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Stellwagen,D (2489) - Baramidze,D (2456) [C42]
Maastricht Foundation Chess Match Maastricht, NED (4), 13.02.2004

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nf6
3.Nxe5 d6
4.Nf3 Nxe4
5.Nc3 Nxc3
6.dxc3 Be7
7.Bf4 0-0
8.Qd2 Nd7
9.0-0-0 Re8
10.Kb1 Nc5
11.Be3 c6
12.Nd4 d5
13.f3 Qb6
14.h4 Bd6
15.Bf4 Qc7
16.Bxd6 Qxd6
17.g4 Ne6
18.Nxe6 Qxe6
19.Bd3 Qf6
20.Rdf1 Bd7
21.g5 Qe5
22.f4 Qd6
23.f5 f6
24.gxf6 gxf6
25.c4 Kh8
26.cxd5 cxd5
27.Rhg1 Rg8
28.a3 Rxg1
29.Rxg1 Rg8
30.Rxg8+ Kxg8
31.Be4 Kg7
32.h5 b6
33.h6+ Kf8
34.Bd3 Qg3
35.Qb4+ Kf7
36.Ka2 Qg5
37.Qd6 Bxf5
38.Qc7+ Kg6
39.Qg7+ Kh5
40.Qxa7 Bxd3
41.cxd3 Kxh6
42.Qxb6 Qf5
43.a4 Qxd3
44.Qxf6+ Kh5
45.Qc6 Qd2
46.Qb5 Kg5
47.a5 Qd4
48.a6 h5
49.Qa5 1-0
 

PAPP,G (2420) - SZEBERENYI,A (2450) [B90]
First Saturday GM Budapest (2), 01.02.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6
6.Be3 e5
7.Nb3 Be6
8.f3 Nbd7
9.Qd2 b5
10.0-0-0 Rc8
11.Kb1 Nb6
12.Qf2 Nfd7
13.g4 Be7
14.h4 0-0
15.Nd5 Bxd5
16.exd5 Nc4
17.Bc1 Qb6
18.Qe1 Rfe8
19.g5 a5
20.Bxc4 bxc4
21.Nxa5 c3
22.Nc6 cxb2
23.Be3 Nc5
24.Bxc5 dxc5
25.Qxe5 Bf8
26.Qc3 Ra8
27.Qb3 Qa6
28.Rhe1 c4
29.Qxb2 Ba3
30.Qc3 Bf8
31.Rxe8 Qxa2+
32.Kc1 Rxe8
33.d6 Ra8
34.d7 Ba3+
35.Kd2 Bb2
36.Ke2 1-0
 

Nick de Firmian - Esben Lund (32377) [C19]
AS04 Centenary Copenhagen (4), 10.02.2004

1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nc3 Bb4
4.e5 c5
5.a3 Bxc3+
6.bxc3 Ne7
7.Nf3 Nbc6
8.Be2 Qa5
9.Bd2 c4
10.Ng5 h6
11.Nh3 Bd7
12.Nf4 0-0-0
13.Nh5 g6
14.Nf6 Ng8
15.Nxg8 Rdxg8
16.0-0 f6
17.exf6 Rf8
18.Re1 Rxf6
19.Bg4 g5
20.a4 Rh7
21.Re3 Qc7
22.Qe2 Re7
23.h3 e5
24.dxe5 Rxe5
25.Bxd7+ Kxd7
26.Qg4+ Kd8
27.Rae1 Rxe3
28.Bxe3 Qd7
29.Qh5 Kc7
30.h4 gxh4
31.Qxh4 Qd6
32.Kf1 b6
33.g3 Kb7
34.Bf4 Qf8
35.Qh5 Qc5
36.Qe8 d4
37.Qd7+ Ka6
38.Qc8+ Ka5
39.Rb1 a6
40.Rb5+ 1-0
 

Baklan,V (2606) - Istratescu,A (2590) [B01]
2ème Breizh Masters (A) (1), 12.02.2004

