdS 046 344 Buds A finely conceived gambit, and an idea we shall be secing more of in similar lines. If now 7 dxes Wxdl+ € €xdl eb and. Black has cary ‘development and all the chances in line such ab 9 A 0-0-0 10 ed Ab4 TI Ge3 Bhe8. Emanvel wisely declined and sought a way out ia ‘complications. eS exadt 1.967 was probably beter. 8 Det 647 9 Wedd WeT? “Too clever. He should just have taken it with 9 ..OxcS 10 Wes 6 \Wh5+ and an approximately equal position resus. White now looks to be busted, but Lasker, who won this ourament well aead of all the young pretenders, shows the only way’ ont 10.aps! Tricky guy! If now 10.5 White ges out of trouble with 11 eS, when 11.6? even loses fo 12 Qa6+ 48 13 gS. On 10S 1 gal White his 12 3.95 Wes and he can rum it into a 19h century wild gambit scenario with 13 0-0-0 fued L4 hel with 3 raging stack eine mut ave ested his inh moe, nd now ims had 10,06 11 Bxc6bxc6 12 0.0 Rxf3 13 gx03 0-0-0 14 Wad Des 15 42 Main Lins Ved dS 2 exdS BY6 3 a4 Od 121 and improvise, He decides to sirifce much to generate tactical «ountrplay 16 Wxa7 WES! 17 Was 47 18 Halt es 19 Weds WeAd+ 20 wel e711 Waa Wyse 22 eat “Tiying for more with 22 11? fied to 22,,WH3+ 23 de? WHS? 24 wes wpe 25 dar Bas. 22..W+ 23 gh Welt 24 dt WE Drawn ‘flawed bt stil classic game. 4.206 ‘Acomparative ay Dochey -Popehey Bulgarian Championship 2001 soo 53, by analogy ith 4.046 $ Det alg ere rns ino 5.451, 6 dues Glo Todt Ogi 8H Abie 9 Lad Deo 10h8 On Ti Bed BE 2 @xfS Anis 13 29 0-00 with good pay forthe pawn in Yancy ~ remain, (981, or 8.2269 h3 he 10d e611 a2 0-0-0 12 0-0 Bs 13, OB ned 16 deed OFS 15 BedB+ Brd8 16 2 Ob4 17 et Baz! 16 ded Dh and drawn in 37 moves in Duras Tarakower, Vienna 1908 sua SIS 6 Oc} 667 ed ADH 8 WES Bxcd+ 9 bred Let 10 O42 6 vay cqul in Morphy ~ Anderssen, Pars 1858 5..68 62 6 70-0 le? B53 009 hd ahs 10 ded D7 was solid but equal in Rimawi Hameed, Asian Cis Cup 190. The ances es weave bat ay be wor 68 8-466 eh ag? hed 00 80-0 c69 Hel Age 1OKS AD 11 Ai3 Qh? (2 WO122 Main Lines 1 e4 dS 2exdS Oy 3 a4 xd 5! with interesting counterplay in Chandler — Hodgson, eS! ih interesting, county Hastings 6043 BS A comfy spot. 6..g4 7 Sted e6 8 W3 WO6 was equal in Reti ~ ‘Tarakower, Vienna 1920, 7 Sed 68 0.0 eT 9 Dh? Led 10 Oxed Dred 11 DE 0-0 12 Wed Q6 13 b3 Dba 14 ab? Wer 1S Ms Zee 16 Des Drawn Ted a5 2exds 163 O18 White adopts a flexible move order. Pds 44 96 4 S18 wor a outing In Lest — Gol, Dont Zona 1998 Black equalised after 5 33 shxd3 6 Wxd3 06 7 0-0 047 &c4 S59 Dd eT 10 R14 0-011 Badl c6 12 eS eB 13 WIS WH6, ec. rey This st up leaves the centre, forthe moment, no man’s land It also does not set the orld on ire. Kotronias ~ Thorhallasson Rekyavik Open 1988 Main Lines |e4 dS 2exd8 06 3.46 @udS 123 SligT 600 0.07 Het With this move White intends to monitor both Black central breaks of Sand 8, But this critical response works anyway, as 8 dxeS 4! 9 G3 Has sll regain the © pawn. Preparing cS may also work, eg. 7..06 8 x3 Wer 93 247 10 Ded oS 11 All exdd 12 Qxds was equal in Hebden ~ Hodgson, Lloyds Bank 1991 Bet So insted this try for adv 8..2b6 9 a5 96 10 Sigs Wd6 11 Ded ex 12 cxd5 NO 13 ed Das 14 We? 7 13 Budi {5 16 Af8 Wds 17 ht was also in White's favour in Bojkovie akos, Rijeka 1997. 10 De3 15 11 Res 206 “Tere was no good square for his queen t9 have shifted to, so he offers the te, 12 kts Waf6 13 Wet White is better developed and has a slight edge. 13.06 14 WG A718 Ops Wy7 16 WagTs agT 17 a3 Deb 18 ‘Bedi and White i sil litle beter (1-9in 60 moves) 44.4, again, by comparison with an Alethine's Defence, is one ofthe main eatments 53 ANS 6 gd 5967 Des124 Main Lines 1 04 dS 2exd5 0y6 3 4 Bud Tob! ‘A dynamic interpretation, and more worthy of note than the automatic 7.:@d7. Black seeks setive counterplay and is less concerned with his Dag6 1 Oxe6 bxe6 8 ip? Ws, with unbalance ply. Tang69 2g? Wa6 100-0044 Avnice square 11 xls Wald 12 Qed of 13 Ded Was 14.63 LeT 15 14 0-0-0 16 D3 15 17 WES Ths 18 Eael Hah and Black's chances were none the worse, He ‘wom a nove 62 ‘5 ed forces less of crisis In Leko = Kamsky, Groningen 1995 ‘White was litle beter, and te only guy with active possibilities, after 5.06 600 eT 7 Des! dxe? & Wre? 0-09 Hdl Qd7 10 e8 OSM 11 BL 16 12 3, and they drew at move 21. In Caferty - Bonner, Oxford 1967, Black stood just slightly worse after 6. 