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GAMES

Grischuk,A (2719) - Sokolov,I (2706) [C96]
5th Karpov Poikovsky RUS (2), 18.03.2004

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6
4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0-0 Be7
6.Re1 b5
7.Bb3 d6
8.c3 0-0
9.h3 Na5
10.Bc2 c5
11.d4 cxd4
12.cxd4 Bb7
13.d5 Rc8
14.b3 Qc7
15.Bd3 Nh5
16.a4 b4
17.Bd2 f5
18.Bxb4 Nf4
19.Nc3 Nxb3
20.Rb1 Nc5
21.Bxc5 Qxc5
22.Rxb7 Qxc3
23.Bxa6 Qa5
24.Rxe7 Qxa6
25.Nh4 fxe4
26.Qg4 Rf7
27.Nf5 h5
28.Qg5 e3
29.Rxf7 exf2+
30.Kh2 1-0
 

Carlsen,M (2484) - Kasparov,G (2831) [D52]
Rapid Reykjavik ISL (1.1), 18.03.2004

1.d4 d5
2.c4 c6
3.Nf3 Nf6
4.Nc3 e6
5.Bg5 Nbd7
6.e3 Qa5
7.Nd2 Bb4
8.Qc2 0-0
9.Be2 e5
10.0-0 exd4
11.Nb3 Qb6
12.exd4 dxc4
13.Bxc4 a5
14.a4 Qc7
15.Rae1 h6
16.Bh4 Bd6
17.h3 Nb6
18.Bxf6 Nxc4
19.Ne4 Bh2+
20.Kh1 Nd6
21.Kxh2
           Nxe4+
22.Be5 Nd6
23.Qc5 Rd8
24.d5 Qd7
25.Nd4 Nf5
26.dxc6 bxc6
27.Nxc6 Re8
28.Rd1 Qe6
29.Rfe1 Bb7
30.Nd4 Nxd4
31.Qxd4 Qg6
32.Qg4 Qxg4
33.hxg4 Bc6
34.b3 f6
35.Bc3 Rxe1
36.Rxe1 Bd5
37.Rb1 Kf7
38.Kg3 Rb8
39.b4 axb4
40.Bxb4 Bc4
41.a5 Ba6
42.f3 Kg6
43.Kf4 h5
44.gxh5+ Kxh5
45.Rh1+ Kg6
46.Bc5 Rb2
47.Kg3 Ra2
48.Bb6 Kf7
49.Rc1 g5
50.Rc7+ Kg6
51.Rc6 Bf1
52.Bf2 ½-½
 

Molchanova Tatjana (RUS) - Sirotkina Nina (RUS) [B40]
Ch St. Petersburg (w) St. Petersburg (Russia) (1), 2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 e6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Qb6
5.Nc3 Bc5
6.Na4 Qa5+
7.c3 Bxd4
8.Qxd4 Nf6
9.Nc5 Nc6
10.Qe3 b6
11.Nd3 Ne5
12.Qg3 Ng6
13.f3 Ba6
14.h4 Bxd3
15.Bxd3 Nh5
16.Qg5 Qxg5
17.hxg5 Nhf4
18.Bf1 e5
19.g3 Ne6
20.Be3 0-0
21.0-0-0 Rfd8
22.Bb5 Ngf8
23.Rh2 Rac8
24.Rhd2 Rc7
25.Rd5 f6
26.gxf6 gxf6
27.f4 exf4
28.gxf4 Nc5
29.e5 fxe5
30.Rg1+ Kf7
31.Rxe5 Ng6
32.Bc4+ Ne6
33.Rf5+ Kg8
34.Bb3 Rf8
35.Rxf8+ Kxf8
36.f5 Ngf4
37.Kd2 1-0
 

