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Karsten Muller
Rainer Knaak

222 Opening Traps

after 1. d4

and all other moves except |. e4

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THE AUTHORS
Karsten Miller (born 1970) gained the grandmaster title at the age of 27 and has participated in eight German
Championships, finishing third in 1996 and 1997. A Doctor of Mathematics, he has played for the Hamburger
SK team in the German Bundesliga since 1988, and he also has a good reputation as a senior trainer of the
German Chess Federation. A respected endgame expert, he writes the endgame column of the ChessBase
Magazine and the Endgame Corner of ChessCafe.com. He has written many books, including Fundamental
Chess Endings co-authored by Frank Lamprecht, which appeared in 2001 and is already considered a modern
Classic.

Rainer Knaak (born 1953) became a grandmaster at the age of 22, and was one of the youngest in the
world at the time. For many years he was one of the leading players of the German Democratic Republic,
and he won the East German Championship five times. After the end of his professional career he began
working for ChessBase, where he has authored the CDs Mating Attack against 0-0 and Trompowsky Aftack. At
the chessboard he has a creative attacking style. Knaak currently plays in the German Bundesliga for Werder
Bremen, edits training CDs and is editor-in-chief of the ChessBase Magazine. His first book was Konigsindisch Pro
& Kontra, published in 1992 and co-authored by his grandmaster colleague from Leipzig Lothar Vogt.

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 Contents

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 Foreword
The work on this book has been spread over
several years. It has been a lot of fun. Dis-
covering a new opening trap into which a
dozen people have already fallen (includ-
ing grandmasters) is a pleasure (despite the
misfortunes of others) and something that
expands one’s own chess horizons. Looking
into the fringes of chess theory also brought
to light many a new variation or evaluation.
This is no wonder, since lines which have a
bad reputation only occur over the board by
chance, and then only between less strong
players. But previously, opening theory was
compiled without the help of computers.
When you consider that most of the known
opening traps go back to Znosko-Borovsky,
it was time that there was a further collection
of them. Not that this work will find it easy to
be fair to all claims on its attention and above
all to every opening. After all, it encompasses
the total range of opening theory from A00 to
E99 in only two volumes. Traps arising after
1. e4 are covered in the first volume, and all
other traps in this book.
As we shall see, the theme tackled in this
book goes somewhat farther than that which
can be expected of the usual concept of the
opening trap. If we had to sum up this theme
in a single sentence, we would say: ‘Some-
one plays a ‘normal’ looking move, which
is then refuted by an unusual variation (or
move).
We would like to thank Raymund Stolze of
Olms, Rainer Woisin of ChessBase, our Eng-
lish editor Ken Neat, and, last but not least,
Ulrich Dirr, who did a marvellous job again,
for their good cooperation.
Karsten Muller
Rainer Knaak
Hamburg, September 2007
 Introduction
The concept of opening traps;
an attempt at a definition
The verb ‘to fall’ hints at where we are head-
ing — one falls, perhaps into a pit that some-
body has dug and then hidden. That is the
difference compared with a dangerous situ-
ation, which you have brought upon yourself,
such as climbing up a high tree or heading
into unknown territory. What you are doing
is natural, for example going along a path
and then falling into something, such as a
pit or a snare, etc. For the person who falls,
it is of no importance whether the situation
was created by someone else or whether it
arose naturally, for example an unexpected
hole in that place or some prickly plant — the
damage he may suffer is exactly the same.
Therefore there is someone who falls into a
trap, and there is also someone - sometimes
— who sets the trap.
Let us apply what we have just said to the
game of chess. Here we are talking about
the opening phase. A player makes an ob-
vious looking move; it appears normal — at
least at first sight. His move develops a piece
or captures something, or it can be to ward
off a threat. It is an apparently natural move,
but it turns out to be wrong. The opponent
has perhaps knowingly brought about this
situation. Perhaps he has even taken a risk,
“How much book do | need to know? ...
The bare minimum is: You need to know
the traps that come up in your openings”!
(GM Andrew Soltis in
Grandmaster Secrets: Openings)
because instead of falling into the trap the
other player has at his disposal a move which
secures him an advantage.
So, an opening trap is something which hap-
pens in the opening phase of a game. Under
falling into a trap, we understand a situa-
tion during play in which the victim overlooks
something when playing an apparently ob-
vious but nevertheless wrong move (there
can also be several wrong moves), which the
player setting the trap had hoped for and
which he now exploits, usually in a tactical
and unexpected way. This is often an unusual
move, but sometimes the evaluation of the
position is different from what it appeared to
be at first sight. It is therefore evident that
opening traps, according to how they arise,
can be divided into two categories:
A) On one hand there are opening traps in
which the person setting them deliberately
chooses a line, in which he hopes that his
opponent will make a mistake. The player
setting the trap may well be taking a risk: if
his opponent should make the correct move,
then he himself is caught by the trap, be-
cause he then suffers a disadvantage. The
risk being incurred can be of varying propor-
tions, going down as far as almost no risk
 Introduction
at all. In fact, examples in which real disad-
vantages are accepted are rather rare. One
such example is 1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3
2g7 4. e4 d6 5. f4 0-0 6. Af3 c5 7. dxc5 Wad
8. 2d3 Afd7? (cf. Grétarsson-Van der Wiel,
Game 211 p. 133).
B) But if one simply plays one’s normal lines
and the opponent is suddenly faced with a
situation in which the ‘normal’ moves are met
by a (usually) tactical counterstroke, one can
only conditionally call this an opening trap.
But avoiding such typical mistakes is just
as important and will therefore play a large
part in this book. An example: 1. d4 d5 2. c4
Risk or no risk?
It is perhaps a myth that there is always an el-
ement of risk in correct opening traps. It may
be, that when playing for a trap one does not
always choose those variations which offer
the best chance of achieving an opening ad-
vantage. But in this database there is a clear
minority of cases in which a player really
gambles and voluntarily assumes the risk of
a bad position if the trap does not work. We
sometimes then speak of a ‘genuine trap’.
According to the definition given above, there
are perhaps two more features which distin-
guish a typical trap:
a) the mistake, that is to say falling into
. the trap, happens with a ‘normal’, appar-
ently sound move - continuing development,
castling or capturing a piece.
a)
e6 3. Ac3 AE 4. 2g5 Abd7 5. cxd5 exd5
6. Axd57? (cf. Mayet —Harrwitz, Game 127
Deco):
Traps of type A are very common - you want
to set the opponent a trap. But the number of
such traps is limited. If it is additionally con-
sidered that the level of difficulty can be very
varied — from elementary to deep positional
traps — then traps of type A are actually ina
minority.
The more general theme is moves that are
‘normal’, according to the principles of the
game, but which in the given position fail for
a particular reason.
b) the exploitation of the error is something
unexpected — a piece moves to an unusual
square, instead of a recapture there follows
another move, a sacrifice, etc. For example:
1. d4 Af6 2. &g5 Ded 3. Bh4 c5 4. Wd3?!
and now the knight does not retreat, but
4...8%b6! follows (cf. Seredenko-Asanov,
Game 36 p. 32).
Many people want to learn traps, in order to
save themselves the hard work involved in
opening theory. We hope that there is also
something here for these people. But it is
more important to fit a promising trap into
your own opening repertoire, or even to con-
struct a repertoire around the trap.
 & Introduction
Various
Gambits
The relationship between gambits and traps
in the opening is obvious. Often the gam-
bit is itself the trap, sometimes traps occur
later. We have taken care above all to find
the sort of example in which ‘normal moves’
are refuted. For example:
Position after 5... AE
In this Lisitsyn Gambit Accepted Black is
immediately under enormous pressure after
6. A@g5 - see Bernal Moro—Rebole Arbea
(p. 17).
Counter-traps
This means accepting the offer to go into
a trap, but having an ace up your sleeve.
For example, in Portisch —Ribli (p. 97) White
should have chosen 12. £b2 £b4+ 13. &f1!.
Deliberately falling into a trap
There are some examples in which objective
analysis shows a completely different picture
from statistics. This comes about because
most players fall into a trap without realis-
ing it and fail to find the best moves over the
board, and anyone who knows about the trap
avoids it. But what if you deliberately ’fall into
it’, but then know the best moves. Let us give
you an example of this, which is well worth
considering for Black, if he knows what he is
doing: Van Wely-Bunzmann (p. 122).
Traps with names
Numerous opening traps take their name
from the originator, for example:
Monticelli trap — Monticelli— Prokes (p. 118).
Bogoljubow trap — Bogoljubow
— Gothilf
(p. 66).
Are traps also appropriate for strong play-
ers?
Of course! On the one hand, you only have to
look through this database to see how many
good players have lost quickly as a result of a
typical error or have fallen into a trap. On the
other hand, nowadays it is more and more
important to surprise one’s opponent at an
early stage in the game. In any case, strong
players will also know what to do when their
opponent deviates.
Good traps
What constitutes a good trap? We can dis-
tinguish two criteria:
a) if, against all expectations, the opponent
finds the best move, the damage to yourself
should not be all that great;
b) it should look a likely enough move for
your opponent to make. In addition, it should
have happened several times in practice and
be based on the idea that the opponent will
fall into the trap by making ‘normal moves’.
For example: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Af3 Af6
4. e3 &f5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Ac3 e6 7. He5!?
 Introduction GY

White has set up a positional threat, namely
8. g4 &g6 9. h4 h5 10. Axg6 fxg6 and
Black’s pawn structure is ruined. The nat-
ural moves 7...@bd7, 7...Ac6 and 7...£e7
do not ward off the threat; the best is the
‘unnatural’ 7...Afd7, and 7...8&d6 is also very
playable.
Thus almost all Black’s moves are bad, be-
cause White replies 8. g4. So we are talk-
ing about a very good trap, because the
‘normal’ replies are unsatisfactory. See Bo-
goljubow — Gothilf (p. 66).
After the correct reply 7...Afd7 it is even
possible to set a second trap by 8. Wb3!? -
Knaak — Smeets (p. 66).
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 Chapter 1

Sidelines

The orang-utan trap position has arisen with chances for both
sides.
Game 1 [AOO] 3. a3
Golyak (2325) - Knaak (2520)
Leipzig 1977 After 3. bxa5 White would have the worse
pawn structure.
1. b4 c6
3...axb4 4. axb4 Hxal 5. &xa1 Wb6
If you look in Megabase to see who first
6. c3F
played this move, you will find games from
East German tournaments of the 1950s. The £a1 is out of play. Black stands better,
Players then knew the correct answer: 2. c4!. but the win is still a long way off. 6. 2c3?!
would lose the Ab4: 6...Aa6¥.
6...d5 7 Af3 &f5 8. d3 e6 9. g3 AG
10. 8g2 Se7 11. 0-0 Abd7 12. Abd2
&g6 13. h3 h6 14. Ya4 0-0 15. &b2
Wco7 16. c4 e5 17. b5 e4 18. Ah4 e3
19. Axg6 fxg6 20. fxe3 Wxg3 21. HFS
Wei+ 22. Af1 Wxe2 23. bxc6 bxc6
24. &xf6 Axf6 25. Wxc6 Lh7 26. cxd5
Wxd3 27. &h1 Wd1 28. Yc4 &d6 29. Wc6
£e5 30. Ye6 He8 31. Wf7 Hb8 32. &g1
Hb2 33. Hf2 £h2+ 34. &xh2 Hxf2
35. &g1 We2 0-1
2. 2b2?!
And White immediately falls into the trap. An unusual double fianchetto
2. c4! Wb6 3. Wb3 a5 4. a3?! (a4. bS5)
4...axb4 5. c5? Whenever you prepare a
Game 2 [AOO]
pitfall ... 5...%xc5 6. axb4? (a6. £b2 +)
Kucharkowski - Grosch
6...4xc1+ 0-1, de Visser—Khenkin, Haar-
correspondence 1988
lem 2000 ... you can fall into it yourself.
2...a5!
1.b4e5 2. &b2 &xb4 3. £4?!
2...%b67?! can be met by 3. a3 ad 4. C4!
axb4 5. c5! Weo7 (5...WYxc5? 6. axb4 Wxb4 White is hoping that Black will enter the com-
7. Hxa8+—) 6. axb4 Hxal 7 &xal (Thiele- plications after 3...exf4.
mann-Meyer, Bad Segeberg 1995). And a
(see next diagram)

a
 Chapter 1 Sidelines

15. dxe3 Wxe3+ 16. Wf2 Wo1+ 17. &f1 Wxh6e

18. We2+ &f8 19. We7+ &g8 20. Wd8+ WT8
(20...2h7? 21. £d3++-) 21. Wxc7+-.
9. 2xh8 f6 10. Bxh7?
10. Ac3 c6 11. e4 Wg6 12. Wh5+.
10...2f8?
A) 10...84d4+? 11. e3 Wxal 12. Yg4 De7
(12...%xb14+ 13. &f2 Wxa2 14. Yg6+ &d8
15. &xf6+ &e7 16. &xe7+ Axe7 17. Bh8+
4\g8 18. Bxg8++-) 13. Yxb4-—.
B) 10...8c5+! 11. @h1 Wg6 12. Bh2 An6=.

3...exf4?! 11. Ac3+ Wg6 12. Bh2 d6 13. Ad5 Aaé6

14. f1 87 15. 8xg7 Yxg7 16. Yf3 c6
The Correspondence Database 2004 con-
17. YWe4+ &d8 18. Hh7 “f8 19. Af4 De7
tains 291 games with this position, and the
20. Ae6+ &xe6 21. Yxe6 1-0
results do not look too bright for Black.
3...d6 takes the sting out of White’s concept:
A quick raid (Part 1)
4. fxe5 dxe5 5. 2xe5 AEF; 3... Hf6!7.
4. &xg7 Wh4+ Game 3 [AOO]
4...Ah6?! does not inspire confidence: Wilk (2140) - Pejka
5. &xh8 (5. Af3 Hg8 6. &xh6 WIE 7. c3 &e7 Poland 1998
8. 295 Exg5 9. Axg5 Wxg5o0) 5...8Wh4+
6. g3 fxg3 7. &g2 gxh2+ 8. Sf1 Ag4 9. Ah3 1.b4e5 2. 2b2 &xb4 3. &xe5 Af6 4. c4
(9. Wet?? De3+ 10. dxe3 Wxet#) 9...f6 0-0 5. Af3 d5 6. e3 He8 7. cxd5 Axd5
10. c3 2d6 11. Yb3 and Black’s compen- 8. 8e2?
sation should not be sufficient. White does not suspect anything and he
5. g3 fxg3 6. &g2 would like to complete his development
quickly. The bishop should have been re-
6. AP8? g2+ 7% Axh4 gxhiW 8. DB d5 treated from e5.
9. &2xh8 &2d6—-+.
6...gxh2+
6...Wg5 7 &xh8 gxh2 8. &H hxgiW+
9. &xqg1 is a transposition.
7. Sf1 hxgiW+ 8. &xg1 Wg4
A sample variation after 8...%%g5 goes as fol-
lows: 9. &xh8
a) 9...Af6 10. WF (10. Ye1!?) 10...8c5+
11. e3 Ag4 (11...8xe3+? 12. dxe3 Wxe3+
13. Wt2 Welt 14. &h2 Wh6+ 15. &g3 Wg6+
16. &f4 hS5 17, We3+ &f8 18. Wc5+ &g8
19. 2xf6 Wxf6+ 20. WI5+-) 12. Ad4t;
b) 9...06?! 10. Bxh7 &b7 11. Wt Anh6 as. &b2.
12. £16 2c5+ 13. e3 Wg3 14. Exh6 &xe3+ 8...Hxe5! 9. Axe5 Wf6-+ 10. 0-0
 Game 5 Nivala—Juntunen Q)
10. f4 Axe3—+. 7. Yxb7+ Ad7 8. £e6?!
10...Y%xe5 11. d4 Wg5 12. &f3 c6 White really does not have to play such a
13. a3 2a5 14. &h1 Ad7 15. Ad2 776 move. In fact, Black can simply take the
16. Ac4 &c7 17. e4 Axed 18. &xe4 bishop.
Wa 19. &xh7+ &xh7 20. Wh5+ &g8 8...2£e7?
21. DAeS5 Re6 22. Haei Af6 23. WF a8s...fxe6 9. Axe6 Hb8 10. Axd8 Bxb7
Wxd4 24. Axc6 Wd6 25. Ae5 Ad7 0-1 11. Axb7 &e45.
9. &xd7+ &xd7 10. A1f3 f6
A quick raid (Part 2) 10...2xg5!? 11. Wd5+ wes 12. Wc6+ &f8
13. Axg5 AS +.
Game 4 [AOO] 11. YWd5+ %e8
Stinis (2053) - Claesen (2396) al1...8d6 12. We6+ &c6 13. Wc4+ &d7
Leuven 2002 14. Ae4+t.
1. Ac3 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Axe4 e5 4. &c4 12. Wc6+ 1-0

Scotch without e4

Game 5 [AOO]
Nivala — Juntunen
Oulu 1999

1. Ac3 e5 2. D3 Ac6 3. d4 exd4

4. @xd4
White has played @c3 but not e4 (that would
be a Scotch). This means that there are some
differences.

This position contains several ways for Black

to go wrong.
4...2f57!
A) 4...£e7? Black prevents Ae4-g5, but
- overlooks another idea. 5. YWh5! Ahé 6. d3!
0-0 7. &xh6 gxh6 8. Af3 Ac6 9. Axed Axed
10. &xe5 &d7 11. 0O-O0O-0+-, Vorotnikov—
Peschel, Giessen 1993.
B) 4...Af6? 5. Ags Add 6. Wh5 g6 7. Wf3
Wxg5 8. &2xd5+. Here White may not have
won a pawn, but he has clearly the superior
4...d5?!
position.
A) The best move is really 4...@f6, for ex-
C) 4...Ac6!=. ,
ample 5. £95 &£b4 6. Axc6 &xc3+ 7. bxc3
5. Wf3! &g6 6. AgS Ahé bxc6 8. Wd4 0-0 9. &xf6 Wxf6 10. Wxf6
6...2)f6? 7 Wb3+—. gxf6=.

15:
& Chapter 1 Sidelines

B) 4...8f6? has been tried surprisingly of-

ten, but of course it weakens the c/-square
far too much. 5. Adb5 £d6 6. Ad5+-.

C) 4...%h4? may be an interesting move in

the Scotch, but it is simply a mistake here.
5. Adb5 &d8 6. Ad5+-.

D) 4...2c57?! is often played, but Black usu-

ally ends up in a bad variation of the Scotch.
5. Af5! W6 6. e4 Age7 7. Ae3+£. This pos-
ition can be reached via 1. e4 e5 2. Af3 Ac6
3. d4 cxd4 4. Axd4 £c5 5. AfS WE 6. Ac3
etc. But in that sequence Black has the much
7x in Mega 2005 (+4x without &xc6+ bxc6).
better move 5...d5!.
8...Wh4+! 9. g3 Ye4 10. &xd6
E) 4...Age7?! 5. &g5#.
10. &2xg7 Wxh1 11. YWh5+ e7!. (a strong
F) 4...8£b4 is a solid move. 5. Axc6 &xc3+ move, which has often been missed in prac-
(5...bxc6 6. Wd4) 6. bxc3 bxc6 7. e4 £/=. tice) 12. 2xh8 Yxg1+ 13. e2 £a6+ 14. c4
RF8—+.
5. £f4 a6 6. e4 &b4 7. Axc6 bxc6?
10...%xh1 11. Wh5+ &d7 12. &f2 Ate
7...2x03+ 8. bxc3 bxc6 9. &d3H. 13. Wt7+ &xd6 14. Yxg7 Yxh2+ 15. &f1
4\g4 0-1
8. Wd4! 8xc3+ 9. Yxc3 De7 10. Yxg7
Hg8 11. Yxh7 Se6 12. 0-0-0 WYc8
From Gambit
13. exd5 cxd5 14. Wd3 c5 15. g3 Ag6
16. h4 Wc6 17, 2h3 Axf4 18. gxf4 Wa4
19. f5 &2d7 1-0 Game 7 [A02]
Schenkein - Spielmann
Vienna 1910
The h-file attracts the queens 1. £4 e5 2. fxe5

White accepts the gambit which was named

Game 6 [AO1] after the Dane Martin From (1828-1895).
Garnier- Boivin 2. e4 transposes into the King’s Gambit.
correspondence 1987 2...d6 3. exd6 &xd6 4. DF3 g5 5. g3
A) 5. e4? g4F 6. €5? gxf3 7 exd6 Wh4+
1. b3 e5 2. &£b2 Ac6 3. e3 d5 4. &b5 8. g3 Wed4+ 9. &f2 Wd4+ 10. wet f2+
Ld6 5. f4 £6 6. fxe5 fxe5 7. &xc6+?! 11. &e2 &94# 0-1, Thomas-Gerst, Landau
1996.
A) 7. &xe5? Wh4+ 8. g3 Wed 9. &xg7 Wxht
10. Wh5+ w&e7F. B) 5. d4 g4 6. Ae5 &xed 7. dxe5 Wxd1+
8. &xd1 Ac6 9. Ac3 Le6 10. Ag5=.
B) 7. Af80.
5...94 6. Ah4 He7 7. d4 Ag6
7...bxc6 8. 2xe5? A) The attempt 7...c5? is worse: 8. dxc5
(see next diagram) Wa5+ 9. b4! Wxb4+ 10. c3 Wxc5 11. £a3,

16
 Game 9 Bernal Moro—Rebole Arbea

winning a piece (Fahrner—Leitner, Austria

19933).

B) 7...Abc6!?.
8. Ag2?!

8. Axg6 hxg6 9. Wd3 Ac6 10. c3 is critical.

8...Ac6 9. e3?
Only played once in Mega, but three times in
the Correspondence Database.

9.c3 h5 10. e4?! h4 11. eS &xe5 12. dxed

Wxd1+ 13. &xd1 hxg3 gives Black very dan- 10. Ae5 Wh4
gerous compensation.
10...We3+ 11. &hi1 4\g4 12. Ae4 dxe4
9...h5 10. £d3 h4 11. &xg6 fxg6 13. &xe3 Axe3 14. We2 Axfi 15. Bxe4
12. Axh4 Bxh4! 13. gxh4 Yxh4+ &xh2 16. &xh2+.

Black’s attack can hardly be parried. 11. Adf3?

14. &d2 £5 15. a3
15. &c3 0-0-0 16. b3 2e5-+.
15...0-0-0 16. &c3 &e5 17. b4 Axd4
18. exd4 Hxd4 19. Yxd4 Wf2 20. Yxe5
Wxc2+ 21. &d4 Wd3+ 22. &c5 b6+
23. &c6 &d7# O-1
11. Hf4! would have won the queen.
11...xf4 12. Adf3 We4 13. Bxe4 dxe4
14. AgS+.
11...Wh5 12. 2e2
12. We !?.
12...Ag4 13. h3 Axed 14. Axe5 Wh4
15. Hf4 Wg3 16. HfF3 Wh4 2-2

The Lisitsyn Gambit

A queen caught behind the
stonewall
Game 8 [A038]
Vidal - Gonzalez
Mar del Plata 1967
1. d4 D6 2. e3 g6 3. 2d3 2g7 4. £4. c5
5. DF3 We7 6. c3 d5 7. 0-0 0-0 8. Abd2
As well as a Bird Opening, this could be a
Dutch Stonewall with reversed colours.
8...cxd47?! 9. exd4! Yxf4?
The queen is now lost, although Black ob-
tains some material in return.
(see next diagram)
Game 9 [A04]
Bernal Moro (2407)-
Rebole Arbea (2217)
Spanish League 2002
1. Df3 5 2. d3!? Af6
An example of what happens when the Lisit-
syn Gambit is declined: 2...d6 3. e4 e5
A. c3 Ac6 5. exf5 &xf5 6. d4 Axd4 7. Axd4
exd4 8. Yxd4 Af6 9. &c4! (better than
9. 8d3 &xd3 10. Yxd3 c6 11. 0-0 £e7=,
Romanishin-—Malaniuk, Tallinn 1987) 9...c6
10. 895 b5 11. &b3 2e7 12. 0-0-0 Wd7
13. Bhe1 &d8 14. Bxe7! Wxe7 15. Wf4 2d7
16. De4 d5 17. Axf6 h6 18. &h4 g5 19. Wd4
1-0, Carlsen-Dolmatov, Moscow 2004.

AL.
& Chapter 1 Sidelines

3. e4!? fxe4 4. dxe4 Axe4 7...Hxh7

4...e5! is preferable, as accepting the pawn A) 7...Axh7? 8. &xg6#.
sacrifice is usually fatal in practice. B) 7...8g8 8. Axf8 &xf8 9. Ac3 d5 10. 2h6+
5. 2d3 Af6 27 11. Yd2 £f5 12. 0O-0-O+.
8. &xg6+ Hf7 9. g4!? e6 10. g5! Add
ao5...d5 6. &xe4 dxe4 7 Wxd8+ &xd8
11. c4 2b4+?
8. AgSt.
A) 11...Ab6 12. &xf7+ &xf7 13. YWh5+ &g8
6. Ag5+
14. g6 We7 15. Ac3 d5 16. Bgl.
B) 11...e7 12. &xf7+ &xf7 13. Wh5+—;
C) 11...Ab4 12. a8 A4c6 13. &Axf7+ &xf7
14. Wh5+ &g8 15. g6 We7 16. Ac3 YWg7
17, Ae4 Se7 18. Bg1 d6 19. &g5-—.
12. &f1 De7 13. &xf7+ Yxf7 14. YWh5+
&f8 15. Yh6+ 1-0

A typical Bird attack

Game 10 [AO6]
Plachetka (2405) - Zinn (2420)
Décin 1974
6...g6
1. Af3
A) 6...65 7, &xh7 Exh7 (7...Axh7? 8. Wh5+
e7 9. Wt7+ 2d6 10. Ae4+ &c6 11. Wo4+ After 9 moves a position arises which is
®&b6 12. Abc3 a5 13. £e3+ c5 14. 4\xc5+-) common in the Bird Opening and is usually
8. Axh7+-. reached after 1. f4 d5 2. Af3 Af6 3. e3 c5
4.b3 Ac6 5. 2b2 €6 6. &b5 &d6 7, &xc6+
B) 6...d6 7 &xh7 Axh7 8. Wh5+ &d7 9. Af7 bxc6 8. Ae5 We7 9. 0-0.
We8 10. Wg4+ e6 11. Axh8 Af6 12. Wg6+-.
1...c5 2. b3 Ac6 3. Bb2 Af6 4. e3
C) 6...d5 7 &xh7 Bxh7 (7...Axh7 8. Wh5+ d5 5. &£b5 e6 6. Ae5 Wc7 7. 0-0 &d6
ed7 9. Af7+-) 8. Axh7 Axh7 9. Wh5++-. 8. &xc6+ bxc6 9. f4 0-0 10. Hf3 Ad7
D) 6...c6 7. 0-0 (7 Ac3 Wad 8. 0-0 11. Bh3
d6 9. Ace4d (9. &d2 294 10. Welt) White’s attack is not easy to parry.
9...Abd7 10. &d21) 7...Wa5 (7...d6 8. c4
g6 9. Wc2 Hab 10. Axh7 Exh7 11. &xg6+
Ef7 12. &g5%) 8. &d2 Wb6 9. &xh7z
E) 6...Ac6 7. Axh7 Aed 8. Bf4 (8. Ac3!?)
8...Axd3+ 9. Wxd3 d6 10. Wg6+? (10.
A@Ag5+) 10...8d7 11. Axf6+ gxf6 12. Ac3
c62, Corvi—Rossi de Gasperis, Italy 1998.
7. Axh7!
7% h4 dd 8. hd gxh5? 9. &xh7 Axh7
10. Yxh5++-, Lisitsyn—Krogius, USSR
1949.
 Game 12 Loginov —-Shaposhnikov Q)
11...96? 9. &h6!! Wxg7
A typical mistake in this position. a11...f6 9...2b7? 10. Wf8# has also been played.
A12. Wh5? (12. Axd7 Yxd7 13. Whd g6
10. &xg7+ &b7
14. Wh4 e5 15. d8=) 12...fxe5 13. Yxh7+
7 14. Bg3 ’e8 15. Exg7 Ba6F. Things are not quite so clear, since the
bishop can be shut in at h8.
12. Wh5! Ate
12...gxh5 13. 2g3+ &h8 14. Axf7#. 11. Hg1 f6 12. g4 Ac6 13. g5 Ad4
14. 0-0-0 Af3 15. g3 Axg5 16. &xh8
13. Ag4! @e7 17. h4 @f7 18. &8g7 Ded 19. d4
13...gxh5 14. Axf6+ @h8 15. Exh5 h6 4\g6 20. h5 Af4 21. h6 &f7 22. d5 exd5
16. Axd5+ Bh7 17. Axc7 &xc7 18. Bxc5+4+-. 23. cxd5 He8 24. Hg4 Ag6 25. d6 cxd6
1-0 26. 804+ d5 27. Rxd5 &xd5 28. &xd5+
He6 29. &xe6+ dxe6 30. Hc4 A8e7
Where did that bishop come 31. Hc7 De5 32. Hxa7 Ad3+ 33. &c2
@xf2 34. a4 Ag4 35. b4 De3+ 36. b3
from? e5 37. a5 bxa5 38. bxa5 A3f5 39. a6
Dd4+ 40. &c4 Adc6 41. He7 &g6 42. a7
Game 11 [A10] 4)xa7 43. Bxe7 1-0
Knott (2275) - Arkell (2385)
Edinburgh 1985
Wild hunt for the bishop
1. C4 b6 2. Ac3 e6 3. e4 2b7 4. AF3 2b4
5. Yb3
Game 12 [A111]
5. £d3 is more frequently played and is a Loginov (2512) - Shaposhnikov (2503)
little better than the queen move. St. Petersburg 2000
5...2xc3?!
1. Df3 Af6 2. g3 d5 3. 8g2 28g4 4. c4 c6
5...4a6!.
5. Ded
6. Yxc3 &xe4 7. d3
Should White attempt to reach the line in the
The motif which follows here is not very well
game by 5. cxd5, then there is the strong
known. 7 Y&xg7 Wf6 8. Yxf6 Axf6 9. Be2
reply 5...2xf3! 6. 2xf3 cxd5=.
has been played in some games, but why
should Black have to fear it? 5...&h5 6. cxd5 cxd5?!
7...2xf3 8. Wxg7 Wf6 6...A\xd5 is played much less often and is
supposed to equalise, although the statistics
strongly favour White. Our conclusion is that
Black should play differently on move 5 — in
particular there is 5...2e6, while 5...2f5 can
lead to quite similar lines and even trans-
pose.
7, Wa4+!
7. Ac3 is not so precise: 7...06 8. Wad+
Gfd7!.
7...Dbd7 8. Ac3 e6 9. g4 &g6 10. h4
(see next diagram)
 Chapter 1 Sidelines

16...8c8 (16...h6 17. a4! hxg5 18. 2e3 &b3

19. &d2 d4 20. &xd4 £d5 21. &xd5 exd5
22. Hab1 +) 17. c4!?.
11. Axf7! &xf7
11...8xa4 12. Axd8 &xd8 (12...8xd8
13. Axa4 Axg4 14. £h3 Agf6 15. &xe6+)
13. Axa4 Axg4 14. &h3 Adf6 15. d4+, Ro-
manishin—Suba, Moscow 1986.
12. Yxc2 Axg4 13. Axd5!+- exd5
14. 8xd5+ &e8 15. YWe4+ Aded 16. f3
46 17. Yxe5+ £e7 18. 2b3 Hc8 19. d4
&f8 20. gi Hc7 21. &f4 Hd7 22. We6
£b4+ 23. &f1 He7 24. WI5 Wxd4
52x in Mega 2005. This position is frequently 25. Hd1 Wb6 26. Yc8+ He8 27. Yc4 He7
reached and Black must choose the least of 28. a3 &c5 29. Hg5 1-0
the many evils.
10...202? A popular mistake
A) 10...h6? is the most usual move, when Game 13 [A16]
White can simply continue 11. Axg6, after
Grinev - Shukin
which there is no doubting his positional ad-
Kiev 2004
vantage. Or he can set another trap: 11. d4!?
1. c4 Af6 2. Ac3 d5 3. cxd5 Axd5 4. g3
Shiels e412) tf) 2h713..905 Ags
14. e4+) 12. g5 Ag8 13. Axd5 exd5 14. £h3.
g6 5. 892 @xc3 6. bxc3 &g7 7. Hb1
0-0?
B) 10...2d6? 11. d4 h6 12. Axg6 fxg6 13. g5
hxg5 14. hxg5 Exhi+ 15. &xh1 Ah7 16. e4!
dxe4 17, 2xe4 @xg5 18. &xg6+ Af7 19. Le3
a6 20. Ae4 2e7 21. 0-0-0 b5 22. Wb3 Af8
23. &h5 Bc8+ 24. &b1 Bc4 25. Ac5+-,
Vaulin—Guliev, Pardubice 1993.

C) 10...65? 11. Axb5 Axed 12. Ac7+ we7

13. Axa8 Wxa8 14. h5+-.
D) The best move has only been seen
six times: 10...a6! 11. Axd7! (11. h5 bd
12. hxg6 @xe5 13. gxf7+ &xf70) 11...Y%xd7
12. Wxd7+ &xd7 13. h5 &c2 (13...£e4
145 13° 2¢c2 715, d3 d4) 16, 2d2) dxe3+ 70x in Mega 2005. A well-known mistake,
17. &xc2 cxb2 18. &xb2+) 14. g5 (14. d3 which has already claimed many a victim.
d4 15. &d2 (15. g5 dxc3 16. gxf6 &b4 17. b3 7...Ad7 8. Af8+ (8. &xb7? &xb7 9. Exb7
(17. &f1) 17...gxf6 18. &xb7 Hag8 19. &xa6) 4\b6 +).
15...dxc3+ 16. &xc2 cxb2 17, &xb2 Hc8+ 8. Hxb7!
18. &b3 Axg4 19. &f3 Ah6 20. Hacl&, 8. &xb77? &xb7 9. Exb7 Wd5-+.
Mah-—Middelburg, Millfield School 2002) 8...2xb7 9. &2xb7 Ad7 10. &xa8 Wxas
14...Ae4 15. d3 Axc3 16. bxc3. Here White 11. AF3 Ded 12. 0-0 Axf3+ 13. exf3
possibly has a slight endgame advantage. Wd5 14. a4
 Game 16 Doroshkevich
— Tukmakov DY
14. Wa4!? +. 23...&xb4 24. @h2 &xa2 25. Hai &c3
14...8d8 15. We2 e5 16. &g2 &h6 26. Hc1 &xe1 27. Rxc7 Bxc7 28. Hxet
17. Hel £6? 18. Wa6 Ha8? 19. Yxf6 Hf8? &b3 29. Yb1 &c2 30. Wei &g7!-+
20. Hxe5 1-0 31. Hf1 &xd3 32. Wd1 &c4 33. &f3 Wed
34. “b1 b5 35. g4 a5 36. &g2 &d5 37. e4
&e6 38. h4 a4 39. g5 fxg5 40. hxg5 a3
Playing with fire 41. Hh1 Hd7 42. Ygi Hd2 43. &g3 a2
44. Bh2 Wd4 45. Whi &g8! 0-1
Game 14 [A23]
Hodgson (2565) - A deadly double attack
IIlescas Cordoba (2615)
Wijk aan Zee 1993 Game 15 [A25]
Vaulin (2550) - Pasztor (2250)
1. c4 e5 2. g3 c6 3. 8g2 AE 4. Ac3?!
Harkany 1994
4.d4!1?; 4. Af3!?.
1. c4 e5 2. g3 AcE 3. &g2 Af6 4. Ac3
4...d5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. YWb3 Ac6! &8b4 5. Ad5 Axd5 6. cxd5 Ad4?
A not uncommon error, but not all the oppo-
nents found the refutation of this move.

You should be aware of this move!

7. Axd5 Ad4 8. Axf6+
7. e3! Af5 8. YWg4! 1-0
» 8. Wc4? Axd5 9. &2xd5 bd! +.
8...gxf6!? 9. Yd1 Wc7
A diabolical trap
9...2f5 10. d3 Hc8 11. ®f1 Ac2
12. Hb1 (Slekys—Lochte, Budapest 1990)
Game 16 [A27]
12... 2666.
Doroshk evich — Tukmako v
10. &f1 Dc2 11. Hb1 Le6 12. b3 Hc8 38th USSR Championship, Riga 1970
13. &b2 8a3! 14. &c3 Ab4 15. &xb4
&xb4 16. Df3 0-0 17. Ae1 Hfd8 18. Ad3 1. c4 e5 2. Ac3 Acé6 3. Df3 f5 4. d4 e4
£a3 19. h3 kd4 20. Ae1 Wad 21. d3 Hd7! 5. £95 Df6
22. &2g1 Hdc7 23. b4 The move 5...£e7 is more common, but the
2e.wehe Bere text move sets a diabolical trap.

a
sia) Chapter 1 Sidelines

6. d5?! 5. Axe5?!
6. Ad2.
5. &g2 is called for.
6...exf3 7 dxc6 fxg2
5...We7 6. Ad3?

6. f4 must be played: 6...d6 7 Ad3 &f5

8. ®f2 0-0-0 9. e3 Ac6 and Black has good
compensation for the pawn.

6... Df3# 0-1

A popular mistake (Part 1)

Game 18 [A29]
T. Petrosian (2640) - Ree (2420)
8. cxd7+? Wijk aan Zee 1971
White should have sacrificed a pawn.
8. &xg20 dxc6 9. Wxd8+ &xd8
1. c4 e5 2. Ac3 Af6 3. Af3 Ac 4. g3
10. O-—O-0+ oo.
&b4 5. Ad5 Axd5 6. cxd5
8...axd7! 0-1
It is easy to overlook a recapture like this.
9. &2xd8 gxhiW—-+.

A knightmare

Game 17 [A29]
Masten (1550) - Varache (1780)
Meyreuil 2001

1. c4 e5 2. Ac3 Ac 3. Af3 Af6 4. g3

Ad4

6...e€4?

6...A\d4 is the main line.

7. dxc6 exf3 8. Yb3! 1-0

This position has occurred a few times. Most

players continued a little, but in vain, of
course, as Black loses a piece because of
the threat to b/7.

8...a5 9. a3 Be7 10. cxb7+-,

20
 Game 20 Vaganian — Hubner
A popular mistake (Part 2)
Games2 [A29]
Georgiev (2675) - Goldin (2590)
Yugoslav League 1998
1. c4 e5 2. g3 Af6 3. &g2 dd 4. cxd5
4\xd5 5. Ac3 Ab6 6. Af3 Ac6 7. 0-0
&e7 8. a3 0-0 9. b4 Se6 10. Ebi f6
11. d3 a5 12. b5 Ad4 13. Ad2
This a well-known theoretical position. The
mistake which follows has been made by
many strong players.
13...0d5?
13...8£d5 is the main line.
14. &xd5! &xd5 15. e3
White wins a piece. This motif also occurs in
similar positions.
15...27
15...Af5 16. e4+-.
16. exd4 Wxd4 17. Ade4 f5 18. Ae2 Wd7
19. D4c3 Had8 20. &b2 f4 21. f3 fxg3
22. Axg3 £c5+ 23. Bh1 Yxd3 24. Wxd3
Hxd3 25. Dce4 &xa3 26. &xed 2c4
27, Hf2 &b4 28. Hc2 &xb5 29. Hxc7 HF7
30. Hxf7 &xf7 31. &2c3 &c6 32. 2xb4
axb4 33. Exb4 h6 34. &g2 Hd5 35. #f2
g5 36. De2 &g6 37. Ad4 Hed 38. Hb6
1-0
23
Q)
Weakened light squares
Game 20 [A30]
Vaganian (2625) - Hibner (2610)
XXVIII Olympiad, Thessaloniki 1984
1. c4.c5 2. Df3 Af6 3. g3 b6 4. &g2 2b7
5. 0-0 e6 6. Ac3 Le7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Wxd4
d6 9. £295 a6 10. &xf6 Axf6 11. Wd3
The early capture on f6 was to prevent the
recapture being made by the other knight. At
the same time, a trap Is set.
11...0-0?
can play 11...£e7,
Instead of this Black
11...W%c7 or 11...8a7.
12. Hfd1 2e7 13. Ag5!+ &xg5 14. &xb7
Ha7 15. £e4 £5 16. 892
So far, Black has not lost even a pawn,
but from White’s point of view the statis-
tics read 100%! What is decisive is that the
white squares in Black’s camp have been
badly weakened; White will now play e2-e4
(sometimes after f2-f4).
16...Hd7 17. £4 26 18. e4 &xc3 19. bxc3
a5? 20. exf5 Bxf5? 21. 2h3 1-0
and Black resigned in view of 21...8f6
22. &xe6+ Bxe6 23. Wd5 Hde7 24. f5+—-.
& Chapter 1 Sidelines

A hedgehog without spines A rare continuation, played from time to time

by Korchnoi.
Game 21 [A382] 6. @db5 dé (6.,.d5!?* 6_..2b41?7) 7 Sf4
Adorjan (2515) - Zsinka (2335) transposes.
Budapest 1982 6...d6?!
18x in Mega 2005. a 6...d5 or 6...a6.
1.c4.c5 2. Af3 Af6 3. Ac3 e6 4. d4 cxd4 7. Adb5
5. Axd4 b6?
120x in Mega 2005. The position occurs
62x in Mega 2005. much more frequently because of transpos-
itions.

a2Wee i 7...0e5?!
After 7...e€5 Black’s position does not look
good — the d5-square is a lasting weakness.
Yet this continuation is much better than the
text move.
8. 295 a6 9. AaB Le7 10. Wd2 (10. e3
£e6 11. 2e2 0-0 12. 0-0 Wad 13. Bc
EBfd8 14. &xf6 &xf6 15. &g4 e4 16. &xe6
fxe6 17. Aab1 Wf5 18. Ad2 &xc3 19. Bxc3
el ‘Bves! z Hf8=, Shariyazdanov-—Kuzuev, Pskov 1998)
b g 10...0-0 11. g3 &e6 12. 8g2 Bc8 13. 0-0
Aad 14. &xf6 &xf6 15. b3 e4 16. Had1 &xc3
6. Adb5! d6?! 17. ¥xc3 b5 18. 2xe4 bxc4 19. bxc4 2-1»,
A) 6...2a6 is relatively best, e.g. 7. e4 Garcia llundain—Speelman, Andorra 1998.
(7. £2147?! can be met by 7...8xb5 8. Axb5 8. c5!+
£b4+) 7...2xb5 8. cxb5£. After this move Black has severe problems.
B) 6...d5? 7 &f4 Aa6 8. Wad Wd7 8...Ah5
9. cxd5+-. 8...2d7 9. e4 a6 10. Axd6+ &xd6 11. Yxd6
7. &f4! A\g6 12. 293 &c6 13. £3 Wad 14. 0-O0-0+-,
Rivas Pastor- Mirza, XXVIII Olympiad, Thes-
Now White wins at least a pawn.
saloniki 1984.
7...e5 8. &g5 £e7 9. &xf6 gxf6 10. Wd5 9. e3!?
4\c6 11. &xc6+ £d7 1-0 Black’s position is catastrophic - it is inter-
esting to see a player with an Elo rating of
over 2600 practically losing after 9 moves.
A catastrophe on the dark
9. cxd6 @xf4 10. Ac7+ &d7 11. Wa44+4—.
squares
9...A\xf4 10. exf4 Ac6 11. cxd6 Hbs
There is nothing better against 12. Ac7+.
Game 22 [A33]
12. Ac7+ &d7 13. Ae4
Krasenkow (2661) - Peng (2624)
Threatening mate in one with 14. Ac5.
Shanghai 2000
13...Wh4 14. g3 Wh6 15. &b5
1.c4c5 2. Df3 Dc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. 4\xd4 White improves his position with natural
e6 5. Ac3 D6 6. &f4 moves.

f 24
 Game 24 Barcza-O’Kelly de Galway DN
15...2d8 16. &xc6 bxc6 17, Ya44+- A venomous drawing line
The entrance of the white queen spells cur-
tains for Black. Game 24 [A36]

17...%g6 Barcza - O’Kelly de Galway

Capablanca Memorial, Havana 1967
17...&xb2 18. 0-0-0! Bb6 19. Wxa7 Hb4
20. Aa8+-.
1.93 c5 2. 892 Ac6 3. c4 g6 4. Ac3 &g7
18. 0-0 f5 5. e3 e6 6. Age2 Age7 7. 0-0 0-0 8. d4
18...Bxb2 19. Wxc6 f5 20. Ad5!?. Threat- This is actually only a drawing variation.
ening the lethal 21. Yc7+. 20...Wf7 21. Ae7
&xe7 22. Wc7+ Be8 23. dxe7+-. 8...cxd4 9. Axd4 Axd4 10. exd4 d5
11. cxd5 Axd5 12. Axd5 exd5 13. YWb3
19. Wa5 fxe4 20. Axe6+ Ye8 21. Wd8+
&xd4
®f7 22. Ag5+ &g8 23. d7 &xd7
23...Wf5 24. Wco7 &xd7 25. Wxb8 h6 13...2e6=.
26. Wb3+ Wd5 27. Axe44+-. 14. 2h6
24. Yxb8 1-0
34x in Mega 2005.

A poisoned pawn

Game 23 [A33]
Meins (2455) - Schumacher (2330)
German Championship, Bremen 1998

1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 c5 4. AF3 cxd4

5. Axd4 Ac6 6. &g2 2b4+ 7. Ac3 Wad?
There are approximately 30 games with this
position.

8. 0-0! &xc3 9. bxc3 Yxc3?

‘Without this move, “a5 would simply be su-
perfluous and a waste of a tempo. Black is
severely punished for it.
10. Axc6 dxc6 11. Yd6! 2d7
14...He8?!
After 14...897 15. &xg7 &xg7 16. &xd5
Black still has to take some care, but a draw
is extremely likely.

Black is hoping for 12. £a3 0-0-0. 15. Hadi Wf6?

A) 11...Wxal 12. 2a3 Wxf14+ 13. &xf1 is

15...2g7 16. &xd5 Wf6 17, 295 Wid 18. Bfet
hopeless for Black. £e6 19. &xe6 fxe6 20. Be3t.
B) 11...Wa5 12. &xc6+ (12. £a3?! Wd8) 16. Wa4 1-0
12...Ad7 13. £a3 Wd8 14. 2a4+—-.
4x in Mega 2005.
12. Hb1! 1-0

ae
 Chapter 1 Sidelines

Surprise attack on the 6...cxd4 7. Ab5 d5 8. cxd5 Wa5+=.

queenside (Part 1) 7. Axd4 cxd4 8. Ab5 Wb6 9. Wa4

Game 25 [A36]
Delchev (2557) - Cugini (2154)
Imperia 2000

1. c4 e5 2. g3 c5 3. 8g2 g6 4. a3 Acé
5. Ac3 &g7 6. b4

It does not look as though 9...a6 achieves

much here, because the pawn is still pinned.
But the key point is the prevention of c4—c5
— if it is played now, Black can reply Y¥xb5.
6...cxb4?! 10,e3 'as=.
14x in Mega 2005. a6...d6. 10. 8f4 e5 11. c5! Yds
7. axb4 @xb4 8. 8a3+ Ac6 9. Ab5 11...Wf6 12. Ac7+ Sf8 13. &d2 Bbs
4\ge7? 14. Wxa7 Ac6 15. &xc6 Wxc6 16. 0-0 Yxc7
9...2f8! 17. &a5 Yc6 18. Yxb84+-.

But White has more than sufficient com- 12. Ad6+ &f8 13. Yb3! 1-0
pensation for the pawn, e.g. 10. Wa4 &xa3
11. Yxa3 Age7 12. Ad6+ &f8 13. fat.

10. 2d6 1-0

Dangerous initiative

Game 27 [A39]
Surprise attack on the Sandner (2327) — Uhlmann (2458)
queenside (Part 2) Leutersdorf 2002

Game 26 [A37] 1. Af3 AE 2. c4 c5 3. g3 g6 4. &g2

&g7 5. 0-0 0-0 6. Ac3 Acé6 7. d4 cxd4
Valdes (2387) - Trejos (2200)
8. Axd4 Ag4
San Jose 2001
It is amazing how after a few apparently ‘nor- -
1.c4 c5 2. Af3 Ac6 3. Ac3 g6 4. g3 &8g7 mal’ moves White gets into such trouble.
5. 892 e6 6. d4 Dxd4 (see next diagram)
 Game 29 Schmitthdfer
— Schneider

9. Axc6?! 6...fxe4 7. 2xe4?

7. fxe4! is called for:
9. e3, the move recommended by theory, has
been played a hundred times and more. a) 7...28xc3+7?! 8. bxc3 &xe4? 9. Wh5+ g6
10. We5 &xg2 11. Wxh8 Wh4+ 12. ee2 &xht
9...dxc6 10. YWe2?! 13. Yxg8+ we7 14. Wg7++-;
a10. Yb3. b) 7...£xe4? 8. &xe4 &xc3+ 9. &f1 +;
10...Wd4! 11. We4 c) 7... Af6 8. 2g5 h6 9. &xf6 Wxf6 10. Af3=.

11. Ae4 Be6 12. c5 fo F. 7...2xe4 8. fxe4 Wh4+ 9. &f1 &xc3

10. bxc3 Wxe4 11. WF3 AE 12. 295 0-0
11...2e6 12. h3 Yxe4 13. Axe4 Ded 13. &xf6?
14. c5 Hfd8
13. We2 Ad5+ 14. Af3 Axc3-+.
Black’s pieces have taken up excellent pos- 13...Hxf6 14. &f2 Ac6 15. Het Wo2+
itions. 16. He2 Yxc3 17. &g3 Hxf3+ 18. Axf3
15. 895 &f8 16. b3?! 4\xd4 0-1

White finds it hard to come up with a good

move. The Englund trap
16...f5! O-1
Game 29 [A40]
_ and White resigned because of 17. Ad2 Af7 Schmitth6fer - Schneider
16, 2e3 &xat- 19; Bxal—+. Germany 1996

1. d4 e5?!
Queens on the h-file This gambit - named after Swedish player
Carl Anton Englund (1871-1933) — is not cor-
Game 28 [A40] rect, but it leads to sharp complications.
Basekin - Stefanova (2497) 2. dxe5 AcE 3. DAf3 We7 4. 214 Wb4+
Antalya 2002 5. 2d2 ;

4. d4 e6 2. c4b6 3. Dc3 Bb74.e4 Bb4 > Wad27 Yxb2 6. Wc3 2b4—+.

5. &d3 f5 6. f3 5...4Yxb2
(see next diagram)
(see next diagram)

oT
 & Chapter 1 Sidelines

6. £637? 8. c5!

6. Ac3 &b4 (6...Ab4 7 Add c6 8. edt) A remarkable motif.

7. Bb1 Wa3 8. Ad5 &xd2+ 9. Wxd2 Wxa2 8...dxc5
10. Hdl +/+-.
8...exd4 9. &xh6 &xh6 10. YWxd4 0-0
6...2b4!-+ 7. YWd2 &xc3 8. Yxc3 We1# 11. cxd6 Wb6 12. Hadi Yxb2 is a better
0-1 try, but we much prefer White’s position.

Exactly what was intended after 1...e5. But 9. dxe5 Ag4?

if White does not cooperate, things look bad
for Black. 9...0-0 10. h3+.
10. e6!4+- Ade5 11. Axe5 Axed
12. xd8+ &xd8 13. f4 &xe6 14. fxe5
The great undermining &xe5 15. 2895+ 1-0

Game 30 [A42]
Attacking the Stonewall
Bairachny (2426) - Asylguzhin (2354)
Tula 2001
Game 31 [A45]
Troncoso Gutierrez —
1. d4 d6 2. Af3 Ad7 3. c4 ed 4. Ac3 g6 Fernandez Garcia (2478)
5. e4 &g7 6. 8e2 c6 Dos Hermanas 2004

After 6...ah6?! White can play 7. c5! imme-

1. d4 Af6 2. e3 g6 3. 843 &g7 4. Ad2
diately: 7...exd4 8. 2xh6!. This is the point
0-0 5. £47?!
— unusual but very strong. 8...2xh6 9. Yxd4
0-0 10. cxd6 &g7 11. dxc7 Wxc7 12. We3+ Too early, since Black has not yet played
1-0, Babos-—Francsics, Budapest 2003. d7-d5.

7. 0-0 Ah6 5...d6 6. Agf3 Ac6 7. c3

(see next diagram) (see next diagram)
 Game 31 Troncoso Gutierrez — Fernandez Garcia &)

8. 0-0
8. fxe5 dxe5 9. 0-0 Be6=.
8...We7 9. Wco2 He8 10. &8b5?! 8f5
11. e4?
11. Wb3 exd4 12. exd4 Aad 13. Wa3 c6F.
11...Axe4! 12. Axe4?

a12. Wad exd4 13. cxd4 Axd2 14. &xd2

&e4 15. Bael +.

12...exd4 13. &xc6 bxc6 14. cxd4

&xe4-+ 15. Wad We6 16. &8d2 Wd5
7...e5! 17. 8c3 a5 18. %b3?!
Black takes the bull by the horns ... and piti-
a8. Hac.
lessly exposes the problem with White’s en-
tire set-up. 18... &xf3 19. Yxd5 &xd5 0-1

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 Chapter 2

Trompowsky Attack

2.1 Typical motifs in the Trompowsky

Since the early £95 leaves the b2-pawn unprotected, White always has to reckon with “/b6.
In particular, an early c2—c3 is rarely good.

Game 32 [A45] 5...cxd4 6. Yxb6 axb6 7. 2xb8

Terentiev - Gallagher (2470) a’. Af3 dxc3 8. Axc3 Axc3 9. bxc3 F.
Liechtenstein 1990 7__dxc3!

1. d4 Af6 2. 895 De4

2...C5 3. C3? (54x in Mega 2005) 3...%b6
4. Yc2 (a4. Yb3) 4...cxd4 5. cxd4 Ac6
6. e3? (6. &xf6 gxf6F) 6...Wa5+ 0-1,
Joehnk
— Gebigke, Kiel 2000.
3. 8f4 c5 4. c3?!
4. £3 YWa5+ 5. c3 and 4. d5 are the main lines.
4...4%/b6!

A strong move, which at the same time sets

a trap.

8. 8e5?
White was relying on this. 8. Axc3 Axc3
9. bxc3 Bxb8+.
8...Bxa2!—+
This motif is also not unknown.
9. Axc3 Hxat+ 10. Ad1 Axf2 11. x2
Exd1 12. e3 e6 13. 8e2 Hci 14. h4 &b4
15. h5 f6 16. 2d4 5 17. &xb6 d5 18. g3
2f5 19. Hh4 Se1+ 20. &g2 Be4+ 21, 8F3
Ho2+ 22. &h3 f5 0-1
5. YWb3?!
5. Ad2 Axd2 6. Wxd2F. But sometimes Black’s queen gets trapped:

30,
 2.1 Typical motifs in the Trompowsky ¢ Game 35 Jahn—-Kauschmann DN
Game 33 [A45] Game 34 [A45]
Hodgson (2580) - Van der Wiel (2555) Hodgson (2535) - Gluckman (2330)
Donner Memorial, Amsterdam 1994 London 1992
1. d4 Af6 2. 895 c5 3. &xf6 gxf6 4. d5
1. d4 @f6 2. £95 e6 3. e4 Be7 4. Ac3
Wb6 5. Wei &h6 6. e3 f5 7. c4?!
This is reputed to be bad, but things are not Of course, White has other possible moves:
so Clear. 4, Abd2, 4. e5, 4. 2d3 and 4. &xf6. The text
move is not only an invitation to a French
7...f48. exf4 &xf4 9. Yxf4 Yxb2 10. De2
(4...d5), but it also sets a trap.
Wxai1 11. Dec3

11...W%b2? 4...2xe47! 5, &8xe7 Axc3 6. 2xd8 Axd1

Results with 11...d6 12. Wd2 are mixed. But 7. &xc7 Axb2 8. &d6+
basically Black should have an advantage. Up till now a relatively forced variation. The
12. d6! evaluation of this position is not quite clear,
Presumably, White is already winning. but it seems that White has good play for the
pawn and he scores quite well in practice.
12...ac6
A) 12...8298 13. &e2 Ac6 14. 0-0 Hg6 8...Da4 9. c4 AcE 10. AF3 Ae7 11. 2d3
15. £2h5 Bg7 16. dxe7+-. ®b2 12. Be2 Df5 13. 8a3 Da4 14. &d2
B) 12...%c2 13. We3 1-0, Wells—Shirov, &b6 15. Kabi f6 16. g4 De7 17. 2d6
Gibraltar 2006. Ac6 18. Rb5 Ads 19. Had hd 20. Hg
13. 2d3 exd6
Ac6 21. Ha3 hxg4 22. Exg4 &f7 23. 2c7
Bxc4+ 24. &xc4 d5 25. &b3 b5 26. Hg1
13...e6 14. 0-0 Hg8 15. Wh6+-. a5 27. &c2 g5 28. &d6 2d7 29. h4 b4
14. 0-0 Ded 15. WE 0-0 16. Ad5 Hes 30. He3 a4 31. hxg5 Aad 32. 2d3 b3
17. Yg5+ Ag6 33. gxf6 1-0
17...8h8 18. Af6 Axd3 19. Wi5+—-.
18. DAf6+ &f8 19. Yh6+ Be7 20. Add5+ A knightmare
d8 21. 8xg6 hxg6 22. Abc3 1-0
Game 35 [A45]
_ The following motif occurs in many versions.
Here White’s bishops give him good com- Jahn (2105) - Kauschmann (2250)
pensation: Berlin 1988

é31 ;
& Chapter 2.
1. d4 Af6 2. 895 De4 3. h4 dd 4. Ad2
Wd6 !?
2.2 Traps in the Trompowsky
A queen on wheels
Game 36 [A45]
Seredenko (2370) - Asanov (2200)
Alma Ata 1989
1. d4 Af6 2. 295 Hed 3. Bh4 c5 4. Wd3?
This error is punished in a surprising way (5x
in Mega 2005).
4. f3 is correct.
4...4%b6! 5. b3 Wh6!! 6. Af3
6. e3 YWxh4 7. g3 Axf2—-+; 6. Wxe4 Wot #.
Trompowsky Attack
5. c3?
ab. Axe4.
5...0g3! 0-1
White’s resignation is premature, as Black
cannot win material. 5...Ag3 6. EBh2 h6
(6...Axe2? 7. Axe2! Yxh2 8. Ag3, winning
the queen) 7. 2e3 @xfl 8. Axfl #/F.
White has lost the bishop pair and the right
to castle kingside; the position is somewhat
unorthodox. But it is only the start of the
game.
6...Wc1+ 7 Wdi Wb2 8. Abd2 Axd2
9. Axd2 YWxd4
The queen's circuit has won a pawn, and
White has nothing in return.
10. 293 g6 11. e3 Wc3 12. 8d3 2g7
13. Hb1 Wad 14. h4 h5 15. 0-0 Acé6
16. f4 Db4 17. De4 d6 18. Let £94
19. Wo1 Axd3 20. cxd3 Wxa2 21. Ac3
Wa6 22. Ad5 Wc6 23. e4 Be6 24. De3
f5 25. Wc2 &d4 26. Bf3 d5 27. e5 &xe34+
28. Hxe3 d4 0-1
A surprising queen sortie
Game 37 [A45]
Rodriguez Vargas (2435) -
Hort (2600)
Las Palmas 1975
1. d4 Af6 2. 895 c5 3. d5 De4 4. &h4a?
Apart from the fact that after 2...Ae4 the
reply 3. &f4 has clearly replaced the other
bishop move in terms of popularity, there is
a good reason why the text move is bad: the
insertion of the pair of moves c5 and d5.
 2.2 Traps in the Trompowsky ¢ Game 39 Henrichs— Rebber

4...W%b6 5. Yc

6...%/b6! 7. e3 Wxb2
The b2-pawn is not always poisoned.
5.. .g5 6. &g3
8. Ab5?
Here the typical reply 6. f3 runs into 6...W#h6! 8. Wel &a3!? 9. Abd Wb4+ 10. Wd2 Ae4 +.
7. &f2 (7. g3 gxh4 8. Wxh6 &xh6 9. fxe4
8...2b4+ 9. Ad2 He4 10. Be2 Wxd2+
hxg3 10. hxg3 2£c1 F) 7...Axf2 F.
11. Yxd2 &2xd2+ 0-1
6...2g97 7. c3 Whé!

Threatening 8...Aaxg3, when White must re- The queen attacks on the
ply 9. fxg3, after which Black has the bishop kingside
. pair and the better pawn structure.

8. &xb8 Exb8F 9. Ad2 Axd2 10. Yxd2 Game 3:9 [A50]

b5 11. Af3 b4 12. Axg5 bxc3 13. bxc3 Henrichs (2449) - Rebber (2155)
Wa6 14. Ho1 Wa3 15. e4 Hb1 16. &d1 Senden 2000
&xc3 17. We2 Bxci+ 18. Yxci Wb4
1. d4 Df6 2. c4 e6 3. DAc3 b6 4. e4
19. 8d3 Hg8 20. AF3 Hxg2 21. Hg1
Wa4d+ 22. Wco2 Yxc2+ 23. &xc2 Hxg1 A lot of players will avoid this move because
24. Axg1 £d4 25. Ah3 d6 26. Lf1 hé of Black’s reply, but this game shows that
0-1 after it White gains a clear advantage. In a
certain sense it is also a trap.

@ A deadly double attack on x

Game 38 [A46]
Rey Cid - Cadillon
Ferrol 2002

1. d4 ADf6 2. c4 c5 3. dxc5 Ac6 4. AF3

e6 5. Ac3 &xc5 6. 295?
11x in Mega 2005.
(see next diagram)

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& Chapter 2 Trompowsky Attack

4...2b4?! 16. DAgdS Yg6 17. Yxg6 hxg6 18. DAh7 -

4...8£b7 5. &8d3 &b4 6. Wc2t. Eh8 19. Af6+ We7 20. d5 d6 21. &f3?

5. e5! Ded 6. Wg4! Axc3 7. a3! 2F8 21. dxe6 fxe6 22. £f3 c6 23. Efd1 dxe5
24, Ag4+.
7...Qa2+ 8. axb4 Axct 9. Wxg7 HB
10. Bxct+. 21...dxe5?!

8. &8g5! £e7 O21...2xc4 22. Bfd1 dxe5 23. d6+ &xf6

24. 2xa8 c6=.
8...6? 9. exf6 gxf6 10. Wh5+ e7
11. &xf6+! &xf6 12. Wh44+4-. 22. dxe6?!
9. 8xe7 &xe7?! 222. Ag4.
9...Wxe7 10. Wxg7 WS 11. Wxf8+ Exf8 22...c6 23. Ad5+ &d6?
12. bxc3 and White is a pawn up.
23...cxd5 24. &2xd5 Ac6 25. &xc6 Hac8
10. Y%g5+ ®e8 11. Yxg7 Hf8 12. bxc3 26. &b5 &xb5 27. cxb5 &xe6=.
Wh4 13. Af3 We4+ 14. 2e2 Wc2 15. 0-0 24. c5+ bxc5 25. Hfd1 cxd5 26. Hxd5+
a6
@xe6 27. Hadi &f5 28. Hd6 Acé
15...Wxe2 16. Ag5 d6 17. Axh7 Ad7 18. 4 29. &xc6 Be2 30. He1 Hab8 31. 8d7+
£2b7 19. Axf8 Axf8 20. f5 dxe5 21. Hael +-. f4 32. g3+ 1-0

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 Chapter 3

Indian Sidelines

Power of the bishop pair

Game 40 [A50]
Marcal - Babo (2076)
Nazare 2002

1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 b6 4. 895 2e7

5. e4

It is not yet clear who is setting the trap and

who is falling into it.

9. 2d6?
The deciding point is whether or not White
can manage to trap the Ab2.
So -— 9. Bb1! Aa4 10. Bd3 (A Ae2, &c2)
10...Ac3 (10...2b7 11. Ae2 0-0 (11...&xg2?
12. Hgi Sf3 13. Hg3 &xe2.14. 2xe2+—)
12. £d6 Bc8 13. 0-0 Ac6 14. Bfc1 +) 11. Bb3
£b7 12. 3 Axa2 13. &b1 dd 14. 2xa2 dxc4
15. Hb1 £d5 16. Ae2 and the only question
is how big White’s advantage is.
9...2b7
5...0xe4?!
9...£a6 10. Bot Ac6 11. Af3 (Welten — Ruiter,
5...£b7 6. &d3z. Alkmaar 1985) 11...Aa5 12. 4d2 Bc8 F.
6. &8xe7 Axc37. &xd8! 10. £3 Ac6 11. &d2?

7 WB? Wxe7 8. Wxa8 Wb4 9. Hdl olde ct

(9. Yxb8? H\e4+ 10. &e2 Wxb2+ 11. &e3
11...Ha5 12. Het
Wc34+ 12. xed f5+ 13. &f4 Wxd4+—-+)
DAe3+ 14. we2
9...@xd1+ 10. &xd1 Wxb2 11. Wxb8 Wxd4+ 12. c5 Abc4+ 13. chd1

42. &c2 0-0 Black should be better off here. &4ac4—+.

7...Axd1 8. &xc7 Axb2 42...8a6 13. Ah3 &xc4 14. &c3 &xf1
(see next diagram) 15. Bhxf1 Abc4 16. &b4 Ae3 0-1
 & Chapter 3
Painful spot
Game 41 [A517]
Micele (1978) - Sosa (2125)
Vicente Lopez 2003
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e5 3. d5?! 8c5 4. Ac3
4. 295? De4!? (4...8xf2+ 5. &xf2 Ag4+
works as well of course) 5. 263 &xe3 6. fxe3
Wh4+ 7. g3 Axg3 8. hxg3 (8. Af3 Whé 9. Hg1
4\f5—+) 8...%xh1 9. Af8 d6 10. Wa4+ &d7
11. Wb4 b6 12. Ac3 0-0 13. 0-0-0 Wh6 0-1,
Jungbluth—-C. Roos, Bernkastel-Kues 1996.
4...d6 5. 895?
It is amazing how often this is played.
5. e4 c6!? 6. 2e2? (6. Af3? Ag4; 6. 23
called for) 6...%b6!—+.
5...2xf2+ 6. Bxf2 Ag4+ 7. Bet Yxg5
8. Af3 We3 9. Wd3 Wb6 10. YWc2 Ae3
11. Yd3 &f5 12. De4 Yxb2 13. Yxe3
Wxai+ 14. &f2 &xe4 15. Yxe4 Ad7
16. Yc2 e4 17. Yxe4+ Ded 18. g3 0-0
19. Agd Ag6 20. h4 Hae8 21. Wc2 Yd4+
22. ®e1 We3 23. Bh3 h6 24. g4 Wed
25. Af3 We4 26. “b3 Af4 27. Bh2 Ad3+
28. &d1 Ac5 29. Wb2 Wxc4 30. g5
Wxd5+ 31. &c2 He4 32. a3 Hc4+ 0-1
Indian Sidelines
The fighting Fajarowicz
Game 42 [A511]
Benitah —- Aubert (2275)
Orange 1993
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 De4 4. We2
Not very ambitious, but playable.
4...2b4+
4...d5? 5. exd6! £f5 6. Ac3 Axd6 7. e4
4\xe4 8. 2d3! Axf2! 9. We2+! 2e7 10. &xf5
Axh1 11. &g5! &f8 (11...h6 12. Bd1 hxg5
13. Hxd8+ &xd8 14. Wd3+ &e8 15. Ad5+-:
11...Wd6 12. Ad5 Ac6 13. O-0-0+-)
12. Hd1 We8 13. &8xe7+ Wxe7 14. Yxe7+
®xe7 15. Ad5+ &d6 16. Ab6+ ed 17, Bd5+
®f6 18. Axa8B g6 (18...c6 19. Ha5+—)
19. Axc7 gxf5 20. Bb5 b6 21. Af3+-.
5. Ad2 d5
is
6. exd6?
. 637! Sf5 7, 2d3 Wg5!.
_ Agf3!
a) 6...2f59! 7, Wb3! Axd2 8. &xd2 &xd2+
9. Axd2 dxc4 10. Wxb7 Ad7 11. e4 c3
12. bxc3 £e6 13. f44;
b) 6...Ac6 7. e3 &f5 (7...294 8. cxd5 &xf3
9. gxf3 Axd2 10. &xd2 Wxd5 11. &xb4
@xb4 12. YWa4+ Ac6 13. &b5 0-0 14. &xc6
bxc6 15. Wed Wb5 16. 0-0-0) 8. £d3 0-0
9. 0-0 Axd2 10. &xd2 &xd3 11. Wxd3 &xd2
 Game 44 Marinelli- Osmanbegovic &Y

(iie.dxca 12. Wxcd Sxd2 13. Bad! Wes

14. Bxd2 Axed 15. Axed Wxe5 16. Bfd1 +)
12. Axd2 Axed 13. Wxd5 Wxd5 14. cxd5
Hfd8 15. e4 c6 16. f4 Ag6 17. Haci+.
6...2f5! 7. dxc7?
7. a3 &xd2+ 8. &xd2 Acb6&.
7...4xc7 8. Ya4+ Dc6 9. A\gf3 0-0-0
10. e3 Ac5?!
10,..2%d7! 11, a3 Axd2 12. axb4 xf
13. b5 (13. Bxf1 Axb4 14. Wxd7+ Hxd7
15. Bxa7 4c2+ 16. Se2 8d34+ 17 edi
&b8 18. AeS5 &xf14+ 19. Axd7+ &xa7—-+;
5. Wd5 &8b7?
13. Ha3 Bhe8—+) 13...Ab4 14. Ad4 (14. AedS
We7-+) 14...dhe8 15. Axf5 Wd3 16. f3
5...2b4+! (Stefan Bucker in Kaissiber
2/1997) 6. &d2! (6. Abd2? &b7 7. Yxb7 Acé6
4\xe3 —+.
8. Ad4 0-0F) 6...Axd2 7. Abxd2 Ac6&.
11. Ydi Wa5 12. a3 De4?
6. Yxb7 Acé6
12...Ad3+ 13. &xd3 &xd3F. This variation is named after the Finn Eero
13. 2e2 Hd7 14. 0-0? Bonsdorff, who became famous as a spe-
14. axb4 WYxal1 15. b5 Ab4 16. 0O-0%. cialist in chess-mathematical problems.
7. Ya6??
14...&xd2 15. Axd2 @xd2 16. b4 Yds
7. Ad4 &b4+ 8. Ac3 0-0 9. 2d2! (Krantz)
17. 8xd2 Bxd2 18. Wei Wd7 19. b5 Aad
9...Axd2 (9...2b8 10. Yxb8 &xc3 11. Yxd8
20. c5 Db3 21. c6 Wd6 22. cxb7+ &b8
£&xd2+ 12. &d1 Bxd8 13. e8+—-) 10. Axcé6
23. Hd1 &c2 24. Rxd2 Axd2 25. Wet
dxc6 11. 0-0-0 &xc3 12. bxc3 We7
4@xfi 26. Yxc2 Yxh2+ 0-1
13. &xd2 and White has the advantage —
Gutman in Budapest Fajarowicz, Batsford
The Bonsdorff Variation 2004.
7...2b4+ 8. &d2 Ac5 9. Wbd5 &xd2+
Game 43 [A51] 10. Abxd2 a6 11. Yxc6 dxc6 0-1
Ciszek (2265) - Pielaet (2200)
Nateczow 1987 A deadly vis-a-vis

1. d4 Df6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ded 4. AF3 Game 44 [A51]

4. a3 b6 Marinelli (2425) -
a) 5. Wd5 &b7 (5...2c5 6. 4&c3 £b7 7. Yd Osmanbegovié (2340)
g6 8. Af3t) 6. Wxb7 Ac6 7. Ac3 Acs 8. £95 Cannes 1995
{6 9. exf6 gxf6 10. &xf6 Wxf6 11. Yxa8+ 2f7 1. d4 Df6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ded 4. a3
12. g3 &g7 13. Yxh8 &xh8 14. £g2 Ad4 5; 4\c6
b) 5. Wc2 &b7 6. Ac3 &xc3 7. Yxc3 ad 4...d6 5. exd6 &xd6 6. g3? Axf2! 0-1, War-
8. A387 (8. Lf4 Aab 9. AF3 Ac 10. e3) ren-Sellmann, Berlin 1930.
8...8&b4!¥ 0-1, Schmied-Schlindwein, Un- 5. Df3 d6 6. exd6
- tergrombach 2003. 6. Yo2!?.
6...2xd6
4...b6
(see next diagram)
(see next diagram)
Sia) Chapter 3 Indian Sidelines

7. Ah3

7, e3! Axf2 (7...95 8. £g3 h5 9. dxc7 Acé6

10. h4+) 8. &xf2 g5 9. Aes Wxb2+ 10. Le2
gxf4 11. exf4+.
7...Axf2

This somehow belongs to the variation be-

ginning 5...d6.

8. &xf2 &xh3 9. g3 &c5+

9...2xf1 10. Bxf1 Wd4+ 11. &g2 &xd6
12. Wb3 Ad7 13. &e3 Wed 14. c5 fe7 15.
7.937 Wxf7+ &d8 16. &f4 Yxb2 17 Hab1 Wd4
7. Abd2! closes the d-file. 18. Bxb7+-, Stohl-Socko, Koszalin 1999.

7...0xf2! 8. &xf2 0-1 10. e3 g5

and White resigned without waiting for 10...&xf1 11. Ae4 Wxb2+ 12. &xf1 cxd6
8... 2xg3+—-+4. 13. 2xd6 &xe3 14. Hb1 Wd4 15. Yxd4 &xd4
16axbi ae
Budapest Gambit 11. De4 Yxb2+ 12. YWe2! xa
12... Wxe2+ 13. &xe2 gxf4 14. Axc5 fxe3+
Game 45 [A52]
15. &xe3+t.
Beikert (2415) - Chatalbashev (2395)
Sofia 1994 13. £xh3!+- Yxh1 14. Yb2 0-0
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ag4 4. &f4 14...f6 15. &g2 Wt 16. 8f34+-.
After 4. e4 the plan with 4...d6? is 15. Af6+ Bh8 16. &xg5 c6
not playable: 5. exd6 &xd6 6. &e2 f5?
7. exf5 We7 8. c5! (missed by Capablanca!) 16...24a3 17, Wxa3+—.
8...2xc5 9. Wa4+ Ac6 10. Yxg4+-, Moor- 17. Ag4+ 1-0
mann -—Strumnik, correspondence 1980.
4...2b4+ 5. Ad2 dé 6. exd6 WE
Repairing the structure

Game 46 [A52]
Mumenthaler —-Neeracher
Zurich 1990

1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 4\g4 4.

&f4
&b4+ 5. Ac3 Ac6 6. AF3 &xc34 7. bxc3
We7 8. Yd5 Wa3 9. Wa2

Inviting the black queen to go to cd.

(see next diagram)
 Game 47 Dittmar —Vatter Gy)

1. d4 Afé 2. c4 d6 3. Ac3 e5 4. Af3

&®bd7 5. &g5
After this sequence of moves Black cannot
simply go in for a King’s Indian.

9...%c5?
ag...We7.
10. e3 Agxe5?
10...0-0? 11. h3 Agxe5 12. Axed Axed
13. Wd4 &xd4 14. cxd44+-;
5...g6? 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. Axe5! &g97
a10...We7.
7...Axe5 8. Yxd8+ &xd8 9. 2xf6+4+-.
11. Axe5 Axe5 12. Wd4!+-
Surprise! 8. Dg4 h6 9. Axf6+ &xf6 10. 2xf6 Axfé
11. Yxd8+ &xd8 12. Hdi+ We7 13. e3 c6
412...%xd4 13. cxd4 Ac6 14. &2xc7 Ab4
14. 8e2 &e6 15. 0-0 EHhd8 16. Hd4 Hd7
15. &d2 d5 16. 8d6 a5 17. a3 &d7
17. Efd1 Had8 18. h3 c5 19. Rxd7+ Hxd7
18. 893 Ac6 19. cxd5 De7 20. e4 f5
20. Rxd7+ A@xd7 21. b3 &d8 22. &F3
21. Ho1 Ye8 22. &b5+ Ad7 23. 2xd7+
b6 23. &2d5 Ded 24. &f1 &d7 25. Be2
&xd7 24. Hc7+ Be8 25. f3 fxe4 26. fxe4
Bc6 26. &d2 De7 27. &xe6+ Wxe6
b6 27. Ehc1 g5 28. d6 Ag6 29. e5 Af8
28. Ab5 Dc8 29. &d3 &d7 30. we4
30. e6 h5 31. Hc8+ 1-0
a6 31. Ac3 &d6 32. g4 De7 33. f4 5+
34. &f3 Dc6 35. e4 Ad4+ 36. Ye3
A misguided transposition fxg4 37. hxg4 g5 38. e5+ Be6 39. Ad5
gxf4+ 40. &xf4 Ae2+ 41. Re4 DAg3+
_ Game 47 [A54] 42. &f3 Df 43. &f4 b5 44. cxb5 axb5
Dittmar (2360) - Vatter (2265) 45. Dc7+ Be7 46. Axb5 Ad2 47. Ad6
Germany 1996/97 4\b1 48. Ae4 1-0

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 Chapter 4

Volga Gambit

Here Black tries to seize the initiative by a pawn sacrifice, with the aim of opening lines on
the queenside. The compensation — pressure on the a- and b-files and on the long a1-h8
diagonal — can be very enduring. White’s chances are often associated with an advance of
his central pawns.

The Volga is deep Attack on the wing - counter

in the centre
Game 48 [A56]
Spassov (2480) - Adorjan (2530) Game 49 [A57]
Chigorin Memorial, Sochi 1977 Gonzalez Velez (2400) -
Miralles Brugues
1. d4 @f6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Af3 g6 Mataro 1997
5. gvg3 2g7
=9 6. 8g2
Baeb5 7. cxb5 a6 8. bxa6
Wa5d+!?
ae aban 2ab<a 1. d4 Af6 2. c4.c5 3. d5 b5 4. AF3 bxc4
This is not considered the strongest.
This move leads to a trap; Black actually has 5. 4c3 d6 6. e4 Abd7
good results with 8...2xa6 or 8...Axa6. ne:
White is ready for a rapid e4—e5; Black wants
to prevent it.
7. 2xc4 g6

a9. £d2.
= 8. e5!?
9...De4F 10. Y¥c2? ne
: White is looking for a quick success.
10. £d2 Axc3 11. bxc3 2xc3F. 8. Wad 297 9. e5 dxe5 10. Axe5+.
10...Axc3 11. &2d2 Wad! 0-1 8...dxe5?!

4
 Game 51 Vioreanu-—Petre &)

8...Axe5 9. Axe5 dxe5 10. 0-0 &g7 11. Hel 11...Ah5?

0-0 12. Bxe5 Wd6= (Stoica/Nisipeanu). elie eb7.
9. d6
12. Axd6+!! Hxd6 13. &2b5+! Hd7
ag. Wa4!?.
13...8d7 14. 2xd6+-.
9...297?
This striving to push ahead with develop- 14. &xb8 Wb6 15. 8g3 Axg3 16. hxg3 f6
ment leads to disaster. 17. 0-0 &f7 18. &8xd7 &xd7 19. Bfe1 e5
20. dxe6+ &xe6 21. a3 b3 22. Haci £e7
A) 9...Ab6?! 10. 2b5+ 2d7 11. Axe5+.
23. Hc3! Hd8 24. He3 Hd6 25. Ad2 Hc6
B) 9...8b8!? 10. Wad (10. 95 6) 10...exd6 26. Wh5+ 2&8 27. Yxh7 c4 28. Axc4!
11. Agd d5 12. Axd5 h6 13. Axf7 (13. Axf6+ 1-0
Wxf6 14. Ded We7 oo) 13...exf7 14. Af4+
e8 15. Axg6 Hh7 16. 0-00.
10. &xf7+ &xf7 11. Ag5+ Ves 12. YWb3 Attacking the Volga (Part 2)
Of8 13. Ab5 Lab 14. DAc7+ &d7
15. Wa4+ 1-0 Game 51 [A57]
Vioreanu (2280) — Petre (2293)
Attacking the Volga (Part 1) Bucharest 2000

1. d4 @f6 2. c4c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6

Game 50 [A57]
5. {3 axb5 6. e4 Wa5+ 7. 8d2 b4 8. Aad
Reilly (2350) - West (2400) d6 9. Ac4 Wd8 10. a3
Canberra 1995
White has simply played according to theory.
1. d4 Df6 2. c4.c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6
5. Dc3!? axb5 6. e4 b4 7. Ab5 dé
7...Axe4? 8. We2 AE? (8...f5 9. f3 wins a
piece) 9. Ad6# 1-0, Hultin—Fromm, Vaxjo
1992.
8. 8c4 Axe4?!
8...Abd7 is called for.
9. Ye2 AE?
9...f5 10. £3 Af6 11. Ah3 g6=.
10. &f4 Ha6 11. Af3

10...bxa3?
14x in Mega 2005. 10...e6! is necessary
and good. 11. dxe6 &xe6 12. axb4 Rxat
13. Wxal d5=.
11. Hxa3 Bxa3 12. bxa3
Now Black can do nothing against White’s
infiltration of his queenside.
12...96 13. Wa4+ 2d7 14. Wa7 1-0
 Chapter 5

Modern Benoni

9.1 Typical motifs in the Modern Benoni

White usually wants to use his central majority to advance e4-e5 sooner or later. Black tries
to prevent it and to create counterplay with his queenside majority, but sometimes he can
even allow it as in the Mikenas Attack:

Game 52 [A66] B) 8...Afd7! is called for, as is quite often

Meister (2445) - Kaposztas (2260) the case against e4-e5, e.g. 9. Ab5 dxe5
Budapest 1994 10. Ad6+ %e7 11. Axc8+ Yxc8 12. Af3 e4
13. Ag5 Abé6t.
1. c4 D6 2. Ac3 e6 3. d4c5 4. d5 exd5 9. fxe5 Dg4?
5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. f4 &g7 8. e5
9...Afd7 10. e6 fxe6 11. dxe6 Wh4+
A move which contains a trap, with a good
(11...We7 12. Ad5!) 12. g3 &xc3+ 13. bxc3
chance that Black will fall into it.
We4+ 14. We2 Wxe2+ 15. &xe2+/t.

10. 2£b5+ Sf8 11. e6! De5 12. Af3!4-

fxe6 13. 0-0 &g8 14. Axe5 &xe5
15. Wf3 We7 16. &8g5! Wg7 17. She
&xh2+ 18. &h1 1-0

Sacrifices on d6 also occur quite often, with

the aim of activating the rest of White’s army,
especially his d-pawn:

Game 53 [A62]
Gleizerov (2539) - Minasian (2584)
Abu Dhabi 2004
8...dxe5?

74x in Mega 2005. A typical mistake. Black 1. d4 g6 2. c4 8g7 3. Af3 c5 4. d5 Ate

voluntarily opens lines for White’s attack. 5. Ac3 d6 6. g3 0-0 7. &g2 e6 8. 0-0
A) 8...Ah5? (10x in Mega 2005) 9. Af3 0-0 exd5 9. cxd5 Aa6 10. Ad2 4c7
11. Ac4
10. &e2+. (see next diagram)
 5.1 Typical motifs in the Modern Benoni e Game 54 Meyer-Shamkovich Q)
1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 e6 3. c4.c5 4. d5 exd5
5. cxd5 g6 6. Ac3 &g7 7. e4 d6 8. Le2
0-0 9. 0-0 He8 10. We2
10. Ad2
is more usual. However, White wants first of
all to develop his &c1 and then play Ad2.
10...Aa6 11. &8f4 Ac7
11...Ab4!?.
12. Ad2?
8x in Mega 2005.

Now Black has to be very careful.

11...b6?
A) 11...b5? (31x in Mega 2005) 12. 4)\xd6!
Wxd6 13. &f4 Wb6 14. d6 Bd8 15. dxc7!!
Exd1 16. Baxd1+-.
B) 11...Afe80.
12. Axd6!
13x in Mega 2005.
12...%xd6 13. &f4 Wd7 14. d6 Deb
15. &xa8 Axf4 16. gxf4 Wg4+ 17. 292
Wxf4
17...£b7 18. e4 Wxf4 19. Wf3! Wed
White consistently carries out his faulty plan.
(19...%xd6 20. e5!) 20. Wg3+ (Kapengut). 12. Bfei =.
18. e3
12...Afxd5!
18. YWd3 is also strong.
g5 20. Wis Wxd6 Played only once (plus a correspondence
18...%e5 19. Hei
game).
21. Wg3 Wxg3 22. hxg3 g4 23. Had1
feb 24. Hd2 Ad7 25. Ad5 Hed 26. b3 13. exd5 &xc3 14. bxc3 Bxe2
HbS 27. Hed1 #&f8 28. Af4 Be7 29. Be4 A typical motif. White has insufficient com-
h6 30. &g2 Hc8 31. Hd6 Hb8 32. Axe6 pensation for the pawn: the semi-open b-file
fxe6 33. 8c6 Hf8 34. &d7 HFG 35. 2b5 and an advantage in space, but although
h5 36. Hd8 h4 37. gxh4 Hh6 38. Ha8 Black’s king position is full of holes it is not
O3 39. Hxa7+ &f6 40. Hdd7 Axh4+ really in any danger.
41. &g3 Df5+ 42. &xg4 Bh1 43. 2d3 15. Wd1
@e5 44. f4+ 1-0
Preparing the following mistake.
Here is an example of Black’s many tricks 15. Wd3 He8 16. c4 (16. Ac4 W6! 17. 293
against the far-advanced white centre: (17. &8xd6 &f5 A Ab5+) 17.,.215+) 16...D9.
15...He8 16. Ac4?
Game 54 [A76]
) 16. c4 b5 17, Wf3 bxc4 18. Axc4 AbdF.
Meyer (2365) - Sham kovi ch (2495
New York 1979 16...He4 0-1

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 & Chapter 5 Modern Benoni

5.2 Traps in the Modern Benoni

Catastrophe on the h2-b8 About 80% of white players reply 7. a4 — then
diagonal there is Baal wrong with Black’s move.

Game 55 [A63] rae Wee

Smejkal - Tatai
Vidmar Memorial,
Ljubljana/Portoroz 1973
1. d4 Af6 2. c4.c5 3. d5 e6 4. Ac3 exd5
5. cxd5 d6 6. AF3 g6 7. g3 &g7 8. &g2
0-0 9. 0-0 a6 10. a4 Abd7 11. Ad2 Bbs
12. Ac4

7. f4! b5

Consistent. 7...Y%c7
!?.
8. e5!
If now the @f6 moves, White can always
meet b5—b4 with Ac3-e4, so an advance
of Black’s queenside pawns will be point-
less.
8...b4?
12...Ab6? This is no good at all. a8...Ag4 9. Af3 £e7
27x in Mega 2005. 12...Ae8 is called for. 10. £e2 0-0 11. 0O-O+.
13. Axd6! 9. exf6+- bxc3 10. We2+ &d7 11. fxg7
Such poor play by Black was punished im- &e7
mediately in only 15 games. TiaveeXG de. Wo4s
13...894
12. gxh8Y Wxh8 13. YF2 1-0
iene xdo 14,2 f44—.
14. a5 1-0
Black is a pawn down and he stands badly —
A strong unpinning
his immediate resignation is quite justified.
Game 57 [A65]
Disaster in the centre Varga (2455) - Parkanyi (2350)
Pécs 1997
Game 56 [A65] 1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 c5 4, d5 exd5
Gostisa (2420) - Rogulj (2411) 5. Cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. f3 8g7 8. &g5
0-0
Slovenian League 2003 9. Age2 Hes
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Ac3 exd5 The rook move does not look very
sensible,
5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 a6?! since the e4-pawn is well protecte
d.
 5.2 Traps in the Modern Benoni ¢ Game 59 Szabo- Klein LY)

10. Ag3? 8...Abd7

There are similar games where a6 and a4
are inserted or the knight has gone to c1.
a0. Yd2.
A) 8...&d7? 9. e5! &xb5? (this loses a piece
at this early stage; 9...dxe5 10. fxe5 We7
11. We2 &xb5 12. Axb5 Axd5 13. Ad6+ &f8
14. Af3 Ac6 15. O-O &xe5 16. Axe5 Axed
17. &h6+ &g8 18. Hael 6 19. Ac4+) 10. exf6
&xf6 11. Axb5 Wa5+ 12. Ac3 0-0 13. Age2
@d7 14. 0-0 Bfe8 15. Wd3 a6 16. Ae4 1-0,
Teixeira—Lima, Rio de Janeiro 1999.

B) 8...Afd7 is the main line.

9. e5 dxe5 10. fxe5 Dh5 11. e6 fxe6?

If you play this sharp line of the Benoni

(8...Afd7 is more solid), you must know
the move 11...W%h4+, e.g. 12. g3 Axg3
10...Axe4! 11. Agxe4 13. hxg3 Yxh1 14. 2e3 &xc3+ 15. bxc3 a6
11. &xd8 Axc3+—-+. 16. exd7+ &xd7 17. &xd7+ &xd7 18. Wg4+
11...Y%xg5 5 19 Wie.
Black is a pawn up and he has an enduring
12. dxe6 0-0 13. f3!
initiative.
12. &f2 We7 13. g4 f5 14. gxf5 gxf5 13. exd7 is not so clear, as the white king’s
15. Ag3 2d4+ 16. &g2 f4 17. 2b5 Wh4 position is not safe.
0-1
13...2xc3+ 14. bxc3 Adfé
A quick central attack
14...Hxf3 15. Wxf3 Aed 16. We4 WIG 17. e7
Wxe7 18. 0-0+-/t+.
Game 58 [A67]
Teyssou (2255) - Del Rio Mayayo 15. Yxd8 Exd8 16. g4 Ag7 17. 295 Hf8
Alicante 1989 18. e7 Hf7 19. 0-0-0 Afe8 20. Ae5d 1-0
4. d4 Df6 2. c4c5 3. d5 e6 4. Ac3 exd5
5. cxd5 dé 6. e4 g6 7. f4 2g7 8. 2b5+
A dominant outpost

Game 59 [A711]
Szabo — Klein
Santa Fe 1960

1. d4 Df6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 c5 4. d5 exd5

5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. Df3 £97 8. 295
h6 9. &h4 g5 10. 293 Bhs 11. &b5+
(see next diagram)
 Chapter 5 Modern Benoni

7. O13 £g7 8. &e2 0-0 9. 0-0 £g4 10. AF4

He8 11.h3 Axed?
If the moves a6 and a4 have not been played,
the trap does not work; despite this some
players have tried it!
12. hxg4 &xc3 13. &2b5 &xb2 14. &xe8
Wxe8 15. Hel &xal 16. Yxal f5 17. £&h6
We7 18. Ags Wed 19. Yb1 Wxd5 20. Bxe4
1-0, Korchnoi-Lutikov, Tbilisi 1959.

7...a6 8. a4 297 9. Af3 0-0 10. 8e2 Bg4

11. 0O-O He8 12. h3?

11...2d7?! It is astonishing how often this mistake is

made even by strong players and how often
12x in Mega 2005. 11...2f8 is called for. it is not punished.
12. &xd7+ Yxd7 13. De5! dxe5
A) 13...We7 14. Yxh5 &xed 15. 2xe5 Yxed
16. h4+.
B) 13...8xe5 14. &8xe5 dxe5 15. Yxh5 Aaé6b
16. h4+.
14. Yxh5 We7 15. Ad1
Heading for a dominant outpost at f5.
15...W6 16. Ae3 Wg6 17. Af5 Ad7?
This loses right away, but even best play was
insufficient:
17... WH6 18. h4! Hg8 19. hxg5 hxg5 20. Yh7
28 21. Axg7 Wxg7 22. WI5+-. 12...Axe4! 13. Axe4
18. Yxg6 1-0
13. hxg4 &xc3 14. bxc8 Axc3-4, Viad-
imirov —Yudovich, 1954.
Small difference - great 13...Rxe4 14. 8g5 We8 15. 8d3 &xf3—-4
effect 16. Wxf3 Hb4 17. Haei Se5 18. Wadi
Wxad 19. Wxa4 Hxad 20. f4 Ad4+
Game 60 [A75] 21. @h1 Ad7 22. He7 Af6 23. Rxb7
UhImann — Fischer
@h5 24. Bh2 Se3 25. Le2 Axfay
Interzonal, Palma de Mallorca 1970
26. &xf4 Hxf4 27. Hb6 Exf1 28. &xf4
Hd8 29. Hxa6 &g7 30. £b5 &f6 31. &c6
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Ac3 exd5 ®e5 32. Ha7 Hf8 33. He7+ chd4 34. Hd7
5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. &F4 46 O-1

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 Chapter 6

Dutch Defence

6.1 Typical motifs in the Dutch

Black hopes to gain control over the light squares in the centre and on the kingside in order
to start an attack.

Game 61 [A85] a2) 4...66 5. 2d3 &b7 6. Af3 Hed 7. We2 f5

Kantorik (2324) - Cerveny (2098) 8. 0-0 &xc3 9. bxc3 0-0 10. Ad2 Wh4 11. f3
Litomysl 2005 4\g5 (11...Axd2 is more solid) 12. Ab3 Ef6
13. WI2 WhS5 14. Wg3? (14. h4oo) 14...2g6
1.d4 e6 15. Yxc7
1... Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 2b4
a) 4. e3
al) 4...0-0 5. 2d3 b6 6. a3 L£b7 7. Af3
&xc3+ 8. bxc3 Ae4 9. YWe2 f5 10. 0-0 Hf6!?
(10...d6 is played much more often) 11. Ad2
Eh6

15... Ah3+ 16. &h1 &xf3 17, Yg3 Hxg3 0-1,

Manaenkov —Ikonnikov, Tula 2000;
b) 4. a3 &xc3+ 5. bxc3 dé 6. 4\f3 b6 7. e3
£b7 8. &d3 De4 Y. 0-0 0-0 10. We2 f5
11. Ad2
There are over 40 games with this position.

12.9304
Hg6 15. el Bxg2 16. Wb1? [after 16. exfS
Black will perhaps have to give perpetual
check !?] 16...Wh4+ 17. &d1 Wg4+ 18. Bet
fxe4—+) 12...Wh4! 13. Af3 (13. gxh4 Bg6+
14, &h1 Axf2#) 13...Ag5! 14. gxh4 Axf3+
15. &g2 Ael+ 16. &g3 Hg6+ 0-1, Morell
Gonzalez—Fernandez Juan, Valencia 1 995;

AT
 & Chapter 6 Dutch Defence

11...Wh4 12. Af3 (12. f8 Axd2 13. &xd2 Game 62 [A9O]

Ad7F; 12. g3 Ags 13. £38 Wh5F) 12...Wh5 Grunfeld - Torre Repetto
13. Ad2? (White would like to get rid of Baden-Baden 1925
the Ae4 without playing f3; 13. Ae F)
13...Axd2 14. Wxd2 (14. &xd2 &xg2 1. d4 e6 2. Df3 f5 3. g3 Af6 4. g2 d5
15. &xg2 Wg4+ 16. &h1 Wf38+ 17 g1 5. 0-0 &2d6 6. c4 c6 7. Yc2 0-0 8. b3
Ef6—+) 14...8xg2 15. &xg2 Wg44 16. &h1 BDe4
Wf3+ 0-1, Perez-Vallejo Pons, Mondariz 8...We7 !?.
1996; 17. &g1 Ef6—-+.
9. &28b2 Ad7 10. Ded WE
2. c4 £5 3. Ac3 Afé 4. Af3 2b4 5. a3?!
&xc3+ 6. bxc3 b6 7. e3?! Here this typical queen move sets a trap, as
the knight on e4 has no good retreat.
This restricts the scope of the &c1; 7. £f4 or
7. £95 was possible.
7...2b7 8. £e2 0-0 9. 0-0 De4 10. Yc2
d6 11. a4
White would do better to take defensive
measures on the kingside.
11...8f6 12. Ad2 Bh6

11. £3?
The prophylactic 11. Ad3! was called for.
11...Axe5! 12. dxe5?
Apparently White wins material?
A) 12. fxe4 Ag4! 13. Wc3 (13. e5 Whe
14. h3 Ae3 15. Wd2 Axi 16. Yxh6 gxh6
17, ®xf1 £e7 F) 13...dxe4 with good attack-
13. 23?
ing prospects.
13. £3 Axd2 (13...Wh4 14. fxe4 [14. h3? Ags
B) 12. c5 Ag4F.
15. Bf2 Wg3 16. &f1 Wh2F] 14...WYxh2+
15. &f2 fxe4o0) 14. &xd2 Wh4 15. h3 Bg6 12...205+ 13. Bh1 Axg3+! 0-1
16. &h1 Ad7F.
13...Wh4 14. h3 Ag5! 0-1 But White has his chances as well. The ex-
change of Black’s dark-square bishop is one
and White resigned in view of 15. &xb7
of his main positional aims:
Axh3+ 16. gxh3 Wxh3—-+.
Game 63 [A90]
In the Stonewall Variation too Black usually Knaak (2465) - Wintzer
seeks attacking chances on the kingside:
Lugano 1989
 6.2 Traps in the Dutch e Game 64 Broman-—Vuori

1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. g3 Af6 4. &g2 d5 8...b6

5. Af3 c6 6. 0-0 2d6 7. b3 We7 8. De5!
Nevertheless!
Actually not so much a trap, but rather a way
of preventing Black from achieving his op- 8...0-0 9. Wo2 b6 10. cxd5 cxd5 11. Ac4£.
timum set-up, i.e. b6, &b7, Abd7 and then 9. cxd5 cxd5?!
later c6-c5.
a9...exd5!? 10. &b2 (10. Wo2!?2 Bxed
11. dxe5 Wxe5 12. &b2%) 10...2b7 11. Wo2
g6 12. Ad2 Abd7 w.
10. Ac4!
The point: White obtains the bishop pair.
10...Ac6 11. Axd6+ Wxd6 12. £a3 Ab4
13. Ad2 De4 14. Axe4! dxe4 15. f3 exf3
16. &xf3 Hb8 17. 201! Hb7 18. 2f4 Wd7
19. He1 Add 20. &xd5 exd5 21. Hf3 Wd8
22. 895 Wd7 23. Hfc3 0-0 24. 2f4 Hd8
25. Wc2 1-0

6.2 Traps in the Dutch

Fool’s mate in new clothes a4... Af6.
5. e3!
Game 64 [A80]
White is threatening mate!
Broman - Vuori
Finnish League 1990 5...h5
1. d4 f5 2. 8g5 5...e5? 6. Wh5+ ®e7 7. exf4 exf4 (7... Af6
As well as its strategic goal — a) it prevents 8. We2+-) 8. &xf4! gxf4 9. We5+ &f7
the e-pawn from moving, and b) if Af6 is 10. 8044 d5 11. &8xd5+ &g6 12. 8e4+ &f7
played it can be met by £xf6 — this move 13. Wxh8+-.
also has a tactical purpose.
6. 2d3?
2...h6 3. &h4! g5 4. 2g3 £4?!
6. £e2! ensures White an advantage without
any problems.
6...297?
A) 6...d6! 7. exf4 h4 8. £g6+ &d7 9. Af3
c6 (9...hxg3? 10. Ae5+!+—) 10. Axg5 hxg3
11. fxg3 Wb6 =.
B) 6...2h6? 7. Wxh5+ Exhd 8. 2g6#.
7. exf4+- h4 8. fxg5 hxg3 9. &2£g6+
f8 10. f3+ Bf6 11. gxf6 Bxh2 12.
fxe7+ &xe7 13. Wt7+ Ld6 14. Wt4+ &c6

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15. d5+ &xd5 16. Ac3+ Ye6 17. W7+

1-0

Raid on the h-file (Part 1)

Game 65 [A80]
Pullin — Frithiof
Chicago 2002

1. d4 f5 2. h3 @f6 3. g4 fxg4?!
Black scores much better if he ignores the
pawn with 3...d5!.
4. hxg4 Axg4 5. Wd3 7. Hxh7!? He4?
This move sets a trap; the solid 5. e4 with
Capitulation. Black had to open an escape
good compensation for the pawn was once
route for his king: 7...Ae5!! 8. dxe5 Axh7
played by Korchnoi.
9. Wg6+ Yd7 10. Se3 eG 11. c4 Wes
12. Wd3 Hd8 13. Ac3 &c8 14. cxd5 &xd5
aeWee -
a

Awa WA
15. Wd4¢t.
{e2)
Sl
8. Hxh8 2f5
8...Aaxg5 9. Wg6+ AI7 10. Bxf8+ Axis
11. Yxg4+-.
9. 2h3 2g6 10. f3 1-0

A swift advance of the h-pawn

Game 67 [A80]
Asensio Lisan (2197) -
5... D6? Valmana Canto
5...g6 is absolutely the only move, but Cullera 2002
White’s attack is still strong, e.g. 6. Exh7 1. d4 f5 2. Af3 g6 3. h4 Df6 4. h5 Axhs5
Exh7 7. Wxg6+ Hf7 8. Yxg4 d6 9. Wh5 Ad7 5. Hxh5 gxh5 6. e4
10. Af3 ATE 11. Wg6 Ah7 12. e4.
6. Rxh7!! 1-0

Raid on the h-file (Part 2)

Game 66 [A80]
Stockmann (2233) - Zuschlag (2014)
Germany 2002
1. d4 f5 2. h3 d5 3. g4 fxg4 4. hxg4 &xg4
5. Yd3 Af6 6. 8g5 Abd7
(see next diagram)

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 6.2 Traps in the Dutch e Game 67 Asensio Lisan-Valmana Canto Ly)

6...d6? 7. Ag5+- &g7 8. Yxh5+ &d7 9. De6!!

A) 6...e6 is worth considering, but it Wg8
has not been seen in practice. 7. exf5
9...&xe6? 10. Yxf5#.
exf5?! (7...2g7!? 8. fxe6 0-0 9. Ac3 dxe6
10. 295%) 8. We2+ 8e7 (8...We7 9. Aedzx) 10. 8c4 &xd4 11. Yxf5! 2xf2+
9. 2h6 d6 10. Ag5 c6 11. d5 cxd5 12. Ac3t.
11... 8/6 12. Ac5+ &c6 (12...2d8 13. Axb7+
B) 6...&g7 is the move recommended by
&xb7 14. &xg8+-) 13. 8d5+ &b6
theory. 7. Ah4 (7. &c4 is answered by 7...e6
14. Wf34+-.
[7...fxe4?? 8. Ae5+—] 8. Ac3 0-0) 7...e6
8. Yxh5+ 2f8 9. exf5oo. 12. &xf2 Wg6 13. Af8+ 1-0
 Chapter 7

Queen’s Pawn Game and

Queen’s Gambit

7.1 Typical motifs in the Queen’s Pawn Game

and Queen’s Gambit
1. d2—d4 opens the a5-e1 diagonal and so many motifs with Ya5+ can occur.

Game 68 [A46] 2...e6

Janahi (2245) - Villamayor (2489) 2...05 3. B47! cxd4 4. Axd4? e5!. We en-
Doha 2003 counter this motif in various forms. 5. &e3
ida (5. 2xe5 Wa5+ 6. Ad2 Wxe5—+) 5...exd4
: 6. &xd4 Ac6-+ 0-1, Garcia Vera—Grau,
1.c4 c5 2. d4?! cxd4 3. AF38? e5 4. Axe57? Rosario 1929.
WaS+—+. 3. £14.05 4. c42! cxd4 5. Axd4?
1...2f6 a5. Yxd4 Acé6 6. Wd3=.
1...d5 2. c4 c6 3. AF3 dxcd4 4. e3 £e6!2

5. @g5? Obvious and already ‘tried’ by some

strong players. 5...8%a5+ 0-1, Brameyer-— 5...e5!-+ 6. &xe5 Wa5+ 7. Ac3 Wxes
Shabanov, Dresden 2004. 8.. 93g3 &
2b4 9. 8g2 Ac6 10.. Adb5 0-0
2. Af3 0-1
2. £95 c6 (alittle trap ...) 3. e3? Wa5+ 0-1,
Djordjevic -M. Kovacevic, Bela Crkva 1984. Sometimes the queen can also give check
White breaks all records! from b4:

yee:
a 71 Typical motifs in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen's Gambit « Game 70 Buzas-—Belevicius &)

Game 69 [DOO] a) 4...Wd7? 5. cxd5 Af6 6. Af3! cxd5 7. Aed

Vinitsky (2233) - Nogin (2337) We7 8. &f4 Wb6 9. Yxb6 axb6 10. e3 e6
Kiev 2001 11. &b5+ Abd7 (11...Afd7+) 12. g4 &xg4
13. &xd7+ Axd7 14. Axg4+-, Chekhov-
1.d4 d5 2. £95 h6 3. &2h4 c6
Fant, Gausdal 1990;
This is a logical procedure: after White’s
b) Only 4...8%/b6 will do:
dark-square bishop has been forced off the
c1—h6 diagonal, the black queen looks for a b1) 5. cxd5 @f6! was only played once.
way to the opponent’s queenside. 6. £3!? Axd5 (6...Y%xb3 7. axb3 cxd5 8. g4
4. e3 Wb6 5. b3 e5 £e6 9. g5 Afd7 10. AbS5 &d8 11. Axa7+)
7. e4 &xc3 8. bxc3 &e6 9. Wc2t;
A logical and a good move, which also sets
a trap. b2) 5. Wxb6 axb6 6. cxdd Af6 7 2d2
(7. dxc6 @xc6%) 7...Axd5 8. e4 Axc3
6. dxe5?
9. exf5 Add5=.
6. Af8=.
B) 3. Af3
6...%b4+ 0-1
a) 3...Af6
The development of the £c8 is a common a1) 4. Ac3 &f5?! (4...dxc4 and 4...e6 are
problem for Black in the Queen’s Gambit. the main lines) 5. cxd5 (another strong move
Especially as the solutions with a quick £f5 is 5. Wb3 Wb6 6. c5! We7 [6...Yxb3 7 axb3
often run into difficulties: Bab 8. e4 Ab4 9. Ha4 Ac2+ 10. &d2 Axe4+
11. Axe4 &xe4 12. 28d3 Axd4 13. Axd4+]
Game 70 [D10] 7. £14 Wc8 8. h3+) 5...cxd5 6. Yb3!
Buzas — Belevicius
Marijampole 2000
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6
2...£5 (the Baltic variation) 3. cxd5 (3. Wb3
is met by 3...e50) 3...2xb1 4. Wad4+
c6 5. dxc6 Axc6 6. Bxb1 e5 7 Ld2
(7, dxe57? &b4+-+) 7...Wxd4 8. Wxd4
&xd4 9. e3 Ac6 10. 2b5 Bd6 11. 2Bxc6+
bxc6 12. Ae2+£, Wells—Charochkin, Gibral-
tar 2006.
al1) 6...06 7 895 (7 8f4 a6 [7...e6?
3. cxd5
8. Ab5+—-] 8. &2xb8 Exb8 9. AeS+) 7...e6?
A) 3. Ac3 8f57! 4. Wb3! (a7...Abd7!? +) 8. e4!+— dxe4 9. &b5+
Ez Praia yr
ale Baar Bea a3 |.
&\bd7 (9...8e7 10. Ae5 Yxd4 11. Ac4+-)
10. Ae5 1-0, Epishin-Vandenbempt, Leu-
ven 2003;
a12) Black has better practical chances after
6...%b6, but he does not have enough com-
pensation for the pawn: 7 @xd5 A@xd5
8. Yxd5 e6 9. Yb3 Ac6 10. 2d2 Ab4
(10...%xb3 11. axb3 Ab4 12. Bad 4@\c2+
13. &d1 &e7 14. e3 0-04; 10...2b4 11. e3 a5

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12. &xb4 Axb4 13. Bet Ac2+ 14. &d2 Yxb3

15. axb3 Ab4+) 11. Wa4+ Ac6 12. Bc3t;

a2) 4. e3 £f5 5. Wb3 Wb6 6. cxd5 Yxb3

7. axb3 &xb1? 8. dxc6 (there is the same
motif without the moves e3 and 4f6)
8...Axc6 (Illescas sees through the trap, but
now has to play on a pawn down. 8...£e4?
was certainly his original intention. But ...
9. Hxa7! Bxa7 10. c7 and White gets a
new queen, either on b8 or c8) 9. Bxb1 e6
54x in Mega 2005. Black is trying to catch
10. &b5 a6 11. &xc6+ bxc6 12. #e2 £d6
up on White’s first move advantage, but he
13. &8d2 &e7 14. Bhc1 Ehc8 15. Bat Ad7
must be careful with this bishop sortie.
16. Hc4 Ab6 17. Hc2 f5 18. Ae1 &d7 19. Ad3
A@\d5 20. {3 Hcb8 21. e4 Ac7 22. Bact Bxb3 6. Wb3 e67! (6...Wd7 7. &f4 [7. e4!7] 7...e6
23. Bxc6 Abd 24. 6c4 a7 25. &a5 fxe4 8. e3 a6 9. Re2+) 7 Wxb7 Ab4 8. e44-—
26. fxe4 &e8 27. ed Be7 28. B1c2 &g5 £e7 9. exf5 Hb8 10. &£b5+ &f8 11. Yd7 Yb6
29. &d2 &xd2 30. &xd2 a5 31. Ac5d Hb4 12. £a4 Wad 13. Ded A6 14. Ac6 Ad3+
32. Exb4 axb4 33. Hce4 1-0, Ehlvest-—lIllescas 15. &d2 1-0, Opezzo-—Gerola, Torre Blanca
Cordoba, Logrofo 1991; 1999.
5. Wb3
b) 3...8f5 4. Wb3!? (4. Ac3+) 4...%b6 ... which White almost always accepts. So
5. cxd5 we end up in a trap:

5...WYxb3? (5...2xb1 6. Yxb6 axb6 7. Exb1

cxd5 and White’s advantage dwindles to
nothing) 6. axb3 2xb1 (6...cxd5 7. Ac3 5...Ac6 6. e3 Wd7 7. Yxd57!
e6 8. Ab5+) 7 dxc6 &e47! (7...Axc6 8. A) 7. Axd5 e5 8. AF3 Bed 9. Ac3 (9. &c4 b5
Exb1+—/+) 8. Bxa7!+—, P Horvath
-Hicker, 10. Wxb5 a6 11. Wad &xd5 12. Axes Axed
Finkenstein 1997. 13. Yxd7+ Axd7 14. &xd500) 9...8xf3 10. d5
&xd5 11. Axd5 Hd8 (11...0-0-0 12. 4\C3 0)
3...cxd5 4. Ac3 8f5!12 12. Ac3 ATE 13. Re2 &b4 14. 0-0 0-0=.
B) 7. Af3 e6=.
This sends an invitation ...
7...4xd5 8. Axd5 0-0-0
4...Ac6 5. Af3 £f5?! Even if White gains equality here, it is not
the
(see next analysis diagram) sort of position he should be Striving for.

i
 TA Typical motifs in the Queen's Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit e Game 72 Andersson -—Loureiro &)

9. &£c4?! 9. Wd5!
a9. Ac3 Ab4 10. &d1 e5 (10...Af6!7)
This strong move was already mentioned by
11. Af3 &c2+ 12. ke2 £d3+ 13. &d1 =.
Znosko-Borovsky. It was made in the three
9...Aa5
older games in Mega 2005, but not in the
9...e5!?. three later ones; does knowledge get lost?
10. b3 b5 11. &xb5
11. 4\xe7+ Axe7 12. &8xb5 Ad5t. 9...&b7
11...xd5 12. 8a6+ Ab7 13. &c4 Hd7 9...A\c6 10. Ae5+-.
14. &xf7 e6 15. 2e8 He7 16. f3 &b4+
10. &b5+ &c6
17. ®f2 He2+ 18. &g3 De7 19. &b5
Se1+ 20. &f4 DAg6+ 21. Bg5 &h4+ 10...Ac6 11. Ha6+—- (11. Ae5+-).
22. @h5 Hxg2 23. e4 &f2 24. &f1 Exg1
11. Ae5! &xb5
25. Hxg1 &xg1 26. exf5 &xd4 27. Kb
exf5 28. 8a3 &f6 29. 2a6 Af4a# O-1 11...e6 12. Wf3!+-.
12. Wxf7+ &d8 13. Yxf8+ &c7 14. Yxg7
What should be done when Black simply
Wf6 15. Yg3 &b7 16. Ad2 1-0
takes on c4 and tries to hold on to the extra
pawn? The following game shows the typical
way of answering this question: In several lines White accepts an isolated
d-pawn and gains a lot of activity in return.
Game 71 [D117] One important rule in such situations is: the
Acebal Muniz (2295) - ‘isolani’ belongs behind bars! Otherwise it
Gil Reguera (2405) may advance with great effect:
Almeria 1989
Game 72 [D28]
1. d4.d5 2. c4 c6 3. Df3 dxc4 4. a4 b5?
5. axb5 cxb5 6. e3 Wb6 7. b3! Andersson (2590) - Loureiro (2295)
Rio de Janeiro 1985
This is an important standard move; it has
nothing to do with the trap.
1. Df3 d5 2. d4 Df6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 a6
7...cxb3 8. Yxb3 b4?
5. &xc4 e6 6. 0-0 c5 7. We2 Ac6
8...e6 9. 2xb5+ 2d7+.
Even though White has not set a trap (but (Enh AO);
only played the best moves), Black now falls 8. Ac3 cxd4 9. Bd1 &e7 10. exd4
into one.

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10...0-0? 26x in Mega 2005. ‘This is a well-known and

The most frequently-played move, but not well-loved way of losing a pawn.’ (HUbner)
the best one. (EXS) BUS).

10...Ab4 11. Hed 0-0 12. &b3 2d7 is more 10. Axd5! exd5
solid. No better is 10...Axd5 11. cxd5 &xd2
11. d5! 12. dxe6 &xe3 13. exf7+ Exf7 14. fxe3+-.
23x in Mega 2005. 11. 2xb4 He8 12. cxd5 cxd5 13. Bact
11...exd5 12. Axd5 Axd5 13. &xd5 Ye7 Wb6 14. Wa3 De4 15. Wa4 DAdf6 16. Ded
14. We4 8f6 15. Ag5 &xg5 16. &xg5 a5 17. 8c3 Wa6 18. f38 Ad6 19. &d2
Le6 He7 20. Hc5 b5 21. Yc2 Yb6 22. Bc6
a16...2d7 17. 2f4+ Wc8 18. Bact £e6 Wd8 23. b3 He6 24. Hce1 g6 25. Yc5
19. &xc6 bxc6 20. Exc6+— £f5 21. WB &g7 26. &8e1 h6 27. g4 b4 28. Hc7 Wes
Wh7 22. £e3 Had8 23. Bxd8 Exd8 24. h4 f6 29. 293 g5 30. @f2 a4 31. Yxb4 axb3
25. Hd6 1-0, Aseev —-Rabiega, Berlin 1993. 32. Wxb3 Hb8 33. Wc2 Ags 34. Ad7
Hxe3 35. 8e5+ Hxe5 36. Axe5 De7
17. &2xe6 Hae8?
37. He1 Ab5 38. Ac6 Axc7 39. Hxe7
17...8fe8 18. &8xf7+ WYxf7 19. Wg4 +/+—-,.
Wc8 40. Axb8 1-0
18. 2f4 1-0
Game 74 [D36]
To conclude this discussion we present two Ca. Hansen (2300) - Guindy (2005)
popular ways of losing a pawn: Aarhus 1991

Game 73 [D12] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Af6 4. cxd5

exd5 5. 895 2e7 6. e3 Abd7 7. £d3 c6
Djuric (2517) - Efimov (2494)
8. Wc2 0-0 9. Af3 He8 10. 0-0 Ae4?
Cutro 1999

1. d4 d5 2. Af3 c6 3. e3 BF5 4. c4 eG
5. Ac3 Ad7 6. &d3 &xd3 7. Yxd3 A\gf6
8. 0-0 &b4 9. 8d2
Here this sets a trap, and at the same time it
is the best and most usual move.

This loss of a pawn occurs no less than 191x

in Mega 2005!
11. 2xe4!
11. 2f4? 52 12. Axd5! CXS san 2:C7 2
11...2xg5 12. &xh7+ @h8 13. 243 Hes
14. e4 1-0

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7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and

Queen’s Gambit
A fatal mistake 5. Wc2
5. Wb3
Game 75 [DOO]
a) 5...Ac6 6. Ad2!? (6. Af3 c4 7, We2 Lf5=)
Vogel (2152) - Krivec (2301)
6...£f5 (6...cxd4 7. Yxb6 axb6 8. exd4 £f5
Dresden 2004
9. Agf3t) 7. dxc5 Wxb3 8. axb3 e5 9. 2g3
1.d4 d5 2. &f4 Afé &xc5 10. Agf3 Ad7 11. b4 2d6 12. 2b5 e7
After 2...c5 3. e3 (if 3. e4, then 3...Ac6!? is 13. 0-0 f6 14. Ah4 &e6 15. e4= (Johnson
very interesting: 4. exd5 Wxd5 5. Ac3 Wxd4 and Kovacevic);
6. Ad5 e5 7. Ac7+ &d8 8. Axa8 exf4 9. Ae2
b) 5...c4 6. YWe2 g6 7. Ad2 (Johnson and Ko-
[9. Af3 Wxdi+ 10. Bxd1+ 2d7 11. 2c4 #&c8]
vacevié suggest 7. f3!? with the idea 7...2f5
9...%d6 and in both cases Black has good
8. e4 dxe4 9. g4) 7...2f5 8. Yel Abd7 =.
compensation) 3...Ac6 4. c3 Wb6 5. Wb3
5... 2157
c4 6. YWc2
There is such a motif, but of course Ac6
must also have been played.
5...Ac6 6. AS &f5? (6...2g4=) 7 dxcsd
£&xc2 8. cxb6 axb6 9. Aa3t.
6. Yxf5 Yxb2? 7. Yc8# 1-0

A disruptive queen sortie

Game 76 [DO2]
Burn — Marshall
6...2f5? is probably too optimistic: 7. Wxf5 Ostend 1906
Wxb2 8. Wxd5 Yxal 9. Wb5 a6 10. Yxb7
4. d4 d5 2. Af3 c5 3. c3 e6 4. 2f4 Ac6
Ads 11. Yxa8 Wxb1+ 12. He2 e5 13. Bxed 5. e3 DAf6 6. Abd2 Ld6 7. 2g3 0-0
Wd3+ 14. &f3 Wxfl 15. Yxa6 Wdi1+ 16. &g3 8. 2d3 He8
&e7 17. h3 and White’s initiative is quite dan-
8...b6 is considered to be equal.
gerous.
3. e3 c5 4. c3 Wb6 9. Ded &xe5 10. dxe5 Ad7

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11. £4?
15x in Mega 2005. This is what Black was
hoping for.

A) 11. 0-07! Adxe5 12. &xe5 Axed

13. &xh7+ &xh7 14. Wh5+ &g8 15. WxedF.
B) 11. Af3!. Then we are not so keen on
Black’s position, because he has no clear
plan. So that makes 8...8e8 a risky trap.

11...c4 12. 8c2 Wb6

Black wins a pawn and White gains no com-
pensation.
8...0-0 9. Ded
13. &f2 Wxb2 14. Hei Wxa2 15. We2 The knight is heading for c6.
f5 16. exf6 Axf6 17. &2h4 Bf8 18. &xf6
9...axe5?
Exf6 19. Af3 Wa3 20. &xh7+ &xh7
21. Ag5+ &g8 22. Wh5 Ded 23. Wh7+ ag...Yc7.
@f8 24. Wh8+ we7 25. Wxg7+ d6? 10. dxe5 Ad7?
25... @es—+. 10...Ae4 11. &xe7 Wxe7 12. Axed c4!
Black avoids the loss of a piece, but it costs
26. &g3! Ad7 27. e4 &c6 28. e5 WTB
him a pawn.
29. exf6 Yxf6 30. YWg8 Ac5 31. We8+?
13. &c2 dxe4 (13...8d7 14. Wb4 WYxb4
oileias 15. cxb4 dxe4 16. 2xe4+) 14. 0-0-O+.
31...2d7 32. Yxa8 e5 33. Ah3? Wg6+ 11. Wh4 1-0
34. SF2 Ad3+ 35. &f1 Axci 36. Af2 Ah, so that was where the queen wanted to
We2 37. g3 Ad3 38. Yxa7 d4 39. Axd3 go.
&h3+ 40. &e1 cxd3 0-1
The next queen sortie
What is the queen doing on
Game 78 [Do3]
a4?
ae Miller (1834) - Wells (2494)
Lausanne 2004
Game 77 [DO8]
1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 d5 3. £g5 De4 4. £h4
Bellin (2395) - Tzoumbas (2240)
co 5.63
Katerini 1992
5. dxc5 is more prudent.
1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 e6 3. £g5 d5 4. Abd2 5...cxd4
&e7 5. e3 Abd7 6. 8d3 c5 7. c3 b6 Black is already setting a trap.
All standard moves. 6. Axd4?!
8. Wa4 6. cxd4 is necessary, but it does not set
Black any problems. |
What does the queen want on a4?
6...W%b6
(see next diagram)
(see next diagram)
 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit e Game 80 Randerath
— Klein GY

on e1; after 9...An5 10. cxd4 Af4 11. &c2 f6

12. exf6 exf6= the position is level.
8...b6 9. e4?
Clearly the most usual move (21 out of 34).

7. Yb3?
7. 3 Wh6 8. g3 g5 9. Abs Wb6F.
7...4%h6! 8. DAf3
8. 893 Wci1+ 9. Wd1 Wxb2-+.
9...cxd4 10. Axd4
8...4c1+ 9. Yd1 Yxb2
10. cxd4 dxe4 11. Axe4 £b7 is not what
The four queen moves have been worth it: White is aiming for — it is rather Black who is
Black is winning. somewhat better. 10. e5 dxc3 11. exf6 cxd2
10. Yxd5 Axc3 11. Yd3 YWo1+ 0-1 12. fxe7 dxe1W+ 13. Yxe1 Wc7 14. e8W
Bxe8 15. Wxe8+ ASF.
10...Ac5! 11. 202?!
Tricks in the Colle System
11. We2 ebF.

[DO4] 11...dxe4 12. Axe4?

Game 79
Ibanez
Lozano - This loses a piece. The lesser evil was 12. b4
Cifuentes Parada (2505) £94 13. £3 exf3 14. gxf3 Ae6 15. Ac6
Dos Hermanas 2004 Wo7 -+.
12... Afxe4 13. 2xe4 Axed 14. Bxe4 e5
1. d4 d5 2. Af3 Af6 3. e3 g6 4. 2d3 2g7 O-1
5. Abd2 0-0 6. c3 Abd7 7. 0-0 c5
A basic position in the Colle System. Raid on the queenside
8. Het
Colle himself preferred 8. Ye2 or the imme- Game 80 [DO4]
diate 8. e4. We recommend 8. We2! Randerath - Klein
Bergisch Gladbach 1993
A) 8. b3 Wc7 9. &b2 eS 10. e4? dxe4
11. Axe4 Axe4 12. &xe4 Af6 13. Bc2 exd4 1. d4 d5 2. Af3 Afé 3. e3 £94 4. c4 e6
14. cxd4 Hd8 15. We2 cxd4 16. Axd4? Ag4
4...c6 is solid.
0-1, Nietman-—Serper, Saint Paul 2000.
5. Yb3
B) After 8. e4 cxd4 White also has 9. ed! (see next diagram)
(9. Axd4? Ac5!) because there is no rook
 & Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

5...66? Actually quite a normal developing move, but

5...Wc8 6. Aed £5 7. Ac3 c6 seems okay.
6. Ded &F5 7. cxd5 exd5?!
7...Wxd5 has never been played, but
8. Wa4+ c6 9. Ac3 Wd6 10. f3 is also un-
pleasant for Black.
8. 2b5+ Abd7 9. Ac3
Fritz wants to play 9. e4! 2xe4 10. £95 &f5
11. Ac3 h6 12. Axd5 hxg5 13. Axc7+ Yxc7
14. Wxf7+ &d8 15. Ac6+ Yxc6 16. &xc6+-.,
9...a6 10. 2c6 Hb8 11. Axd5
11. e4!.
White has also prepared a little trap.
6...Acb4? 7. e4!
Because Black’s control of the e4-square is
not without some disadvantages ...
7...Axc3 8. bxc3
With an attack on the Ab4 - Black can only
save one piece.
8...2xe4 9. cxb4 e6 10. a3 8d6 11. 2d3
£d5 12. We2 0-0 13. 0-0 h6 14. Des
We7 15. Wh5 &xe5 16. Yxe5 c6 17, hd2
f6 18. Y%g3 @h8 19. Haet £5 20. 2f4 HF7
21. £e5 Hg8 22. He3 &h7 23. Wh3 be
24. Wh5 g6 25. Yxh6+ 1-0

11...Axd5 12. Yxd5 8b4+ 13. &d2

&xd2+ 14. &xd2 £e6 15. &xd7+ 1-0 The Greek gift

A small move with a great

Game 82 [D06]
Mongeau - Trottier
effect Québec 1993

Game 81 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Af6 3. cxd5 Axd5 4,

[DO6] e4
ATE 5. Ac3 e6 6. Af3 Le7 7. £d3
Grabarczyk (2455) - Friedrich 0-0
8. h4!?
Darmstadt 1993
(see next diagram)

1. Af3 Df6 2. c4 d5 3. cxd5 Axd5 4. d4 A genuine trap.

&f5 5. Ac3 Ac 6. e3 The move order 8. e5 Ad5 9. h4
!? can also
(see next diagram) be tried of course.
 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit
8...ac6 9. e5 Ad5?
Only now does Black fall into it.
9.094 10. &95 (10. £6419;
10. &xh7+?! &xh7 11. AgS+
Black can defend by 11...2g8 12. Wxg4
Wxd4 13. Wh5 Yxe5+ 14. 8e3 WF5) 10...76
11. exf6 &xf6 (11...gxf6 12. 214+) 12. Ded.
10. &xh7+! &xh7 11. Ag5+ &g8 12. Whs
He8 13. Wh7+ &f8 14. YWh8# 1-0
A typical unpinning
83
Game
Bernal Moro (2430) - Borrajo
Suances 1997
1. d4 d5 2. c4 Zf6?!
2 cb 3. AB D6? (3...£94) 4. cxdd Axd5
‘transposes.
« Game 84 Lukacs— Bartels &)
3. cxd5 @xd5 4. Af3 Ac6 5. e4 AE
6. Ac3 294 7. d5+
7...0e5?
after
You would be wrong to think that nobody
plays this; we have found 20 such exam-
ples. And the following strong move was not
played in all of them.
8. Axe5! &xd1 9. 2b5+
And in all variations White remains at least a
piece up.
9...0d7
9...c6 10. dxc6 a6 11. c7+ axb5 12. cxdBW+
Hxd8 13. Axd1+-.
40. &xd7+ Wxd7 11. @Axd7 &xd7
12. &xd1 Hd8 13. Be2 Bc8B 14. Bf4 f6
15. Baci a6 16. Aa4 Hd7 17. Ab6+ 1-0
A grandmaster scalp
Game 84 [DOr)
Lukacs (2500) - Bartels (2315)
Copenhagen 1987
[DO7]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 Ac6 3. Dc3 A6 4. 2g5
Be4 5, £h4!?
5. Axe4 dxe4 6. d5 e6!! =.
5...g95
Otherwise Black comes out badly.
(see next diagram)
 & Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

Wee z
ic g

AAMAAAMA
w FY
4)
A
pe
b

6. &xg5 10. d6!

A) 6. £93 h5!o0 (Breutigam). Black now has serious problems.

10...cxd6
B) 6. cxd5 Axc3 7. bxc3 Wxd5 8. 893 e5o.
10...Ac6 11. dxc7 Wxc7 12. &h3 &b4
6...Axg5 7. cxd5 e5! 8. dxe5
13. 0-0-0 Af6 14. Ads Wad 15. Axf6+ gxf6
8. dxc6 exd4oo. 16. &d7+ Be7 17. &xc6 bxc6 18. Yxc6 Bhd8
19. Wb7+ %e6 20. Bd5 &xd5 21. exd5+ 1-0,
8...Axe5 9. h4 &c5?!
Flear— Bell, Blackpool 1988.
9...A\e6 10. dxe6 &xe6&. 11. 2xc4 d5 12. Axd5 Ac6 13. Eg1 Bc8
10. hxg5 Yxg5 11. YWa4+?! 13...a6 14. 0-0-0 &d6 15. Ac8 Ad4
filme te 16. &xd4 exd4 17. Exd4 8f44 18. &b1 b5
19. 2xf7+ &xf7 20. Wb3+ &f8 21. We6 a7
11...8d7 12. Ah3? &xf2+! 13. &xf2 22. €5 g5 23. Wf5+ 1-0, Ligterink- Bartels,
4\g4+ 0-1 Netherlands 1995.
14. Hd1 Wa5+ 15. Yxa5 Axad 16. &f1
Too much wood on the Ece2 17. £h3 Abs 18. b4 Dac6 19. Ac7+
®e7 20. &c5+ Bxc5 21. bxc5 Ad4
kingside 22. &f1 Abc6 23. f4 6 24. Hg3 df7
25. fxe5 fxe5 26. 8c8 &xc5 27. &xb7
Game 85 [DO7] Ae7 28. £a6 Bb8 29. 804+ &f6 30. h4
Ligterink (2470) —- Halldérsson (2270) g6 31. &g2 &g7 32. Ae6+ Axes
Reykjavik 1986 33. &xe6 Hf8 34. HFS Exf3 35. &x#3
BT6 36. 2c4 204 37, &g3 g5 38. h5h6
1. d4 d5 2. c4 AcE 3. Ac3 dxc4 4. Af3 39. Hd3 &g7 40. HFS Ac5 41. HA7+ Shs
Af6 5. e4 894 6. 8e3 &xf37! 42. &g4 Ac8 43. Hc7 1-0
Here this exchange is premature.
7. gxf3 e5 8. d5 De7?! Tricks in the Chigorin Defence
a8...Ab8.
Game 86 [DO7]
9. Ya4+ Ad7 Piskov (2415) - Reprintsev
(see next diagram)
Uzhgorod 1988
 UG Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit * Game 88 Semkov— Rogers Q)
1. d4 d5 2. c4 AcE 3. Ac3 dxc4 4. Af3
&g4?
157x in Mega 2005.

The endgame is difficult for White to play.
Actually £94 is nearly always a typical move
in the Chigorin Defence, but here, as it so
happens, it is not good. 44...Af6.
5. d5 &xf3 6. exf3! Ded 7. 2f4 Agé
7...Ad3+ 8. &xd3 cxd3 9. AbS+.
8. &xc4! Af6
8...Axf4 9. Wa4+ Wd7 (9...c6 10. dxc6+—)
10, 2b5+—
9. &8g3 a6 10. 0-0 b5 11. &b3 Ahd 12. a4
b4 13. De4 Axg3 14. hxg3 c6 15. Hct
Hc8 16. We2 f5 17. Ag5 e5 18. Yxa6 c5
19. Ye6+ &e7 20. dé 1-0
7...8g94!
8. £3 Be6 9. 2e3 0-0-0 10. &xd4 Hxd4
11. ®e2 De7 12. Ad2 Ag6 13. 2xg6
hxg6 14. b3 &f5 15. a3 Be7 16. Ha2 g5
17. e1 Ehd8 18. Ae2 Hd3 19. Ag3 &g6
20. b4 He3+ 21. &f2 Rxe5 22. Het Hxel
23. &xe1 8d3 24. Age4 Hd4 25. c5 f5
26. Af2 &b5 27. Afi Lf6 28. Hd2 He4
29. Ad1 Hei 30. &f2 f4 31. g3 &c3
32. Axc3 Hxc3 33. Ha2 &2c4 34. Hat
Ho2+ 35. &g1 &d5 0-1
An endgame as an opening
trap (Part 2)
Game 88 [DO7]
Semkov — Rogers (1865)
Wattignies 1976

An endgame as an opening 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Ac6 3. cxd5 Yxd5 4. Af3

| trap (Part 1) e5 5. Ac3 £b4 6. dxe5?! Wxdi+ 7. &xd1
£94
[DO7] Theoretically the chances may be level, but
Game 87
in practice Black scores better.
Réti - Bogoljubow 10. Le2
8. &f4 DAge7 9. e3 Agé
Kiel 1921
0-0-0+ 11. &c1 &xf3 12. gxf3 Acxed
13. &c2 Dxf4 14. exf4 Ac6 15. Haet
4. d4d5 2. c4 Dc6 3. e3 e5 4. dxe5?! d4!
£5 16. a3 &c5 17. Bhf1 Ad4+ 18. Bc
5. exd4?
£d6 19. Add5 &xa3 20. Ab6+ axb6
O°. a3. 21. bxa3 Khe8 22. &8d1 De6 23. Hed
«5 Wed4! 6. Yxd4 Axd4 7, £d3 Q)xf4 24. Hxf5 Hf8 25. &c2 g6 26. Xxf8
(see next diagram)
Hxf8 27. &d2 c5 0-1
 & Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

A cross

Game 89 [DO8]
Kratzer —- Meyer
Leipzig 1997
1. d4 d5 2. c4 4c6 3. e3 e5
A cross between the Chigorin Defence and
the Albin Counter-Gambit.

7. e2

4. dxe5?!
4. cxd5 Yxd5 5. Ac3 &b4 is the main line.
4...d4! 5. Af3?
With this move the game belongs to D08 —
the Albin Counter-Gambit.
Sr aol?
5...2b4+! 6. 8£d2 dxe3 7. fxe3 7...fxgiA+!! 8. ’e1 Wh4+! 9. &d2 Acé
White cannot hold on to the Ae5 and thus he 10. 8c3 Wf2+ 11. &c1 Sf5 12. Ad2
stands positionally worse. 0-0-0-+ 13. b4 Ad4 14. Wa4 0-1
7...294 8. Be2 &xf3 9. &xf3 Wh4a+
10. g3 Wxc4 11. &xc6+ Wxc6 12. Eft
&xd2+ 13. Yxd2 De7 14. Ac3 0-0 Albin Counter-Gambit
15. Heol Had8 16. We2 Ag6 17. Hdt
@xe5 18. &f2 Hfe8 19. e4 Ac4 20. Ad5 Game 91 [DO9]
We5+ 21. &g2 Hxd5 0-1 Jackelen (2365) - Schulz (2390)
Germany 1990/91
Promotion to a knight
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Af3 Acé
Game 90 [DO8] 5.93 £e6
Madej - Gruz Up till now this is the main line.
Zakopane 2001
5...294 6. 892 Wd7 7. 0-0 0-0-0 8. Yb3
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. e3? £h3?
(see next diagram) (see next analysis diagram)
 12 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit *« Game 92 Hammes-—Rudolph &)

9...0-0-0?
Now Black really falls into the trap.
9...@\xe5 leads to an endgame, which could
perhaps with some effort lead to equality.
10. Wxd7+ Axd7 11. Ad4! &xc4 12. &xb7
Eb8 13. &f38 &b4 14. 2d2 He7 15. Rxe2t/=.
10. Ac3
White wins the Ae2, after which Black has
no compensation for being a pawn down.
10. 8e3 Wd1 11. b3! &b4 12. Abd2 Wc2
9. e6! 2xe6 10. Aed Wd6 11. Axc6 bxc6 13. Hxe2e.
12. Wa4+-— Wo5 13. AaB’! Wb6 14. &xc6 10...2b4
&xa3 15. bxa3 Ae7 16. &b5 c6 17. 2a6+
10...£05 11. Bxe2 Wd3 (11...Add4 12. Axd4
god7 18. &f4 Wc5 19. Hab1+—, Spassky- Wxa4 13. Axa4 &xd4£) 12. &2g5 Age7
Forintos, Sochi 1964.
13. Be4+.
6. