[Event "RUS-Cup02"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1998.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Skatchkov, Pavel"]
[Black "Bezgodov, Alexei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2520"]
[Annotator "Avrukh,B"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "1998.01.21"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 063"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.03.26"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1998.03.26"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 c5 3. e3 Nc6 4. c3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nf6 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. h3
$146 (8. e4 cxd4 9. cxd4 Nb4 10. Bb1 dxe4 11. Nxe4 Be7 12. Nxf6+ (12. Qb3 Nbd5
13. Bg5 b6 14. Nxf6+ Bxf6 15. Be3 Bb7 16. Be4 Qd6 17. Rac1 Rad8 18. Rfe1 Nxe3
19. Rxe3 Bxe4 20. Rxe4 Rc8 $15 {Chernikov,O-Sermek,D/Komercni Banka, Pardubice
CZE 1997/1/2-1/2 (53)}) 12... Bxf6 13. a3 Nc6 14. Be3 Qd6 15. Be4 Bd7 16. Qc2
h6 17. Rad1 Rac8 18. Qb1 Na5 19. d5 Ba4 $11 {Khalifman,A-Yudasin,L/Tilburg
1994/1/2-1/2(23)}) (8. Qe2 {Avrukh,B} e5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. e4 Re8 $146 (10...
Be6 11. b4 Bd6 12. Ng5 d4 13. Nxe6 fxe6 14. b5 dxc3 15. bxc6 cxd2 16. Bxd2 bxc6
17. Rac1 c5 18. Bc4 $44 {Kovacevic,V-Abramovic,B/JUG-ch 1984/1-0 (45)}) (10...
d4 $6 11. Nb3 Bb6 12. cxd4 Nxd4 (12... exd4 13. e5 {/\ Qe4 +/- Kovacevic,Vl})
13. Nbxd4 Bxd4 14. Nxd4 Qxd4 15. Be3 $16 {Kovacevic,Vl}) (10... dxe4 11. Nxe4
Be7 12. Rd1 Qc7 13. Nxf6+ Bxf6 14. Ng5 g6 15. Be3 $14 {Kovacevic,Vl}) 11. exd5
(11. b4 Bd6 12. b5 Ne7 13. c4 dxe4 (13... d4 14. Nb3 b6 15. a4 $13) 14. Nxe4
Nxe4 15. Bxe4 f5 16. c5 fxe4 17. Qc4+ Nd5 18. Qxd5+ Be6 19. Qxe4 Bxc5 20. Ng5
g6 21. Nxe6 $14 {Dzuban,O-Fedoseev/RUS-Cup5 1997/1-0 (72)}) 11... Nxd5 12. Ne4
Bb6 $6 (12... Bf8 $5 13. Bc4 Nb6) 13. Bc4 Nf4 (13... h6 14. Bxh6 $1) (13... f6
14. Rd1 Be6 15. Bxd5 Bxd5 16. c4) (13... Be6 14. Nfg5 $16) 14. Bxf4 exf4 15.
Nfg5 Qxg5 16. Nxg5 Rxe2 17. Bxe2 $18 {Vorotnikov,V-Chepukaitis,G/St
Petersburg-ch 1997/1-0(30)}) (8. dxc5 {Avrukh,B} Bxc5 9. e4 Bb6 (9... Qc7 10.
Qe2 b6 11. e5 $6 Ng4 12. Bxh7+ Kxh7 13. Ng5+ Kg8 14. Qxg4 Qxe5 $15 {
Parameswaran-Zarnicki/32nd Chess Olympiad, Yerevan 1996/0-1(28)}) 10. Qe2 Bc7
11. Bc2 Re8 12. Rd1 Qe7 13. c4 $2 d4 14. e5 Nd7 15. Ne4 $2 Bxe5 16. Nxe5 Ndxe5
$17 {Chemin,V-Szmetan,J/Copa Itau Mercosul, Sao Paulo BRA 1997/0-1 (45)}) 8...
e5 9. dxe5 $6 (9. dxc5 $142 Bxc5 10. e4 {-similar with 8.Qe2}) 9... Nxe5 10.
Nxe5 Bxe5 11. e4 Bc7 {[%cal Gd8d6]} 12. Re1 Re8 13. exd5 {White tries to get a
draw with higher rated opponent,but as usual it doesn't work this way.} Rxe1+
14. Qxe1 Qxd5 15. Bc4 Qc6 16. Qe2 (16. Nf3 $2 Bxh3 17. Bxf7+ Kxf7 18. Ng5+ Kg8
19. Nxh3 Re8 $17) 16... a6 17. a4 Bf5 18. Nf1 $2 (18. Qf3 $142 Qd7 (18... Qxf3
19. Nxf3 $14 {[%csl Rc5]}) 19. Nb3 (19. Qxb7 $4 Bh2+) 19... Bd6 $142 $11 (19...
Re8 20. Be3 b6 21. Bxa6 Be4 22. Bb5 $1 (22. Qe2 Qd6 $36) 22... Qd6 (22... Bxf3
23. Bxd7 Nxd7 24. gxf3 Ne5 25. Nd2 $16) 23. Qg3 Qe7 24. Qh4)) 18... Re8 $15 19.
Be3 Nd5 20. Qh5 g6 21. Qd1 Nb6 22. Qb3 Nxc4 {^^} 23. Qxc4 Bd6 24. Qh4 Be4 25.
Qg4 $4 (25. f3 Bd3 $17) 25... h5 {[%csl Rg2]} 26. Qg5 f6 27. Qh4 Bxg2 $19 28.
Ng3 Bf3 29. Re1 Kg7 30. a5 Qd7 31. Bd2 {[%tqu "En","Find the forced win for
black","","","d6g3","",5]} Bxg3 32. Qxg3 {[%tqu "En","","","","d7d2","",10]}
Qxd2 $1 33. Qc7+ Kh6 34. Rxe8 Qd1+ 35. Kh2 Qh1+ 36. Kg3 Qg2+ 37. Kf4 Qh2+ 0-1

[Event "Oberliga Bayern 9495"]
[Site "Bayern"]
[Date "1995.??.??"]
[Round "?.1"]
[White "Wockenfuss, Klaus"]
[Black "Mandl, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2320"]
[BlackElo "2430"]
[Annotator "Bulletin"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "1994.10.09"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 1999"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Milbertshofen (SG Schwabing)"]
[BlackTeam "Regensburg Fortuna"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "GER"]
[BlackTeamCountry "GER"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. c3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 Qc7 7. O-O b6 8. e4
cxd4 9. cxd4 Nb4 10. Bb5+ Bd7 11. Bxd7+ Nxd7 12. a3 dxe4 13. axb4 exf3 14. Qxf3
Rd8 15. Ne4 Bxb4 16. Bf4 Qc4 17. Rxa7 Qd5 18. Nd6+ Ke7 19. Qxd5 exd5 20. h4 Ke6
21. Nb5 Kf5 22. g3 Rhe8 23. Bd6 Bd2 24. Rd1 Bh6 25. Kf1 Re6 26. Bc7 Rg8 27.
Nd6+ Kg6 28. g4 f6 29. Nf5 Rge8 30. Bg3 $5 (30. Bd6 $1 Rxd6 $8 (30... Nf8 31.
f4 $18) 31. Nxd6 $18) 30... Rd8 31. Kg2 b5 32. Kf3 (32. Nd6 $1 $18) 32... b4
33. Rb7 Kf7 34. Ra1 Ke8 35. Bc7 (35. g5 fxg5 36. hxg5 Bxg5 37. Nxg7+) 35... Rc8
36. Nd6+ 1-0

[Event "Reunion IBM op"]
[Site "Reunion"]
[Date "1997.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Legky, Nikolay A"]
[Black "Oms Pallisse, Josep"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2530"]
[BlackElo "2450"]
[Annotator "Bulletin"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "1997.??.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 1998"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1997.11.17"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1997.11.17"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 Qc7 8. c4
dxc4 9. bxc4 O-O 10. Nc3 a6 11. d5 Ne7 12. dxe6 Bxe6 13. h3 Ng6 14. Ng5 Rad8
15. Qc2 Bd7 16. f4 Bc6 17. g3 h6 18. Nxf7 Qxf7 19. Bxg6 Qxc4 20. e4 Bb8 21.
Rad1 b5 22. e5 Nd5 23. e6 Ne7 24. Bf7+ Kh8 25. Rxd8 Rxd8 26. Rd1 Rd4 27. Rd2
Bc7 28. Ne2 Rxd2 29. Qxd2 Qe4 30. Kf2 Qg2+ 31. Ke1 {[#]} Bf3 32. Bxg7+ (32. Bc3
b4 $1 (32... Bxe2 $2 33. Bxg7+ $1 Kxg7 34. Qc3+ Kf8 (34... Kh7 35. Qc2+ Kg7 36.
Qc3+) 35. Qh8+ Ng8 36. Qxg8+ Ke7 37. Qe8+ Kf6 38. Qh8+ $11) 33. Bb2 Ba5 {
/\34...b3 35. Bc3 (Qxa5 Qxe2 mat) Bxc3 36.Nxc3 Qg1 mat}) 32... Kxg7 33. Qc3+
Kh7 34. Qd3+ Be4 {Car si 35.Qd7 Ba5+ 36.Kd1 Qf1 mat} 0-1

[Event "YUG-ch51 (Women)"]
[Site "Belgrade"]
[Date "1998.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Manakova, Maria"]
[Black "Kalevic, Sanja"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2315"]
[BlackElo "2310"]
[Annotator "Bulletin"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1998.04.??"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "YUG"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 1999"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bd3 b6 5. O-O Bb7 6. b3 Be7 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Nbd2
d5 9. Qe2 Ne4 10. Rfd1 Nd7 11. c4 Qc7 12. Rac1 Rac8 13. Bb1 Nxd2 14. Nxd2 Nf6
15. cxd5 exd5 16. dxc5 bxc5 17. e4 dxe4 18. Nxe4 Nxe4 19. Bxe4 Bxe4 20. Qxe4
Bd6 21. g3 Rfe8 22. Qg4 Be5 23. Rd7 Qc6 24. Bxe5 Rxe5 25. Qf4 Re1+ 26. Rxe1
Qxd7 27. Qe5 h6 28. Re4 Qc6 29. Rg4 g6 30. Qe4 Qf6 31. Kg2 Qa6 32. Qc4 Qc6+ 33.
Qe4 Qa6 34. h4 h5 (34... Qxa2 $4 35. Rxg6+ fxg6 36. Qe6+ $18) 35. Rf4 Qd6 36.
Qc4 Rc7 37. Rf3 Qc6 38. Qf4 c4 39. bxc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Sharjah FIDE GP (Women)"]
[Site "Sharjah"]
[Date "2014.08.27"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Danielian, Elina"]
[Black "Zhu, Chen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[Annotator "CB"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2014.08.25"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "UAE"]
[EventCategory "10"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 162"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2014.09.17"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2014.09.17"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{The game was roughly equal until Zhu Chen comitted the strange decision of
placing her knight on b8, away from the action. Danielian pounced and
established her own knight on e5, having a powerful steed that was also
locking her opponent's out of the game. Black's position collapsed
surprisingly quickly after that.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5.
O-O d5 6. b3 Nbd7 7. Bb2 Be7 8. c4 O-O 9. Nbd2 Ne4 10. Rc1 Rc8 11. Qe2 a5 12.
Rfd1 f5 13. cxd5 exd5 14. Ba6 Bxa6 15. Qxa6 c6 16. Qe2 Bb4 17. Nf1 f4 18. Rc2
Nb8 $2 {It's hard to understand this move.} 19. exf4 Rxf4 20. Ng3 Nxg3 21. hxg3
Re4 22. Qd3 Qf6 23. Ne5 $16 {now the knight on b8 is dominated.} a4 24. a3 axb3
25. Qxb3 Ba5 $2 (25... Re1+ 26. Rxe1 Bxe1 27. Kf1 Ba5 28. Qxd5+ $1 $16 {
was also very ugly.}) 26. Rxc6 Nxc6 27. Qxd5+ Kh8 28. Qxe4 Nxe5 29. dxe5 Qe6
30. Qd5 Qxd5 31. Rxd5 Kg8 32. e6 Kf8 33. Rd7 1-0

[Event "San Remo"]
[Site "San Remo"]
[Date "1930.02.01"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Rubinstein, Akiba"]
[Black "Spielmann, Rudolf"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "1930.01.15"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "ITA"]
[SourceTitle "HCL"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nd2 d5 3. Ngf3 Nf6 4. e3 c5 5. a3 cxd4 6. exd4 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8.
O-O Nc6 9. Re1 Qc7 10. h3 Bd7 11. Nf1 h6 12. Ne3 a6 13. c3 b5 14. Ng4 Nxg4 15.
hxg4 Bf4 16. g5 hxg5 17. Nxg5 g6 18. Qf3 Bxc1 19. Raxc1 Kg7 20. Rc2 Rae8 21.
Rce2 Re7 22. Qe3 Nd8 23. f4 f6 24. Nf3 Rh8 25. g3 Nf7 26. Nh4 f5 27. Rh2 Nh6
28. Be2 Rf7 29. Kg2 Ng8 30. Reh1 Rh6 31. Nf3 Rxh2+ 32. Rxh2 Nf6 33. Ne5 Rf8 34.
Qc1 a5 35. Qh1 b4 36. Rh6 Be8 37. Bb5 Bf7 38. Qh4 bxc3 39. Nd7 Qxd7 $19 {Time}
0-1

[Event "World-ch14 Alekhine-Bogoljubow +8-3=15"]
[Site "Germany"]
[Date "1934.05.21"]
[Round "18"]
[White "Alekhine, Alexander"]
[Black "Bogoljubow, Efim"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1934.04.01"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "26"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "MainBase"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. dxc5 (5. b3 $142) (5. c3 $142 {
[%cal Yb1d2] /\Nbd2}) 5... Bxc5 6. a3 O-O 7. b4 (7. Nbd2 a5 $10) 7... Be7 8.
Nbd2 a5 9. b5 Nbd7 10. Bb2 Nc5 11. a4 Nxd3+ 12. cxd3 Nd7 13. O-O f6 $1 14. d4
Nb6 15. Qb3 Bd7 16. Rfc1 Nc8 (16... Be8 $142 17. e4 Bh5) 17. e4 Nb6 (17... dxe4
18. Nxe4 {[%cal Ye4c5] /\Nc5} b6 19. d5 $16) 18. Ba3 $6 (18. Rc2 $142 {[%cal
Ya1c1] /\Rac1}) 18... Bxa3 19. Qxa3 Be8 20. e5 (20. Re1 $142 {[%cal Ya1c1] /
\Rac1} Rc8 $10) 20... Bh5 21. exf6 Qxf6 22. Rc7 Bxf3 23. Nxf3 Nc4 24. Qc3 (24.
Qc5 Rf7 25. Rc8+ Rf8 $10) 24... Rf7 (24... Rab8 $5 {[%csl Rc7] צc7}) 25. Rxf7
Qxf7 26. Ne5 Nxe5 27. dxe5 Rf8 28. Rf1 (28. f3 Qf4 $1 $132) (28. Qd4 Qf4 29.
Qxf4 Rxf4 30. Rc1 {[%cal Yc1c7] /\Rc7}) 28... Ra8 {Black offered a draw.} (
28... Ra8 29. f4 Qe7 {[%cal Ye7b4] /\Qb4} 30. Rb1 h6 $10) 1/2-1/2

[Event "London International Masters"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1883.06.11"]
[Round "22"]
[White "Zukertort, Johannes Hermann"]
[Black "Blackburne, Joseph Henry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "1883.04.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "26"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[SourceTitle "HCL"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 d5 4. Bd3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. b3 c5 7. Bb2 Nc6 8. Nbd2
cxd4 9. exd4 b6 10. c4 Ba6 11. Re1 Rc8 12. Rc1 Na5 13. Ne5 Bb4 14. c5 {[#]}
Bxd3 (14... Bb7) 15. Nxd3 $16 Bxd2 16. Qxd2 Ne4 17. Qe3 Re8 18. f3 Nf6 19. Rc2
Nd7 20. Rec1 bxc5 21. dxc5 Nb8 22. Ne5 f6 23. c6 $1 {[#]} Rc7 (23... d4 $16 {
Zukertort}) 24. Qd2 (24. Qe1 $18) 24... fxe5 $2 (24... Nc4 25. bxc4 fxe5 26.
Bxe5 Rxc6 27. Qd4 $16) 25. Qxa5 $18 Qc8 26. Bxe5 Rf7 (26... Rxc6 27. Qxa7 $18 (
27. Rxc6 Nxc6 28. Qb5 $18)) 27. Bxb8 Qxb8 28. c7 Qc8 29. Qxa7 e5 30. Rc5 e4 31.
Rb5 Rff8 32. Rb8 Qd7 33. Rxe8 Rxe8 34. Qa4 Qxa4 35. bxa4 Rc8 36. fxe4 dxe4 37.
Kf2 Kf7 38. Ke3 Ke6 39. Kxe4 g6 40. Rc6+ Kd7 41. Kd5 1-0

[Event "Nottingham International Masters"]
[Site "Nottingham"]
[Date "1936.08.17"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Alekhine, Alexander"]
[Black "Reshevsky, Samuel Herman"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "1936.08.10"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[SourceTitle "HCL"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. e3 c5 4. c3 Nbd7 5. Nbd2 Qc7 6. Qa4 g6 7. c4 Bg7 8. cxd5
Nxd5 9. Qb3 N5b6 10. a4 cxd4 11. exd4 a5 12. Bb5 O-O 13. O-O Nf6 14. Re1 Bf5
15. Nf1 Qd6 16. Qa3 Qxa3 17. Rxa3 Nfd5 18. Ng3 Bd7 19. Rb3 Rfd8 20. Bd2 Nxa4
21. Ra1 Nab6 22. Rxa5 Bxb5 23. Rbxb5 e6 24. b3 Rd7 25. Ne4 Rxa5 26. Bxa5 Nc8
27. Ne5 Bxe5 28. dxe5 Nc7 29. Nf6+ Kg7 30. Nxd7 Nxb5 $11 31. Bd2 (31. Bd8)
31... Ne7 32. Kf1 (32. Nc5) 32... Nd4 33. b4 Nd5 34. Nc5 b5 35. Nd3 f6 36. Bc1
(36. exf6+ Kxf6 37. f3 $11) (36. f3 $1 $11 {does not lose a pawn.}) 36... fxe5
$15 37. Nxe5 Nc2 (37... Kf6) 38. Bb2 Ncxb4 39. Ke2 Kg8 40. g3 Ne7 41. Nf3 Ned5
42. Ng5 Nc7 43. Ke3 Nc6 44. f4 h6 45. Nf3 Kf7 46. Kd3 (46. Ne5+ Nxe5 47. Bxe5)
46... Nd5 47. Bc1 Nf6 48. Bb2 Nd7 49. Ba3 (49. Ke4) ({More solid is} 49. Bd4 $1
{(Alekhine).} e5 $145 $15) 49... e5 $1 $17 {Botvinnik gossips: Alekhine lost
because he drank a bottle of wine before the evening session.} 50. Ke3 ({
The exchanges by} 50. fxe5 Ndxe5+ 51. Nxe5+ Nxe5+ 52. Ke4 Ke6 53. h3 {lead to
better drawing chances for White.}) 50... Ke6 51. Bb2 Kd5 $19 52. Nh4 (52. fxe5
Ndxe5 53. Nd2 Ng4+ 54. Kf4 Nxh2 $19) 52... Nb6 53. Bc1 Nc4+ 54. Kf2 Nb4 55. Ke2
Na2 56. Bd2 b4 57. fxe5 b3 58. Kd1 Nxe5 59. Ng2 ({The kamikaze} 59. Nxg6 Nxg6
60. Bxh6 {(Alekhine) has no effect due to} Nc3+ $1 61. Kc1 Ne5 62. Bg7 Nd3+)
59... Ke4 60. h4 Nd3 61. Ba5 Nb2+ 0-1

[Event "Match Rubinstein-Bogoljubow +5-4=3"]
[Site "Stockholm & Gothenburg"]
[Date "1920.01.??"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Rubinstein, Akiba"]
[Black "Bogoljubow, Efim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "1920.01.08"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "12"]
[EventCountry "SWE"]
[SourceTitle "HCL"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Nbd2
Nb4 9. Be2 b6 10. a3 Nc6 11. Ne5 Ne7 12. Bd3 Bb7 13. Qf3 Ng6 14. Qh3 cxd4 15.
Nxg6 hxg6 16. exd4 Rc8 17. Rfe1 Rc7 18. Nf3 Ne4 19. Ne5 Bxe5 20. dxe5 Nc5 21.
Bd4 Qd7 22. b4 Ne4 23. Re3 Rfc8 24. Rae1 Bc6 25. Qg4 Bb5 26. Bxe4 dxe4 27. c3
Bc6 28. h4 Qe8 {[#]} 29. Qf4 $1 {[%mdl 128] Preparing the attack} (29. h5 gxh5
30. Qxh5 f5 31. Qh2 Bd5 32. Rh3 Qg6 33. Qf4 $14) 29... Bd5 30. Rg3 $16 Kh7 31.
Ree3 (31. Rg5) 31... Qa4 $2 {[#] Careless play leaving the kingside alone.} 32.
Qg4 (32. h5 $1 gxh5 33. Rg5 g6 34. Qf6 Rg8 35. Rh3 Rg7 36. Rhxh5+ Kg8 37. Qd8+)
32... Rh8 33. h5 Kg8 34. hxg6 fxg6 35. Rh3 Rxh3 (35... Rh6 36. Reg3 $18) 36.
Rxh3 e3 37. Qxg6 exf2+ 38. Bxf2 Qd1+ 39. Kh2 Re7 40. c4 Bc6 41. b5 Qe2 42. bxc6
1-0

[Event "Match Gunsberg-Blackburne +5-2=6"]
[Site "Bradford"]
[Date "1887.11.09"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Gunsberg, Isidor"]
[Black "Blackburne, Joseph Henry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "1887.09.26"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "GBR"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2017"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.10.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.10.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3 e6 4. Nf3 c5 5. b3 Nc6 6. Bb2 Bd7 7. O-O Rc8 8. a3
cxd4 9. exd4 Bd6 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Ne5 g6 12. Qe2 Nh5 13. f4 Ng7 14. Qg4 f5 15.
Qh3 Bxe5 16. dxe5 Qb6+ 17. Kh1 Nd8 18. Rf3 Nf7 (18... Bb5) 19. Rg3 (19. a4)
19... Bb5 20. Bxb5 Qxb5 21. Nf3 Qd7 22. Nd4 a6 (22... g5 $5) 23. a4 Rfe8 24.
Re1 Qe7 25. c3 g5 $2 (25... Nd8) 26. fxg5 Nxg5 27. Qh6 Ne4 28. Rxe4 dxe4 29.
Nxe6 Rc7 30. Rxg7+ Qxg7 31. Nxg7 Rxg7 32. Qh5 Rg6 33. Qd1 e3 34. c4 f4 35. Qd4
Rge6 36. Qd5 e2 37. Qe4 Rb6 38. Qxe2 Rxb3 39. e6 Kf8 40. Qe5 Ke7 41. c5 Rd3 42.
Qf6# 1-0

[Event "Match Spielmann-Reti +3-0=3"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1921.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Reti, Richard"]
[Black "Spielmann, Rudolf"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1921.04.??"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "AUT"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 1999"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Nd2 e6 4. Bd3 c5 5. c3 Bd6 6. Ngf3 Nc6 7. O-O O-O 8. Qe2
Qc7 9. e4 (9. b3) 9... cxd4 10. cxd4 e5 $1 11. exd5 Nxd4 12. Nxd4 exd4 13. Ne4
Nxd5 14. Qh5 $2 (14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15. Qe4 Nf6 16. Qh4 $15) 14... f5 15. Nxd6 Qxd6
16. Qh4 Nb4 17. Bf4 Qd5 $1 (17... Qb6 18. Bc4+ Be6 19. Bc7) 18. Rad1 Bd7 19.
Bb1 Bb5 20. Rfe1 Nc6 21. Re3 Qd8 22. Rh3 (22. Bg5 dxe3 $17) 22... Qxh4 23. Rxh4
Rad8 24. f3 (24. g4 $2 Be2) 24... d3 $2 (24... g6) 25. a4 Bxa4 (25... Ba6 26.
b4 $14) 26. Rxd3 Rxd3 27. Bxd3 Bb3 28. Bb5 $1 Rd8 (28... Nd4 29. Bd6 Nxb5 30.
Bxf8 Kxf8 31. Rb4 $16) 29. Bxc6 bxc6 30. Be3 Rd1+ 31. Kf2 a5 32. Rd4 Rxd4 33.
Bxd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "URS-ch03 Final"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1924.08.27"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Rabinovich, Ilya Leontievich"]
[Black "Bogoljubow, Efim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "1924.08.23"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "17"]
[EventCountry "URS"]
[SourceTitle "URS-ch"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. O-O Nc6 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Ne5
Qc7 9. f4 cxd4 10. exd4 Nb4 11. Nc3 Nxd3 12. Qxd3 Bd7 13. Nxd7 Qxd7 14. f5 Rac8
15. fxe6 fxe6 16. a3 Ng4 17. h3 Nf6 18. Rae1 Bb8 19. Rf3 Qd6 20. g3 Nh5 21. Re5
g6 22. Rfe3 Rf6 23. Qe2 Rcf8 24. Kg2 {[#]} Qd8 $19 25. Nd1 (25. Rg5 Rf2+ 26.
Qxf2 Rxf2+ 27. Kxf2 Qxg5 $19) (25. Bc1 Bxe5 26. Rxe5 Qb6 27. Be3 Rf3 28. Qxf3
Rxf3 29. Kxf3 Nf6 30. Bf2 Qc6 31. Be1 Nd7 32. Re2 e5 33. dxe5 Nxe5+ $19 34.
Rxe5 Qf6+) 25... Bxe5 26. dxe5 Rf4 27. Kh2 Rf1 28. Bd4 b6 29. Rc3 R1f7 30. Nf2
Rc7 31. Rd3 Qg5 32. c3 Qc1 33. a4 Qb1 34. b4 Qa1 35. Qc2 Qf1 36. Rd1 Qc4 37.
Rd3 Qxb4 38. Ng4 Rf1 39. Qe2 Qb1 40. Bf2 Rc1 41. Qf3 Rh1+ 0-1

