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News in Chess theory in the latest Weeks:
The olimpiad in Elista showed important news in chess theory.
In the Sicilian Khan Variation, the game Shabalov,A (2645) - Ghorbani,M
(2430)[B49] ol, Elista RUS (01) 1998 deserves attention:
1.e4 c5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Cc3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Cxd4 Dc7 6.Ae2 a6 7.Ae3 Cf6 8.0-0
Ab4 9.Ca4 0-0 10.Cxc6 bxc6 11.Cb6 Tb8 12.Cxc8 Tfxc8 13.Axa6 Tf8 14.Ad3
Ad6 15.f4 e5 16.f5 Ae7 17.b3 d5 18.Df3 Tfe8 19.g4
White takes over the iniciative.19... h6 20.h4 dxe4 21.Axe4
Cxe4 22.Dxe4 Axh4 23.Tad1 Tbd8 24.a4 Ag5 25.Af2 Td5 26.c4 Txd1 27.Txd1
Td8 28.Txd8+ Dxd8 29.De2 De7 30.a5 and the passed pawn won the endgame
(1-0, 38 moves)
The Sicilian with Bb5 was debated in two important games in Elista:
Timman,J (2655) - Yermolinsky,A (2625) [B30]
ol, Elista RUS (05), 1998
1.e4 c5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Ab5 e6 4.0-0 Cge7 5.c3 a6 6.Ae2 d5 7.exd5 exd5 8.d4
cxd4 9.Cxd4 Cxd4 10.cxd4 g6 11.Cc3 Ag7 12.Ag5 0-0 13.Te1 h6 14.Ah4 g5
15.Ag3 Cc6 16.Af3 Ae6
Black imaginative handling of the opening secured "Yerminator" equality
and went later onto win the game:
17.Ae5 Cxe5 18.dxe5 d4 19.Ca4 Da5 20.Axb7 Tad8 21.Tc1 d3 22.Te4 Ad7
23.Ac6 Axc6 24.Txc6 Dd5 25.Tcc4 Axe5 26.Cc3 Dd6 27.h4 d2 28.hxg5 hxg5
29.Te3 Af4 30.Ce4 De6 31.Tec3 f5 32.g3 fxe4 33.gxf4 Txf4 34.Tg3 Dxc4
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Rublevsky,S (2685) - Shabalov,A (2645) [B30]
ol, Elista RUS (04), 1998
1.e4 c5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Ab5 e6 4.0-0 Cge7 5.c3 d5
It would be interesting to see what Rublevsky has in mind to
Yermolinsky's intermediate 6...a6.
6.exd5 Dxd5 7.Te1 Ad7 8.Ca3 Cg6 9.Ac4 Dh5 10.d4 cxd4
Now a couple of strong intermediate moves follow:
11.Cb5 Tc8 12.Ae2 Dd5 13.Cfxd4 a6 14.Af3 Dc5 15.Ae3 Cce5 16.Axb7 axb5
17.Cxe6 fxe6 18.Axc5 Txc5 19.Ae4 Ae7 20.Dd4 Tf8 21.Tad1 Ac8 22.b4 Tc4
23.Db6 Rf7 24.Dxb5 Txc3 25.Tc1 Txc1 26.Txc1 Ad7 27.Axg6+ Rf6 28.Db7 hxg6
29.f4 Cd3 30.Tc7 1-0 A great game!
The move 4.d4 in the English opening, popularized by Botwinnink, is often
today in tournament practice again.
