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FEATURES GM Yasser Seirawan
MANAGING EDITOR
Michael Franett
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
3 THE EIGHTIES REVISITED
GMC Jonathan Berry, IM John Donaldson
GM Yasser Seirawan sums up the major news of the decade,
TECHNICAL EDITOR
from the two Ks to the onslaught of the "ubiquitous tin
WGM Elena Donaldson-Akhniikmkava
boxes". He also takes a look at the nineties.
COPY EDITOR
Dan Bailey
4 U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP ROUNDS 7-11
PRODUCTION \GRAPHICS
Dzindi raids the Fed, Browne returns from the dead, Ivanov
Mykal Egbert
biffs Ivanov: 40 more games and summaries from the annual
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Daniel Seirawan, Larry Sivitz
SUBSCRIPTIONS
13 GMA OPEN IN PALMA DE MALLORCA Tiffinie Smith
Boris Gelfand (21) and Gata Kamsky (15!) took early steps CONTRIBUTORS PHOTOGRAPHERS
in the direction of Mt. Olympus, while Tony Miles recorded NM Hal Bogner Frits Agterdenbos
his finest result in years. GM Nick deFirmian Jerome Bibuld
GM Svetozar Gligoric Nigel Eddis
18 WHITE HEAT LEVELS BELGRADE IM Zoran Ilic liars Grahn
World Champion Garry Kasparov, coming off one of the GM Bent Larsen Catherine Jaeg
most amazing results in chess history, performs even better G M E d m a r Mednis Chrisier Olcsen
this time out. Oh yes, Ehlvest andTimman also played well. GM Tony Miles
IM Nikolay Minev
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A Retrospective on a Turbulent Decade for Chess

A Look Back at the 1980s

by GM Yasser Seirawan declare the match halted, it captured Mexico), and Bob Walsh, Chairman of
world-wide media attention. Chess was the 1990 Goodwill Games. Walsh or-
REVIEWING THE front-page headlines. Editorials were ganized the Quarter-Final Candidates'
written on the subject and subsequent Match between Karpov and Hjartarson
EIGHTIES matches between the two Ks drew an in Seattle, Washington.

A s far as chess is concerned, the

eighties will surely be remembered
as a decade of unprecedented growth in
ever-increasing, interested audience.
Purses for the World Championship
Match swelled into the millions of dollars.
Much like the European
G r a n d m a s t e r s of the GMA, North
American GMs played active roles in
some areas. The international chess
When Garry Kasparov founded the chess promotion and organization. Nick
scene exploded, with one or two major
G M A in F e b r u a r y 1987, a major deFirmian established Prochess, a union
events being held nearly every month.
breakthrough in Grandmaster relations of North American GMs dedicated to
Chess competitions weren't exclusively
was achieved. For the first time in chess expanding chess horizons. Walter
the property of the world's developed na-
history, Grandmasters from all over the Browne founded the World Blitz Chess
tions. Third World countries from In-
world managed to put aside their per- Association to promote five-minute chess
donesia to the United Arab Emirates to
sonal differences to create a union that and chess in general. And I began Inside
Tunisia, indeed countries the world over,
embraced all professional players. In the Chess. All of these activities seem to have
hosted major events.
short span of one-and-a-half years, the one thing in common, they are paving the
Among the traditional chess powers,
GMA organized six World Cup Tourna- way for . . .
particular mention must be made of
ments. Overall, this series of tourna-
Spain, England, Iceland, and France.
The enormous strides that these nations
ments was the finest in chess history. THE NINETIES
took are unparalleled in chess history. Throughout most of the eighties, chess
We have lived through a decade in in North America seemed to be lost. In Here at Inside Chess, our plans for
which two of the greatest players who the United States, the USCF made small, meeting the challenges of the nineties are
have ever played the game—Kasparov solid gains, but didn't come close to keep- in high gear. With over 3,000 subscribers
and Karpov —butted heads with one ing pace with the economic prosperity of in 47 nations, Inside Chess is well on its
another at every opportunity. Neither the roaring eighties. The USCF did ce- way to becoming the world's most exten-
player shrank from the challenge. Their ment its dominance of the U.S. chess sively read international chess magazine.
encounters were electric and reported in scene, eventually declaring itself to be
During 1989 our subscriber rolls
every nook and cranny of the globe. U.S. Chess!
doubled —and I expect another doubling
In other stories, the Polgar sisters with Unfortunately, operating without a in 1990. We will soon be publishing our
beauty, charm, and ruthlessness shat- clear game plan, the USCF stagnated. It own library of chess books, and we are
tered the traditional myths of male was left to individual organizers to lead now retailing and wholesaling chess
domination in chess. Computers in- the way. books and equipment.
fluenced the game to unthinkable
degrees, even to the point of changing the
Rise of the Elsewhere in this issue you can read
Mega-Bucks Swisses about our new Active Chess Rating sys-
rules of the game. The computer's fan-
tem. As a big believer in the potential of
tastic calculating abilities captured the
Two organizers left indelible marks: Active Chess, it's been left up to I.C.E. to
imagination of the world's journalists, but
Bill Goichberg with his World Open and create such a rating system. I hope this
the best human players remained
Jose Cuchi with the New York Open. form of chess will explode around the
unimpressed, and for the most part swept
These two blazed the way to mega-prizes world. Its potential seems limitless.
the ubiquitous tin boxes aside. Perhaps
this is the last decade in which humans in Swiss competitions. While the rest of With the recent announcement that
will be able to claim hegemony over the the chess world sought corporate spon- Lyon and New York City will host the
electronic beasts. Chess has never been sors for Round-Robin events, the U.S. 1990 World Championship Match, per-
more alive. began a G r a n d Prix circuit of Swiss haps America can make up for the lost
I think the biggest stories of the decade events. years of the eighties. I think our hosting
were the aborted 1985 World Champion- The late 1980s saw three new or- of the World Championship Match will
ship Match and the founding of the ganizers create outstanding events: lead to a burst of interest in chess across
Grandmasters Association. When FIDE Robert Hamilton (the World Chess Fes- the country. The nineties look to be glory
President Florencio Campomanes inter- tival in Canada), Ron Brown (the World years. Count on Inside Chess to bring
vened after 48 games in Moscow to Active Championships in Mazatlan, you the story. •

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 U.S. Championship 1989—Part II

• 1989 U.S. Championship •

1 2 3 4 5 6 11 8 9 0 •11 2 3 4 5 6 Score Place

1. GM Dzindzichasviii 2616 • A 111 % ¥ £11 * 11 I I %1 1 IP 11 9.5 1st-3rd
2. FM Rachels 2548 11 • 111 1 111& V 11111 111 * I f 1 %l l | 9.5 l s t - 3 r d
3. GM Seirawan 2690 i l l 111 • 0 1 h ¥ l % i 1 111111 S 111' 9.5 1st-3rd
4. GM Gulko 2726 h %I f • 1 11 % ¥ Hi h 1 * i t 1 111 9 . 0 4th
5. GM Benjamin 2673 % % 0 • %111 0 % i 111 1 in 1 111 8.5 5 t h - 7 t h
6. GM deFirmian 2673 h 111 0 ¥ • h 1 111 a h l i 111i n 111I I I 8.5 5th-7th
;
7. GM Miles 2681 \ % k; V 111 % III 111 0 III i| : V 111ill 1 i l l 8. 5 5 t h - 7 t h
8. GM Dlugy 2613 11 1 0 1 111 \ 11 a 111 h HI M I I III 111 8. 0 8 t h - 9 t h
9. GM Fedorowicz 2724 111 h V I I ! ¥ ||s ¥ I f 11 111111 1 11111 i l l 8.0 8th-9th
10. GM Rohde 2681 % 111 ¥ 111 0 1 0 h • i i 0 f 0 7 - 5 10th
ill GM Kudrin 2668 111 0 0 111 \ h 0 i 1 0 ill h. 1 11 111 ill 7.0 l l t h
12. IM Ivanov, A. 2649 % 11 0 1 % 11 1 0 0 0 11 a 111HI ill i l l 6.5 12th
13. GM Browne 2686 0 0 0 0 0 1 % III 111 V 0 a 111HI 1111 5.5 13 t h
14. IM Ivanov, I. 2649 0 0 III 1 0 0 11I I 111I I | 0 i n a 111i i 5.0 14th
15. GM Alburt 2696 0 H % 0 0 III 111 * h 11 11 % 111 0 ill 111: 4.5 15th-16th
16. GM Gurevich 2589 h 0 11ill 0 0 0 0 1 111IJ HI 0 0 a 4 . 5 15th-16th

by NM Hal Bogner deFirmian (3.5) Seirawan (4) to Lev's Rook, Bishop, Knight and two
Browne (.5) Miles (3) pawns —theoretically similar material —
Editor's Note: In Volume II, Issue 25- Ivanov (2) I. Ivanov (3) but White simply couldn't keep things
26, we covered the first six rounds of the Rohde (2.5) Gulko (4) under control.
1989 U.S. Championship. In this issue we
present Rounds 7-11.
Walter Browne, whose fighting style col-
In a dramatic series of battles, the pack lected quite a few bruises in the first week,
began to separate into leaders and fol- finally landed a knockout punch. Given a
Round 7 lowers. Of the eight players at 4-2 or wide latitude on the Kingside against Miles'
3.5-2.5, six of them played each other this Czech Benoni, Walter gained an over-
round. Of these, only the game de- whelming position, then crashed through
Dzindzi, Benjamin Tie Firmian-Seirawan was drawn quickly. with a sham Knight-sac to force resigna-
For Lead Dzindzi took the feet out from under tion. Added to his draw with Kudrin,
Pairings: Fedorowicz to slide past the pack, and which was agreed when the envelope was
Rachels (4) Dlugy (3.5) Joel, a seasoned veteran at 25, outlasted opened to reveal 61.Ke4 (anything except
Dzindzi (4) Fedorowicz (3.5) Alburt in a wildly imbalanced game which 61.Kg4??? allowing mate would have suf-
Alburt (2.5) Benjamin (4) required 78 moves. At adjournment, ficed), Walter was back among the living
Gurevich (1.5) Kudrin (2.5) Benjamin had Queen, Bishop and pawn with 1.5.