[Event "EU-ch 20th"]
[Site "Skopje"]
[Date "2019.03.29"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Edouard, Romain"]
[Black "Huschenbeth, Niclas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2594"]
[Annotator "Edouard,R"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2019.03.18"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "MKD"]
[Tiebreak "Sum of Buchholz"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 189"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2019.04.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.04.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 $5 e6 4. Bd3 c5 5. O-O Nc6 6. c3 $5 {An interesting
setup against that ...Nc6 system.} Be7 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. dxc5 Bxc5 9. b4 $1 Be7 $5
{A rare move. Usually Black retracts the bishop to d6.} (9... Bd6 10. Bb2 e5
11. e4 dxe4 (11... Bg4 12. Re1 $5 Bc7 (12... Re8 13. h3 Bh5 14. exd5 Nxd5 15.
Qc2 Nf6 16. b5 Na5 17. c4 Qc7 18. Rac1 $16 {½-½ (62) Richter,M (2505)
-Hertneck,G (2476) Berlin 2016}) 13. h3 Bh5 14. exd5 Qxd5 15. Ne4 Nxe4 16. Bxe4
Qxd1 17. Raxd1 $14 {0-1 (42) Artemiev,V (2695)-Ponkratov,P (2603) Sochi 2017})
12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Bxe4 Be6 (13... f5 14. Bd5+ Kh8 15. b5 Ne7 16. c4 $1 Nxd5 17.
Qxd5 e4 18. Rad1 Bc7 19. Qc5 Bb6 20. Qa3 Qe8 21. Ng5 h6 22. Rd6 $1 hxg5 23.
Qh3+ Kg8 24. Bxg7 $3 {is a great line given in Milos Pavlovic's book on the
Colle Attack.}) 14. Re1 Rc8 (14... Qe7 15. Qd3 h6 16. a3 Rfd8 17. Qe2 f6 18. c4
$14 {½-½ (37) Reinstadler,B-Berchtold,C corr. 2015.}) 15. a3 h6 16. Qe2 Re8
17. Rac1 (17. c4 $5) 17... Qc7 18. c4 Nd4 19. Bxd4 exd4 20. c5 Bf4 21. Rcd1 $14
{1-0 (40) Hillarp Persson,T (2549)-Karlsson,L (2506) Gothenburg 2006}) 10. Bb2
a6 $5 (10... b6 11. a3 Bb7 12. Qe2 Rc8 13. Rac1 Qc7 14. c4 Qb8 15. cxd5 Nxd5
16. Nc4 $14 (16. b5 $6 Na5 17. Ne5 Nf6 18. Ng4 Rxc1 19. Rxc1 Rc8 20. Nxf6+ Bxf6
21. Rxc8+ Qxc8 22. Bxf6 Qc1+ 23. Nf1 gxf6 24. Qg4+ Kf8 $11 {½-½ (44)
Westerberg,J (2534)-Brynell,S (2409) Malmo 2018}) (16. Ne4 $14)) ({After} 10...
e5 11. e4 {it is hard to justify ...Be7, as Black is under the b5 and Nxe5
threat.}) 11. a4 $1 (11. a3 $6 b5 $1 12. a4 Rb8 13. axb5 axb5 14. Qe2 Qb6 15.
Nd4 e5 $1 $15) 11... Bd7 12. e4 Qc7 13. Re1 dxe4 14. Nxe4 Nxe4 15. Bxe4 Bf6 $2
(15... Rfd8 {should be close to equal.}) 16. Qb1 $1 h6 17. c4 $1 {Suddenly
Black's position is a disaster.} Bxb2 18. Qxb2 Rfd8 19. Rac1 Ne7 20. b5 Be8 21.
Qb4 $2 (21. b6 $1 Qc8 (21... Qc5 $2 22. Bxb7 Rab8 23. Re5 $1 $18) 22. Qa3 $1
Nc6 23. a5 $1 {is close to a forced win:} Qd7 24. Bxc6 Qxc6 25. Ne5 Qc8 26. c5
f6 (26... Bc6 27. Rcd1 $1 $16) 27. Nc4 Bc6 28. Nd6 Qd7 29. f4 $16) 21... axb5
$1 (21... Rac8 22. b6 Qc5 23. Qxc5 Rxc5 24. Bxb7 Rb8 25. Bxa6 Rxb6 26. Bb5 $18)
22. axb5 $6 (22. cxb5 Qd6 {was what I had underestimated when I played 21.Qb4.}
) 22... Rac8 23. Nd2 (23. b6 Qc5 24. Qxc5 Rxc5 25. Bxb7 Rb8 $11 {Now there's
no hanging pawn on a6!}) 23... b6 (23... Bxb5 $1 24. cxb5 Qxc1 25. Rxc1 Rxc1+
26. Nf1 Rdd1 $11) 24. Nb3 Qd6 25. Qa4 f5 $2 (25... Nf5 $1 $11) 26. Bb7 $1 {
The game turns again to White's favour.} Rb8 (26... Rc7 27. Bf3 e5 $2 28. Rcd1
$18 {is the point of 26.Bb7.}) 27. c5 bxc5 28. Nxc5 e5 29. Ba6 (29. Qa6 e4 30.
f3 $1 $16) 29... e4 (29... Qf6 $5) 30. Nb7 Qd4 31. Qa3 $6 (31. Qb3+ $1 Bf7 32.
Qg3 Rf8 33. Red1 $40) 31... Rd7 32. Nc5 (32. Na5 $5 Qd6 $1 $132) 32... Rd6 33.
Qg3 $2 {Going nuts.} (33. Nb7 $11) 33... Rbb6 $1 34. Nb7 Rg6 35. Qb8 Rxg2+ 36.
Kxg2 Rg6+ 37. Kh1 Qxf2 38. Qxe8+ Kh7 39. Qxg6+ Nxg6 40. Rf1 Qd2 41. Rcd1 Qc2
42. Rc1 Qd2 43. Rcd1 Qg5 44. Rd7 $4 {Blundering Black's next move.} (44. b6 $1
{was saving the game:} Nh4 45. Rg1 Qh5 (45... Qe3 46. Rg3 Qxb6 47. Rd7 $8 Qf6
$8 $11) 46. Rdf1 e3 47. Nd6 e2 48. Rf2 $8 Qg6 $8 49. Bxe2 Qxd6 50. Rb1 $11)
44... Ne5 (44... e3 $2 45. b6 Qg4 46. Nc5 Nh4 (46... e2 47. Bxe2 Qxe2 48. Rg1
$11) 47. Bb7 e2 48. Rb1 $11) 45. Rg1 Ng4 46. Rg2 Qc1+ 47. Rg1 Nf2+ 48. Kg2 Qf4
0-1

[Event "Tata Steel-A 81st"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]
[Date "2019.01.22"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2777"]
[BlackElo "2813"]
[Annotator "Fernandez,D"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2019.01.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "NED"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 188"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2018.12.21"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.12.21"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c3 c5 4. e3 {As if forcibly reining in his creative
instincts for one game.} e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 b6 7. Qe2 Bb7 8. O-O Be7 (8...
Ne4 $5 {is the most ambitious move, keeping ...f5 and both bishop deployments
firmly on the table.}) (8... Bd6 {is known to be most ambitious- against the
moves White played in the game, Black would be ready with ...e5, and after} 9.
e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Bxe4 Bxe4 12. Qxe4 {White as usual gets nothing.} O-O
13. Bg5 Be7 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. Rad1 Nf6 $11 {Bakre,T-Prathamesh,S Visakhapatnam
2004}) 9. b3 O-O 10. Bb2 Rc8 11. Rac1 Bd6 {That Black doesn't feel
particularly threatened is evidenced by his choice to move this bishop a
second time.} 12. c4 {The choice between playing c4 and e4 in such positions
is rather nuanced.} (12. e4 e5 $5 $13 {now leads to great mess.}) ({Of course,
there is always the option to not play either pawn break, and instead go for} 
12. Ba6 Qc7 13. Bxb7 Qxb7 {before deciding on} 14. c4) 12... cxd4 13. exd4 Qe7
14. Ne5 Ba3 $5 {Analogous to the last note, Black feels he is now well served
by a bishop trade. White would rather like to shut the h1-a8 diagonal now, to
make Black's remaining bishop worse, but this turns out to be impossible.} 15.
Bxa3 (15. Nxd7 Bxb2 (15... Nxd7 16. Bxa3 Qxa3 17. Qe3 $11 {is also fine}) 16.
Nxf8 Bxc1 17. Nxh7 Bb2 18. Ng5 Bxd4 19. Ndf3 Bc3 $1 $132) 15... Qxa3 16. f4 $5
{A major decision.} ({Probably Kramnik realised that by now the solid option,} 
16. Ndf3 {, still leaves him in a structure which is likely to prove a
long-term vulnerability. Ironically, the position would then become similar to
the Semi-Tarrasch, a line which both players employed in the Berlin Candidates
2018.} dxc4 17. bxc4 Nxe5 18. Nxe5 Rfd8 {Black has a slight initiative. Plus,
wouldn't White like to have the f5-break available here...?}) 16... g6 17. Ndf3
dxc4 18. bxc4 Qd6 ({The computer suggests} 18... Nxe5 {despite the apparent
advantages of White's pawn recapture: this is because} 19. fxe5 Bxf3 20. Qxf3
Nd5 $1 {exists (due to the c-file pin.) It is an interesting bid to take play
into an endgame, which succeeds, mostly because the alternative is playing a
major-piece-only position with the hanging pawns- this last tending to end
badly.} 21. Be2 (21. Rcd1 Nb4 22. Rf2 Nxd3 23. Rc2 Rc7 24. Qxd3 Qb4 $15) 21...
Qxf3 22. Rxf3 Ne7 {Black is more comfortable, but not better. Both sides could
conceivably outplay the other.}) 19. Qe3 Bxf3 {A classy trade!} 20. Nxf3 Rfd8
21. Rcd1 (21. Rfd1 {might be needed, to allow the d3-bishop to retreat along
the b1-h7 diagonal.}) 21... Nb8 22. Kh1 Nc6 23. Be2 Kg7 24. Qc1 h5 25. Qa1 Ne7
26. Ne5 Nf5 {Now Black is slightly better and has acheived a model position
for play against the hanging pawns.} 27. Rd3 Kg8 28. Bf3 Nd7 29. c5 Qc7 (29...
Qf8 $15 {would be remarkably unpleasant to meet: this motif of attacking a
d4-pawn using a queen from g7 was first used on me in a Fort Knox structure by
old English maestro, Keith Arkell.}) 30. Nc6 Re8 31. Ra3 a5 32. cxb6 Qxb6 33.
Rc1 Nf6 34. Rac3 Nd5 35. Rc5 (35. Bxd5 exd5 36. Rc5 Re2 $17) 35... Nxf4 36. Qc3
a4 37. Qd2 Nd5 38. h3 Kg7 39. Qf2 h4 {Establishing perfect control. Could
Black take over the joint tournament lead...?} 40. Kg1 Rc7 (40... a3 {is the
purist move.}) 41. Qe1 Rec8 42. Bxd5 exd5 43. Qb4 Qa6 $2 {Whoops. This loses
the entire advantage. It is very much an attempt to 'hit a winner'- due to the
tactic Qc3 Ng3!- so the reason for missing White's rejoinder is unclear.} (
43... Qb7 $17 {was an 'unseeable move'.}) (43... Rb8 {likewise- unless you had
appreciated that after} 44. Qxa4 Re8 45. Ne5 Rce7 {White's position was in
fact completely disintegrating. A fact which, regrettably, is not immediately
obvious to me.}) (43... Qxb4 {should be the move you play if you have doubts
about the other tactics: after} 44. Nxb4 Rxc5 45. dxc5 (45. Rxc5 Re8 46. Nxd5
Re2 $17) 45... Nd4 {(Other moves are playable too, e.g. ...d4.)} 46. Kf2 Ne6
47. c6 Nc7 $15 {A Black win is still very much on the cards.}) 44. Ne7 $1 {
Luckily, this 'invisible move' only equalises.} Rxc5 {Black bails out and
doesn't try any more.} (44... Rxe7 45. Rxc8 Qe2 {might be worth playing, but
only by a very confident person and one whose psyche was unaffected by the
recent trauma.}) ({The question is whether} 44... Rxc5 45. Nxf5+ gxf5 46. dxc5
{enables White, in his turn, to play for a win, and the answer is probably no-
after a move that covers the e3-square.} Qd3 $11 {Black will soon remind White
that his king safety is not ideal either, and nor is the d-pawn completely
innocuous.}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "EU-Cup 18th"]
[Site "Kallithea"]
[Date "2002.09.26"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Winants, Luc"]
[Black "Seitaj, Ilir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2504"]
[BlackElo "2406"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2002.09.22"]
[EventType "team-swiss"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 092"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2003.02.06"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2003.02.06"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Liege"]
[BlackTeam "Tirana Studenti"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "BEL"]
[BlackTeamCountry "ALB"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. b3 Nc6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O Be7 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Nbd2
b6 9. a3 {Taking necessary precautions against Nb4 before starting a play on
the kingside.} (9. Ne5 Bb7 10. f4 Nxe5 11. fxe5 Ne4 12. Bxe4 dxe4 13. Qg4 Rc8
14. c4 cxd4 15. Bxd4 $16 {[%csl Re4] Smyslov,V-Mariotti,S/Venice 1974}) 9...
Bb7 10. Qe2 (10. c4 cxd4 11. exd4 Rc8 12. Re1 Qd6 13. Rc1 dxc4 14. bxc4 Rfd8
15. Qe2 Bf8 $13 {Kovacevic,V-Zelic,Z/Makarska 1994}) 10... Rc8 (10... a5 11.
Ne5 Ne8 (11... a4 12. Bb5 Na7 13. bxa4 c4 14. Nb1 Ne4 15. f3 Nd6 16. Nc3 f6
$132 {[%csl Rb5] Keene,R-Andersson,U/Teeside 1972}) 12. f4 f5 13. g4 Nd6 14.
Qg2 Nxe5 15. dxe5 Ne4 16. Rad1 Qe8 17. gxf5 exf5 $132 {Yermolinsky,A-Shaked,T/
New York 1998}) (10... Nd7 11. c4 Bf6 12. Rac1 a6 13. Rc2 Qe7 14. Rfc1 Rfd8 15.
Re1 a5 16. cxd5 exd5 17. Qd1 Qd6 $11 {Petran,P-Monin,N/Budapest 1993}) 11. Ne5
Nd7 12. f4 f5 $5 {Logical move closing diagonal b1-h7 before taking on e5.} 13.
g4 (13. c4 Ndxe5 14. dxe5 Qc7 15. Rfd1 Rcd8 $13) 13... Ndxe5 14. fxe5 (14. dxe5
$5) 14... g6 15. Rf2 Rc7 16. Raf1 Bh4 $1 {[%cal Gc7g7] Bringing the rook to g7.
} 17. Rg2 Rg7 18. Nf3 Be7 19. c3 (19. Bc1 $5 {[%cal Gc1d2,Gd2e1,Ge1g3,Gg3f4]})
19... Na5 20. Bc2 Qc8 21. Rff2 Ba6 22. Qd1 Nc6 23. h4 {White is trying to
break through on the kingside, but black pieces take good defensive positions
so the position remains balanced.} (23. gxf5 gxf5 24. Rxg7+ Kxg7 25. Rg2+ Kh8
26. Ng5 Bxg5 27. Rxg5 Rg8 $11) 23... Rff7 24. gxf5 gxf5 25. Ng5 Bxg5 26. hxg5
Ne7 27. a4 Ng6 28. Rh2 Qd8 29. Rfg2 $6 {Inviting black to play f4!} (29. Qh5)
29... f4 $1 {[%csl Rg5][%cal Gf4f3] Why not?!} 30. Rxh7 f3 $1 31. Bxg6 $2 {
Decisive mistake. After correct} (31. Rxg7+ Kxg7 (31... Rxg7 32. Qxf3 Nh4 33.
Qf6 Qxf6 34. exf6 Nxg2 35. fxg7 Nxe3 36. Bb1 Kxg7 $11) 32. Bxg6 Kxg6 33. Rh2
Qxg5+ (33... Rf5 34. Kf2 Rxg5) 34. Kf2 Rg7 {[%cal Gg6f7]} 35. Qh1 (35. Qxf3 $2
Rf7 36. Rg2 Rxf3+ 37. Kxf3 Be2+ $1 38. Rxe2 Qh5+ 39. Kf2 Kf5 $17) 35... Be2 $15
{white could hold on even though it's pretty obvious that black is in charge
of the situation.}) 31... f2+ $1 $19 32. Rxf2 Qxg5+ 33. Rg2 Qxg2+ $1 0-1

[Event "Bundesliga 0203"]
[Site "Germany"]
[Date "2002.12.14"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Jirovsky, Milos"]
[Black "Dautov, Rustem"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2457"]
[BlackElo "2617"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "143"]
[EventDate "2002.10.19"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 093"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2003.04.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2003.04.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Forchheim"]
[BlackTeam "Baden Oos"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "GER"]
[BlackTeamCountry "GER"]

1. Nf3 {Hecht} Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 d5 5. O-O Bd6 6. b3 O-O 7. Bb2 Bb7
8. Nbd2 Ne4 {Breaking the symmetry!} 9. Qe2 (9. c4 Nxd2 (9... Nd7 10. Qc2 (10.
Ne5 f6 11. Nxd7 Qxd7 12. Rc1 Rad8 13. Qc2 Nxd2 14. Qxd2 dxc4 15. bxc4 c5 $11 {
Brkljaca,A-Nun,J/Trnava 1984}) (10. Qe2 a6 11. Rfd1 f5 12. Ne5 Qe7 13. f4 g5
14. Rac1 gxf4 15. exf4 Ndf6 $13 {Sieg,M-Feick,S/Germany 1988/GER-chT2}) (10.
Rc1 f5 11. Bb1 Nxd2 12. Nxd2 dxc4 13. e4 $6 fxe4 14. Nxc4 Bf4 15. Rc3 b5 $15 {
Popchev,M-Miles,A/Moscow 1989}) 10... f5 11. Rad1 Qe8 12. Ne5 Bxe5 13. dxe5
Ndc5 14. Be2 Nxd2 15. Rxd2 Ne4 16. Rdd1 c5 $11 {Jensen,V-Andersen,J/
Snekkersten 1981}) 10. Nxd2 f5 11. f4 Nd7 12. Rc1 Qe7 13. Qe2 a5 14. cxd5 exd5
15. Nf3 Nf6 $11 {Colle,E-Canal,E/Budapest 1929}) (9. Ne5 Nxd2 10. Qxd2 f6 11.
Nf3 Nd7 12. Qe2 f5 13. c4 Qe7 14. Rac1 Rad8 15. Rc2 Kh8 16. Rfc1 dxc4 17. Bxc4
$14 {Henley,R-Miolo,E/Indonesia 1983}) 9... Nd7 10. Rfd1 (10. c4 Qf6 11. Rac1
Qh6 12. h3 f5 13. Ne5 Ndf6 14. cxd5 exd5 15. Nxe4 fxe4 16. Ba6 Bxa6 17. Qxa6 g5
18. Ba3 $14 {Rossetto,H-Reed Valenzuela,E/Mar del Plata 1944}) 10... f5 11. Ne5
Bxe5 12. dxe5 Nec5 {Dautov is looking for the possibilities to fight for a win
so he decides to keep the knight on dd7 trading the other one for the bishop.}
(12... Nxd2 13. Rxd2 Nc5) 13. f4 Nxd3 14. cxd3 c5 15. Qh5 a5 16. Nf3 Qe8 (16...
h6 17. Nh4 Qe8 18. Ng6 Rf7 $13) 17. Qxe8 Rfxe8 18. Bc3 b5 19. a3 $1 Rec8 20. d4
b4 $2 {Careless move after which black who seemed to be slightly better finds
himself in some sort of troubles.} (20... c4 21. b4 axb4 22. Bxb4 Nb6 23. Rdc1
Na4 24. Ra2 $11) 21. Be1 c4 {Sacrificing a pawn to simplify the position.} (
21... Ba6 $2 22. axb4 Be2 23. Rdc1 Bxf3 24. gxf3 axb4 25. Rxa8 Rxa8 26. dxc5
$18) (21... Ra6 $5 22. dxc5 Nxc5 23. Nd4 Rb6 24. axb4 axb4 25. Rdc1 Kf7 26. Ra7
$14 {[%csl Rb4]}) 22. axb4 axb4 (22... cxb3 23. bxa5 Ba6 24. Rdb1 Rab8 25. Ra3
Bc4 26. Nd2 Rc7 $14) 23. Bxb4 h6 {Covering square g5.} (23... cxb3 24. Rxa8
Rxa8 25. Rb1 Nb6 26. Rxb3 Nc4 27. Bc5 Bc8 28. h3 h6 29. g4 $16) 24. Nd2 cxb3
25. Nxb3 $16 {White is just a pawn up and despite of tenecios resistanse he
manageds to turn his material advantage into the point.} Kf7 26. Rxa8 Rxa8 27.
Na5 Ba6 28. Rc1 Rc8 29. Rc6 $1 Rxc6 30. Nxc6 {[%csl Re6][%cal Gc6d8]} Ke8 31.
Ba5 {Black knight is too passive on d7 so it's very importnat for white not to
let it to escape.} Bc8 32. Bc7 $1 {[%csl Rd7]} Nf8 33. Na5 Ba6 (33... Nd7 34.
Kf2 Ba6 35. Ke1 {[%cal Ge1b4]}) 34. Nb3 Nd7 35. Kf2 {The march of white king
to the queenside eventually decides the game.} Bc4 36. Na5 Ba6 37. Ke1 Nf8 38.
Kd2 Ng6 39. g3 $1 {[%csl Rg6] Taking necessary precautions against Nh4.} Nf8
40. Kc3 Nd7 41. Kb4 Ke7 42. Nc6+ Ke8 43. Na7 {[%cal Ga7b5,Gb4a5]} Be2 44. Nc8
Bf1 45. Ka5 {Hecht: '[#] Interessante Abwicklung in ein Endspiel mit
ungleichen Läufern durch Einkreisung des schwarzen Springers.'} Be2 46. Nd6+
Ke7 47. Nb7 {'!' Hecht.} Ke8 $6 (47... h5 $5) 48. Bd6 Bf1 (48... Bh5 49. Nc5 $1
Bf7 50. Ka6 Kd8 51. Kb7 h5 52. Kc6 Nxc5 53. dxc5 Kc8 54. Be7 Be8+ 55. Kd6 Bf7
56. Bg5 $18) (48... Nf8 {Hecht} 49. Nc5 {[%csl Re6]}) 49. Nc5 $1 $18 {
Transposition to opposite colored bishops endgame proves to be fastest way to
the win.} Nxc5 50. dxc5 {Hecht: '[#] Aus dem bislang kaum erkennbaren weißen
Mehrbauern ist ein echter geworden. Der Freibauer bindet den schwarzen König,
wonach die Bauernschwächen e6 und g7/h6 fühlbar werden.'} d4 $8 (50... Kd7 {
Hecht} 51. Kb6 g6 52. c6+ Kc8 53. Bb4 Be2 54. Kc5 Bd1 55. Kd6 Bb3 56. Kxe6 d4+
57. Kf6 dxe3 58. Kxg6 $18) 51. exd4 Bg2 (51... g6 {Hecht} 52. d5 Bc4 53. dxe6
Bxe6 54. c6 Kd8 55. Kb6 Kc8 56. Bb4 h5 57. Kc5 Kc7 58. Ba5+ Kc8 59. Kd6 Bf7 60.
e6 Be8 61. c7 Ba4 62. Ke7 Bb3 63. Kf6 $18) 52. Kb6 Kd7 53. Bf8 {3 extra pawns
is way to many to handle.} h5 54. Bxg7 Bd5 {Hecht: '[#] Um die Blockade zu
erreichen, musste Schwarz einen dritten Bauern opfern.'} 55. Bh6 Bg2 56. Bg5
Bd5 57. h3 Be4 (57... Bg2 {Hecht} 58. Bh4 Bxh3 59. c6+ Kc8 60. d5 $18) 58. Bh4
Bd5 {Hecht: 'Es folgt der entscheidende Durchbruch unter Opfer zweier Bauern.
Während die schwarzen Freibauern wertlos sind, entscheidet für Weiß nicht der
Zugzwang, sondern die Überlastung der schwarzen Figuren gegen die verbundenen
weißen Freibauern..'} 59. g4 $1 hxg4 60. hxg4 fxg4 61. f5 exf5 62. Bg3 $1 {
Black pawns are blocked while white's trio is just about to start an advance.}
Ke6 63. c6 Be4 64. Kc5 Bd5 65. c7 Bb7 66. d5+ Kd7 67. e6+ Ke7 68. Bh4+ Ke8 69.
d6 Bc8 70. d7+ Bxd7 71. exd7+ Kxd7 72. Bg3 1-0

[Event "GER-ch 75th"]
[Site "Hoeckendorf"]
[Date "2004.02.03"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Muse, Mladen"]
[Black "Kritz, Leonid"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2452"]
[BlackElo "2534"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2004.01.30"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 100"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2004.06.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2004.06.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. O-O Nc6 6. c3 Be7 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Qe2
b6 9. Ne5 (9. e4 $5 cxd4 10. e5 Ng4 11. cxd4 Nb4 12. Bb5 a6 13. Ba4 Bd7 14.
Bxd7 Qxd7 $11) 9... Nxe5 10. dxe5 Nd7 11. f4 c4 (11... g6 12. c4 Bb7 13. e4
dxc4 14. Bxc4 Nb8 15. Nf3 Nc6 16. Rd1 Qc7 17. f5 $16 {Seeger,W-Martin,S/
Germany 1994/GER-chT2}) (11... f5 12. exf6 Nxf6 13. e4 Kh8 14. e5 Ng8 15. Rf3
g6 16. Rh3 $36 {Lesecq,P-Picarda,L/Paris 1994}) (11... Bb7 12. e4 Qc7 13. exd5
Bxd5 14. c4 Bb7 15. b3 Nb8 16. Bb2 Nc6 $13 {Kukofka,D-Martin,S/Baden 1996}) 12.
Bc2 Nc5 13. Rf3 Nd3 $5 {I doubt that this pawn sacrifice is the best way to
play in the position, but it's not so easy for white to adjust to the new
character of the position.} 14. Bxd3 (14. Rh3 $5 Ba6 15. Qh5 h6 16. Nf3 Qc7 17.
Bxd3 cxd3 18. Bd2 $36 {[%cal Ga1f1,Gf3d4,Gf1f3,Gf3g3]}) 14... cxd3 15. Qxd3 a5
16. a4 $6 {Strange decision to put it mild.} (16. Rh3 g6 17. Nf3 Ba6 18. Qd1 f6
19. Bd2 Qc7 20. exf6 Bxf6 21. Be1 $14) 16... Ba6 17. Qc2 f6 18. Rh3 g6 19. Nf3
fxe5 20. Nxe5 Bf6 21. Ng4 Bg7 22. Bd2 Qc7 23. Be1 (23. Re1 Rad8) 23... Qc4 24.
Bf2 (24. Bh4 Qe2 25. Qxe2 Bxe2 26. Nf2 Rfb8 27. Be7 b5 28. axb5 Rxb5 29. Ba3
Bf8 $44) 24... Ra7 25. Nh6+ $6 {Despite of the fact that this move is a waste
of time white faces no problems.} (25. Bh4) 25... Kh8 26. Ng4 Qe4 27. Qxe4 dxe4
28. Bh4 Rd7 29. Nf2 $6 (29. Ne5 Bxe5 (29... Rd2 $4 30. Nxg6+ hxg6 31. Be1+ $18)
30. fxe5 Rd2 31. Bf6+ Kg8 32. Rh4 Bd3 $11) 29... Bb7 30. Rd1 (30. Bg5) 30...
Rxd1+ 31. Nxd1 Rf7 $1 $36 {[%cal Gf7d7,Gd7d2]} 32. Be1 Bc6 33. Nf2 Rb7 34. Rg3
b5 35. axb5 (35. Rg5 e5 36. axb5 Rxb5 37. b4 a4 38. c4 Rb8 39. fxe5 a3 40. b5
a2 41. Bc3 Bxb5 42. cxb5 Rc8 $19) 35... Rxb5 36. Rg5 $2 (36. Nd1 a4 37. Rg5 e5
38. c4 Rb8 39. Kf1 Bf6 40. Bc3 Rd8 41. Ke1 Bxg5 42. Bxe5+ Kg8 43. fxg5 $15)
36... Rxb2 $19 37. Rc5 Bb7 38. Ng4 a4 39. Ra5 Rb1 40. Kf2 Rxe1 41. Rb5 Rf1+ $1
42. Kg3 h5 0-1

[Event "Moscow Aeroflot op-A"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2004.02.18"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Narciso Dublan, Marc"]
[Black "Berkes, Ferenc"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2517"]
[BlackElo "2602"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2004.02.17"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 100"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2004.06.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2004.06.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. Ne5 Be7 7. Nd2 O-O 8. b3
Ne4 (8... Nbd7 9. f4 Ne4 10. Nxe4 dxe4 11. Bc4 Bd5 12. Ba6 Nb8 13. Be2 $14 {
Jussupow,A-Burnett,R/Philadelphia 2002}) 9. f3 $6 {After this move the white
knight is forced to retreat to g4, which seems to be not the best spot for it.}
(9. Nxe4 dxe4 10. Bc4 (10. Be2 Nd7 11. Bb2 f5 12. Nxd7 Qxd7 13. f3 Rad8 14.
fxe4 Bxe4 $15 {Granados Gomez,M-Campora,D/Cala Galdana 2001}) 10... Bd5 11. f3
exf3 12. Bxd5 Qxd5 13. c4 Qe4 14. Rxf3 Bd6 15. Rf4 Qb7 16. Qh5 $36 {Alvarado
Ascanio,F-Garcia Padron,J/Las Palmas 1996}) 9... Nxd2 (9... Nd6 10. Qe2 c5 11.
Bb2 f6 12. Ng4 Nc6 13. c4 Rc8 14. Rac1 $14 {Steiner,E-Euwe,M/Budapest 1921/HCL}
) 10. Qxd2 f6 11. Ng4 {[%csl Rg4]} c5 12. Bb2 (12. c4 Nc6 13. cxd5 exd5 14. Bb2
) 12... Nc6 13. a3 Qd6 {The position is about equal, but the black pieces are
slightly better cordinated.} 14. f4 $5 a5 15. Rf3 Ba6 16. Bxa6 Rxa6 17. Rh3 Ra7
(17... f5 $6 18. dxc5 $1 Qxc5 19. Nh6+ gxh6 (19... Kh8 20. Qe2 Ra7 21. Qh5 d4
22. Ng4) 20. Rg3+ Kf7 21. Qe2 $16 {[%cal Ge2h5]}) 18. Rf1 cxd4 19. exd4 f5 (
19... b5) 20. Ne5 Nxe5 21. fxe5 Qd7 $15 {Black has better chances due to some
pressure on the queenside.} 22. Qd1 g6 23. g4 $6 fxg4 24. Rxf8+ Bxf8 25. Qxg4
Rc7 26. c3 Qe8 (26... b5 27. Rf3) 27. a4 Rf7 28. Bc1 b5 29. axb5 Qxb5 30. c4
Qb4 $2 {Letting white to escape.} (30... dxc4 $1 31. Qxe6 Qb4 32. Kg2 Qe1 33.
Qxc4 Qf2+ 34. Kh1 Qf1+ 35. Qxf1 Rxf1+ 36. Kg2 Rxc1 $19) 31. Qe2 dxc4 32. bxc4
Rc7 33. Ba3 Qxc4 34. Qxc4 Rxc4 35. Bxf8 Kxf8 36. d5 $8 Rc1+ $6 (36... exd5 37.
Rxh7 Re4 38. Ra7 Rxe5 39. Rxa5 Kf7 $17) 37. Kf2 Rc2+ 38. Kf1 exd5 39. Rxh7 $11
a4 40. Ra7 Rxh2 41. Rxa4 Rh5 42. Ra8+ Ke7 43. Ra7+ Ke8 44. e6 Re5 45. Rd7
1/2-1/2