Seirawan,Y (2630) - Van Wely,L (2635) [A28]
ol, Elista RUS (05), 1998
1.c4 Cf6 2.Cc3 e5 3.Cf3 Cc6 4.d4 exd4 5.Cxd4 Ab4 6.g3 0-0 7.Ag2 Axc3+
8.bxc3 Ce5 9.c5 De7 10.Cb3 Tb8 11.0-0 b6 12.Te1 bxc5 13.f4 Cc4 14.e4 d6
15.De2 Aa6 16.Ca5 De6 17.f5 De5 18.Cc6 Dxc3 19.Cxb8 Txb8
With an unclear position; 1-0, 63 (white showed an impressive technique
in the endgame)
An unfamiliar kind of benoni arised in the game between Piket,Je (2605) -
DeFirmian,N (2605)[A60] OL Elista RUS (05),1998
1.d4 Cf6 2.c4 e6 3.Cf3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 a6 7.h3 Cbd7 8.Ad3 b5
This seems fine already for black.9.0-0 Ae7 10.a4 Tb8 11.axb5 axb5 12.b3
0-0 13.Te1 Ce8 14.Ca3 Af6 (0-1, 45)
A classical Kings Indian Attack with white was won by Kaidanov using
13.a3, "patented" by Bobby Fischer:
Kaidanov,G (2625) - Nijboer,F (2525) [A08]
ol, Elista RUS (05) 1998
1.e4 c5 2.Cf3 e6 3.d3 Cc6 4.g3 d5 5.Cbd2 Cf6 6.Ag2 Ae7 7.0-0 b5 8.Te1 0-0
9.e5 Cd7 10.Cf1 a5 11.h4 b4 12.Af4 a4 13.a3 Aa6 14.C1h2 c4 15.d4 c3
16.bxc3 bxc3 17.Cg5 Cb6 18.Dh5 Axg5 19.Axg5 De8 20.Af6 Cxd4 21.Cg4 Cf5
22.Dg5 Rh8 23.Axg7+ Cxg7 24.Cf6 Dd8 25.Dh6 Dxf6 26.Dxf6 Tae8 27.g4 Cd7
28.Df4 Ac4 29.h5 Tc8 30.Tab1 f5 31.exf6 1-0
the Atom Cup in Hungary featured also interesting openings:
Groszpeter,A (2505) - Bakre,T (2290) [B62]
3rd Atom Cup GM, Paks HUN (13), 1998
1.e4 c5 2.Cf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Cxd4 Cf6 5.Cc3 Cc6 6.Ag5 e6 7.Ab5 Ad7 8.Aa4
a6 9.Cxc6
I do not get the point of this Ba4 and only then Nxc6, but the following
moves are very interesting as well:
9...Axc6 10.Axc6+ bxc6 11.e5!? Da5!? 12.Axf6 gxf6 13.exd6 De5+ 14.De2
Dxe2+ 15.Rxe2 Axd6 16.Tad1 0-0-0 17.Td3 White has a little but persistent
advantage in the endgame (1-0, 91)
1-0
The system with 6.f4 and 7.e5 worried some Dragon players, but the
following game shows black should have adecuate counterplay:
Sevo,I (2155) - Palkovi,J (2435) [B71]
3rd Atom Cup IM, Paks HUN (07), 1998
1.e4 c5 2.Cf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Cxd4 Cf6 5.Cc3 g6 6.f4 Ag7 7.e5 Ch5 8.Ab5+
Ad7 9.e6 fxe6 10.Cxe6 Axc3+ 11.bxc3 Dc8 12.Axd7+ Cxd7 13.0-0 Cc5 14.f5
Cf6 15.Cd4 Cce4 16.Ah6 Tg8 17.Rh1 Dc4 18.Ae3 Tc8 19.Df3 Dd5 20.Tab1 b6
21.fxg6 Txg6 22.Cf5 Cxc3 23.Dh3 Cxb1 24.Ch4 Txc2 25.Cxg6 hxg6 26.Txb1 Df5
27.Dh8+ Rd7 28.Da8 De4 29.Dxa7+ Re6 0-1
A very interesting Scandinav featured the game Sebe,F (2235) - Palkovi,J
(2435) [B01] 3rd Atom Cup IM, Paks HUN (01), 1998:
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Cf6 3.Ab5+ Cbd7 4.c4 a6 5.Aa4 b5 6.cxb5 Cxd5 7.Cf3 C5b6
8.0-0 Cxa4 9.Dxa4 Ab7 10.Df4 axb5 11.Cc3 c6 12.Ce4 Cf6 13.Ce5 Ta4 14.Te1
c5 15.f3 e6 16.d3 Axe4 17.dxe4 Ad6 18.Dg5 0-0 19.Cc6 De8 20.b3 Ta6 21.e5
h6 22.Dh4 Ch7 23.exd6 Txc6 24.Td1 Dd7 25.Dg3 Rh8 26.Ab2 f6 27.Td2 Cg5
28.Tad1 e5 29.Td5 Ce6 30.Df2 Tfc8 31.Df1 Tb6 32.g3 Tcc6 33.Tc1 Txd6
34.Tdd1 Td5 35.Txd5 Dxd5 36.Td1 Cd4 37.f4 exf4 38.Axd4 cxd4 39.Dxf4 d3
40.De3 Td6 41.Td2 Df5 42.Rg2 b4 43.Df3 Dc5 44.Rh3 Dc8+ 45.Rg2 Td4 46.De3
Dc5 47.h4 Rh7 48.Df3 f5 49.h5 Td5 50.Df4 Dc3 51.De3 Dc1 52.Df2 Tc5 53.Rf3
Dh1+ 0-1
An important Scoth opening variation Nxc6 and e5 was the game between
Shabalov,A (2645) - Yurtaev,L (2540) [C45] ol, Elista RUS (02), 1998:
1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Cxd4 Cf6 5.Cxc6 bxc6 6.e5 De7 7.De2 Cd5
8.c4 Cb6 9.Cd2 a5 10.g3 De6 11.b3 a4 Following the path of a well know
game between Kasparov and Karpov.
12.Ab2 Ab4 13.Ag2 0-0 14.0-0 a3 15.Ad4 c5 16.Ae3 Dxe5 17.Axa8 Cxa8 18.Df3
Cb6 19.Af4 De6 20.Tfe1 Dg6 21.Axc7 Axd2 22.Ted1 Cxc4 23.bxc4 Ab4 24.Ad6
after the complications, white emerged with the upper hand (1-0, 44)
An interesting Marshall attack was the game between DeFirmian,N (2605) -
Imanaliev,T (2415) [C89]
ol, Elista RUS (02), 1998 :
1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Ab5 a6 4.Aa4 Cf6 5.0-0 Ae7 6.Te1 b5 7.Ab3 0-0 8.c3 d5
9.exd5 Cxd5 10.Cxe5 Cxe5 11.Txe5 c6 12.Axd5 cxd5 13.d4 Ad6 14.Te3 Dh4
15.h3 g5 16.Df3 Ae6 17.Df6 Tae8 18.Cd2 Df4 19.Dxf4 Axf4 20.Te1 Axh3
21.Cf3 Txe1+ 22.Cxe1 Af5 23.Axf4 gxf4 24.Cf3 Te8 25.Te1 Txe1+
The endgame looks drawish, although white later won after some mistakes
from his opponent on move 36.
A variation popularized by Miles against the English opening, with the
moves e6, a6 and Bb7 gave Shabalov no problems against white's passive
opening play in Giorgadze,G (2610) - Shabalov,A (2645) [A40]
ol, Elista RUS (06), 1998:
1.d4 e6 2.c4 b6 3.Cc3 Ab7 4.e3 f5 5.Ch3 Cf6 6.f3 g6 7.Ad3 Ag7 8.0-0 0-0
9.e4 Cc6 10.d5 Ce5 11.Ae2 fxe4 12.fxe4 De7 13.Rh1 Tae8 14.Af4 exd5
15.cxd5 c6 16.Ag3 cxd5
Black is already doing fine.
17.exd5 Dc5 18.Af2 Dc8 19.Cf4 Rh8 20.Tc1 Da8
21.Ah4 a6 22.a4 h6 23.Axf6 Txf6 24.Dd2 Db8 25.Tcd1 Tef8 26.h3 Dc7 27.Ce4
T6f7 28.b3 Rh7 29.De3 Db8 30.Tf2 Cg4 31.Axg4 Txf4 32.Txf4 Txf4 33.Af3 De5
34.Dxb6 Axd5 35.Cg5+ hxg5 36.Txd5 De7 37.Da7 g4 38.Axg4 Tf1+ 39.Rh2 De1
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