Macieja,B (2653) - Petrosian,T (2477) [B78]
Petrosian Mem Stepanakert AZE (9), 17.03.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 g6
6.Be3 Bg7
7.f3 0-0
8.Qd2 Nc6
9.Bc4 Bd7
10.0-0-0 Rc8
11.Bb3 Nxd4
12.Bxd4 b5
13.Nd5 Nxd5
14.Bxg7 Kxg7
15.exd5 a5
16.a3 b4
17.axb4 axb4
18.Qxb4 Kg8
19.Rhe1 Re8
20.Rd4 Rc5
21.Kd1 Qa8
22.Qd2 Qa1+
23.Qc1 Qa7
24.Rb4 Bf5
25.c3 Qa6
26.Qd2 h5
27.Ba4 Rec8
28.Rxe7 Kf8
29.Re3 Rc4
30.Qe2 Kg7
31.Rxc4 Rxc4
32.b3 Rxa4
33.bxa4 Qxa4+
34.Ke1 Qh4+
35.g3 Qa4
36.Qd1 Qa2
37.Re2 Qa5
38.Qd4+ Kh7
39.g4 1-0
 

Nevednichy,V (2548) - Gyimesi,Z (2553) [C54]
It Miskolc HUN (6), 16.03.2004

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bc4 Bc5
4.b4 Bb6
5.a4 a6
6.c3 Nf6
7.d3 d6
8.Qb3 0-0
9.a5 Ba7
10.0-0 Ne7
11.Ng5 Qe8
12.Be3 c6
13.Bxa7 Rxa7
14.d4 exd4
15.cxd4 h6
16.e5 hxg5
17.exf6 gxf6
18.Nd2 d5
19.Bd3 Ng6
20.Qc2 Nf4
21.g3 Nxd3
22.Qxd3 b5
23.axb6 Re7
24.Rfc1 Kg7
25.Nf1 Qd7
26.Qc3 Rfe8
27.Qxc6 Qh3
28.Qc3 Bg4
29.b7 Be2
30.Rc2 Rxb7
31.Rxe2 Rxe2
32.Rxa6 0-1
 

Karpov,A (2682) - Stefansson,H (2572) [A22]
Rapid Reykjavik ISL (1.2), 18.03.2004

1.c4 Nf6
2.Nc3 e5
3.g3 Bb4
4.Bg2 0-0
5.d3 c6
6.Qb3 Na6
7.Bd2 Re8
8.a3 Bxc3
9.Qxc3 d5
10.cxd5 cxd5
11.Nf3 Bg4
12.b4 Nc7
13.a4 Rc8
14.Qb2 Bxf3
15.Bxf3 Ne6
16.Qxe5 Rc2
17.Rc1 Rxc1+
18.Bxc1 Nc5
19.Qd4 Nb3
20.Qb2 Nxc1
21.Qxc1 Qd7
22.b5 Rc8
23.Qf4 Rc2
24.Qb8+ Qc8
25.g4 Kf8
26.g5 Rc5
27.Kd2 Nd7
28.Qxc8+ Rxc8
29.d4 Rc4
30.Kd3 Rxa4
31.Bxd5 Ra3+
32.Ke4 Nb6
33.Bxb7 Na4
34.Rc1 Nc3+
35.Ke5 Nxb5
36.Rc5 Nc3
37.e4 Rb3
38.Rc8+ Ke7
39.Rc7+ Kf8
40.Bc6 1-0

 

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Lessons Learned
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Position of the Week








[FEN "6k1/p3b1pp/4p3/4Pp2/Pp1r1P1P/1P4P1/2p2R2/5RK1 b - - 0 34"]

Black to move and win - Find the Solution

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"Irving Chernev has given this beautiful game in his book 1000 Best Short Games of Chess (Game No. 602) as "Charousek - Wollner, Kassa, 1893" with the following interesting preamble:  Professor Svendsen's short story "LAST ROUND" describes the Old Master's effort after fifty years of tournament play to create a work of art, the perfect game. It is in the crucial last round when he is paired with the mighty Rolavsky that he makes his dream come true.  No one, we hope, ever disillusioned the Old Master by telling him that Charousek anticipated his "perfect game" many years before, in an off-hand encounter."  Regards, V D Pandit, Mumbai (India), 18 March 2004
 

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(3/21)  A Defeat Which Could Not Be Forgotten:  Taimanov-Fischer.  The 1971 World Championship Quarterfinal Candidate's Match was just a stepping stone on Bobby Fischer's path to the chess summit, part of his unparalleled 20-0 streak en route to his showdown with Boris Spassky.  In today's Lesson Learned legendary Russian GM Mark Taimanov takes a fresh look back at what both he and Fischer recognized as the turning point of the match, a defeat Taimanov called "the most bitter game of my life...Some failures are not so painful and hence quickly forgotten; others remain in the memory for a long time..."

