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26th World Championship Moscow 1966.04.11

Petrosian vs
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1.Nf3 Nf6
2.g3 g6
3.c4 Bg7
4.Bg2 0-0
5.0-0 Nc6
6.Nc3 d6
7.d4 a6
8.d5 Na5
9.Nd2 c5
10.Qc2 e5
11.b3 Ng4
12.e4 f5
13.exf5 gxf5
14.Nd1 b5
15.f3 e4
16.Bb2 exf3
17.Bxf3 Bxb2
18.Qxb2 Ne5
19.Be2 f4
20.gxf4 Bh3
21.Ne3 Bxf1
22.Rxf1 Ng6
23.Bg4 Nxf4
24.Rxf4 Rxf4
25.Be6+ Rf7
26.Ne4 Qh4
27.Nxd6 Qg5+
28.Kh1 Raa7
29.Bxf7+ Rxf7
30.Qh8+ 1-0

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GAMES

Short,N (2686) - Polgar,J (2715) [B92]
Hunguest Hotels Tournament Budapest, HUN (8), 19.04.2003

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6
6.Be2 e5
7.Nb3 Be7
8.0-0 0-0
9.Kh1 Nc6
10.Be3 Be6
11.Qd2 d5
12.exd5 Nxd5
13.Nxd5 Bxd5
14.Rfd1 Bxb3
15.axb3 Qxd2
16.Rxd2 Rad8
17.Rad1 Rxd2
18.Rxd2 Rd8
19.Bd3 g6
20.c3 a5
21.f3 h6
22.g3 Bg5
23.f4 exf4
24.gxf4 Bf6
25.Kg2 g5
26.Bc4 Re8
27.Re2 gxf4
28.Bxf4 Rxe2+
29.Bxe2 Kg7
30.Bg4 Bg5
31.Bc7 Bd8
32.Bg3 Kg6
33.Bc8 b6
34.Kf3 f5
35.Bd7 Ne7
36.Bh4 Kf7
37.Bf2 Bc7
38.h4 h5
39.Ke2 f4
40.Kf3 Ng6
41.Bf5 Ne5+
42.Ke4 Ng4
43.Bd4 Ne3
44.Bh3 Ng4
45.Kf5 Ne3+
46.Kg5 Nc2
47.Bf2 Ne3
48.Kxh5 Kf6
49.Bg4 Bd6
50.Be1 Bf8
51.b4 axb4
52.cxb4 Nd5
53.b5 Bb4
54.Bxb4 Nxb4
55.Be2 Kf5
56.Kh6 Kf6
57.Kh5 Kf5
58.b3 Nd5
59.Bd3+ Ke5
60.Kg4 Nf6+
61.Kf3 Ng8
62.h5 Nh6
63.Bg6 Ng8
64.Bc2 Nh6
65.Bd3 Ng8
66.Kg4 Nf6+
67.Kg5 f3
68.h6 f2
69.Kg6 Nd5
70.Bc4 Ke4
71.Kf7 Ne3
72.Be2 Nf5
73.h7 Ke3
74.Bf1 Ng3
75.Bg2 1-0

 

 

 

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Volume 2  Issue 16                                                         April 20th, 2003

In This Issue

Review: The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Keybook II

New York Masters
Game of the Week

Center Squares

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia

New At Chessville

Pablo's Chess News

Position of the Week

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Black to move and win - Find the Solution
 

 

 

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The New York Masters Game of the Week, with analysis by IM Greg Shahade.  This week's game:

(3) Ehlvest,J (2705) - Yudasin,L (2666) [E20]
51st New York Masters New York (3), 08.04.2003

Center Squares:  A small but growing collection of chess knowledge essential to your understanding and growth as a chessplayer, bringing together several past articles along with this week's newest addition to Center Squares...Perpetual Check.

Perpetual Check:  We have updated and added new material to our article on this defensive technique that can help save an otherwise lost position, or gain you a draw at an essential point in a match or tournament.

Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle.


Review:  The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Keybook II, by Rev. Tim Sawyer, reviewed by Andy Howie.  The BDG arises after 1.d4 d5 2.e4!? dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3, and it is definitely not for the weak of heart!  Warning: the reviewer has clearly been bitten by the BDG-bug - further reading could be hazardous to your f-pawn!
 

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The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Keybook II
By Rev. Tim Sawyer,   Reviewed by Andy Howie


If you like your openings slow, closed and unexciting then this book will do nothing for you.  Stop reading now and go on to the next review!

If, like myself, you like to make your opponent sweat from the word go, let me welcome you into the magical world of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit.

The BDG stems from the following moves1.d4 d5 2.e4!? dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3

From this position, all merry heck can break loose.  The main aim for White is to get the light-squared bishop to c4 or d3 and castle kingside.  This leads normally to fatal pressure on the f6 and g6 pawns and a quick decisive victory.