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 Czech BenoniA56 40.b4 Kc7 41.b5 Ne8 42.Ke3 Nd6 43.Bc6
Kb6 44.Kd3 Kc5 45.Kc3 Nc4 46.Be4 Nd6
GM Walter Browne 47.Bd3 Nb7 48.Kb3 Nd6 49.Ka4 Nc8
GM Tony Miles
50.Ka5 Nb6 51.Be2 Nd5 52.Bfl Nb6
U.S. Championship (7) 1989 53.Ka6 Nd5 54.Kb7 Nb6 55.Kc7 e4
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e5 4.Nc3 d6 5.e4 56.Kd8 Nd5 57.Ke8 e3 58.fxe3 Nxe3
Be7 6.g3 O-O 7.Bg2 Ne8 8.Nge2 Na6 59.Be2 Ng2 60.Kf7 Nf4 61.Bfl 1-0
9 . 0 - 0 Bd7 10.f4 Bf6 ll.Be3 Nec7 12.a4
Nb413.Qd2 b614.fS a615.b3 b516.a5 Ne8
17.h4 Be7 18.Ndl Nf6 19.BB h6 20.Nf2 The only International Masters in the
Nh7 21.Kg2 Rb8 22.Rhl Rb7 23.Ngl Bf6 field, the Ivanovs, finally meet. Alexander
24.Be2 Qe7 25.NG bxc4 26.bxc4 h5 gets the upper hand against Igor's provoca-
27.Ng5 g6 28.g4 hxg4 29.fxg6 fxg6 30.Nxg4 tive defensive play, holds it into a major
Bg7 31.Nxh7 Kxh7 32.h5 g5 33.Bxg5 Qe8 piece ending then converts it into a devas- 15.Ngf5! exf5 16.Nxf5 Rg8 17.Nxe7
34.Rafl Ba4 35.Rxf8 Qxf8 36.Rfl Rf7 tating mate threat. Nxe518.Qh4 Re819.Bg5 Be6 20.Qf4 Rxe7
37.Rxf7 Qxf7 38.Ne3 Bf6 39.Ng4 Bg7 21.Bxe7 Qxe7 22.Qxe5 Rxb2 23.Rabl Qb7
40.Bdl Be8 41.Qf2 Nd3 42.Qxf7 Bxf7 Sicilian Taimanov B47 24.Rxb2 Qxb2 25.h3 h6 26.f4 Qc2 27.Re2
43.h6 Bf8 44.Kg3 Kg6 45.Kh4 Nel Qbl + 28.Kh2 c5 29.R12 d4 30.cxd4 cxd4
46.Nxe5 + IM Alexander Ivanov 31.Qxd4 Kh7 32.Rb2 Qal 33.a4 a5
(46...dxe5 47.Bh5 + ) IM Igor Ivanov 34.Qe4+ fS 35.Qd4 Bb3 36.Qe5 Qxa4
1-0 U.S. Championship (7) 1989 37.Qxf5 + Kh8 38.Qe5 Qb4 39.f5 a4 40.f6
Q18 41.Rf2 Kg8 42.Rf3 Kh8 43.fxg7 +
l.e4 c5 2.ND e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4
Qxg744.Rf6Kg845.Qe8+ Kh746.Qe4 +
5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.g3 Nf6 ?
In a fairly straightforward affair, Fed Kh8 47.Qf4 Kh7 48.Rc6 Bf7 49.Rc7 Kg8
gives up a pawn temporarily with 24...b5, 50.Ra7 Qg6 51.Rxa4 Bd5 52.Qd2 Qd6 +
Editor's Note— This has been known to
then fails to recover it, and Dzindzi converts 53.Khl Qe6 54.Rg4 + Kf7 55.Qf4 + 1-0
the button into victory in the endgame. be a mistake since Fischer-Tal, Bled 1961.
Benjamin advanced by way of an inven-
7.Ndb5 Qb8 8.Bf4 e5 9.Bg5 a6 10.Bxf6
English Opening A39 tive pawn sacrifice to open lines on the
gxf6 ll.Na3 Bxa312.bxa3 Ne713.Qf3 Qc7
GM Roman Dzindzichashvili Kingside. Eventually, Alburt gave up his
14.Bg2 d 6 1 5 . 0 - 0 Rg816.Ndl Rg617.Ne3
GM John Fedorowicz Queen for Rook, piece, and pawn, and a
Be6 18.c4 Rc8 19.Nd5 Nxd5 20.cxd5 Bd7
tense struggle ensued. Lev's Rooks get
U.S. Championship (7) 1989 21.Qh5 Ke7 22.Bh3 Bxh3 23.Qxh3 Qc2
tangled in the second time control, and Joel
l.d4 Nfl> 2.NO g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 c5 5.Bg2 24.Rfel Rc4 25.Qfl Rxe4 26.Recl Qd2
collects the point.
cxd4 6.Nxd4 O-O 7.Nc3 Nc6 8 . 0 - 0 Ng4 27.Qh3 Rf4 28.Rc7+ Kf8 29.RA Qxd5
9.e3 Nge5 10.b3 d6 11.h3 Qa5 12.Bd2 30.Qxh7 Rc4 31.Qh8+ Rg8 32.Qh6 +
Rg7 33.Qxf6 Kg8 34.Rxc4 Qxc4 35.Qxd6 Old/King's Indian A53
Nxd413.exd4 Nc614.Nb5 Qd815.d5 Nb8
16.Bc3 Bxc3 17.Nxc3 Nd7 18.Rel Nf6 Qe4 36.Qd8 + Kh7 37.Qf6 Qd5 38.Rel GM Lev Alburt
19.Qd4 Bd7 20.Re3 a6 21.Rael Re8 22.a4 Rg6 39.Qxe5 Qxa2 40.Qh5+ Kg7 GM Joel Benjamin
Rb8 23.g4 h6 24.Bf3 b5 25.axb5 axb5 41.Qe5 + Rf6 42.Qg5+ Rg6 43.Qc5 b5 U.S. Championship (7) 1989
26.cxb5 Qb6 27.Qxb6 Rxb6 28.Be2 Kf8 44.Qd4+ Rf6 45.Re4 Kg8 46.Rg4+ Rg6
47.Rh4 1-0 l.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 g6 4.Nc3 Bf5
29.Bc4 Rb7 30.Kg2 e631.dxe6 fxe6
5.NH4 Bd7 6.e4 e5 7.NB Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.c5
32.Bxe6 Bxb5 33.Nxb5 Rxb5 34.Bc4 Rxe3
Michael Rohde unseats Gulko in a nice Bg710.Qb3 Qb8 ll.Be2 O-O 12.cxd6 cxd6
35.Rxe3 Re5 36.Rxe5 dxe5
display of attacking prowess. Heading 13.Nd2 Nh5 14.Qdl f5 15.Bxh5 gxh5
straight for the King, White lands several 16.Qxh5 b517.Qg5 Ng618.a3 Nf419.0-0
nice blows, and comes away with a clear Rf620.Khl Qf821.exf5 Bxf522.Nde4 Rg6
Exchange. The rest is easy. 23.Bxf4 Rxg5 24.Bxg5 h6 25.Be3 a5 26.G
Rb8 27.Rfcl Bd7 28.Ne2 Rb7 29.Bd2 Bf6
30.Bxa5 Be7 31.Bb4 h5 32.Rc3 h4 33.Racl
French Defense Tarrasch C07 BfS 34.Rc6 Rd7 35.N2c3 h3 36.Rgl Kh7
37.Ng3 hxg2+ 38.Kxg2 Bd3 39.Rdl Bc2
GM Michael Rohde
GM Boris Gulko 40.Rd2 Bg6 41.Nxb5 Qf4 42.Rf2 e4 43.fxe4
Bxe4 + 44.Kgl Qg5 45.Nc7 Bxd5 46.Nxd5
U.S. Championship (7) 1989
Qxd5 47.Rc8 Bg5 48.Rc3 Re7 49.NH Rg7
l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngi3 Nc6 50.Rg3 Bh6 51.Re2 Qd3 52.RC d5 53.Rf6
5.Bb5 a6 6.Bxc6 + bxc6 7.c3 Nf6 8.e5 Nd7 Qd4+ 54.RI2 Rf7 55.Rgg2 Bel 56.Bc3
9 . 0 - 0 Be7 lO.Rel O-O l l . N f l Rb8 Qa7 57.Nd2 Rxf2 58.Rx£2 d4 59.Bb4 Bxb2
37.KI3 g5 38.Bd3 Ke7 39.Be4 Kd6 12.Ng3 cxd4 13.Nxd4 Qc7 14.Qg4! Kh8 60.Ne4 d3 61.Kfl Bg7 62.RB Qd4 63.Nd2
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Qd5 64.Rh3 + Kg8 65.R13 Bh6 66.K£2 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7 7.f4 a6 8.NB c5 tournament's premier fighters!
Qd4+ 67.Kg2 Bf4 68.RO Qd5+ 69.Rf3 9.dxc5 Nc6 10.Bd3 Nxc5 ll.O-O Bd7
Kh7 70.KC Qd4 + 71.Kfl Kg6 72.Rf2 Be3 12.Qe2 h613.Khl O-O 14.Rael f515.exf6 Torre Attack A46
73.RB Qal + 74.Kg2 Qgl + 75.Kh3 Kh5 Draw
IM Igor Ivanov
76.Rg3 Qf2 77.RB Qh4+ 78.Kg2 Qg4 + GM Walter Browne
0-1 Caro-Kann Defense B16
U.S. Championship (8) 1989
Rachels and Dlugy fight to a drawn GM Dmitry Gurevich
Rook ending (each side ends up with con- GM Sergey Kudrin l.d4 Nf6 2.NB e6 3.Bg5 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6
nected passed pawns) after a messy mid- 5.e4 d6 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.c3 g5 8.Nbd2 g4 9.Ngl
U.S. Championship (7) 1989
dlegame that seemed to offer both sides h5 10.Qb3 Bh6 ll.Nc4 e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5
some chances. l.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 13.Nxe5 dxe5 14.Ne2 h4 15.Rdl c6 16.a4
5.Nxf6 + gxf6 6.NB Bg4 7.c3 e6 8.g3 Nd7 Bg5 17.Bc4 h3 18.g3 QB 19.Rgl O-O
Sicilian Richter-Rauzer B66 9.Bg2 Qc7 10.0-0 O-O-O ll.h3 Bh5 20.Rd6 Kg7 21.Qc2 f5 22.RT1 fxe4 23.Ngl
12.b4 Rg8 13.Qa4 a6 14.Qa5 Qxa5 Draw Qg2 24.Qe2
FM Stuart Rachels
GM Maxim Dlugy
U.S. Championship (7) 1989 Round 8
l.e4 c5 2.NB d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8 . 0 - 0 - 0 h6 Caution Reigns As Top
9.Be3 Nxd410.Bxd4 b511.f4 Bb7 12.Bxf6
gxf6 13.Bd3 b4 14.Ne2 Qb6 15.Kbl a5
Nine Draw
16.f5 e5 17.Ng3 h5 18.Qe2 h4 19.Nfl Bh6
Dlugy (4) Rohde (3.5)
20.Nd2 Ke7 21.NB
Gulko (4) .A. Ivanov (3)
I. Ivanov (3) Browne (1.5)
Miles (3) deFirmian (4)
Seirawan (4.5) Gurevich (2)
Kudrin (3) Alburt (2.5)
Benjamin (5) Dzindzi (5) 24...e3! 25.fxe3 Bf5! 26.Rd2 Qxe2 +
Fedorowicz (3.5) Rachels (4.5) 27.Kxe2 Kg6 28.Rd6+ Rf6 29.Rxf6 +
Bxf6 30.Bd3 Bxd3+ 31.Kxd3 Rd8 +
Leaders Joel Benjamin and Roman 32.Kc2 Bg5 33.Rel Rf8 34.Kd3 Rf2
Dzindzichashvili met and drew quickly to 35.Ke4 Rxh2 36.Ne2 Rg2 37.Kd3 h2 38.e4
remain atop the sixteen-player field RI2 39.Rhl RB + 40.Kc2 R12 41.Kdl Be3
today; although everyone in the next three 42.Kel Kf6 0-1
score groups also drew, most of these
were long fights, with play lasting the full Sergey evens his score with his first win,
21...Qe3 22.Rhel Qxe2 23.Rxe2 Bf4 first session. a convincing demolition of Alburt's Alek-
24.Bc4 Rag8 25.b3 Rc8 26.c3 bxc3 27.Kc2 The big stories were mostly at the bot- hine Defense. White wins a pawn while
Rc5 28.Kxc3 Ba6 29.Kd3 Rhc8 30.Rc2 tom, with Walter Browne winning and Lev tries to undermine the center, then
Bb7 31.Nxh4 d5 32.exd5 Bxd5 33.g3 Bg5 Lev Alburt losing, as both had also done takes over the entire board. The game is
34.Rc3 Bxh4 35.gxh4 Rh8 36.Bxd5 yesterday. With Dmitry Gurevich draw- effectively over around move 20!
Rxd5+ 37.Ke2 Rxdl 38.Kxdl Rxh4 ing, the three now share last at 2.5-4.5
39.Rc7+ Ke8 40.Ra7 Rxh2 41.Rxa5 R£2 Another big story was chapter eight in Alekhine Defense B04
Draw the saga of U.S. Junior Champion Stuart
GM Sergey Kudrin
Rachels. John Fedorowicz, a Rocky-like GM Lev Alburt
What can one say about games like puncher, was playing for blood. Rachels
U.S. Championship (8) 1989
these? Friendship, respect for the op- is seen for the first time in a difficult
ponent, and the desire to save a little energy position in which he acquits himself quite l.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.NB g6
for the upcoming rest day? Anyway, two well. 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb3 Bg7 7.a4 d5 8.a5 Nc4
games in which normally uncompromising 9.Nbd2 c5 10.Bxc4 dxc4 ll.Nxc4 cxd4
players never get started: Walter Browne climbs out of the cellar 12.Qxd4 O-O 13.Qh4 Qc7 14.0-0 Nc6
with an unusual game, attacking on the 15.Bf4 Qd716.e6! fxe6
French Classical C14 Kingside long before either side castles. 16...Qxe6? 17.Ng5
Black's simple, straightforward strategy 17.Radl Qe8 18.Bh6 Bf6 19.Qg3 Rf7
GM Nick deFirmian
GM Yasser Seirawan works, and the penetration of Igor's 20.Qc7 e5
Kingside with pieces and pawns carries What else? Black can hardly move, as
U.S. Championship (7) 1989
right through to a winning endgame. A virtually every piece is restricted, and the
l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 brilliant demonstration by one of the Knight must prevent Rd8.
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 21.Ncxe5 Bf5 22.Nxf7 Kxf7 23.c3 Rc8 passer at move 20 and simplifies to what Kf7 50.Bc2 g4 51.Bdl Kf6 52.Bxg4 Na4
24.Qxb7 Rb8 25.Qa6 Rxb2 26.Rfel Qc8 looks for all the world like a winning posi- 53x4 bxc4 54.Be2 Kg5 55.Bxc4 a5 56.Be2
27.Qc4+ Be6 28.Qf4 Kg8 29.Nd4 Nxd4 tion, but then fails to win. Perhaps he could Nc3 57.B13 Nbl 58.Be2 Nc3 59.B13 Nbl
30.cxd4 Rb5 31.Rbl Qc3 32.Qe3 Qxe3 improve his position considerably by leav- 60.Be2 Draw
33.Bxe3 Rxa5 34.Ral Rb5 35.Rxa7 Kf7 ing his Rook at e4 at 32, and only then
36.h3 h5 37.Rc7 Rd5 38.Rdl Rd8 39.Rc5 abandon the d-pawn in favor of other mat- The two Massachusetts representatives,
Bd5 40.Rd2 g5 41.Rb2 Kg6 42.Rbb5 e6 ters. As played, Nick gets connected the most recent Soviet emigres in the
43.Rc7 Ra8 44.Rbc5 R a l + 45.Rcl Ra4 passers in a Rook ending, but Tony's f- Championship, make a friendly draw.
46.Rc8Bxd447.Rg8+ Kf6 48.Bxg5 + Kf7 pawns, Rook on c7, and the possiblity of
49.Rgc8 Ra2 50.Rlc2 R a l + 51.Rcl Ra2 his King entering with mating threats in- English Opening A27
52.Rlc7+ Kg6 53.Bh4 Ral + 54.RclRa3 duce a peaceful settlement. GM Boris Gulko
55.Rg8 + Kh7 56.Rg5 Kh6 57.Rg3 Ra4 IM Alexander Ivanov
58.Bg5 + Kh7 59.Be3 Bf6 60.Rc7+ Kh8 Modern BenoniA70 U.S. Championship (8) 1989
61.Rg6Be5 62.Rc8+ Kh7 63.Rh6+ Kg7
64.Rxh5 Bb2 65.Rc7+ Kf6 66.Rd7 Be4 GM Tony Miles l.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5 4.d4 e4 5.Bg5
GM Nick deFirmian Be7 6.Bxe7 Ncxe7 7.Nd2 Nf6 8.e3 O-O
67.Rh6 + Bg6 68.g4 1-0
U.S. Championship (8) 1989 9.Be2 d6 1 0 . 0 - 0 c5 ll.Nb3 b6 12.f3 Bb7
Rachels castles long and soon faces a 13.a4 exf3 14.BxD Bxf3 15.QxO Qd7
l.d4 Nf6 2.NO e6 3.c4 c5 4.d5 exd5
fierce buildup, as Fed tries to hand the 16.a5 Rac8 17.axb6 axb6 18.Ra6 Ne4
5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.e4 a6 8.a4 Bg4 9.h3
20-year-old his first loss. Sparks fly, but no 19.Nxe4 fxe4 20.Qxe4 Rxfl + 21.Kxfl d5
Bxf3 lO.QxO Bg7 ll.Bd3 O-O 1 2 . 0 - 0
explosion occurs, as Stuart coolly defends 22.Qd3cxd4 23.Nxd4 Draw
Nbd7 13.Qdl Re8 14.Rel Rc8 15.a5 c4
on one side while opening lines to John's 16.Bbl Nc517.Bc2 Nfd718.f4 Qh419.Bd2
King on the other. White, frustrated, finally Nd3 20.Bxd3 cxd3 21.Ra3 15 22.exf5 gxf5 Joel and Dzindzi, leading by a half-
allows a three-time repetition, and Rachels 23.Ral Nc5 24.Kh2 Rxel 25.Qxel Qxel point, assure themselves of remaining at
gains another measure of respect. 26.Bxel Bxc3 27.bxc3 Re8 28.BC Nb3 the top for at least one more day.
29.Rdl Re2 30.Kgl d2 31.KA Re4 32.g3
Rc4 33.Ke2 Rxc3 34.Be3 Rc2 35.Bxd2 Ra2 Sicilian Richter-Rauzer B66
Sicilian Sozin B57
36.Ke3 Nxd2 37.Rxd2 Rxa5 38.g4 Ra3 + GM Joel Benjamin
GM John Fedorowicz 39.Kd4 Ra4+ 40.Ke3 Ra3+ 41.Kd4 GM Roman Dzindzichashvili
FM Stuart Rachels Rxh3 42.gxf5 Ra3 43.Rc2 Ra4+ 44.Ke3 U.S. Championship (8) 1989
U.S. Championship (8) 1989 Rb4 45.Rc7Rb3+ Draw
l.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
l.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8 . 0 - 0 - 0 h6
5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 Qb6 7.Nb3 e6 8.Bg5 Be7 Seirawan, a great believer in the basic
9.Be3 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 Qc7 ll.f4 bS 12.Be2
9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.0-0 Bd7 l l . K h l O-O-O unsoundness of the Dutch, gets little
Bb7 13.BD Rc8 14.Rhel Be7 15.a3 O-O
12.a4 a6 13.Qh5 Ne5 14.Be2 Kb8 15.a5 against Gurevich's Nimzo-like setup. Yaz
16.Qb6 Draw
Qc7 16.f4 Ng6 17.g3 Rdg8 18.Radl Bc6 presses long into the ending but his bad
19.BG Bd8 20.Rd2 Be7 21.Bg2 Rg7 Bishop simply can't overwhelm Dmitry's
Dlugy and Rohde grind away for four
22.Nd4 Bd7 23.Rd3 Qc4 24.Nce2 Bd8 Knight.
tense hours, then make peace in a position
25.b3 Qb4 26.Ral Rgg8 27.c4 Bc8 28.Nc2 which could easily be prosecuted for
Qc5 29.QG h5 30.b4 Qxc4 31.Rc3 Qb5 Dutch Defense A84 another two or so.
32.Ncd4 Qd7
GM Yasser Seirawan
32...Qxb4? 33.Nc6 + ! bxc6 34.Rb3 GM Dmitry Gurevich English A21
33.Racl Be7 34.b5 e5 35.Rc7 Qxc7
U.S. Championship (8) 1989 GM Maxim Dlugy
36.Rxc7 Kxc7 37.Nf5 h4 38.Qc3+ Kb8 GM Michael Rohde
39.b6 Bd8 40.Nxd6 Bg4 41.h3 hxg3 42.Kgl l.d415 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.e3 Bb4 5.Bd3
U.S. Championship (8) 1989
Bd7 43.f5 Nh4 44.Nxf7 Rh7 4S.Nxd8 Bb5 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 O-O 7.Ne2 b6 8.13 Nc6
46.Ne6 Bxe2 47.Qd2 Nxg2! 48.Nf8! 9 . 0 - 0 Bb710.e4 fxe4 ll.fxe4 e512.Ng3 d6 l.d4 d6 2x4 e5 3.ND e4 4.Ng5 f5 5.Nc3
48.Kxg2 Bf3 + ! 49.Kx£3 g2 wins for 13.d5 Na5 14.Nf5 Bc8 15.Bg5 Bxl5 Nc6 6.Nh3 Nf6 7.Nf4 Be7 8.h4 Bd7 9.e3
Black; 48.Qxe2 Nf4 looks ok for Stuart, 16.Rxf5 h617.Bh4 g618.Bxf6 Rxf619.Qg4 Nb410.a3 Na6 ll.b4 c612.Be2 Nc713.d5
too. Kh7 20.Rxf6 Qxf6 21.RH Qg7 22.c5 Nb7 O-O 14.Qb3 c5 15.bxc5 dxc5 16.g3 Bd6
48...Kc8 49.Qc3+ Kb8 50.Qd2 Kc8 23.c6 Nc5 24.QD Kg8 25.Bc2 Rf8 17.a4 Be518.Bd2 Na619.Rbl Nb4 20.Nb5
51.Qcl+ Kb8 52.Qd2 Kc8 26.Qxf8+ Qxl8 27.Rxf8+ Kxf8 28.K12 a5 21.Bc3 Qe7 22.Bxe5 Qxe5 23.Qc3
Draw Kg7 29.H4 Kf6 30.K13 Na6 31.Ke3 Nc5 Qxc3 + 24.Nxc3 Ne8 25.Rgl Nd6 26.Kd2
32.Bdl Kg7 33.Bg4 Kf6 34.g3 Kg7 35.Bdl Rf6 27.Kcl Re8 28.Kb2 Nf7 29.Nb5 Ne5
Nick deFirmian gets the upper hand Kf6 36.Bc2 Kg7 37.K13 Kf6 38.Kg4 Na6 30.Ral Rc8 31.Kc3 g6 32.RaH h6 33.D
against Miles, solving the Benoni's space 39.h5 g5 40.KB Nc5 41.Kg4 Na6 42.KG exG 34.Bxf3 Re8 35.Rg2 Rb6 36.Re2 g5
problem by trading off one piece, then find- Nc5 43.a3 Na6 44.Bdl Nc5 45.Ke3 Ke7 37.Bh5 Re7 38.Ne6 Bxe6 39.dxe6 Rbxe6
ing good posts for all the rest. He creates a 46.Bg4 Kf6 47.Bdl b5 48.Be2 a6 49.Bdl 40.Rxf5 gxh4 41.gxh4 Draw
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -7-
 LEADERS HOLD Dmitry Gurevich falls into the cellar, as
he loosens his position against Miles'
POSITIONS original opening play and sees his center
!• • .• wt. -i * f »•:•: •• A •• : :•• disintegrate.
Round 9
Pirc Classical B08
Fedorowicz (4) Dlugy (4.5) GM Dmitry Gurevich
Rachels (5) Benjamin (5.5) GM Tony Miles
Dzindzi (5.5) Kudrin (4) U.S. Championship (9) 1989
Alburt (3) Seirawan (5)
Gurevich (2.5) Miles (3.5) l.d4 d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.NB Bg7
Browne (2.5) Gulko (4.5) 5.Be2 O-O 6 . 0 - 0 Nc6 7.d5 Nb8 8.h3 Nbd7
A. Ivanov (3.5) Rohde (4.0) 9.Rel Nc5 lO.Bfl e6 ll.dxe6 Bxe6 12.Nd4
deFirmian (4.5) I. Ivanov (3) Bd713.Nb3 Na4 14.Nxa4 Bxa4 15.c4 Re8
16.Qd3 Bc617.13 Nd718.Nd4 f519.c5 fxe4
Today's decisive games were all among 20.Qb3 + d5 21.Be3 Nxc5 22.Qc2 Bxd4
those further back in the field, as the 33.Bxd4 Ne6 24.BE2 exf3 25.Qd2 £xg2
leaders held their positions with draws. 26.Be2 Ng5 27.Bg4 Ne4 28.Qd4 h5 29.BB
NxC 30.Rxe8 + Qxe8 31.Kx£2 Qf7
32.Kxg2 Rf8 33.RH Kh7 34.Be2 Qg7
Michael Rohde floored Alexander
35.Qc5 RxH 36.Kxfl Qxb2 37.Qe7 + Qg7
Ivanov with a lightning attack, sacrificing a
38.Qg5 Bd7 39.h4 Qf7+ 40.Kgl Bf5
piece to catch the White King in the middle
41.Qf4 c5 42.a4 Qg7 43.Qg5 c4 44.KO GM Michael Rohde
of the board. In the final position, Rohde
Qd4+ 45.Kelc346.Qe7+ Qg747.Qg5c2
won on time; he's winning just as easily on
1-0 Bd4 26.h4 Bxc3 + 27.Kxc3 Rd3 + 28.Kb2
the board after 26...Rxb4 27.Qxb4 Qh3 +
28.Kgl Qe3+ 29.Kfl Qf2 mate. Gulko counters Browne's center suc- gxh4 29.Rxh4 Rd4 30.g3 Rf8 31.Bg4 Kf7
cessfully, and the game quietly builds until 32.Bh3 Ke7 33.gxf4 Rdxf4 34.Rxf4 Rxf4
it becomes a pitched battle. Boris wins a 35.Kc3 R B + 36.Re3 Rx£2 37.c5 Rc2 +
Sicilian Defense Najdorf B91 pawn, but cannot make progress in the 38.Kd4 b5 39.Bfl Rf2 40.Be2 Rf4 +
Bishop ending, and the point is ultimately 41.Kc3 Re4 42.Rxe4 Bxe4 43.Kd4 Bd5
GM Alexander Ivanov split. 44.Ke3 h6 45.Kf4 Bg2 46.Bh5 Kd7 47.Ke3
GM Michael Rohde Bh3 48.Kf4 Bf5 49.Ke3 Draw
U.S. Championship (9) 1989 Bogo-Indian Ell
l.e4 c5 2.NO d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 The encounter between Alburt and
GM Walter Browne
5.Nc3 a6 6.g3 eS 7.Nde2 b5 8.Bg5 Be7 GM Boris Gulko Seirawan is marked by subtle arguments
9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.a4 b4 l l . N d 5 Bb7 12.c3 over pawn structure—beginning with
U.S. Championship (9) 1989
Nc6 13.cxb4 White's refusal to play d4! They dance
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.NB Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 from the Pirc to the Sicilian, and all the way
O-O 5.a3 Be7 6.e4 d5 7.Qc2 dxe4 8.Nxe4 until the endgame, until finally there's
Nxe4 9.Qxe4 Nc6 10.Bd2 f5 l l . Q d 3 Bf6 nowhere else to dance to, and they draw.
12.Bc3 a6 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.dxe5 Be7 Six hours of posturing!
15.Qxd8 Rxd8 16.Be2 Bd7 17.BB Rab8
1 8 . 0 - 0 - 0 b6 19.Kc2 Bc5 20.Rd2 Ba4 + Sicilian B50
21.b3Be8 22.Re2
GM Lev Alburt
GM Yasser Seirawan
U.S. Championship (9) 1989
l . N B d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bc4 Bg7
5.h3 c5 6.e5 dxe5 7.Nxe5 O-O 8 . 0 - 0 Nbd7
9.NB Nb6 10.Be2 Nbd5 ll.Nxd5 Nxd5
12.d4 cxd4 13.Nxd4 Qb6 14.c3 Rd8
13...Nxb4 14.Nxb4 Bxe4 15.Rgl Rb8 15.Qb3 Bxd4 16.cxd4 Qxb3 17.axb3 Be6
16.Qd2 Bg5 17.f4 exf4 18.gxf4 Bh4 + 18.Bc4 Nb4 19.Be3 Nc6 20.Rfdl Bd5
19.Ng3 O-O 20.a5 Re8 21.Be2 Qc7 22.KA 21.Racl a6 22.Rc3 f6 23.Be2 Kf7 24.h4 h5
Qe7 23.Rel Qf6 24.Nh5 Qe6 25.Rxg7 + 25.B Rd7 26.Ral Rad8 27.Ra4 e6 28.b4
K18 26.Rdl Ne7 29.b5 axb5 30.Bxb5 Bc6 31.Rc5 Bxb5
And White lost on time. 32.Rxb5 Nd5 33.Bd2 Rc8 34.Ra7 Rcc7
0-1 22...g5 23.h3 Bg6 24.b4 f 4 + 25.Kb2 35.Rc5 b6 36.Rcxc7 Rxc7 37.Rxc7 + Nxc7
-8- INSIDE CHESS Issue 1
38.K£2 Ke7 39.Ke3 Kd6 40.Ke4 Nd5 41.g3 Fed's second draw by repetition in a row. tribution of the leaders changed. Rachels
Kc6 42.Bel Kb5 43.b3 Kc6 44.Bd2 Ne7 moved into a share of first by beating
45^4 Kd7 46.g5 f 5 + 47.Ke5 Nd5 48.Bcl Sicilian Richter-Rauzer B66 Kudrin, while Dzindzi and Benjamin con-
b5 49.Ba3 b4 50.Bcl Ke7 51.Bd2 Nc3 servatively held their ground. Seirawan,
GM John Fedorowicz
52.Bel Draw GM Maxim Dlugy still a half-point back after drawing
Not ones to agree to a short draw, Dzindi Dzindzi, was joined by both Gulko, who
U.S. Championship (9) 1989
and Kudrin also dance for the better part of beat deFirmian, and Dlugy, who felled
the day. l.e4 c5 2.ND d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 Alexander Ivanov.
5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8 . 0 - 0 - 0 h6
Double Fianchetto A30 9.Be3 Nxd410.Bxd4 b511.13 Qa512.Bxf6 Twenty-year-old Stuart Rachels, who
gxf6 13.Kbl b4 14.Ne2 Qc5 15.Nf4 a5 has performed solidly throughout and has
GM Roman Dzindzichashvili
16.g3 h5 17.Nd3 Qd4 18.Bg2 Rb8 19.Qel shone whenever the opportunity arose,
GM Sergey Kudrin
a4 20.Ncl Qc5 21.Nd3 Qd4 22.Ncl Qc5 whipped up a brash Kingside attack to
U.S. Championship (9) 1989 23.Nd3 Draw regain a share of the lead on a day. Kudrin
l.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 chooses an unaggressive line against the
5.Bg2 g6 6 . 0 - 0 Bg7 7.Rel Ne4 8.Nxe4 The next game was actually played be- Sicilian, and Black soon gets the idea of
Bxe4 9.d3 Bb7 lO.Rbl O-O ll.a3 d612.b4 tween Rounds 13 and 14 due to Igor's being causing trouble for White's King.
Nd713.Bb2 Bxb214.Rxb2 Rb815.Qd2 a6 somewhat indisposed.
16.Rebl Qc7 17.h4 h5 18.bxc5 bxc5 Sicilian Dragon B70
Scilian Sozin
GM Sergey Kudrin
GjM Nick deFirmian FM Stuart Rachels
GM Igor Ivanov
U.S. Championship (10) 1989
U.S. Championship (9) 1989
l.e4 c5 2.ND Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
l.e4 c5 2.N£3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g3 g6 7.Nde2 Bd7 8.Bg2 Qc8
5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qe2 O-O 9.Nd5 Bg7 1 0 . 0 - 0 Nxd5 ll.exd5 Ne5
9 . 0 - 0 - 0 Na5 10.Bd3 a6 ll.Nb3 e5 12.a4 Bh3 13.Ra2 h5 14.Bxh3 Qxh3 15.13
12.Nxa5 Qxa5 13.Bc4 Be6 14.Kbl Qb4 g5 16.Khl Bf6 17.b3 Qf5 18.Nd4 Qg6
15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.exd5 Rac8 17.Bb3 Nd7 19.c4 g4 20.Rg2 h4 21.gxh4 Rxh4 22.f4
18.0 Nc5 19.c3 Qa5 20.Bc2 Na4 21.g4 b5 Nd7 23.Nb5 O-O-O 24.Nxa7+ Kb8
22.g5 Rc4 23.Bb3 Rc7 24.h4 Nb6 25.f4 exf4 25.Be3 Rdh8 26.Qel g3 27.Qa5 Rxh2 +
26.Bxf4 Nc4 27.Rd4 Rfc8 28.Re4 Bf8 28.Rxh2 Qe4+ 29.Kgl Qxe3+ 1-0
29.h5 Qb6 30.g6 h6 31.gxf7 + Rxf732.Bc2 Boris Gulko produces a nice positional
19.Ne5 Bxg2 20.Nxd7 Rxb2 21.Qxb2
Rfc7 33.Rxc4 bxc4 34.Qe6 + Rf735.Qxc8 game in the style of Kasparov, sacrificing a
Qxd7 22.Kxg2 Qa4 23.Qc3 Qc6 + 24.Kgl
Rxf436.Qe6+ Kh837.Qg6Kg838.Qe6 + pawn to establish the notorious Nf5, and
Qc7 25.Qb2 Qa5 26.Kg2 Re8 27.0 Qa4
Kh8 39.Qg6 Kg8 40.Rel Qf2 41.Qh7 + his pieces dominate the board. Nick never
28.Qc3 Kh7 29.Rb3 Kg8 30.Qb2 Kh7
Kf742.Qg6+ Kg843.Qe6+ Kh844.a4a5 finds a way out of the various pins on his
31.Qc3 Kg8 32.Rbl Kh7 33.Qcl Qc6
45.Qe8 Kg8 46.Rdl Qh4 47.Qe6+ Kh8 Knights, and concedes one of them with
34.Qg5 Kg7 35.Qd2 Qa4 36.Qc3+ Kh7
48.Qg6 Kg8 49.Qe6 + Kh8 50.Qg6 Kg8 24... Qb8— it simply couldn't be avoided!
37.Qb3 Qa5 38.KC Kg8 39.Ke3 Kg7
51.Ka2 Qf2 52.Qe6+ Kh8 53.Qg6 Kg8
40.Qb2+ Kh7 41.Kf2 Qa4 42.Qb3 Qa5
54.Rgl Rh4 55.Qe6 + Kh8 56.Qg6 Kg8
43.Qb7 Kg8 44.Qc6 Kf8 45.a4 Qc3 46.Qe4 Nimzo-Indian E32
57.Rg2 Q13 58.Qe6+ Kh8 59.Qg6 Kg8
Qc2 47.Rb7 Qxa4 48.g4 Draw
60.Qe6 + Kh8 61.Rd2 Qf6 1-0 GM Boris Gulko
Despite the sharp nature of the opening GM Nick deFirmian
they choose, battle is never joined in this
game between leaders. U.S. Championship (10) 1989
Round 10
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O
Sicilian Defense B32 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 d6 7.Bg5 6 8.Bh4
RACHELS REJOINS Nbd7 9.e3 b6 10.Bd3 Bb7 l l . O c5 12.Ne2
GM Stuart Rachels
GM Joel Benjamin LEADERS cxd4 13.exd4 Rc8 14.b4 e5 15.0-0! b5
Dlugy (5) A. Ivanov (3.5) 16x5! exd4 17.Nxd4 dxc518.N15! c4
U.S. Championship (9) 1989
Rohde (5) Browne (3) 19.Bc2 Bd5 20.Radl Be6 21.Rd6 Re8
l.e4 c5 2.NG Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 Gulko (5) deFirmian (5.5) 22.Rfdl Rc7 23.f4 Bx!5 24.Bxf5 Qb8
5.Nb5 d6 6.a4 Be7 7.Nlc3 a6 8.Na3 Be6 I. Ivanov (3) Gurevich (2.5) 25.Bxd7 Rxd7 26.Rxd7 Nxd7 27.Rxd7
9.Bc4 Nfl> 10.Bg5 O-O ll.O-O Rc8 Miles (4.5) Alburt (3) Qxf4 28.Q13 Q c l + 29.QO Qe3+ 30.Bf2
12.Bxf6 Bxfi6 13.Nd5 Bg5 14.c3 Kh8 Seirawan (5.5) Dzindzi (6) Qxa3 31.Bd4 1-0
15.Qe2 Bh6 Draw Kudrin (4.5) Rachels (5.5)
Max Dlugy boldly charges up the Benjamin (6) Fedorowicz (4.5) Max saddles Alexander with an isolated
Queen's wing, then cooperates to produce The race for first tightened, as the dis- Queen pawn, then plays against it success-
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -9-
fully. While Nf5 appears only briefly in this
game (move 25), it is enough, and White
soon wins several pawns.

