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CT-168(2048) Saturday, 17th June 2006

Test Yourself! Avoiding one problem, Black walked

striaght into another:
20.¥xh7+! ¢xh7 21.¤g5+ ¢g8
Muranyi (2385) - Ilincic (2536)
22.¦h3 White now threatens
FSGM May Budapest HUN (3), 2006
23.Rh8+!, with checkmate in 3.
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News
On this Day..
Harry Nelson Pillsbury died in 10th Voronezh International
Philadelphia on 17th June 1906. Chess Festival
Here is one the games of the great
American player with brief After 4 rounds 6 players are sharing
annotations by GM Alex Baburin. first place with 3½ points. 17 players
are on 3 points.
H. Pillsbury – A. Burn
Hastings Hastings (16), 1895 Round 4 results:
Khismatullin – Gleizerov ½–½
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.¤c3 ¤f6 4.¥g5 Chebotarev – Tseshkovsky 0–1
¥e7 5.e3 0–0 6.¤f3 b6 7.¦c1 ¥b7 Neverov – Yandemirov ½–½
8.cxd5 ¤xd5 9.¥xe7 £xe7 Voitsekhovsky – Zontakh ½–½
10.¤xd5 ¥xd5 11.¥d3 ¦c8 12.e4 Panarin – Chernyshov 1–0
¥b7 13.0–0 ¤d7 14.£e2 a6 15.¦c3
c6? Too passive. Better was 15...c5 , Round 5 pairings:
with good play for Black. Belozerov (3½) – Khismatullin (3½)
Tseshkovsky – Solodovnichenko
16.¦fc1 b5?! 17.£e3 ¦c7 18.£f4
Gleizerov (3½) – Panarin (3½)
¦ac8 19.e5!
Iljushin (3) – Neverov (3)
White now ready to prevent ...c5 for
Andreikin (3) – Yakovich (3)
good with Bd3-e4.
Zontakh (3) – Obukhov (3)
19...c5 (D)
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4-+-zP-wQ-+0 Yesterday on 16th June there was the
3+-tRL+N+-0 drawing of lots in Foros, which is the
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present at the technical meeting.
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and his wife
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were probably the most tired, as they Pairings for round 1:
needed to change flights twice - Nisipeanu – Harikrishna
Bucharest-Budapest, Budapest-Kiev Volokitin – Ponomariov
and then, finally, Kiev-Simferopol. Bologan - Karjakin
It seems that something can still be Rublevsky - Mamedyarov
improved upon with regard to air Shirov - Grischuk
connections in this part of Europe! Areshchenko – Ivanchuk

Eleven rounds will be played on June

17-22 and June 24-28 with one free
day on June 23. All rounds will begin
at 15:00 local time.
Official website

Annotated Game
by IM Maxim Notkin

White: P. Svidler (2743)

Black: Zhang Zhong (2640)
37th Olympiad Turin ITA (4),
The drawing of lots. 24.05.2006
photo by GM M. Golubev Ruy Lopez - [C87]

