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Mov ing By Handby Anish Giri

KI 48.10 (E81)

From Anish Giri we re ceived thefol low ing anal y sis from the ZugGrand Prix. The open ing of hisgame with Karjakin was quite in -ter est ing. Here’s what our con trib u -tor thinks is the way to re fute 1.d4:

Karjakin,SergeyGiri,AnishZug 2013 (8)

1.d4It’s hard to call this a sur prise, as inour last game Sergey also went forthe queen’s pawn. Yet, I will con -tinue to be sur prised for a cou plemore games to come, as Sergeystrikes me as a true 1.e4 player.1...Àf6 2.c4 g6 3.Àc3 Ãg7!Not that I thought that my op po -nent and his hard-work ing sec ondhad re futed my Grünfeld, butfrankly 1.d4 has to be pun ished bythe King’s In dian and noth ing else.4.e4 d6I don’t know whether my eyeswere play ing tricks on me, but I am pretty sure I saw a smile on the face of Radjabov, who was look ing atmy board. He him self, by the way,played a dull QGD.5.f3The Sämisch, pop u lar ized by theRus sians and the In di ans lately.5... 0-0 6.Ãe3 c5 7.d5In view of the re cent de vel op ments in the 7.Àge2 line (RR: seeIkonnikov’s Sur vey on page 182),Sergey wisely de cided to go for aless top i cal sys tem.

7...e6 8.©d2 ed5 9.cd5

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9...Àbd7?I had dis cussed this same po si tionjust a week ear lier with a friend ofmine (in that ver sion the pawn wason h6, as White first went Ãg5)and we had taken a very care fullook and drawn a few im por tantcon clu sions. My first re ac tionwas: why on earth does ev ery onego ...Õf8-e8, but then I re al izedthat Black is in fact wait ing forWhite to go Àge2 be fore de vel op -ing the queen’s knight to d7. Ilaughed at my friend that he prob a -bly had no idea why he was look -ing at 9...Õe8 in stead of 9...Àbd7,but once I sat there in Zug my self,op po site Sergey, I made this moveby hand with out a sin gle thought.It was only when a few King’s In -dian ex perts pulled very strangefaces at my board that I realizedwhat I had done.10.Àh3!Now, frankly, Black has lost twotempi, as White usu ally goesÀe2-c1-d3-f2 or Àe2-g3-h1-f2,and so I de cided to just play fast,hop ing that Sergey would start get -ting some doubts.

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10...a6 11.a4 Àe5 12.Àf2

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I re al ized that for tu nately my pawn is not on h6, so there might still besome hope of well-timed counter -play.12...Ãd7?!A typ i cal idea. I was try ing to fig -ure out what would be the dif fer -ence be tween the knight be ing ong3 and on f2, and to my great luckthe only ad van tage of the knightbe ing on g3 was high lighted in this game. 12...Àh5!? was much morede cent. I felt so frus trated that Imust have as sumed White has13.g4, when ac tu ally his f3-pawnis not pro tected. Af ter 13.Ãe2 f5Black has typ i cal Benoni play.13.h3?!It is re mark able that we both did n’t no tice how much dif fer ence thepo si tion of the knight makes.While with the knight on g3 thismove is typ i cal, here it is just bad.Cor rect was 13.Ãe2! when playcan con tinue 13...b5 14. 0-0 ba415.f4 (15.Ãg5 Ãb5 16.f4 Àed7)15...Àeg4 16.Ãg4! Àg4 17.Àg4Ãg4 18.f5.13...b5?!I failed to see the nat u ral 13...Àh5! and in stantly played a move in thespirit of the the o ret i cal line wherethe knight is on g3. Af ter13...Àh5! there might fol low 14.f4 Àg3 15.fe5 (15.Õg1? Àf1! 16.Õf1 Àc4) 15...Àh1 16.Àh1 Ãe5 andBlack has fan tas tic play with...f7-f5 and ...b7-b5. On 17.Ãf4!?Black plays 17...©e7.14.f4 Àc4 15.Ãc4 bc4 16. 0-0Here 16.g4!? would have beenmuch more un pleas ant to meet. I

wanted to in stantly put my rookson the open files with ...Õe8 and...Õb8, but then I sud denly got very much wor ried about the g4-f5bind. When I was about to get des -per ate, I fi nally no ticed the ...Àh5idea and got my op ti mism back.16...Àh5!?As 16...Àe8 runs into 17.e5! and16...Õe8 17.g4 (17.f5!?) 17...Õb818.f5 looks very de press ing to me.But I am be ing too pes si mis tic itseems: 18...gf5 19.gf5 Àh520.Àg4 ®h8 and even though I am still wor ried about my dead d7- bishop as well as many otherthings, the com puter is claim ingthat ev ery thing is go ing ac cord ingto plan.17.g4

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Played quickly by Sergey. Ac tu -ally I was quite sur prised, as at first I thought both 17...Àg3 and17...©h4 led to good po si tions forme. On the other hand, I was al -ready threat en ing ...f7-f5.17...©h4I quickly no ticed the Õg2 idea thatoc curred in the game, but first ofall I saw that I have a nice follow- up with ...Ãg4-f3 and sec ondly Idid n’t like the other op tion.17...Àg3! was in deed fine. I no -ticed I am los ing a pawn af ter18.Õfe1 f5! 19.ef5 gf5 20.®h2!©h4 21.Õg1 Àe4 22.Àce4 fe423.Àe4 and here I was doubt ingmy com pen sa tion, but in fact it allgoes very fast: 23...Õab8 24.Àc3h5!? 25.Ãf2 ©f6 26.f5 hg4 27.hg4 ®f7 with a crazy, yet roughly bal -anced po si tion.18.gh5 ©g3 19.®h1 Ãh3

It was funny. I made this move in -stantly and then later I tried to re -mem ber where it was that...Õab8!? was an in ter est ing op tion to con sider, only to re al ize to mydis ap point ment that the mo menthad passed. Here 19...Õab8!? is very in ter est -ing in deed. Two moves later I triedto con vince my self that it was badin or der not to feel too stu pid that Ihad n’t even paused for a min ute tocon sider it se ri ously. Ob jec tively,White is better here too, for ex am -ple: 20.e5 (20.h6!?) 20...de521.Àce4 ©f3 22.®g1 ef4 23.Ãc5f5 24.Ãf8 Õf8 25.h6! (25.Õa3 c3!)25...fe4 26.Àe4 ©e4 27.hg7 Õf5,but Black is in the game.20.Õg1 ©h4

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21.Õg2I thought this was the only ideathat White has if he wants to playfor a win, but when I went for the

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piece sac ri fice I saw the fol low ingidea to keep the ini tia tive alive. Ihad fun with Sergey at the presscon fer ence as we won deredwhether it was clever to pro voke...h7-h6: 21.Õg5!? h6 22.Õg2, butfi nally we both agreed it wouldhave been too clever. How ever, theclever 21.Õge1! es caped our at ten -tion. Now the e3-bishop is pro -tected!: 21...Õab8 and Black keeps prac ti cal com pen sa tion. Though,if White finds the neat 22.®h2!, itwill no lon ger be any fun forBlack: 22...Ãg4 23.®g2 Ãh524.Õh1 ©e7 25.e5!.21...Ãg4! 22.®g1 Ãf3