Queen's Indian E15

GM Maxim Dlugy
IM Alexander Ivanov
U.S. Championship (10) 1989
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.N13 b6 4.g3 Ba6
5.Qa4 Bb7 6.Bg2 c5 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8 . 0 - 0
O-O 9.Nc3 Be7 10.Bf4 Na6 l l . R a d l Nc5
12.Qc2 Qc8 13.Rd4 d5 14.cxd5 exd5
lS.Rddl Nce4 16.Be5 Qe6 17.Nb5 Rac8
lS.Qbl Ng4 19.Bf4 g5 20.Bcl a6 21.Nbd4
Qf6 22.h3 Nh6 23.h4 gxh4 24.Bxh6 Qxh6
25.Nf5 Qf6 26.N3xh4 Rc7 27.Nxe7 + Rxe7
28.Rd3 Rc7 29.RO Qe5 30.Rdl Bc8
31.Re3 f5 32.Qd3 Bb7 33.Qb3 b5 34.f4 Six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne showed his fighting qualities by
Qe6 35.Nxf5 Qxf5 36.Bxe4 Qt7 37.Bxd5 overcoming his horrible start and fighting his way back to respectability.
Bxd5 38.Qxd5 1-0
An amazing game between two original 59.Rc8 Re6+ 60.Rc6 Re8 61.Rc8 Re5
Igor, clearly recovered from his Sunday players, the Miles-Alburt encounter started 62.Rd5 Re6+ 63.Kc5 R c l + 64.Kd4
in bed, presses throughout a fairly even out like any other game in which players Rdl + 65.Kc3 Rb6 66.Rxdl Rxb7 67.Nd4
game. In a major piece ending, he gets a were about to agree to a draw. Suddenly, Kxg4 68.Rgl + Rf4 69.Rc5 Ra7 70.Rcxg5
pawn to c7, then uncorks the wily sham sac though, Tony saw a weak pawn on the 1-0
Queenside, and sent his King out to get it!
49.Rxf7 + !, breaking down resistance. The
Moves 12 through 19 bring the monarch to Michael Rohde gets a Knight to f5, but
Queen ending is winning as White's King
b5, and 38.Ka7 crowns the march. Sub- it's not as effective as in today's other
simply crosses the board to join her ad-
sequent action sees the King return as far games. In scattered fighting first White,
vance guard— so Dmitry resigned after ad-
as b4 before rejoining the fray. By the time then Black, wins pawns, and Browne
journing. His sixth loss, against only one
Alburt's King heads into battle (it's never makes move 40 a pawn up. Excellent play
victory, was duly recorded.
too late to develop it!), Tony is collecting in the Rook and opposite-colored-Bishop
the point. ending gives him the point.
Torre Attack A46
IM Igor Ivanov English A30 King's Indian Attack A00
GM Dmitry Gurevich
U.S. Championship (10) 1989 GM Tony Miles GM Michael Rohde
GM Lev Alburt GM Walter Browne
l.d4 Nf6 2.ND e6 3.Bg5 c5 4.e3 cxd4
U.S. Championship (10) 1989 U.S. Championship (10) 1989
5.exd4 b6 6.a3 Be7 7.c4 O-O 8.Nc3 Bb7
9.Bd3 d5 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 ll.cxd5 exd5 l.NB c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 Nf6 4x4 d5 l.g3 e5 2.Bg2 d5 3.d3 Nf6 4.NI3 Bd6
12.0-0 Nc6 13.Rel Qd6 14.Nb5 Qd8 5xxd5 Nxd5 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Ndb4 5.Nc3 c6 6x4 dxe4 7.dxe4 O-O 8 . 0 - 0 Na6
15.Rcl a6 16.Nc3 b5 17.Qc2 g6 18.Nxd5 8.Nxc6 Qxdl + 9.Kxdl Nxc6 10.Be3 Bd7 9.h3 Nc7 10.Nh4 Ne6 ll.Nf5 Bc7 12.Be3
Qxd5 19.Be4 Nxd4 20.Nxd4 Qd7 21.Bxb7 ll.Nc3 g6 12.Kc2 Bf5+ 13.Kb3 Rc8 g6 13.Nh4 Bb6 14.Bh6 Re8 15.N13 Qxdl
Qxb7 22.Nb3 Rac8 23.Nc5 Qb6 24.b4 Bd4 14.Bxc6+ Rxc6 15.Bxa7 Be6+ 16.Kb4 16.Raxdl Nd4 17.Nxd4 Bxd4 18.Na4 a5
25.Redl Rfd8 26.h3 Rd6 27.Rd3 a5 Bg7 17.Racl Rc4+ 18.Kb5 O-O 19.Rhdl 19x3 Ba7 20.b3 b5 21.Nb2 Be6 22.Rd6
28.Qd2 axb4 29.axb4 Rcd8 30.Kfl Bxc5 Rc6 20.Bc5 Rfc8 21.Na4 Bxa2 22.Rd7 e6 Rec8 23.Rfdl a4 24.bxa4 bxa4 25.Nxa4
31.bxc5 Rxd3 32.Qxd3 Qc7 33.QO Qh2 23.Nb6 Rb8 24.Rcdl Bf6 25.b4 Bb3 Ne8 26.R6d2 Bxf2+ 27.Kxt2 Rxa428.Bfl
34.g4 b4 35.c6 Qc7 36.h4 h6 37.h5 g5 26.Rld3 Bc2 27.RO Kg7 28.g4 g5 29.Be7 Rca8 29.Be2 f6 30.Rbl Rxa2 31.Rxa2
38.Rc4 Rb8 39.Rd4 Qe5 40.Rd7 R18 Bxe7 30.Rxe7 Bg6 31.Nd7 Rd8 32.Nc5 Rxa2 32.Ke3 Ra7 33.Rb6 Rc7 34.g4 Kf7
41.Kg2 Qb5 42.Rd6 Qe5 43.Qd3 Kg7 Rb8 33.Nd7 Rd8 34.Nc5 Rb8 35.Rd7 Kf8 35.Rb8 Ke7 36.h4 Rc8 37.Rb6 Nd6 38.g5
44.Rd5 Qf6 45.Rd6 Qe5 46x7 Rc8 47.Rd7 36.Nxb7 Rc2 37.Kb6 Rxe2 38.Ka7 Re8 f5 39.Bg7 Nxe4 40.Bxe5 Bd7 41.Ra6 Nd6
Qe6 48.Qd4 + Qf6 49.Rxf7+! Kxf7 39.b5 Rb2 40.Kb6 e5 41.Nd6 Re6 42.Kc5 42x4 Rb8 43.Kd4 Rb3 44x5 Nb5 +
50.Qd7 + Qe7 51.Qxc8 Qe4+ 52.Kh2 Rc2+ 43.Nc4 Kg7 44.Rd2 Rcl 45.Re3 45.Bxb5 Rxb5 46.Bd6+ Ke6 47.Kc4 Rb2
Qf4+ 53.Kgl Qcl + 54.Kg2 Qc6+ 55.0 Re8 46.Kb4 e4 47.b6 Rc8 48.Rc3 Rbl + 48.Ral Re2 49.Rdl Kf7 50.Kc3 Ra2
Qc2+ 56.Kg3 Qcl 57.Qd7+ Kf6 49.Rb3 Rcl 50.Nd6 Rb8 51.Kb5 h5 52.h3 51.Rel Be6 52.Rbl Ra3+ 53.Kd2 Bb3
58.Qd6+ Kf7 59.Kf2 Qc2+ 60.Ke3 hxg4 53.hxg4 Kf6 54.b7 Ke5 55.Kb6 Rh8 54.Rel Ra7 55.Rbl Ra3 56.Rel Ra7
Qc3+ 61.Ke4 1-0 56.Rb5 + Kf4 57.Rc5 Rbl + 58. Nb5 Re8 57.Kc3 Bd5 58.Rbl Ke6 59.Rb8 Ra3 +

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 60.Kb2 Ra2+ 61.Kbl R£2 62.Rb4 Be4 + O-O 10.0-0 Nd4 ll.Nxd4 cxd4 12.Nb5 gested instead 13.b4! cxb4 (13...b6 14.Rbl!
63.Kcl Kd5 64.Kdl Rg2 65.Rb7 Kd4 Qb6 13.a4 Qc5 14.f4 Bd7 15.b3 Nc6 g6 15.bxc5 bxc5 16.Rb7H leaves Black all
66.Kcl Ke3 67.R17 Rc2+ 68.Kbl Rh2 + 16.Rb2 Rab8 17.g4 15 18xxf5 exf5 19.g5 tied up) 14.c5+ Kxc5 15.Na4+ Kd6
69.Kal Ra2+ 70.Kxa2 Bd5+ 71.Kb2 Nb4 20.Re2 Rfe8 21.Rfel d5 22.Rxe8 + 16.Nb2 with a clear advantage to White.
Bxf7 72.Kc2 f4 73.Kdl 13 0-1 Rxe8 23.Rxe8 + Bxe8 24.Qe2 Br7 25.Ba3
Good friends for many years, John and dxc4 26.bxc4 b6 27.Kfl? Bf8 28.Bb2? Alekhine Defense B04
Joel decide on a day of rest.
GM Nick deFirmian
GM Michael Rohde
Benko Gambit A59
U.S. Championship (11) 1989
GM Joel Benjamin
GM John Fedorowicz 1x4 Nf6 2x5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.NO dxe5
5.Nxe5 Nd7
U.S. Championship (10) 1989
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6
5.bxa6 Bxa6 6.Nc3 g6 7.e4 Bxfl 8.Kxfl d6
9.g3 Bg710.Kg2 O-O l l . N B Nbd712.Rel
Ng4 13.Qc2 Qb6 14.Re2 Rfb8 15.Ndl
Draw

Dzindzi offers Yaz a pawn with his eighth

move, but Seirawan doesn't bite. 28...Nxd3! 29.Bd5 Bxd5 30xxd5 Nxb2
31.Qe6+ Kh8 32.Qe5+ Bg7 33.Qe8 +
Queen's Indian Defense E13 Qf8 34.Qe6 d3 35.Nd6 d2 36.Nf7+ Qxf7
37.Qxf7dl(Q)+ 1-0
GM Yasser Seirawan
GM Roman Dzindichashvili
Fed builds up a nice position, but things
U.S. Championship (10) 1989 aren't easy against Sergey's solid defense. 6.Nxf7 Kxf7 7.Qh5+ Ke6 8x4 N5f6
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.NO b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 In time pressure, John blunders with 39.d6 9.d5+ Kd6 10.Q17 Ne5 ll.Bf4 c5 12.Nc3
5.Bg5 Bb4 6.Qb3 c5 7.a3 Ba5 8.dxc5 Na6! and loses a tough game. a6 1 3 . 0 - 0 - 0 g6 14.Bxe5+ Kxe5 15.d6
9.Nd2 Nxc5 10.Qc2 Bxc3 ll.Qxc3 O-O Bh6+ 16.Kc2 Qe8 17.Rd5+ Nxd5
12.e3 a5 13.Be2 Nce4 Draw Grunfeld Fianchetto D71 18.Qxd5 + Kf6 19.Ne4+ Kg7 20.Qe5 +
Kf7 21.Bd3 Bf5 22.g4 Bxe4 23.Bxe4 e6
GM John Fedorowicz
GM Sergey Kudrin 24.Rel Qa4+ 25.Kd3 Rhe8 26.h4 1-0
Round 11
U.S. Championship (11) 1989
Lev, in his favorite Catalan, also invests
Benjamin (6.5) Dlugy (6) l.d4 Nf6 2x4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 d5 a piece, unsuccessfully. Though he even-
Fedorowicz (5) Kudrin (4.5) 5xxd5 Nxd5 6x4 Nb4 7.d5 O-O 8.a3 N4a6 tually nets Igor's Queen, it's too little too
Rachels (6.5) Seirawan (6) 9.ND c 6 1 0 . 0 - 0 cxd5 l l x x d 5 Nd712.Nc3 late.
Dzindzi (6.5) Miles (5.5) Nb6 13.Rel Nc7 14.Ne5 Ne8 15.Bf4 Nd6
Alburt (3) I. Ivanov (4) 16.Qe2 Re817.Radl Bd718.h4 h519.Kh2 Catalan E06
Gurevich (2.5) Gulko (6) a6 20.Ne4 Ba4 21.Rd4 Bb5 22.Q13 Nd7
GM Lev Alburt
deFirmian (5.5) Rohde (5) 23.Ng5 Nxe5 24.Bxe5 Bxe5 25.Rxe5 Bd7 IM Igor Ivanov
Browne (4) A. Ivanov (3.5) 26.Rel Rc8 27.RT4 Bf5 28.Bh3 Bxh3
29.Kxh3 Rf8 30.Qd3 Qd7+ 31.Kh2 Nf5 U.S. Championship (11) 1989
Joel falls out of the lead group, blunder- 32.Re5 Qb5 33.Qbl Qb6 34.Rexf5 gxf5 l.d4 Nf6 2x4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4
ing in a fencing match with Max; his unfor- 35.Qxf5 Qg6 36.Qe5 Rcl 37.Rf5 Rel 5.N£3 Nc6 6 . 0 - 0 Rb8 7.a4 b6 8.e3 Bb7
tunate sequence 27.Kfl? and 28.Bb2? al- 38.Qf4 f6 39.d6 e6 40.Rc5 fxg5 0-1 9.Nbd2 Na5 10.Qc2 Nd5 ll.Ne5 Nb4
lows Dlugy to steal the d-pawn, and his 12.Qdl Bxg2 13.Kxg2 Qd5+ 14.QO f5
c-pawn also becomes doomed as a result. In one of the sharpest games of the tour- 15x4 Qxd4 16.Qh5 + g6 17.Nxg6 hxg6
Benjamin throws his pieces desperately at nament, Michael Rohde of New York 18.Qxg6 + Kd7 19.Nf3 Qxe4 20.Rel Qd5
the Black King, but to no avail. makes a shrewd psychological choice of 21.Qf7 + Be7 22.Bg5 Rbe8 23.Re5 Qc6
openings. With 5...Nd7!?, an old Larsen 24.Rael Rhf8 25.Qh7 Nd3 26.Rxe6
English Opening E36 favorite, he dares the ever-aggressive Nick Nxel + 27.Rxel Qd6 28.Re2 Nb3 29.Qg7
deFirmian to sacrifice on f7. Nick does, Rg8 30.Qf7 Rxg5 31.Nxg5 Nd4 32.Re3 Rf8
GM Joel Benjamin
GM Maxim Dlugy but his knowledge of theory runs out before 33.Qg7 c5 34.h4 f4 35.Ne4 fxe3 36.Nxd6
Michael is forced to show his improvement Rxl2 + 37.Kh3 e2 38.Qe5 Bxd6 39.Qe4
U.S. Championship (11) 1989
on existing lines. ECO, Volume B, second Rf3 40.Qb7 + Ke6 41.Qc8+ Ke7 1-0
l.c4 c5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nc6 edition, queries 13.0-0-0 because of the
5.a3 e6 6.Rbl a5 7x4 Nge7 8.Nge2 d6 9.d3 way Rohde played in the game. Keres sug- Browne creates a passer on the Queen-
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -11-
side, but it gets away from him, and 16.exd5 Qc8 1 7 . 0 - 0 O-O 18.Bh6 Nf6
Alexander presses home his advantage. 19.Radl Bxc6 20.Nxc6 Bxh6 21.Qxh6
Two pawns down, Walter runs out of time. Nxd5 22.Rxd5 Qxc6

Queen's Indian Defense E15

GM Walter Browne
IM Alexander Ivanov
U.S. Championship (11) 1989
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.NO b6 4.g3 Ba6
5.Nbd2 Bb7 6.Bg2 c5 7.e4 cxd4 8.Nxd4
Bc5 9.Nc2 Qc7 1 0 . 0 - 0 Nc6 l l . b 3 h5
12.Rbl h413.b4 Be7 14.Bb2 hxg3 15.hxg3
a5 16.a3 axb4 17.axb4 Ra2 18.Qf3 Bd6
19.Qb3 Ra8

23.Rxh5 gxh5 24.Qg5+ Kh7

25.Qxh5 + Draw

Dmitry probes at Black's position, resist-

ing a Queen-trade on the d-file, but even-
tually he grants Boris the draw.