[Event "ARM-ROW m"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2004.06.15"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Vaganian, Rafael A"]
[Black "Adams, Michael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2639"]
[BlackElo "2731"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2004.06.10"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 102"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2004.09.23"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2004.09.23"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Armenia"]
[BlackTeam "Rest of the World"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "ARM"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. b3 {This is one of the
favorite variations of Mihail Krasenkow in which he scored crushing wins over
the opponents of very high level.} Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Ne5 c5 (8... Qe7 9. a3 Rc8
10. Nd2 c5 11. c4 Nbd7 12. f4 Rc7 13. a4 Nf8 14. a5 Rd8 15. Qe2 Ne4 $132 {
Ristic,N-Drasko,M/Kladovo 1991/TD}) (8... Nbd7 9. Qe2 c5 10. Nd2 Qe7 11. Rad1
Rac8 12. f4 g6 13. g4 Rfd8 14. g5 Ne8 15. Rf2 cxd4 16. exd4 Bxe5 17. fxe5 Qxg5+
18. Rg2 Qe7 19. Nf3 $44 {[%cal Gb2c1,Gc1g5] Hoffman,A-Urday,H/Alicante 1989/TD}
) 9. Nd2 Nc6 (9... Ne4 10. Bxe4 dxe4 11. Nec4 cxd4 12. Nxd6 Qxd6 13. Bxd4 e5
14. Nc4 Qe6 15. Nxe5 f6 16. Nc4 Ba6 $13 {Malaniuk,V-Sulskis,S/Bydgoszcz 1999/
EXT 2000}) 10. a3 (10. f4 Nb4 11. Be2 Ne4 12. a3 Nc6 13. Bd3 f5 14. Ndf3 Nxe5
15. Nxe5 Bxe5 16. dxe5 Qe7 $11 {Maneschi,G-Swinkels,R/Arco 2002}) 10... a5 $6 {
Black's plan in this kind of the positions is to play on the queenside. The
main drawback of 10...a5 is that it's very difficult for black to get any
counterplay on the queenside after this move du to the weakness of b5.} (10...
a6 11. f4 (11. Qf3 b5 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13. dxc5 Bxc5 14. e4 Be7 15. Rfe1 Qc7 $13 {
Zaitsev,V-Jakovenko,D/RUS 2000}) 11... b5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Qf3 Nxe5 14. Bxe5
Nd7 15. Bxh7+ Kxh7 16. Qh5+ Kg8 17. Bxg7 $40 {Plante,M-Gilman,A/Montreal 2000})
(10... Rc8 $5 11. f4 Ne7 (11... cxd4 $6 12. exd4 Ne7 13. Qe2 Bb8 14. g4 Qc7 15.
Rac1 Kh8 16. Rf3 $40 {Barbero,G-Liao,Y/Mercedes 1979/EXT 2000}) 12. Qf3 b5 $1 (
12... Qc7 13. dxc5 bxc5 14. Ng4 Ne8 15. Qh3 f5 16. Nf3 d4 $13 {Sorokin,
G-Zagrebelny,S/Vladivostok 1995/CBM 46}) 13. dxc5 Bxc5 14. Rae1 Nf5 $1 {
[%csl Re3]} 15. Qh3 Ne4 16. Nxe4 dxe4 $36 17. Bxb5 Bxe3+ $5 18. Rxe3 Qb6 19.
Ng4 $2 Nxe3 20. Qxe3 Qxb5 $17 {1/2-1/2 Krasenkow,M-Yu Shaoteng/Wijk aan Zee
2002}) 11. f4 Ne7 12. Rf3 cxd4 13. Bxd4 $1 {There is no point in taking on d4
with the pawn since bringing the bishop inot play is white's main priority.} (
13. exd4 a4) 13... Bxe5 14. fxe5 $1 Ne4 (14... Nd7 15. Rh3 g6 16. Qg4 Nc6 17.
Nf3 Qe7 18. Qg3 $16) 15. Rh3 {[%cal Gd1h5]} Nf5 16. Bxe4 $1 dxe4 17. Nc4 $16 {
[%cal Gc4d6]} Nxd4 (17... b5 18. Qh5 h6 19. Nd6 Qd7 (19... Nxd6 20. exd6 Qg5 (
20... Qxd6 21. Bxg7 $1 $18) 21. Qe2 Qd5 22. Rd1 e5 23. Bc3 Qc5 24. Bxa5 $16)
20. Rf1 Nxd6 21. exd6 f6 22. Bxf6 $18) 18. exd4 Bc6 19. Nd6 Qg5 20. Rc3 Bd5 21.
Rg3 Qf4 22. c4 Bc6 23. Qf1 Qxf1+ (23... Qh6 24. Qf6 Qxf6 25. exf6 g6 26. Kf2
Rfd8 27. c5 $18) 24. Rxf1 $18 Rab8 25. Rf4 b5 26. c5 a4 27. b4 Rbd8 28. Rfg4 g6
29. Rf4 Kg7 30. Rf6 Rd7 31. Kf2 Ra8 32. Ke3 Raa7 33. h4 h6 34. Rh3 Rd8 35. Rh1
Re7 36. h5 g5 (36... Rdd7 37. hxg6 fxg6 38. Rhf1 $18) 37. d5 Bxd5 38. Nxb5 1-0

[Event "Solin 9th"]
[Site "Solin/Split"]
[Date "2001.12.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kovacevic, Vlatko"]
[Black "Stevic, Hrvoje"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2499"]
[BlackElo "2511"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2001.12.08"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "CRO"]
[EventCategory "12"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 087"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 d5 4. Nbd2 Nc6 5. Bb5 {White's idea is not to fight
for opening advantage, but to deviate from long theoretical lines and to play
chess from very begining.} (5. Bd3 Bg4 6. c3 e5 7. dxe5 Nxe5 8. Be2 Nxf3+ $11 {
Janowski,D-Suechting,H/Prague 1908/HCL}) (5. Be2 Bf5 6. dxc5 e5 7. Bb5 Qc7 8.
b4 e4 9. Nd4 Bg4 10. f3 exf3 11. gxf3 Bd7 12. Bxc6 bxc6 13. Bb2 Rb8 14. Bc3 $16
{Janowski,D-Marshall,F/Ostende 1907/HCL}) (5. c3 cxd4 6. exd4 Bf5 7. Be2 e6 8.
Nf1 Bd6 9. Ng3 Bg6 10. O-O O-O $11 {Jussupow,A-Goldin,A/Tilburg 1992}) 5... e6
(5... Qb6 6. Qe2 (6. c4 e6 7. O-O Bd7 8. Nb3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 cxd4 10. exd4 Nb4 11.
Qe2 Be7 $13 {Kovacevic,V-Marinkovic,S/Pula 1993/EXT 99}) 6... Bd7 7. c3 g6 8.
O-O Bg7 9. Bd3 O-O 10. dxc5 Qxc5 11. e4 dxe4 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Bxe4 Rad8 $11 {
Ulvestad,O-Levin,J/New York 1946/EXT 99}) 6. O-O Be7 7. b3 O-O 8. Bb2 a6 $6 {
I guess white would take on c6 in any case so there was no need to force him
to do so.} (8... Qc7 $5) 9. Bxc6 bxc6 10. dxc5 Bxc5 11. c4 Bb7 12. Qc2 (12. Qe2
$5) 12... Qe7 13. e4 {The arising position is probably about equal, but it's
easier to play it with white, mainly because of the fact that he has clear
plan of attack on the kingside.} Rfd8 (13... dxe4 $5 14. Nxe4 (14. Ng5 $5)
14... Nxe4 15. Qxe4 Bd6 16. Rad1 c5 17. Qg4 f6 $132) 14. Rad1 Rac8 15. e5 $5 {
This move is a signal to attack on the kingside.} Nd7 16. Ne1 a5 (16... Bb6 17.
Nd3 c5 18. f4 Bc7 19. Kh1 d4 $13) 17. Nd3 Bb6 18. Kh1 Ba6 19. f4 Nc5 $6 {
Knight's place is on f8 to defend his king.} 20. Ba3 Qa7 21. Nf2 $5 ({After} 
21. Nxc5 $6 Bxc5 22. Bxc5 Qxc5 {black has at least an equality.}) 21... Nd7 (
21... a4 $5 22. Nh3 h6 $132) 22. Nh3 Bc5 $6 {I think black still could play 22.
..h6 with mutual chanses.} 23. Ng5 Nf8 24. Bxc5 Qxc5 25. f5 $1 $40 {[%csl Rf7]}
h6 $6 (25... Qe3 $2 26. Nxf7 $1 Kxf7 27. fxe6+ Kg8 (27... Kxe6 28. Qf5+ Ke7 29.
Qf7#) 28. e7 Re8 29. Rde1 Qg5 30. exf8=Q+ Rxf8 31. Rxf8+ Rxf8 32. Nf3 $16) 26.
fxe6 $1 hxg5 $8 (26... fxe6 $2 27. Rxf8+ Kxf8 (27... Qxf8 28. Qh7#) 28. Nxe6+
$18) 27. exf7+ Kh8 28. Qf5 Qe7 (28... dxc4 29. bxc4 Qe7 $132) 29. Qh3+ Nh7 30.
e6 $16 {[%cal Gd2f3,Gf3e5,Ge5g6]} dxc4 (30... Rd6 $6 31. c5 Rxe6 32. f8=Q+ Rxf8
33. Rxf8+ Qxf8 34. Qxe6 $18) 31. Nf3 Rxd1 ({Doesn't save} 31... cxb3 32. Ne5
Qf6 33. Rxd8+ Rxd8 34. Ng6+ $1 Qxg6 35. f8=R+ Rxf8 36. Rxf8#) 32. Rxd1 Rd8 33.
Re1 $1 $18 g6 (33... g4 34. Ne5 $1 {[%cal Ge5g6]} Qxe6 35. Qh5 $18) 34. Ne5 Kg7
35. Nxc6 g4 36. Qc3+ {[%csl Rd8,Re7]} 1-0

[Event "American Continental 2nd"]
[Site "Buenos Aires"]
[Date "2003.08.17"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Whatley, Andrew"]
[Black "Vescovi, Giovanni P"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2323"]
[BlackElo "2618"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2003.08.17"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "ARG"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 097"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2003.11.11"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2003.11.11"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O Be7 6. Nbd2 d5 7. b3 c5 8. Ne5
O-O 9. Bb2 Nbd7 10. Qe2 Rc8 11. f4 Ne4 (11... Qc7 12. Nxd7 Qxd7 13. dxc5 Rxc5
14. Rad1 Rfc8 15. f5 $36 {Szmacinska,G-Delaney,A/Thessaloniki 1988}) 12. Nxe4 (
12. Bxe4 dxe4 13. c4 f5 14. Rad1 Nxe5 15. dxe5 Qc7 16. Nb1 Rcd8 17. Nc3 a6 18.
g4 $14 {Lematschko,T-Thorsteinsdottir,G/Thessaloniki 1984}) (12. a3 f5 13. Ndf3
Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Bf6 15. Bxe4 fxe4 16. dxc5 bxc5 17. Rfd1 Qe7 $13 {Frech,S-Fuchs,
K/Germany 1992/GER}) (12. c4 f6 13. Nxd7 Qxd7 14. Rad1 Nxd2 15. Rxd2 f5 16. g4
Qc6 17. Qf3 fxg4 18. Qxg4 $14 {Giacomini,M-Bianchi,A/Padova 1998}) 12... dxe4
13. Bb5 $5 Nf6 $6 {Underestimating white's idea. It was necessary to play} (
13... Nxe5 14. dxe5 Qc7 15. a4 Rcd8 16. a5 Bd5 $14) 14. Rad1 $1 (14. dxc5 Rxc5
15. Bd4 Rc8 16. Rfd1 Qc7 17. c3 Rfd8 18. Ng4 Nxg4 19. Qxg4 g6 20. Bc4 Bd5 21.
Ba6 Bb7 22. Bc4 Bd5 23. Ba6 {1/2-1/2 Cuesta Bustos,S-Manzaneda Avila,P/Mancha
Real 2000/EXT 2001 (23)}) 14... Qc7 15. dxc5 Qxc5 ({No better is} 15... Bxc5
16. Nd7 Nxd7 (16... Nd5 $2 17. Rxd5 $1 exd5 18. Nf6+ $1 {[%csl Rg8]} Kh8 19.
Qh5 h6 20. Qf5 (20. Nxd5 $2 Qd6 {[%csl Gh6]}) 20... g6 21. Qh3 $18) 17. Bxd7 $1
Rcd8 18. Be5 Qxd7 19. Rxd7 Rxd7 $16 {with clear advnatge for white.}) 16. Nd7
Nxd7 17. Rxd7 Bc6 18. Bxc6 Rxc6 19. c4 Rc7 $6 {Once again black chooses not
the best reply.} (19... a5 $142 20. Bd4 Qa3 21. Qg4 g6 22. f5 exf5 23. Rxf5 $36
) 20. b4 $1 Qc6 (20... Qxc4 $2 21. Qxc4 Rxc4 22. Rxe7 $18) 21. Qg4 $1 f6 (21...
g6 $2 22. Rxe7 $1 Rxe7 23. Bf6 $1 Rd7 24. Qg5 $18 {[%cal Gg5h6]}) 22. Rxc7 Qxc7
23. Qxe6+ $18 {Now white is just a pawn up.} Kh8 24. Rd1 $6 (24. a3) 24... Bxb4
25. Rd7 $6 (25. Qxe4) 25... Qc8 26. Qd5 Bc5 27. Bd4 Bxd4 28. Qxd4 (28. exd4 $6
Qe8 29. f5 e3 30. Qe6 Qh5 31. Qxe3 Qd1+ 32. Kf2 Qc2+ $13) 28... h6 29. h3 (29.
Rxa7 $16) 29... Qa6 30. c5 Qa3 31. c6 $2 (31. cxb6 axb6 32. Qxe4 Qxa2 33. Rb7
$16) 31... Qc1+ 32. Kh2 Qxc6 $11 33. Rxa7 Re8 34. Rd7 b5 35. Ra7 Ra8 36. Re7
Re8 37. Ra7 Qe6 $6 38. Kg3 $6 (38. Qc5 $1 Rb8 39. Rxg7 Kxg7 40. Qc7+ Qf7 41.
Qxb8) 38... Rc8 39. Qb4 Qb6 $36 40. Ra3 f5 41. Rc3 Rd8 42. Rc2 $4 {[%csl Re3]}
(42. Kh2 $11) 42... Qxe3+ $19 43. Kh2 Qxf4+ 44. g3 Qf1 45. g4 Qf4+ 46. Kg2 Qf3+
47. Kh2 fxg4 48. hxg4 Rd1 49. Rg2 Qf4+ 50. Rg3 Qf2+ 0-1

[Event "Olympiad-36"]
[Site "Mallorca"]
[Date "2004.10.20"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Black "Volokitin, Andrei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2652"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2004.10.15"]
[EventType "team-swiss"]
[EventRounds "14"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 104"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2005.01.27"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2005.01.27"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[BlackTeam "Ukraine"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "AZE"]
[BlackTeamCountry "UKR"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 {Not the most ambitious set up, but quite a tricky
one though.} c5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. O-O d5 6. c3 Bd6 (6... Be7 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Qe2 b6
9. Ne5 (9. e4 $5 cxd4 10. e5 Ng4 11. cxd4 Nb4 12. Bb5 a6 13. Ba4 Bd7 14. Bxd7
Qxd7 $11) 9... Nxe5 10. dxe5 Nd7 11. f4 c4 12. Bc2 Nc5 13. Rf3 Nd3 $5 {Muse,
M-Kritz,L/Hoeckendorf 2004}) 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. e4 Qc7 10. Qe2 h6 11.
Bc2 Bb6 {It's not so easy for white to come up with usefull moves, since both
12.e5 and 12.e:d5 promise black a very comfortable play to say the least.} (
11... Rd8 12. h3 (12. exd5 exd5 13. Nb3 Bb6 14. Be3 Bxe3 15. Qxe3 Re8 16. Qd3
$14 {Birkenmaier,R-Meyer,M/Schwaebisch Gmuend 2003}) 12... Nh5 13. Qb5 Bb6 14.
Nc4 dxc4 15. Qxh5 e5 16. Nh4 Ne7 $13 {Lazic,M-Sale,S/Ljubljana 1995}) (11... a6
12. e5 Ng4 13. Nb3 Ba7 14. Bf4 f6 15. Qd3 f5 16. h4 g5 17. hxg5 hxg5 18. Nxg5
Qg7 $40 {Pablo Marin,A-Roeder,M/Barbera 1997}) (11... Re8 12. Kh1 a6 13. h3 b6
14. e5 Nd7 15. Re1 Bf8 16. Nb3 Bb7 17. Nbd4 $14 {Pelikian,J-Valle,A/Brasilia
1997}) (11... Ng4 12. h3 Nge5 13. exd5 exd5 14. Nxe5 Nxe5 15. Nf3 Ng6 16. Kh1
Bd7 17. Qd3 $14 {Pelikian,J-Thompson,I/Groningen 1997}) (11... b6 12. h3 a5 13.
exd5 exd5 14. Nb3 Re8 15. Qd1 Bb7 16. Nbd4 Nxd4 17. Nxd4 Ne4 18. Be3 $14 {
Bente,B-Kose,S/Antalya 2004}) 12. a4 (12. Kh1 Bd7 13. h3 Nh5 14. Nb3 Nf4 $6 15.
Bxf4 Qxf4 16. exd5 exd5 17. Qd3 g6 18. Qxd5 Rad8 19. Qd2 $14 {Etchegaray,
P-Estremera Panos,S/Zaragoza 1992}) 12... a6 13. g3 $6 {This plan is just too
slow. I guess white has no choice, but to try} (13. h3 {threatening to push e5.
}) 13... Bd7 14. Kg2 (14. exd5 exd5 15. Nb3 Bh3 16. Rd1 Rfe8 17. Qd3 Ne4 18.
Nbd4 Qd7 $36) 14... Rad8 15. h3 e5 {It's obvious that black is the one who
fights for an opening advantage.} (15... dxe4 16. Nxe4 Nd5 17. Rd1 Ba7 $15) 16.
exd5 Nxd5 17. Nc4 Qc8 $1 $15 {[%csl Rh3] Forcing the white rook to come to h1.}
18. Rh1 Bc7 {[%cal Gf7f5,Ge5e4]} 19. Qe4 {Otherwise black would play f5 with
enormous pressure.} Nf6 20. Qh4 Bf5 21. Bxf5 Qxf5 22. Ne3 Qe6 23. Qc4 (23. Ng4
Nxg4 24. hxg4 e4 25. Nh2 Rd5 $17) 23... Nd5 $6 {This move seems to be an
inaccuracy. Trading the pieces just makes white's defensive task easier.} (
23... e4 24. Nd2 Qe7 $15) 24. Nxd5 Rxd5 25. Re1 Bb6 26. Be3 e4 $5 (26... Bxe3
27. Rxe3 Rfd8 28. Rae1 Qd6 $15) 27. Ng5 hxg5 28. Bxb6 Ne5 29. Qxe4 f5 30. Qc4
Rf6 (30... Nxc4 31. Rxe6 Nxb2 32. Bd4 $14) 31. Qb3 f4 32. g4 f3+ 33. Kg1 Rf4
34. Rxe5 (34. Kf1) 34... Rxe5 (34... Rxg4+ $5 35. Kf1 Rxe5 36. Qxe6+ Rxe6 37.
hxg4 Rxb6 38. Ra2 Rh6 39. Ke1 Rh4 40. Kd2 Rxg4 41. Ke3 Rf4 42. a5 $15) 35.
Qxe6+ Rxe6 36. Be3 Rfe4 37. Kh2 Rxe3 38. fxe3 1/2-1/2

[Event "YUG-ch 56th"]
[Site "Herceg Novi"]
[Date "2001.04.06"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Kosic, Dragan"]
[Black "Todorovic, Goran M"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2504"]
[BlackElo "2485"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2001.03.23"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "YUG"]
[EventCategory "10"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 083"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.07.05"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2001.07.05"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 {Hecht.} d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. b3 Nc6 5. Bb2 Nf6 6. Bd3 (6. Nbd2 Bd6
7. a3 O-O 8. Bd3 b6 9. O-O Bb7 10. Ne5 Nd7 11. Nxd7 Qxd7 $11 {Manak,J-Pokorna,
R/SVK-chT 1995}) 6... Bd6 (6... Bd7 7. O-O Qb6 8. Nbd2 Nb4 9. Be2 Rc8 10. c3
Nc6 11. Ne5 cxd4 12. exd4 $11 {Kirkwood,R-Laker,L/Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu
Int. 1999}) 7. O-O O-O 8. Nbd2 (8. a3 b6 9. Ne5 Bb7 10. f4 Rc8 11. Nd2 cxd4 12.
exd4 Bb8 13. Rf3 $36 {Masar,M-Ligart,T/SVK-ch U16 1997}) 8... Qe7 (8... b6 9.
c4 Nb4 10. Qe2 Bb7 11. a3 Nxd3 12. Qxd3 Ne4 $11 {Kiss,H-Katona,E/HUN-chJW U16
1994}) 9. Ne5 cxd4 10. exd4 Qc7 $5 {Losing a tempo, but managing to exchange
the lightsquared bishop, which is very important piece for white's attack.} 11.
Re1 Nb4 {[%csl Rc2,Rd3]} 12. Re3 (12. Ba3 $6 Qb6 13. c3 Nxd3 14. Bxd6 Nxf2 $1
$15 {[%cal Gf2d1]}) 12... Nxd3 13. Rxd3 Bd7 14. Rh3 b5 {Without thee bishop
white's attack isn't dangerous that's why black starts an actions on the
queenside.} 15. Nf1 a5 16. Ng3 Rfc8 17. Rc1 Be8 18. Nh5 Nxh5 $5 (18... Ne4 19.
Qg4 f5 20. Qf4 b4 $15) 19. Qxh5 h6 $15 20. Qe2 {Admitting that the attacking
attempt has failed.} a4 21. Nd3 b4 22. c4 $5 bxc3 23. Rxc3 Qe7 24. Rxc8 Rxc8
25. Nc5 axb3 (25... Bxc5 26. dxc5 Qxc5 27. Rc3 Qxc3 28. Bxc3 Rxc3 29. Qd2 d4
30. bxa4 Bxa4 $15) 26. Rxb3 (26. Nxb3 $1 $15) 26... e5 27. Rb7 (27. Nb7 exd4 $5
28. Qxe7 Bxe7 29. Kf1 Rc2 $17) 27... Qg5 28. g3 Bxc5 29. dxc5 d4 $17 {[%csl
Rc5][%cal Ge8c6]} 30. Rb6 Qf5 $1 {[%cal Gf5b1]} 31. f4 (31. Ba3 Bc6 32. Rb2 Rd8
33. Rd2 e4 $17 {[%cal Ge4e3,Gf5e4]}) 31... exf4 32. Bxd4 f3 33. Qe5 Qxe5 34.
Bxe5 Rxc5 $19 {[%csl Gf3] Hecht: '[#] Schwarz mobilisiert mit
Königsunterstützung seine Bauernmasse am Königsflügel '} 35. Bd6 Rc1+ 36. Kf2
Bc6 37. Rb2 g5 {[%cal Gg5g4]} 38. g4 $8 (38. h4 $5 {Hecht bedeutet Hoffen auf
eine Art Festung}) 38... f6 39. Bg3 Kf7 40. Rd2 Kg6 41. Ke3 h5 42. gxh5+ Kxh5
43. Rd6 f5 44. Kd2 Rc4 45. Be1 (45. Rd3 {Hecht} f4 46. Bf2 Kg4 47. Rd4 Rxd4+
48. Bxd4 Kh3 $19 {[%cal Rh3g2,Rg5g4,Rg4g3]}) 45... f4 46. Kd3 Re4 47. Bf2 Re2
0-1

[Event "EU-ch 2nd"]
[Site "Ohrid"]
[Date "2001.06.01"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Krasenkow, Michal"]
[Black "Rechlis, Gad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2655"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "2001.06.01"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "YUG"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 084"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.09.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2001.09.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. b3 Qa5+ 6. c3 (6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. exd4
Bb4 8. O-O {8.Bb2 Bc3=} Bc3 9. b4 $1 {9.Rb1 Nc6-+} Qc7 $5 (9... Qb6 10. Rb1 Nc6
11. Rb3 $1 Bxd4 12. b5 $1 $44) 10. Rb1 Nc6 11. Bb5 $8 a5 12. bxa5 O-O 13. Ba3
Rd8 14. Bc5 Nd7 15. Rb3 $13 {Yusupov,A-Miles,A/London USSR-World 1984}) 6...
Nc6 (6... cxd4 $2 7. exd4 $14 {[%csl Yc1,Yd2,Ye3,Yf4,Yg5,Yh6]} Nc6 8. O-O Be7
9. Ne5 $1 Nxe5 $6 (9... Qc7 10. f4 b6 $14) 10. dxe5 Nd7 11. Qg4 $1 g6 12. Re1
$16 {Jussupow,A-Short,N/Dortmund 1997/CBM 60}) (6... Bd6 7. O-O Nbd7 8. Bb2 Qc7
9. Nbd2 O-O 10. c4 cxd4 11. exd4 dxc4 12. bxc4 b6 13. Qe2 $14 {Cramling,
P-Petursson,M/Hastings 1985/EXT 99}) 7. O-O Be7 (7... Qc7 8. Bb2 (8. c4 dxc4 9.
bxc4 Be7 10. Bb2 cxd4 11. exd4 O-O 12. Nbd2 b6 13. Rc1 Bb7 $132 {Kovacevic,
V-Popovic,P/Zagreb 1985/MCL}) 8... cxd4 9. exd4 Be7 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Qe2 b6 12.
Ne5 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Nd7 14. c4 Nc5 15. cxd5 exd5 16. Rac1 $14 {Hoi,C-Inkiov,V/
Gausdal 1990/TD}) 8. Bb2 O-O 9. Nbd2 Rd8 $6 (9... Qc7 $5 10. c4 Rd8 11. Rc1
cxd4 12. Nxd4 Nxd4 13. Bxd4 e5 14. cxd5 Qb8 $13 {McDonald,N-Piket,J/Groningen
1986/EXT 97}) 10. Qe2 Bd7 11. Ne5 $14 Be8 (11... Nxe5 $6 12. dxe5 Ne8 13. f4
$36 {[%cal Gf1f3,Gf3h3]}) 12. f4 {White has very comfortable position with
clear plan of attack on the kingside, while it's not so easy for black to come
up with reasonable plan and may be that's the reason why black blunders a
piece on such an early stage of the game.} cxd4 (12... Rac8 13. Rf3 (13. g4 $5)
13... b5 14. Rh3 g6 (14... b4 $2 15. Bxh7+ Nxh7 16. Qh5 $18 {[%csl Rg8]}) 15.
dxc5 Nxe5 16. fxe5 Nd7 17. b4 Qc7 18. Nf3 $16) 13. exd4 Ba3 $2 14. b4 $1 (14.
Ndc4 $5 dxc4 15. Nxc4 Bxb2 16. Nxa5 Bxc3 17. Nxc6 Bxc6 18. Rad1 $16) 14... Qa4
15. Bxa3 Qxa3 16. Nb1 $1 {Suddenly it turns out that black queen is trapped
and black has to give up a piece to set it free.} Qa4 17. Bc2 Qa6 18. b5 Nxd4
19. cxd4 Bxb5 20. Bd3 Bxd3 21. Qxd3 Qxd3 22. Nxd3 $16 {That's the end of
forced variation started with 13...Ba3?- white has a piece for two pawns and
it's very difficult for black to save this position.} Rac8 23. Nd2 Rc3 24. Nc5
$5 (24. Ne5 Rdc8 25. Nb3 Ne4 26. Rac1 f6 27. Nf3 $16) 24... b6 (24... Rc2 25.
Ncb3 $16 {[%cal Gf1c1]}) 25. Ncb3 a5 26. Rac1 Rd3 (26... Rdc8 27. Rxc3 Rxc3 28.
Rc1 Rxc1+ 29. Nxc1 $18 {[%cal Gg1f1,Gf1d3]}) 27. Rf3 Rxf3 28. Nxf3 Ne4 29. Rc6
$18 Rb8 30. Ne5 (30. Nbd2 $5) 30... a4 31. Nc1 b5 32. Ncd3 h5 (32... b4 33.
Nxb4 {[%csl Rg8]} g5 34. a3 gxf4 35. Ned3 $18) 33. Nb4 Rb7 34. Ned3 Rb8 35. Nc5
Nd2 36. Nca6 Re8 37. Rb6 Nb1 38. Kf2 $5 (38. Nc7 Rc8 39. Nxb5 Rc1+ 40. Kf2 Rc4
41. Nd6 Rxd4 42. Ke3 $18) 38... Na3 39. Nc7 Rc8 40. Nxb5 Nxb5 41. Rxb5 Rc4 42.
Ke3 {Not giving black a single counterchanse.} a3 43. g3 Kh7 44. Kd3 Rc1 45.
Ra5 Rh1 46. Rxa3 Rxh2 47. Rb3 Rg2 48. a4 Rxg3+ 49. Kc2 h4 50. a5 Rg2+ (50...
Rxb3 51. Kxb3 h3 52. Nd3 h2 53. Nf2 $18 {[%cal Ga5a8]}) 51. Kb1 Rg1+ 52. Kb2
Rg2+ 53. Nc2 g5 54. a6 1-0