(3/20)  Garry Kasparov On My Great Predecessors Part II by Garry Kasparov, reviewed by David Surratt.  "I've had a really hard time writing this review.  The book is, after all, a sequel of sorts - the second in a series of five books planned by Kasparov.  If you have read my review of Part 1, then you probably already know everything you need to know about Part II (destined to be a classic, buy this book - now!)  Still, my Editor is a slave driver, and he insists that I write something, so...I decided to mostly let the book tell it's own story.  Read excerpts from this fascinating book in the shaded boxes below..."

(3/19)  ReviewEssential Chess Sacrifices by David LeMoir, Reviewed by Tom Codispoti  “Sacrifices are an essential part of chess.  Those who never consider sacrificing will miss countless opportunities and find that promising positions repeatedly slip away.  Players who do not appreciate their opponent’s sacrificial possibilities will be unable to see danger signs, and find themselves on the wrong end of too many king-hunts.”


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A Defeat Which Could Not Be Forgotten
with GM Mark Taimanov

Mark Yevgenyevich Taimanov, born February 7th,1926.  Both a top-flight grandmaster and two-time World Champion Candidate, and a world-class concert pianist, Taimanov was one of Bobby Fischer's 'victims' (6-0, 1971) during his surge to the world title.

Today's Lessons Learned column by this living legend finds GM Taimanov looking back at what both he and Fischer recognized as the turning point of the match, a defeat Taimanov called "the most bitter game of my life...Some failures are not so painful and hence quickly forgotten; others remain in the memory for a long time..."  Taimanov brings us fresh analysis of the critical positions.

Taimanov,M (2620) - Fischer,R (2740) [E97]
Candidates qf3 Vancouver (3), 21.05.1971

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7

I had no doubts that this position will appear in our match, and probably my opponent had similar expectations.  Both of us belonged to a category of polemists of principle, ready to assert our belief in the King’s Indian ‘tableau’, which was always a favorite weapon for me with White and for Fischer with Black.

But who would have the first opportunity to present a prepared surprise?








9.Bd2

Fischer might have expected here 9.Ne1, 9.Nd2, or 9.b4, which had repeatedly featured in my games.  I worked out with my second especially for this match this calm developing move with the Bishop, which has the goal of prompt mobilization of forces of the queenside.

9...Ne8

Fischer was always most versed in opening subtleties of his favorite systems. He certainly knew that a conventional maneuver 9...Nh5 here is inexpedient in view of 10.g3 f5 11.exf5 Bxf5 12.Ng5 Nf6 13.g4 Bd7 14.Nge4 Nxe4 15.Nxe4.

See the rest of GM Taimanov's analysis, including his extensive look at the critical position after 19...Kh8, in the latest Lesson Learned!

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My Great Predecessors, Part 2
by Garry Kasparov, reviewed by David Surratt

I've had a really hard time writing this review.  The book is, after all, a sequel of sorts - the second in a series of five books planned by Kasparov.  If you have read my review of Part 1, then you probably already know everything you need to know about Part II (destined to be a classic, buy this book - now!)  Still, my Editor is a slave driver, and he insists that I write something, so...I decided to mostly let the book tell it's own story.  Read excerpts from this fascinating book in the shaded boxes below.

This volume focuses on the era represented by the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth World Champions - Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, and Tal.  As did Part I, the current volume covers the era represented by the World Champions, not just the champions themselves.
 