Old Indian Defense A55

GM Dmitry Gurevich
GM Boris Gulko
U.S. Championship (11) 1989
2.c5 bxc5 21.Bxf6 c4 22.Nxc4 gxf6
1.NE3 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 Nbd7 4.Nc3 c6
23.N2a3 Nd4 24.Qd3 e5 25.Rfcl Rc8
5.e4 e5 6.Be2 Be7 7 . 0 - 0 a6 8.Qc2 O-O
26.Nxd6+ Qxd6 27.Rxc8+ Bxc8 28.Nb5
9.Rdl Qc7 10.a3 Re8 ll.b4 Bf8 12.dxe5
Nxb5 29.Qxb5 Ba6 30.Qa4 Ke7 31.b5 Bb7
Nxe5 13.Nxe5 dxe5 14.c5 Be6 15.Bg5 Be7
32.RdI Qc5 33.Qb3 d6 34.Qd3 Ra8
16.Na4 Rad817.Be3 Rxdl + 18.Rxdl Rd8
35.Qbl Ra4 36.Rd2 Rc4 37.Kh2 Rcl
19.13 R x d l + 20.Qxdl Qd8 21.Qcl Nd?
38.Qb2 Qc8 39.f3 Qc5 40.RI2 Rc3 41.Rd2
22.Nb2 Nf8 23.Nd3 Qc7 24.Qc3 f6 25.g3 GM Tony Miles
Rc4 42.b6 Rb4 43.Qa2 Qxb6 44.Rc2 KI8
Qd7 26.f4 exf4 27.gxf4 Bd8 28.f5 Bf7
4S.Qa3 Kg7 46.Ra2 Rb3 47.Qa4 Qe3
29.NC Bc7 30.Bc4 Qe7 31.Qb3 Bxc4
48.Qa7 Q h 6 + 49.Kgl f5 50.exf5 Bxf3
32.Qxc4+ Qf7 33.Qxf7+ Kxf7 Draw
51.RI2 Rbl + 52.RH Rxfl + 53.Bxfl Qg5
54.Q12 Qxf5 55.Be2 Q b l + 56.Bfl Be4
Despite an impressive space advantage,
57.Qd2 Qb6+ 58.Kh2 Bf5 59.Bc4 Bg6
Dzindzi is loath to prepare a breakthrough,
White overstepped the time limit.
and continues to coast with a draw.
1-0
Yasser tries to cast his spell on the
youngest leader, but Stuart secures a strong Old Indian Defense A41
outpost at c6. Yaz breaks it up, but allows GM Roman Dzindzichashvili
Rachels to sac a Rook for a perpetual GM Tony Miles
check.
U.S. Championship (11) 1989

Modem Defense B06 l.d4 d6 2.ND Bg4 3.c4 Nd7 4.e4 e5

5.Be2 Be7 6.Nc3 Bxf3 7.BxG Bg5 8.Bxg5
FM Stuart Rachels
Qxg5 9 . 0 - 0 Qd8 10.Bg4 Ngf6 ll.f4 O-O
GM Yasser Seirawan
12.Bxd7 Nxd7 13.Qd2 c6 14.Radl exf4
U.S. Championship (11) 1989 15.Qxf4 Qe716.Rd3 Rae817.Rg3 f618.b3
l.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nge2 a6 Rf7 19.Rd3 Nf8 20.Rd2 Draw •
5.Be3 b5 6.Qd2 Bb7 7.G Nd7 8.h4 h5 9.d5 Editor's Note— We will conclude our
c5 10.dxc6 Bxc6 ll.Nd4 Bb7 12.a4 b4 coverage of the 1989 U.S. Championship
13.Nd5 a5 14.Bb5 Ngf6 15.Bc6 Nxd5 in our next issue.
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139 GMs Crowd the Field in Palma de Mallorca

Boris Gelfand Wins 3rd GMA Open in Palma

by IM John Donaldson be held in Belgrade. Fifty players will Sicilian Richter-Rauzer B65
compete in a Swiss to produce 12

T he 3rd GMA Open, held in Palma

de Mallorca from December 6-15,
was won by rising young Soviet GM Boris
qualifiers. Because World Cup regula-
tions allow only eight players from any
one country (not counting the World
GM Kiril Georgiev
GM Dmitry Gurevich
Palma GMA 1989
Gelfand. The 21-year-old Gelfand, who Champion), the Soviet players will only l.e4 c5 2.NB d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
is trained by IM Kapengut, led from start be eligible for five spots in Belgrade; Kar- 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 Be7 8. O-O-O
to finish as he began the event with five Nxd4 9.Qxd4 O-O 10.f4 Qa5 ll.Bc4 Bd7
pov, Salov, and Ehlest are already in for
straight wins before coasting home. 12.e5 dxe5 13.fxe5 Bc6 14.Bd2 Nd7
finshing in the top six in the 1989-90
Tying for second in the record-break- 15.Nd5 Qd8 16.Nxe7+ Qxe7 17.Rhel
World Cup.
ing event, which featured 139 GMs in the Rfd818.Qg4 Nf8 19.Bd3
American representatives will be
182-player field, were U.S. repre-
Yasser Seirawan, Nick deFirmian, Tony
sentatives Gata Kamsky and Tony Miles.
Miles, Gata Kamsky, and probably Boris
For Kamsky, this was an incredible result.
At only 2345 Elo he was almost denied Gulko.
entry into the tournament, but his sub-
sequent wins over GMs silenced his
GMA Open at
critics. Gata's opening play didn't im-
Palma de Mallorca
press — but everyone had high respect for
his positional play, endgame skill, and
incredible tenacity. 1. GM Boris Gelfand (URS) 2590 7.5-1.5
2-3. Gata Kamsky (USA) 2345 7-2
Miles started slowly with two out of
four, but five straight wins took him to the GM Tony Miles (USA) 2570
top. After a couple of years of uneven 4-15. GM Sergey Makarichev 6.5-2.5
results, it looks like Miles is back to his GM Daniel King (ENG) 2495
old 2600-self. GM Mikhail Gurevich (URS) 2645 19...Rxd3 20.cxd3 Qd7 21.Bb4 Qd5
GM Jon Arnason (ISD) 2520 22.Bxf8 Rxf8 23.Kbl Qxg2 24.Qxg2 Bxg2
The remaining five qualifiers (on tie-
GM Vladimir Malaniuk (URS) 2560 25.Rcl Bc6 26.Rc4 f5 27.exf6 Rxf6 28.h4
break) in the logjam at 6.5 were GMs
GM Alexey Dreev (URS) 2570 h6 29.Rgl Kf7 30.h5 Kf8 31.Kc2 Rf5
Sergey Makarichev, Daniel King, Mikhail
GM Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2555 32.Rcg4 Rf7 33.Kc3 Bf3 34.Rg6 Rc7 +
Gurevich, Jon Arnason, and Vladimir
35.Kd2 Bxh5 36.Rxe6 Bf7 37.RT1 Rd7
Malaniuk. This was the second GMA GM Dragoljub Velimirovic (YUG) 2535
38.Ke3 Kg8 39.Re5 g5 40.d4 Bxa2 41.Ral
open in which Gurevich has qualified. GM Yuri Balashov (URS) 2535
Bf7 42.Rxa7 Kg7 43.Rb5 Bd5 44.Raa5
Sergey Makarichev has been a GM for GM Curt Hansen (DEN) 2550
Re7+ 45.K£2 Rf7+ 46. Kg3 RB +
some time but doesn't play frequently. GM Gilberto Milos (BRS) 2510
47.Kg2 Be4 48.d5 g4 49.Kgl Rg3 + 50.KI2
For Makarichev, captain of the 1988 GM Alexander Goldin (URS) 2525
RO+ 51.Kelg3 52.Rxb7+ Kf653.Ra6 +
Soviet Men's Olympiad team, this was the
Ke5 54.Rg7 Re3 + 55.Kd2 Rd3 + 56.Ke2
best result of his career. The same can be U.S. players with 5 points: Rb3 57.Re7+ Kf4 58.Rf6+ Bf5 59.Ref7
said for Icelander Jon Arnason and GMs Dlugy, Mednis, Browne, and Draw
Englishman Daniel King. The last Benjamin; 4.5 points: GMs Gurevich,
qualifier, Soviet Vladimir Malaniuk, has Kudrin, Byrne, and Soltis; 4 points: GM
participated in a couple of U.S.S.R. Queen's Indian E18
Lein and IM Wolff; 3.5 points; WGM
Championships and has been rated 2550- GM K. Hulak
Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya and GM
2580 for the past few years. However, he GM I. Naumkin
Shamkovich; 2 points: GMDenker. GM
seldom plays in the West. Palma GMA 1989
Reshevsky had 1 from 4 before withdraw-
Unfortunately for all the Soviet ing. l.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7
qualifiers, their path to the 1991-92 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nc3 O-O 7 . 0 - 0 Nxe4 8.Bd2
World Cup will not be easy. Next April, GM Kevin Spraggett of Canada had f5 9.d5 Bf6 10.Qc2 Bxc3 ll.Bxc3 exd5
the final GMA World Cup Qualifier will 5.5 points. 12.cxd5 Bxd5 13.Be5 d6 14.Bf4 Qe7
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -13-
15.Kadi Bb7 16.Nd4 g617.f3 Nf618.Rfel 54.gxh5Nc555.Rf6+ Ke8 56.Rf4 Rbl 0-1 Sicilian B43
Nh519.Bh6 Rf7 20.e4 f4 21.g4 Ng7 22.BH
GM Viktor Kupreichik
Ba6 23.e5 d5 24.Nc6 Qh4 25.Bxg7 Kxg7
Petroff C43 GM Jaime Sunye
26.e6 R18 27.Nxb8 Bxfl 28.Nd7 1-0
Palma GMA 1989
GM Sergey Dolmatov
Slav Exchange D13 GM Sergey Makarichev l.e4 c5 2.Nc3 a6 3.NB b5 4.d4 cxd4
GM Josef Klinger Palma GMA 1989 5.Nxd4 Bb7 6.Bd3 e6 7 . 0 - 0 Qc7 8.Qe2
GM Vassily Smyslov Nc6 9.Nxc6 Qxc6 10.a4 b4 ll.Nd5 Nf6
l.e4 e5 2.NO Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 12.Bc4 Bd6 13.Rdl Bc5 14.Bh6 O-O-O
Palma GMA 1989
5.Nxe5 Nd7 6.Nxd7 Bxd7 7 . 0 - 0 Qh4 8. c4 15.Bb5 axb5 16.axb5 Qd6 17.Nxf6 Qf8
l.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 O-O-O 9x5 g5 10.0 Nf6 ll.Be3 Rg8 18.Bxg7 Qxg7 19.Qc4 d6 20.Rxd6 Qg5
5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 e6 7.Bd3 Be7 8.h3 O-O 12.Nc3 g413.Qel g314.hxg3 Rxg315.Qd2 21.Nd5exd5 22.Qxc5+ Kb8 23.Rc61-0
9.ND Qb610.a3 Bd7 ll.O-O Rfc812.Qe2
Be813.Racl Na514.Rc2 Qd815. Nd2 Nc6 English A37
16.Rfcl h617.b4 a518.b5 Na719.Ndbl b6
GM Tony Miles
20.a4 Bd6 21.Q13 Rab8 22.Nd2 Bxf4 GM Anthony Kosten
23.Qxf4 Rb7 24.g4 Nh7 25.NO Ng5
26.Nxg5 hxg5 27.Qe5 Bd7 28. e4 f629.Qd6 Palma GMA 1989
dxe4 30.Bxe4 Rbb8 31.d5 e5 32.Ndl Rxc2 l.g3 c5 2.Bg2 Nc6 3x4 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7
33.Rxc2 Rc8 34.Ne3 Rxc2 35.Bxc2 Nc8 5.NB e6 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nb5 d5 8.cxd5 Qa5 +
36.Qb8 Qf8 37.Bf5 Qe8 38.Qc7 1-0 9.Qd2 Qxb5 10.dxc6 Qxc6 ll.O-O Qb6
12.b3 Ne7 13.Ba3 Nd5 14.Racl Nc3 15.e3
Grunfeld Exchange D85 dxe3 16.fxe3 Qa6 17.Bb2 Ne4 18.Qc2 Nf6
GM Boris Gelfand 19.Ng5 e5 20.Qc5 Be6 21. Rxf6 Bxf6
GM Attila Groszpeter 22.B11 Rc8 23.Bb5 + Rc6 24.Ne4 Be7
Palma GMA 1989 25.Qxe5 f6 26.Rxc6 fxe5 27. Rxa6+ Kf7
15...Bxc5 16.dxc5 Rdg8 17.Rfdl d4 28.Rxa7 Bd5 29.Bc4 1-0
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5
18x6 dxe3 19.cxd7+ Kd8 0-1
5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.N13 c5 8. Rbl O-O Ruy Lopez Schliemann C63
9.Be2 b610.0-0 Bb7 ll.Qd3 cxd412.cxd4
GM Petar Popovic
Ba6 13.Qe3 Qd7 14.Ba3 Bxe2 15.Qxe2 Gheorgiu Benoni E90 GM Vinko Inkiov
Nc6 16.d5 Ne5 17.Nxe5 Bxe5 18.f4 Bd6
GM Josef Klinger Palma GMA 1989
19.Bb2 e6 20.Rbdl Rae8 21.Qg4 f5 22.Qg3
Qb5 23.Be5 Bxe5 24.fxe5 fxe4 25.d6 Qc6 GM K. Hulak l.e4 e5 2.NB Nc6 3.Bb5 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4
26.Khl e3 27. Rfel Rf5 28.Rxe3 Ref8 Palma GMA 1989 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Nxe5 dxe4 7.Nxc6 Qg5 8.Qe2
29.h3 Rfl + 30.Rxfl Rxfl + 31.Kh2 Qcl Nf6 9.f4 Qxf4 10.Ne5 + c6 ll.d4 Qh4 +
l.d4 Nf6 2.NB g6 3x4 Bg7 4.Nc3 O-O
32.Qg5 Rhl + 33. Kg3 Qgl 34.d7 1-0 12.g3 Qh3 13.Bc4 Be6 14.Bf4 O-O-O
5.e4 d6 6.h3 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Bd3 exd5 9.exd5
1 5 . 0 - 0 - 0 Bd616.Kbl Rhe817.Rhil Bxe5
Re8+ 10.Be3 Nh5 ll.O-O f512.Qd2 Nd7
Siclian Maroczy Bind B37 18.Bxe6 + Qxe6 19.dxe5 Rxdl+ 20.Rxdl
13.Rfel Ne5 14.Nxe5 Rxe5 15. Be2 Nf6
IM Stuart Conquest Ng4 21.Rel h5 22.h3 Nh6 23.Qxh5 Nf7
16.B14 Re8 17.Bd3 a6 18.Rxe8+ Nxe8
GM Margeir Petursson 24.h4 g5 25.hxg5 Qf5 26.Qe2 Nxg5 27.Qe3
19.Rel Bd7
Ne6 28.Qxe4 Qg4 29.Qe2 Qf5 30.Bcl Rg8
Palma GMA 1989
31.RA Qh3 32.Bf4 Rf8 33.Rdl Qf5 34.Bcl
l.e4 c5 2.NO Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 Rg8 35.Qe3 Rg4 36.Qxa7 Rxg3 37.Qa8 +
5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 d6 7.Be2 Bg7 8.Nc2 Nd7 Kc7 38.Qa5 + Kc8 39. Qa8+ Kc7
9 . 0 - 0 Nc5 10.Bd2 a5 l l . K h l O-O 12.E3 40.Qa5 + Kc8 41.Bd2 Nc7 42.Bb4 Rg2
b6 13.Rcl Ra7 14.b3 Rd7 15.Qel e6 43.Rcl Re2 44.Bd6 Na6 45.Qb6 Qe4
16.Rdl Bb7 17.Qf2 Ne7 18.Nd4 Kh8 46.Qb3 b5 47.a3 Kb7 48.Ka2 Kb6 49x4
19.Bg5 f6 20.Be3 f5 21.Na4 Bxd4 22. Re3 50.Qc2 b4 51.axb4 c5 52. bxc5 + Nxc5
Bxd4+ e5 23.Nxb6 Qxb6 24.Bxc5 Qc6 53.Bxc5 + Kxc5 54.Qxe4 Rxe4 55.Ka3 1-0
25.Ba3 fxe4 26.c5 exf3 27.BxI3 d5 28. Qg3
Qe6 29.Bb2 d4 30.Bxb7 Rxfl + 31.Rxfl Queen Pawn A48
Rxb7 32.Qg5 Nc6 33.Qf6 + Qxf6 34. Rxf6
IM Gata Kamsky
Rc7 35.Kgl Nb4 36.Bcl Kg7 37.Rd6 h6 GM Ognjen Cvitan
38.a3 Rxc5 39.Rd7+ Kf6 40.Bxh6 Nd5
Palma GMA 1989
41.g4 Ke6 42.Rd8 Nf6 43.h3 Rc3 44.Kg2
Rxb3 45.Ra8 Nd7 46.Rxa5 e4 47. h4 20.h4 Rc8 21.h5 Bf6 22.hxg6 hxg6 l.d4 Nf6 2.NO g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.c3 0 - 0
Rb2+ 48.Kg3 e3 49.Bf4 e2 50.Kf2 d3 23.Qe3 K17 24.Qh3 Qb6 25.Ne4 Qxb2 5.Nbd2 d6 6.e4 Nbd7 7.Bd3 e5 8 . 0 - 0 h6
51.Ra6+ Ke7 52.Bg5+ K17 53.h5 gxh5 26.Qh7 + Bg7 27.Ng5+ 1-0 9.Bh4 Qe7 lO.Rel Nb6 l l . N f l Re812.Ne3

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 Qf8 13.Qc2 Bd7 14.a4 a5 15.Nc4 Nxc4 24.Re3 Nc5 25.Rc3 Qe4 26.Be5 + Ka8 27.
16.Bxc4 Bc6 17.dxe5 dxe5 18.Radl Qe7 Re3 Qb7 28.Khl Rd5 29.Nxc5 Bxc5
19.Bd5 Qd7 20.Bxf6 Bxf6 21.Bxc6 Qxc6 30.Rd3 Rfd8 31.Rfdl Ka7 32.c4 Rxd3 33.
22.Rd5 Qc4 23.Redl c6 24.b3 Qa6 25.Rd7 Rxd3 Rxd3 34.Qxd3 b5 35.h3 bxc4
b5 26.h4 bxa4 27.bxa4 Qc4 28. Rld6 Kg7 36.Qxc4
29.g3 Re7 30.Kg2 Ra7 31.Rxe7 Rxe7
32.Nd2 Qe2 33.Qd3 Qxd3 34.Rxd3 Rb7
35.Nc4 Rb3 36.KI3 h5 37.Nxa5 Ra3
38.Nxc6 Rxa4 39.Ke3 Rc4 40.Na5 Ra4
41.Nb7 Be7 42.Rd7 Kf8 43.Rc7 Ra3
44.Rc4 g5 45.Rc8+ Kg7 46.hxg5 Bxg5 +
47. KB Bd2 48.Kg2 Bxc3 49.Nd6 Bb4
50.Nf5 + Kg6 51.Rg8+ Kf6 52.Ne3 Bc5
S3.Nd5 + Ke6 54.Re8+ Kd6 55.Rd8 +
Kc6 56.Rc8 + Kb5 57.Rc7 Kc4 58.Rxf7
Ra2 59.R13 Kd4 60.Nf6 h4 61.gxh4 Be7
62.h5 Ra6 63.Ng8 Bg5 64.Rg3 Bf4 65.Rg6
1-0

36...Qd5 37.Qxd5 exd5 38.g4 Kb6

Gata Kamsky's Record 39.Kg2 Kb5 40.KD Kc4 41.Ke2 d4 42.Bc7
at Palma de Mallorca: Bb4 43.f5 gxf5 44.gxf5 d3 + 45.Ke3 Bc5 +
46.Kd2 Kd4 47.Bd8 Ke4 48.f6 Be3 +
Gata scored 7 out of 9 against an average 49.Kdl Bg5 50.Be7 Kd4 51.Bd8 Kc4
rating of 2523 (GM norm = 6) 52.Be7 Bf4 53.Bd8 Be5 54.Kcl Kd4
55.Kd2 Ke4 56.b3 Bf4+ 57.Kel Bg5
R1 GM Gilberto Milos (BRS) 2510 1 58.Be7 Kd4 59. Bb4 Bxf6 60.Bd2 Bh4 +
R2 GM A. Rodriguez (CUB) 2505 1 61.Kfl f6 62.a4 Bg5 63.Ba5 f5 64.K12 Ke4
R3 GM Oleg Romanishin (URS) 2520 0 65.Kel Be3 66.Bc3 f4 67.b4 Kd5 68.Bf6 Some knowledgable observers of the in-
R4 GM E. Ermenkov (BLG) 2500 1 Kc4 69.Be7 0-1 ternational chess scene consider 23-year-
R5 GM Viktor Kupreichik (URS) 2520 old GM Boris Gelfand the favorite to
1 challenge the dominance of the two Ks.
King's Indian E70
R6 GM Margeir Petursson (ISD) 2590 0
R7 GM Ognjen Cvitan (YUG) 2515 1 GM Helgi Olafsson
R8 IM Vladimir Akopian (URS) 1 GM Maya Chiburdanidze
R9 GM M. Todorcevic (YUG) 2530 1 Palma GMA 1989