06 7hS AHS # e4 GIb6 9 cd eT IOS 0-0 11 ed go 12 Wa2 316 13 Bod ‘One ofthe mos intriguing games of modern times in this line was. Main Lines 14 dS 2 exdS ys 344 udS 125 ellers~ Dzhindhikashvit ‘New York Open 1987 5.06! 604.2067 a8 ‘Chasing. Dzhindbi teats i all very simply, with shades ofthe Alekhine Defence Ton 8 3 mn Kirtov ~Gipalis, Katowice Open 1993 White took with the pawn and black did fine ater §.es 9 £4 Hed? 10 e3 Ose 11 ed 96 12 Wed ‘6t? 13 dees bet 14 Hdl We7 15 F547 163 Obd7 17 81 Hes 18.4 0-0 19 bs eb ee 8.59 Hed 6 10 Wad Og6 11 Ded eS [New tettry, but a great natural talent finds good squares forthe Black pieces 12 Wed exds 13 exds a6 14 DS+ Dd7 150.0 0.0 16 WIS De 17 bt {a6 18 a3 Qe7 19 Wh3 De Bringing it back into circulation, but he aso had a good move in 19.5, m0 ass Expanding.126 Main Lines 1 dS 2exd8 QY6 3a eds 21 BgSe4 22 Red N6 23 a2 Ops 24.0 Ferdinand Hellers is an aggvesor. Finding himself stymied of ative possbilts, e starts to flounder 2.x 25 gx WIS 26 0e2 DS 27 Led 27.2! 27..WeT was seo good. 28 We3 bx and White, having seen very simple and natural moves ake cover the board, resigned, Chapter 9: The Scandinavian Gambit 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Af6 3 c4 c6 Leb dS 2 exd8 2163 46 Of the thee gambit trentments of the Modern Scandinavian, this one certainly has the best reputation and should definitly not be accepted by those in pursuit of an opening edge withthe Whit pieces. Wiite’s best here ist take play bac into the Panov-Botvinnik variation ofthe Caro-Kann Defence (1 e4 062.64 d8 3 exd5 exd 4 cf) with 4 03 fo 4d8. That lies ouside the scope ofthis volume. Taking the gambit snot (Chandler Adams Hastings 1990°91 4 dse62! Dob128. The Scandinavian Gambit I of d5 2 exd5 BY6 304 6 ‘The development lead and the backward White d pawn seem to grant Black at least equal chances here 50065603 In Kosuljeva ~ Gaprindashvili, USSR 1990, Black soon got the better game ater 6 Be3 of 7 Digs RIS 8 Sed 59 Oh3 gS 10 gags 11 Wat ‘Eds 12 045 0-0. She had splendid gambit play Goett? Adams heads fora healthy development lead and good squares for his pieces as his compensation forthe pawn. The man loves clasial ches. Bt, om passant, we note that Black gts good ply with either 6 eS or arts In Hoen — Bergraser, Varna Olympiad 1962, after 6.-B.c5 7 3 Wb6 8 ‘axes WreS 9 Bed AS 10 de? Hd 11 0-0 ef 12 Del 00 13 WL excB 14 xa Hd! 15 nds Wee Black was winning ‘After 6.445 he got an excellent potion ia Soultnbeiff — Jrol, Tel ‘Aviv, 1968,7 gs Abs 8 3 WA7 9 Rl ext 10 Bibs 0-00 11 Ox aes 12 ed igs. 7 dved Wad+ # Ded Zined 9 ed 9 ‘The Scandinavian Gambit |e4 dS 2 exdS BYB 34 6 129 Possibly # novelty. Certainly the known 9.2g8 tad an excelent reputation, eg 10 he2 O-O-0" 11 del des 12 des Qres 13 Ges bt 14 Hdl RES (veatening mate via 15,.2a2! and 16.3) and Black is on top. 10Dhs 040.0 14 et In Holemann ~ Kaspar, comespondence game, 1980, White did even worse with 1 ed es 12805 813 et ‘and now Black launched mating atack 13.eS+ 4 ft 9541 15 dines db? 16 ddd (16 xe6 Bhes 17 7 HeT was mat.) 16.7 11 Seb 12 De3 De3 13 bxe3 96 14 DE eS 15 BxeS bees White has his pawn, but sill some development problems and the doubled eisolanis a well 16 D1 DheB 17 Le? a3! Like Dvoretsky says, itis rately a bad idea to damage the opponents pawns. 18 gxhs Hed “Things are now looking very bad fr Chandler. 19 Zb2 Hubz 20 dub? a3 21 OS Bd2+ 22 a3 Hara 29 Hal bo 24 ‘Shed Hh2 28 gh Hed 26 2S g6