[Event "Corus-B"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]
[Date "2002.01.19"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Krasenkow, Michal"]
[Black "Yu, Shaoteng"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2632"]
[BlackElo "2522"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2002.01.15"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "NED"]
[EventCategory "11"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 087"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. b3 {This is one of the
favorite variations of Mihail Krasenkov in which he scored crushing wins over
the opponents of very high level, however in this particular game young
chinese player managed to outplay his dangerous opponent and to get very
promisng position which resulted in early draw.} Bd6 7. Ne5 O-O 8. Bb2 c5 (8...
Qe7 9. a3 Rc8 10. Nd2 c5 11. c4 Nbd7 12. f4 Rc7 13. a4 Nf8 14. a5 Rd8 15. Qe2
Ne4 $132 {Ristic,N-Drasko,M/Kladovo 1991/TD}) (8... Nbd7 9. Qe2 c5 10. Nd2 Qe7
11. Rad1 Rac8 12. f4 g6 13. g4 Rfd8 14. g5 Ne8 15. Rf2 cxd4 16. exd4 Bxe5 17.
fxe5 Qxg5+ 18. Rg2 Qe7 19. Nf3 $44 {[%cal Gb2c1,Gc1g5] Hoffman,A-Urday,H/
Alicante 1989/TD}) 9. Nd2 Nc6 (9... Ne4 10. Bxe4 dxe4 11. Nec4 cxd4 12. Nxd6
Qxd6 13. Bxd4 e5 14. Nc4 Qe6 15. Nxe5 f6 16. Nc4 Ba6 $13 {Malaniuk,V-Sulskis,S/
Bydgoszcz 1999/EXT 2000}) 10. a3 Rc8 (10... a6 11. Qf3 b5 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13.
dxc5 Bxc5 14. e4 Be7 15. Rfe1 Qc7 $13 {Zaitsev,V-Jakovenko,D/RUS 2000}) 11. f4
Ne7 (11... cxd4 $6 12. exd4 Ne7 13. Qe2 Bb8 14. g4 Qc7 15. Rac1 Kh8 16. Rf3 $40
{Barbero,G-Liao,Y/Mercedes 1979/EXT 2000}) 12. Qf3 b5 $1 {Very strong move
after which black manages to sieze the initiative.} (12... Qc7 13. dxc5 bxc5
14. Ng4 Ne8 15. Qh3 f5 16. Nf3 d4 $13 {Sorokin,G-Zagrebelny,S/Vladivostok 1995/
CBM 46}) 13. dxc5 ({Nothing promises} 13. Bxb5 cxd4 $1 (13... Qa5 $6 {[%csl
Rb5,Rd2]} 14. Qe2 (14. Ndc4 $6 {[%cal Gf3b7]} dxc4 15. Qxb7 Rb8 16. Qa6 $8 Rxb5
17. Qxd6 Nf5 18. Qc6 cxb3 $15) 14... cxd4 15. b4 Qd8 16. Bxd4 Rxc2 17. Bd3 $16
{[%csl Ra7]}) 14. Bxd4 Rxc2 15. Qd1 Rc8 16. Bd3 a5 17. Qf3 Nc6 $132 {and black
has very comfortable position}) 13... Bxc5 14. Rae1 Nf5 $1 {[%csl Re3]} 15. Qh3
({Complications after} 15. g4 $6 Nxe3 $1 (15... Nd6 $5 $132 {[%cal Gf6e4]}) 16.
Rxe3 d4 $1 17. Re4 $8 (17. Qxb7 $2 dxe3 $19 {[%cal Ge3e2]}) 17... Nxe4 18. Bxe4
(18. Nxe4 f5 19. gxf5 exf5 20. Nf6+ gxf6 21. Qxb7 fxe5 $17) 18... d3+ 19. Kh1
Bxe4 20. Qxe4 dxc2 $15 {seem to favor black.}) 15... Ne4 (15... d4 $5 16. exd4
Bxd4+ (16... Nxd4 17. Ng4 $1 $13 {[%csl Rh7]}) 17. Bxd4 Qxd4+ 18. Kh1 $13) 16.
Nxe4 dxe4 17. Bxb5 Bxe3+ $5 ({Another possibiity was} 17... Qb6 $5 18. a4 Nxe3
(18... Bxe3+ 19. Kh1 $13 {[%cal Ge5d7]}) 19. b4 $132 {with extremly
complicated position!}) 18. Rxe3 Qb6 19. Ng4 $2 (19. Rfe1 $5 Qxb5 (19... Nxe3
$2 20. Nd7 Qxb5 21. Nf6+ gxf6 22. Qg3+ $18) 20. c4 Qe8 21. R3e2 $13) 19... Nxe3
20. Qxe3 Qxb5 $17 (20... Qxb5 21. Nf6+ Kh8 22. Qh3 Qf5 23. g4 Qg6 24. Nd7 Rfd8
25. Ne5 Qf6 26. g5 Qe7 27. g6 Qc5+ $19) 1/2-1/2

[Event "Yongchuan zt 3.3"]
[Site "Yongchuan"]
[Date "2003.07.11"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Wu, Wenjin"]
[Black "Bu, Xiangzhi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2531"]
[BlackElo "2588"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2003.07.11"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "CHN"]
[EventCategory "12"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 097"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2003.11.11"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2003.11.11"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 e6 4. Bd3 c5 5. O-O Nbd7 6. b3 Be7 7. Nbd2 b6 8. Qe2
O-O 9. Bb2 Bb7 10. e4 $6 {Black pieces are very comfortably placed, so this
break in the center simply can't be good.} (10. c4) (10. Ne5) 10... dxe4 11.
Nxe4 Nd5 {[%cal Gd5f4] Showing clear intentions to fight for the advantage.
Black is doing fine also after} (11... Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Bxe4 13. Qxe4 Bf6 14. Rfd1
Qc7 15. c4 Rad8 16. Rd2 cxd4 17. Bxd4 Bxd4 18. Rxd4 Nf6 $11 {Koitla,H-Leito,P/
Tallinn 2000}) 12. Rfd1 (12. dxc5 Nf4 13. Qe3 Nxd3 14. Qxd3 Nxc5 15. Nxc5 Bxc5
$15 {Jeschke,D-Zumsande,M/GER 2000}) 12... Nf4 13. Qe3 Qc7 $5 (13... Nxd3 14.
Rxd3 Qc7 $13) 14. Bf1 Nf6 15. Nxf6+ Bxf6 16. Ne5 cxd4 17. Bxd4 Nd5 18. Qe2 (18.
Qg3 Qxc2 19. Bd3 Qc7 20. Rac1 Qe7 $17) 18... Rfd8 19. Nc4 $2 {Blundering
simple tactical blow.} (19. Ng4 Bxd4 20. Rxd4 Nc3 (20... Nf4 21. Rxd8+ Rxd8 22.
Qe3 $15) 21. Rxd8+ Rxd8 22. Qe3 $15) 19... Nf4 20. Qe3 Rxd4 21. Rxd4 Bxd4 22.
Qxd4 Bxg2 $1 {[%cal Gf4e2]} 23. Nd6 Bxf1 24. Qxf4 Ba6 25. Rd1 Rf8 $19 {Black
has both material and positional advantages, so his win is just a matter of
time.} 26. c4 Bb7 27. Kf1 (27. f3) 27... Ba8 {Preparing to penitrate with the
queen via the diagonal a8-h1.} 28. Qe5 Qc6 29. Rd3 Qh1+ 30. Ke2 Bg2 $1 {
[%cal Gh1f1]} 31. Kd2 Qf1 32. Qg3 Bc6 33. a4 Rd8 (33... Qb1) 34. Kc2 Qa1 $1 35.
f3 Qa2+ 36. Kc1 Qa1+ 37. Kc2 h6 38. Qf4 Rd7 39. Rd1 Qa2+ 40. Kc3 Qe2 41. Rd3
Qe1+ 42. Kc2 e5 {The decisive break.} 43. Qf5 g6 44. Qf6 e4 45. Rd1 (45. fxe4
Bxe4 46. Nxe4 Qxe4) 45... Qe2+ 46. Rd2 Qxf3 47. Qe5 e3 0-1

[Event "Poikovsky Karpov 03rd"]
[Site "Poikovsky"]
[Date "2002.04.18"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Vaganian, Rafael A"]
[Black "Vescovi, Giovanni P"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2664"]
[BlackElo "2611"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2002.04.16"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[EventCategory "16"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 089"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.08.12"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.08.12"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. O-O Nbd7 6. b3 (6. a3 Qc7 7. Nbd2 c4
8. Be2 Bd6 9. c3 b5 10. a4 bxa4 11. Qxa4 O-O 12. b3 $14 {Rossetto,H-Benko,F/
Buenos Aires 1947}) 6... g6 $5 {Unusual, but nevertheless not such a bad move!}
(6... Be7 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Nbd2 (8. Ne5 Nxe5 9. dxe5 Nd7 10. Nd2 f5 11. f4 Rf7 12.
c4 Nf8 13. Qc2 Bd7 14. Rad1 Bc6 $13 {Bogoljubow,E-Rellstab,L/Bad Nauheim 1936})
8... b6 9. Ne5 Bb7 10. Qe2 Rc8 11. c4 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Ne4 13. Rad1 Nxd2 14. Rxd2
Qc7 $11 {Muse,D-Medunova,V/Berlin 1993}) (6... Bd6 7. Bb2 Qc7 (7... Qe7 8. Ne5
O-O 9. Nd2 cxd4 10. exd4 Ba3 11. Bxa3 Qxa3 12. Re1 b6 13. Re3 $14 {Najdorf,
M-Corte,C/Mar del Plata 1942}) 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. c4 cxd4 10. exd4 dxc4 11. Nxc4
Be7 12. Rc1 Qd8 13. Qc2 Nb6 $13 {Kovacevic,V-Zelcic,R/Slavonski Brod 1995}) 7.
Bb2 Bg7 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. Ne5 (9. c4 b6 10. Qe2 Bb7 11. Rad1 Qc7 $11) 9... b6 10.
f4 Bb7 11. Qf3 Qc7 12. Qh3 Ne4 {It's quite obvious that black doesn't have any
problems after the opening.} 13. Ndf3 (13. Nxe4 dxe4 14. Bc4 a6 15. a4 Nxe5 16.
fxe5 Bd5 $13) 13... Rae8 14. Rad1 (14. Bb5 Nxe5 15. fxe5 Bc6 16. Bd3 f5 17.
exf6 Bxf6 $11) 14... f5 15. Bxe4 Nxe5 $1 (15... dxe4 $2 16. Nxd7 Qxd7 17. dxc5
Qc6 18. Bxg7 $18) 16. Bxd5 Nxf3+ 17. Bxf3 Bxf3 18. gxf3 (18. Qxf3 cxd4 19. Bxd4
Bxd4 20. exd4 Qxc2 21. Rf2 Qc7 22. Re2 Qd6 $11) 18... cxd4 19. Bxd4 Bxd4 20.
Rxd4 e5 $1 {Even being a pawn down black keeps an equal chances due to awkward
position of white quen on c3 and weakness of white pawns in the center.} (20...
Qxc2 $2 21. Rd7 $18 {[%csl Rh7]}) 21. Rc4 $6 (21. fxe5 Rxe5 22. f4 Re7 23. c4
Rfe8 24. Rd3 Qc5 25. Re1 b5 $44) 21... Qd6 22. Qg3 b5 23. fxe5 Rxe5 24. Rd4 Qe7
$11 {[%csl Re3]} 25. Rfd1 Rxe3 26. Rd7 Qc5 27. Kh1 Rfe8 28. Rc7 $6 (28. Qc7
Re1+ 29. Rxe1 Rxe1+ 30. Kg2 Qg1+ 31. Kh3 Qf1+ 32. Kg3 $11) 28... Qb6 29. Rcd7
Qc6 $15 30. Kg2 Qxc2+ 31. R1d2 Re2+ 32. Rxe2 Qxe2+ 33. Qf2 Re7 (33... Qxf2+ 34.
Kxf2 a5 35. Ra7 $11) 34. Rd5 a6 35. Rd6 Re6 36. Rd7 Re7 37. Rd6 b4 38. Kg1 Re6
(38... Qxf2+ 39. Kxf2 a5 40. Ra6 Re5 41. f4 Rd5 42. Ke3 Kg7 43. Ra7+ $11) 39.
Qxe2 Rxe2 40. Rxa6 Kg7 41. Ra4 Kh6 42. Rxb4 Rxa2 43. Rc4 Kh5 44. h4 h6 1/2-1/2

[Event "FIDE-Wch k.o."]
[Site "Tripoli"]
[Date "2004.06.20"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Adly, Ahmed"]
[Black "Rublevsky, Sergei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2671"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2004.06.19"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "LBY"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 102"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2004.09.23"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2004.09.23"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Nbd2 Nf6 5. Bd3 c4 $5 {This move has it's
advantages and disadvantages, but it was definitly the right choice fro this
particular game. Rublevsky easily outplayed his less experienced opponent due
to better understanding of chess strategy!} 6. Be2 b5 (6... Qc7 7. Ne5 c3 8.
bxc3 Qxc3 9. Rb1 Bd6 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Rb3 Qc7 12. f4 b6 13. Bd3 Bb7 $13 {
Guimard,C-Rossetto,H/Buenos Aires 1942}) (6... Nc6 7. O-O b5 8. Re1 Bb7 9. Bf1
Be7 10. g3 O-O 11. Bg2 Qb6 12. c3 Rad8 $132 {Boguszlavszkij,J-Dovzik,J/Hungary
1996}) 7. O-O $6 {The first inaccuracy. White should've tried to transfer e4
as fast as possible, without wasting time for unnecessary developing moves.} (
7. Ne5 Nfd7 8. f4 Bb7 9. O-O Bd6 10. c3 Nc6 11. e4 dxe4 12. Nxe4 Be7 13. Bf3
$16 {Rossetto,H-Puiggros,G/Mar del Plata 1944}) (7. c3 Bb7 8. Ne5 Nbd7 9. f4
Bd6 10. O-O Qc7 11. Bf3 Ne4 12. Bxe4 dxe4 13. a4 a6 $13 {Yabra,F-Rodriguez
Vargas,O/Havana 1970}) 7... Bb7 8. Ne5 Nbd7 9. f4 Be7 10. Ndf3 {Giving up
control over e4.} (10. c3 O-O 11. Qc2 Qc7 12. Bf3 a5 13. e4 Nb6 $15) 10... Ne4
11. a4 $6 {Black is better prepared for the play on the queenside, so white
shouldn't weaken his position with a4.} b4 12. Nxd7 Qxd7 13. Ne5 (13. Nd2 Nd6)
13... Qc7 14. Bf3 O-O 15. a5 $6 {[%csl Ra5]} a6 $17 16. Bxe4 dxe4 17. Bd2 (17.
f5 f6 18. Ng4 exf5 19. Rxf5 Bd6 $19 {[%cal Gb7c8]}) 17... f6 18. Ng4 c3 19.
bxc3 bxc3 20. Bc1 Bd5 21. Ba3 Rab8 22. Qe1 (22. Bxe7 Qxe7 23. Qe2 Qc7 24. Rfc1
Rb5 $17) 22... Rfc8 23. Nf2 Bxa3 24. Rxa3 Rb2 $19 25. Qc1 Rcb8 26. h3 R8b5 27.
Qd1 (27. Nd1 Rb1 28. Rxc3 Rxc1 29. Rxc7 Rbb1 $19) 27... Rxa5 28. Rxa5 Qxa5 29.
Qh5 Qb5 30. f5 Bc4 31. Ra1 exf5 32. Rxa6 Rb1+ 33. Nd1 (33. Kh2 Qb8+ 34. g3 g6
35. Qh4 Bxa6 $19) 33... Rxd1+ 34. Qxd1 Qxa6 35. d5 Qd6 36. Qd4 Qxd5 37. Qxc3 h5
38. Qb2 Qd1+ 39. Kh2 Qd6+ 40. Kg1 f4 41. Qb7 Bd5 42. Qc8+ Kh7 43. c4 Bf7 0-1

[Event "Novak Nikolic Memorial 2nd"]
[Site "Belgrade"]
[Date "2000.02.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Popchev, Milko"]
[Black "Shcherbakov, Ruslan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2552"]
[Annotator "Finkel,A"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2000.02.02"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "YUG"]
[EventCategory "11"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 076"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.05.31"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2000.05.31"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 (3. e3 d5 4. Bd3 Bd6 5. O-O O-O 6. Nbd2 c5 7. c3 Nbd7
8. e4 e5 (8... dxe4 9. Nxe4 Nxe4 10. Bxe4 Nf6 11. Bc2 b6 12. Bg5 $14 {McCamon,
B-Hunt,H/Hastings op9495}) 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Nxe5 Bxe5 11. h3 c4 12. Bc2 b5 $11
{Konvalinka,K-Riznar,H/SLO-chT 1994}) 3... c5 4. e3 d5 5. Bd3 Nbd7 6. Nbd2 Bd6
7. Qe2 O-O 8. e4 e5 $1 $11 {With this typical breakthrough in the center black
gets very convinient play.} 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Nxe5 Bxe5 11. O-O Qc7 12. h3 (12.
Nf3 $2 dxe4 13. Bxe4 Re8 14. Nxe5 Qxe5 15. f3 Bf5 16. Qb5 Bxe4 17. fxe4 b6 $17
{Birkmann,G-Ginsburg,G/Berliner Sommer 1994}) 12... Re8 (12... Bd7 $6 13. exd5
Nxd5 14. Nf3 Rae8 15. Bxh7+ $1 Kh8 16. Qd1 Nf6 17. Bc2 $16 {Gerencer,
J-Adensamer,G/Goetzis op 1995}) (12... Be6 13. exd5 Bxd5 14. Nc4 Bf4 15. Bxf4
Qxf4 {1/2-1/2 Gagnon,M-Wenaas,E/Quebec op 1997}) 13. Re1 Bd7 14. c4 Bd4 $5 {
Breaking the symmetry and showing his agressive intentions.} (14... dxe4 $5 15.
Nxe4 Nxe4 16. Bxe4 Bc6 17. Qg4 Bxe4 18. Rxe4 Bd4 19. Rb1 Qc6 $15) 15. cxd5 Bxh3
(15... Nxd5 $5 16. Nf3 Bf6 17. e5 Nb4 18. Be4 Bc6 19. Bf4 $13) 16. Nf1 Bf5 (
16... Bg4 $5 17. Qd2 (17. Qc2 $2 Nxd5 $17 {[%cal Ge8e1]}) 17... Qe5 18. Ne3 Bd7
19. Nc2 $5 {[%csl Ge1]} Ng4 20. Nxd4 Qh2+ 21. Kf1 cxd4 22. Qb4 Qh1+ 23. Ke2
Qxg2 $36) 17. Qf3 Bg4 18. Qf4 Qxf4 19. Bxf4 Bxb2 20. Rab1 Bc3 {Despite of the
fact that black manages to keep the pawn white retains sufficient counterplay
due to his strong center and active pieces.} (20... Be5 $5 21. Bxe5 (21. Bd2 b6
22. Ne3 Bd7 $15) 21... Rxe5 22. Rxb7 Nxd5 23. Bc4 Bc8 24. Rxf7 Kxf7 25. Bxd5+
Rxd5 26. exd5 Ba6 $15) 21. Nd2 (21. Rec1 $5 Bd4 (21... Nxe4 $5 22. Bxe4 Rxe4
23. Rxc3 Rxf4 24. Rxb7 Ra4 25. Rxc5 Rxa2 26. Ne3 $44) 22. Nd2) 21... b6 22. f3
Bd7 23. Ba6 h6 24. Rec1 Nh5 25. Be3 Be5 26. Nc4 Bg3 27. Bf2 Bf4 (27... Bxf2+
28. Kxf2 Nf4 29. Rc3 Ng6 30. Bb5 Bxb5 31. Rxb5 $44 {[%cal Ga2a5]}) 28. Re1 (28.
Rc3 $5) 28... Rad8 29. Rbd1 (29. Bb5 $6 Bxb5 30. Rxb5 f5 $1 $17 {[%csl Rd5]
[%cal Gh5f6]}) 29... g5 30. g4 $6 {Permitting black in the future to open an
h-file.} Ng7 31. Be3 Bxe3+ 32. Rxe3 h5 33. gxh5 Nxh5 34. Kf2 Nf4 35. Ra3 Kg7 (
35... Ng6 36. Bb7 Bb5 37. Ne3 Kg7 38. Rb1 $44) 36. Rh1 $6 Re7 ({Deserved
attention} 36... Rh8 $1 37. Rxh8 Rxh8 38. Ne5 Rh2+ 39. Ke1 Bh3 40. d6 Kf8 41.
Bc4 f6 $17) 37. Ne3 Rb8 38. Bb5 $6 Bxb5 39. Nf5+ Kf6 40. Rh6+ Ng6 41. Nxe7 Kxe7
42. Rxa7+ Kf6 43. Ke3 Be8 $17 44. a4 c4 (44... Ke5 $5 45. Rh5 f6 46. Rhh7 f5
47. Rhb7 Rxb7 48. Rxb7 Bxa4 49. Rxb6 Nf4 $17) 45. Kd4 Rc8 46. Kc3 Kg7 (46...
Ke5) 47. Rh5 Nf4 $2 {Now white easily escapes sacrificing an exchange.} 48.
Rxg5+ Kh6 49. Rg4 Ne2+ 50. Kd2 Nd4 51. Ke3 $1 $11 c3 52. Kxd4 c2 53. Rg1 c1=Q
54. Rxc1 Rxc1 55. Ra8 Bd7 56. Ra7 Be8 57. Ra8 1/2-1/2

[Event "Politiken Cup 18th"]
[Site "Copenhagen"]
[Date "1996.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Fries Nielsen, Jens Ove"]
[Black "Hellsten, Johan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2420"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[Annotator "Ftacnik,L"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "1996.06.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "DEN"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 054"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1996.10.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1996.10.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 {Baburin} Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. O-O Nc6 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2
O-O 8. Nbd2 Qe7 9. Ne5 Rd8 (9... cxd4 10. exd4 Ba3 11. Qc1 (11. Bxa3 Qxa3 12.
Ndf3 (12. c3 Qa5 (12... Qd6 13. f4 Bd7 14. Qf3 Ne7 15. Qh3 Ng6 16. Rf3 Bc6 17.
Re1 Rfe8 18. g4 Rac8 19. g5 Ne4 20. Nxe4 dxe4 21. Bxe4 Bxe4 22. Rxe4 Qa3 {
Summerscale,A-Thompson,I/Hastings op9495/1994/0-1 (52)}) (12... Bd7 13. f4 Rac8
14. Rf3 g6 15. Qe1 Kg7 16. Rh3 Be8 17. Ndf3 Rh8 18. Qd2 Ne7 19. g4 {1-0 Hoi,
C-Danielsen,H/DEN-ch (06)/1995/ (27)}) 13. Rc1 Bd7 14. f4 Rac8 15. Rf3 Qc7 16.
Rc2 Ne7 17. Rh3 g6 18. g4 Kg7 19. g5 Nfg8 20. Qe1 Nf5 21. Bxf5 exf5 22. Qh4 h5
23. gxh6+ Kh7 24. Ndf3 {1-0 Hoffmeyer,F-Krause,U/BL2-N 9293/1993/ (27)}) 12...
Nb4 (12... Bd7 13. Re1 Rac8 14. Nxc6 Rxc6 15. Ne5 Rc3 16. Re3 Rfc8 17. Qf3 Be8
18. Rae1 Qb4 19. Rd1 {Letov,A-Bashkov,V/URS-chClub Pavlodar/1991/0-1 (59)}) 13.
Qc1 (13. Bb5 Ne4 14. Be2 f6 15. Nd3 Nc3 16. Qd2 Nxe2+ 17. Qxe2 Nxd3 18. Qxd3
Bd7 19. Nd2 {1/2-1/2 Galliamova,A-Madl,I/Belgrade-W (06)/1994/}) (13. Re1 Nxd3
14. Qxd3 b6 15. Ng5 h6 16. Nh3 Ba6 17. Qe3 Rac8 18. c3 Rc7 19. Nf4 Rfc8 20.
Rac1 Ne4 21. c4 Nd6 22. Nxf7 Rxf7 23. Qxe6 Re8 {0-1 Khorava,M-Lomineishvili,M/
WchJW-U18 Guarapuava/ 1995 (28)}) 13... Qa5 14. Qd2 Qb6 15. Rfe1 Nxd3 16. Qxd3
Qc7 17. c4 dxc4 18. bxc4 h6 19. Rad1 Rd8 20. Qb3 Bd7 {Arkhangelsky,M-Sherbakov,
R/Belgorod-B/1991/0-1 (54)}) 11... Bxb2 12. Qxb2 Qc7 (12... Bd7 13. Rfe1 (13.
a3 Rac8 14. f4 Qd8 15. c4 dxc4 16. bxc4 b6 17. Ndf3 Rc7 18. Qf2 Bc8 19. Rad1
Ne7 20. Rfe1 Bb7 21. Bb1 Qa8 22. Nh4 Be4 23. Ba2 {Nogueiras,J-Gonzalez,JC/
CUB-ch Holguin (01)/1991/1-0 (49)}) 13... Rac8 14. c3 Rfd8 15. Ndf3 Be8 16. Re3
Qc7 17. Rae1 Ne7 18. Nd2 Nf5 19. Bxf5 exf5 {Olesen,M-Danielsen,H/Copenhagen
Unibank (06)/1991/1/2-1/2 (63)}) 13. Rac1 Bd7 14. Rfe1 Rac8 15. Ndf3 Rfd8 16.
h4 Be8 17. g3 Qa5 18. a3 Ne7 19. c4 dxc4 20. bxc4 Qc7 21. Bf1 Nc6 22. Bg2 {
1-0 Kovacevic,Vlat-Stone,R/Toronto (07)/1989/ (29)}) (9... Qc7 10. Ndf3 cxd4
11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. exd4 a5 13. c4 Ba6 14. Re1 Be7 15. Rc1 a4 16. Ne5 Qb7 17. Ba1
axb3 18. axb3 Nd7 19. Qh5 g6 20. Qh6 Bf6 21. Re3 Bg7 22. Qh4 Nxe5 23. dxe5 Rfd8
24. Rh3 h6 {1-0 Conquest,S-Luther,T/EUCup f Paris (02)/1995 (37)}) 10. a3 Nd7 (
10... Bd7 11. f4 Be8 12. Qf3 Nd7 13. Qh3 Nf8 14. Ndf3 f6 15. Ng4 Bg6 16. Bxg6
Nxg6 17. dxc5 Bxc5 18. Nd4 f5 19. Nxc6 bxc6 20. Ne5 Nxe5 21. Bxe5 Bxa3 {
Janowsky,D-Lasker,Em (02)/Wch11-Berlin/1910/1/2-1/2 (45)}) 11. f4 Nf8 12. Qh5
f6 13. Rf3 {Baburin: An interesting positional piece sacrifice. This game is
worth studying - probably Black can defend better.} Qe8 (13... fxe5 14. fxe5
Bxe5 (14... Bc7 15. Rxf8+ $3 Kxf8 (15... Rxf8 16. Qxh7+ Kf7 17. Bg6#) 16. Rf1+
$18) 15. dxe5 $14) 14. Qh4 cxd4 (14... fxe5 15. fxe5 Ng6 (15... Be7 16. Rxf8+
$1 Kxf8 17. Rf1+ Bf6 18. exf6 $18) 16. Qh5 Bc7 17. Rh3 $16) 15. exd4 h5 (15...
Ne7 16. Bxh7+ $1 Nxh7 17. Rh3 fxe5 18. Qxh7+ Kf7 19. fxe5 Bc7 20. Rf1+ Nf5 21.
g4 $18) 16. Raf1 fxe5 (16... Ne7 $5 17. R3f2 fxe5 18. fxe5 Nf5 19. Rxf5 exf5
20. exd6) 17. fxe5 Be7 18. Qg3 {Part of white's compensation lays in the fact,
that black pieces are limited by the pawn structure. Helping the king on g8
will never be very easy.} Bd7 (18... h4 19. Qg4) 19. Rf4 Rdc8 20. Nf3 Qd8 (
20... Rc7 21. Ng5 Rac8 22. Rf7 g6 23. Nxe6 Qxf7 24. Rxf7 Bxe6 (24... Kxf7 25.
Nxc7 Rxc7 26. e6+ Nxe6 27. Qxg6+ Kf8 28. Qh6+ Ke8 29. Qxh5+ $18) 25. Rf1 $16)
21. Ng5 $1 Qb6 (21... Bxg5 22. Rxf8+ Qxf8 23. Rxf8+ Rxf8 24. Qxg5 $16) 22. Rf7
{Black's queen have left the kingside in order to generate counterplay, but
now the attacker has more freedom in preparation for the final blow.} g6 (22...
Nxd4 23. Rxg7+ $1 Kxg7 (23... Kh8 24. Nf7#) 24. Nxe6+) 23. Nxe6 $1 Nxe5 (23...
Bxe6 24. Rxf8+ Rxf8 25. Qxg6+ Kh8 26. Qh7#) 24. Qxe5 Nxe6 25. Bxg6 Nf4 (25...
Bf6 26. Qxf6) (25... Bf8 26. Bh7#) 26. Qg7# 1-0

[Event "Munich SKA"]
[Site "Munich"]
[Date "1991.05.04"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Polgar, Zsuzsa"]
[Black "Yudasin, Leonid"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2645"]
[Annotator "Ftacnik,L"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1991.05.04"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[EventCategory "14"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 023"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1991.08.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1991.08.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 {Schussler} Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2
O-O 8. a3 Qc7 (8... b6 9. Nbd2 Bb7) 9. c4 cxd4 10. exd4 e5 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12.
Nxe5 Bxe5 13. Bxe5 Qxe5 14. Nd2 Bg4 15. Re1 $1 (15. Qc2 Rfe8 $10) 15... Qd6 16.
Qc2 Rac8 17. h3 Bh5 $6 (17... Be6 18. Rad1 $14) 18. Bf5 Rc7 19. Qd3 Rd8 (19...
Bg6 $5) 20. Qd4 b6 (20... dxc4 21. Qxd6 Rxd6 22. Nxc4 Rd8 $14) 21. Re5 Re7 22.
f4 Qc7 23. Rae1 Rxe5 $4 (23... dxc4 24. Rxe7 Qxe7 25. Rxe7 Rxd4 26. Nxc4 $16 (
26. Rxa7 $2 g6 $1)) 24. fxe5 dxc4 25. exf6 $1 gxf6 26. Qxf6 (26. Qxc4 Qg3 $132)
26... c3 27. Ne4 c2 28. Qh6 Bg6 29. Nf6+ Kh8 30. Ne8 1-0

