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CT-181(2061) Friday, 30 June 2006
Test Yourself! 7th Narciso Yepes Memorial
Lorca, Spain
Volokitin - Ivanchuk
Aerosvit GM Foros UKR (8), This open tournament was won by the
XIIIIIIIIY Ukrainian Grandmaster Vladimir
8-+-+r+k+0{ Baklan who scored 7 points out of 9.
7tR-zp-wq-vL-0 Official website
6-zp-zp-+Qzp0
5+PsnP+-+-0 Foros - Odessa
by GM Mikhail
4-+P+-zp-+0 Golubev
3+-+-+P+P0
2-+-+-+P+0 Our Chess Today
1+-+-+nmK-0 team, as it happens,
xabcdefghy luckily, has not so
often, faced technical
Volokitin was considering the move problems – but as it
34. ¥xg7 (D) which he thought led to happens today, I had
a draw after 34...£e3+ 35.¢h1 ¤g3+ to prepare today's
36.¢h2. But he spotted Ivanchuck's issue urgently after
idea in time can you? arriving from Crimea.
See note to 34th move in today's game. Vasyl Ivanchuk came
to Odessa on the same Simferopol -
Odessa train. On 2 - 4 July the second
World Chess edition of the Efim Geller memorial
will be organised out by the Odessa
News bank Pivdenny. The participants of
this rapid chess event are: GMs
Korchnoi, Ivanchuk, Beliavsky,
Dutch Championship Lautier, Tukmakov, Eingorn,
Drozdovskij, myself; WGM Zhukova
The Dutch championship finished in and the young Odessa player
Hilversum yesterday, on the 29th of Bogdanovich.
June. In recent years people have Geller Memorial press release (in
amost forgotten that anyone other Russian)
than Loek Van Wely can win this
tournament. But, in fact, the leader Basically, my participation in the
Sergey Tiviakov defeated Erwin Geller Memorial was confirmed only
L'Ami in the final round and took the yesterday - as you see, I receive some
title. surprises every day. (One more
surprise today was to find at the
Final standings: Russian website Prosports an article by
1. Tiviakov (2669) - 9, 2. I.Sokolov our colleague Vladimir Barsky.
(2676) - 7½, 3-4. Nijboer (2584) and Vladimir wrote something long and
Van Wely (2655) - 7, 5. Stellwagen controvercial about Veselin Topalov's
(2543) - 6½, 6-7. Van der Wiel (2511) recent achievements.) My thoughts are
and Werle (2529) - 5½, 8. L'Ami in many ways still in Foros. So I
(2565) - 5, 9. Smeets (2535) - 4½, 10- decided to annotate one of Ivanchuk's
11. Timman (2616) and Bosch (2465) wins from this super tournament.
- 3, 12. Visser (2480) - 2½. Thanks to Andrei Volokitin, I had the
Official website possibility to add a few curious lines,
which were not included in my brief
notes to the Foros games before.
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Annotated Game XIIIIIIIIY
by GM Mikhail Golubev 8r+-wq-trk+0
7zppzpl+pzpp0
White: A. Volokitin (2660) 6nsn-zp-+-+0
Black: V. Ivanchuk (2731) 5+-+P+-+-0
Aerosvit GM Foros UKR (8), 4-+P+-+-+0
25.06.2006 3+-zP-+N+P0
Alekhine's defense - [B03] 2P+-+LzPP+0
1.e4 ¤f6 2.e5 ¤d5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 1tR-vLQ+RmK-0}
¤b6 5.exd6
This is not the most dangerous line for xabcdefghy
Black in the Alekhine Defence.
Volokitin has used it in the past, which Now White has a bad pawn structure
probably inspired Ivanchuk to play on the kingside. He must find some
1...¤f6. active dynamic play to compensate
5...exd6 6.¤c3 ¥e7 (D) this somehow.
XIIIIIIIIY 13.¥g5?!
8rsnlwqk+-tr0 In my view, correct was 13.a4! and if
13...¥f5 (cleaning the d7 square for
7zppzp-vlpzpp0 the knight), then 14.¤d4 ¥g6 15.f4
6-sn-zp-+-+0 ¥e4 16.f5!?
5+-+-+-+-0 13...f6 14.¥e3 ¤c5 15.¦e1 ¦e8
4-+PzP-+-+0 16.¥f1 ¦e7 17.¤d4 £f8 18.¤b5
3+-sN-+-+-0 (D)
2PzP-+-zPPzP0 XIIIIIIIIY
1tR-vLQmKLsNR0} 8r+-+-wqk+0{
xabcdefghy 7zppzpltr-zpp0
6-sn-zp-zp-+0
7.h3 5+NsnP+-+-0
Once in my own practice I have used 4-+P+-+-+0
a curious Korchnoi move 7.£f3!? c6 3+-zP-vL-+P0
(The stem game Korchnoi-Miles, Biel 2P+-+-zPP+0
1992 followed 7...¤c6 8.¥e3 0–0 9.0–
0–0. In the game Berg-Timman,
1tR-+QtRLmK-0
Malmoe 2002, which was annotated in xabcdefghy
CT-578, Black tried 7...c5. While the
most normal move is probably 7...0–0) 18...¥xb5
8.¥d3 d5 9.cxd5 (9.c5!? ¤6d7 10.¥f4 After 18...¦ae8 White could try 19.a4!?
and 10...b6?! fails to 11.¤xd5! cxd5 (but not 19.¤xc7? which loses a knight
12.£xd5±) 9...¤xd5 10.¤ge2 ¥e6 after 19...¥a4–+). While after 18...a6?
