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CT-159(2040) Friday, 9 June 2006
Test Yourself! Crimean Impressions (1)
by GM Mikhail Golubev
Dzagnidze 2454 - Danielian 2422
37th Olympiad Turin (12), 03.06.2006 I am currently playing in a tournament
XIIIIIIIIY in Alushta, Crimea. There are nine
8-+r+-+k+0 players, the average Elo is somewhat
7+ptr-+p+p0 less than 2400. And we play two
robins (like they play in Linares or in
6-+-+-+p+0 Sofia). What a disaster. I was not
5zp-+P+-+-0 prepared for such a hard challenge. At
4-+L+q+-+0 the beginning of June I had my usual
3zPQtR-+R+-0 work for Chess Today and the
2-+-+-+-+0 Ukrainian newspaper Komanda, one
1+-+-+K+-0} million other things to do, and
xabcdefghy sometimes played two games per day
here. It is really too much. The quality
of the games was rather terrible, my
three wins and two losses were all
World Chess results of blunders.
News
Standings after the first half:
1-2. Sumets UKR 2461 and
Hockenheim Willingen Kononenko UKR 2472 – 6½ points out
of 8.
3. Zinchenko 2499 UKR – 5
This is a round-robin event with 10
4. Golubev 2484 UKR – 4½
players. The time control: 40 moves in
5-6. Shtyrenkov 2416 RUS and
90 min, 30 min for the rest plus 30 sec
Mankeyev 2381 KAZ – 3½
a move starting from the beginning.
7. Podgursky 2314 MDA – 3
8. Tishin 2316 UKR – 2
Standings after 7 rounds: 9. Rozhkov 2191 RUS – 1½
1. Buhmann – 5 points
2. Doettling – 4½
I hope to survive the second half of
3-5. Ikonnikov, Romanischin,
the tournament. And a bit later I will
Tomashevsky – 4
go somewhere else in Crimea, Foros.
6. Gasthofer – 3½
Luckily, I will not play there myself –
7-8. Meier, Spoelman – 3
just journalism, etc. On 17th June in
9-10. Meinhardt, Braun – 2
Foros a super tournament is starting
Official website
with twelve participants whose
average Elo is approximately 2690
points. The main sponsor is the air
San-Marino Open company Aerosvit. The details can be
found at the event's website.
Round 6 top boards:
Milov (4½) – Akobian (4½) As far as I know, Vladimir Akopian
Ehlvest (4½) – Markowski (4½) decided not to play, and the
Cebalo (4) – Tiviakov (4) organizers were looking for an urgent
Torre (4) – Doric (4) replacement. Most probably he will be
Flores (4) – Gagunashvili (4) replaced by one of the Russian
Heberla (4) – Pantsulaia (4) grandmasters.
Malakhatko (4) – Dimakiling (4)
Nguyen Chi-Minh (4) – Godena (4) Foros is a small, but very special place
Official website which became famous in 1991, when
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the USSR President Gorbachev was XIIIIIIIIY
blocked there for a few days by those 8r+lwq-trk+0{
people from the USSR government 7+-zppvlpzpp0
who attempted to take a power in 6p+n+-sn-+0
Moscow. I have never visited Foros so 5+p+-zp-+-0
far, but perhaps I saw it from the ship,
when travelled from Odessa to Yalta 4-+-+P+-+0
in 2004. I will write more about Foros 3+L+-+N+P0
later in June! 2PzPPzP-zPP+0
1tRNvLQtR-mK-0
There are certain political tensions in xabcdefghy
Crimea now. In the USSR, the Crimean
peninsula was part of Russia – until it Avoiding the Marshall Attack (8.c3 d5
was given to Ukraine in the 1960s. The etc.).
anti-NATO sentiments are strong here, 8...d6
and there are large protests these days Ivanchuk goes for the classical lines.
in Crimea against certain NATO More popular nowadays is 8...¥b7.
visitors. It can be found in the 9.c3 ¥b7 10.d4 ¦e8 11.¤bd2 ¥f8
Ukrainian political news elsewhere. 12.a4 h6 (D)
Still, it is the chess politics that have XIIIIIIIIY
troubled me more lately. Wishing to 8r+-wqrvlk+0
continue my journalistic activity, I will 7+lzp-+pzp-0
inevitably have to write about our
eccentric FIDE President for many
6p+nzp-sn-zp0
more years, because he was re- 5+p+-zp-+-0
elected in Turin. Reality bites. Almost 4P+-zPP+-+0
all that Ilyumzhinov has done in chess 3+LzP-+N+P0
has been wrong – or at best not 2-zP-sN-zPP+0
consistent. He is however very 1tR-vLQtR-mK-0}
consistent in his desire to rule the xabcdefghy
chess world. But why does
Ilyumzhinov need to? I guess that the Recently Kasimdzhanov has played
politician who occupies a post in an the Zaitsev system with Black himself,
international organization is somewhat and Ivanchuk likes to have theoretical
more protected against surprises in the discussions with well-prepared
big politics. One way or another, those opponents.
who wish to see that chess is 13.¥c2 exd4 14.cxd4 ¤b4 15.¥b1
developing into a normal professional c5 16.d5 ¤d7 17.¦a3 f5 (D)
sport will have to wait a long time XIIIIIIIIY
until their dreams will get any chance 8r+-wqrvlk+0
to become true. So, I send my
condolences to everyone.