[Event "ISR-chT"]
[Site "Israel"]
[Date "1999.01.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Grinshpun, Eduard"]
[Black "Gershon, Alik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2401"]
[BlackElo "2467"]
[Annotator "Gershon,A"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1999.01.??"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "ISR"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 070"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.06.08"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.06.08"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%mdl 32768]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. b3 Nc6 6. O-O Bd6 7.
Bb2 O-O 8. Nbd2 Qe7 9. c4 (9. Ne5 cxd4 10. exd4 Ba3 11. Bxa3 Qxa3 {[%csl Gb2,
Gb4,Gc3][%cal Yc8c2]} 12. Ndf3 Bd7 13. Nxc6 Bxc6 $15 {Bogolubov-Capablanca/1924
}) 9... Rd8 10. a3 cxd4 11. exd4 b6 12. Qe2 (12. Qc2 Bb7 13. c5 $2 bxc5 14.
dxc5 Bxc5 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Bxh7+ Kg7 $17 {[%csl Gb7,Gc5,Gg2][%cal Gb7g2,Gd8g8]
}) 12... Bb7 13. Ne5 dxc4 14. bxc4 $2 (14. Ndxc4 $142 $15) 14... Bxe5 $1 15.
dxe5 Nd7 16. Nf3 Nc5 17. Bc2 Na5 18. Nd4 (18. Bc3 $5 Bxf3 19. Qxf3 (19. gxf3
Qg5+ 20. Kh1 Nc6 $15) 19... Nxc4 20. Qf4 Rac8 (20... b5 21. a4 a6 22. Bb4 $44
Qc7 $140 $2 23. axb5 axb5 24. Rxa8 Rxa8 25. Bxc5 Qxc5 26. Qe4 {[%cal Ge4a8,
Ge4h7]}) 21. Qxc4 Nd3 22. Bxd3 (22. Qb3 Qc5 23. Bxd3 Rxd3 $17) (22. Bb4 Nxb4
23. Qxb4 Qxb4 24. axb4 Rxc2 25. Rxa7 Rb2 $15) 22... Rxc4 23. Bxc4 Qc7 {the
difference between this move and Qc5 is can be seen in the following variation:
} (23... Qc5 $2 24. Rad1 {Now black has three moves with the rook, however,
all of them lose!} Re8 (24... Rxd1 25. Rxd1 g6 (25... h6 26. Rd8+ Kh7 27. Bd3+)
26. Bb4 Qxc4 27. Rd8+ Kg7 28. Bf8+ Kg8 29. Bh6#) (24... Rb8 25. Rd4 b5 26. Rfd1
$18 {[%cal Gc3b4]}) 25. Rd4 b5 26. Rfd1 bxc4 27. Rd8 Qb5 28. Rxe8+ Qxe8 29. Ba5
c3 30. Rd8 Qxd8 31. Bxd8 c2 32. Bg5 $18) 24. Rad1 Ra8 25. Rd4 b5 {Now Rfd1
wouldn't threat a checkmate.} 26. Bxb5 Qxc3 27. Rfd1 g6 $17) 18... Rac8 {
[%csl Gc4] Bringing in another piece.} (18... Ba6 19. Nb5) 19. a4 (19. Nb5 Nxc4
$1 (19... Bxg2 {also interesting} 20. Kxg2 Qg5+ 21. Kh1 Rd2 22. Bc1 Rxe2 23.
Bxg5 Rxc2 24. Nd6 Rc7 $19) 20. Qxc4 Qg5 21. g3 (21. f3 Rd2 $19 {[%cal Gg5e3,
Gc5d3]}) 21... Qh5 $1 {[%csl Yg1][%cal Yh5f3,Yh5h3,Yc5d3]} 22. Qf4 (22. Nd6
Rxd6 23. exd6 Qf3) 22... Rd2 $3 23. Nd6 (23. Qxd2 Qf3) 23... Rxc2 24. Nxc8 Qh3
$19) 19... Nd7 {[%csl Gc4]} 20. Ra3 g6 (20... Nf8 21. Rh3 {I wanted to keep
the rook on a3}) 21. Bd3 Qc5 $17 22. Nb5 (22. Nb3 Nxb3 23. Rxb3 Qc6 $17) 22...
Nxc4 23. Bxc4 (23. Rc1 Qd5) 23... Qxc4 24. Qe3 (24. Qxc4 Rxc4 25. Nd6 Rc7 26.
a5 Bd5 $17) 24... Qd5 $6 {It's hard to believe but this natural move was a
beginning of black's problems. Instead of this he should've got rid of pretty
much white's only useful piece.} (24... Ba6 $142 {[%csl Gb5]} 25. Rc1 Qb4 26.
Rxc8 Rxc8 $19) 25. Qg3 Rc2 $4 $138 {And after this move black's position is
already difficult. My only excuse what that..... I didn't see white's reply
until after making my 25th move!!!} (25... Nf8 {[%csl Gd3][%cal Gc8c2,Yb7d5,
Yd5g2]}) 26. Rd3 $16 {Now the pin on the 'd' file is very dangerous,
especially given that both players were in time trouble.} Qe4 (26... Qxg2+ 27.
Qxg2 Bxg2 28. Kxg2 Rxb2 29. Rfd1 a6 30. Na7 Re2 31. Nc6 $1 $18) 27. Rd4 (27.
Nd6 $140 $4 Qxg2+ 28. Qxg2 Bxg2 29. Kxg2 Nc5 $19) 27... Qe2 (27... Qc6 $142 28.
Nxa7 Qc5 29. Qh4 $16) 28. Qg5 $18 {protecting the c1 square. The rest is just
a race against the clock.} ({I was only counting on:} 28. Qh4 Rdc8 29. Rxd7
Rxb2 30. Rxb7 Qxf1+ $1 31. Kxf1 Rc1#) 28... Rxb2 29. Qxd8+ Nf8 30. Qe7 Bxg2 31.
Kxg2 Qxe5 32. Nd6 (32. Rd8 $4 Qe4+ 33. Kg1 Qg4+ 34. Kh1 Qf3+ $11) 32... Qg7 33.
Rf4 f5 34. Qxg7+ Kxg7 35. Rc4 g5 36. Rc7+ Kh6 37. Nf7+ Kh5 38. Ne5 Re2 39. Nd7
1-0

[Event "EU-Cup 11th final"]
[Site "Ljubljana"]
[Date "1995.12.01"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Lazic, Miroljub"]
[Black "Sale, Srdjan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2420"]
[BlackElo "2445"]
[Annotator "Giese"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "1995.11.30"]
[EventType "team-k.o."]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "SLO"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2020"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2019.10.17"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.10.17"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Zemun Agrouniverzal"]
[BlackTeam "Osijek Mursa"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "SRB"]
[BlackTeamCountry "CRO"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 c5 3. c3 Nf6 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. Qe2 O-O 8. O-O
Qc7 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. e4 h6 11. Bc2 Rd8 12. h3 Nh5 13. Qb5 Bb6 14. Nc4 dxc4 15.
Qxh5 e5 16. Nh4 Ne7 17. Kh1 Qd6 18. f4 Qf6 19. Nf3 exf4 20. e5 Nf5 21. Bxf4 Qe6
22. Rae1 Bc5 23. g4 Ne7 24. Ng5 $5 hxg5 25. Qh7+ Kf8 26. Bxg5 Rd3 (26... Bd7
27. Qh8+ Ng8 28. Bh7 Bc6+ 29. Kh2 f6 30. Rxf6+ $18) 27. Bxd3 cxd3 28. Qh8+ $2 (
28. Bxe7+ $142 Kxe7 29. Qxg7 $44) 28... Ng8 $19 29. Bf6 gxf6 30. exf6 Qd5+ 31.
Kh2 Qg5 32. Re4 Bd7 0-1

[Event "Bundesliga 9798"]
[Site "Germany"]
[Date "1997.12.06"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Jussupow, Artur"]
[Black "Schlosser, Philipp"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2640"]
[BlackElo "2550"]
[Annotator "Jussupow,A"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "1997.10.18"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 062"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.01.31"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1998.01.31"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Solingen"]
[BlackTeam "Passau"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "GER"]
[BlackTeamCountry "GER"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. c4 $5
(8. a3 Qc7 {/\e5}) (8. Nbd2 Qe7 {/\e5; /\9...cd 10.ed Ba3}) 8... Qe7 (8... b6
$142) 9. Nc3 cxd4 10. exd4 Ba3 11. Qc1 $1 (11. Bxa3 Qxa3 12. c5 b6 $1 $132)
11... Bxb2 12. Qxb2 $14 dxc4 $6 (12... Rd8 $142 $14) 13. bxc4 Rd8 14. Rad1 b6
15. d5 Na5 (15... Qb4 $142 $5) 16. Rfe1 Qc5 $2 (16... h6 $142 $1) {[#]} 17. Ne4
$1 $40 Nxe4 18. Bxe4 (18. Rxe4 exd5 19. cxd5 Bf5 $11) 18... Bb7 $1 (18... Nxc4
$2 19. Qc2 exd5 20. Rxd5 Rxd5 21. Bxd5 $18 {[%cal Re1e8,Rd5a8,Rd5c4]}) (18...
exd5 $2 19. Qe5 $3 $40 {[%csl Ge5]} Nxc4 $140 (19... Bg4 20. Rxd5 Rxd5 21. Bxd5
Bxf3 22. Bxa8 Bxa8 23. Qb8+ Qf8 24. Re8 $18) 20. Bxh7+ Kxh7 21. Qh5+ Kg8 22.
Ng5 $18) 19. Ng5 $1 {[%csl Rh7]} (19. Qe5 {/\Bh7} h6 $1) (19. dxe6 $2 Rxd1 20.
exf7+ Kf8 $1 21. Rxd1 Bxe4 $17) 19... h6 (19... Nxc4 20. Bxh7+ Kf8 {[%cal
Yb2e2,Ye2h5,Rh5f7,Rh5h8]} 21. Qe2 $1 Bxd5 (21... Rxd5 22. Nxe6+ $3 fxe6 23.
Qxe6 Rxd1 24. Qg8#) 22. Qh5 $16 {[%csl Rf7,Rh8]}) 20. Bh7+ Kh8 (20... Kf8 21.
Nxf7 $3 Kxf7 22. Rd3 $18 (22. Qe5 $18)) 21. Nxf7+ Kxh7 22. Qc2+ $1 (22. Nxd8 $2
Rxd8 23. Rxe6 Nxc4 $132) 22... Kg8 (22... g6 23. Nxd8 (23. Rxe6 Rg8 24. Ne5 $18
) 23... Rxd8 24. Rxe6 Rg8 25. Rde1 Bc8 (25... Qxc4 26. Re7+ Rg7 27. Qb2 $18) (
25... Nxc4 26. Re7+ (26. Rxg6 $2 Rxg6 27. Re6 Ne5 $1) 26... Rg7 27. Rxg7+ Kxg7
28. Re6 $18) 26. Re7+ Rg7 27. Rxg7+ Kxg7 28. Qc3+ $18) 23. Nxh6+ $1 gxh6 24.
Qg6+ $18 Kf8 25. Qxh6+ Kg8 (25... Kf7 26. Qh7+ (26. dxe6+ Kg8 27. Rxd8+ Rxd8
28. Qg6+ $18) 26... Kf8 27. dxe6 $18) 26. Qg6+ Kf8 27. Qf6+ Kg8 28. Re5 $18 1-0

[Event "Dortmund SuperGM 25th"]
[Site "Dortmund"]
[Date "1997.07.04"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Jussupow, Artur"]
[Black "Short, Nigel D"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2640"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "Jussupow,A"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "1997.07.04"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 060"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1997.09.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1997.09.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. b3 Qa5+ 6. c3 (6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. exd4
Bb4 8. O-O {8.Bb2 Bc3=} Bc3 9. b4 $1 {9.Rb1 Nc6-+} Qc7 $5 (9... Qxb4 10. Rb1
Qe7 11. Rb3) (9... Bxb4) (9... Qb6 10. Rb1 Nc6 11. Rb3 $1 Bxd4 12. b5 $1 $44)
10. Rb1 Nc6 11. Bb5 $8 a5 12. bxa5 (12. a3 axb4 13. axb4 O-O 14. Bxc6 Qxc6 {
14...bc!?}) 12... O-O 13. Ba3 Rd8 14. Bc5 Nd7 {14...Ba5!?} 15. Rb3 $13 {
Miles 1/2-1/2 Yusupov,A-Miles,A/London USSR-World 1984 (79)}) 6... cxd4 $2 (
6... Nc6 7. O-O Be7 (7... Qc7 8. c4 (8. Bb2 cxd4 9. exd4 Be7 10. Nbd2 O-O 11.
Qe2 b6 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Nd7 14. c4 Nc5 15. cxd5 exd5 16. Rac1 Qd8 17. Nf3
$14 {1/2-1/2 Hoi,C-Inkiov,V/Gausdal Int 1990 (28)}) 8... dxc4 9. bxc4 Be7 10.
Bb2 cxd4 11. exd4 O-O 12. Nbd2 b6 13. Rc1 Bb7 14. Re1 (14. d5 $5 Nb4 15. Bb1
exd5 16. a3 Na6 17. cxd5 Qd8 18. Re1 $13 {Kovacevic}) 14... Rad8 15. Bb1 Qf4
16. d5 exd5 17. cxd5 Nxd5 18. Rc4 Qd6 19. Ne4 Qh6 20. Bc1 Qg6 $44 {1-0
Kovacevic,V-Popovic,P/Zagreb 1985 (34)}) 8. Bb2 O-O 9. Nbd2 Qc7 10. c4 Rd8 11.
Rc1 cxd4 12. Nxd4 (12. exd4 $142) 12... Nxd4 13. Bxd4 e5 14. cxd5 Qb8 15. Ba1
Rxd5 16. Qe2 Bg4 17. f3 Qd8 $15 {0-1 McDonald,N-Piket,J/EUchJ Groningen 1986 
(40)}) 7. exd4 $14 {[%csl Yc1,Yd2,Ye3,Yf4,Yg5,Yh6]} Nc6 8. O-O Be7 (8... Qc7 $5
) 9. Ne5 $1 Nxe5 $6 (9... Qc7 10. f4 b6 $14) 10. dxe5 Nd7 11. Qg4 $1 g6 12. Re1
$16 h5 13. Qe2 Kf8 (13... Qc7 $5 $16 {/\b6}) 14. Be3 $2 (14. Bb2 $142 Qc7 15.
Nd2 (15. c4) 15... b6 16. c4 dxc4 $140 17. Nxc4 $36 {[%cal Rc4d6]}) 14... Nxe5
15. Bd4 Nxd3 16. Qxd3 Rg8 17. Nd2 Bd7 (17... f6 $5 18. c4 $1 $13) 18. Qe3 {
/\Qh6} f6 $1 19. Qh6+ Rg7 $8 (19... Kf7 $2 20. Nf3 $40 Rh8 $140 21. Ng5+ $1 $18
) 20. Qh8+ (20. Bxf6 $143 $6 Bxf6 21. Qh8+ Ke7 22. Qxa8 Bxc3 23. Nf3 Rf7 $17) (
20. Nf3 $143 $6 Kg8 21. Ng5 Qa6 $17 (21... e5 22. Rxe5 fxe5 23. Bxe5 Bf8 24.
Bxg7 Bxg7 25. Qh7+ Kf8 26. Qxg6 $40)) 20... Rg8 $11 21. Qh6+ Rg7 22. Qh8+
1/2-1/2

[Event "Petrov Memorial op"]
[Site "St Petersburg"]
[Date "2000.02.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Balashov, Yuri S"]
[Black "Tunik, Gennady"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2534"]
[BlackElo "2442"]
[Annotator "Kaspi,A"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2000.02.05"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 076"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.05.31"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2000.05.31"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 {Tyomkin,D} Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. Ne5 g6 7. b3
Bg7 8. Ba3 $146 (8. Nd2 c5 9. Bb2 Nfd7 10. f4 O-O 11. Qe2 Nc6 12. a3 a5 13. Bb5
Rc8 14. Rac1 Rc7 15. Ndf3 Ndxe5 16. Nxe5 {1/2-1/2 Jussupow,A-Epishin,V/Germany
1999/GER-chT (16)}) 8... Nfd7 {Black can not castle just for a few moves-
c7-c5 comes next move.} 9. f4 c5 10. Nd2 f6 11. Nef3 f5 {It is necessary move-
black can delay castling on one more move.} (11... O-O 12. e4 $5) 12. c4 O-O
13. Rc1 Nc6 14. cxd5 exd5 15. Ne5 Ncxe5 $6 {It leads to the worse position of
black. Instead of it, black had some good possibilities:} (15... Re8 16. Qf3 (
16. Bb5 Ndxe5 17. fxe5 a6 18. Bxc6 Bxc6 $15) 16... Ndxe5 17. dxe5 a5 $1 {
[%cal Gc6b4]}) (15... Ndxe5 16. dxe5 (16. fxe5 Re8 {[%cal Ga8c8] and black is
safe.}) 16... Qe7 17. Nf3 Nd8 $11 {[%cal Gd8e6]}) 16. fxe5 (16. dxe5 Re8 17.
Nf3 Nf8 $11 {[%csl Re6][%cal Gf8e6,Rd5d4]}) 16... Qe7 17. Qe2 Rfc8 18. Ba6 (18.
Bb5 a6 19. Bxd7 Qxd7 20. dxc5 Qb5 $1 $15) 18... Bxa6 19. Qxa6 Nf8 20. Nf3 Ne6
21. Qd3 {[%csl Yc5,Yd5] White got some pressure on pawns c5 and d5, but black
neutralizes it by accurate play.} Rd8 22. Rc2 Bf8 23. Rfc1 Qb7 24. Bb2 Rac8 25.
a4 Bh6 26. Kh1 f4 $1 {Step-by-step situation has changed - black has defended
its weaknesses and already looks for the initiative.} 27. exf4 Bxf4 (27... Nxf4
$5 28. Qd2 Kg7 $132 {[%cal Gb7a6]} 29. dxc5 $140 Ne6 {[%csl Ye5] blocking
e5-pawn.}) 28. Rf1 Rf8 29. Rd1 (29. Rcf2 c4 30. Qc3 $13) 29... Rf7 30. dxc5
bxc5 31. Ba3 {Not falling to the trap:} (31. Qxd5 $2 Rd8 32. Qxd8+ Nxd8 33.
Rxd8+ Rf8 34. Rxf8+ Kxf8 35. Rxc5 Qxb3 36. Bd4 Qxa4 $17) 31... Bh6 32. h4 Bf8
33. Ng5 (33. a5 Rd8 34. Re1 Nf4 $15) 33... Nxg5 (33... c4 $5 34. Qxd5 Qxd5 35.
Rxd5 Nxg5 36. Bxf8 Rcxf8 (36... Kxf8 $143 37. hxg5 c3 38. Rd3 $14) 37. hxg5
cxb3 38. Rb2 $11) 34. hxg5 c4 35. bxc4 Bxa3 {And now white has prepared the
trap for black:} (35... dxc4 $2 36. Rxc4 $1 Rxc4 37. Qxc4 Bxa3 38. e6 $18) 36.
Qxa3 dxc4 (36... Rxc4 $4 37. Rxc4 dxc4 38. e6 $18) 37. e6 Re7 (37... Rf4 38.
Qh3 Qe4 39. Qc3 Qxe6 40. Qh3 $17) 38. Rxc4 $1 {One more blow!} Rxe6 $1 {
And after spectacular play of both players,the game has passed to the drawn
ending.} (38... Rxc4 $4 39. Rd8+ Kg7 40. Qa1+ $18) 39. Qc3 Ree8 40. Rf1 Qa6 41.
Rff4 Qe6 42. Rxc8 Rxc8 43. Qd4 a5 44. Re4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Cheliabinsk"]
[Site "Cheliabinsk"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lhagvasuren, Cedendemberel"]
[Black "Ulybin, Mikhail"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2350"]
[BlackElo "2465"]
[Annotator "Knaak,R"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "1991.??.??"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "URS"]
[EventCategory "7"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 025"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1991.12.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1991.12.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 c5 $5 5. dxc5 (5. Nf3 {>=} Nc6 6. c3 (6.
Qe2+ $2 Be7 7. dxc5 Nf6 8. h3 $2 O-O 9. O-O Bxc5 $17 10. c3 Re8 11. Qc2 Qd6 12.
Nbd2 Qg3 13. Bf5 Re2 14. Nd4 Nxd4 {0-1/Tatei-Kortschnoj/Beersheba/1978/i25/229}
)) 5... Bxc5 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. O-O O-O $10 8. h3 $2 {><g3} Nc6 9. Nbd2 (9. Bf4 Qb6)
9... Qd6 $1 10. Nb3 Bb6 11. c3 $6 Bxh3 $1 $17 12. gxh3 Qg3+ 13. Kh1 Qxh3+ 14.
Nh2 (14. Kg1 Ng4 (14... Bc7 $5 15. Re1 Ng4 16. Be3 Nce5 $1 (16... Bh2+ 17. Nxh2
Qxh2+ 18. Kf1 Qh3+ (18... Nce5 $1) 19. Ke2 Nxe3 20. Rh1 $1 Nxd1 21. Rxh3 Nxb2
22. Bxh7+ $10) 17. Nbd4 Nxe3 18. Rxe3 Ng4 $17) 15. Bf4 Nxf2 16. Rxf2 Qg4+ 17.
Kf1 Bxf2 18. Kxf2 Qxf4 $17) 14... Ne5 15. Be2 Nf3 $1 16. Bf4 $8 (16. Bxf3 $2
Bc7 $19) 16... Nh4 17. Bf3 (17. Rg1 Ne4 $1 18. Bg3 Bxf2 $19) 17... Nh5 $1 $19
18. Bg3 Qxg3 $3 19. Rg1 (19. fxg3 Nxg3#) 19... Bxf2 $1 20. Bxh5 Bxg1 21. Qxg1
Qe5 22. Bf3 Nxf3 23. Nxf3 Qh5+ 24. Nh2 Rfe8 25. Nd4 Re5 26. Qg3 Rg5 27. Qe3 Qg6
28. Re1 h6 29. Ndf3 Rh5 30. Qf4 Rf5 31. Qc7 Qc6 32. Qg3 Qf6 33. Ng4 Qg6 34. Nh4
Rh5 35. Kg2 Rxh4 0-1

[Event "Bundesliga 9697"]
[Site "Germany"]
[Date "1996.??.??"]
[Round "?.1"]
[White "Conquest, Stuart"]
[Black "Hracek, Zbynek"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2585"]
[BlackElo "2625"]
[Annotator "Knaak,R"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "1996.10.12"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "GER-chT"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Wuppertal"]
[BlackTeam "Werder Bremen"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "GER"]
[BlackTeamCountry "GER"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 Qe7 8. c4
O-O 9. Nc3 cxd4 10. exd4 dxc4 11. bxc4 Ba3 12. Rb1 Bxb2 13. Rxb2 Rd8 {Hracek
war hier sehr zufrieden; er vertraute auf die Solidität seiner Stellung und
die Möglichkeit, die Bauern c4 und d4 zu attackieren.} 14. Re1 {Vermutlich war
Conquest nicht weniger glücklich mit seiner Stellung. Die Angriffsaussichten
sind dank des Entwicklungsvorsprungs ausgezeichnet.} b6 {Beginnt ein riskantes
Spiel, welches sich vielleicht mit 14...Qf8 vermeiden ließ.} 15. d5 $1 Na5 16.
Qb1 Qd6 17. Ng5 $1 (17. dxe6 $6 Bxe6) 17... g6 18. dxe6 $1 (18. Nge4 {wäre
solide.}) 18... Qxd3 19. e7 Rd7 $2 (19... Rd4 20. e8=Q+ Nxe8 21. Rxe8+ Kg7 22.
Qe1 {Weiß hat einige starke Drohungen, wie z.B. Qe7, Qe5+ oder Re7, aber die
schwarzen Verteidigungsmöglichkeiten sollten noch ausreichen.}) 20. Nd5 $1 $18
Rxd5 {Bittere Notwendigkeit: Schwarz muß die Qualität geben, ohne daß der
weiße Angriff dadurch beendet wird.} (20... Qxb1 21. Nxf6+ Kg7 22. e8=N+ $3 {
[#]} Kh6 23. Rbxb1 $18 {wäre die schönere Variante gewesen.}) 21. e8=Q+ Nxe8
22. Rxe8+ Kg7 23. cxd5 Qxd5 24. Rb5 Qd6 25. Qa1+ f6 26. Ne4 Qc6 {[#]} 27. Nxf6
$1 Kf7 (27... Qxb5 28. Ng8+ Kf7 29. Qf6+ Kxe8 30. Qe7#) 28. Rg5 h6 29. Rh8 hxg5
{#7 (Fritz)} 30. Rh7+ Ke6 31. Qe1+ (31. Qe1+ Kxf6 (31... Kd6 32. Qe7#) (31...
Kf5 32. g4+ Kf4 33. Qe3#) 32. Qe7+ Kf5 33. Rf7+ Qf6 34. Rxf6+ Kg4 35. h3+ Kh4
36. Qh7#) 1-0

[Event "Olympiad-40"]
[Site "Istanbul"]
[Date "2012.09.03"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Kosic, Dragan"]
[Black "Eljanov, Pavel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2526"]
[BlackElo "2693"]
[Annotator "Krasenkow,M"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2012.08.28"]
[EventType "team-swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "TUR"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 151"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2012.11.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2012.11.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Montenegro"]
[BlackTeam "Ukraine"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "MNE"]
[BlackTeamCountry "UKR"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. b3 cxd4 6. exd4 Nc6 7. O-O b6 {
Usually the game position arises from another move order:} (7... Bd6 8. Bb2 O-O
9. Nbd2 b6 10. a3 Bb7 11. Ne5) 8. Bb2 Bb7 9. Nbd2 Bd6 10. Ne5 O-O 11. a3 Ne7 {
A common solid plan.} (11... Qc7 {is not too useful. An example:} 12. Qe2 Ne7
13. f4 b5 14. Rf3 Rac8 15. Rc1 $36 {[%cal Yf3h3] 1-0 Bruzon Batista,L (2650)
-Anand,V (2803)/Leon 2006/CBM 112 ext (28)}) 12. Qe2 (12. Re1 Rc8 13. g3 Rc7
14. Re2 Qc8 15. Qf1 Ne4 16. Qh3 Bxe5 17. dxe5 h6 18. b4 Nxd2 19. Rxd2 d4 $132 {
1-0 Cvorovic,D (2437)-Sulava,N (2521)/Sibenik 2007/EXT 2008 (35)}) (12. f4 Ne4
$1) 12... Rc8 (12... Ng6 {is a bit premature: this knight can often go to f5.
An example:} 13. f4 Qc7 14. Rae1 Rac8 15. Rf2 Rce8 16. g3 Ne7 17. g4 Nd7 18.
Qe3 Ng6 19. Qh3 $36 {1-0 Balashov,Y (2414)-Miroshnichenko,P (2202)/Moscow 2011/
CBM 141 Extra (37)}) (12... Bc7 13. a4 $5 (13. f4 $6 Nf5 14. g4 Nd6 15. g5 Nfe4
$15 {0-1 Norris,A (2301)-Lesiege,A (2582)/Cappelle la Grande 2000/CBM 074 ext 
(66)})) (12... g6 13. a4 $5 (13. g4 $6 Ne8 14. g5 Nf5 15. f4 f6 16. gxf6 Nxf6
17. Rae1 Nh5 $15 {1/2 Pytel,K (2396)-Kosten,A (2517)/Metz 2007/CBM 117 ext (27)
})) 13. f4 Rc7 (13... Qc7 $6 {[%cal Rf6e4] Generally, as you see, this is not
the ideal square for Black's queen.} 14. Rac1 $5 (14. Rf2 Ng6 15. g3 Qe7 16. h4
Rfe8 17. h5 Nf8 18. g4 N6d7 19. g5 Bxe5 20. fxe5 Qxg5+ 21. Rg2 $40 {1-0 Cori
Tello,J (2489)-Melkumyan,H (2620)/Moscow 2012/CBM 147 (42)}) 14... Rfd8 15. g4
Ng6 16. g5 Ne4 17. Nxe4 dxe4 18. Bxe4 Bxe4 19. Qxe4 $16 {1/2 Joshi,P (2291)
-Kravtsiv,M (2546)/Mumbai 2010/CBM 136 Extra}) (13... Bb8 14. Rf3 (14. a4 $5)
14... Nf5 15. Rh3 Ne4 16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. Bxe4 Bxe4 18. Qxe4 f6 19. Ng4 Qd5 20.
Qd3 b5 21. Rf1 $14 {0-1 Jussupow,A (2608)-Jobava,B (2646)/Turin 2006/CBM 113 
(67)}) 14. Rae1 Ng6 {It is time for this move. Black's queen can go to c8 or
a8 (creating the ...Nf6-e4 threat) but now e7 is even a more appropriate
square as it attacks the a3-pawn. Meanwhile it is not clear what White can do.}
(14... Qc8 $5 {[%cal Rf6e4]} 15. c4 Ba8 16. Qe3 Rd8 17. Qh3 Nf5 18. Ndf3 Bf8
19. Ng5 $36 {0-1 Amjad,A (2272)-Al Hadarani,H (2334)/Aden 2002/CBM 086 ext (34)
}) (14... Ne8 $5 15. Rf3 $5 (15. g4 f6 16. Rf3 {0-1 Sunye Neto,J (2435)
-Ljubojevic,L (2605)/Brasilia 1981/MCD (36)} g6 {[%cal Ye8g7]})) (14... Qa8 15.
c4 dxc4 16. bxc4 Qc8 17. Ng4 Nxg4 18. Qxg4 Ng6 {1-0 Gomez,A (2325)-Medina,J 
(2270)/Havana 1992/EXT 2000 (31)} 19. f5 $36) 15. f5 $6 {Black is
well-prepared for this advance, too.} (15. g3 {[%cal Yh2h4]} Qe7) (15. c3 $5
Qe7 16. a4 $13 {is probably the best option.}) 15... exf5 16. Bxf5 Re7 17. Ndf3
Qc7 {[%cal Yf8e8,Yb7c8]} 18. Ng5 Rfe8 19. Qd3 (19. Bxg6 hxg6 {[%cal Yb7c8,
Yc8f5]}) 19... Nxe5 20. dxe5 Bxe5 21. Rxe5 Rxe5 22. Bxe5 Qxe5 (22... Rxe5 $5
23. Bxh7+ Kf8 24. Qg3 Ba6 25. Bd3 Qc5+ 26. Kh1 Bxd3 27. cxd3 Qe3 28. Ne4 Qxg3
29. Nxg3 Re6 $17 {[%cal Ye6c6]}) 23. Bxh7+ Kf8 24. Bf5 (24. Nxf7 Kxf7 25. Bg6+
Kg8 26. Bxe8 Nxe8 {is likewise dangerous for White.}) 24... d4 25. Nh7+ $2 (25.
Nf3 {, tenaciously defending, was a must. E.g.} Qe3+ 26. Qxe3 dxe3 27. Nd4 $1
Rd8 28. c3 Nd5 29. Bd3 $1 {[%cal Rd4e6]} Kg8 30. Re1 $1 Nxc3 31. Rxe3 {keeping
some drawing chances.}) 25... Nxh7 26. Bxh7 {[%csl Rh7]} Qg5 27. Qg6 Qe3+ $1
28. Kh1 Qf4 29. Qd3 Qg5 (29... Qg5 30. Qg3 Qxg3 31. hxg3 Re2 32. Rf4 Rxg2 33.
Be4 Bxe4 34. Rxe4 Rxc2 35. Rxd4 Rc3 $19) 0-1