1.e4 d5
2.exd5 Qxd5
3.Nc3 Qa5
4.d4 c6
5.Nf3 Nf6
6.Bc4 Bf5
7.Bd2 e6
8.Nd5 Qd8
9.Nxf6+ Qxf6
10.Qe2 Nd7
11.0-0-0 Bd6
12.Bg5 Qg6
13.d5 Bc7
14.dxc6 Ne5
15.cxb7 Rb8
16.Bb5+ Kf8
17.Qe3 Nxf3
18.Qc5+ Kg8
19.Qxc7 Qxg5+
20.Kb1 1-0
 

Drabke,L (2439) - Gershon,A (2546) [A04]
12 Open Saint Vincent (6), 12.02.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 e6
3.d3 Nc6
4.g3 Nge7
5.Bg2 g6
6.0-0 Bg7
7.Re1 d6
8.c3 e5
9.a3 0-0
10.b4 b6
11.Nbd2 h6
12.Nc4 Be6
13.Ne3 Qd7
14.Nd2 Rad8
15.Nd5 f5
16.Nc4 Kh7
17.b5 Nb8
18.a4 Nxd5
19.exd5 Bg8
20.a5 Qb7
21.axb6 axb6
22.Qa4 Bxd5
23.Bxd5 Qxd5
24.Nxb6 Qf3
25.Qc4 f4
26.Rf1 d5
27.Qxc5 Rf7
28.Qb4 Bf8
29.Qb3 fxg3
30.hxg3 Bc5
         0-1
 

Palos,O (2350) - Hazai,L (2475) [E73]
Tuzla (9), 1983

1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 g6
3.Nc3 Bg7
4.e4 d6
5.Be2 0-0
6.g4 c5
7.d5 e6
8.g5 Ne8
9.h4 exd5
10.exd5 Nc7
11.h5 b5
12.Qd3 Re8
13.Qg3 Nd7
14.hxg6 hxg6
15.Bf4 Ne5
16.0-0-0 Bf5
17.Nf3 bxc4
18.Nxe5 Rxe5
19.Bxe5 Bxe5
20.f4 Bg7
21.Bxc4 Rb8
22.Rh4 Rb4
23.b3 Qb8
24.Bd3 Rxb3
25.axb3 Qxb3
26.Bxf5 Nb5
27.Qe3 Kf8
28.Bd7 Qa3+
29.Kc2 1-0

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(2/15)  The Unexplored Sicilian - Part 2:  IM Andrew Martin's February Bits and Pieces looks at the "so-called Nimzowitsch Variation" - 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6!?  Part 1 looked at 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nc3.  Today Andrew looks at 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 "I think this will be quite a common response among club players.  White simply opens the centre in the style of a normal Sicilian.  Play transposes into a position resembling the 2 c3 line, but not quite..."

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Lessons Learned

Today's game is from the 2003 European Club Cup
and features GM Konstantin Savaev as White against the World #1 Garry Kasparov.

GM Konstantin Sakaev:  A game with Kasparov is always an event for any chess player, especially when you meet with him for the first time.  I felt a huge emotion before the start; the more so because the game was being played for the team and I felt an immense responsibility...

Really, an energy radiated by Kasparov during the game along with my natural emotion disturbed my play very much.  For the first time in my life I spent more than one hour for the first twelve moves (from which I departed from theory with only two of my own, both very bad moves).  I don't understand what I was thinking about...

I remembered well the next day as I was watching a similar situation in the game Kasparov-Grischuk.  Alexander sat stock-still; he couldn't make a move and only when he hadn't any time left for emotion (there was twenty minutes remaining for about 25 moves in a difficult position) and he has been forced to make quick decisions, Grischuk began to offer resistance...