7+l+n+-zp-0
6p+-zp-+-zp0
5+pzpP+p+-0
Annotated Game 4Psn-+P+-+0
by IM Vladimir Barsky 3tR-+-+N+P0
2-zP-sN-zPP+0
White: R. Kasimdzhanov (2673) 1+LvLQtR-mK-0}
Black: V. Ivanchuk (2731) xabcdefghy
37th Olympiad Turin ITA (4),
24.05.2006 The main alternative is 17...c4 but after
Ruy Lopez, closed, 9.d4 - [C92] the following game from this year,
1.e4 e5 2.¤f3 ¤c6 3.¥b5 a6 4.¥a4 Black has rather serious problems
¤f6 5.0–0 ¥e7 6.¦e1 b5 7.¥b3 0– here: 18.¤d4 £f6 19.¤2f3 ¤d3
0 8.h3 (D) 20.¥xd3 b4 21.¦b3! cxb3 22.¤xb3 g6
23.¥e3 ¥g7 24.¤a5 ¦eb8 25.¦e2±
Lahno,K-L'Ami,E - Wijk aan Zee 2006.
18.g4!?
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It's not a novelty, but a very rare and 20...¥c8
very unusual and unexpected move. The most natural, "human" move.
The main line here is 18.¤h2 It is Rybka has a lot of other ideas here, for
interesting that a few rounds later example: 20...¤f7, 20...¤g4 and
there in Turin both Kasimdzhanov and 20...£d7.
Ivanchuk played this position with 21.¤xe5
Black vs Kotronias and Anand It looks like after 21.gxh6 ¥g4! 22.£b3
accordingly and made two draws: bxa4 23.¦xa4 gxh6 24.¤xe5 ¦xe5
18...£e7 25.¤c4 ¦h5 26.£g3 ¦a7! Black has
a) enough counter chances.
18...c4 19.¦f3 (19.exf5 ¦xe1+ 20.£xe1 21...£xg5+ 22.¦g3 £xe5 23.¤f3
¤e5 21.¤xc4 ¤xc4 22.£xb4 ¤xa3 £h5 24.¢g2! (D)
23.bxa3 ¥xd5÷ was played in XIIIIIIIIY
Karjakin,S-Kasimdzhanov,R/Sochi 8r+l+rvlk+0{
RUS 2006) 19...¤e5 20.¦xf5 ¤bd3 7+-+-+-zp-0
21.¥xd3 ¤xd3 22.¦e3 ¥c8 23.¦h5 6p+-zp-+-zp0
¦e5 24.¦xe5 dxe5 25.¤df3 £e8„
Kotronias,V-Kasimdzhanov,R - Turin
5+pzpP+-+q0
ITA 2006; 4Psn-+P+-+0
b) 3+-+-+NtR-0
18...¤f6 19.¦f3 fxe4 20.¤xe4 ¤bxd5 2-zP-+-zPK+0
21.¤g4 ¢h8 22.¥d2 ¤xe4 23.¦xe4 1+LvLQtR-+-0
¦xe4 24.¥xe4 ¤c3 25.¥xc3 ¥xe4 xabcdefghy
26.¦f4 ¥g6 27.¤xh6!‚ Karjakin,S- Now all White's pieces can attack the
Bacrot,E - Wijk aan Zee NED 2006; king. White has full compensation for
19.¦ae3 f4 20.¦3e2 ¤e5 21.¤df3 g5 a pawn but Black still has a lot of
22.¤xe5 dxe5 23.¥d2 ¥c8 24.axb5 defensive resources.
axb5 25.¥xb4 cxb4 26.¥d3 ¥d7 24...¥g4 25.¦h1
27.¦d2 £d6 28.¥e2 ¦e7 29.¥g4 ¥e8 In case of 25.¥xh6!? ¥xf3+! (25...gxh6
30.¥h5 ¥d7÷ Anand,V-Ivanchuk,V - 26.¤h4²; 25...£xh6 26.¦xg4±;
Turin ITA 2006 25...¤xd5? 26.exd5! ¦xe1 27.£xe1
18...fxg4?! ¥xf3+ 28.¦xf3 £xh6 29.¦h3 £g5+
This is a novelty, but not too 30.¢f1+-) 26.£xf3 £xf3+ 27.¢xf3
successful. The most principled move bxa4 28.¥f4 ¦ab8 29.¦c1 ¦b6= Black
is 18...f4! and it was played in only has to hold this position. Yes the b4
one previous game: 19.¤b3 c4 knight hasn't any moves now, but in
20.¤bd4 ¤c5 21.¥xf4 £f6 22.¥h2 any case Black is a pawn up.