My OTB opponents this year have found that this theory holds quite well and many of them have gone down in 25 moves or less!  The author, who is a great exponent of the opening, has the following to say in the introduction:

“The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is not a boxing jab; it is a knockout punch - and White gets to throw the first punch!  Stop playing for the endgame; play to end the game!  Be a winner.  Play the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit!"

Read the rest of Andy's completely unbiased (uh-huh!) review now!  (Warning and Disclaimer: the reviewer has clearly been bitten by the BDG-bug - further reading could be hazardous to your f-pawn!)
 

Center Squares

Most chessplayers know that control of the center squares on the chessboard is often a prerequisite to winning the game.  It is one of the classical ideas behind the opening phase of the game.  Center squares is also often a meeting area in the center of a city's business district, a Plaza, if you will, where friends can meet, and the weary can rest for a while.  You might even find a chess table or two there!

This collection of short articles , written for the novice to intermediate player, will provide you with the knowledge you need to take control of your own games.  Together they can form the foundation of a solid, self-directed course of study for those wanting to improve.  Taken individually, each is an interesting and informative essay on the particular subject covered.

We hope you find these articles useful as you work to improve your understanding of this game we all love.  Read our initial offerings at Center Squares.
 

New York Masters Game of the Week
With Analysis by IM Greg Shahade

April 8th, 2003
Participant List for 51st NY Masters:

GM Jan Ehlvest

FM Lew Eisen

GM Leonid Yudasin

NM Rafal Furdzik

GM Alex Wojtkiewicz

FM Boris Privman

IM Jay Bonin

NM Yaacov Norowitz

FM Lev Milman

NM Peter Aravena

FM Alan Stein

Qualifier – Joe Lux

FM Danny Shevelev

Filler – Jonathan Corbblah

Can anyone dethrone king Ehlvest? With 4 consecutive first place victories, he just needs a victory this week to tie Stripunsky’s record of being NY Masters champion for 5 consecutive weeks.

Stripunsky wouldn’t be in attendance to stop Ehlvest, as due to heavy traffic he was unable to make it to the tournament until midway through the 2nd round! Stripunsky was not the only victim of traffic, as Pascal Charbonneau tried to drive from Maryland, but faced a similar traffic jam. Perhaps they were in the same traffic jam and could have played each other during that time?

Wojtkiewicz moved to 3-0 after knocking off Jay Bonin and now it was up to Ehlvest and Yudasin to see who would join Wojo at the top. I know that Yudasin REALLY wanted to beat Ehlvest, as Ehlvest has been UNSTOPPABLE thus far in the NY Masters, as he has won the first 4 times he has played. In head to head NY Masters matchups thus far, Ehlvest is up 3-0 against Yudasin. Yudasin is NOT an easy player to have a 3-0 score against, that much I assure you. A fourth consecutive victory over Yudasin should be enough to give him his 5th consecutive title.

(3) Ehlvest,J (2705) - Yudasin,L (2666) [E20]
51st New York Masters New York (3), 08.04.2003

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d5 5.a3 Be7 6.e4 c5 7.cxd5 exd5 8.dxc5 d4

Yudasin is going for a risky pawn sacrifice on just move 8! He’s hoping that Ehlvest’s offsides knight and weakened king position (because of the move f3) will give him sufficient compensation…

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The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

English Opening Origins:  The English Opening was first seen in international play as far back as 1843, when Howard Staunton used it during his match against the French player Pierre Saint-Amant.

Unorthodox Chess Opening Discussion:  In the course of his 1858 match with Paul Morphy, Adolf Anderssen as White played 1.a3 as his opening move, scoring +1, -1, =1 from the 3 games.

Editor's Note:  Richard Morris, on the Unorthodox Chess Openings list, adds this information about 1.a3:  "The idea behind 1. a3, Anderssen's Opening, is to play a Black opening with a move in hand for White.  a3 is a useful move in most of them.  The drawback is that if Black answers with a kingside fianchetto, a3 usually becomes irrelevant.  It may be best to play a3 at some point later than the first move.  For example 1. c4 e5 2. a3 and White is playing a Sicilian Defense with an extra move."

IM Eric Schiller, also on the Unorthodox Chess Openings list, responds: "If you search databases for White formations against Black's kingside fianchetto you find very, very few lines with a3, because it IS irrelevant and a waste of a move. That doesn't mean that White will lose of course. It basically throws away White's advantage of the first move. Black should not get over-confident or cocky, it isn't such a big deal. But any standard formation will benefit from White's lack of ambition."