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It is funny that rather than tak ingthe ex change I spent 2 moves to at -tack it from the other side. In fact,the bishop on f3 breaks White’scamp in two and it is worth muchmore than a rook.23.f5?!Now it’s a forced draw, but to behon est this was the only move that I was wor ried about. Ob jec tivelybest was 23.e5!, but I was not toocon cerned. I thought that theopen ing of the po si tion as well assome ex tra pawns would do noharm: 23...de5 24.h6!! (in cred i -ble. When my gor geous sec ondtold me that this was the idea, Ilaughed and said that the com -puter prob a bly does n’t un der -stand that I can just go 24...Ãh8.But to think that the com puterdoes n’t un der stand some thingand not to trust my gor geous sec -ond is of course as wrong as onecan get: 24.Àce4, as sug gested bySergey, is also pos si ble, but here

Black has some op tions to keepthe game un clear. Tak ing on f4,e4, and g2 are all pos si ble and de -serve at ten tion) 24...Ãh6(24...Ãh8 25.f5! and Black is kind of lost) 25.fe5 and Black is in se ri -ous trou ble here. I re ally don’twant my sac ri fice to be in cor rect,but I have to ad mit that it is.23...Ãe5 24.Ãg5!All White needs is to ex change thedark-squared bish ops. I saw thefol low ing check on h2 all the wayback when I went 20...©h4, but itwas only much later that I re al izedthat White can just go 25.®f1 andit is not clear what I have achieved.For tu nately, I took my time hereand found the only idea to save thegame.24...Ãh2! 25.®f1For a while I was wor ried about25.Õh2 ©g3 26.®f1 ©h227.©e3, but in fact Black has noth -ing to worry about: 27...©g228.®e1 ©g1 (28...Õab8! 29.Õb1Õb3 just wins) 29.®d2 ©a130.©f3 ©b2 31.®e1 f6! (an easyde fen sive idea) 32.Ãh6 g5! andBlack is more than fine.25...Ãg2 26.®g2 ©g3 27.®h1f6!This neat move, fight ing for theh4- square, is cru cial.28.Ãh6 ©h4 29.®g2For a mo ment I was shocked by29.Àh3, but once I cooled down Ifound 29...Ãe5 30.©g2 g5! andBlack is com pletely win ning.29...©g3 30.®h1 ©h4In fact, Black can go on, but I didnot see any other idea than theeven tual ...©g3-©h4 rep e ti tionany way and de cided not to give my op po nent any op tions. 30...Õfb8brings noth ing: 31.fg6 hg6 32.hg6and now White al ready wants to go Àh3, so play ing for a win herewould be too much: 32...Õa7(32...©h4 33.®g2 ©g3 34.®h1)33.Àh3 forc ing a draw, though any other move is fine too: 33...©h334.©h2 ©f3 35.©g2 ©h536.©h2 ©f3 37.©g2.31.®g2 ©g3 32.®h1Draw.

I was very happy with this gameand even though my re sult (draw,draw, draw) did n’t change, I atleast man aged to raise the fun-bar.

An other Velimirovic At tacka let ter by Marc Schroeder

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How should Black con tinue af ter1.e4 d6 2.d4 Àf6 3.Àc3 g6 4.f4Ãg7 5.Àf3 0-0 6.e5 Àfd77.Ãc4 ? Ac cord ing to ViktorMoskalenko (in The Per fect Pirc- Modern, New In Chess 2013) thestron gest move is 7...Àb6!ì. Then he warned: ‘Be ware! White gets adan ger ous ini tia tive af ter the mis -take 7...c5? 8.e6! Àb6 9.ef7 ®h810.Ãd3! cd4 11.Àe4 Õf7 12.h4!.’In the Sur vey ‘An other Velimi -rovic At tack – Part I’ in Year book107 Luis Rodi took on the po si tionaf ter 9...®h8.

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He in ves ti gated 10.h4 (‘Chaos onthe Board’) and 10.Ãe2 (‘A SmallWhite Ini tia tive’), men tion ing10.Ãd3 in pass ing. Rodi con -cluded (i) that Velimirovic’s sac ri -fi cial idea 10.h4 de serves moreprac ti cal tests, (ii) that in the quiet10.Ãe2 line Black’s play is notsuf fi cient for equal ity ei ther, and(iii) that Moskalenko’s 10.Ãd3 isprom is ing for White.I dis agree with his first con clu sionand claim that 10.h4! is win ningout right. Black is so con vinc inglybusted that no more tests areneeded.

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In Ivanisevic-Dzhumaev (‘MainGame’) Black was in dire straits af -ter 10.h4 Àc4 11.h5 Ãf5 12.hg6Ãg6 13.f5 Ãf5 14.Àg5 ©d715.©h5ê. Rodi blamed 14...©d7 and sug gested as an im prove ment14...©c8 15.©h5 h6 16.Àd5 Àc617.Àf4¤. But here White is win -ning too: af ter 17...À6e5 (whatelse?) 18.de5 Àe5 19.Ãd2 d5 20.g4 Ãc2 21.Õc1 Ãh7 22.Àh7 ®h723.g5 ©g4 (23...Àd3 24.Àd3 ©e625.©e2ê) 24.g6 ®h8 25.©g4Àg4 26.®e2ê Black is as dead as a door nail.The brillant 10.h4!ê obsoletes10.Ãe2?ì which spoils the win.Stat ing this, I dis agree with Rodi’ssec ond con clu sion, which by theway does not fol low from his ownanal y sis, es pe cially of the line10.Ãe2 cd4 11.Àd4 Àc6 12.Ãe3Õf7 13.0-0 Ãd7 (ì).

What about Moskalenko’s sug ges -tion? Well, I tried to work out a de -fence for Black af ter 10.Ãd3 but didnot suc ceed: in all vari a tions Whiteap pears to emerge on top. At somepoint one has to ad mit that this linealso re futes 7...c5. Mean whileMoskalenko de serves the credit forbe ing the only writer to pos i tivelyas sert that 7...c5? is a mis take.Let me fin ish with a min ia turefrom the re gional team cham pi on -ship of Rot ter dam.