At age 15, Gata's result in Palma has 1x4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 d6 4.d4 Bg7
few parallels in chess history. Only 14- 5.Bd3 Nbd7 6.NO e5 7.d5 O-O 8.Rbl a5
year-old Bobby Fischer (1957/58 U.S. 9.b3 Nc5 10.Bc2 Nh5 l l . a 3 Nf412.g3 Nh3
Championship), 15-year-old Garry 13.b4 axb4 14.axb4 Bg4 15.Kfl Nd7
Kasparov (Daugapils and Minsk 1978), 16.Bd3 f5 17.Be2 fxe4 18.Nxe4 Nf6
and 14-year-old Zsofia Polgar (Rome 19.Neg5 e4 20.Ngl Nx£2 21.Kxf2 Nxd5 +
1989) have had comparable results before 22.Kg2 Nc3 23.Qc2 Ra2 24.Qxa2 Bxe2
reaching their 16th birthdays. 25.Qxe2 Nxe2 26.Nxe2 Qa8 27.Rb3 b5
28.Ra3 Qb7 29.Be3 bxc4 30.Ra7 Qxb4
31.Rxc7 Qa3 32.Rxg7+ Kxg7 33.Bd4 +
Sicilian Paulsen B42 Kg8 34.Nf4 Qa5 35.Nfe6 h6 36.Nxf8 Qxg5
37.Rfl Qd2 + 38.Kh3 Qxd4 39.Ne6 Qa7 8...Qb4 9.Qxh8 + Kd7 10.Bd3 Qxb2
IM Vladimir Akopian l l . R d l Nxdl 12.Kxdl Nc6 13.Qxh7 Nxd4
SM Gata Kamsky 40.RT8 + Kh7 41.Rc8 Qd7 0-1
14.Qxf7 + Kc6 15.Qf4 Q b l + 16.Qcl
Palma GMA 1989 Qxa2 17.h4 b6 18.h5 Ba6 19.Rh4 Bxd3
French Tartakower C13 20.cxd3 + Kb7 21.Rxd4 Qxf2 22.Ne2
l.e4 c5 2.NO e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6
Qxg2 23.Qh6 Qh3 24.Kd2 a5 25.Qf6 a4
5.Bd3 Nf6 6 . 0 - 0 Qc7 7.Nc3 Bc5 8. Nb3
GM Yrjo Rantanen 26.Rh4 Qg2 27.Qg6 Qf2 28.Rf4 Qc5
Be7 9.f4 d6 lO.QO Nbd7 ll.Bd2 b6 GM Smbat Lputian 29.Qxe6 a3 30.Rfl a2 31.Ral Ra3 32.Kel
12.Qg3 g6 13.e5 Nh5 14.QD Bb7 15. exd6 Q a 5 + 33.Kf2 Rxd3 34.Rcl Qa4 35.Qe7
Palma GMA 1989
Bxd6 16.Be4 O-O-O 17.Bxb7+ Qxb7 Qc4 36.Rxc4 dxc4 37.Ncl a l = Q 38.Nxd3
18.Ne4 Be7 19.Bc3 Nhf6 20.Rael Rhf8 l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 Qd4 + 39.Kel Qe3 + 40.Kdl cxd3
21.Bd4 Nxe4 22.Rxe4 Qc6 23.Qe2 Kb8 5x5 Ne4 6.Bxe7 Nxc3 7.Qg4 Qxe7 8.Qxg7 0-1 •
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -15-
 INSIDE NEWS
Short Reports from Around the World

ship Cycles will coincide in the next cycle, including breakfast, this event is not to be
Lucerne, Switzerland and there are tentative plans to have the missed by American players. For further
two championships together at the same information, contact before February 1,
time and place. 1990:
FIDE recently made several important
announcements: The Candidates' Final Icelandic Chess Federation, P.O.Box
Match between GMs Anatoly Karpov 8354,128 Reykjavik, Iceland
and Jan Timman will not be held in Lon-
Reno, Neveda
don, England as originally planned.
Pilkington Glass, the English sponsors, Deep Thought and Hitech, both London, England
withdrew their support of the event originally developed at the Department
scheduled for March of 1990. Instead, it of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon A special Active Chess Match held
will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, University, tied for first at 4-1 and won November 12-13 which pitted the three
$2,000 each in the 20th annual North Polgar sisters against a young English
with a prize fund of 300,000 Swiss Francs
American Computer Chess Champion- team composed of GMs Michael Adams
(roughly equal to $180,000). The winner
ship held November 18-19. Deep and David Norwood, plus IM Stuart Con-
of the match, scheduled to begin March
Thought won against its four opponents, quest, ended in a 9-9 tie.
7, will receive five-eighths of the fund and
including Hitech, but was upset in the last T o p scorers in this event were:
the loser the remainder.
round by Mephisto X, the world's best Michael Adams with 4.5 from 6 and IM
At the FIDE Executive Council Meet- commercial program. Mephisto and Zsuzsa Polgar with 4. Other scores: IM
ing, held in October, it was decided to Bebe were equal third at 3-2. Judit Polgar 3, IM Stuart Conquest 2.5,
restructure the Women's World Cham- GM David Norwood and IM Zsofia Pol-
pionship in an attempt to revitalize inter- gar 2.
est in it. In 1990 two Interzonals will be Reykjavik, Iceland
held, each with twenty players. Each
Symmetrical English A36
event will produce three qualifiers who
The Icelandic capital, site of the 1972
will join the top finishers from the pre- GM David Norwood
World Championship Match, will be host IM Judit Polgar
vious Women's Candidates' tournament
to the 1990 Visa/IBM Chess Summit
(Nana Ioseliani of the U.S.S.R. and Elena Action Match, London 1989
Match, March 9-15. This event will be a
Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya of the U.S.)
10-board double Round-Robin featuring l.g3 c5 2.Bg2 Nc6 3.c4 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7
and the top two women f r o m the
a Scandinavian all-star team and national 5.e3 e5 6.Nge2 Nge7 7.d3 O-O 8 . 0 - 0 d6
January/July 1989 rating list (Judit and
squads from the U.S.S.R., U.S.A., and 9.Rbl Be610.Nd5 Rb8 ll.Nec3 a612.Qa4
Zsuzsa Polgar, of Hungary) in a ten-
England. b5 13.Nxe7+ Qxe7 14.Qdl Qd7 15. b3
player Candidates' tournament. The top
The tentative all-GM U.S. Team con- Ne7 16.Bb2 d517.cxd5 Nxd518.Ne4 Rfc8
two finishers in this event will play an
sists of: Boris Gulko, Yasser Seirawan, 19.d4 exd4 20.exd4 c4 21.Nc5 Qd6 22.Rcl
8-game match to decide the challenger
Nick deFirmian, J o h n Fedorowicz, c3 23.Bxc3 Nxc3 24.Rxc3 Qxd4 25.Nxe6
for Women's World Champion Maya
Michael Wilder, Larry Christiansen, Joel Qxc3 26.Nf4 Qb2 27.Nd5 Re8 28.Nb4
Chiburdanidze.
Benjamin, Walter Browne, Sergey Rbd8 29.Qf3 Qc3 30.Nxa6 b4 31.Qb7 Bf8
Tentative dates are: Interzonals — Kudrin, and Lev Alburt, with Max Dlugy 32.Bd5 Re7 33.Qb5 Re5 34.Rdl Rdxd5
June-July 1990; Candidates' Tournament as the reserve. 35.Rxd5 Qel + 0-1
- September-October 1990; Candidates' Immediately after the Summit Match,
Final Match —January-February 1991, an 11-round Swiss will be held in Reyk- Ruy Lopez Berlin C67
with the World Championship Match to javik March 17-29. Open to players with GM Michael Adams
be held in September of 1991. Elo ratings over 2300, it will feature IM Zsuzsa Polgar
While the men's World Championship $30,000 in prizes with $9,000 for first.
Action Match, London 1989
has witnessed ever-increasing prize Many top GMs competing in the Sum-
funds, the women's Championship has mit Match are expected to stay over for l.e4 e5 2.ND Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4 . 0 - 0
been stagnant. With the the above steps, the Open, so norm opportunities should Nxe4 5.d4 Be7 6.dxe5 0 - 0 7.Qd5 Nc5 8.
FIDE hopes to have a $600,000 Women's be excellent. Entry is free to foreign Be3 Ne6 9.Nc3 a610.Bc4 d6 ll.Radl dxe5
World Championship prize fund. The players and with hotel rates of only $45 a 12.Nxe5 Nxe5 13.Qxe5 Bd6 14.Qh5 Qf6
Men's and Women's World Champion- night for a single and $63 for a double, 15.Ne4 Qe5 16.Qh4 Be7 17.Qxe7 Qxe4

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18.Bd3 Qg419.f4 b6 20.h3 Qh5 21. f5 Nd8 23.Qb5 Rb8 24.Ne7 +
22.Kh2 Nc6 23.Qxc7 Nb4 24.Be4 Bxf5 Nxe7 25.Qxe5 Nf5
25.Bxf5 Rae8 26.Qf4 Nc6 27.Bd7 1-0 26.Qxf4 Qb7 27. Qcl
Qxg2 28.Rd5 Ne3
29.Rgl Rxb2 +
30.Kxb2 Rb8+ 31.Kc3
Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba Nxd5+ 32.Kd4 Qf2 +
33. Kxd5 Rd8 +
IM Pedro Paneque, who represented 34.Ke4 Rd4 + 0-1
Cuba in last year's World Junior Cham-
pionship, was the surprise winner of the
1989 Cuban Championship held October Sicilian B89
2-15. Paneque's score of 8 from 11 in the IM F. Echaguan
Swiss system event didn't include a single FM A. Pablo
draw! Finishing second at 7.5 was former
Spain 1989
World Junior Champion IM Walter
Arencibia. GM Amador Rodriguez and l.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6
Guillermo Garcia were among those tied 3.NC3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4
for third at 7, while Cuba's number-one 5.Nxd4 d6 6.Be3 Nf6
player, GM Jesus Nogueiras, was a disap- 7.Bc4 Be7 8. Qe2 O-O
pointing eighth with 6.5. 9 . 0 - 0 - 0 a6 10.Bb3
Qc7 11.g4 Nd7
12.Rhgl Nc5 13.Kbl
Modern Benoni A73 Nxb3 14.axb3 Nxd4
15.Bxd4 b5 16.g5 b4
D.Ibanez 17.Bf6 bxc3 18.Qh5
GM Reynaldo Vera
Re8 19.Rg4 Qa5
Cuban Championship 1989 20.bxc3 Qb5 21.Bxg7
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.NI3 c5 4.d5 exd5 Qe222.Rdgl Bb723.g6
5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.e4 Bg7 8.Be2 O-O 1-0

9 . 0 - 0 Na6 10.Nd2 Ne8 ll.Nc4 tS 12.exf5

Bx£5 13.Ne3 Bd7 14.Bd2 Nac7 15.a4 a6 27. Rf5 g6 28.Rxf7 + Kh6 29.Be3+ 1-0
16.a5 Nb5 17.Nc4 Nd4 18.Nb6 Rb8
19.Nxd7 Qxd7 20.Bg4 Qf7 21.Be3 Nc7 Santa Barbara, California
22.Rel Rbe8 23.Qa4 h5 24.Bdl Rxe3 0-1
Le Touquet, France
The eigthth annual Santa Barbara
Open, held October 28-29, was won by
Almeria, Spain top-rated Igor Ivanov with 3.5-.5. Tying FM Ben Finegold, formerly of
for second through sixth places were IMs Michigan and currently residing in Bel-
Grandmasters Jose Luis Fernandez, Doug Root, Jeremy Silman, and David gium, and West German IM Klaus-Jur-
Juan Bellon, and Miguel Illescas tied for Strauss, plus SM Doug McClintock (who gen Schulz tied for first with 7 points in a
first at 7 out of 9 in the Spanish Cham- drew with Ivanov in Round 1), and SM 9-round Swiss. GMs Harry Schussler of
pionship held in November. Spain's Mark Duckworth. Sweden and Glenn Flear of England were
highest-rated player, GM Manual Rivas,
among those tied for third.
was equal fourth at 6.5 in the 80-player
event run on the Swiss system.
Petroff Defence C42
SM Dan Durham
Sicilian Richter-Rauzer B64 NM Robert Atwell Hammelburcj, Denmark
IM Rafael Alvarez Santa Barbara Open 1989
IM M. Gomez
l.e4 e5 2.N13 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 West German FM Michaelsen was the
Spanish Championship 1989 winner of this year's NATO champion-
5.d4 Be7 6.Bd3 dS.7.0-0 Nc6 8.c4 Nb4
l.e4 c5 2.NG Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 9.cxd5 Nxd3 10.Qxd3 Qxd5 l l . R e l B15 ship held October 23-27 with a perfect 7
5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 Be7 8. O-O-O 12.g4 Bg613.Ne5 NxC 14.Qg3 Ne415.Nc3 points from 7. U.S. FM Emory Tate was
O-O 9.f4 h610.Bh4 e5 11.NI5 Bxf512.exf5 Qxd4+ 16.Be3 Qd6 17.Nxg6 Nxg3 9th at 4.5 in the 72-player field. West
exf413.Kbl d5 14.Bxf6 Bxf615.Nxd5 Be5 18.Nxe7 Kf8 19.Bf2 Qb4 20.Ned5 Ne2 + Germany was first in the team standings
16.Bc4 b5 17.Bb3 a5 18.a3 a4 19.Ba2 b4 21.Nxe2 Qxg4+ 22.Ng3 h5 23.Re4 QO with 24 points, followed by the U.S. and
20.Nxb4 Qf6 21. Nd5 Qxf5 22.Qd3 Qc8 24.Bc5+ Kg8 25.RH Qd3 26.Ne7+ Kh7 Belgium at 17.5 each. •
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -17-
Garry Continues His Amazing Results

Kasparov Rocks Belgrade

by IM John Donaldson
• B e l g r a d e 1 9 8 9 Category XV (2613) November 19-27 •

D espite escalating political and

economic problems, Yugoslavia is
enjoying a chess renaissance. 1. G M Kasparov 2775
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
•< ) \ h 1 11
Score
9.5
Place
1st
After a second-place finish in the 2. G M Ehlvest 2620 0 • ^ h 1'2 y:i)
'i <
1 ^ 1 6 ., 5 2nd-3rd
World Team Championship in Switzer- 3. G M Timman 2635 i
2 • 1% h 2i i 1 1 1
"2 2 2 ~2 6.5 2nd-3rd
land, Yugoslavia duplicated its perfor- 11 0 is d ) i 1
mance at the European Team Champion-
4. G M Yusupov 2610 © *2 0 •
1
i
i
6,. 0 4th-5th
5. G M Ljubojevic 2635 <l§>1 2 h h m 1 1 k<§) h 1 6 ., 0 4th-5th
ship in Israel. 6. G M Hjartarson 2555 2 2 12 12 1
2 • 1 1 h 0 0 is 5 ., 5 6th
In Belgrade, there were no great 7. G M Agdestein 2605 0 12 H h 0 0 • 1 0 1 1 5.. 0 7th-8th
Yugoslav triumphs for the home town 8. G M Kozul 2560 © 0(0)1© 0 0 • i m1 5.. 0 7th-3th
fans, but they were treated to another 9. G M Nikolic 2600 0 \ •'S % his ( i ) 0 • is ^ 0 4.5 9th-10th
amazing result by the World Champion as 10. GM Short 2660 0 0 ^ 0 1 1 0 0 h • 1 I. 4 ., 5 9th-10th
Garry Kasparov destroyed the field. 11. G M Popovic 2550 0 V2 is 0 1 12 0 "iS 4.0 11th
After six rounds he was only a point up on 12. G M Damljanovic 2555 0 0 %(3)0 1
"S 0 0 1 is is • 3 .0 12th
former Candidate Johann Hjartarson of
Iceland with 5/6 but Garry was able to Inside Chess contributor Nikolay Sicilian Richter-Rauzer B67
keep up the pace with 4.5 out of the last 5 Minev, who attended the tournament as a
rounds while Johann dropped back into spectator, said the playing conditions GM Nigel Short
the pack. Garry's result of three points were "among the best I have seen in over GM Zdenko Kozul
ahead of the field put his Elo rating over 40 years of playing chess." Belgrade 1989
2800.
l.e4 c5 2.NO d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
The rest of the field was, in effect, play- QGD Tartakower D58 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8. O-O-O
ing in another event. Estonian GM Jaan Bd7 9.f4 b5 10.Bxf6 gxf6 ll.Kbl Qb6
Ehlvest, a Candidate in the last World GM Garry Kasparov 12.Nxc6 Bxc6 13.Bd3 b4 14.Ne2 h5
Championship cycle, showed that he GM Jaan Ehlvest
15.Rhll a516.f5 e517.Ngl Qc5 18.Qe2 a4
belongs in the world's top ten with yet Belgrade 1989 19.Bc4 Ke7 20.Nh3 Bh6 21.Rf3 Rhc8
another good result. He tied for second 22.b3 axb3 23.cxb3 Ra3 24.Rfd3 Rca8
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.NE3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7
with Jan Timman of Holland who was the 25.Rel Qa7 26.Qxh5 Be8 27.Qxh6 Rxa2
5.Bg5 O-O 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 b6 8.Be2 Bb7
only player besides Kasparov to go un- 28.Rd2 Rxd2 29.Qxd2 Q a l + 30.Kc2
9.Bxf6 Bxf610.cxd5 exd5 ll.b4 c 6 1 2 . 0 - 0
defeated. Ra2+ 31.Kd3 Qd4+ 0-1
Re8 13.Qb3 Nd7 14.Radl a6 15.a4 Nf8
Of the rest, H j a r t a r s o n can be 16.35 bxa5 17.bxa5 Rb8 18.Na4 Ne6 1.39/1.58
reasonably satisfied with his score, one of 19.Qc3 Rc8 20.Rbl Rc7 21.Qd2 Qc8
his better results in a difficult year for 22.Rfcl Be7 23.Qb2 Bd6 24.Bfl Qd7
him, but after such a good start he 25.Qb6 Ra8 26.Nel Qe8 27.Nd3 Re7 Sicilian Richter-Rauzer B67
probably was not entirely pleased. 28.Qb2 Ra7 29.Qc2 Bc7 30.Nb6 Bd6
GM Petar Popovic
Yugoslav champion Zdenko Kozul 31.Rb3 Rc7 32.Na4 Qe7 33.Ndc5 Nxc5 34. GM Zdenko Kozul
made a promising debut in high-level Nxc5 g6 35.Nxb7 Rcxb7 36.Rb6 Rc7
competition. The 23-year-old GM had 37.Qb3 Qd7 38.Bxa6 Kg7 39.g3 Be7 Belgrade 1989
the distinction of winning more games 40.Qc3 Bd8 41.Kg2 Ra8 42.Rcbl Qe6 l.e4 c5 2.NG d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
than anybody but Kasparov —and also of 43.Qc2 Qe7 44.Bd3 Rxa5 45.Rxc6 Rxc6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8. O-O-O
having no draws! 46.Qxc6 Qf6 47.Qc2 h5 48.h4 Qe6 49.Rb7 Bd7 9.f4 b5 10.Bxf6 gxf6 ll.Kbl Qb6
World-class GMs Predrag Nikolic and Ral 50.Be2 Rel 51.Ra7 Qb6 52.Rd7 Bf6 12.Nce2 Na5 13.b3 Rb8 14.Ng3 h5 15.e5
Nigel Short were probably tired from 53. Bd3 Qe6 54.Ra7 Qg4 55.Qc7 Qe6 d5 16.Be2 h4 17.Nh5 Rxh5 18.Bxh5 Nc4
having played in the World Team Cham- 56.Qc3 Rdl 57.Qc2 Bxd4 58.Ra6 Qg4 19.Qd3 Qa5 20.Kal Ba3 21.Rbl fxe5
pionship which immediately preceded 59.exd4 1-0 22.bxc4 exd4 23.cxd5 Rc8 24.Rb3 Bb4
this event. Time expended: 2.58/2.58 25.Kbl Rc3 26.Qxd4 Rxb3 + 27.cxb3 Bc3

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28.Qe3 b4 29.Rdl Qa3 30.Qe2 e5 King's Indian E61 39.Nxe8 Qxe8 40.Q£2 Qe7 41. Bxc5 Qd8
31.Bxf7 + Kxf7 32.Qh5 + Ke7 33.d6 + 42.Be3 Qe8 43.Bxb6 1-0
Kd834.Qh8+ Be835.Qf6+ Kc836.d7 + GM Simen Agdestein 1.48/1.58
GM Garry Kasparov
Kb7 37.d8 = N + ??
Belgrade 1989
Nimzo-Indian E35
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 d6 5.Bg2
Bg7 6.Nh3 b5 7.cxb5 Qa5 + 8.Bd2 Qxb5 GM Garry Kasparov
9.Bc3 Ba6 10.Na3 Qb6 ll.O-O O-O GM Predrag Nikolic
12.Qd2 Nbd7 13.Rabl Rab8 14.b3 Bb5 Belgrade 1989
15.Rfel Ng416.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.Nc2 a5 18.0
Ngf619.N£2 Ba6 20.f4 Rfc8 21. e3 a4 22.g4 l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5
axb3 23.g5 Ne8 24.axb3 h5 25.gxh6 + Kh7 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bh4 g5 8.Bg3 Ne4
26.Khl Nef6 27.e4 c4 28.e5 cxb3 29.Nd4 9.e3 c6 10.Bd3 Nxg3 ll.hxg3 Be6 12.a3
Rc4 30.Nc6 Rc2 31.Qe3 Qxe3 32.Rxe3 Rb6 Bf8 13.f4 gxf4 14.gxf4 Bg4 15. Bf5 Bxf5
33.exf6 Nxf6 34. Ne4 b2 35.Nxf6+ exf6 16.Qxf5 Nd7 17.e4 Qf6
36.Be4 R c l + 37.Rel fS 38.Rbxcl
bxcl = Q 39.Rxcl fxe4 40.Rel Bc4 41.Ne7
f5 42.Rgl e3 43.Rel Rb3 44.Kg2 Kxh6
In acute time pressure, White missed 45.KO e2 + 46.K£2 Rh3 47.Rgl Rxh2 +
37.Qb6 +!, winning. 48.Kg3 Rh5 49.Nc8 Kg7 50.Nxd6 Ba6
37...Ka8 0-1 51.Ne8+ Kf7 52.Nc7 Bc4 53.Rcl g5
2.00/1.59 54.KI2 gxf4 55.Ne6 Rh2+ 56.Kgl Rh4
57.Nd4 0-1
Ruy Lopez Open C82 3.00/2.48

