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| Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess for Saturday December
3rd 2005 Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph The top seed Vasily Ivanchuk ranked world number five must win his second game to stay in the FIDE World Cup taking place in the Russian autonomous region of Khanty-Mansyisk. Ivanchuk was paired with the Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov a talented young player who has worked with Fide World Champion Veselin Topalov and as a consequence is armed with many new and dangerous ideas in the opening. Ivanchuk was drawn into a bad line of the Benko Gambit and deprived of any counterplay as Cheparinov stormed the kingside unhindered in a remarkably one-sided game. I Cheparinov (2618) - V Ivanchuk (2748) FIDE Cup Khanty Mansyisk (2.1) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 (the Benko Gambit which if accepted leads to Black gaining pressure on the a and b files) 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 (White declines and plays to stifle Black's play down the b file) 5...d6 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.a4 a5 (I have never liked this move, it leads to a petrification of the Black queenside. 7...Qxb6 8.a5 Qb7 is more flexible and Black can use the b5 square for a minor piece, in the game he is short of squares) 8.e4 g6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.Be2 0-0 11.0-0 Qxb6 12.Nd2! (preparing to take over the queenside where White has more squares) 12...Ba6 13.Nb5 Rfb8 14.Qc2 Qd8 15.Nc4 Nb6 16.Nca3! (An exchange of knights would help Black who would have a much better position if his a5 pawn was in the box) 16...Ne8 17.Rb1 Nc7 18.b3 Bxb5 19.Nxb5 Na6 (19...Nxb5 20.Bxb5 Rc8 was better but Black is still very passive) 20.Bg5 Nb4 (the knight achieves nothing here and White now starts play on the kingside where Black has only a bishop to defend with) 21.Qd2 Qd7 22.f4! Rb7 23.f5 Qe8 24.Rf3! Nd7 25.Rbf1 Be5 (If 25...Ne5 26.Rh3 just compare the rooks) 26.Rh3 f6 27.Be3 g5 (Trying to close the position) 28.g4! Rc8 29.Bc4! (Black's position is cut in two and his bishops and knights are poorly placed. White threatens to win in slow motion with Rh5 and h2-h4 or Rh5 and Rf1-f3) 29...Bd4 (Ivanchuk tries to create some squares for his pieces) 30.Nxd4 cxd4 31.Bxg5! Ne5 (31...fxg5 32.Qxg5+ Kh8 33.Rxh7+ Kxh7 34.Rf3 wins) 32.Bh6 d3 33.g5 Qf7 34.Rg3 Kh8 35.g6! (Black is overrun) hxg6 36.fxg6 Nxg6 37.Rf5 Ne5 38.Bf8 Qh7 39.Bg7+ Qxg7 40.Rh5+ Kg8 41.Rxg7+ Kxg7 42.Qh6+ Kf7 43.Qh7+ Ke8 44.Qf5 1-0 Ivanchuk  Final position after 44.Qf5 Alexei Shirov is through to round two. After his opponent doggedly exchanged pieces for a draw with white Shirov was too strong in the return. A Shirov - K Kuderinov WCC Khanty Mansyisk (1.2) Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bd7 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Bxc6 bxc6 8.Qf3 c5 9.Nf5 Bxf5 10.exf5 Rb8 11.b3! Both defending and attacking, the bishop will be very well placed 11...Be7 12.Bb2 d5 13.0-0-0 13...d4 14.Qc6+ Qd7 leaves White better in the ending 13...c6 14.g4 White's attack has begun and Black has no option but to 'castle into it' 14...0-0 15.g5 Nd7 16.f6 Bd6 17.h4 Be5 18.Qf5 Rb7 19.h5 Qa5 20.Rh3! Qb4 21.Nxd5! Typical Shirov finding a tactical solution 21...Bxb2+ 22.Kxb2 cxd5 23.fxg7 Kxg7 24.Rxd5 The knight has to defend f6 otherwise h5-h6+ and Qf6 24...Qa4 25.Rhd3 Rd8 26.h6+ Kg8 27.Qe5! using the back rank to force the win 27...f6 28.Qe7 1-0 Kuderinov  Shirov Position after 27.Qe5! and if 27. ...Ne5 28.Rxd8+ mates |
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