Sakaev,K (2657) - Kasparov,G (2830) [D18]
EU Club Cup tt Rethymnon (4), 01.10.2003

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5

This appeared as a pleasant surprise - I play this variation with both White and Black.  I have looked at many lines independently, and also analyzed it with such theorists as Elmar Magerramov, Alexander Khalifman, and Vladimir Kramnik, preparing this variation for use in the World Championships...

6.e3  Recently I have mostly played this move, but in this situation I admit this move is a  psychological mistake.  6.Ne5 leads to a more forced game (thus simpler to play).  I have deeper knowledge of this variation than of the variation with 6.e3.

Read the rest of today's Lessons Learned

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Excerpts from an Open Letter
from the Association of Chess Professionals

Paris, 11^th of February 2004
Dear Mr Boris Kutin, President of the ECU,  Dear members of the ECU Board,

Since all chess professionals are concerned by these issues, we have decided to present them to you in an open letter. For the sake of transparency in our dialogue, we would kindly ask you to reply to us in the same way...Without further ado, we will now proceed with the five main topics that are foremost on our agenda in respect to the ECU:

1. The accommodation problem during the last Individual European Championships held in Silivri (Turkey), June 2003 ("Our position in this important matter has not changed since our previous press release, dating from the 7^th of November 2003. Unfortunately, all the questions asked in the press release have to this day remained unanswered by the ECU...")

2. The forthcoming Women’s Individual European Championship in Dresden, March 2004 ("We ask you to cancel the qualifying status of the next Women’s Individual European Championship to a future FIDE Women’s World Championship. It cannot be justified when the current FIDE WWC keeps being postponed and may not take place in a foreseeable future.")

3. The attribution of qualifying places to the FIDE World Championship in the ECU European Individual Men’s Championship in Silivri (June 2003) ("For unfathomable reasons, 2 players have been personally nominated by the President of the ECU, Mr Boris Kutin, in order to play in the next FIDE World Championship. These players are Baadur Jobava from Georgia and Kivanc Haznedaroglu from Turkey. Why precisely these players were hand-picked has not been explained, but that is a moot point, since there is no article in the World Chess Championship 2003/2004 Regulations which allows the ECU President to directly seed players into the FIDE World Championship.")

4. Conditions and rules of the European Club Cup ("We would like to have an answer as to why the rules of the European Club Cup regarding team line-ups were not followed in 2003. For the next edition of the ECC, we strongly ask you to stick to these rules. Moreover, we draw your attention to the fact that playing conditions, such as those imposed on the participants of the men’s competition in Rethymnon 2003, are simply unacceptable and must not be repeated.")

5. The attribution of the European Team Championships to Sweden in 2005 and Greece in 2007 ("According to the minutes of the ECU General Assembly in Plovdiv, the attribution of the 2005 and 2007 European Team Championships (ETC) to organizers from Sweden and Greece respectively, violated the bidding procedure, the ECU Statutes and the ECU Tournament Rules.")

Read the entire letter, and see what else the ACP has to say!

Editor's Note: For more information about the Association of Chess Professionals, read this interview with GM Joel Lautier.
 

The Unexplored Sicilian - Part 2

Grachev,J (2380) - Belozerov,A (2507) [B29]
Novosibirsk op Novosibirsk (4), 22.07.2001

Read the rest of Part 2 of this month's Bits and Pieces
Last week's Part 1 looked at 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nc3.
 

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2. Shortest CC game:  Ellinger-Durrant (1944, 5 moves)

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4. Longest e-mail game (duration):  Bang-Andersson (NBC millenium, Jan 1 2001-Nov 2002, 109 moves, 1/2 - 1/2)

5. Longest WCCC tournament (duration):  #13 (Nov 1 1989 - Dec 30 1998 - 9 years 2 months)

Correspondence Mastery:  One of the largest individual CC tournaments of all time was the "Monde Illustre" tournament, which was held between 1889 and 1892.  It was won by the Austro-Hungarian master Johann Berger with the extraordinary score of +45, =3, -0

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Position of the Week: Solution