GM Nigel Short Sicilian Dragon B70

GM Artur Yusupov
GM Branko Damljanovic
Belgrade 1989 GM Garry Kasparov
l.e4 e5 2.ND Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 Belgrade 1989
5 . 0 - 0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 18.Qxf6 Nxf6 19.e5 Nd7 20.Nge2 Rg8
1.NC3 c5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.d4 cxd4 21.K12 Nb6 22.b3 Kd7 23.Ng3 Rc8 24.K13
9.c3 Bc5 10.Nbd2 O-O ll.Bc2 Nx£2
5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.Nb3 d6 7.Nc3 Nf6 8. O-O c5 25.dxc5 Rxc5 26.Nce2 Rc6 27.Rhcl
12.Rxf2 f6 13.exf6 Bxfi2 + 14.KxC Qxf6
O-O 9.e4 Bg4 10.f3 Be6 l l . K h l b5 12.a4 Rxcl 28.Rxcl* Bxa3 29.Ral Bc5 30.Nf5
15.NA Ne5 16.Be3 Rae8 17.Bc5 Nxf3
bxa4 13.Rxa4 Nd7 14.f4 Nb6 15. Ral a5 Ra8 31.Nxh6 Ke6 32.g4 a5 33.Rcl Nd7 34.
18.gxB Rf7 19.Bd3 Bh3 20.Ng3 h5 21.Bfl
16.Nd5 a4 17.Nd2 Bd7 18.Ra3 Na5 19.f5 Nc3 Ra6 35.Rel d4 36.f5 + Ke7 37.Nd5 +
Bg4 22.Bg2 h4 23.NH h3 24.Bhl Re4
Nxd5 20.exd5 Qb6 21.fxg6 fxg6 22.b3 KfB 38.e6 fxe6 39.fxe6 Nb8 40.Nf5 Nc6
25.Ng3 Rf4 26.Kgl Qc6 27.Be3 Bxf3
Rxfl + 23.NxflL axb3 24.cxb3 Rb8 25.Bg5 41.g5 1-0
28.QH Re4 29.Qd3 Rg4 30.Bd4 Be4
Nxb3 26.Bxe7 Nd4 27.Rd3 h6 28.Ne3 Re8 2.02/1.57
31.Qe2 Qg6 32.Bxe4 dxe4 33.a4 RB
29.Nc4 Qb4 30.Nxd6 Rxe7 31.Ne4 Nf5
34.axb5 axb5 35.b4 Rgxg3 + 36.hxg3
32.QO Qel + 0-1
Rxg3+ 37.Khl e3 0-1 English A16
1.59/1.54
1.47/1.59
GM Garry Kasparov
Sicilian Rossolimo B31 GM Petar Popovic
Sicilian Keres Attack B81
GM Jann Ehlvest Belgrade 1989
GM Nigel Short GM Zdenko Kozul
GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic l.NB Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5
Belgrade 1989
5.Qa4 + Bd7 6.Qh4 Nf6 7.e4 Bg4 8. Ne5
Belgrade 1989
l.e4 c5 2.NI3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4 . 0 - 0 Bg7 Be6 9.f4 Bg7 10.Qf2 O-O ll.d4 Nc6
l.e4 c5 2.NO d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Rel e5 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.h3 Ne7 8.a4 g5 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.h3 Qb8 14.Bd3 Rd8
5.Nc3 e6 6.g4 h6 7.h4 Nc6 8.Rgl h5 9.gxh5 9.Nxg5 Ng6 10.ND Bh6 ll.Ra3 Rg8 15.Be3 Qb4 1 6 . 0 - 0 Rab8 17.Rabl Ne8
Nxh5 10.Be3 Nf6 l l . N B a6 12.Qe2 Qc7 12.Nh2 Bf4 13.Nfl Nh414.Rg3 Bxg3 15. 18.e5 f5 19.Rfcl Bf8 20.b3 Ng7 21.Na4
1 3 . 0 - 0 - 0 b514.Ng5 Qa515. f4 b416.Nbl fxg3 Ng6 16.Kh2 Be6 17.b3 Qf6 18.d3 Bd5 22.Nc5 Qb6 23.b4 e6 24.Na6 Rbc8
Qxa2 17.e5 dxe5 18.fxe5 Nd5 19.Bg2 Be7 O-O-019.Be3 Qe7 20.Qh5 a5 21.Nbd2 b6 25.a4 Qb7 26.Qfl Qa8 27.Bc4 Be4 28. Rb2
2Q.Nxf7 Kxf7 21.Be4 Ke8 22.Rxg7 Bd7 22.Nc4 Kb7 23.Bh6 Qf6 24.Kgl Bxc4 Kh8 29.Bd3 Bd5 30.Kh2 Be7 31.Rbc2 Rd7
23.Qg4 Kd8 24.Bxd5 exd5 25.e6 Be8 25.bxc4 Ne7 26.Re2 Rd7 27.Be3 Qg7 28. 32.b5 cxb5 33.Nxc7 Qb7 34.Nxd5 Rxc2
26.Bb6 + Kc8 27.Qf4 Ra7 28.Bxa7 Rxh4 R12 f6 29.g4 Qg6 30.Qh4 Rd6 31.Ng3 Ka6 35.Rxc2 Rxd5 36.Bxb5 Rd8 37.Qcl Qe4
29.Qg3 Qc4 30.Rxe7 1-0 32.RG Re6 33.Nf5 Rf8 34.QC Ng8 35.Qd2 38.Rc3 h6 39.Bc6 1-0
1.58/1.59 Rb8 36.R11 Qf7 37.Rbl Ree8 38.Nd6 Qd7 1.59/1.56 •
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -19-
Little-Known Soviet Masters Battle For Precious Trips Abroad

Soviets Fight for Place in the Sun

by Georgi Orlov The top scores in the 9-round Swiss. Nimzo-Indian Saemisch E25

L ast year, the city of Podolsk was the

site for a unique qualification tour-
nament. Masters from all over the Soviet
I.M. Sorokin 2420 - 7 points;

2-5.IM Y. Yakovic 2450, IM E. Mager-

Yuri Yakovich
IM Andrei Kharitonov
Podolsk 1989
Union gathered to compete for five spe- l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.D d5 5.a3
ramov 2470, Y. Kruppa 2440, V. Ruban
cial prizes —trips to the GMA Open in Bxc3 + 6.bxc3 c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.dxc5 Qa5
2515 - 6 points
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in December. 9.e4 Ne710.Be3 O-O ll.Qb3 Nbc612.Rdl
Organized by the recently created Qc7 13.f4 e5 14.f5 Bxf5 15.exf5 Nxf5
Soviet Chess Union (the Soviet 16.Bcl Rad8 17.Be2 Qe7 18.Qc4 e4
equivalent of the GMA), this event fea- Sicilian Richter-Rauzer C66 19.Rxd8 Rxd8 20.Nh3 Na5 21.Qb5 Qh4 +
tured 10 players over 2500; the average 22.N£2 e3 2 3 . 0 - 0 ex£2 + 24.Rxf2 1-0
A Shabalov
rating was 2472. As might be expected,
Vadim Ruban
there was considerable tension and ner- Nimzo-Indian Saemisch E25
vousness in the air. Many of the players Podolsk 1989 IM Yuri Yakovich
at the top of the standings succumbed to l.e4 c5 2.ND d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 Georgi Timoshenko
the pressure and lost several games in a 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8 . 0 - 0 - 0 h6 Podolsk 1989
row. The surprise winner of the tourna- 9.Be3 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 b5 ll.Qe3 Bd7 12.e5 l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d5 5.a3
ment was the comparatively low-rated dxe5 13.Qxe5 Qb8 14.Qxb8+ Rxb8 Bxc3 + 6.bxc3 c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.dxc5 Qa5
(2420) Maxim Sorokin from Moscow. He 15.Bxf6 gxf6 16.Ne4 Bg7 17.Rd6 Bc8 9.e4 Ne7 10.Be3 Qxc3+ ll.K£2 O-O
played very confidently throughout, and 18.Be2 f519.Nc5 Bf8 20.Rc6 Bxc5 21.Rxc5 12.Ne2 Qa5 13.Qd2 Qxd2 14.Bxd2 b6
guaranteed himself a trip to Spain with Bb7 22.Rc7 O-O 23.Rdl Bd5 24.BD BxO 15.cxb6 axb6 16.Nd4 Nd7 17.Be2 Ba6
two rounds to go. 18.Nb5 Rfc8 19.Racl Rxcl 20. Rxcl Rc8
25.gxO Rb6 26. c3 Kg7 27.Kc2 e5 28.b3
The following game is typical of his Kf6 29.Rd5 Rg8 30.c4 bxc4 31.bxc4 Rg2 21.Rxc8+ Nxc8 22.Bb4 Nc5 23.Ke3 Ne7
style: 32.Rd2 Rxh2 33.c5 Rb4 34.a3 Rf4 35.c6 24.Nd6 Bxe2 25.Kxe2 Nd7 26. Kd3 Nc6
Ke6 36.Rc8 Rc4 + 37.Kb3 Rhh4 38.Re8 + 27.Kc4 Na7 28.f4 g6 29.g4 g5 30.Bd2 gxf4
Kf6 39.Rd6 + Kg7 40.Rxe5 Rcl 41.Rxf5 31.Bxf4 Kf8 32.Kb4 Ke7 33.Nc4 Kd8 34.g5
Ruy Lopez Exchange C68 Draw e5 35.Bg3 Nc6+ 36.Kc3 Kc7 37.B£2 Nd8
Maxim Sorokin 38.h4 Ne6 39.Bg3 Nec5 40.Bxe5+ Nxe5
IM Elmar Magerramov 41.Nxe5 f6 42.g6 hxg6 43.Nxg6 Nxe4 +
Podolsk 1989 44.Kd4 Ng3 45.Kd5 Kd7 46.Nf4 Nf5 47.h5
Nh6 48.Ne2 Ng4 49.Nd4 f5 50.Kc4 Nh6
l.e4 e5 2.ND Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 French Winawer C18
51.Kb5 Kc7 52. Ka6 f4 53.Ne6+ Kd6
5.Nc3 f6 6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4 c5 8.Nde2 54.Nxf4Kc555.Nd3+ Kc656.Ne5+ Kd5
Yuri Kruppa
Qxdl + 9.Nxdl Be610.Bf4 O-O-O ll.Ne3 IM Eduard Rozentalis 57.Nd7 Nf5 58.Kxb6 Ke6 59.Nc5+ Kf6
Ne712.Rdl Rxdl + 13. Kxdl Nc6 14.Bg3 60.Ne4+ Ke5 61.Ng5 1-0
Nd4 15.b3 Be7 16.c3 Nb5 17.Kc2 Re8 Podolsk 1989
18.Rdl Bf8 19.Nf4 Bf7 20.D Nd6 21.Nfd5 l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 King's Indian Petrosian E92
Rd8 22.Bh4 Re8 23.g4 b6 24.Bg3 Kb7 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 Nf5 8.Bd3 h5 Henkin
25.Nf5 Nxf5 26.gxf5 Bxd5 27.Rxd5 Kc6 9.Qf4 Nc610.Nf3 Qc7 ll.O-O Nce712.a4 IM Leonid Yurtaev
28.Kd3 Bd6 29.f4 b5 30.Ke3 a5 31.Rd2 a4 c4 13.Be2 Bd7 14.a5 O-O-O 15.Qg5 Rdf8 Podolsk 1989
32.bxa4 bxa4 33.KG Rb8 34.e5 Be7 16.Ba3 f6 17.Qcl Rf7 18.Bc5 Nc6 19.Qa3 l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
35.Ke4 Rbl 36.Rg2 a3 37.c4 Rb2 38.R12 g5 20.exf6 g4 21.Ne5 Nxe5 22.dxe5 Qxe5 5.NO O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 Na6 8. Bg5 h6
g6 39.fxg6 hxg6 40.Kd3 Rbl 41.Bh4 g5 23.a6 b5 24.Bxa7 Bc6 25.Bd4 Nxd4 9.Bh4 g5 10.Bg3 Nh5 11.h4 Nf4 12.hxg5
42.exf6 gxh4 43.fxe7 Kd7 44.Re2 Ke8 26.cxd4 Qc7 27.a7 Kd7 28.g3 Rg8 29.0 hxg5 13-Kfl f5 14.Bxf4 exf4 15.Nd4 Qf6
45.Re6 Rfl 46.Ke4 h3 47.15 c6 48.Ke5 Rf2 gxD30.QxO h431.Qh5 Kd632.Qxh4 Qb6 16.Nxf5 Bxf5 17.exf5 Nc5 18.Bh5 Qxf5
49.Kf6 Rd2 50.Re3 Rd3 51.Re4 Rd6 + 33.Qf4 + Kd7 34.BH5 Rh7 35.f7 Rf836.g4 19.Bg4 Qg6 20.Na4 Bf6 21. Nxc5 dxc5
52.Kg5 Rd2 53.f6 Rg2+ 54.Kh4 Rf2 Ba8 37.c3 b4 38.cxb4 Rhh8 39.Qe5 c3 22.d6 c6 23.Qb3 Bd4 24.d7 Rad8 25.Rel
55.Re61-0 40.Ra5 1-0 G 26.gxD Rf4 27.Re7 Qbl + 28.Kg2 Qg6
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29.Bh5 Qd6 30.Re8+ Rf8 31.Rxd8 Rxd8
32. Be8 Qf5 33.Qc2 Kf8 34.Rh7 Kg8
3S.Qe4 Bxb2 36.Re7 Kf8 37.Re6 Qf4
38.Qh7Bg739.Bh51-0

Modem A41
Maxim Sorokin
IM Boris Kantsler
Podolsk 1989
l.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 3.NG Nc6 4.Nc3 Bg4
5.d5 Nb8 6.e4 g6 7.Be2 Nd7 8. O-O Bh6
9.Nel Bxe2 10.Qxe2 Bxcl ll.Rxcl Ngf6
12.Nd3 O-O 13.f4 exf4 14. Rxf4 Nh5
15.Rf3 Qg5 16.Rcfl Rae8 17.Qf2 Re7
18.Qxa7 b6 19.Qxc7 Ne5 20. Qxd6 Nxc4
21.Qb4 Nd2 22.Qxb6 Rfe8 23.Qe3 Qxe3 +
24.Rxe3 Nxfl 25.Kxfl Nf6 26.Nc5 Re5
27.RB Ng4 28.Rf4 Rg5 29.h4 Ne3 +
30.KD Nxg2 31.hxg5 Nxf4 32. Kf3 Nh5
33.d6 f6 34.Nb7 £xg5 35.d7 g4+ 36.Ke3
1-0

Alekhine's Defense BOS

IM Leonid Yudasin
Georgi Timoshenko
Podolsk 1989

l.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Bg4

5.Be2 c6 6.c4 Nb6 7.exd6 exd6 8 . 0 - 0 Be7
9.Nbd2 O-O lO.Rel N8d7 ll.a4 a512.Ra3
Re8 13.Re3 NI8 14.Qb3 Be6 15.Bd3 Rb8
16.Qc2 d5 17.c5 Nbd7 18.Nb3 b6 19.Bd2
Ra8 20.Rcl g6 21.h4 Bg4 22.Reel Bxf3
23.gxf3 Ne6

24.cxb6 Bxh4 25.b7 Rb8 26.Qxc6 Ndf8

27.Kfl Bg5 28.Bxa5 Qf6 29.Nc5 Bxe3
30.Rxe3 Qh4 31.Nxe6 Nxe6 32.Kel Kg7
33.Bb4 Nf4 34.Qxe8 Nxd3+ 35.Ke2
Nf4+ 36.Kdl Rxe8 37.Rxe8 QxC
38.b8 = Q Qxf3+ 39.Kcl Q f l + 40.Bel
Qc4+ 41.Bc3 Qfl + 42.Kc2 Qd3 +
43.Kb3 Qdl + 44.Kb4Nd3+ 45.Ka5
1-0 •
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -21-
 Annotated Games Selected by WGM Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya

Annotated Games by
Seirawan, Mednis, and Ilic
Annotated by GM Yasser Seirawan b-file — but I had foreseen a nasty surprise doing well. The a-pawn is a big factor,
for my opponent. while Black can sacrifice the Exchange on
17...Nxc5 18.bxc5 Qd7 b6 if he needs to bail out. I had dis-
English A29
Behaving as if the b7-pawn isn't a prob- counted this move because I hadn't an-
GM Boris Gulko lem. ticipated White's Queen being comfort-
GM Yasser Seirawan 19.Rfbl able on c7. But, in reality, White has no
U.S. Championship (3) 1989 choice because of the above variation.
23...Bxc7 24.Qxc7
l.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.NG Nc6 4.g3 d5
5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6 7 . 0 - 0 Be7 8.a3
O-O 9.b4 Be6 lO.Rbl a6 l l . d 3 f6
Of late, Black has been losing a lot of
games in this variation. However, I've
always felt that the opening wasn't the
problem. Here, Black has to choose be-
tween the active ll...£5 or the solid ll...f6.
I chose ll...f6 because I wanted to first
neutralize White's play on the Queenside
before initiating the battle on the
Ringside.
12.Ne4! 19...b5!
Black has no problems after 12.Be3 Crossing up White's plans. If White
Nd5!, forcing an exchange of the passive captures the pawn he must be prepared 24...Qb5?!
Black Knight on b6 for the better-placed to sacrifice an Exchange. On the other A silly move that throws away the ad-
White one on c3. hand, if White doesn't take the plunge, he vantage. I was trying to be too clever! I
12...Ba2 will soon stand worse. The d4-square didn't want to capture White's d-pawn
Most opening books give this move an may fall into Black's hands due to the shot now (24...Qxd3? 25.Rxb4 Q d l + 26.BAL
exclamation mark. I'm not convinced. Is Bf7-h5. Also, Black has a potential Qxf3 27.Bxa6 is good for White) but I was
the Rook really worse on b2? passed pawn on the Queenside. So, like completely tantalized with the idea of
13.Rb2 Bd5 14.Nc5 Rb8 15.e4 it or not, White must shed an Exchange. winning the (ridiculous) d-pawn. The
White is forced to make this conces- Munch! point is that I shouldn't be trying to cap-
sion in order to further develop his game. 20.cxb6 Bxa3 21.Rb3 ture the little morsel. Black keeps the
White limits the effectiveness of his Forced. Inferior choices are: 21.bxc7? advantage by 24...Qa4! 25.Bh3 (White
Bishop on g2 and creates a weakness on Rxb2 22.Rxb2 Bxb2 23.Qxb2 Qxc7 wins. can't allow Rfc8. If 25.b7? Ba2 26.Rfl
d3. In return, he wins space and limits the Or 21.Ra2? Nb4! 22.Rxb4 Bxb4 23.bxc7 [26.Ral Nc2] Qb5 27.Bb6 a5 intending
mobility of the Black Knight on b6. If Rb7 wins again. Nb4-a6 is good for Black.) 25...a5! 26.b7
White is allowed to comfortably continue 21...Bd6 22.Rc3 Qc2!. Suddenly, Black's minor pieces are
with the plan of Be3, d3-d4, etc., he will Again forced. White stands worse perfectly placed to escort the a-pawn to
stand much better. after 22.R3b2 cxb6 23.Rxb6 Nb4! fol- his coronation. Boris and I spent the
Black has his own trumps. White's lowed by Rxb6. Black has excellent piece postmortem working on the rich tactical
pieces seem to be at odds with one play and an outside passed pawn. White possibilities of this position. Eventually
another and his pawn structure offers is forced to ride the wild tactics. we felt that Black had a pull.
some promising targets. The battle is 22...Nb4 23.Rxc7! 25.Bh3 a5 26.Nel!
shaping up. Well played! When setting up the trap An excellent defensive move that asks
15...Bf7 16.Be3 Nd7 17.Qc2? based on 19...b5,1 had foreseen this mo- Black what he intends to do. I now went
A strategic mistake. With his space ment. I had spent most of my time trying into a deep think and began to kick myself
advantage, White shouldn't allow exchan- to assess the situation after 23.Rxb4 Bxb4 for walking into the pin on the b-file. Now
ges. Correct was 17.Nb3! intending d3- 24.Rxc7 (24.bxc7 Rbc8 25.Rc6 Ba5! I can't activate my Queen with 26...Qa4
d4, when White has a small advantage. favors Black) 24...Qb5. Without reaching because 27.b7 threatens the deadly Bh3-
The move played aims for pressure on the any firm conclusions I felt that Black was c8! The loss of the tempo has become
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very meaningful. Realizing I had thrown theory. Fortunately for me, the move is 16.Qe2 when Black experiences the
away my advantage, I now expected the dubious and after a long think, I worked development problems mentioned ear-
game to dissolve into a draw. out a refutation. lier. White is also poised to castle on
26...Qa6 11.Be4! either wing and crash through in the cen-
Threatening Rb8-b7. White will now be forced to sacrifice a ter.
27.Ral! pawn. In return, his pieces will take up 16.Bh4 g5 17.fxe5 gxh4 18.0-0
Preventing 27...Rb7 due to 28.Qc5 active positions. Of critical importance is Black's opening strategy has backfired.
threatening Qc5xb4. Black can't repeat the e4-a8 diagonal. My preventing ...Bc8- White has a raging initiative and a safe
with 27...Qb5 due to 28.Bd7! gaining time. b7 severely hampers Black's Queenside King for his small investment of a pawn.
27...Rfd8 28.Bc5 development. Black has difficulty developing and his
ll...Rb8 f7-pawn is particularly sensitive. For ex-
This doesn't work out well. Better is ample: 18...Bg7? 19.Rxf7 Kxf7 20.Qh5 +
ll...Ra7 with similar play as in the game. Ke7 21.d6 Kd8 22.Qxh4+ with mate to
12.Bg5! Qb6 follow. It is because of such tactical pos-
Black is forced to keep dark-squared sibilities that I recommended 1 l...Ra7 in-
Bishops on the board. After 12...Be7?! stead of ll...Rb8. Even so, Black's posi-
13.Bxe7 Qxe7 14.h3 cxd4 15.Qxd4 Nh6 tion is no bargain.
(no more ...Bf8-c5 tempo) 16.0-0, White 18...Rb7
has a massive space advantage. Forced. The f7-pawn needs help.
19.QB
Increasing the pressure. Grabbing the
Exchange with 19.dxc6 Bxe6 20.Bxb7 is
also good but it releases the tension. The
text builds up to a line of play offering a
28...Nxd3??
second pawn sacrifice.
Finally the little bugger on d3 proves to
19...Ra7
be my undoing. I saw that after 28...Qb5,
Again, forced in view of 20.d5xe6.
then 29.Be7 Re8 30.Bd7 Qxb6 31.Qxb6
20.dxe6 Qxe6
Rxb6 32.Bxe8 Bxe8 33.Rxa5 Nc6 34.Ra8
Again, no choice. If 20...Bxc6
Nxe7 35.Rxe8 + Kf7 36.Ra8 R b l 37.Kfl
21.Bc6+ Rd7 22.Radl Rh7 23.Nd5 wins
Nc6 was a dead draw. But with a glint in
crisply.
my eye, 1 grabbed the pawn. I thought
21.Bd5 Qg6
that White's 27.Ral overlooked some-
thing. Unfortunately, it was I who had 13.d5!
overlooked something. A natural pawn sacrifice. White is
29.Rdl Bc4 30.Nxd3 Bxd3 31.Bfl! playing through the center while Black's
So simple. Black is caught in a variety pieces on the flanks make a disunited
of pins and must lose material. impression.
31...Rbc832.Bxd3 Rxd3 33.Rxd3! Rxc7 13...Ndxe5 14.Nxe5
34.Rd8+ 1-0 Here my biggest problem was choosing
the correct plan. White has a myriad of
Semi-Slav Meran D48 attacking options. This is where style
plays an important part of the decision-
GM Yasser Seirawan
GM Jesus Nogueiras making process. Many players might play
14.h3 Nxf3 15.Qxf3 when Black has
World Team Championship 1989
helped develop White's pieces. Also
l.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.NO good is the "natural" 1 4 . 0 - 0 Bd6 22.e6!
Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 15.Nxe5 Nxe5 16.Qh5, moving the guys Another pawn sacrifice clears open the
c5 10.e5 Ng4?! into nice lookout possibilities. I finally f-file and the h5-e8 diagonal. Black is lost.
In R o u n d 1, Timman d e f e a t e d chose the text based on two considera- 22...fxe6
Nogueiras in the main line: 10...cxd4 tions: favorable forcing variations and If 22...Bxe6 23.Bxe6 fxe6 24.Qc6 + is
ll.Nxb5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 axb5 13.Bxb5 + the fact that Black will find it nearly im- convincing.
Bd714.Nxd7 Qa5 + 15.Bd2 Qxb516.Nxf8 possible to develop. 23.Be4! Qg7 24.Radl Bd7 25.Bc6 c4
Kxf817.b3!? (see page 23, Issue 25-26 for 14...Nxe5 15.f4! h6 26.Qh5+ 1-0
the complete game). I was anxious to see Black hardly has a choice. If 15...Ng6, School's out after 26...Kh8 27.Rf7 or
what solutions he had found. Apparent- 16.dxe6 fxe6 17.Qh5 is a killer. Or 26...Ke7 27.Bxd7 Rxd7 28.Rf7 + 29.Rxd7,
ly, Noguieras hadn't solved the problems 15...Nd7 16.dxe6 Qxe6 1 7 . 0 - 0 and winning easily.
and so tried to catch me unawares with an Black's King is about to be burned. The See Issue 25/26, p. 21 for full report of
old move. It worked! I didn't know the final try 15...Nc4 is met by the quiet the tournament)
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -23-
Annotated by GM Edmar Mednis Robatsch gives 14.Rd2 plus-over-minus h-pawn becomes vulnerable.
(with the R/f 1 at d2). But why should the 40.Kg4 Re4+ 41.Kg3 Rb4 42.Rh8 Kg6
Dutch A92 position be so clear and simple? White 43.Rg8 + Kf6 44.Rh8 Kg7 45.Rc8 Rf4
has compensation for the pawn, but it is 46.Rb8 Rb4 47.Rc8 h5 48.Rc6 g4 49.Kh4
GM Attila Groszpeter
not at all clear how he is supposed to get gxh3 + 50.Kxh3 K17 51.Rh6 h4 52.Kg2
GM Lars Karlsson
at Black. In discussing the game with me The pawn ending after 52.Rxh4? Rxh4
11th Copenhagen International (8) 1989 two days later, GM Karlsson kept repeat- 53.Kxh4 Ke6 is a routine loss for White.
(See Issue 18, p. 8 for a full report.) ing "Black was not lost." 52...Ke7 53.KD Kd7 54.Ke3 Kc7
I.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.c4 14...f4 15.Nb5 Rf6 16.gxf4 Rxf4 55.Kd3 Rg4
O-O 6.d5!? Not 16...exf4?!, as that leaves Black
Instead of the usual 6 . 0 - 0 , White with isolated doubled d-pawns and less
chooses an unusual way to try to profit central influence.
from Black's lack of mobilization of the 17.Nxd6 Nxd6 18.Rxd6 Rxe4 19.Ng5
d-pawn. Rg4 20.f4 exf4 21.Nh3 Ne5!
6...Bb4 + Black shows w o n d e r f u l nerves
GM Botvinnik in ECO A instead sug- throughout —he will keep challenging
gests 6...d6 and comes up with equality White and "Whatever will be, will be."
after 7.dxe6 Nc6 8.Nd4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 c6, 22.Nxf4Nxc423.Nd5h624.Ne7+ Kh7
followed by 10...Bxe6. We will have to 25.Rd3 d5!
wait to see Groszpeter's improvement. Instead 25...Nxb2? loses to 26,Rc3.
7.Bd2 Qe7 8 . 0 - 0 Bxd2 26.b3??
Subsequently, Karlsson recommended White, who also had played with gay
8...e5! followed by 9.Bxd2 and 10...d6 as abandon, suddenly loses all nerve and
56.a4??
the safe move order. acquiesces to a routine endgame where
Black's King is headed for the Queen-
9.Qxd2 e5 10.d6!? he is a pawn down with no compensation.
side, so that with the b-pawn protected by
This was given an exclamation mark As Karlsson said, correct is 26.Nxd5 with
the King, Black's Rook would be freed to
and a plus-over-minus evaluation 'mECO even chances, when 26...Nxb2 is dubious
go after White's Queenside. White's King
A, based on a game where Black played because of 27.Rg3! and White has a huge
correctly followed suit, and he should
very badly. Yet, as this game shows, edge in development.
have continued with the thematic 56.Kc3.
White's position does not play itself. In- 26...Nb6 27.Nxd5 Nxd5 28.Rxd5 b6
Tired from almost six hours of non-stop
stead of the text, White can continue nor- 29.Rd2 Bb7 30.Rf7 Rb8 31.h3 Rg6 32.Kh2
play, White apparently feared 56...b5, but
mally with 10.Nc3 and, after 10...d6, play Bxg2 33.Rxg2 a5 34.Rc7 Rffi 35.Rxg6
57.Rh5 then is adequate. After the text,
11.b4. Kxg6 36.Kg2 Rf6 37.Rb7 Re6 38.Kf3 Kf6
which permanently weakens the b3-
10...Qxd6 39.Rb8
pawn, White is hopelessly lost.
Because of the obvious weaknesses in
56...Rb4! 57.Kc3 Kd7!
Black's position, he must remove White's
With White's King chained to the b3-
strongest attacking piece —the Queen—
pawn, he has no way to keep Black's King
from the board. In Robatsch-Jamieson,
from guiding his pawn in.
Buenos Aires Olympiad 1978, Black lost
58.Kc2 Ke7 59.Kc3 Kf7 60.Rd6 Kg7
quickly after 10...cxd6? l l . N c 3 Na6
61.Rd7 +
12.Qg5! d5 13.Nh4 Kh8 14.Nxf5-see In-
If the Rook remains on the 6th rank,
formant 26/112.
61...h3 is decisive.
II.Qxd6 cxd612.Nc3 Nc613.Radl Ne8
61...Kg6 62.Rd3 Kg5 63.Kd2 Kg4
14.e4
64.Ke2 h3 65.Kf2 Rf4 + 66.Kgl RD 0-1