11.0–0 ¤d7 12.¤f4 ¤xf4 13.¥xf4 0–0 19.¤xc7! is already possible: 19...¥a4
14.¦fe1 ¤f6 15.¥e5 £d7 (15...¤d7!?) 20.£b1!, attacking the b6 knight.
16.h3 ¦ad8 17.¦ad1 and White was at 19.cxb5 ¦ae8 20.a4 f5 21.a5 f4
best a bit better in Golubev-Biehler, 22.¥d2?!
Germany (Oberliga) 1997. Quite often Better was 22.¥xc5! ¦xe1 23.£xe1
White goes also for 7.¤f3 0–0 8.¥e2 ¦xe1 24.¦xe1 dxc5 25.axb6 with
¥g4 (Rogers-Baburin, Kilkenny 2001, excellent chances for a draw: the basic
CT-393). idea is 25...axb6 26.¥c4 ¢h8 27.d6
7...0–0 8.¤f3 ¥f6 9.¥e2 ¥e6N cxd6 28.¥d5, intending to build a
10.d5 fortress by c3-c4 (Volokitin).
Safer was 10.b3!? d5 11.c5÷ 22...¦xe1 23.¥xe1 ¤bd7 24.f3
10...¥xc3+ 11.bxc3 ¥d7 12.0–0 £f6 25.¦c1 b6 26.axb6 axb6ƒ (D)
¤a6! (D)
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XIIIIIIIIY 38.¥d3 ¤h4 39.¦a7 ¦e7 40.¦a8
8-+-+r+k+0 ¤gf5! (D)
7+-zpn+-zpp0 XIIIIIIIIY
6-zp-zp-wq-+0 8R+-+-+-+0
5+PsnP+-+-0 7+-zp-trkzp-0
4-+-+-zp-+0 6-zp-zp-+-zp0
3+-zP-+P+P0 5+P+P+nwq-0
2-+-+-+P+0 4-+P+-zp-sn0
1+-tRQvLLmK-0} 3+-+L+P+P0
xabcdefghy 2-+Q+-vLPmK0
The pawn structure is stabilised - 1+-+-+-+-0}
which is a bad sign for White who has xabcdefghy
bishops versus knights. White's light 41.¥f1?!
squared bishop is a really bad piece, it More stubborn was 41.¥xh4 £xh4
cannot help much in protecting holes 42.¦a1. White's position is quite bad
on the dark squares. (Perhaps, White there, but it would not have been as
would have been not worse here if easy for Black to win as in the game.
instead of the light squared bishop he 41...¤e3 42.¥xe3 fxe3
would have had a second dark Now the black pawn is on e3, White
squared bishop!) collapses quickly and inevitably.
27.¥f2 h6 28.¥d4 £g5 29.c4 ¤f6 43.£e2 ¤f5 44.¦a2 £f4+ 45.¢g1
30.¦a1 ¤h5 31.¦a7 £e7 32.£c2 £d4 46.¢h2 £e5+ 47.f4 £xf4+
¤g3 (D) 48.¢g1 ¤g3 49.£d3 (D)
XIIIIIIIIY XIIIIIIIIY
8-+-+r+k+0 8-+-+-+-+0{
7tR-zp-wq-zp-0 7+-zp-trkzp-0
6-zp-zp-+-zp0 6-zp-zp-+-zp0
5+PsnP+-+-0 5+P+P+-+-0
4-+PvL-zp-+0 4-+P+-wq-+0
3+-+-+PsnP0 3+-+Qzp-snP0
2-+Q+-+P+0} 2R+-+-+P+0
1+-+-+LmK-0 1+-+-+LmK-0
xabcdefghy xabcdefghy
33.¦a1 49...¦e4 After the end of the round,
Volokitin, as he explained later, was one of the arbiters, Oleg Tovchyga
about to play 33.£g6 ¤xf1 (33...¦f8!? brought to my attention that Ivanchuk
MG) 34.¥xg7? (In fact, necessary, but could win a piece by force by 49...e2
hardly sufficient for equality is 50.¥xe2 ¦xe2 51.¦xe2 £f1+ 52.¢h2
34.¦xc7 ¤d7 35.¦xd7 £xd7 36.¢xf1 ¤xe2. But Ivanchuk's move does not
£e7 MG) 34...£e3+ 35.¢h1 ¤g3+ change anything in the assessment of
36.¢h2 which he thought, was drawn. the position. 50.¥e2 ¦d4 51.£b1
But he noticed that Ivanchuk is ¦d2 0–1
worrying too much, after which
Volkitin found that instead of Contact information. Have some comments
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