Schroeder,MarcVan Dijken,RexNieuw-Beijerland tt 2012/13 (6)

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Àf6 3.Àc3 g6 4.f4Ãg7 5.Àf3 0-0 6.e5 Àfd7 7.Ãc4c5? 8.e6 Àb6 9.ef7 ®h810.h4!ê Àc4 A) 10...Ãg4 11.h5êVelimirovic- Rajkovic, Skopje1971 – YB/107-78; B) 10...cd4 11.h5 g5 12.Àg5 h6(12...Ãf5 13.Ãe6ê) 13.©d3 hg5 14.h6 Ãf6 15.fg5 Àc4 16.g6 Õf717.g7 ®g8 18.©g6 Ãg7 19.hg7Õg7 20.©h5ê.11.h5 Õf7Rec om mended by Botterill &Keene in The Pirc De fence,

Batsford 1973, but Black is lost:11...h6 (11...Ãf5 12.hg6êIvanisevic- Dzhumaev, Al-Ain2012 – YB/107-76) 12.hg6 Ãf513.g4!! Ãg6 (13...Ãg4 14.f5 h515.©d3 ©d7 16.Àg5ê) 14.f5Ãh7 15.©e2 Õf7 16.Ãh6 Ãh617.Õh6 Àd7 18.©c4ê.12.hg6 Õf6 13.Õh7! ®g8

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14.Àh4! ©f8 A) 14...Õg6 15.Àg6 ®h7?16.©h5 ®g8 17.Àe4ê; B) 14...Àd7 15.f5 Àf8 16.©h5Ãf5 17.Õg7 ®g7 18.Ãh6ê.15.©h5 Õe6 16.®f1 Àe316...©f6 17.Àd5 ©d4 18.Õh8Ãh8 19.©h7 ®f8 20.©f7X.17.Ãe3 Õe3 18.Õh8 1-0I con clude that 10.h4! is far from‘Chaos on the Board’ as Rodistates, but is the ap pro pri ate pro ce -dure to vivi sect Black. Please ap -pre ci ate the ar tis tic butch ery byVelimirovic back in 1971.Marc Schroeder,Rot ter dam, the Neth er lands

Fight ing the a4-Àb5 Set-Upby Pe ter Boel

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In the FIDE World Rapid, youngstar Daniil Dubov played somethe o ret i cally highly in ter est inggames. He came close to beat ingAl ex an der Moiseenko with aBenko Gam bit line that is con sid -ered quite good for White.

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1.d4 Àf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cb5a6 5.ba6 g6 6.Àc3 Ãa6 7.Àf3Ãg7 8.e4 Ãf1 9.®f1 d6 10.g30-0 11.®g2 Àbd7 12.a4

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This rel a tively re cent move is, incon nec tion with Àb5 (af ter firstde fend ing e4), cur rently seen asquite prob lem atic for Black. Itwas n’t yet cov ered in ValeryAveskulov’s At tack with Black,and Sergey Kasparov only men -tioned it briefly in The Dy namicBenko Gam bit, add ing that youshould n’t play the Benko against2700+ play ers any way. This is il -lus trated by the fol low ing Carlsengame, in a slightly dif fer ent ver -sion: 12.©e2 ©b6 13.a4 Õfb814.Àb5 Àe8 15.Ãg5 ©d8 16.Õa3Àb6 (Sergey Kasparov rec om -mends 16...h6 17.Ãe3 Àc7) 17.b3(achiev ing the de sired queensidefor ma tion) 17...©d7 18.Õa2 f619.Ãc1 f5 20.ef5 gf5 21.Õd1 Àf622.©e6 and Black had in suf fi cientcounterplay in Carlsen- Bologan,Biel 2012.

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Don’t play the Benko against2700+ play ers... well, per haps in arapid game?12...Õa6This looks like the most flex i blere ac tion. The black queen goes toa8, cre at ing threats on the long di -ag o nal, the other rook can go to c8or b8, and as d6 is cov ered Blackcan also play ... e7- e6. For the mo -ment, Black aban dons the idea ofthe ma noeuvre ...Àe8- c7, at tack -ing the knight that will ap pear onb5, but he can come back to it byplay ing ...©b7.13.©c2 ©a8 14.Àb5

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14...Õc8An idea in tro duced, ac cord ing tothe da ta bases, by NikolaNestorovic. Black wants to play...c5- c4 and ...Àc5, af ter which hewill have full play. Pre vi ously seen was: A) 14...©b7 and now: A1) 15.Õa3 Õfa8 16.Ãd2 andnow 16...c4!? 17.©c4 Àc5 looksmore in ter est ing for Black than16...Àb6, when 17.b3! is stron gerthan 17.Àc3!? Àfd7 18.Õd1?!(18.Õha1 Àc4 19.Õb3 and20.Õb5) 18...Àc4! as played inCoves Tomas- Martinez Lopez,Burjasot 1995; A2) 15.Ãg5 h6 16.Ãf6 Àf617.Õad1 e6 18.b3 ed5 19.ed5 andWhite had the queenside in or der,but Black man aged to drum upcounterplay with 19...Õe8 20.©d3 Õe4 21.Õhe1 Õb4 22.®g1 Ãf823.Àh4 ©d7 24.Àg2 ©f5 inCmilyte- Rasulov, Konya 2012. B) Also in ter est ing is 14...Õb6!? and now 15.Ãd2!? (15.Ãg5;

15.Õa3) 15...e6 16.de6 (16.Ãf4!?ed5 17.ed5 Àd5 18.Ãd6 Õd8 isdan ger ous for White due to threatsto d6, b2 and f3) 16...fe6 17.Õae1and now not 17...Àg4? as inGrebstad- Perez Gon za lez, Ma drid 2011, when 18.Ãf4! would havebeen very good for White, but17...d5! 18.ed5 Àd5 with dan ger -ous counterplay on the long di ag o -nal; White will have to set tle for adraw with 19.Õe4 À7f6 20.Õe2Àg4 21.Õe4; C) 14...Àe8 is the other men -tioned plan. Af ter 15.Ãg5 f616.Ãd2 ©b7 17.Ãc3 Àc7 18.Àc7©c7 19.b3 ©b7 20.Õhe1 Ãh621.®g1 Àe5 22.Àe5 fe5 23.Õeb1Õaa8 24.®g2 ©a6 25.Õf1 Õab826.Õab1 Õb7 the com puter thinksWhite is do ing great, but this maybe mis lead ing. Af ter the mis take27.Õb2? Ãe3 28.Õbb1? Ãd4Black got good play in Sinanan- Lee, ICC INT 2012.15.Ãd2 c4

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A nov elty! Dubov is well- prepared even for this rapid game.Nestorovic him self had played two dif fer ent moves: A) 15...e6 16.de6 fe6 17.Õhe1d5 18.ed5 Àd5 19.Ãc3 Àc320.bc3 c4 21.©e2 Àe5 22.©e4Àd3 23.Õe2 ©e4 24.Õe4 Àb2,draw ing the end game with someef fort against the much stron gerZhou Jianchao in Shenzhen 2011; B) 15...Àb6?! 16.a5 Àbd717.Àa3 e6 18.de6 fe6 19.Õhe1 d520.ed5 ed5 21.Àg5 Àf8 22.f3 h623.Àh3 g5 24.Õe7 with an ad van -tage to White in Michalik- Nestorovic, Groningen 2012.