C. Bandelow, 1st Honorable Mention
Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1958

White's king goes for a walk, only to return in time for checkmate! 1.Kc3 Ne4+ [ 1...Nb1+ 2.Kd3 Nd2 3.Rxd2 and now it's mate in two.] 2.Kd3 Nf2+ [ 2...Nd2 3.Rxd2 once again, mate in two looms.; 2...Nxc5+ 3.Ke3 and mate next.] 3.Ke3 Nxg4+ 4.Kd3 Nf2+ [ 4...Ne5+ 5.Kc3 mate next.] 5.Kc3 Ne4+ 6.Kb4 Nd2 [ 6...Nxc5 7.Kxc5 mate next.] 7.g4 and White mates with 8.Nb3, regardless of Black's next move.

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My boyhood idols were Lasker and Botvinnik - and I never got to play Kasparov.... Of course I'd like the chance, but these days there are no tournaments of 'mixed' strength.

Two players I have the greatest admiration for are Victor Korchnoi and Bent Larsen. Both of them are tremendous fighters both on good days and on bad, and this is despite playing at the very top and having their livelihood depend on their results.

It's easy to be brave against weak opposition when you have nothing at stake. Much harder when you're a full time pro and it's the likes of Petrosian, Karpov or Botvinnik sitting opposite you...

I personally am planning to be improving and winning tournaments into my 90s, despite a growing reluctance to leave home... Only you can decide if you want a similar goal and then set about achieving it.

If someone is learning a language should they start off by intensely studying novels in that language or with simpler and clearer material? There's a reason why Capablanca, Karpov and others have recommended studying chess from the endgame...

I think that it's useful to compare the process of learning chess with that of learning a musical instrument (I was fortunate in having this model around because of family members). It takes time and effort and there are no shortcuts or magic ingredients.

There are a number of top professionals (e.g. Morozevich & Korchnoi) who have expressed the view that White's supposed advantage in chess does not actually exist. This thought is very liberating, as we are not then obliged to follow the 'best' moves (& 30 moves of theory) in order to achieve nothing. Instead we can achieve nothing by other means, whilst playing fresh and interesting positions.

GAMES

Baramidze,D (2456) - Stellwagen,D (2489) [B49]
Maastricht Foundation Chess Match Maastricht, NED (3), 12.02.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 e6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nc6
5.Nc3 Qc7
6.Be2 a6
7.0-0 Nf6
8.Be3 Bb4
9.Na4 Be7
10.Nxc6 bxc6
11.Nb6 Rb8
12.Nxc8 Qxc8
13.Bd4 c5
14.Be5 Rb6
15.Qd3 d6
16.Bc3 0-0
17.b3 d5
18.e5 Nd7
19.f4 c4
20.bxc4 Rc6
21.Qh3 Nb6
22.Bd3 g6
23.Rf3 Re8
24.Rg3 Qc7
25.Bd4 Nxc4
26.c3 Nb2
27.f5 Nxd3
28.fxg6 hxg6
29.Rxd3 Bc5
30.Bxc5 Rxc5
31.Rf1 Qxe5
32.Rxf7 Kxf7
33.Qh7+ Kf6
34.Rf3+ Qf5
35.Qh4+ Kf7
        ½-½
 

LIVSHITS,G (2400) - BANUSZ,T (2372) [B30]
First Saturday GM Budapest (2), 01.02.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Nc3 e5
4.Bc4 d6
5.d3 Be7
6.Nd2 Nf6
7.Nf1 Bg4
8.f3 Be6
9.Ne3 0-0
10.0-0 a6
11.a4  Nb4
12.Bd5 Qd7
13.a5 Bxd5
14.exd5 b5
15.axb6 Qb7
16.f4 Qxb6
17.fxe5 dxe5
18.Kh1 Qb7
19.d6 Bd8
20.Nc4 Qc6
21.Bg5 Nfd5
22.Bxd8 Raxd8
23.Ne4 Nb6
24.Nxe5 Qd5
25.Rf5 Qe6
26.Qg4 Nxc2
27.Nf6+ Kh8
28.Nxh7 Kxh7
29.Rh5+ Kg8
30.Qh4 g6
31.Rh8+ Kg7
32.Rh7+ Kg8
33.Nc6 Qxd6
34.Qh6 Qf6
35.Ne7+ 1-0
 