On Soviet "influencing" of results,
as long ago as the 1930s:

"Thus, the Soviet chess fraternity had acquired an obvious leader, and the Kremlin set the objective of winning international recognition...Then - the 2nd Moscow international tournament (1935).  Before the last round Botvinnik and Flohr were again leading...and here Mikhail was visited in his room by his patron, the formidable Justice Commissariat Krylenko, then the chess boss of the country: 'What would you say if Rabinovich were to lose to you?'"

"By looking not just at the Champion, but at his contemporaries and challengers, Kasparov grounds each Champion in his natural historical context.  He then tries to demonstrate the development of chess thought as represented by the games of all these great players."

This is one of the great charms of these books - their readability as historical novel.  I am not a student of chess history, and I know others who dispute some of the assertions and accounts contained in this book.  If a conclusive history you seek, do your research carefully.  If an entertaining read is what you're after, this book excels...

Read the entire review, and enjoy the numerous excerpts.
 

Essential Chess Sacrifices
by David LeMoir, reviewed by Tom Codispoti

So, you’ve plowed through every book on your opening that you can get your hands on.  It began with Starting Out: The (Your Opening Here), which lead to The (Your Opening Here) and then Winning with the (Your Opening Here).  Heck even Mastering the (Your Opening Here) wasn’t so bad.  But soon you found yourself engrossed in New Ideas in the (Your Opening Here) and even Beating the (Your Opening Here) as you try to make sure you have an answer to every possibility.

Feeling a bit one-dimensional?  Searching for something a little different to round out your game but you just can’t bring yourself to dive into that endgame tome yet?  Well, David LeMoir has written a book that I believe fits the bill quite nicely.  This is a good choice for those looking for a book on middle-game play but one that is a bit livelier than the usual tactics book.

Essential Chess Sacrifices is a work with an interesting premise and I believe it makes its case rather convincingly.  From the back cover, the book states that “Sacrifices are an essential part of chess.  Those who never consider sacrificing will miss countless opportunities and find that promising positions repeatedly slip away.  Players who do not appreciate their opponent’s sacrificial possibilities will be unable to see danger signs, and find themselves on the wrong end of too many king-hunts.”

LeMoir sets out to examine the most important standard piece sacrifices in many different openings and give the reader an understanding of the elements of the particular sacrifice, why it works, and what defenses there are against it...

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The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

Alcoholic Chess:  I had a look in David Pritchards' excellent book "Encyclopedia of Chess Variants" for information about alcoholic chess.  In Budapest in 1890, there was a game played, with the following types of alcohol being used:

King - Champagne Queen - Claret
Bishops - Burgundy Rooks - Port
Knights - Madeira Pawns - Wine

The players had to take a drink from the piece that they moved.  The game ended in a draw by "mutual confusion".  The "normal" rules are that a player must promptly drink the contents of any man he captures.  Emanuel Lasker is said to have won a game by deliberately sacrificing his queen (quarter-litre of cognac) in the early stages. The opponent's play went downhill pretty quickly!

Overcoming History:  Alexander Alekhine had lost all 5 previous tournament games against Jose Capablanca prior to their 1927 World Championship match. Despite this, Alekhine managed to win the match and the World Champion title.  A similar situation occurred with Bobby Fischer prior to his 1972 World Championship match against Boris Spassky, as Fischer had lost all 3 previous encounters. Like Alekhine, he turned it around and won the match and the World Champion title.

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

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  • First Saturday Tournaments (March / Budapest, HUNGARY)
    Nguyen Ngoc Truongson performed GM norm & Gyozo Pataki performed an IM norm

  • Petrosian Memorial (March 9-18 / Stepanakert, ARMENIA)
    Karen Asrians wins the Petrosian Memorial (6/9), Macieja finishes in 2nd place

  • Reykjavik Open 2004 (March 7 -16 / Reykjavik)
    Alexey Dreev won this strong open tournament (6.5/9)

  • Dos Hermanas Internet Tournament 2004 (March 6-14/ICC)
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Position of the Week: Solution

Yurgis,A - Botvinnik,M
Leningrad, 1931

Today's position is taken from Garry Kasparov's My Great Predecessors II.  The comments are mine and Fritz's.  For Garry's notes, you'll have to buy the book!