16.Àfd4?Over look ing a nice trick. Whitehas to do some thing against thethreat of ...Àc5, for ex am ple: A) 16.Ãb4! Àc5 (or per haps16...Àb6!? with the idea 17.a5Àbd5! 18.ed5 ©b7 19.©a4 Õb8,for ex am ple: 20.Õhc1 Àd5!21.Õc4 Ãb2 22.Õa2 Àb6! with afine mess – White has to sac ri ficehis queen) 17.Ãc5 Õc5 18.Àfd4?(better 18.Õa3 when Black getscounterplay with 18...e6)

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18...Àd5! 19.ed5 Ãd4 20.Àd4Õd5 is a well-known Benko trick.Black wins his piece back with in -ter est af ter both 21.©e4 Õd4 and21.Àf3 Õd3 22.©e2? Õa5! fol -lowed by 23...Õe5 and 24...Õf5. B) Af ter 16.Ãe3 Black can ofcourse play 16...Àc5 as well, butsince d6 is n’t hang ing the im me di -ate 16...e6 is also pos si ble: 17.de6fe6 18.Àc3 and again a blackknight co mes to d3: 18...Àg4

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19.Õhf1 Àde5 20.Àe5 Àe521.Ãd4 Àd3 22.Ãg7 ®g723.Õfd1 Õf8! with good pres surefor the pawn, e.g. 24.f3 ©a7! andper haps it’s time for White to sacrifice the ex change.16...Àd5! 17.ed5 Ãd4 18.Àd4©d5

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19.f3Black is al ready al most win ningaf ter 19.Àf3 Àe5 20.©c3 Àf321.©f3 ©d2ç . The text is ob jec -tively even worse, but it al lowsWhite to play for tricks.19...©d4 20.Ãc3 ©d5 21.h4Àe5 22.©e2 ©d3 23.©f2 h524.Õhe1 ©f5ç 25.Õe4?The lesser evil was 25.Ãe5 de526.Õe4ç.25...Àd3î 26.©e3 e5 27.g4?This des per ate at tempt will ex -plode in White’s face. But he wasin big trou ble any way.27...hg4 28.fg4 ©e6 29.©g5d5?!29...©d5 30.©e3 Àc5 wins eas ily.30.Õe5 Àe5 31.Ãe5 d4 32.Õe1Õe8Pre vent ing 33.©h6 on ac count of33...©d5 and 34...Õe5.33.h5 Õa5 34.hg6 ©g6?

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Al low ing an amaz ing sav ingclause. Still win ning was 34...fg6.35.Ãd4!!A geo met ri cally fan tas tic move!Here the play ers im me di atelyagreed the draw, since af ter35...©g5 36.Õe8 ®h7 37.Õh8®g6 38.Õg8 Black can’t es capeit’s a per pet ual.

Par a digm Shiftby Jose Vilela

FR 4.4 (C11)

For many years, one of the mainfea tures of White’s strat egy in theClas si cal Vari a tion (as well asmany other lines) of the FrenchDe fence has been to take ad van -tage of the dif fer ence in ac tiv itybe tween the light-squared bish opson both sides. Black’s queen’sbishop, play ing in side the pawnchain e6-d5, is far more lim itedthan White’s king’s bishop play ing with the cen tral struc ture d4-e5,which al lows him complete free -dom of move ment.Thus it was quite sur pris ing to seeLeinier Dominguez (who, by theway, has had ex cel lent re sults fac -ing the Clas si cal French dur ing the last years) take a rad i cally dif fer -ent ap proach in the 8th round ofthe re cent Capablanca Me mo rialagainst first seed DmitryAndreikin. After 13 movesBlack’s queen’s bishop was en joy -ing a won der ful, wide open longdi ag o nal. Nev er the less, and inspite of also al low ing Black to de -prive him of the right to cas tle,Dominguez de vel oped an at tackwhich was al ready winning asearly as move 22. Let’s have a look at the facts:

Dominguez Perez,LeinierAndreikin,DmitryHavana Elite 2013 (8)

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Àc3 Àf6 4.e5Àfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Àf3 Àc6 7.Ãe3a6 8.©d2 b5

Up to this point ev ery thing hasbeen well known and much tested.If you enter this po si tion in Mega -base 2013, you get no less than2638 games. Quite an amount.9.Àd1This ma noeuvre is some timespre ceded by Ãe2, and some timesplayed in this way. What is, atleast in prin ci ple, its idea? To getready for a re in force ment of theim por tant d4-point with c2-c3,and ma noeuvre this knight to f2,from where it can help to build uppres sure on the king’s flank oreven tu ally in flu ence the cen tre(from d3). Dominguez’ in ten -tions, as re vealed on the nextmove, are far re moved from thestan dard Ãe2.9...b4A normal an swer, gain ing space on the queenside.10.c4!?

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This is a the o ret i cal nov elty, andquite a change from the tra di tionalpat terns. The most usual move inthis po si tion is 10.Ãe2. The mostre cent im por tant game with it isGrischuk-Potkin from Khanty- Mansiysk 2011: 10.Ãe2 ©b611.c3 bc3 12.Àc3 Õb8 13.b3 ©a514.Õc1 cd4 15.Àd4 Àd4 16.Ãd4Ãa3 17.Õc2 0-0 18.Àa4! Ãb419.Ãc3 f6 20.Ãg4 Õe8 21.Ãb4Õb4 22.0-0 Ãb7 23.a3 Õa4 24.ba4©d2 25.Õd2 fe5 26.fe5 Àe527.Ãe2 Õc8 28.Õb2 Õc7 29.Õb6Àc4 30.Ãg4 g6 31.Ãe6 ®g732.Õb7! 1-0.10...cd4 11.Àd4 Àd4 12.Ãd4dc4 13.Ãc4 Ãb7Black has played a very straight -for ward se quence, to guar an teenice ac tiv ity for his queen’sbishop. As a coun ter part, Whitehas got good cen tral po si tions forhis bish ops and a good square forhis knight on e3. Nev er the less, atthe mo ment the ac tiv ity of hisbish ops is not par tic u larly im pres -sive. But the pic ture may changedra mat i cally if White achieves thef4-f5 break.14.Àe3 Ãe7 15.Õd1A pro phy lac tic move, di rectedagainst an even tual ...Àb8-c6 byBlack. It was a dif fi cult de ci sionthough, as White may lose theright to cas tle. 15.0-0 seemed themost nat u ral, but 15...Àb8!, in -tend ing ...Àc6, is not very pleas ant for White.15...Ãh4Now in case of 15...Àb8 White has 16.©e2.16.®e2Nec es sary, as g2-g3 was im pos si -ble due to the un de fended rook onh1. 16...0-0Black de cides on a po lemic pawnsac ri fice. It was pos si ble to just de -fend the pawn by 16...a5, whenWhite would con tinue sim i larly tothe game with 17.Õhf1; in this case the po si tion would be non-stan -dard and dif fi cult to as sessproperly.17.©b4 Õb8 18.©c3 Õc8 19.b3

This po si tion is non-stan dard also,but White is a pawn up. One of thedif fi cult things to un der stand hereis that White’s king is rel a tivelysafe in the cen tre, in spite of theblack bish ops look ing dan ger ous.On the other hand, the bishop on c4 is very sol idly posted and theknight on e3 is ac tive.19...©c7 20.Õhf1All the forces are mo bi lized be fore un der tak ing any con crete ac tion.20...Àc5Black acts just as if he does not be -lieve f4-f5 to be dan ger ous forhim. A more care ful look re vealsthat even if he had tried to stopWhite’s break by 20...g6, 21.f5would still be quite problematic, asam ple line be ing the fol low ing:21.f5! gf5 (on 21...ef5? 22.e6! iscrush ing) 22.Àf5! ef5 23.©h3!and now re treat ing the bishop to e7 gives White a fe ro cious at tack af -ter 24.©f5, with threats like25.Ãf7, 25.Ãd3 and 25.e6. Whichmeans that 23...Àe5 24.©h4 Õfe8should be pre ferred, but of courseWhite would also have the ad van -tage in this case.21.f5!