1.e4 e5 2.¤f3 ¤c6 3.¥b5 a6 4.¥a4

The participants and all those who are
involved in the tournament are living
in the main hotel of the sanatorium
Foros, which is comfortable enough,
even if the social realism style is not to
anyone’s taste. The tournament itself,
however, will be held in another -
smaller and much nicer building,
which is also part of the sanatorium
and was certainly built before the
USSR era.
The tournament will be officially
opened today, before the first round.
The FIDE President Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov is expected to arrive, as
well as few dozen journalists from the
Crimean and central Ukrainian media.
Will anyone use this opportunity to
ask Ilyumzhinov about the candidates
matches? If I am not wrong, four of the
tournament participants are supposed
to play in these matches. One of them
has already told me that the matter is
no longer of interest for him anymore.
As far as I see, everything is well
prepared here for a successful event.
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games. Most likely, some brief online
comments will be provided as well.
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¤f6 5.0–0 ¥e7 6.¦e1 d6 7.¥xc6+
bxc6 8.d4 exd4 9.¤xd4 ¥d7
10.¤c3 0–0 (D)
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A typical position of the Steinitz
Defence has arisen. Trading his light-
squared bishop for the knight White
obtained a spatial advantage and
made the black pawn chain less
flexible. The central triangle c7-c6-d6
is solid but it's difficult to advance it.
Black should always reckon with e4-
e5 when in case of dxe5 he is left with
doubled isolated pawns on the c-file.
11.h3 The most popular plan begins
with 11.£f3 After 11...¦e8 White
usually chooses between his bishop's
development at b2 or g5. Let's look at
the first option - 12.b3 h6 (Since in
the first round of Foros Volokitin plays
Ponomariov I think it's worth
remembering one of their previous
games with the same colours. At the
Lausanne Young Masters tournament
in 2001 Volokitin obtained an edge
after 12...£c8 13.h3 c5 14.¤f5 ¥xf5
15.exf5 d5!? 16.¥g5 (16.¤xd5 ¤xd5
17.£xd5 ¥f6ƒ) 16...c6 17.¦e2 h6
18.¥h4 ¥d6 (perhaps better is
18...¥d8 ) 19.¥xf6 gxf6 20.¦ae1 £d7
21.¤d1 and converted it into a full
point.) 12..h6 13.e5 (or 13.¥b2 ¤h7
14.£d3 ¥f6 15.f4 ¤f8 16.¦ad1 ¤g6
17.g3 £b8 and Black was fine in Peng
Xiaomin - I.Sokolov, Shanghai 2001)
13...dxe5 14.¤xc6 ¥xc6 15.£xc6 ¥b4
16.¥e3?! (underestimating Black's
reply which exploits the pin on the
knight) 16...£d7! 17.£xd7 (17.£c4
loses material after 17...£g4! 18.£c6
£e6! 19.£xe6 ¦xe6 20.¥d2 ¦d8)
17...¤xd7 18.¥d2 and the initiative is
already with Black, Volokitin -
Harikrishna, Bermuda 2005 (by the
way Harikrishna is yet another
participant of the Foros event).
11...¦e8 12.¥f4 g6 In case of 12...c5
13.¤b3 ¥e6 14.e5 dxe5 15.¥xe5 ¥d6
16.£f3 ¤d7 17.¥xd6 cxd6 18.¦ad1
White exerts an annoying pressure on
the backward pawn d6, Kapengut -
Kholmov, USSR ch Baku 1972;
Interesting is 12...£b8!? 13.¦b1 £b6
14.e5 dxe5 15.¥xe5 (dubious is
15.¦xe5 ¦ad8) 15...¥d6 16.¤f3
(16.¥xf6!? ¦xe1+ 17.£xe1 gxf6
18.£d2) 16...¥f5 17.¥xd6 cxd6
18.£xd6 ¥xc2 19.¦bc1 with equality,
Tseshkovsky - G.Kuzmin, USSR ch
Tbilisi 1978; The g-pawn's move was
made in Kengis - Eingorn, Riga 1980
with the inclusion of 12...¦b8 13.¦b1
g6 The continuation was 14.e5 dxe5
15.¦xe5 ¥d6 16.¦xe8+ ¤xe8 17.¥e3
with a slight advantage to White.
13.¤f3 (D)
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Following the rule "the threat is
stronger than its execution" Svidler
isn't in a hurry with 13.e5
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13...¤h5 14.¥h2 ¤g7 14...£b8; and
14...¥f8 deserved attention
15.£d2 Without a piece on f6 Black
may meet 15.e5 by 15...d5] 15...£c8
Here and later on, before the bishop's
return on f4, 15...¤e6 came into
consideration.
16.¦ad1 £b7 17.b3 ¦ad8 18.¥f4
One by one White improves the
positions of his pieces. None of them
is forgotten which is the sign of a great
positional skill.
18...£b4 (D)
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Black runs short of reasonable moves.
If 18...¤e6 19.¥h6 and 19...¥f6 is met
by 20.e5; 18...¥f8 would have been
answered by 19.¥g5.
19.¥h6 The tinsel tactics 19.¤d5
£xd2 20.¤xe7+ ¦xe7 21.¥xd2 f6
makes Black's life much easier.
19...a5 20.¦e3 ¥c8 After White's
reply this move turns out to be a loss
of tempo. [Stronger was 20...¤e6
21.¤d4 ¥d7 22.¦f3! ¤e6 (D)
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It's too late. Probably 22...£c5 was