Annotated by IM Zoran Ilic

39...g5?! Grunfeld D97

The dividing line between a draw and
GM Zdenko Kozul
a win in such endgames is very thin. White GM Petar Popovic
is a clear pawn down, but his Rook is
Yugoslav Team, Zlatibor 1989
active and only a.few pawns remain. With
the unmotivated text (time pressure!), l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7
Black probably remains on the draw side 5.Qb3
of the line. Karlsson later pointed out One of White's most ambitious tries
that 39...g6, enabling the King to get to g5, against the Grunfeld Defense. White en-
is correct. After the text, shelter for sures the advantageous exchange of wing
In his notes to the above game, GM Black's King is hard to come by and the pawn for center pawn, but at heavy cost:
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the premature exposure of his Queen and Now it is White who must avoid Defends and attacks at the same time.
a significant loss of time. stereotyped play. The logical supporting White threatens a5-a6, while 31...Bxg2
5...dxc4 6.Qxc4 O-O 7.e4 Na6 move 19.Bf3 fails to 19...Rxe3! 20.fxe3 fails to 32.Be3 Bxh3 33.Rc7 + . Black's
Black prepares to undermine the cen- Qg5 and Black has an excellent game. next move renews that threat.
ter with ...c7-c5. Played sporadically for Meantime, White must mobilize before 31...Be5 32.Be3 Ne2+ 33.Khl!
many years, the move is now considered Black plays Nc5(-e4). A canny move. White doesn't want to
the main variation, thanks to World 19...fxe6 20.dxe6 Rxe6 21.Bxc4 Qe8?! be bothered with tactical forays involving
Champion Kasparov. Even worse is 21...Rxc4 22.Qxc4 Qe7 his King after 33.Kfl.
8.Be2 23.Rfdl Be8 24.Rd6. However, Black 33...Nd4 34.a5
Kozul-Lalic, below, continued 8.Bf4. had better: 21...Qh4!, forcing 22.Bxe6 + As Black aimlessly reshuffled his
8...c5 9.d5 e 6 1 0 . 0 - 0 exd5 ll.exdS Bf5 Bxe623.Rc2Ra824.a3. I was lucky to see pieces, White has now made his first con-
This position attracted a lot of interest the players' post-mortem analysis. While crete threat—35.a6.
after the Karpov-Kasparov match in Popovic said " . . . and White has nothing. 34...Bd5 35.b4 Nf5 36.Bc5 Ne7 37.Rd8
Seville, 1987. ...", Kozul was convinced that, due to the Bc6 38.Bd6 Bc3
12.Be3 awkward placing of the Knight at a6, Trading Bishops would allow White to
An attempt to surprise the opponent White still retains better chances. start working on the Kingside majority as
with a seldom-played move. Theory likes Probably the truth is somewhere in be- well.
12.Bf4, while Karpov mostly played tween. 39.Rb8 Ke6?
12.Rdl Re8 13.d6 againt Kasparov. 22.Rfdl Bb5 The fatal mistake. After 39...Bd5 it is
12...Re8 13.Radl h6!? Black's best chance is to force exchan- not clear how White can win.
Probably a new move. E C O con- ges right away. Other tries are suspicious. 40.Bxe7! Kxe7 41.b5 Be5
sidered only 13...Ne4 14.Nxe4 Rxe4 For example, 22...Rc7 23.Bf4! Rxc4 Black would lose easily after 41...Bxb5
15.Qcl Qb6. As the analyses that follow 24.Qxc4 Qf7 25.Rxd7! R e l + 26.Rxel 42.Rxb7 + Bd7 43.a6, but he should try
are pretty old, one can easily predict an Qxc4 27.Re8 + Kh7 28.Be5 and it's all 41...Bd5, in which case I don't see a forced
improvement. Devotees of this line over. win after 42.a6 bxa6 43.bxa6 Be5.
should note I. Farago-Kozul, Montpel- 23.Bxe6 + Qxe624.Qxc8 + Still, White can open the other front
lier, July 1989,. There Kozul surprisingly The endgame suits White. He will win with 44.f4, Kh2 and g4, etc. In my
sacrificed the Exchange, and obtained ex- the pawn at a7. Although Black main- opinion, Black's Bishops are not able to
cellent compensation after 13...Qb6!? tains material balance, his pieces lack control both sides of the board. I advise
14.b3 Rxe3!? 15.fxe3 Ng4 16.Na4 Qd6 harmony. readers to analyze the endgame and form
17.Qf4 Qxf418.exf4 Nb4!. 24...Qxc8 25.Rd8 + Qxd8 26.Rxd8 + their own opinion.
14.h3 Rc8 15.Rd2 Ne4 16.Nxe4 Rxe4 Kf7 27.b3 Nb4 28.a4 Bc6 29.Bxa7 Nd5 42.Rc8!
17.Qcl The crusher. 42.Rg8? Be8! would be a
A position typical for this line: tense. mistake.
How to continue? White threatens Bd3 42...Bd7
and Bxf5. To wait would increase the If 42...Kd7, then 43.a6! Kxc8 44.a7 b6
value of the d-pawn. Therefore . . . 45.bxc6 wins. And 42...Bxb5 loses a
17...C4! Bishop after 43.Rc5.
Although it cedes d4, it is the only way 43.Rc2 Bb8 44.a6 b6
to keep the dynamic balance. Also hopeless is 43...bxa6 44.bxa6 Kd8
18.Nd4 Bd7 45.Rb2 Kc8 46.Rb7.
White is well on top after 18...Qxd5 45.Rc7! Bxc7 46.a7 Bxb5 47.a8 = Q Be8
19.Bf3!, or after 18...Nb4 19.Nxf5 gxf5 48.Qa3 + Kd849.Qd3+ Kc850.Qe3Kd8
20.Qbl!. 51.Qxh6 b5 52.h4 1-0

More or less, the forced outcome of

22...Bb5. White's Queenside majority
makes his position more comfortable, but
with accurate play a draw is the most
likely outcome.
30.Bc5 Nf4?!
A typical time-pressure mistake —
Black plays too actively! Black needed to
build up a fortress with his minor pieces,
always bearing in mind the potential
danger on the Queenside. Thus, 30...Bf6
was much the better move.
19.Ne6!? 31.Rc8!
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -25-
Annotated by IM Zoran Ilic Bf5 15.Nc3 Nxf4 16.Qxf4, Black con- 14.Bxb5 Nb4 is also not satisfactory.
tinued with 16...Qa5?!, which quickly Kozul's choice of 8.Bf4 has turned out
Grunfeld D97 d e f l a t e d his initiative after 17.Bc4! unhappily. The Queen is exposed, his
Bxc3 + 18.bxc3 Qxc3 19.Ke2 Rac8 development is slow, and the pawn at e5
GM Zdenko Kozul
20.Rhcl and White is winning. Maybe is weak. Trying to surprise his opponent,
GM Bogdan Lalic
12...Ncxe4 is too ambitious, but for its he played a line without knowing it well
Yugoslav Team, Zlatibor 1989 final appraisal a practical test of enough.
l.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d5 16...Rb8!? is necessary. 13...Rfd8 14.Qe3 Nb415.Ne4
5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 O-O 7.e4 Na6 8.Bf4 10.e5 The only way to meet the threats on d3.
With the glut of analysis on 8.Be2, it's The only move to play for an ad- Will the exchange of the Knight at c5 save
not surprising that 8.Bf4 is coming back vantage. In Sosonko-Smejkal, Lucerne White?
into fashion. The main adherent of this Olympiad 1982, a draw was agreed after 15...Nxe4 16.Qxe4
move has been G M Lajos Portisch. 10.Qb5 Qxb5 ll.Bxb5 Nxc5 12.e5 Nfe4
White plans to quickly complete his 13.Nxe4 Nxe4 14.Rcl Be6 15.Bc4 Nc5.
Queenside development, but he must This position is not one you can play by
face strong counterplay based on the ex- the seat of your pants. Sensible but incor-
posed positions of both his Queen and his rect moves can be brutally punished: for
King. example, 10.Nd2 Be6 l l . Q a 4 Qxa4
8...c5 9.dxc5 12.Nxa4 Nb4 13.Kdl Rfd8 14.a3 Nxe4!,
White has not been achieving much Schaufelberger-Webb, Groningen 1968-
with the old line 9.Rdl cxd410.Rxd4 Qb6 69.
ll.e5 Be6. 10...Nd7
The tempting ll.e6 is no good at all. In
Romo-Alvarez, Sao Paulo 1937 (!), Black
was on top after ll...Ndxc5 12.exf7 +
Rxf7 13.Ng5 Be6 14.Nxe6 Nxe6 15.Be3
b5! 16.Qc6 Rd8 17.Rcl Nd4 18.Bxd4
Bxd4.
11.Rcl
16...Rxd2!
A superficial move, after which Black
For a small material investment, Black
quickly achieves the better game. Kozul
keeps up an irresistable initiative.
didn't know the game Eingorn-Ftacnik,
17.Nxd2 Nxa2 18.Rdl Rd8
Debrecen 1989, where White showed
Threatens 19...Bb3.
how this position must be treated: ll.a3!.
19.Bc4 Bd5!
This is an excellent move which covers b4
Simplifying on his own terms, Black
and limits the potential activity of both
Black Knights. As the direct threat is gains another tempo.
12.b4, Black has no other choice than 20.Bxd5 Rxd5 2 1 . 0 - 0
9...Qa5 Probably the best practical chance — to
The alternative is 9...Be6. Although in ll...Qxc5. White obtained a lasting ad-
vantage after 12.Nd5 Re813.Rdl h614.h3 give up the Knight for King safety. Other
two recent games White did well, there moves lose quickly: 21.f4? Bxe5; or 21.b4
remains the impression that the final Qxc415.Bxc4.
Qb5.
word is yet to be said. After 10.Qb5 Bd7 ll...Ndxc5 12.Bd2?!
21...Rxd2 22.Rxd2 Qxd2 23.Qxb7 Bxe5
ll.Qxb7 Nxc512.Qb4 the critical position With the unpleasant ...Be6 in the of-
fing, White's sense of danger should have 24.Qxe7
arises.
kicked in. Perhaps White can survive Played in severe time pressure. White
J.Piket-I.Sokolov, Wijk aan Zee 1989,
after 12.Qb5 Qxb5 (not so good is cannot grab both the a7- and e7- pawns.
continued:
12...Qb4 13.Be3!) 13.Bxb5 (13.Nxb5 Bf5 One humorous example is 24.Qxa7 Ncl
12...Ne6 13.Be5 a5 14.Qa3 Bc6 15.Bc4
14.Rc3 Na4 is even better for Black) 25.Qxe7 Ne2 + 26.Khl Qf4 27.g3 Qf3
Qc8 1 6 . 0 - 0 Bxe417.Bxe6 Qxe6 18.Nxe4
Nxe4 19.Bxg7 Kxg7 2 0 . R a e l Q d 5 13...Nb414.Rdl Bf5 (or 14...a6). In either mate.
21.Qxe7, and, although Black managed to case, Black is fine. 24...Bd4
draw, I think this is not the line which It is hard to imagine that such two sen- With his Bishop centralized, all that
should attract Black's interest in the fu- sible-looking moves as l l . a 3 and l l . R c l Black has to do is bring the Knight back
ture. would have such drastically different out- into play. White's only remaining hope is
Soon after that game (July 1989), an comes. to try to trade the Queens, but it's only a
extravagant attempt at improvement fol- 12...Be6 13.Qd4 hope.
lowed in L p u t i a n - K i n d e r m a n n , Al- A sad choice, but if 13.Nd5, then Qd8 25.Qa3 Ncl 26.Qa4 Bxf2+ 27.Khl
tensteig 1989. Black surprisingly played loses a piece. If 13.Qh4, then 13...Qb4! is Nd3 28.Rdl Qe2 29.Qb3 Ne5 30.H3 Kgl
12...Ncxe4. After 13.Nxe4 Nd5 14.Qd2 quite strong. Finally, 13.Qb5 Qxb5 0-1 •

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Svetozar Gligoric's Game of the Month

Classical King's Indian: 9.Nd2

by GM Svetozar Gligoric King's Indian Defense E97 10.a3
GM Valery Salov
IN SEARCH OF GM Nigel Short
THE CLUE World Cup VI, Skelleftea 1989
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
5.NO O-O 6.Be2 e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7