[Event "Match Janowski-Mieses +6-6=2"]
[Site "Paris (Cafe de la Regence)"]
[Date "1895.01.10"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Janowski, Dawid Markelowicz"]
[Black "Mieses, Jacques"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Annotator "Le Matin"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "1895.01.07"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "14"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 1999"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1998.11.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. e3 e6 3. Bd3 ({La sortie} 3. Nf3 {est aussi un bon coup}) 3... c5
4. c3 Nf6 5. Nd2 Be7 6. f4 O-O 7. Ngf3 b6 8. Ne5 Bb7 9. Qf3 Nbd7 10. O-O Qc7
11. g4 {Cette attaque precipitee est la cause premiere des difficultes que les
Blancs vont avoir.} g6 12. Qh3 Ne4 13. Rf3 {Encore un coup faible qui
compromet la partie.} Nxe5 14. dxe5 ({Les Blancs ne peuvent prendre avec le
pionF} 14. fxe5 {a cause de} Ng5) 14... Nxd2 15. Bxd2 d4 {Bien joue} 16. exd4 (
{si} 16. Rg3 c4 17. Bf1 d3 {les Noirs ont une position superieur et un pion
passe; les Blancs ont pefere sacrifier l'echange pour conserver l'attaque,
mais le resultat ne repond pas a leur attente}) 16... Bxf3 17. Qxf3 Rad8 18.
Be3 cxd4 19. cxd4 Bc5 {Les Noirs ay ant la superiorite numerique ne cherchent
plus que l'echange des pieces} 20. Qe4 ({si} 20. Qf2 Bxd4 21. Bxd4 Qd7 {etc})
20... Bxd4 21. Bxd4 Qd7 22. Bxb6 axb6 23. Bc2 Qd4+ 24. Kg2 (24. Qxd4 {n'etait
pas meilleur}) 24... Qxb2 25. Rf1 Rd2+ 26. Rf2 Rxf2+ 27. Kxf2 Rc8 {Temps
Blancs: 1h 15 Temps Noirs: 1h 22 Analyse Le Matin 1895-01-29} 0-1

[Event "ESP-chT CECLUB Honor"]
[Site "Leon"]
[Date "2012.11.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Marin, Mihail"]
[Black "Alsina Leal, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2536"]
[Annotator "Marin,M"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2012.11.05"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 152"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2013.01.15"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2013.01.15"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Foment Martinenc"]
[BlackTeam "Barcelona Uga"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "ESP"]
[BlackTeamCountry "ESP"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 {The drawing of lots for the Spanish Division de
Honor is always made about one week before the first round. This way, the
players can start their preparation in advance. However, this does not
necessarily exceed a mere taking of contact with the opponent's first round
opponent, as was the case with me and my opponent. While I was busy with some
articles until shortly before the tournament, Daniel had to travel back from
the Sankt Petersburg open, which had not gone too well for him. After the game,
He confessed that he was not surprised by my third move, but did not really
prepare against it, neither did I!} d5 ({I have a recent article (CBM 150) on
the following move order with several games of mine included:} 3... g6 4. dxc5
Qa5+ 5. Nbd2 Qxc5 6. a3 Bg7 7. b4 Qc7 8. Bb2 O-O 9. c4 d6 (9... a5 {Marin,M 
(2548)-Margvelashvili,G (2552) Benasque 2012 [Marin]}) 10. Be2 b6 (10... Nc6 {
Marin,M (2539)-Munoz Pantoja,M (2495) Catalunya 2012 [Marin] (1/2, 98)}) 11.
O-O Bb7 12. Rc1 Nbd7 13. Qb3 Rac8 (13... Ne4 {Marin,M (2539)-Bozinovic,B (2105)
Plovdiv 2012 CBM 148 [Marin] (1-0, 28)}) 14. Rfe1 {Marin,M (2539)-Vuckovic,B 
(2628) Plovdiv 2012 CBM 148 [Marin] (1/2, 40)}) 4. Nbd2 e6 $5 ({I also had
experience against:} 4... cxd4 5. exd4 Nc6 6. Bb5 {Marin,M (2534)-Halkias,S 
(2593) Porto Carras 2011 CBM 146 [Marin,M] (1/2, 50)}) 5. b3 {A flexible move,
keeping the possibility of choosing between the old-fashioned Zukertort Attack
by leaving the c-pawn on the initial square and the 4.e3 Queen's Indian, by
playing c2-c4 at some moment.} Nbd7 (5... Nc6 {is a more popular alternative.
I might have switched to a QI had Daniel played this way.}) 6. Bd3 Be7 7. Bb2
b6 8. Ne5 {Finally choosing the Zukertort Attack.} (8. O-O Bb7 9. c4 {leads to
apparently boring play, which is full of subtleties, though.}) 8... Bb7 9. f4 (
{An outstanding expert of this system preferred:} 9. O-O O-O ({Actually,} 9...
Qc7 {with the idea of preventing Qf3 is interesting here, too.}) 10. Qf3 {
, but failed to get an advantage.} cxd4 11. exd4 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Nd7 13. Qh3 h6
14. Rad1 Nc5 15. Be2 Qc7 16. Bd4 Rfd8 17. c3 Ne4 {1/2 Jussupow,A (2583)
-Kempinski,R (2596) Germany 2008}) 9... Qc7 $5 {Aimed at preventing the
attacking Qf3.} (9... O-O 10. Qf3 $5 Qc7 11. Qh3 $36) 10. O-O O-O 11. Qe2 {
With the f3-square unavailable, I considered this to be the most natural
developing move, keeping the possibility of an attack, but also that of
playing in the centre.} (11. Qf3 $2 c4 $17) ({An old game went} 11. c4 Ne4 12.
cxd5 exd5 13. Nxe4 dxe4 14. Bc4 Nf6 15. Qe2 (15. Rc1 $5) 15... Rad8 (15... Bd5
$5) 16. Rad1 (16. Rac1 $5) 16... Bd5 17. Bxd5 (17. Bb5 $5) 17... Rxd5 18. g4
Rfd8 19. g5 (19. Qg2 $5) 19... Ne8 20. Qc2 Qb7 $2 (20... Nd6) 21. Qxe4 $16 {
Rabinovich,I-Makogonov,V Tbilisi 1937 (1/2, 26)}) 11... Ne4 {The most active
move, which creates some pawn weaknesses.} ({In the event of neutral play, I
considered preparing c2-c4, with some sort of QI/Zukertort hybrid} 11... Rac8
12. Rac1 $5 Rfd8 13. c4 $14 {ףc7, /\f4-f5}) 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Bc4 Nxe5 ({
Another possible move order is} 13... Rad8 {since} 14. Nxd7 {is not dangerous}
(14. f5 $1 Nxe5 15. dxe5 {would tranpose to the game.}) 14... Qxd7 (14... Rxd7
15. f5 $40) 15. Rad1 Qc8 $11) 14. dxe5 $5 {/\f5->. I felt in an attacking mood.
} ({Strategically,} 14. fxe5 $14 {may be more promising.}) 14... Rad8 (14...
Bd5 $2 15. Bxd5 exd5 16. f5 $40) (14... g6 15. g4 $40) 15. f5 exf5 16. Rxf5 {
After this natural move, Black should be able to maintain approximate equality,
although there are all kind of hidden dangers on the way.} ({I do not remember
why I refrained from the tempting} 16. e6 $5 f6 (16... Bd5 17. Rxf5 Bxe6 18.
Qg4 $1 $16) 17. Rxf5 $40 {/\Qg4, Rh5, Raf1} Bc6 18. a4 {ץc4}) 16... g6 (16...
Bd5 17. Bxd5 Rxd5 18. Qg4 g6 19. Qxe4 $14) 17. Rf4 Bg5 18. Rg4 {Quite active,
but in certain cases the rook may remain out of play.} ({The exchange sacrifice
} 18. e6 {does not offer more than a draw:} Bxf4 (18... Bd5 19. exf7+ Rxf7 20.
Rxf7 Qxf7 21. Bb5 $5 $14 {leaves Black's pieces somewhat misplaced and the
king vulnerable.}) 19. exf7+ Rxf7 20. Bxf7+ Qxf7 21. exf4 Qxf4 22. Qc4+ Qf7 23.
Qc3 Rd4 $11 {White can repeat moves by attacking the rook with any reasonable
queen move and then returning to c3, but not more than that.}) 18... Qe7 (18...
Bh6 $5 {is an attempt to turn the white attack into a boomerang:} 19. e6 Bd5
20. exf7+ Qxf7 21. Rxe4 b5 22. Bxd5 Qxd5 $44 {With the rook unstable in the
centre, White does not really enjoys his extra pawn.}) 19. e6 f6 (19... Bd5 $1
{would have been a better way to neutralise White's initiative.}) 20. Rf1 {
Finally completing the development and creating some threats around the
f6-square.} b5 $1 {An important defensive resource. The e6-pawn has to be
eliminated.} (20... h5 $2 21. h4 $1 hxg4 22. hxg5 fxg5 23. Rxf8+ Rxf8 24. Qxg4
$18) 21. h4 (21. Rxg5 $5 {does not seem to be enough:} bxc4 (21... fxg5 22.
Rxf8+ Rxf8 23. Bxb5 $44) 22. Qxc4 (22. Rg4 Qxe6 23. Rgf4 c3 $1 24. Bxc3 Ba6)
22... Ba6 $1 (22... fxg5 23. Qc3 $40) 23. Qxa6 fxg5 24. Qc4 Rxf1+ 25. Kxf1 Rd6
26. Qc3 Rxe6 27. Qh8+ Kf7 28. Qxh7+ Ke8 $15 {The king has escaped and White is
not better for sure.}) 21... bxc4 $6 (21... Bxe3+ 22. Qxe3 bxc4 23. h5 $40) (
21... Bh6 $1 22. Bxb5 ({During the game I relied on} 22. Bxf6 Rxf6 23. Rxf6
Qxf6 24. e7+ {probably failing to notice that the discovered check can be
parried by capturing the bishop!} bxc4 25. exd8=Q+ Qxd8 26. Qxc4+ Kh8 $17)
22... Qxe6 23. h5 $5 (23. Rg3 $1 {, maintaining the tension, may be more
promising.}) 23... Bxe3+ 24. Kh1 $44 {Black's position looks more dangerous
than it really is. Once again, White's initiative is good only for reaching a
drawn ending.} g5 25. Rxf6 Rxf6 26. Bc4 Bd5 27. Bxf6 Bxc4 28. Qxc4 Qxc4 29.
bxc4 Rd1+ 30. Kh2 Bf4+ 31. g3 Kf7 $11) 22. hxg5 $40 fxg5 (22... f5 23. Qxc4 $5
$40 fxg4 $2 24. Rxf8+ Kxf8 (24... Rxf8 25. Qc3 $18) 25. Bf6 $18) 23. Rxf8+ $6 (
23. Qxc4 $1 Rxf1+ 24. Kxf1 $40) 23... Rxf8 $6 (23... Kxf8 $8) 24. Qxc4 $18 {
/\Qc3} h6 {Daniel had put all his hopes in this move. He thought that my rook
would remain out of play, failing to notice a nice tactical resource.} 25. Qc3
Kh7 26. Qe5 {The point is that Rxg5! cannot be parried.} Rg8 27. Rxg5 $1 {
The rest is relatively simple, although some accuracy is neded still.} Bc8 (
27... Qxg5 28. Qc7+) (27... hxg5 28. Qh2#) 28. Qxc5 Re8 29. Re5 Qxc5 (29...
Bxe6 30. Qd4 $18) 30. Rxc5 g5 31. Rc7+ Kg6 32. g4 {/\Rg7#} h5 33. gxh5+ Kxh5
34. e7 a6 35. Bg7 Kg6 36. Bf8 Kf7 37. Rc6 Bg4 38. Rxa6 (38. Rd6 $5 $18 {
/\Rd8, צe8}) 38... Rc8 39. Rd6 Rc7 40. c4 Bd7 41. Kf2 Be8 42. Kg3 Ra7 43. Rd2
Bd7 44. a4 Be8 45. Rf2+ Kg6 46. Ra2 Rb7 (46... Ra5 47. b4 Rxa4 48. Rxa4 Bxa4
49. b5 Kf7 50. Kg4 $18 {ץa4} Ke8 51. Kxg5 Kd7 (51... Bb3 52. b6) 52. Kf6 Ke8
53. Bh6 $22 Bb3 54. b6) 47. a5 Rxb3 48. a6 Rb8 (48... Rxe3+ 49. Kg2 Bc6 50. a7
$18) 49. a7 Ra8 50. Ra6+ Kf7 51. Kg4 Bd7+ 52. Kxg5 Bc8 53. Rf6+ Ke8 54. Rd6 Bd7
(54... Bb7 55. c5 $18) 55. c5 Ba4 (55... Rxa7 56. c6 $18) 56. Rd8+ 1-0

[Event "GBR-ch 97th"]
[Site "Canterbury"]
[Date "2010.07.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Slavin, Alexei"]
[Black "Adams, Michael"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2417"]
[BlackElo "2706"]
[Annotator "Martin,A"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[EventDate "2010.07.26"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 137 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2010.09.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2010.09.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. Ne5 $5 {A move of which
Sultan Khan would have been proud. Moreover Slavin has recent experience with
6.Ne5 from both sides of the board! However, the normal 6.Nbd2 or 6.b3 are
both superior.} Bd6 7. f4 (7. b3 O-O 8. Bb2 Nbd7 9. Nd2 Ne4 10. f4 {is about
the best White can hope for, but one cannot help but form the impression that
Ne5 has been played too early.} Nxd2 11. Qxd2 f6 $11 12. Nf3 Qe7 13. c4 c5 14.
cxd5 exd5 15. Nh4 Rfe8 16. Rf3 Qf7 17. Rg3 Bf8 18. Qc2 Re4 19. Bxe4 dxe4 20.
Nf5 Qe6 21. Nh6+ Kh8 22. d5 Bxd5 23. f5 Qc6 24. Rd1 b5 25. Qd2 Nb6 26. Qxd5
Nxd5 27. Nf7+ Kg8 28. Nh6+ {1/2-1/2 Rahman,Z (2548)-Venkatesh,M (2432)/Chennai
2010/CB05_2010}) 7... O-O 8. Nd2 c5 (8... Ne4 9. Nxe4 dxe4 10. Be2 Nd7 11. b3
Qe7 12. a4 Rad8 13. Nc4 Bb4 14. Bb2 Qh4 15. c3 Be7 16. Qe1 Qxe1 17. Rfxe1 a5
18. Ba3 Bxa3 19. Rxa3 Nf6 20. b4 Ra8 21. b5 Nd5 22. Kf2 f6 23. Nd2 e5 24. g3 g5
25. f5 Rfe8 26. Bc4 Kg7 27. Bxd5 Bxd5 28. c4 Bb7 29. d5 Bc8 30. g4 h5 31. h3
Rh8 32. Nxe4 hxg4 33. hxg4 Rh2+ 34. Kf3 Rc2 35. Rc3 Ra2 36. c5 Rxa4 37. cxb6
Bxf5 38. Rxc7+ Kg6 39. gxf5+ Kxf5 40. Nd6+ Kg6 41. Rc8 e4+ 42. Kg3 Rxc8 43.
Nxc8 Rb4 44. Nd6 {1-0 Tymrakiewicz,R (2273)-Slavin,A (2368)/Uxbridge 2010/
CB08_2010}) 9. b3 b5 $5 {Unstereotyped and an effort by Adams to unbalence a
very stable situation.} (9... Nc6 10. Bb2 Rc8 11. a3 Ne7 12. Qe2 Ne4 13. c4 f6
14. Nef3 Qc7 15. Rac1 Qb8 16. dxc5 Nxc5 17. Bb1 dxc4 18. Nxc4 Bd5 19. Nxd6 Qxd6
20. e4 Bxb3 21. e5 Qd7 22. exf6 gxf6 23. Ne5 fxe5 24. Qxe5 Ng6 25. Qe3 Bd5 26.
Rcd1 Rf7 27. h4 Rcf8 28. g3 Rg7 29. Kh2 Nxh4 30. Bxg7 Qxg7 31. Rxd5 exd5 32.
gxh4 d4 33. Qf3 Kh8 34. Rf2 Qh6 35. Kh3 Re8 36. Qg4 Rg8 37. Qf5 Qg7 38. Qg5
Qd7+ 39. Qf5 Qg7 40. Qe5 d3 41. Qxg7+ Kxg7 42. Rd2 Kf6 43. Rd1 Ne4 44. Rf1 Nd2
45. Rd1 Nxb1 46. Rxb1 Kf5 47. Rb4 Rd8 {0-1 Slavin,A (2368)-Gasanov,E (2514)/
Rijeka 2010/CB10_2010}) 10. c3 (10. Bxb5 {may be possible:} cxd4 11. Ndf3 $1
dxe3 12. Bxe3 {but of course Black is fine after} Ne4) 10... b4 11. cxb4 cxd4
12. exd4 Bxb4 13. Bb2 Nc6 $15 {The position is a little better for Black
thanks to the pawn structure, but White should be able to hold it all together.
It's important that Slavin finds some counterplay quickly and this he tries to
do via Ndf3 and Ng5.} 14. Qe2 Qb6 15. Ndf3 Bd6 16. a3 a5 (16... Qxb3 17. Rab1
Qb6 18. Ba1 Qc7 19. Rfc1 {gives White too much.}) 17. Rac1 Bxe5 {Unexpected,
when Black could put either of his rooks on c8. Slavin seems quite taken aback
by this unusual move and the quality of his play heads downhill from here.} 18.
fxe5 Ne4 19. Bxe4 dxe4 20. Ng5 $4 ({It is baffling why he did not choose the
obvious} 20. Qxe4 {Black has clear counterplay after} Ne7 $1 {but this
variation will lead to a playable position for White:} 21. Qb1 $1 (21. Qe1 Qxb3
22. Qc3 Qxc3 23. Bxc3 Nf5 $15) 21... Rac8 22. b4 (22. Rxc8 Rxc8 23. Nd2 Nf5 24.
Rf4 Ne3 $17) 22... axb4 23. axb4 Qxb4 24. Bc3 Qxb1 25. Rxb1 Be4 26. Rbc1) 20...
Nxd4 $17 21. Bxd4 Qxd4+ 22. Kh1 h6 ({Or} 22... Qxe5 23. Qe3 Bd5 24. Rc5 f5 $19)
23. Nxf7 Rxf7 24. Rxf7 Kxf7 25. Rc7+ Kg8 26. Rxb7 Qa1+ 0-1

[Event "RUS-ch"]
[Site "Elista"]
[Date "1994.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Rashkovsky, Nukhim N"]
[Black "Aseev, Konstantin N"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[Annotator "Moiseev,V"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "1994.09.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 044"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1995.02.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1995.02.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 {Ftacnik} Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Nbd7 (6...
Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. c4 Nbd7 9. Nc3 a6 10. Rc1 $13 {Malaniuk,V-Hjartarson,J/
Tilburg/1993/1:0/39/}) 7. Bb2 Bd6 8. Ne5 (8. c4 $5) 8... O-O 9. Nd2 Ne4 (9...
Qe7 $5 {/\ 10...Ba3} 10. a3 c5 $13) 10. f3 (10. c4 $6 Nxd2 11. Qxd2 Bxe5 12.
dxe5 Nc5 $10) 10... Nxd2 11. Qxd2 c5 (11... Nxe5 {Ftacnik} 12. dxe5 Be7 13. Qe2
c5 14. c4 $14) 12. Rad1 f6 (12... cxd4 {Ftacnik} 13. exd4 Nxe5 14. dxe5 Bc5+
15. Kh1 Qe7 16. f4 $1 $40) 13. Nxd7 Qxd7 14. c4 Qc7 15. h3 (15. f4 {Ftacnik} f5
$13) 15... Rad8 (15... Rae8 $5) 16. Qc2 g6 17. cxd5 exd5 (17... Bxd5 {Ftacnik}
18. Ba3 Rc8 19. dxc5 Bxc5 20. Bxc5 Qxc5 21. Qxc5 Rxc5 22. e4 Bc6 23. Bc4 $14)
18. dxc5 bxc5 19. e4 $1 d4 (19... dxe4 {Ftacnik} 20. Bxe4 $16) 20. Bc1 Bc8 $6 (
20... g5 $5 {Ftacnik} 21. Bd2 Bc8 22. Rc1 $14 {xc5}) 21. f4 $14 Kg7 22. Qf2 Be6
23. Qh4 Rf7 $2 (23... f5 $5) (23... Kg8 {Ftacnik} 24. f5 gxf5 25. exf5 Bd5 26.
Bh6 Rf7 27. Rde1 $36) 24. e5 $1 $16 Bf8 $6 (24... Be7 $6 25. f5 gxf5 (25...
Bxf5 26. Bxf5 gxf5 27. e6 Rff8 28. Bh6+ $18) 26. Bxf5 (26. Rxf5 $2 Bxf5 27.
Bxf5 Kh8 $17) 26... Bxf5 27. Rxf5 Qc6 (27... fxe5 28. Bh6+ Kh8 29. Rxf7 $18)
28. Rdf1 $18) (24... fxe5 $5 25. fxe5 Bxe5 26. Bxg6 $1 (26. Qh6+ $6 Kh8 27.
Bxg6 Rxf1+ 28. Rxf1 Qg7) 26... Rxf1+ (26... hxg6 27. Qh6+ Kg8 28. Qxg6+ $18 (
28. Qxg6+ {Ftacnik} Bg7 29. Qxe6 $16)) 27. Rxf1 Bg8 $8 (27... Kh8 28. Bxh7 $18)
28. Qh6+ (28. Bg5 $5 Rd6 29. Bd3 $16) 28... Kh8 29. Rf7 Qxf7 30. Bxf7 Bxf7 31.
Bg5 $16) 25. f5 gxf5 26. Bxf5 Bxf5 27. Rxf5 Re8 (27... fxe5 $2 28. Qg5+ Kh8 29.
Rxf7 Qxf7 30. Qxd8 $18) 28. exf6+ Kh8 29. Rdf1 $18 a5 30. Bf4 Qd7 31. Rg5 a4 (
31... Rxf6 {Ftacnik} 32. Be5 Rxe5 33. Rxf6 $18) 32. Rf3 axb3 33. axb3 Rxf6 (
33... d3 34. Rfg3 Bd6 35. Rg7 $18) 34. Be5 Rxe5 35. Rxf6 Rxg5 36. Qxg5 (36.
Rxf8+ $2 {Ftacnik} Rg8 37. Qf6+ Qg7) 36... Be7 37. Rf7 $138 1-0

[Event "FRA-ch 58 Championnat"]
[Site "Belfort"]
[Date "1983.08.26"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Seret, Jean Luc"]
[Black "Preissmann, Emmanuel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2375"]
[BlackElo "2360"]
[Annotator "Primel,D"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "1983.08.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[EventCategory "2"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2016"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.10.08"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.10.08"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Bb2 e6 4. e3 Be7 5. d4 O-O 6. Bd3 b6 7. O-O Ba6 (7...
Bb7 {La grande ligne}) (7... c5) 8. Bxa6 Nxa6 9. Ne5 {[%csl Rc6]} Nb8 10. c4
Nfd7 11. Nd3 c6 12. Nc3 f5 $6 {[%csl Re6] Accentue le retard de développement
et c'est un sérieux affaiblissement} 13. Nf4 $1 {[%csl Rd5,Re6]} Rf6 14. Qf3
$1 $36 {[%cal Gc4d5,Gf3a8]} Na6 (14... g5 15. cxd5 $1 gxf4 16. dxc6 $40) (14...
dxc4 15. d5) 15. Rac1 (15. cxd5 cxd5 16. Rac1 Rc8 17. Nb5 Rxc1 18. Rxc1 Qa8 19.
Nc7 Nxc7 20. Rxc7 $16) 15... Nc7 16. Rc2 Rh6 17. cxd5 cxd5 18. Nb1 $5 (18. Rfc1
) 18... Bd6 19. Ba3 Nb5 20. Bxd6 Nxd6 21. Rfc1 $16 Nf8 (21... Rc8 22. Rxc8 Nxc8
23. Nxd5 $1 {Exploitant la mauvaise coordination des pièces Noires} exd5 24.
Qxd5+ Kh8 25. Qa8 $18 {[%csl Rh6]}) 22. Nd2 Rc8 23. Rxc8 Nxc8 24. Qe2 Nd6 25.
Qa6 (25. Nd3 {[%cal Gd3e5]}) 25... Qb8 (25... Qh4 26. Nf3) (25... g5 26. Nd3 g4
27. Nf4 Qh4 28. Nf1 Qe7 {[%cal Ge7a7]} 29. Nd3 $16) 26. Nf3 g5 $2 $138 27. Nxg5
1-0

[Event "Syre Memorial op 36th"]
[Site "Issy les Moulineaux"]
[Date "2013.05.12"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Cotonnec, Melkior"]
[Black "Lamorelle, Julien"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2304"]
[Annotator "RR"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2013.05.08"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2015"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2014.11.20"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2014.11.20"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1200+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 c5 4. c3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nc6 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1
{Imprécis} (8. dxc5 $142 {[%cal Ge3e4] Une précaution utile avant de pousser
e4} Bxc5 9. e4) 8... e5 9. e4 dxe4 $6 (9... cxd4 $142 $1 10. exd5 (10. cxd4
dxe4 11. Nxe4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Nxd4 $11) 10... Nxd5 11. Nc4 h6 12. Nfxe5 Nxe5 13.
Nxe5 dxc3 14. Qf3 Nb4 15. Bc4 Be6 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. Qxc3 Rc8 18. Qb3 Bxe5 19.
Qxb4 Bd4 20. Be3 Bxe3 21. Rxe3 Rc2 22. Rf1 Qd5 23. a3 Rf7 24. Qe1 {Berg,K 
(2440)-De Firmian,N (2580) Gausdal 1994 0-1 (43)}) 10. Nxe4 {73} Nxe4 {58} 11.
Rxe4 f5 $146 (11... cxd4 12. cxd4 Bf5 13. Re1 Bxd3 14. Qxd3 exd4 15. Ng5 g6 16.
Qh3 h5 17. Ne4 Re8 18. Bg5 Be7 19. f4 Kg7 20. Rad1 Bxg5 21. fxg5 Qd5 22. Qf3
Re6 23. Kf2 Ne5 24. Qf4 Ng4+ 25. Kg3 Qxa2 26. Rxd4 {Janoszka,A (2317)-Malek,D 
(2292) Germany 2008 1/2-1/2 (48)}) 12. Bc4+ (12. Bg5) 12... Kh8 13. Rh4 (13.
Ng5) 13... Qe8 $2 (13... Be7 $142 $8 {[%csl Gg5,Rh4][%cal Ge7h4,Ge7g5]} 14. Rh5
g6 15. Ng5 gxh5 16. Nxh7 $1 Kxh7 (16... Qe8 {Les Noirs ont peut-être oublié
ce coup de défense dans leurs calculs lorsqu'ils ont décidé de ne pas jouer
la coup naturel Be7}) 17. Qxh5+ Kg7 18. Bh6+) 14. Ng5 $36 h6 15. Nf7+ $1 {20}
Rxf7 {19} 16. Bxh6 $1 $40 g6 $2 (16... gxh6 $8 17. Qh5 {[%cal Gh5h6,Gh5e8]} Qf8
18. Bxf7 {[%csl Rh6]} Nd8 19. Bd5 Kh7 20. dxe5 Be7 (20... Bxe5 21. Re1) 21. Rh3
{La position Noire reste encore jouable}) 17. Bf8+ (17. Qd3 $142 {[%cal Gd3h3,
Gh3h8]}) 17... Rh7 18. Rxh7+ Kxh7 19. Bxd6 $18 Na5 20. Bf1 exd4 21. cxd4 cxd4
22. Qxd4 Bd7 23. Bc5 g5 24. Qd2 Kg6 25. Re1 1-0