¤bd3 23.¥xd3 cxd3 24.axb5 axb5 25...¥xf3+
25.¦xa8 ¥xa8 26.b4 ¤xe4 27.£xd3 25...£g6 26.¥f4 (26.¥xh6 gxh6
¥xd5 28.£xb5 ½–½ Hellers,F- 27.¤h4 ¥xd1 28.¦xg6+ ¢f7 29.¦xd1
Almasi,Z - Malmo 1994. Obviously bxa4=) 26...c4 27.¤e5².
Ivanchuk was afraid of Kasimdzhanov' 26.¦xf3 £g4+ 27.¢f1
home preparation and decided to go 27.¦g3 £xd1 28.¦xd1 ¢f7 29.¦f3+
an alternative way. Not too good as ¢g8=
well is 18...fxe4?! 19.¤xe4 ¤xd5 27...¦xe4! (D)
20.g5‚ XIIIIIIIIY
19.hxg4 ¤e5 8r+-+-vlk+0
After this move White could easily 7+-+-+-zp-0
include his a3 rook into the attack, but 6p+-zp-+-zp0
there isn't another way for Black to
include his b7 bishop and a8 rook into
5+pzpP+-+-0
the defence. 4Psn-+r+q+0
20.g5 3+-+-+R+-0
White had another very tempting way: 2-zP-+-zP-+0
20.¤xe5!? ¦xe5 (20...dxe5 21.¦g3 1+LvLQ+K+R0}
looks rather dangerous for Black) xabcdefghy
21.¤f3 ¦e8 22.g5 £d7 23.¤h4 ¥e7 Perhaps this is an only move. For
24.¤f5 etc. with unpleasant pressure example: 27...£d7 28.¦g3 ¢h8
on Black's position.
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(28...g5 29.¥xg5! (29.f4 ¥g7 30.fxg5 41.¦h8
¦f8+ 31.¢g2 ¥e5 32.¦xh6 £f7 Now the rook is going for the a6
(32...¥xg3 33.¦g6+ ¢f7 34.£h5!‚) pawn.
33.¦f6 £g7 34.¦g4 bxa4„) 29...hxg5 41...¢f5 42.¦a8 ¢e5 43.¦xa6
30.¦xg5+ ¥g7 31.£h5+-) 29.¥d2 ¦e5 ¢xd5 44.a5 g6 45.¦a7 ¢c6 46.¦f7
30.¢g2 ¦ae8 31.¥c3±. (D)
28.¥xh6!? XIIIIIIIIY
After 28.¥xe4? £xe4 Black is better.; 8-+-+-+-+0{
28.¦g1 £h4! leads to a very unclear 7+-+-+R+-0
position: (not 28...¦e1+? due to 6-+kzp-vlp+0
29.£xe1 £xf3 30.£e6+ ¢h8 (30...£f7?
31.¥h7++-) 31.£g6 £h3+ 32.¢e1
5zP-zp-+-+-0
¢g8 33.¥xh6 ¦e8+ (33...¦a7 34.£h7+ 4-+-+-+-+0
¢f7 35.¥g6+ ¢e7 36.¥g5++-) 3+PzpK+-+-0
34.¢d2+-) 29.¥xe4 (29.¥xh6 ¦e7 2-+-+-zP-+0
30.¥f4 ¦f7÷) 29...£xe4 30.¥xh6 1+-+-+-+-0
¤xd5. xabcdefghy
28...¦a7
Perhaps better was 28...¦ae8 or even; Black has to give up his bishop for the
28...bxa4. a5 pawn, so he resigned. A very
29.¥d2! ¦f7 interesting battle of two strong
Black has to defend his bishop: grandmasters, and it has a theoretical
29...bxa4? 30.¦h8+! ¢xh8 31.¦xf8+ importance as well. 1–0
¢h7 32.¥xe4+ g6 (32...£xe4
33.£h5#) 33.£xg4+-. Solution to our quiz:
30.¥xe4 £xe4 31.¦fh3 ¦f5
31...£c4+ 32.¢g1 ¦f5!? Dzagnidze 2454 - Danielian 2422
32.¥xb4 £xb4 33.£e2?! XIIIIIIIIY
Forcing his opponent to exchange 8-+r+-+k+0
queens. An endgame looks very 7+ptr-+p+p0
tempting for White but Black could 6-+-+-+p+0
hold it. So better was 33.¦h8+ ¢f7 5zp-+P+-+-0
34.¦1h5 for example: 34...£c4+ 4-+L+q+-+0
35.¢g1 ¦f4 36.¦g5±. 3zPQtR-+R+-0
33...£c4 34.£xc4 bxc4 35.¦h5 (D) 2-+-+-+-+0
XIIIIIIIIY 1+-+-+K+-0}
xabcdefghy
8-+-+-vlk+0{ 40.d6 ¦xc4 41.d7 ¦xc3 42.£xf7+
7+-+-+-zp-0 ¢h8 43.£f6+ ¢g8 44.d8£+ ¦xd8
6p+-zp-+-+0 45.£xd8+ ¢g7 46.£f8# 1–0
5+-zpP+r+R0
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