T he place was Mar del Plata, Argen-

tina. The year was 1953. The op-
ponent, in a very important tournament
9.Nd2

game, was Miguel Najdorf. When your

commentator invented a new line for
Black in the King's Indian Defense, he did
not dream of the problems which would
face White for many years to come. The
sequence became known as the "Mar del Equally playable is lO.Rbl and if
Plata Variation." 10...Bd7 [10 ...Nd7 l l . a 3 would transpose
Najdorf s first reaction was the clever into the main game] l l . b 3 Nc812.Bb2 [or
maneuver Nf3-el-d3-f2. The Knight 12.a3 Nb6 13.Qc2 (if 13.b4 axb4 14.axb4
could support the thematic pawn break Na4 15.Qc2 Nxc3 16.Qxc3 Bh6 17.Bb2!
c4-c5 before dropping back to a defensive Bxd2 18.Qxd2 Nxe4 19.Qe3 f5 20.f4 exf4
21.Rxf4 with rather even chances, Lan-
role on the Kingside. Nevertheless, White
The fashionable move. White would geweg-Geller, Amsterdam 1974) 13...Ne8
was defeated by Black's straight counter-
like to play 9.b4 right away, hoping for 14.b4 axb415.axb4 Na416.Nxa4 (interest-
attack with the pawn onslaught g6-g5-g4
accelerated pressure on the Queenside, ing is 16.Ndl) 16...Bxa417.Qc3 Bd718x5
on the opposite side where both Kings
which he really would obtain after 9...a5? f5 19.B Bh6 (better is 19...Nf6 20.Bd3
were located, showing the effectiveness of
10.bxa5 Rxa5 ll.Nd2! and 12.Nb3, fol- Nh5) 20.c6 with initiative, Lerner-
Black's new set-up with Knights on f6 and
lowed by 13.c5 and 14.a4 and 15.Ba3, but Pieterse, Amsterdam II 1988] 12...Bh6
g6, Rook on g7 and Bishop on f8, the
Black has a better answer in 9...Nh5!, to 13.Qc2 Nh5!? 14.Bxh5 gxh5 15.f4! Bxf4
latter two having swapped places. Two
reach the beautiful square f4. White's last 16.Rxf4 exf4 17.Ne2 Qg5 18.Nf3 Qh6
days later, Eliskases, as White, tried the
move in the game prevents that threat, 19.Bcl Bg4 20.Nxf4 Qf6 21.Qd2 Ne7
more enterprising idea of bringing the intending to apply the same strategy next. 22.Bb2 Qh6 23.Qc3 f6 24.Bcl Qg7 25.Nd4
Bishop (after 9.Nel) to the powerful 9...a5 with clear advantage, Dreev-Geller, Mos-
diagonal e3-a7 right away (played again Recently the most popular reply. It cow 1989.
by Kortchnoi just lately), yet was equally should slow down White's progress on the Rather slow is 10.b3 c5! [White is
defeated by the author because Black's Queenside, while Black is doing his job on practically a tempo down in comparison
pawn threat g4-g3 had gained in strength. the Kingside. The move 9...Ne8, immedi- with the continuation in Game 3, and the
ately opening the road to the f-pawn, al- move meets White's idea of ll.Ba3 and
Time Marches On! lows 10.b4—see Supplemental Game 1; 12.b4 in time; less accurate is 10...Nd7
Thirty-six years passed. In 1988 and and a similar thing h a p p e n s after l l . B a 3 f5!? (or l l . . . N c 5 12.b4 axb4
1989, White finally turned full attention to 9...Nd7 —see Game 2. 13.Bxb4 Na6 14.Ba3 b6 15.Nb3 f5 16.Bcl
the different maneuver 9.Nd2, aiming Another idea is to try to block and Nc5 17.Nxc5 bxc5? 18.a4 with an ad-
eventually to come to c4 (after c4-c5), better secure the Queenside with 9...c5 vantage, Mikhalchishin A.-Braga,
thus building the ideal aggressive position before building counterplay on the op- Mexico 1977) 12.b4 axb413.Bxb4 Kh8 (if
ontheQueensidewiththe now very active posite wing. White's natural reaction is to 13...b614.a4; unclear, Nemet-Portisch F.,
King's Knight. White was delighted with p r e p a r e opening of the b-file with Virovitica 1977, or 13...Bh6 14.Nb3 Nf6
its success in 1988, but had to suffer some lO.Rbl — see Game 3; while less promis- 15.BC3 g5 16.exf5 Bxf5 17.c5! g4 18.Be2
set-backs in 1989. The final verdict, if ing is to open the central area with Kh8 19.Na5 with the better game,
there is one, will be based on further prac- 10.dxc6—as shown in Game 4. An un- Gleizerov-Gurevich V., USSR 1987)
tice. clear attempt is 9...c6—see Game 5. 14.a4 Ng8 15.Nb3 b6 16.a5 Nc5 17.Ra3!
January 22, 1990 INSIDE CHESS -27-
Bd7 18.Bxc5 bxc5 19.a6 Nf6 20.a7 with Guseinov-Smirin, Klaipeda 1988. to make White's initiative an effective one
strong initiative, L p u t i a n - D o r f m a n , 11...C5 12.b4 Kh8 on the Queenside.
USSR 1986] l l . a 3 [inefficient is ll.dxc6 This follows Kasparov's strategy in the 14...Ngf6 15.Rbel
bxc6 12.Rel Draw, Stohl-W.Schmidt, encounter with Karpov in an earlier The alternative is 15.f3, but then Black
Polanica Zdroj 1985] ll...Ne8 12.Rbl f5 round of the same tournament. For the may use Kasparov's latest method for
13.b4 axb414.axb4 b615.Qb3 Nf6 16.Bd3 f r e q u e n t l y played 12...b6 (and 12... counterplay with 15...Nh5. With the move
Bh6! 17.Rb2 R a l 18.Qc2 Bf4 with a solid axb4)—see Game 7. in the game White is ready even for f2-f4,
game, Karpov-Kasparov, 17th World 13.Qc2 because of Black's sensitivity on f5 after
Championship match game in Seville For 13.f3 (or 13.Nb3)-see Game 8. the executed maneuver Ne7-g8-f6.
1987. Premature is 13.c5?! dxc5 14.bxc5 Nxc5 Another idea was to gain an important
10...Nd7 15.a4 Nxe4 16.Ndxe4 fxe4 17.Ba3 e3 tempo with 15.Rbdl (compare the con-
Black may simplify more thoroughly on 18.fxe3 Rxfl + 19.Bxfl Nf5 20.Q£3 with a tinuation in the game), but would it force
the Queenside by trading two pawns with slightly inferior position, Rashkovsky- Black to abandon the pawn tension in the
10...c5 (similar blockading strategy to Loginov, Tashkent 1987. center, like he did, with his next move?
Game 3) l l . R b l Ne8 12.b4 axb4 13.axb4 13...Ng8 15...f4 16.c5
b6 14.bxc5 bxc5—see Game 6. R e p e a t i n g the strategy which the White starts a very interesting fight for
A different defensive strategy is reader may see in Game 7. Here Black the initiative, motivated by the disap-
10...Bd7 l l . b 3 [if l l . R a 2 Ne8 (or ll...c5 presents his last word, an improvement pearance of Black's pressure on e4. Play-
12.dxc6!? bxc6 13.b4 axb4 14.axb4 Rxa2 upon 13...b6 [inaccurate is 13...Nf6 14.f3 able was 16.Bg4.
15.Nxa2 Qa8 16.Nc3 d5 17.cxd5 cxd5 f4 which allows White's vital break to 16...dxc5 17.bxc5 Nxc5 18.Nb5 Nfd7
18.exd5 Nfxd519.Nxd5 Nxd5 20.Ne4 Ba4 come more quickly: 15.c5 g5 16.Nb5 Ne8 It is vital to maintain the new outpost
21.Qel Rb8 22.Bd2 Nxb4 23.Nc5 Nc2 17.Nc4 axb4 18.axb4 Ng8 19.Bb2 Ngf6 c5.
24.Qdl Ne3 0-1, Flear-Gurevich M., Tel 20.Ral Rb8 21.Na7 Bd7 and White's in- 19.Nf3
Aviv 1989) 12.b4 f5 13.c5 axb4 14.axb4 itiative on the Queenside came first 19.Nc4 would obstruct the pressure
Rxa2 15.Nxa2 Nf6 16.Nc3 Kh8 17.f3 f4 deciding the issue after 22.c6 bxc6 along the open c-file.
18.Nc4 Nc8 19.Na5! b6 20.Nc6 Bxc6! 23.Na5! cxd5 24.N5xc6 Bxc6 25.Nxc6 Qc8 19...b6
21.dxc6 bxc5 22.bxc5 Ne7 23.cxd6 cxd6 26.Ba6 Qe6 27.Nxb8 dxe4 28.fxe4 d5 Better securing both the knight on c5
24.Nb5 Nxc6 25.Qxd6 Nd4! 26.Qxd8 29.exd5 Nxd5 30.Qc6 Nd6 31.Bc4 Black and the pawn on e5.
Nxe2 + 27.Kf2 Rxd8 28.Kxe2 with slight resigns, Orlov-G. Kurz, Budapest op 20.a4
advantage, Salov-Khalifman, USSR ch 1989] 14.Nb3 [or 14.f3 f4 15.Nb3 axb4 Gaining space and giving an additional
1988] ll...c5 [11 ...Nc8 trasposes into Lan- 16.axb4 g5 17.c5 Nf6 18.Nb5 g4 19.cxd6 diagonal to the Bisop at b2. The position
geweg-Geller — see the note after White's cxd6 20.Qc7 gxf3 21.gxf3 (if 21.Qxd8 is complex. Playable was 20.Rdl or 20.d6.
10th move] 12.Rbl Ne8 13.b4 b6 14.bxc5 f2 + !) 21...Qe8! 22.Khl (if 22.Nxd6 20...Ba6 21.Ba3 Bf6!?
dxc5!? 15.Nf3 Nd616.Bg5 Rb817.Nd2 f6 Q g 6 + 23.Khl Nh5! with the terrible Black wants to feel safe when playing
18.Bh4 h5?! [more consistent was 18...f5] threat 24...Ng3 + ) 22...Nh5 23.Rb2 Bh3 g6-g5, but the move may cost him some
19.Bg3 Bh6 20.h3 Nf7 21.Bd3! Nc8 24.Rel Qg6 25.Bfl Ng3+ 26.hxg3 Qxg3 precious time.
22.Ne2 Ba4?! [playable was 22...Ncd6 27.Qc3 Rac8 28.Qd2 Bxfl 29.Rxfl Qh3 + 22.Rdl g5 23.h3 Rg8 24.Nh2 Bg7
23.f4 exf4 24.Nxf4 Black is slightly in- 30.Kgl Bf6 31.Nxd6 R g 8 + 32.Qg2 Rcf8 25.Bc4 Bf8
ferior] 23.Qxa4 Bxd2 24.Rb2 Bh6 25.Rfbl 33.Re2 Qd7 34.Nc4 Rxg2 + 35.Rxg2 Ng6 T h e Bishop arrives at the right
Rb7 26.Qc2 Re8 27.Nc3 Ra7 28.Na4 Ra6 with a decisive material advantage, Gav- diagonal with some delay.
29.Rb3 Nfd6 30.Be2 Kh7 with chances for rikov-Smirin, Klaipeda 1988] 14...axb4 26.d6 BxbS
both sides, Gurevich M.-Ivanchuk, Reg- 15.axb4 fxe4 16.Nxe4 Nf6 17.Bd3 Nxe4 Black had no other choice —the
gio Emilia 1988. 18.Bxe4 Nf5 [or 18...Ng8!? 19.Bd2 Qh4 opponent's Bishop was eyeing g8 at the
ll.Rbl 20.f3 Nf6 21.Ral Bd7 with even chances, same time.
Interesting is l l . R a 2 f512.b4 Nf6 13.f3 Ruzhale-Kuzmin A., Blagoveshchensk 27.dxc7 Qxc7 28.Bxb5 Nf6
c6 14.bxa5 (playable is 14.Khl) 14...fxe4! 1988] 19.Qd3 Qh4 20.g3 Qf6 21.f3 Bd7 The menace was 29.Bxd7 or 29.Rxd7.
15.Ndxe4 Nf5 16.a6!? Rxa6 17.c5 Ra5 with unclear chances, Gavrikov- 29.Bb2 g4!?
18.Bc4 b5! (it forces simplifications) Kasparov, USSR ch 1988. Black is very sensitive on e5 and on the
19.cxb6 Qxb6 20.Khl Ba6 21.Bxa6 Qxa6 14.Bb2 whole Kingside. With the executed pawn
22.dxc6!? (unclear is 22.Nxf6+ Bxf6 A rather new concept of completing break he wishes, while defending himself,
23.dxc6 Qxc6 24.Ne4 Bg7 25.Bd2) White's development. The pawn at e5 is a to build some tactical counterthreats, and
22...Nxe4 23.Nxe4 d5! 24.Ng3 drawn, wall, but it may become a breakable one with some luck this could have turned out
Nikolic P.-Nunn, World Cup V in Reyk- after White's c4-c5, even in the form of a very well. Of course, 29...Nfxe4 would be
javik 1989. positional pawn sacrifice, and there is a mistaken because of 30.Ng4 Bg7 31.Rd7!
Unclear is ll.Na4 f5 12.b4 Nf613.exf5 rare possibility of f2-f4, too. It is impor- with the disastrous attack.
gxf5 14.bxa5 f4! 15.Nb3 Nf5 16.Nc3 Nh4 tant that the KN is then able to arrive to 30.hxg4
17.f3 Kh818.Ra2 Rg819.Bd3 Bf8 20.Khl the active outpost on c4, while on b3 it White wishes to maintain his knight for
Nh5 21.Ne4 Nf5 with strong counterplay, often remains passive and does very little attacking purposes.
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 30...Bd6 41.Rd4 Ng6 24.Rxb8 Qxb8 25.Qd2 Ne8 26.Nac2
An awkward way to defend and even- Played in desperation. White has Bxc3 27.Qxc3 + Nf6 28.g3 Ne7 29.Qal!
tually attack, but that's what happens in wasted two vital tempi. Kg7 30.Rbl Qc7 31.Qb2 Kf7 32.Qb6 Rc8
the game. If nothing else, Black is not 41...Rxh2 + ! 42.Kxh2 Qh6 + 33.KI2 Ke8 34.Bfl! Kf7 35.Bh3 h5 36.Nel!
afraid now of 31.Rxd6 Qxd6 32.Nf3 White resigns, not waiting for 43.Kgl Ng4 37.Bxg4 hxg4 38.Nlg2 Ng6 39.Ndl
having a very good reply in 32...Nxg4. Bxd4 + 44.Qxd4 Rxcl + . Ke7 40.Nge3 Qxb6 41.Rxb6 Nh8 42.Nc3
31.13 Nf7 43.Nb5! Rh8 44.Kg2 Rc8 45.Rb71-0
Eliminating the possibility 31...Ncxe4, SUPPLEMENTARY GAMES
but it has the drawback of taking away the
square f3 from the Knight. Game 1 Game 4
31...Rac8 32.Qe2 GM Ivan Nemet
It was very unpleasant to face Black's GM Istvan Farago
IM Milos Pavlovic
GM Jeroen Piket
Rook on c8 for a longer time. Active tac-
Lugano 1988
tics with 32.Qd2 would allow 32...Ncxe4! Amsterdam II1985
33.fxe4 Bc5+ 34.Khl Nxe4 as a mortal l.d4 Nf6 2.ND g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d6
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
blow, or 34.Rf2 Nxe4 35.Qd5 Bxf2 + 5.e4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7
5.Be2 O-O 6.NO e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7
36.Kfl Bd4 with the intermediate move 9.Nd2 Ne8 10.b4 f5 11.13 f4 12.c5 g5
9.Nd2 c5 10.dxc6 bxc6 11.b4 d5 12.b5 d4
37...Ng3 + . 13.Nc4 Rf6!? 14.Bb2! Rg6 15.Rcl Kh8
13.Na4 d3 14.BD cxb5 15.cxb5 Bd7
32...Ne6 33.Rcl Bc5+ 34.Khl Rg6 16.Nb5 Ng8 17.Rc2 Nh6 18.Nxc7! Qxc7
16.Nc5! Bxb5 17.a4 Bc6 18.Ba3 Re8
35.Qc4Qd636.Rfdl Nd4 19.cxd6 Nxd6 20.Nxe5 Qb6+ 21.Khl
19.Rcl Nd7! 20.Nxd3 Nb6 21.Qe2 Bxa4
The game is approaching its moment Ndf7 22.Nxg6+ Qxg6 23.Bxg7+ Qxg7
24.Rc7 Qe5 25.Qal Qxal 26.Rxal Ne5 22.Nc5 Bh6 23.Nxa4 Qxd2 24.Qb5 Qd4
of crisis. U n c l e a r is the Exchange 25.Bb2! Qd6 26.Rfdl Qe6 27.Bg4 Qxg4
sacrifice with 37.Rxd4 exd4 38.Bxd4 be- 27.Bb5! Nhf7 28.Be8 Nd6 29.Re7! Nd3
30.Bh5 Nc4 31.Kgl Nde5 32.Re8+ Kg7 28.Qxe5 Kf8 29.h3 Qf4 30.Qh8+ Ng8
cause of 38...Rd8. 31.Ba3 + Re7 32.g3?! QD 33.Bxe7 +
33.Rdl Kf6 34.d6 Nb6 35.d7! Nbxd7
37.Bxd4 exd4 38.Rxd4 Qe7 Kxe7 34.Nxb6 axb6 35.Ral Rc8 36.Qd4
36.Rd6 + Kg7 37.a4 b6 38.b5 Rb8 39.h3
An inferior ending would arise after KI8 37.Ra7? Be3 38.Qd6 + ? Kg7 39.Ra2
a6 40.Bg4 Kf7 41.Bxd7 Nxd7 42.Rh8 Ke7
38...Qxd4 39.Qxd4 Bxd4 40.Rxc8+ (if Bc5 40.Qe5 + Nf6 0-1
43.Rc6 Nf8 44.Rc7 + Kd6 45.Rf7 Ng6
Rooks are exchanged there is the break
46.Rd8+ Ke6 47.Rc7 axb5 48.axb5 Ra8
g2-g3). Unclear was 38...Qe5 39.Qd3.
49.Rdxc8 Ra5 50.Rc6+ Kd7 51.R8c7 +
Kd8 52.Rxh7 Ral + 53.Kh2 Ne5 54.Rxb6 Game 5
Kc8 55.Re61-0
GM Mihai Suba
GM Ivan Sokolov
Game 2 Preston 1989
GM Smbat Lputian
IM Vladimir Akopian l.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 d6 4.d4 Bg7
5.ND O-O 6.Be2 e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7
Erevan 1988 9.Nd2 c610.b4!? a5 ll.bxaS Qxa5 12.Qc2
l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 c5 13.Nb3 Qd8 14.Rdl Nd7 15.Nb5 Ra6
5.N13 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 16.Be3 f5 17J3 f4 18.BE2 g5 19.a4 RH
9.Nd2 Nd7 10.b4 f5 ll.c5! dxc5 12.bxc5 20.a5 Bf8 21.Nxd6 Rxd6 22.Nxc5 Nxc5
Nxc513.Ba3 b614.Bxc5 bxc515.Nb3 Kh8 23.Bxc5 Rg6 24.Bb6 Qe8 25x5 Bd7 26.a6
16.Qd2 fxe4 17.Nxc5 Nf5?! 18.N5xe4 Bh6 bxa6 27.Rxa6 g4 28.Qa2! Nc8 29.Ra8 gxi3
39.Qc3? 19.Qd3 Nd4 20.Rabl! a5 21.Rfel Ba6? 30.BxO Qe7 31.d6 Qh4 32.Q£2 Qg5
Was the play influenced by time pres- 22.Qh3 Nxe2 + 23.Nxe2 Bg7 24.N2c3 Qe7 33.Bc7! Kg7 34x6 Nxd6 35.Rxf8+ Rxf8
sure? Here White missed the continua- 25.Redl R15?! 26.d6 cxd6 27.Rxd6 Bc8 36.Bxd6 Bxc6 37.Bxf8 Kxf8 38.Ral Rd6
tion 39.e5! Qxe5 (if 39...Bxd4 40.Qxc8 + 28.Nd5 Qf8 29.Qd3 Ra7 30.Ne3 1-0 39.Qc5 Qe7 40.Qc3 Be8 41.Ra5 Rc6t
Rg8 41.exf6!) 40.Rxf4 Rd8 41.Rf5 Qg3 42.Qal Rc5 43.Ra8 Rc2 44.h3 Qc5 +
42.g5 Rxg5 43.Rxg5 Qxg5 44.f4 Qh4 Game 3 45.Kh2 Rel 46.Qa7 Qxa7 47.Rxa7 Bg6
45.Qe6 with sufficient counterplay (if 48.Ra5 Rc7 49.Rxe5 Re7 50.Rg5 Bxe4
GM Mikhail Gurevich
45...Qxf4 46.Rfl, or 45...Rd6 46.Qe5). IM A. Kuzmin 51.Rg4 BxD 52.Rxf4 + Kg7 53.gxO Kg6
39...Qg7! 40.Rddl?? 54.Re4 Ra7 55.Kg3 Ra6 56.Rg4+ Kf6
USSR 1988
The decisive mistake. After 40.Qd2! 57.h4 Ral 58.Rb4 Ra6 59.Kg4 Kg6
White could still fight with counterchan- l.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 O-O 60.h5+ Kf6 61.Rb7 Ra4!+ 62.f4 Ral
ces. For instance, 40...Rf8 41.e5 Bxd4 5.e4 d6 6.Be2 e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 63.Rxh7 R g l + 64.Kh3 R h l + 65.Kg2
42.Qxd4 etc. 9.Nd2 c5 lO.Rbl Ne8 ll.b4 b6 12.bxc5 Rh4 66.Kg3 Rhl 67.Rh6+ Kf5 68.Rh8
40...Rh6 bxc5 13.Nb3 f5 14.Bg5! Kh8 15.exf5 gxf5 Kf6 69.Kg4 R g l + 70.KD Kg7 71.Rd8
The threat 41...Rxh2+ 42.Kxh2 Qh6 16.f41.617.Bh4 e418.Qc2 Nf619.Ndl Bd7 Kh6 72.Ke4 Ral! 73.Kf5 Rbl! 74.Rh8 +
mate is fatal. 20.Bela5!?21.Bc3a422.Nal! Rb823.Ne3 Kg7 75.Re8 Kh6 76.Kf6 Kxh5 77.15 Rb6 +
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78.Re6 Rb7 79.Re7 Rb6+ 80.Kg7 Kg5 44.Rxh5 Nf6 45.Rh6 Rc6 46.KB Kf7 38.Bh3! Rxc4 39.Rxh6! Bxh6 40.Be6 +
81.R17 Rb5 82.f6 Rb6 83.RK Ra6 Draw 47.Rh8 Ra6 48.Rb8 Kg6 49.h4 Kh5 Kh8 41.Qf6+ 1-0
50.Rh8 + Kg6 51.Ke3 Ral 52.Nxd6 Rel +
Game 6 53.Kd2 Rhl Draw Game 8
GM Konstantin Lerner GM Anatoly Karpov
GM Gennady Timoshchenko Game 7 GM Garry Kasparov
Moscow GMA Open 1989 GM Garry Kasparov World Cup VI Skelleftea 1989
IM Ilya Smirin
l.d4 Nf6 2x4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
USSR ch 1988
5.Be2 O-O 6.N13 e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 5.NO O-O 6.Be2 eS 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7
9.Nd2 a5 10.a3 c5 l l . R b l Ne8 12.b4 axb4 l.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 9.Nd2 a5 10.a3 Nd7 ll.Rbl f5 12.b4 Kh8
13.axb4 b6 14.bxc5 bxc5 15.Nb3 Kh8 5.d4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7 . 0 - 0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 13.E3 Ng8! 14.Nb3!? axb4 15.axb4 Ndf6!
16.Bd2 Ng8 17.Ral Rxal 18.Qxal fS 9.Nd2 a5 10.a3 Nd7 ll.Rbl f5 12.b4 b6 16.Bd2 Nh5 17.g3 Nhf6 18.RI2 Nh6
19.Na5 Nef6 20.Nc6 Qd7 21.f3 fxe4 22.fxe4 13.f3 f414.Na4! axb415.axb4 g516.c5 Nf6 19.Ral Rxal 20.Qxal Nf7 21.Qcl f4!
Bh6 23.Bxh6 Nxh6 24.Qb2 Nhg8 25.Qb6 17,cxd6 cxd6 18.b5! Bd7 19.Nc4 Nc8 22.g4 hS 23.h3 Nh7 24.Bel Bf6 25.Kg2
Qg7 26.Qb2 Qh6 27.Qcl Kg7 28.Qxh6 + 20,Ba3 Ne8 21.g4! fxg3 22.hxg3 g4! Kg7 26.Rfl Nhg5 27.Rhl Nxh3! 28.Rxh3
Nxh6 29.Ral Nf7 30.Ra7 Bd7 31.Nb5 Rc8 23.Bcl! gxf3 24.Bxf3 Nf6 25.Bg5 Ra7 Ng5 29.Rh2 hxg4 30.fxg4 Rh8 31.Bh4 f3 +
32.Bd3 Kf8 33.Ra6 Ne8 34.K12 Bxc6 26.RI2 Rb7 27.Rb3 Ra7 28.Rbl Rb7 32.Bxf3 Nxf3 33.Bxf6+ Qxf6 34.Rxh8
35.dxc6 Ke7 36.Be2 h5 37.Ke3 Nd8 29.Rb3 Ra7 30.Rb4! Kh8?! 31.Qfl! Bxb5 Kxh8 35.Kg3! gS!? 36.Ne2 Kg7 37.Qhl
38.Ra7 + Kf6 39.Rd7 Ke6 40.g4 Nxc6 32.Rxb5 Rxa4 33.Bg2! h6 34.BH4 Qe8 Nd4 38.Nbxd4 exd4 39.Qdl Qe5 + 40.KD
41.Rh7 Nd4 42.gxhS Nxe2 43.Kxe2 gxh5 35.Bxf6! Rxf6 36.Rxf6 Qxb5 37.Re6! Kg8 Qf6+ 41.Kg3 Qe5 + 42.KOQf6+ Draw

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