In the Jaws of the Tiger – part two point five
09.08.2007
– Last week our Playchess trainer Dennis
Monokroussos presented a game by Tiger Hillarp Persson, the second by this wildly
imaginative player. The game was so rich that he only made it halfway through.
So this week Dennis continues with his analysis, starting from move 17. Don't miss it!
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Dennis Monokroussos writes:
Last week, we started examining the fantastic battle between Peter Heine Nielsen
and Tiger Hillarp Persson from the 1998 Politiken Cup, and it turned out that
the game was so rich we only made it halfway through! Have a look at the first
17 moves for yourself:
1.c4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Nf3 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5
Ne7 9.b4 a5 10.Ba3 Nh5 11.c5 axb4 12.Bxb4 Nf4 13.Nb5 c6 14.Nc7 Nexd5 15.Nxa8
Nxb4 16.cxd6 Bf5 17.a3 Nbd5
Crazy enough for you? After all the sacs, White is the exchange ahead but material
is hanging all over the place, and Black enjoys a serious initiative. Nevertheless,
the remainder of the game, while less flashy than the first part (but not by
much, especially when you see the variations I’ve unearthed!), is full
of content as well. We’ll start with a brief recap of the first part of
the game for the benefit of those who might have missed part 1 (but it won’t
be any substitute for checking it out in the archives – there’s
just so much to see there) and to limber us up mentally for part 2, and then
turn to the second half of this struggle. Hillarp Persson plays some of the
wildest chess on the planet, and if this game doesn’t make you a fan of
his, you might want to check your pulse. It’s that good.
Remember, the show is free and starts at 9 p.m. ET. See you then!
Dennis Monokroussos'
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Time and Date. Exact times for most larger cities are here.
And you can watch older lectures by Dennis Monokroussos offline in
the Chess Media System room of Playchess:
Enter the above archive room and click on "Games" to see the lectures.
The lectures, which can go for an hour or more, will cost you between one and
two ducats.
That is the equivalent of 10-20 Euro cents (14-28 US cents).
Dennis
Monokroussos is 40, lives in South Bend, IN, and is an adjunct professor
of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
He is fairly inactive as a player right now, spending most of his non-philosophy
time being a husband and teaching chess. At one time he was one of the strongest
juniors in the U.S., but quit for about eight years starting in his early 20s.
His highest rating was 2434 USCF, but he has now fallen to the low-mid 2300s
– "too much blitz, too little tournament chess", he says.
Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for seven years now, giving lessons
to adults and kids both in person and on the internet, worked for a number
of years for New York’s Chess In The Schools program, where he was
one of the coaches of the 1997-8 US K-8 championship team from the Bronx, and
was very active in working with many of CITS’s most talented juniors.
When Dennis Monokroussos presents a game, there are usually two main areas
of focus: the opening-to-middlegame transition and the key moments of the middlegame
(or endgame, when applicable). With respect to the latter, he attempts to present
some serious analysis culled from his best sources (both text and database),
which he has checked with his own efforts and then double-checked with his
chess software.
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