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Open ing up the po si tion with theking in the centre is cer tainly notan ev ery day event in chess!White’s con cep tion may seem un -or tho dox, but Dominguez has cor -rectly as sessed all the spe cif ics ofthe situation.21...®h821...Àe4 seems pref er a ble.22.Ãc5!Un prej u diced play again, this timegiv ing away the bishop pair.

22...©c5 23.©d4Look ing for a queen ex changewith tempo, as the bishop on h4 istouched. 23...Ãg5 24.fe6 ©c624...©d4 25.Õd4 fe6 26.Ãe6 Õce8 27.Õf8 Õf8 and White has a se ri -ous ad van tage in the end game.25.ef7Af ter this the pair of con nected and far ad vanced passed pawns in thecentre becomes just too much forBlack. The white pieces man age to pro tect his king.25...Ãe3 26.©e3 ©g2 27.®e1©h2 28.e6 ©h4 29.Õf2 ©h130.Ãf1 ©h4 31.©f4 ©e732.©d6 ©g5Pref er a ble was 32...©h4, al though the game is lost any way: 33.Õd4©h6 (33...Õc1 34.®d2 ©f235.®c1 ©f1 36.®b2ê) 34.Õff4with the idea of an im me di atee6-e7. (34.Õc4 Õcd8 35.©d8! also wins as af ter 35...©e6 36.Ãe2Õd8 37.f8© the ma te rial ad van -tage is de ci sive).33.e7 Õce8 34.fe8© ©e335.Ãe2 ©f2 36.®d2 1-0With no more checks in sight,Black re signs. Af ter 36...Õe8 co -mes 37.Õf1! with 38.Õf8 to fol low.Will 10.c4 be a one-off vari a tion?Or will it re ceive fur ther at ten tion? The future will tell.

A Cer tain Punchby Rich ard Palliser

PU 5.3 (C41) YB 70,72,75,78, 90

For what ever rea son the Philidor is rarely coun tered by Shirov’s 5.g4at the very high est level, but justslightly lower the gam bit re tains acer tain punch, as shown by the fol -low ing game from the re cent Scot -tish (Open) Cham pi on ship.

Jones,GawainStrikovic,AleksaHelens burgh 2013 (4)

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Àf6 3.Àc3 e54.Àf3 Àbd7 5.g4!?

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7.Ãe3!?A mod ern in ter pre ta tion, al thoughnot ev ery one is so con vinced, withthe main line, 7.Ãc4, ap pear ing inan other dra matic game from theBrit ish Isles, namely TomEckersley- Waites against Da vidAd ams from the fi nal round of theBrit ish League (4NCL): 7...h6 8.Ãe3 c6 9.de5 de510.©e2!? (White has more of tengone 10.©d3, but af ter 10...b5(10...Àh5 11.Ãf7!? ®f7 12.Àe5Àe5 13.©d8 Àf3 14.®d1 Àg115.®c1 Àh3 16.f4 was that amaz -ing game Shirov- Shaw, Gi bral tar2005 – see YB/75-81) 11.Ãb3©a5! 12. 0-0-0 Ãa6 Black ob tainsgood coun terplay, for ex am ple,13.Àd2 0-0-0 14.Ãf7 Àc5 15.©f1 ©c7 16.Ãg6?! b4 17.Àe2 ®b818.f3 Àe6 19.©f2 c5! 20.Àg3?!c4 with very prom is ing play on thequeenside in Dar gan-D.Ad ams,Brit ish League 2012/13) 10...b511. 0-0-0!? (a dar ing nov elty;11.Ãb3 ©a5 should be com paredwith the last vari a tion if Whitegoes long, while Jones him self had pre vi ously tried the spec u la tive12.Àh4!?) 11...bc4 12.Àe5 Ãa6?(ar gu ably this nat u ral move wasthe de ci sive mis take; Black shouldpre fer 12...©c7! when White canstill sac ri fice, but 13.Àf7! ®f714.©c4 ®e7 15.Àb5 ©e5 canonly re ally be de scribed as ex -tremely messy and in need of a testor two) 13.Àc6 ©c7 14.e5! ©c6(14...Àg4!? might have been tried, but 15.©g4 ©c6 16.e6 ©e6

17.©f3 Õd8 18.Ãf4 rather ech oesthe game and leaves White with akiller at tack) 15.ef6 gf6? (not best,al though 15...Àf6 16.Ãf4 Ãe717.Ãd6 re gains the piece withsome ad van tage, and 15...©f6?16.Ãg5 ©e6 17.©f3 Õc8 18.Ãf4also leaves White do ing ratherwell) 16.Ãf4 ©e6 (16...®d817.©h5 ®c8 18.©f7 Ãb4 19.Àd5Ãc5 20.Õg7 is equally dev as tat -ing) 17.©f3 Õc8 18.Õge1 Àe519.©g3 (the pres sure down thee-file proves de ci sive) 19...Ãe720.©g7 Õf8 21.Ãe5 fe5 22.Õe5©g6 23.Õe7! ®e7 24.Àd5 ®e825.©e5 ®d7 26.Àf6 ®c6 27.Õd6®b7 28.©d5 ®b8 29.Àd7 ®c730.©c6 1-0 T.Eckersley- Waites- D.Ad ams, Eng land tt 2012/13.7...c6 8.©d2The point of White’s play. In 150At tack style he is ready to meet...g7-g6 with a timely Ãh6, but ifBlack does n’t push the g-pawn how can he com plete his de vel op ment?