34...Rc4 threatening to queen the pawn, along with ...Bc5 pinning the rook.  35.bxc4 [35.Rc1 Bc5 36.Kg2 Bxf2 37.Kxf2 also leads to a Black victory.] 35...Bc5 36.Kg2 Bxf2 37.Kxf2 b3 resigns 0-1.  The passed pawns are unstoppable.

 

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Today's quotes come from the latest Lessons Learned column, by GM Mark Taimanov

Certainly disappointments are not all the same.  Some failures are not so painful and hence quickly forgotten; others remain in the memory for a long time.

Both of us belonged to a category of polemists of principle, ready to assert our belief in the King’s Indian ‘tableau’, which was always a favorite weapon for me with White and for Fischer with Black.

16.c5!  But I think this blow turned out to be an unexpected and distressing surprise for Fischer.  The battery of white pieces has come into action!

I remember that at that moment I felt a veritable ecstasy from the struggle - I estimated the position as rather advantageous.  I trusted in success, pleased at my good luck employing my opening preparation, and in the idea of rapid development of the initiative -and the maneuver 20. Qh3, for example.  Was it was possible to anticipate that all this would turn to ashes?!

It was amazing!  All my understanding of chess, all my experience and flair convinced me this position should be won, but concrete ways to victory did not appear.

And here I was, I will admit, seized by a helpless state of despair - "What is this Fischer, like?  Is he invulnerable or bewitched?"

So what is the truth?  Is it possible that the critical position is reliable for Black, and his backwardness in development can be defended?  Certainty is not present!  Chess is full of internal logic and when one side has an indisputable positional advantage, it should bear fruit.

Maybe the position is fraught with other secrets, but I admit, after seemingly endless analyses, it causes in me this "idiosyncrasy" or particular way of thinking.  And therefore I pass the analysis to the attention of the inquisitive reader...

At the cost of a deterioration in the central pawn structure, Fischer opens the game and the bishops find their invincible power.  It is one more example of his favorite method of transformation of one kind of advantage to another.

Fischer is in his element.  Intercepting the initiative, he develops offensive potential all over the board with irrepressible energy.

 

 

 

GAMES

Zhang Zhong (2639) - Malakhov,V (2700) [B35]
5th Karpov Poikovsky RUS (2), 18.03.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Nc3 g6
4.d4 cxd4
5.Nxd4 Bg7
6.Be3 Nf6
7.Bc4 0-0
8.Bb3 a5
9.0-0 d6
10.Ndb5 b6
11.a4 Ba6
12.f4 Nd7
13.Qf3 Bxc3
14.bxc3 Na7
15.c4 Nc5
16.f5 Nc6
17.Bh6 Ne5
18.Qf4 Re8
19.h4 f6
20.fxg6 hxg6
21.Rae1 Kh7
22.Qd2 Qc8
23.Bf4 Bb7
24.Nc3 Ne6
25.Bg3 Nxc4
26.Qd1 Ne5
27.Nd5 Bxd5
28.Qxd5 Ng7
29.Bf2 Rb8
30.Re3 Ng4
31.Rg3 Nxf2
32.h5 g5
33.Qf7 d5
34.Rxf2 Rf8
35.Qg6+ Kh8
36.exd5 Qc5
37.d6 e6
38.h6 Nh5
39.Qxh5 Qxd6
40.Qg6 Rb7
41.Rd3 Qe5
42.Rd1 Rh7
43.Qxf6+ 1-0
 

Korbut Ekaterina (RUS) - Bystryakova Elena (RUS) [C42]
Ch St. Petersburg (w) St. Petersburg (Russia) (3), 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 Nc5
10.Be3 Bf5
11.h4 c6
12.Nd4 Ne4
13.Qe1 Qa5
14.Kb1 Bg6
15.f3 Nf6
16.g4 h5
17.Rg1 Rfe8
18.Qg3 Bf8
19.Bg5 Nd7
20.Bh3 Ne5
21.f4 Nxg4
22.Bxg4 hxg4
23.Qxg4 f5
24.Qg3 Bf7
25.Bf6 Qxa2+
26.Kc1 g6
27.Qg5 Kh7
28.h5 gxh5
29.Qxf5+ Kh6
30.Rg7 1-0
 