[Event "Cappelle op 31st"]
[Site "Cappelle la Grande"]
[Date "2015.03.04"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Kovalenko, Igor"]
[Black "Vazquez Igarza, Renier"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2656"]
[BlackElo "2592"]
[Annotator "RR"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2015.02.28"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2016"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.10.08"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.10.08"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 {Rarement joué à haut niveau} d5 4. Bd3 c5 5. O-O
Nc6 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Nbd2 Qe7 (8... Qc7 {[%cal Ge6e5] Plus souple} 9. a3
e5 $132) 9. Ne5 cxd4 10. exd4 Ba3 $1 11. Qc1 Bxb2 12. Qxb2 Bd7 (12... Qc7 13.
Rac1 Bd7 14. Ndf3 Rac8 15. c3 Rfd8 16. Rfe1 Be8 17. Bb1 Nd7 18. Nxd7 Qxd7 19.
Qc2 g6 20. Qd2 Qe7 21. Re3 a5 22. a4 Rc7 23. Rce1 Qf6 24. h4 Rb8 25. h5 b5 26.
hxg6 hxg6 27. axb5 Rxb5 28. c4 dxc4 29. bxc4 Rh5 30. g4 Rh7 31. d5 Ne7 32. Qe2
Qf4 33. Qf1 Rxc4 34. dxe6 Qh6 {0-1 (34) Vaganian,R (2577)-Lutz,C (2545)
Belgium 2011}) 13. a3 Qd6 14. Rfe1 $146 (14. Rae1 a6 15. f4 Ne7 16. g4 Bb5 17.
c4 dxc4 18. bxc4 Bc6 19. Re3 Rad8 20. Rh3 Ng6 21. g5 Ne8 22. Nb3 Ba4 23. Nc5
Bc6 24. Nb3 Ba4 25. Nc5 Bc6 26. Nb3 f5 27. gxf6 Rxf6 28. Qe2 Nf8 29. Bxh7+ Nxh7
30. Qh5 Be4 31. f5 Bxf5 32. Rxf5 Rxf5 33. Qxh7+ Kf8 34. Qh8+ Ke7 35. Qh4+ Nf6
36. Rg3 Rg8 37. Ng6+ Kd8 38. Nc5 Kc8 39. Re3 Rxc5 40. dxc5 Qxc5 41. Qf4 Ng4 {
0-1 (41) Lobron,E (2505)-Georgiev,K (2535) Wijk aan Zee 1985}) 14... Ne7 15.
Re3 a6 16. Rae1 $14 Bb5 17. c4 $1 dxc4 18. bxc4 Bc6 19. Rg3 Ng6 20. c5 $1 {
Concède la case "d5" mais les N Blancs auron également les cases fortes c4
et d6} Qc7 21. Bxg6 $1 {Un très fort coup} hxg6 22. Ndc4 $16 (22. Ndf3 {
[%cal Gf3g5]} Rad8 23. Ng5 $36) 22... Rad8 23. Nd6 Bd5 (23... Rxd6 $5) 24. Rh3
Rxd6 $1 {Probablement la meilleure chance pratique} 25. cxd6 Qxd6 26. Rc1 Nd7
27. Rc8 $6 {Spectaculaire mais pas totalement correct} (27. Qb4 {Plus simple}
Qxb4 28. axb4 {[%csl Gc1]}) 27... Nxe5 $2 (27... Rxc8 $8 28. Rh8+ Kxh8 29.
Nxf7+ Kg8 30. Nxd6 Rc6 $1 {[%csl Rd6] Probablement oublié par les deux joueurs
} 31. Nxb7 Rb6 {[%csl Gb6][%cal Gb6b2]}) 28. dxe5 Qe7 29. Rxf8+ Qxf8 30. Qd4
Qc8 31. Rc3 {La R a de l'espace et elle va dominer le B} Qd8 32. h4 Kh7 33. Kh2
Kg8 34. Rh3 Qe7 35. Qf4 a5 36. Rc3 Bc6 37. Qg4 Qd8 38. Rg3 Qd2 39. f3 (39. h5
Qxf2 40. hxg6 Qf5 41. gxf7+ Qxf7) 39... Qe3 40. Qg5 Qxa3 41. Qd8+ Kh7 42. Qc7
Kg8 43. Rg4 Qe3 44. Qxa5 Bd5 45. Qd8+ Kh7 46. Qg5 Qxg5 47. hxg5 $18 Kg8 48. Kg3
Kf8 49. Kf2 Ke7 50. Rh4 b5 51. Ke3 Kd7 52. Kd4 b4 53. Rh7 Kc6 54. Rxg7 Kb5 55.
Rxf7 Ka4 56. Rf8 1-0

[Event "Vandoeuvre op 10th"]
[Site "Vandoeuvre"]
[Date "2013.12.27"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Mohebbi, Jaffar"]
[Black "Brunner, Nicolas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2330"]
[BlackElo "2441"]
[Annotator "RR"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[EventDate "2013.12.26"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2017"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.10.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.10.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. b3 c5 5. Bb2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Nbd2
b6 9. Ne5 Nxe5 (9... Bb7 10. f4) 10. dxe5 Ne8 11. f4 f5 12. exf6 Bxf6 13. Bxf6
Nxf6 14. Nf3 Bd7 15. Qe2 Be8 16. Rad1 Qe7 17. Ne5 {[%csl Re6,Re8]} (17. h3 Bh5
18. g4) 17... Bh5 18. g4 $6 Nxg4 19. Rd2 (19. Nxg4 Qh4) 19... Nf6 20. Qg2 Nd7
21. Qh3 g6 22. Nxd7 Qxd7 23. Rg2 Kh8 24. Rg5 b5 25. Rf2 c4 26. Bf1 Rf5 27. bxc4
dxc4 28. e4 Rxg5+ 29. fxg5 Qd4 30. c3 Qc5 31. Kg2 Qxg5+ 32. Kh1 Qe5 33. Bg2 Rd8
34. Rf1 Kg7 35. Qe3 Rd7 36. Qf2 Kh6 37. h4 Bg4 38. Qe3+ Kg7 39. Qf2 Kh6 40.
Qe3+ Kg7 41. Qf2 h5 42. Qf8+ Kh7 43. Qe8 Qg7 44. Kg1 Qe7 45. Qc8 e5 46. Qb8
Qxh4 47. Qxe5 Bh3 48. Qh2 Rd3 49. Qc7+ Kh6 50. Qf7 Rd8 51. Bxh3 Qxh3 52. Qf4+
Kh7 53. Qf7+ Kh6 54. Qf4+ Kh7 55. Qf7+ Kh6 56. Qf4+ Kh7 57. Qf7+ Kh6 58. Qf4+
Kh7 59. Qf7+ Kh6 60. Qf4+ Kh7 61. Qf7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "Sautron op 15th"]
[Site "Sautron"]
[Date "2015.10.24"]
[Round "7.2"]
[White "Bailet, Pierre"]
[Black "Colin, Vincent"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2515"]
[BlackElo "2399"]
[Annotator "RR"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[EventDate "2015.10.24"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 169 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.12.18"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.12.18"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]
[WhiteClock "0:38:06"]
[BlackClock "0:31:59"]

1. Nf3 {[%emt 0:01:43]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. d4 {[%emt 0:00:48]} c6 {[%emt 0:
04:22]} 3. c4 {[%emt 0:01:27]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:17]} 4. e3 {[%emt 0:00:44]} e6 {
[%emt 0:00:37]} 5. Bd3 {[%emt 0:02:40]} Nbd7 {[%emt 0:01:10]} 6. O-O {[%emt 0:
00:22]} Bd6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 7. Nbd2 {[%emt 0:00:59]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:17]} 8.
e4 $1 {[%emt 0:00:35][%cal Ge4e5]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 9. cxd5 {[%emt 0:01:29]}
cxd5 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 10. Re1 {[%emt 0:00:48]} (10. exd5 exd4 11. Ne4 Nxe4 12.
Bxe4 Nf6 13. Bc2 {[%cal Gd1d3,Gc1g5]}) 10... h6 $5 {[%emt 0:13:01] Joué
après une longue réflexion mais la position est toujours théorique} 11. exd5
{[%emt 0:15:10]} (11. h3) 11... exd4 {[%emt 0:00:31]} 12. Nb3 $146 {[%emt 0:09:
06][%cal Gb3d4]} (12. Ne4 Nb6 13. Nxd4 Nbxd5 14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15. Qb3 Ng4 16. Nf3
Be6 17. Qa4 Rfd8 18. Bf1 Qb4 19. Re4 Qxa4 20. Rxa4 Nb6 21. Rd4 Rxd4 22. Nxd4
Bc4 23. Bf4 Rd8 24. Nb5 Bxf1 25. Kxf1 Nd5 26. Bg3 f5 27. h3 Ngf6 28. Be5 Ne4
29. Bd4 Nc7 30. Nxc7 Rxd4 31. Re1 Kf7 32. Nb5 Rb4 33. Nxa7 Rxb2 34. Re2 Rb1+
35. Re1 Rb2 36. Re2 Rb1+ 37. Re1 Rb6 38. g4 Ra6 39. gxf5 Nd2+ 40. Ke2 Rxa2 41.
Nb5 Rb2 {Potkin,V (2605)-Mikaelyan,A (2418) Jerusalem 2015 1/2-1/2}) 12... Nxd5
{[%emt 0:13:58]} 13. Nbxd4 {[%emt 0:01:48]} N7f6 {[%emt 0:06:09]} 14. Nf5 {
[%emt 0:07:43]} Bxf5 {[%emt 0:06:10]} 15. Bxf5 $14 {[%emt 0:00:06][%csl Gc1,
Gf5]} Qb6 $1 {[%emt 0:01:03][%cal Ga8d8]} 16. Qb3 {[%emt 0:09:40]} Qxb3 {
[%emt 0:08:23]} 17. axb3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Bb4 {[%emt 0:02:37]} 18. Bd2 {
[%emt 0:03:11]} a5 {[%emt 0:04:40]} 19. Bxb4 {[%emt 0:02:24]} axb4 {[%emt 0:01:
04] Une structure étonnante avec 4 P doublés sur la colonne "b"!} 20. Bd3 {
[%emt 0:00:47]} Rfd8 {[%emt 0:01:40]} 21. Bc4 {[%emt 0:01:08]} Rxa1 {[%emt 0:
02:20]} 22. Rxa1 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Nb6 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Olympiad-34"]
[Site "Istanbul"]
[Date "2000.11.05"]
[Round "8.1"]
[White "Kastanieda, Georgiy"]
[Black "Zaw, Win Lay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2457"]
[BlackElo "2533"]
[Annotator "Rabinovich,Al"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2000.10.28"]
[EventType "team-swiss"]
[EventRounds "14"]
[EventCountry "TUR"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2001"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.11.22"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2000.11.22"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Peru"]
[BlackTeam "Myanmar"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "PER"]
[BlackTeamCountry "MYA"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. b3 Nc6 6. O-O (6. Bb2 cxd4 7. exd4
Be7 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. a3 b6 10. O-O Bb7 11. Qe2 Qc7 12. Rac1 Rac8 13. Rfe1 Bd6 14.
Ne5 Qe7 15. Ra1 Rfd8 16. Qe3 Nd7 17. f4 $14 {1-0 Gustafsson,J-Zude,A/Porz GER
2000/The Week in Chess 284 (43)}) 6... Bd6 (6... Be7 7. Bb2 cxd4 8. exd4 O-O 9.
Nbd2 Qc7 10. a3 Rd8 11. Re1 Qb6 12. Rb1 Bd7 13. c4 a5 14. Qe2 Qa7 15. Rbc1 Be8
16. Bb1 Rac8 17. h3 Bf8 18. Red1 $11 {0-1 Vasquez,R-Rozentalis,E/Elista 1998/
CBM 66 ext (34)}) 7. Bb2 O-O 8. c4 cxd4 9. exd4 dxc4 (9... b6 $5) 10. bxc4 b6
11. Nbd2 Bb7 {Black's plan will be to attack White's pawns on c4 and d4. White
will try to create an attack on Black's king. Due to the potential of White's
bishops, his chances look better.} 12. Re1 Be7 13. Rc1 Rc8 14. a3 Re8 15. Nf1
Rc7 16. d5 {[%cal Gb2f6,Gd3h7]} Rd7 (16... exd5 17. Bxf6 Bxf6 (17... gxf6 18.
cxd5 Ne5 19. Nxe5 Rxc1 (19... fxe5 20. Qh5) 20. Qh5 f5 21. Qxf7+ Kh8 22. Bxf5 {
[%cal Gf7h7]}) 18. Rxe8+ Qxe8 19. cxd5 $18 {[%cal Gc1c7]}) 17. Qe2 (17. dxe6
Rxd3 18. exf7+ (18. Qe2 Rd6 19. exf7+ (19. Ng5 fxe6 20. Nxe6 Qd7) 19... Kxf7
20. Ng5+ Kg8 21. Bxf6 (21. c5 bxc5 22. Qc4+ (22. Bxf6 gxf6 23. Ne6 Rxe6 24.
Qxe6+ Kg7 $17 {[%cal Gc6d4]}) 22... Nd5) 21... Rxf6) 18... Kxf7 19. Qe2 Rd6) (
17. dxc6 Rxd3 18. c7 (18. Qe2 Bxc6 19. Ne5 Rd6) 18... Rxd1 19. cxd8=Q Rdxd8) (
17. Ng5 exd5 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Rxe8+ Qxe8 20. Nxh7 (20. Bxh7+ Kh8 21. Qh5 Bxg5
22. Bf5+ Bh6 23. Bxd7 Qxd7 24. g4 dxc4 25. g5 Qf5 26. h4 Ne5) 20... Be5 {
White got more in the game by Qe2}) 17... exd5 {Loses, but what could Black do?
} (17... Na5 18. Ng5 $40 (18. Ne5 $6 Rd6 $1 {And it does not look like White
has anything crushing.} (18... Rc7 $2 19. dxe6 fxe6 20. Rcd1 Qc8 (20... Bd6 21.
Ng3 Nc6 22. Ng4 e5 23. Nxf6+ gxf6 (23... Qxf6 24. Ne4 Qe7 25. Nxd6 Qxd6 26.
Bxh7+ $18) 24. Nf5 Rd7 25. Qh5 {[%cal Gf5d6]} Re6 26. Nh6+ Kf8 (26... Kg7 27.
Qg4+) (26... Kh8 27. Nf7+) 27. Bf5 $18) 21. Ng3 $16 {[%cal Gg3h5] White's
attack is very strong.}))) 18. Bxf6 gxf6 19. Bf5 Rd6 (19... Rc7 20. Nh4 Ne5 21.
Qh5 Ng6 22. Nxg6 hxg6 23. Bxg6 fxg6 24. Qxg6+ Kf8 25. Re3 Bc5 26. Rh3 Bd6 27.
Rh8+ Ke7 28. Qh7+ Ke6 29. Re1+ Be5 30. Rxe8+ Qxe8 31. Qxc7 $18) 20. Nh4 Ne5 21.
Qh5 Ng6 $8 {[%tqu "En","How white finishes the attack on the black king?","",
"","h4g6","Correct,black is helpless.",10]} 22. Nxg6 hxg6 {[%tqu "En","Now is
the second step in the attack.","","","f5g6","Correct,you find the second step
in the attack,but still you have to find the key move.",10]} 23. Bxg6 fxg6 24.
Qxg6+ Kf8 {[%tqu "En","The key move of the combination.","","","g6h6","Very
nice.Now black's king is open for white decisive attack.",10,"e1e3","",0]} 25.
Qh6+ (25. Re3 f5 {This is the advantage of Rd6 over Rc7. But white wins anyway.
}) 25... Kf7 26. Qh7+ Kf8 27. Rc3 f5 28. Rg3 Bg5 29. Rxg5 {Because on Q:g5
comes Qh8+ with R:e8 and wins.} 1-0

[Event "Sharjah FIDE GP (Women)"]
[Site "Sharjah"]
[Date "2014.08.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Batchimeg, Tuvshintugs"]
[Black "Koneru, Humpy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2346"]
[BlackElo "2598"]
[Annotator "Ramirez Alvarez,A"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2014.08.25"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "UAE"]
[EventCategory "10"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 162"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2014.09.17"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2014.09.17"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{Humpy obtained the better chances when she won the two rooks for a queen.
White's activity wasn't quite there to compensate the material deficit.
However the Indian player slowly lost her way and in time trouble she
blundered horribly, giving the Mongolian player an important round one victory.
} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Ne5
c5 9. Nd2 Nc6 10. f4 Rc8 11. a3 Ne7 12. Qe2 Ne4 13. Bxe4 dxe4 14. Ndc4 Ba6 15.
Rfd1 cxd4 16. Rxd4 Nf5 17. Rxe4 Bb7 18. Nxd6 Qxd6 19. Rd1 Qxd1+ 20. Qxd1 Bxe4
21. c4 f6 $6 {A little hasty.} (21... Rfd8 22. Qh5 Rc7 $17) 22. Ng4 Rcd8 23.
Qe2 Rd3 24. Nf2 $1 Rxe3 25. Qd2 {Now Black's rook is suffering.} h5 26. Nxe4
Rxe4 $11 27. Kf2 Kh7 28. g3 Re3 29. Qd1 Kg6 30. Bc1 Re4 31. Bb2 e5 32. Qc2 Nd6
$4 (32... Re3 33. Bc1 exf4 34. Bxe3 fxe3+ $11) 33. Qd3 $1 Rd8 34. fxe5 fxe5 35.
Bxe5 {Black loses too much material now.} Kf7 36. Qd5+ 1-0

[Event "Linares 09th"]
[Site "Linares"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Jussupow, Artur"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2605"]
[BlackElo "2635"]
[Annotator "Schussler,H"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "1991.02.??"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[EventCategory "17"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 022"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1991.06.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1991.06.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 {Anand} Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 {Gives White simple
play. 5. - c5 is more dynamic.} (5... c5 {Anand}) 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. f4 g6 8. b3
Bg7 9. Nd2 (9. Ba3 {Anand} c5) 9... c5 10. Bb2 O-O 11. Qf3 Ne8 12. Qh3 Nd6 13.
Ndf3 Re8 14. Ng5 Nf8 15. dxc5 bxc5 16. Rad1 f6 17. Nxh7 $1 $16 Nxh7 18. Nxg6
Qc7 19. Rf3 (19. Ne7+ $5 Rxe7 20. Qxh7+ Kf8 21. Rf3 $16) 19... Ne4 (19... c4 $2
{Anand /^a3-f8} 20. Ne7+ (20. Qxh7+ $2 Kxh7 21. Ne7+ Ne4) 20... Rxe7 21. Bxh7+
Kf8 22. Rg3 $16) 20. Bxe4 dxe4 21. Rg3 Rad8 $1 22. Rxd8 Qxd8 23. Qg4 Qd5 24. h4
Qf5 25. Qd1 Qd5 26. Qg4 Qf5 27. Qd1 Qd5 28. Qe2 $5 $13 Bc8 29. h5 Kf7 30. Qg4
Ng5 31. fxg5 $2 {31.h6!?} (31. Ne5+ $1 {Anand} fxe5 32. fxg5 $18) 31... f5 $1
32. Qe2 Bxb2 33. c4 Qd6 34. Qxb2 e5 (34... Qxg3 {Anand} 35. Qf6+ Kg8 36. Qh8+
Kf7 37. Qh7#) 35. Rh3 (35. Qc1 $16 {Anand}) 35... f4 36. Rh4 fxe3 37. Kh2 (37.
Rxe4 {Anand} Qd1+ 38. Kh2 Qxh5+ 39. Nh4 Bf5) (37. Qe2 {Anand} Qd4 (37... Qd2
38. Qf1+) 38. Kh2 $14) 37... Bf5 38. Qe2 Qd2 $17 39. Qf1 Ke6 40. Rxe4 Bxe4 0-1

[Event "Dortmund 46th"]
[Site "Dortmund"]
[Date "2018.07.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2782"]
[Annotator "Trent,L"]
[PlyCount "128"]
[EventDate "2018.07.14"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 186"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2018.09.14"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.09.14"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{Kramnik who had the White pieces today was no doubt looking to bounce back
with a win after a rather disappointing loss in the previous round.} 1. Nf3 d5
2. e3 Nf6 3. d4 c5 4. Nbd2 {As we have seen many times before, Kramnik decides
to choose a modest opening setup without delving into deep theory and try to
outplay his opponent from an equal middlegame position.} e6 5. b3 cxd4 6. exd4
Bb4 $5 {I like this move and it wouldn't surprise me at all if Giri had
prepared this beforehand. Previously Vlad played this line twice in Zuerich
scoring but has never faced 6...Bb4. The idea is to immediately stifle White's
development and threaten either Bc3 or Ne4-c3.} (6... Nc6 7. Bb2 g6 8. Bb5 Bg7
9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Qb6 11. a4 Bd7 12. c4 a6 13. Bxc6 Bxc6 14. c5 Qc7 15. b4 Ne4
16. Ne5 Nxd2 17. Qxd2 b5 18. cxb6 Qxb6 19. Rec1 Rfc8 20. Rc5 Be8 21. Nd3 Rcb8
22. Bc3 Qd8 23. Ra5 Bf8 24. Nc5 Rb6 25. g3 Bd6 26. h4 Bc7 27. b5 axb5 28. Rxa8
Qxa8 29. axb5 Qc8 30. Ba5 Rxb5 31. Bxc7 Qxc7 32. Qg5 Rb8 33. h5 Qd8 34. Qe5
gxh5 35. Ra7 Rb6 36. Qxh5 Kg7 37. Qg4+ Kf8 38. Qf4 Kg7 39. Qg4+ Kf8 40. Kg2 h6
41. Qf3 Kg7 42. Qa3 Qf6 43. Ra8 Bb5 44. Qa5 Bc6 45. Qxb6 Bxa8 46. Qc7 h5 47. f3
Qf5 48. Nd7 Bb7 49. Qc5 Ba6 50. Kf2 Kh7 51. Ne5 Kg7 52. Nd7 Bc4 53. Qf8+ Kh7
54. Ne5 Qc2+ 55. Kg1 Qd1+ 56. Kh2 Qd2+ 57. Kh3 Bf1+ 58. Kh4 Qh2+ 59. Kg5 Qxg3+
60. Ng4 hxg4 61. Qxf7+ Kh8 {1/2-1/2 (63) Kramnik,V (2811)-Nakamura,H (2793)
Zuerich 2017}) (6... Bd6 7. Bd3 b6 8. Qe2 Nc6 9. a3 Bb7 10. Bb2 Rc8 11. Ne5 Nd7
12. f4 Qh4+ 13. g3 Qe7 14. O-O O-O 15. Nxd7 Qxd7 16. f5 exf5 17. Bxf5 Qe8 18.
Qd3 Rc7 19. Bxh7+ Kh8 20. Bf5 g6 21. Bh3 Re7 22. Nf3 Bc8 23. Bxc8 Qxc8 24. Rae1
Rxe1 25. Rxe1 Ne7 26. c4 Kg8 27. Kg2 Nf5 28. cxd5 Re8 29. Rxe8+ Qxe8 30. Bc1
Ne7 31. Qe4 Qb5 32. Bf4 Bxa3 33. d6 Nf5 34. Qa8+ Kg7 35. Be5+ f6 36. Qxa7+ Kh6
37. Bf4+ g5 38. Qf7 {1-0 (38) Kramnik,V (2811)-Svidler,P (2747) Zuerich 2017})
7. Bb2 Ne4 8. Bd3 Nc6 9. O-O Bc3 $5 {Strategically speaking this makes sense.}
10. Bxc3 Nxc3 11. Qe1 Nb4 $1 $146 {It seems as though Black is taking
liberties chasing after the White bishop but with the centre closed he is in
no danger of being attacked. Indeed the engine gives absolutely no advantage
for White at all after this move, making me think that this is more likely to
be home prep than not.} (11... Qb6 12. Qe3 h6 13. a4 Bd7 14. Nb1 Nxb1 15. Rfxb1
a6 16. c3 $14 {1-0 (48) Eidelmann,V (2049)-Gelzenleichter,S (2188) Wingst 2005}
) 12. Nb1 Nxd3 13. Qxc3 Nf4 14. Qe3 Ng6 {After a little knight tour it is
clear that White has achieved zero advantage from the opening. Maybe Giri was
even getting slightly optimistic that he could apply some pressure on the
white position, especially down the c-file.} 15. c4 {Understandable given my
previous comment.} dxc4 16. bxc4 O-O {These hanging pawns are definite targets
now.} 17. Nc3 Bd7 (17... b6 {followed by ...Bb7 was also =/+.}) 18. Rfd1 Rc8
19. Nd2 Nh4 (19... Qh4 $5 20. Rac1 (20. c5 Bc6 $15) 20... b6 $15) 20. Qd3 Nf5
21. Rac1 Qc7 22. d5 {Kramnik decides to try and create some play but Giri
cooly deals with it.} Rfd8 $1 23. h3 (23. dxe6 Bxe6 24. Nd5 Bxd5 (24... Qa5 $5
25. Nb3 Qa3 $15) 25. cxd5 Qxc1 26. Rxc1 Rxc1+ 27. Nf1 Nd6 $15) 23... b6 24. Nf3
$5 {A very good move provoking Black into taking material.} Qxc4 $6 {It's
difficult to overly criticise this move but it does seem to give White an easy
route to equality.} ({Better was} 24... Be8 $5 {or}) (24... h6 $5 {maintaining
some tension and forcing White to find more precise moves.}) 25. Qxc4 Rxc4 26.
dxe6 fxe6 27. Rd3 $1 {Now White can get coordinated very quickly and should be
able to swap down to very drawish endings.} e5 {Black is pretty much forced to
return material on account of Rcd1 coming next.} 28. Nxe5 (28. Rcd1 Re8 29.
Rxd7 Rxc3 30. Rxa7 e4 31. Ne5 $1 $11 {should be equal.}) 28... Rd4 29. Rf3 {
I can't really tell if Kramnik was being (over)optimistic here or not.} (29.
Rxd4 Nxd4 30. Rd1 Be6 {is level.}) 29... Nh4 30. Re3 Nf5 31. Ree1 Be8 32. Ne4
Ra4 33. Rc7 {Kramnik goes for it.} Rxa2 34. Kh2 h6 35. Ng4 $6 (35. Nf3 Bf7 36.
g4 Nd4 37. Nxd4 Rxd4 38. Rc8+ Kh7 39. Rc7 Kg8 40. Rc8+ Kh7 41. Rc7 {is one
possible repetition.}) 35... Kf8 $1 36. Rec1 $6 {Kramnik is starting to lose
the thread.} Re2 37. f3 $2 Nh4 $2 (37... a5 $19 {and White really has no
threats. Black however will just run his pawns up the board.}) 38. Ngf2 $1 {
Now White can potentially double on the 7th with the black knight no longer
defending the kingside.} Bg6 39. Rc8 $6 (39. Kg1 $1 {had to be found} Bxe4 40.
fxe4 {and White can drum up enough counterplay to equalise.}) 39... Re8 $1 40.
Kg3 Nf5+ 41. Kh2 Nd4 42. R1c3 a5 {Black has successfully coordinated his
forces and is once again winning.} 43. R8c4 Rd8 44. Rc7 Ne6 45. R7c6 Nf4 46.
Rc8 Re8 47. Rxe8+ Kxe8 48. Rc8+ Kd7 49. Rg8 Ne6 {keeping things nice and tidy}
50. Kg3 Kc7 51. h4 Rc2 52. Ra8 Kb7 53. Rh8 Rc6 $1 {Now there is no way to stop
the pawns marching.} 54. h5 Bxe4 55. Nxe4 a4 56. Re8 a3 57. Re7+ Ka6 58. Re8
Ka7 59. Nd2 a2 60. Nb3 Rc3 61. Na1 Rc1 62. Rxe6 Rxa1 63. Re2 b5 64. Kf4 Kb6 0-1