more to the point now. White might
think of 23.£f4 f6 24.£d2 provoking
the weakening of the black king's
shield.
23.¤f5! In principle it's good for
White to exchange the dark-squared
bishops nevertheless after 23.¤xe6
¥xe6 24.¥g5 he loses a big part of his
advantage in space. For the defence
of the dark squares Black may use his
queen - 24...£c5 25.¥xe7 ¦xe7
followed by £e5
23...¥f6 23...gxf5 isn't advisable. In
the event of 24.exf5 ¤f8 White may
regain the piece in various ways the
most convincing of which is probably
25.¥xf8 ¦xf8 (25...¥xf8 26.£g5+ ¢h8
27.¦g3 mating) 26.f6 ¥xf6 27.¦xf6
24.a3! A highly important resource.
24.¤xd6? is bad in view of 24...¥xc3
24...£xa3 Zhang didn't dare to give
away the dark-squared bishop with
the queens on the board. After
24...¥xc3 25.¦xc3 £xe4 the possible
continuation is 26.¦f3! (intending ¦e1
and £c3) 26...gxf5 (in case of 26...¤f8
White caries out the following
regrouping - 27.¤g3 £d5 28.£c1 £c5
29.¥e3 £b5 30.¥d4 and the absence
of the bishop really tells; to 26...£e5
White strikes with the funny 27.¥g7!
£d5 (the capture with the knight leads
to mate or the loss of the queen after
the check on h6) 28.£c1! £c5
29.¥a1+- gxf5 30.¦g3+ ¢f8 31.£h6+
¢e7 32.¥f6#) 27.¦e1 (less good is
27.¦g3+ ¢h8 28.¦e1 £d5 29.£c3+
£d4 30.£xd4+ ¤xd4 31.¥g7+ ¢g8
32.¥xd4+ ¢f8 33.¥g7+ ¢g8 and it
appears that the discovered check
doesn't give too much - 34.¥c3+ ¢f8
35.¦xe8+ ¦xe8 36.¥xa5) 27...£d4
28.¦xe6! £xd2 29.¦g3+ ¢h8
30.¦xe8+ ¦xe8 31.¥xd2 f6 32.¥xa5
White regains the pawn while the
black king is stuck in the corner. The
ending is very difficult for Black.
25.¤xd6 £xd6 In the critical line
25...¥xc3 26.£xc3 cxd6 27.£f6 White
intends to transfer the bishop to the
long diagonal rather than to take on f7
e.g. 27...d5 (27...¦f8 28.¥c1 and
29.¥b2 winning; 27...£c5 28.¥d2! (the
rook f3 works in full force) 28...£e5
29.£xf7+ ¢h8 30.¥c3+-) 28.£xf7+
¢h8 29.exd5 cxd5 30.¦e1 (threatening
with ¦xe6) 30...¦f8 (30...£e7? is nicely
refuted by 31.¥g7+! ¤xg7 32.¦xe7)
31.¥xf8 £xf8 32.£xe6 ¥xe6 33.¦xf8+
¦xf8 34.¦xe6 and the rook ending
should be won.
26.£xd6 cxd6 27.¦xf6 The white
pieces have made themselves
comfortable in the vicinity of the black
king's.
27...¥c8 (D)
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The only way to protect the d6 pawn.
28.f4! c5 28...¥b7 wouldn't bring
relief e.g. 29.f5 ¤c7 30.¤a4!
(preventing the knights exchange after
30.¦fxd6 ¦xd6 31.¦xd6 ¤b5) 30...c5
(if 30...d5 31.¤c5 ¥a8 32.e5 and
32...¦xe5 leads to a loss of an
exchange after 33.fxg6 hxg6 34.¥f4
¦e7 35.¥d6; or 30...¦xe4 31.¤c5 ¦h4
32.¤xb7 ¦b8 and White has many
ways to achieve a decisive advantage;
the funniest is 33.¦fxd6 ¦xh6 34.¦xc6
with idea 34...¦xb7 35.¦d8+ ¢g7
36.f6#) 31.¦fxd6 ¦xd6 32.¦xd6 ¥xe4
33.¤xc5 ¥xf5 (33...¥xc2 34.¤d7)
34.c4 followed by g4 and the white
knight sooner or later will come to f6.
29.¤b5 ¥b7 30.f5 To 30.¦xd6? ; and
30.¤xd6?! Black will play 30...¥xe4
30...¤d4 31.¤xd6 ¥xe4 In case of
31...¤b5!? apart from the simple
technical decision White has the
tactical 32.¦xf7!? (the ending after
32.¤xe8 ¦xd1+ 33.¢h2 ¦d8™ 34.¦b6
¦xe8 35.¦xb7 ¤d6 36.¦c7 ¤xe4
(36...gxf5 37.¦xc5) 37.g4 is clearly
superior for White) 32...¦xd6
(32...¤xd6 33.¦g7+ ¢h8 34.f6 and
White will regain material with
interest) 33.¦g7+ ¢h8 34.¦f1! and to
neutralize the f-pawn Black is
probably forced to play 34...gxf5
35.¦xb7 ¦xh6 36.¦xb5 fxe4 37.¦xc5
with the difficult rook ending.
32.¤xe8 ¦xe8 33.fxg6? A blot on
the landscape. White shouldn't have
released the enemy king. Correct was
33.c3! and if 33...¥c2 (33...¤xf5 34.¥f4
¥c2 35.¦a1) 34.¦d2 ¤e2+ 35.¢h2
¥xb3 then 36.¦a6!+- a4 37.¦xe2!
33...hxg6 (D)
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34.c3 34.¦a1 ¦a8 43.¦fa3 g5 43...c3 44.¦c7
34...¤f5? Both white pawns are 44.¥e3 ¤d6 45.¦7a6 f6 46.¥d2
untouchable - 34...¤xb3 35.¦d7; or ¥b3 47.¦3a5 ¢f7 48.b5 ¢e8
34...¤e2+ 35.¢h2 ¤xc3 36.¦c1 ¤d5 48...¤e4 49.¦xe6 ¢xe6 50.b6+-
37.¦d6 ¤e7 38.g4 (defending against 49.¥b4 ¢d7 50.¦a7+ Black
¤f5); But after 34...¥c2! Black would resigned.After 50.¦a7+ ¢c8 51.¦h7
have offered a serious resistance for the mating attack is coming. 1–0.
example 35.¦d2 (better is 35.¦a1
¤xb3 36.¦a2) 35...¤e2+ 36.¢f2 Solution to Quiz:
(36.¢h2 ¥xb3) leads to a draw -
36...¤xc3! 37.¦xc2 ¤e4+ 38.¢f3 ¤xf6 Muranyi (2385) - Ilincic (2536)
39.¦xc5 ¦b8. FSGM May Budapest HUN (3), 2006
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An interesting attempt to mess up and Black won 0–1.
38...¥xb3 39.¦xa5 would probably
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