Asrian,K (2599) - Pelletier,Y (2587) [B85]
Petrosian Mem Stepanakert AZE (6), 15.03.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6
6.Be3 e6
7.Be2 Be7
8.0-0 0-0
9.a4 Re8
10.f4 Nc6
11.Kh1 Qc7
12.Bf3 Rb8
13.Qd2 Na5
14.b3 Rd8
15.Ncb5 axb5
16.Nxb5 Qc6
17.Qxa5 Nxe4
18.Bb6 1-0
 

Firman,N (2526) - Balogh,C (2456) [B65]
It Miskolc HUN (5), 15.03.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 Nc6
6.Bg5 e6
7.Qd2 Be7
8.0-0-0 0-0
9.f4 Nxd4
10.Qxd4 Qa5
11.Kb1 h6
12.h4 Rd8
13.Qd2 Nxe4
14.Nxe4 Qxd2
15.Rxd2 f6
16.Bd3 fxg5
17.hxg5 d5
18.Nc3 hxg5
19.fxg5 Bxg5
20.Rf2 g6
21.Bxg6 Rd7
22.Rhf1 Re7
23.Rf8+ Kg7
24.Bd3 b6
25.Nb5 Bb7
26.R8f3 Kg8
27.Nd6 Rg7
28.Bb5 a6
29.Ne8 axb5
30.Nxg7 1-0
 

Kasparov,G (2831) - Carlsen,M (2484) [E92]
Rapid Reykjavik ISL (1.2), 18.03.2004

1.c4 Nf6
2.Nc3 g6
3.e4 d6
4.d4 Bg7
5.Nf3 0-0
6.Be2 e5
7.Be3 exd4
8.Nxd4 c6
9.f3 Re8
10.Bf2 d5
11.exd5 cxd5
12.c5 Nc6
13.0-0 Nh5
14.Qd2 Be5
15.g3 Bh3
16.Rfe1 Ng7
17.Rad1 Rc8
18.Ndb5 a6
19.Nd6 Bxd6
20.cxd6 d4
21.Ne4 Bf5
22.d7 Bxd7
23.Bxd4 Nxd4
24.Qxd4 Nf5
25.Qxd7 Qb6+
26.Kh1 Red8
27.Qa4 Rxd1
28.Qxd1 Qxb2
29.Qb1 Rc2
30.Qxb2 Rxb2
31.Bc4 Nd4
32.Re3 1-0
 

Olafsson,H (2504) - Aronian,L (2648) [A29]
Rapid Reykjavik ISL (1.1), 18.03.2004

1.c4 e5
2.Nc3 Nf6
3.Nf3 Nc6
4.g3 Nd4
5.Bg2 Nxf3+
6.Bxf3 Bc5
7.e3 0-0
8.0-0 d6
9.a3 Bb6
10.d4 c6
11.d5 Bh3
12.Re1 Rc8
13.Qd3 Qd7
14.Na4 Bc7
15.Nc3 Ng4
16.dxc6 bxc6
17.c5 d5
18.e4 d4
19.Nd1 f5
20.b4 Kh8
21.Ra2 Nf6
22.exf5 Bxf5
23.Qa6 Bb8
24.Bg2 Bh3
25.Bxh3 Qxh3
26.f3 e4
27.Nf2 Qe6
28.Rc2 e3
29.Nd3 Nh5
30.Qc4 Qg6
31.Rg2 Rcd8
32.Bb2 Rd5
33.b5 Rfd8
34.bxc6 Qxc6
35.f4 Nf6
36.Rc2 a5
37.a4 h5
38.Qb5 Qe6
39.c6 Rxb5
40.axb5 Qb3
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