[Event "FIDE-Wch k.o."]
[Site "Las Vegas"]
[Date "1999.08.01"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "El Gindy, Essam"]
[Black "Andersson, Ulf"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2455"]
[BlackElo "2623"]
[Annotator "Tsesarsky,I"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "1999.07.31"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 072"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.10.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.10.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. O-O Nc6 6. c3 Be7 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Ne5
Nxe5 (8... cxd4 9. exd4 Nxe5 10. dxe5 Nd7 11. Nf3 f6 (11... b6 12. Re1 Bb7 13.
Bc2 Nc5 14. Be3 $14) 12. exf6 Bxf6 13. Be3 (13. Re1 $14) 13... Qe7 14. Qc2 g6
15. Rad1 $14 {1-0 Flear,C-Foukahi,A/FRA tt ,EXT 1992 (37)}) 9. dxe5 Nd7 (9...
Ne8 10. f4 f5 11. g4 (11. exf6 Nxf6 12. Nf3 $11) 11... g6 12. h3 Ng7 13. Kh1
Bd7 14. Nf3 Bc6 $132 {1/2-1/2 Zimmermann,O-Johner,H/Zurich senior 1962 (18)})
10. f4 g6 (10... f5 11. Nf3 (11. exf6 Nxf6 12. Qe2 (12. Nf3 b6 13. b3 $11 {
1-0 Palmiotto,F-Astengo,M/Celle Ligure 1992 (36)}) (12. c4 b5 13. cxb5 c4 14.
Bc2 Qb6 15. Kh1 Qxb5 (15... Bb7 16. e4 Nxe4 17. Nxe4 dxe4 18. Qe2 Qxb5 19. b3
Qc6 20. bxc4 $11 {1/2-1/2 Hansen,S-Nielsen,P/DEN ch 1992 (23)}) 16. e4 d4 17.
e5 Nd5 18. Ne4 d3 19. Ba4 Qa6 $15) (12. e4 c4 13. Bc2 (13. Be2 b5 14. e5 Nd7 (
14... Qb6+ 15. Kh1 Nd7 (15... Ne4 $2 16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. a4 Rd8 18. Qc2 $16 {
[%csl Rc4,Re4] 1-0 Stjazhkina,O-Jackova,J/Frydek Mistek 1996 (40)}) 16. Nf3 b4
$132) 15. Nf3 b4 $132) 13... e5 14. exd5 Bc5+ 15. Kh1 Ng4 16. Ne4 Qh4 (16...
Nxh2 17. Nxc5 Nxf1 18. Qxf1 Qxd5 19. Ne4 exf4 20. b3 Qh5+ 21. Kg1 f3 22. Qxc4+
Kh8 $17) 17. h3 Ne3 18. Bxe3 Bxe3 19. Qe1 Qxe1 20. Raxe1 exf4 21. Nd6 (21. Ng5
g6 22. Nxh7 Rd8 23. Bxg6 $18 (23. Nf6+ Kg7 $132 {1/2-1/2 Bareev,E-Tukmakov,V/
Tilburg rapid20 1994 (38)})) 21... b5 22. Rxe3 fxe3 23. Bxh7+ Kxh7 24. Rxf8 Be6
25. Rf3 Bxd5 26. Rxe3 a6 27. Re5 $16) 12... e5 13. fxe5 Ng4 14. Rxf8+ Bxf8 15.
Nf3 Qc7 16. c4 dxc4 17. Bxc4+ Kh8 18. Bb3 $16 (18. Bd2 Nxe5 19. Nxe5 Qxe5 20.
Bc3 Qe4 $132 {1-0 Zimmermann,M-Steffens,O/Landes-Einzelmeister 1988 (27)}))
11... c4 12. Bc2 Nb8 13. Nd4 Nc6 14. b3 Nxd4 15. exd4 b5 16. Rf3 (16. bxc4 dxc4
17. a4 b4 18. cxb4 Bxb4 19. Be3 a5 20. Qe2 Qd5 $15 {0-1 Stiemer-Funk/cr 0 (32)}
) 16... Bd7 17. a4 cxb3 18. Bxb3 bxa4 19. Bxa4 $11) (10... Re8 11. Qh5 Nf8 12.
Rf3 f5 13. Rh3 (13. exf6 Bxf6 14. e4 $14) 13... a6 14. g4 g6 15. Qh6 Qd7 16.
gxf5 exf5 17. Nf3 Bd8 $132 {1-0 Palinkas,E-Nagy,A/HUN-chT2 1993 (36)}) 11. Qg4
b6 $6 (11... f5 12. exf6 Nxf6 13. Qg3 Nh5 14. Qe1 Qb6 $132) 12. Nf3 $6 (12. e4
$1 dxe4 (12... Bb7 13. exd5 exd5 14. Nf3 $14) 13. Bxe4 Rb8 14. Bc2 Bb7 15. Ne4
$14) 12... f5 13. Qh3 (13. exf6 Nxf6 14. Qg3 Nh5 15. Qf2 Bd6 $132) 13... a5 14.
Bc2 Rf7 15. g4 (15. Bd2 {[%cal Gd2e1,Ge1h4]}) 15... Rg7 16. gxf5 gxf5+ 17. Kf2
Ba6 18. Rg1 Rxg1 19. Kxg1 Kh8 20. Bd2 (20. Kh1 Qg8 21. Bd2 $132) 20... Qg8+ 21.
Kf2 Qf7 22. Rg1 Rg8 23. Rg3 (23. Be1 $11) (23. Rxg8+ $11) 23... Nf8 24. Be1 Qe8
25. b3 (25. Rxg8+ Kxg8 26. Kg1 Qb5 27. Qg2+ Ng6 28. h4 Kh8 (28... Qxb2 29. h5
Qc1 30. hxg6 Qxe3+ 31. Kh1 Qxf4 32. Bd2 Qc4 33. gxh7+ $18) 29. h5 Nf8 30. b3
Qe2 31. Qxe2 Bxe2 32. Kf2 Ba6 33. Kg2 Kg7 34. Bd1 $11 {[%csl Yh5]}) (25. a4 $11
) 25... Qb5 26. c4 $2 $17 {Ununderstandable move.} (26. Rxg8+ Kxg8 27. Qg2+ Ng6
28. Kg1 Qe2 29. Qxe2 Bxe2 30. Kf2 $11) 26... dxc4 (26... Rxg3 $4 27. cxb5 Rxh3
28. bxa6 $18) 27. a4 (27. Rxg8+ Kxg8 28. a4 Qd7 $17) 27... Qd7 28. bxc4 $6 (28.
Rxg8+ Kxg8 29. bxc4 Bxc4 30. Qg3+ Kh8 31. Ng5 Ng6 32. Bc3 Bd3 $17) 28... Bxc4
$19 29. Qh5 Rg6 30. Nh4 Bxh4 31. Qxh4 Kg8 $1 (31... Rxg3 32. hxg3 Bd3 33. Qf6+
Kg8 34. Bd1 Be4 35. Bb3 Bd5 36. Bc2 Bc6 $17) 32. Bc3 Bd3 33. Bd1 Ba6 34. Bc2
Qd5 35. Ke1 (35. Kg1 Bb7 36. Be1 Bc6 $19 (36... Qh1+ 37. Kf2)) 35... Bd3 36.
Bd1 Bc4 37. Bc2 Bd3 38. Bd1 Ba6 39. Bc2 Qc4 40. Kd2 Qe2+ 41. Kc1 Qf1+ 42. Kb2
Bd3 43. Rxg6+ hxg6 44. Qd8 Bxc2 45. Kxc2 Qe2+ 46. Kb3 $2 (46. Bd2 Qc4+ 47. Kb2
b5 48. axb5 Qxb5+ $19) 46... c4+ $1 0-1

[Event "Solin 7th"]
[Site "Solin"]
[Date "1999.12.17"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Kovacevic, Vlatko"]
[Black "Morovic Fernandez, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2605"]
[Annotator "Tsesarsky,I"]
[PlyCount "147"]
[EventDate "1999.12.10"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "CRO"]
[EventCategory "13"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 075"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.04.05"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2000.04.05"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%mdl 544]} 1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Nf3 c6 4. c4 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. b3 Bd6 7.
Bb2 O-O (7... Qe7 8. Ne5 Ba3 $6 9. Bxa3 Qxa3 10. Bd3 Nxe5 (10... O-O 11. O-O
Qd6 12. f4 $14) 11. dxe5 Nd7 12. f4 $14 {1-0 Smyslov,V-Gergs,W/WchS-Bad
Woerishofen 1991 (41)}) 8. Be2 (8. Bd3 Re8 9. Ne5 dxc4 10. Ndxc4 Bb4+ 11. Kf1
Bf8 12. h4 c5 13. Qf3 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 cxd4 15. Bxd4 Qd5 16. Qf4 b5 17. h5 Bb7 18.
h6 $5 $132 {[%csl Rg2] 1-0 Hebden,M-Arakhamia,K/London Lloyds 1994 (31)}) 8...
Ne4 (8... Re8 9. Ne5 (9. O-O b6 $11) 9... c5 $11 (9... Qc7 10. f4 b6 11. Rc1
Bb7 12. O-O $132) 10. O-O b6 (10... cxd4 11. exd4 Qc7 12. f4 $132) 11. f4 Bb7
$132 {Gorbatow,Alexej-Tokmachev,Mikhail/RUS-Cup02 Moscow (5) ;CBM 63 1998/1-0 
(43)}) (8... b6 9. O-O Bb7 10. Rc1 c5 $132) 9. O-O f5 10. Ne5 {This position
played many times in some dfferent openings.} Nxe5 (10... Qc7 11. f4 Ndf6 12.
Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Bd3 Nf6 14. c5 Bxe5 15. fxe5 Ne4 16. Qe2 Bd7 17. b4 a6 18. a4 $14
{1/2-1/2 Solin,Ilmari-Book,Eero/Helsinki (1) ;EXT 99 1946 (30)}) (10... Qh4 11.
f3 Nxd2 12. Qxd2 Rf6 13. g3 Qh6 14. Rad1 Nf8 15. Bd3 $14 {120 1-0 Herrmann,
Ludwig-Krause,Kurt/DDR-ch Soemmerda (16) ;EXT 2000 1950 (35)}) (10... Qa5 11.
Nxe4 dxe4 12. f4 (12. Nxd7 Bxd7 13. c5 $14) 12... exf3 13. Nxf3 Qc7 14. c5 Be7
15. Bc4 $14 {1-0 Cseh,Andor-Rieger/Debrecen ;MCD 1956 (33)}) (10... Nxd2 $5 11.
Qxd2 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Be7 13. Qc2 b6 14. Rad1 Bb7 15. f4 Rc8 $11 {Zakharov,
Alexander V-Mukhametov,Eldar/Leningrad op ;TD 1991/1/2-1/2 (48)}) (10... Qf6
11. f4 h6 12. cxd5 exd5 13. Nxe4 fxe4 14. Kh1 Qd8 15. Rc1 Nxe5 16. dxe5 Be7 17.
Bg4 $14 {[%cal Gf4f5,Ge5e6] 1-0 Silseth,Simon-Kjeld,Matthias/Gausdal Int (8) ;
TD 1992 (26)}) (10... Ndf6 11. f3 (11. Nd3 $2 Nxd2 12. Qxd2 Ne4 13. Qc2 Qh4 14.
Ne5 Rf6 15. Nf3 (15. f3 Rh6 16. h3 (16. fxe4 Qxh2+ 17. Kf2 fxe4 $15) 16... Ng5
17. Rf2 Qg3 18. Kf1 Nxh3 19. gxh3 Rxh3 $40) 15... Bxh2+ $17 {0-1 Bogza,
Oana-Bogza,Adina/Bucharest TIT (Women) (9) ;CBM 69 ext 1999 (20)}) 11... Ng5
12. Qc2 Bd7 13. Bd3 Rc8 14. c5 Bc7 15. b4 Qe7 16. a4 $14 {0-1 Dock,
Lars-Persson,Lars/SWE-ch qualA (8) ;EXT 99 1997 (35)}) 11. dxe5 Bb4 (11... Be7
12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Qxd8 Rxd8 14. Rfd1 Bd7 $11 {1/2-1/2 Makarichev,S-Gorelov,S/
Pavlodar 1987 (21)}) (11... Bc5 12. Rc1 Qb6 13. Nxe4 fxe4 14. Bd4 Bxd4 15. exd4
Bd7 16. Qd2 $14 {0-1 Jensen,Soren-Petersen,Soren Boeck/Copenhagen op16 (9) ;
EXT 99 1994 (39)}) 12. Nf3 (12. Nxe4 $5 fxe4 13. f3 exf3 14. Bxf3 Bd7 15. Kh1
Be8 $11 (15... Qe7 16. Qe2 Be8 $11 (16... a5 17. cxd5 cxd5 18. e4 dxe4 19. Bxe4
Bc6 20. Bxc6 bxc6 $14 {1/2-1/2 Bechyne,Jaroslav-Dolezal,Jiri/CZE-chT2 9697 ;
EXT 98 1997 (29)}))) 12... Nc3 $132 (12... a5 13. Qc2 a4 14. Rac1 Qe7 15. Nd4
Bd7 16. f3 Nc5 17. Bc3 Ba3 18. Rb1 axb3 19. axb3 Na6 $11 {1-0 Jaksland,
Tim-Madsen,John/DEN-chB (5) ;TD 1992 (35)}) 13. Qc2 Nxe2+ 14. Qxe2 a5 {[%csl
Gb2,Gb4] White can receive small advantage if will be luck to change bishops.}
(14... b6 $132 {[%cal Gc8b7,Gc8a6]}) (14... Bd7 15. a3 Be7 16. Rfd1 Be8 $132 {
[%cal Ge8h5]}) 15. Nd4 Qe7 16. a3 Bc5 17. f4 Bd7 18. Rfc1 (18. Rfd1 b5 $132 (
18... Be8 $132)) 18... Bb6 (18... b5 19. cxb5 cxb5 $132) 19. Qc2 (19. Nc2 c5 (
19... a4 20. b4 $14) 20. a4 Bc6 21. Na3 $11) 19... c5 20. Nf3 a4 $6 $14 (20...
Bc6 21. Nd2 g5 $36) 21. cxd5 exd5 22. Qd3 Be6 23. b4 $1 {Good pawn sacrifice} (
23. bxa4 Rxa4 $15) 23... cxb4 $2 $16 (23... c4 $142 24. Qd2 $14 {[%cal Gb2d4]})
24. axb4 Qxb4 25. Bd4 Bxd4 (25... Qa5 26. Ng5 (26. Rcb1 Bd8 27. Rxb7 Qa6 28.
Qxa6 Rxa6 29. Bc5 Re8 30. Nd4 Bc8 31. Rb4 Bd7 32. Rb7 Bc8 $132) 26... Rae8 (
26... Bxd4 27. exd4 Qa6 28. Qxa6 Rxa6 29. Nxe6 Rxe6 30. Rxa4 $16) (26... Rfe8
27. Nxe6 Rxe6 28. Qxf5 Ree8 29. Rab1 (29. Qd7 Bxd4 30. exd4 Red8 31. Qxb7 (31.
Qe6+ Kh8 32. Rc5 Qd2 33. Rxd5 Qxf4 $15) 31... Qd2 $11 {[%csl Rd4,Rf4]}) 29...
Bxd4 30. exd4 b5 (30... a3 31. Rxb7 $18) 31. Qd7 $16) 27. Bxb6 Qxb6 28. Rxa4
$16) 26. Nxd4 Qe7 (26... Bc8 27. Nb5 $1 Qe4 28. Qd2 $16) 27. Qb5 a3 28. Qb6 $2
$11 {Time loss.} (28. Rc3 $1 {[%csl Ra3][%cal Gd4e6]} a2 29. Rc2 Rfc8 30. Rxc8+
$1 (30. Rcxa2 $2 Rxa2 31. Rxa2 Rc1+ 32. Kf2 Qh4+ 33. Ke2 Qe1+ (33... Qg4+ 34.
Kf2 $11 (34. Kd3 Qd1+ 35. Rd2 Qf1+ 36. Re2 (36. Ne2 Rc8 37. Qxb7 Qxg2 $17)
36... Qd1+ 37. Rd2 Qf1+ $11)) 34. Kf3 $16) 30... Rxc8 31. Qb2 $16 {[%csl Yd4,
Ra2,Rb7,Re6]} (31. Nxe6 $6 Qxe6 32. Qxb7 d4 $1 33. exd4 Qc4 34. Qb2 Ra8 35. h3
h6 36. Kh2 Kh8 37. Qd2 Qd5 38. Qc3 $14)) 28... Ra6 {[%cal Gf8a8]} 29. Qb3 (29.
Rc7 $5 Rxb6 30. Rxe7 Ra8 $1 {This piece sacrifice gives to Black at least
equal chances.} (30... Bc8 $2 31. Rxa3 $16) 31. Rxe6 (31. Nxe6 $6 a2 32. Rxg7+
(32. Kf2 Rb1 33. Rxa2 Rxa2+ 34. Kf3 Rbb2 $44) 32... Kh8 33. Rc7 Rb1+ (33...
Rxe6 $2 34. Rxb7 Rc6 35. Rb2 Rca6 $16) 34. Rc1 Rxc1+ 35. Rxc1 a1=Q 36. Rxa1
Rxa1+ 37. Kf2 Kg8 $17) 31... Rb2 $2 32. h3 a2 33. Kh2 Rb1 34. Rxa2 (34. Nc2 Rb2
35. Nd4 (35. Ne1 Rb1) 35... Rb1 $11) 34... Rxa2 35. Nxf5 Rbb2 36. Re8+ Kf7 37.
Re7+ Kg6 38. Nh4+ Kh6 39. Nf5+ $11) 29... Rfa8 30. Rc3 (30. Ra2 Ra4 (30... h6
31. Rca1 Kf7 32. Qd3 g6 33. Nb5 $16) 31. Rca1 h6 (31... Rb4 32. Qd3 Rba4 33.
Nxe6 Qxe6 34. Rxa3 Rxa3 (34... b5 35. Rxa4 bxa4 36. Qb5 $16) 35. Rxa3 Rxa3 36.
Qxa3 $11) 32. Nxe6 Qxe6 33. Rxa3 Rxa3 34. Rxa3 Rxa3 35. Qxa3 Kf7 $11) 30... Ra4
31. h3 (31. Ra2 $11) 31... h6 32. Ra2 Kh7 33. Kh2 R8a6 34. Qb1 {[%csl Yd5]
[%cal Gb3d5]} (34. Rc1 {[%cal Gc1a1]} R4a5 35. Rca1 b5 36. Nxe6 Qxe6 37. Rxa3
Rxa3 38. Rxa3 Rxa3 39. Qxa3 Qb6 (39... Qc8 40. Qd6 $18 {[%csl Ye5][%cal Ge5e6]}
) 40. Qd6 (40. Qd3 g6 41. g4 fxg4 42. hxg4 b4 43. Qxd5 b3 44. Qf7+ Kh8 45. f5
gxf5 46. gxf5 b2 (46... Qxe3 $11) 47. f6 $18) 40... Qxe3 41. e6 Kg6 42. e7+ Kf7
43. Qd8 Qxe7 44. Qxd5+ $11) 34... Rb4 35. Qa1 Rba4 36. Rb3 $132 (36. Nxe6 Qxe6
(36... Rxe6 $2 37. Rcxa3 (37. Raxa3 Re4 38. Rd3 b5 39. Rxd5 b4 40. Rb3 $16)
37... Re4 38. Rd2 $16 {[%csl Rb7,Rd5,Rf5]}) 37. Rcxa3 Rxa3 38. Rxa3 Rxa3 39.
Qxa3 Kg6 40. Qf8 b5 41. g4 fxg4 42. hxg4 Qxg4 43. Qe8+ Kh7 44. Qxb5 g5 $11)
36... Bc8 $1 37. Qb1 Qf8 (37... g6 38. Qd3 $132) 38. Qc1 Rc4 39. Qa1 Rca4 40.
Nc2 (40. Qc1 $11) 40... Qc5 41. Nd4 (41. Nxa3 $4 Be6 {[%cal Gd5d4]} 42. Rd3 b5
$19) (41. Rbxa3 Rxa3 $19 {[%csl Rc2,Re3]}) 41... Qf8 (41... Qe7 $11) 42. Rc3
Ra8 43. Qc1 Bd7 44. Rc7 Rc4 45. Rxc4 dxc4 46. Qxc4 b5 $2 $16 (46... Be8 $1 $132
) 47. Nxb5 $2 $44 (47. Qd5 $1 {[%csl Rb5,Rd7,Rf5][%cal Ge5e6]} Ra7 (47... Rd8
48. e6 Bc8 49. Qxb5 $16) 48. e6 Be8 49. Nxb5 $1 (49. Qxf5+ $2 Qxf5 50. Nxf5 b4
51. Nd4 Rc7 $17) (49. Nxf5 $2 b4 50. Nd4 Ra6 51. Qe4+ Bg6 $15 {[%csl Ya3,Yb4]
[%cal Gb4b3]}) 49... Bxb5 50. Qxb5 Qf6 (50... g6 51. Qb6 Qe7 52. Rd2 $1 {
[%cal Gb6a7,Gd2d7]} a2 53. Qxa7 Qxa7 54. Rd7+ Qxd7 55. exd7 a1=Q 56. d8=Q $16)
51. Qd5 Ra6 52. e7 Qxe7 (52... Re6 53. Rxa3 Rxe7 $16) 53. Qxf5+ $16) 47... Bxb5
48. Qxb5 Qe7 49. Qd3 (49. e4 $5 fxe4 50. Qc6 Ra5 51. Qxe4+ Kh8 52. Qg6 Ra8 $44)
49... g6 50. Qb3 h5 51. Qd5 (51. g3 Ra7 52. Qd5 Qf8 $44) 51... Ra7 52. Qb3 h4
53. Qd3 Kg7 54. Qd4 Kh7 55. Qb6 Ra8 56. Qd6 Qxd6 57. exd6 Kg7 58. d7 Kf6 $4 $18
(58... Rd8 59. Rxa3 Rxd7 $44) 59. Rxa3 Rd8 60. Rd3 Ke6 61. g3 hxg3+ 62. Kxg3
Kf7 63. Rd6 Kg7 64. Kf3 Kf7 65. e4 fxe4+ 66. Kxe4 Ke7 67. Kd5 Kf7 68. Ke5 Ke7
69. Re6+ Kf7 70. Kd6 Ra8 71. Re7+ Kf8 72. Re8+ Rxe8 73. dxe8=Q+ Kxe8 74. Ke6
1-0

[Event "WchT (Women) 6th"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk"]
[Date "2017.06.18"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung"]
[Black "Gunina, Valentina"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2301"]
[BlackElo "2504"]
[Annotator "Yermolinsky,A"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2017.06.17"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 179"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2017.07.12"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2017.07.12"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Vietnam (W)"]
[BlackTeam "Russia (W)"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "VIE"]
[BlackTeamCountry "RUS"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. b3 Be7 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Ne5
c5 9. Nd2 Nbd7 10. Qf3 Qc7 11. Qh3 h6 12. f4 cxd4 13. exd4 Nxe5 14. fxe5 Ne4
15. Rad1 Bg5 16. Nb1 {True to her uncompromising style, Gunina enters wild
complications.} b5 $5 17. Ba3 Rfc8 18. Bxb5 $2 {White didn't have to do this,
but the Vietnamese player counted on hitting the f7-pawn.} Qxc2 $1 19. Qf3 Kh8
$1 (19... f5 20. Bd7 Re8 $15) 20. Kh1 (20. Qxf7 Be3+ 21. Kh1 Rc7) 20... Qxa2 $5
({A safer way was} 20... Bc6 21. Ba6 Rc7 22. Bd6 Qxa2 23. Bxc7 Qxa6 $17) 21.
Qxf7 Be3 $2 {A move that can be criticised.} (21... Qxb3 22. Bd7 Ba6 23. Bxc8
Rxc8 {seems dangerous on account of} 24. Bf8 {but then comes} Qb7 25. Bxg7+ Kh7
26. Qxb7 Bxb7 27. Bf6 (27. Rf7 Kg6 28. Rxb7 Nf2+) 27... Ba6 {winning back the
exchange.}) 22. Bd3 $2 (22. Qxb7 Qxb3 23. Qa6 Nf2+ 24. Rxf2 Bxf2 25. Be2 $14 {
would allow White to regain coordination of her pieces.}) 22... Qxb3 23. Qf3
Nf2+ 24. Rxf2 Bxf2 25. Rf1 Bxd4 {Gunina's bold play has brought her material
gains, but she had to see deeper.} 26. Qg3 {How does Black stop Qg3-g6?} Ba6 $1
{The only way!} 27. Bxa6 Qxg3 28. hxg3 Rcb8 {Black stands better now.} 29. Bd6
Rb6 30. Be2 a5 31. Na3 Bb2 32. Nb5 a4 33. Rb1 Bd4 $1 (33... a3 $2 34. Nxa3) (
33... Rxb5 34. Bxb5 a3 35. Bxa3 Bxa3 36. Bd7 $11) 34. Rd1 (34. Bd3 $142 Be3 35.
Ra1) 34... Bf2 35. Nc7 Rc8 36. Kh2 Rb3 {Action against the white king!} 37. Bd3
a3 $19 38. g4 a2 39. Bg6 Bg3+ 40. Kg1 Rcb8 0-1

[Event "Norway Chess 5th"]
[Site "Stavanger"]
[Date "2017.06.16"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2808"]
[BlackElo "2771"]
[Annotator "Yermolinsky,A"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2017.06.06"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "NOR"]
[EventCategory "22"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 179"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2017.07.12"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2017.07.12"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Bd3 c5 5. O-O c4 $5 {A relatively obscure idea
that has a lot of ambition behind it. Black goes for space at the cost of
relieving pressure against the d4-pawn.} 6. Be2 b5 7. b3 Bb7 8. Nc3 $6 {
A provocative reply from Vladimir.} (8. a4 a6 9. c3 Nbd7 10. Nbd2 Be7 11. Ba3
O-O 12. Qc2 {Kuraica-Bareev, 2003, which ended in an upset win by the Bosnian
veteran.}) 8... b4 {Anish doesn't hesitate to go for a space grab.} ({
Rakhmanov-Vallejo Pons, 2013 saw a more subtle approach by Black:} 8... a6 9.
Ne5 (9. bxc4 dxc4 $1) 9... Qc7 10. Bd2 Nc6 11. f4 Bd6 12. Bf3 Ne7 13. Rb1 {
and only now} b4 $1 {Here White missed his last chance to make a game out of
his dubious setup.} 14. Nxd5 $5 exd5 15. bxc4 a5 $1 (15... dxc4 16. Bxb7 Qxb7
17. Nxc4 Qc7 18. Nxd6+ Qxd6 19. Bxb4 Qc6 20. Qd3 Qe4 21. f5 {White isn't in
such a bad way here.}) 16. a3 O-O 17. c5 Bxe5 18. fxe5 Ne4 19. axb4 axb4 20.
Rxb4 {but Black is probably better here.}) 9. Na4 c3 10. Ne5 Bd6 $2 ({The
correct} 10... Nc6 11. a3 a5 12. Bb5 Qc7 {would practically compel White to
try the highly speculative} 13. e4 {because otherwise his Bc1 would have no
way out.} Nxe4 14. Qg4 h5 15. Qe2 Bd6 16. Be3 $15) 11. a3 ({Also,} 11. Bb5+ {
right away has its points.} Kf8 12. Nc5 Qb6 (12... Bxc5 {is depressing. After}
13. dxc5 Qa5 14. a4 Qc7 15. Qd4 {White has full control of the dark squares.})
13. Nxb7 Qxb7 14. Qd3 a6 15. Ba4 {How does Black develop here? It won't take
White long to prepare e3-e4.}) 11... a5 (11... O-O {would be a major
concession. White simply goes} 12. axb4 Bxb4 13. Ba3 a5 14. Nc5 Qc7 15. Bxb4
axb4 16. Rxa8 Bxa8 17. Qd3 Nc6 18. f4 {and he has all the play on the a-file
and against the weak b4-pawn. That's the problem with attempting to grab space:
it only works when we get to push his pieces back. Once the opponent finds his
way around the advancing pawns (Na4-c5 in this case), they become terribly
weak.}) 12. Bb5+ Kf8 ({The same story unfolds in the event of} 12... Nbd7 13.
Nxd7 Nxd7 14. Nc5 Bxc5 15. dxc5 Qc7 16. axb4 axb4 17. Rxa8+ Bxa8 18. Qd4 O-O
19. Bxd7 Qxd7 20. Qxb4 $18) 13. Nc5 Qb6 14. Nxb7 Qxb7 15. Qe2 {The black king
is in more trouble than it seems, and, of course, the black rooks aren't
coordinated.} g6 {One of those "positional" moves that at times can meet with
a direct tactical refutation.} (15... h5 16. f3 h4 17. e4 Qb6 18. Kh1 Qxd4 19.
Bf4 {is quite dangerous for Black, yet, it seemed a better choice.}) 16. e4
Nxe4 (16... dxe4 17. Bh6+ Kg8 18. axb4 Bxb4 19. f3) (16... Kg7 17. Nxf7 $1 {
Perhaps, Anish missed that one.} Kxf7 18. e5 $18) 17. Bh6+ Ke7 (17... Kg8 18.
Ng4 Be7 19. axb4 axb4 20. Rxa8 Qxa8 21. f3 Nf6 22. Qe5 $18) 18. f3 $18 {
Black won't last long here.} Nd2 ({Some spectacular lines Anish Giri decided
to leave in the dark:} 18... Bxe5 19. fxe4 Bxd4+ 20. Kh1 dxe4 21. Rad1 e5 22.
Qc4) ({or} 18... Nf6 19. Rfe1 Bxe5 20. dxe5 Nfd7 21. axb4 axb4 22. Rxa8 Qxa8
23. Qf2 Qa5 24. Qh4+ Ke8 25. Qf6 Rg8 26. Bg5) 19. Rfe1 Kd8 20. Bf4 (20. Bf4 Kc7
21. axb4 axb4 22. Rxa8 Qxa8 23. Nxf7 Bxf4 24. Qxe6 Rc8 25. Qf6 $1) 1-0