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Byrne,R - Fischer,R
US Championship, 1963

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 c6 4.Bg2 d5 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.e3 0-0 8.Nge2 Nc6 9.0-0 b6 10.b3 Ba6 11.Ba3 Re8 12.Qd2 e5 13.dxe5 Nxe5 14.Rfd1 Nd3 15.Qc2 Nxf2 16.Kxf2 Ng4+ 17.Kg1 Nxe3 18.Qd2  Byrne later wrote "As I sat pondering why Fischer would choose such a line, because it was so obviously lost for Black, there suddenly came 18...Nxg2.  This dazzling move came as the shocker...the culminating combination is of such great depth that, even at the very moment at which I resigned, both Grandmasters who were commenting on the play for the spectators in a separate room believed that I had a won game!"  18...Nxg2 19.Kxg2 d4 20.Nxd4 Bb7+ 21.Kf1 (Diagrammed Position)  21...Qd7  In a hall adjacent to the playing room, Grandmaster Rossolimo was commenting on the games for a large audience, and had been completely mystified by this game.  At this point, in fact, he told his audience that there was obviously nothing left for Fischer to do but give up.  Suddenly, the messenger came with the next report, and announced that Byrne had resigned!  White Resigns.  Fritz thinks White's best (which he says is still losing big-time) is 22.Nf3 Qf5 23.Qf4 Qxf4 24.gxf4 Bxc3 25.Ne5 Bxa1 26.Rxa1 Rad8.  Another try is 22.Kg1 Qh3 23.Nd5 Bxd5 24.Nc2 Bb7 25.Re1 Bxa1 26.Rxa1 Qh5 27.Re1 Qf3 28.Rxe8+ Rxe8 when White is so absolutely busted, Fritz gives as his best move here the dismal 29.Ne3.  Fischer in his My 60 Memorable Games wrote that Byrne's resignation was a "bitter disappointment." He'd hoped for 22.Qf2 Qh3+ 23.Kg1 Re1+!! 24.Rxe1 Bxd4 "with mate to follow shortly."; Fischer also gives 22.Ndb5 Qh3+ 23.Kg1 Bh6 "and the curtain comes down."
 

 

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GAMES

Hunguest Tournament Budapest, Hungary, (4), 14.04.2003

Berkes,F (2578) - Short,N (2686) [E05]

1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 e6
3.Nf3 d5
4.g3 Be7
5.Bg2 0-0
6.0-0 dxc4
7.Ne5 Nc6
8.Nxc6 bxc6
9.e3 Ba6
10.Nc3 Rb8
11.Bxc6 Qd6
12.Qa4 Rb6
13.Bg2 c5
14.dxc5 Qxc5
15.e4 Qh5
16.Qd1 Qa5
17.Qe2 Nd7
18.Rd1 Ne5
19.Be3 Rb7
20.Qd2 Qb4
21.Rab1 h6
22.Qc2 Rc8
23.Bd2 Qc5
24.Be3 Qa5
25.Bd2 Qc7
26.Qa4 Rb6
27.Be3 Bc5
28.Bxc5 Qxc5
29.Qc2 Rb4
30.Rd2 Rcb8
31.Rbd1 Nd3
32.Rb1 Rxb2
33.Rxb2 Rxb2
         0-1

Polgar,J (2715) - Leko,P (2746) [B33]
Hunguest Hotels Tournament Budapest, HUN (5), 15.04.2003

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 e5
6.Ndb5 d6
7.Bg5 a6
8.Na3 b5
9.Bxf6 gxf6
10.Nd5 f5
11.Bd3 Be6
12.Qh5 Rg8
13.g3 Rg5
14.Qd1 Bxd5
15.exd5 Ne7
16.Nxb5 Qb6
17.Na3 Qxb2
18.Nc4 Qc3+
19.Kf1 Rd8
20.Rb1 e4
21.Be2 f4
22.Rb3 Qf6
23.gxf4 Qxf4
24.Ne3 Bg7
25.Bxa6 Nf5
26.Ng2 Qe5
27.h4 Rg6
28.Rhh3 Kf8
29.Qb1 Bf6
30.h5 Rg8
31.Be2 Nd4
32.Rbe3 Bg5
33.Qb6 Re8
34.Reg3 f5
35.Nh4 Nxe2
36.Kxe2 f4
37.Rb3 f3+
38.Kf1 Qxd5
39.Nxf3 Qc4+
40.Rd3 exd3
41.Qxd6+ Be7
42.Qh6+ Rg7
43.Rg3 dxc2+
44.Kg2 Qc3
         0-1

Polgar,J (2715) - Berkes,F (2578) [C11]
Hunguest Hotels Tournament Budapest, HUN (7), 18.04.2003

1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nc3 Nf6
4.Bg5 dxe4
5.Nxe4 Be7
6.Bxf6 Bxf6
7.Nf3 0-0
8.Qd2 Nd7
9.0-0-0 Be7
10.Bd3 b6
11.Neg5 h6
12.Bh7+ Kh8
13.Be4 hxg5
14.g4 Rb8
15.h4 g6
16.hxg5+ Kg7
17.Qf4 Bb7
18.Rh7+ Kxh7
19.Qh2+ Kg8
20.Rh1 Bxg5+
21.Nxg5
         Qxg5+
22.f4 Qxf4+
23.Qxf4 Bxe4
24.Qxe4 1-0


 

 

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