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8...b5Black has also been known toshore up e5 while tak ing a stepcloser to queenside cas tling bymov ing the queen: A) 8...©c7?! 9. 0-0-0 b5?! (easyto crit i cize when you see what fol -lows, but it’s not so easy to sug gestan im prove ment) 10.de5! Àe5(10...de5 11.Ãb5! Àe4? 12.Àe4cb5 was Fernandez Andrade- Baltar Iglesias, Ourense 2007, andnow White might win in style with13.Õg7! Ãg7 14.Àd6 ®f815.©d5 – Bosch) 11.Àe5 de512.Ãb5! Ãe6 (there’s no de fenceaf ter 12...cb5? 13.Àb5 ©e714.©c3) 13.Ãa4 saw White re gain his pawn while re tain ing strongpres sure in Van Kampen- Plukkel,Wijk aan Zee 2010, as shown byJeroen Bosch in one of his ex cel -lent SOS Game of the Month columns on the New in Chesswebsite; B) 8...©e7!? 9. 0-0-0 g610.Àg5!? h6 (10...Ãg7?! 11.de5de5 12.f4 was White’s idea, and if12...ef4 13.Ãf4 0-0 14.Ãd6 withsome ad van tage) 11.Àf3 Ãg712.a4!? (12.de5 de5 13.Ãc4 b5seems okay for Black, since thesac ri fice on b5 is n’t dev as tat ingwhen Black’s king is ready to evac -u ate the cen tre) 12...b6 (12...ed4!?13.Ãd4 0-0 14.Ãc4 ®h8 15.Àh4was also pos si ble, with very un -clear play) 13.Ãh3 Àh5 14.®b1Àdf6 15.Ãc8 Õc8 seemed fine forBlack at this stage in Giri- Driessens, Neth er lands tt 2012/13,al though he was soon out played.9. 0-0-0!The Ser bian Grand mas ter had ear -lier faced 9.a3, which feels quiteslow and af ter 9...a6 10. 0-0-0 ©c711.Àh4 g6 12.f4 Ãb7 13.de5 de514.fe5 (14.Àf3!? Ãh6 15.f5 waslikely a better try) 14...Àe5 15.Ãf4Ãe7! 16.Õg5? Àfd7 Black was al -ready do ing pretty well in TeranAlvarez- Strikovic, Se ville 2009.9...Ãb7?This move was in tro duced intotour na ment praxis just three daysbe fore our main en coun ter, but is

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Gawain Jones

un likely to catch on, since it ratherun der es ti mates White’s po si tion.Black had ear lier es caped the pindown on the d-file with 9...©a5,al though af ter 10.de5 de5(10...Àe5!? 11.Àe5 de5 is alsopos si ble, as in Fercec- Ostovic,Porec 2012, when 12.Õg5 Ãe613.Õe5 Ãe7 re turns the pawn tocom plete de vel op ment; here thema chine of fers the amaz ing14.Ãh3!? Õd8 15.Ãd4, but canthis re ally be the route to a whitead van tage?) 11.®b1! b4 12.Àa4: A) 12...©a4? 13.Àe5 rather re -sem bles Eckersley- Waites vs.D.Ad ams above, with 13...Ãe714.Àf7! ®f7? (14... 0-0 and here15.Õg7!? also looks very dan ger -ous, as pointed out by RenéOlthof) 15.Ãc4 ®e8 16.Õg7! giv -ing White a huge at tack for the twopieces in T.R.Hansen- CuencaJimenez, Villa De Roquetas 2011; B) 12...g6 looks much more sen -si ble and 13.Ãc4 Àe4! 14.©d3Àd6 15.b3 Àc4 16.©c4 ©b517.©e4 did n’t seem overly con -vinc ing for White in Adhiban- A.Gara, Biel 2012.10.de5 de5

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11.Àb5!Olé!11...Àe4Black would be hope lessly pinnedaf ter 11...cb5? 12.Ãb5 ©c713.Àe5!, so he had no choice but to grab e4.12.©e1 cb5 13.Ãb5 Ãd614.Àe514.Õg7!? was also rather tempt -ing, as in the ear lier Plenca- Bosiocic, Opatija 2013, where

White might have met 14...©f615.Ãd7 ®e7 with 16.Õd6! ©d6(16...©g7? 17.Õd1 leaves Blackrather help less against the threatsof ©b4 and Àh4-f5, while16...®d6? 17.©b4 ®c7 18.Ãg4!is a sur pris ingly vi cious re treat)17.Ãf5, thereby re tain ing ex cel -lent com pen sa tion for the ex -change.14...Ãe5 15.Õd7 ©d7 16.Ãd7®d7

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Tak ing stock af ter a forced pas sage of play we can see that ma te ri allyspeak ing Black is do ing quite well, but the ex tra queen is ac tive andWhite’s king much the safer. Con -clu sion: Jones is at least clearlybetter.17.©a5! Õhe8 18.Õd1 ®c8It’s also rather hard to be lieve thatBlack would have sur vived af ter18...®e6 19.©b5 Õab8 20.©d7®f6 21.Ãd4, at least not with outthe aid of an even big ger swin dlethan that which oc curs in thegame.19.©b5 Àf6 20.Ãg5?Be gin ning to drift. Black’s po si -tion is held to gether by his dark- squared bishop, so White shouldhave re moved it, such as with20.©c4 ®b8 21.Ãf4!. Then af ter21...Ãf4 22.©f4 ®c8 23.©c4®b8 24.©f7 White be gins to pickoff Black’s pawns while thea8-rook re mains rather out ofplay.20...Õe6 21.©c5 Ãc6 22.f4Àd7!The only move, and one suf fi cientto en able Black to sur vive into anend game.

23.Õd7 Ãb2 24.®b2 ®d725.©d4 Õd6 26.©g7 Ãd5White’s queen re mains some whatmore use ful than Black’s rooksand one would ex pect the op po -site-col oured bish ops to fa vourhim too, but Jones was n’t hav inghis best ever day at the of fice andnow missed a clever trick.27.©d4? Õb8 28.®c1?He had to go 28.®c3!, and if28...Õc8 29.®b2 Õc2 30.®c2 Ãb3 31.®c3.

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28...Õb1!Ouch. Black spots the loose pieceon d4 and heads into an eas ily won, ex change-up end game.29.®b1 Ãa2 30.®a2 Õd431.®b3 ®e6 32.c3 Õe4 33.c4 f634.Ãh4 Õf4 35.Ãg3 Õg436.®b4 f5 37.Ãf2 a6 0-1

Ref er ences:SOS 7 (Nijboer); SOS 8-12(Bosch); SOS 12-17 (Bosch);YB/70-22; YB/72-21; YB/75(Olthof); YB/78-22; YB/90-18.

It Works!a let ter by Mi chael Allard

GI 10.1 (D96)

This month I con cluded a U.S.Chess Fed er a tion rated postalgame (snail mail still lives). Toavoid main line Grünfeld the ory, Ifol lowed Mr. Bosch’s in trigu ingSOS ar ti cle in New In Chess2012/7, pp. 76-79 .Al though the game con cludes in anagreed draw, I be lieve that it con -

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Leach, Charles Allard, Michael corr De cem ber 2012-July 2013

1.d4 Àf6 2.c4 g6 3.Àc3 d54.Àf3 Ãg7 5.©b3 dc4 6.©c40-0 7.e4 Ãe6 8.d5 Ãc8 9.Ãf4 c6 10.Õd1 cd5 11.Àd5 Àd512.Õd5 ©e8

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13.©c2 Àc6 14.Ãb5 a6 15.Ãc6©c6 16.Õc5 ©b6 17.b3 Ãg418.0-0 Ãf3 19. gf3 Ãd4 20. Õd5Õac8 21. ©d2 Õfd8 22.Ãe3Ãe3 23.fe3 e6 24.Õd8 Õd825.©c3 ©b5 26.Õe1 ©d327.©d3 Õd3 28.Õe2 Õd1 ½-½Mi chael AllardBowie, Mary land, USA

A Neverending Storyby A.C. van der Tak

SI 26.8 (B89) YB 37, 65, 98

In the Si cil ian Velimirovic At tack,13.Àf5!? con sti tutes a dan ger ousas sault on the black po si tion. Thewhite knight can not well be cap -tured – White takes back with theg-pawn and then has win ning threats along the g-file. Also two moveslater, af ter 13...b5 14.Ãd5 Ãb715.g5, cap tur ing is bad: 15...ef5?16.g6! with a win ning at tack.But how are things if Black cap -tures af ter one more move? – i.e. af -ter 15...Õfc8 16.Õg3. Then thingsare less clear. Let’s take a look.