LIVSHITS,G (2400) - SERES,L (2496) [C42]
First Saturday GM Budapest (6), 05.02.2004

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nf6
3.Nxe5 d6
4.Nf3 Nxe4
5.d4 d5
6.Bd3 Bd6
7.0-0 0-0
8.c4 c6
9.Qc2 Na6
10.a3 Bg4
11.Ne5 Bxe5
12.dxe5 Nac5
13.f3 Nxd3
14.Qxd3 Nc5
15.Qd4 Nb3
16.Qxg4 Nxa1
17.Bh6 g6
18.cxd5 cxd5
19.Bxf8 Qxf8
20.e6 Nb3
21.Nc3 d4
22.Nd5 Qd6
23.Qg5 h6
24.Nf6+ Kg7
25.Nh5+ Kh7
26.Qf6 gxh5
27.Qxf7+ Kh8
28.Qf6+ Kh7
29.Qf7+ Kh8
30.e7 Qe5
31.Qf8+ Kh7
32.Qxa8 Qxe7
33.Qc8 1-0
 

Solomon,S - Levi,E [B01]
Australian Championship (7.2), 05.01.2004

1.e4 d5
2.exd5 Nf6
3.d4 Bg4
4.f3 Bf5
5.Bb5+ Nbd7
6.g4 Bg6
7.Nc3 a6
8.Ba4 b5
9.Bb3 Nb6
10.a4 b4
11.a5 bxc3
12.axb6 cxb6
13.Qe2 Qc8
14.Kf2 b5
15.bxc3 Qb7
16.c4 e6
17.h4  h6
18.h5 Bh7
19.dxe6 Nxg4+
20.fxg4 Qxh1
21.exf7+ Kd7
22.Nf3 Be7
23.Bg5 Qxa1
24.Qxe7+ Kc6
25.Ne5+ Kb6
26.c5+ 1-0
 

Tiviakov,S (2600) - Sulava,N (2477) [B33]
12 Open Saint Vincent (6), 12.02.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nc3 e6
3.Nf3 Nc6
4.d4 cxd4
5.Nxd4 Nf6
6.Ndb5 d6
7.Bf4 e5
8.Bg5 a6
9.Na3 b5
10.Nd5 Be7
11.Bxf6 Bxf6
12.c3 Ne7
13.Nxf6+ gxf6
14.Bd3 Bb7
15.Qe2 Qb6
16.Nc2 d5
17.Nb4 0-0-0
18.a4 f5
19.axb5 fxe4
20.bxa6 Ba8
21.Bb5 Rhg8
22.g3 Nf5
23.a7 Rd6
24.Ra6 Qc5
25.Qh5 Nd4
26.Qxf7 Qxb5
27.Qxg8+ Rd8
28.Qg4+ Kc7
29.cxd4 Qxb4+
30.Kf1 Qc4+
31.Kg2 Qxa6
32.Rc1+ Bc6
33.b4 Kb7
34.b5 1-0
 

Erling Mortensen - Asger Paaske [B30] AS04 Centenary Copenhagen (5), 11.02.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 Nf6
4.Qe2 Qc7
5.0-0 a6
6.Bxc6 Qxc6
7.Nc3 e6
8.d4 cxd4
9.Nxd4 Qc7
10.e5 Nd5
11.Nxd5 exd5
12.Bf4 Qc4
13.Qd2 Bc5
14.Nf5 0-0
15.Nxg7 Qe4
16.Nh5 Be7
17.Bg5 1-0

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