Privara,IgorOskulski,Jacekcr SVK CCA-40 2007

1.e4 c5 2.Àf3 Àc6 3.d4 cd44.Àd4 Àf6 5.Àc3 d6 6.Ãc4 e67.Ãe3 a6 8.©e2 ©c7 9. 0-0-0Ãe7 10.Ãb3 0-0 11.Õhg1 Àd712.g4 Àc5 13.Àf5 b5The knight is un as sail able: 13...ef5?14.gf5 Ãd7 (14...Àb3 15.ab3ÅÀb4 16.Õg7ê; 14...Àe5 15.Àd5©d8 16.Ãc5 dc5 17.f4ê) 15.Àd5©d8 16.©h5 ®h8 17.Õg7! ®g718.f6 1-0 S.Sokolov-K.Grigorian,So viet Un ion 1978.14.Ãd5 Ãb7In my FO RUM con tri bu tion in Year -book 98, I took a closer look at thecap ture of the bishop on d5. In themean time, a new game has beenplayed with the line 14...ed5!?/?!15.Àd5 ©b7 16.e5 Àe6 17.ed6Ãd8. In Zarate- Saglione, crch-ARG-24 fi nal 2011, there fol -lowed 18.h4 a5 19.f4 a4 20.h5 b421.®b1N f6 22.h6 g6 23.©g2 Õa6 24.Àde7 ®h8 25.Àc8 ©c826.©d5 ©d7 27.©c4 Õa8 28.Àg3 with un clear play. As in the gamesI showed in Year book 98, Whitehas com pen sa tion for his piece, but the case is far from clear; this game ended in a draw af ter 49 moves.15.g5 Õfc8Also here, 15...ef5? is bad: 16.g6!hg6 17.Õg6 Àe5 18.Õg7êÅ

A.Sokolov- Salov, Nikolaev 1983– YB/1(!)-74 and YB/37-36.16.Õg3

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16...ef5!?/?!For 16...Ãf8 and 16...b4, see myFO RUM con tri bu tions in Year book65 and Year book 98. No blackplayer had ever dared to play thetext move – at least I did n’t knowany games with it. Only re centlydid I dis cover the cur rent game,which was not yet in my da ta basewhen I was writ ing my FO RUM ar ti -cle for Year book 98. It’s the sameas with the move 14...ed5: good?,bad?, un clear?17.©h5The al ter na tive is 17.g6, which isgiven by both Golubev andYakovich. The lat ter even writes:‘White’s at tack is ir re sist ible’. Isthat true? To gether with Rybka I puz zledout the fol low ing vari a tions:17...hg6 18.Õg6 (18.ef5? Àb4ç)18...Ãf8 19.Õdg1 Àe5 (19...Àe720.Õg7 Ãg7 21.Ãd4 Ãd5 22.Õg7®f8 23.ed5 Àg6 24.©h5 ©e725.©f5 ©e1 26.Àd1 Àd327.©d3 Àf4 28.Õf7ì) 20.ef5Àg6 (20...Àcd3?! 21.®b1 Àg622.fg6 Àe5 23.gf7 Àf7 24.Ãd4Ãd5 25.Àd5 ©c4 26.Àf6 ®h827.©h5 Àh6 28.Ãc3 ©f729.Õg6Å) 21.fg6 Ãd5 22.Àd5©b7 23.©f3 fg6 24.Õg6 Õab825.©f5 Õe8 26.Àf6 ®f727.Àh7=. So – equal ity? Im -prove ments for White (and forBlack) are con ceiv able.17...Àe517...Àe4? 18.Ãf7 ®f8 19.g6ê; or17...Àe6? 18.Õh3 Àg5 19.Õg1!ê.

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Bash ing Chess Fun da men talsa let ter by Mar tin Rieger

VO14.8 (D07)

While work ing on a re view of anew open ing book, it seems I (i.e.Houdini 3) have found a strongnov elty in the Chigorin De fence(1.d4 d5 2.c4 Àc6).In the book (A Prac ti cal Rep er -toire with 1.d4 and 2.c4 by GMAlexey Kornev), which oth er wiseis re ally very good, the au thor rec -om mends the fol low ing sys temagainst the Chigorin:

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1.d4 d5 2.c4 Àc6 3.Àc3 dc44.d5 Àe5 5.f4 Àg4 6.e4 e5 7.f5h5 8.Àf3 Ãc5 9.Ãc4 Àf2

10.©b3 Àf6 11.©b5 Àd712.Õf1 Àg4 13.Ãg5 Ãe714.Ãd2 0-0 15.Ãb3 Àc5 16.©e2 Àb3 17.ab3 c6 18.0-0-0 ©c719.®b1 Õd8 20.h3 Àf6 21.Ãg5 White is clearly better.21...Àh7 22.Ãe7 ©e7 23.g4 hg4 24.hg4 g5 25.Õh1 f6 26.Õh6 Õf8 27.d6 ©d7 28.©h2 Õf7 29.Õh1b5 30.Õg6 ®f8 31.Àe5 fe532.©e5 Õg7 33.Õh7 1-0

Now if we go back to the 16thmove (16.©e2)...

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then Black has a much better movehere than 16...Àb3.At first sight it seems that White issim ply better. He has more space,and the knight can be chased awaywith h2-h3, af ter which the pawnon e5 is hang ing. Black, on theother hand, is still slightly un der de -vel oped and lacks a con crete plan.But here, Houdini 3 starts shak ingthe chess fun da men tals with atruly as ton ish ing move, which rad -i cally changes the en tire po si tionin Black’s fa vour.If you first want to dab ble with thispo si tion your self for a while, youshould not read on!16...b5!!This strong move also involves afan tas tic queen sac ri fice!17.h3Af ter, for ex am ple, 17.Àb5 c618.Àc3 Àb3 19.ab3 a5, or also17.©b5 Ãa6 18.©a5 Õb8, Blackis sim ply better.17...Àf6 18.Àe5 b4 19.Àc6bc3!! 20.Àd8 cd2 21.©d2Also after 21.®d2 Àfe4 22.®c2Õd8 Black is better.21...Àfe4 22.©c2 Õd8

And here also, Black has the up perhand.Mar tin Rieger,Schwandorf, Germany

How Novelties are Born IIby Ahmed Odeev

KI 48.12 (E81) YB 107

Af ter study ing the po si tions aris -ing af ter the nov elty 12...Àc4!?,pub lished in Year book 107 in thesec tion ‘Kuzmin’s Har vest’, I de -cided to share my re search in this,the Sämisch Vari a tion of theKing’s Indian Defence.The following was a de ci sive qual -i fy ing game in the semi-fi nal of the 15th in di vid ual cor re spon dencecham pi on ship of Af rica and Asiabe tween the Turk ish player CahitSadi Kayis and my pu pil, theTurkmenistan player Fred Helmi.

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1.d4 Àf6 2.c4 g6 3.Àc3 Ãg74.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Ãe3 c5The most force ful and pop u lar lineto day. Black sac ri fices a pawn fora lead in de vel op ment and ac tivepiece play. The other lines 6...e5and 6...Àc6 were well tested in thepast and are now rarely played. Inone of the games of the othersemi-fi nal Black played the raremove 6...Àfd7!?, and a very in ter -est ing po si tion arose af ter 7.©d2c5 8.d5 ©a5 9.Ãh6 Ãc3! (an im -por tant im prove ment. In WangHao-Zhou Jianchao, Danzhou2010, Black played the weaker9...Ãh6?! 10.©h6 b5 11.h4 bc412.h5 Àf6 13.0-0-0 ©b4 14.e5de5 15.d6 e6 16.Àh3 Àbd717.Àg5 Õb8 18.Õd2 1-0) 10.bc3(10.©c3 ©c3 11.bc3 Õe8 12.Àh3Àb6 13.Àf2 À8d7 14.a4 a5 15.f4e5 with counterplay) 10...Õe811.h4 (11.Àh3 ©a4 12.Àf2Àe5ì) 11...Àe5 12.h5 Àbd713.Ãf4 g5! 14.Ãe5 Àe5 15.©g5

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®h8 16.©d2 ©a4 17.©d1 ©a518.©d2 ©a4 with a draw,Odeev-Ramazan, cr Email 2012.7.Àge2 Àc6 8.d5 Àe5 9.Àg3h5 10.Ãe2 h4 11.Àf1 e6 12.f4It was here that an other main lineap peared in the Sämisch Vari a tionaf ter the Svidler-Grischuk gamefrom the Lon don Can di dates’Tour na ment 2013. See Ikonni -kov’s Sur vey on page 182 for thelat est de tails on 12...Àc4!?.12...Àeg4This is the old line.13.Ãg4 Àg4 14.©g4 ed5 15.f5d4 16.Àd5 de3 17.Àfe3The only way. 17.0-0-0?! e2!.17...Ãb217...©a5?! 18.b4!. 18.0-0!

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It is 2011, the town of RogaskaSlatina, the Eu ro pean Club Cham -pi on ship, the top board in thematch be tween the two fa vour ites - the two-times win ners of the Cupfrom Saratov and the tra di tion allypow er ful team from Tomsk. Theplay ers are Evgeny Tomashevskyand Ruslan Ponomariov, and inthis po si tion Black plays 18...Ãa1.Here I give the com men tary of thetour na ment di rec tor, grand mas terAdrian Mikhalchishin. (‘Ponoma -riov is a player of prin ci ple and heac cepts the sac ri fice, al thoughmany would have pre ferred to re -tain con trol of the dark squares by18...Ãd4 19.Õad1 Ãd7.’)Tomashevsky played 19.Õa1 ®g720.Õf1 Õh8 21.©f4 g5 22.©f3 f623.Àg4 Õf8 24.©e3! Ãd7 and af -ter 25.Àdf6! he eas ily won thegame.The King’s In dian De fence is oneof the stron gest and fa vour iteopen ings of Turkmenistan play ers. In ci den tally, it is pre ferred by ayoung ris ing star of Turkmenistanchess – the world un der-7 girlscham pion Bagul Ezizova.So, the ma te rial was care fully se -lected and com piled into an in dex.Then the po si tion in the di a gramwas thor oughly ana lysed dur inglengthy team train ing ses sions, there sult of which was a new moveand in our view the re ha bil i ta tionof the ‘old’ line!18...Ãe5!N 19.Õad1 ®g7

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eval u a tion of the po si tion. Let’shave a look: A) 20.©f3 ©g5 21.fg6 ®g622.©e2 Ãe6 23.Àf5 Õae8 24.®h1 Õh8 25.Õd3 ½-½, Dessaules- Mislin, email 2012; B) 20.Àc2 Õg8 21.Àe1 ®f822.©e2 gf5 23.ef5 Õg5 24.Àf3Õf5 25.Àe5 Õe5 26.©f3 Ãe6 with equal play, Maitre-Lipecki, email2012.I will give some of the anal y ses bymy pu pils. C) 20.Õf3 Ãd7 21.Àf4 Õg822.Àg6 fg6 23.©g6 ®f8 24.©h6®e8 25.©h5 ®f8 26.f6 Ãe6 andnow: C1) 27.©h6 ®e8 28.f7 Ãf729.Õf7 ®f7 30.Õf1 ®e7 31.Àd5®d7 32.Õf7 ®c6 33.Àe7 ®b634.©c1 Ãd4 35.®h1 ®a6 36.Àd5 h3 37.©a3 ©a5 38.Àc7 ®b639.Àd5 ®a6 with per pet ual check; C2) Nothing is changed by27.Àf5 Ãf7 28.©h6 (if 28.©h4,then 28...©d7 29.Õg3 ®e8 (bad is29...Ãg3 30.hg3 d5 31.cd5 b632.©h7 ©a4 33.Õf1 with a de ci -sive ad van tage) 30.Õg8 Ãg831.Àd6 Ãd6 32.e5 ©e6 33.Õd6and the po si tion is equal) 28...®e829.Õfd3 Õg6 30.©h8 Õg831.©h6 Ãd4 32.Àd4 cd4 33.Õd4©a5 34.©h4 ©a2 35.Õ4d2 ©c436.Õd6 ©e2 37.g3 ©e3 38.®g2©e2 39.®g1 with equal ity.As we see, the po si tion is in ter est -ing and dou ble-edged, but equal.There fol lowed20...©g5 21.Àg4 b6 22.Àe522.®h1 Ãd4 23.Õf4 Õe8 24.Õdf1Õb8 25.fg6 fg6 26.Õf7 ®g827.Õ7f4 Ãe6ì.22...de5 23.a423.Õf2 Ãb7 24.Õdf1 Õad8 25.a4Õd6 26.©c3 f6 27.h3 Ãc8 28.fg6©g6ì.23...Õb8 24.©c3 f6 25.Àe7 gf526.Àc8 Õbc8 27.Õd7 Õf728.Õf5 ©g4 29.©d3 Õg830.Õf7 ®f7 ½-½De spite all the anal y ses and thegames, it is too early to draw theline, but the ball is def i nitely inWhite’s court!

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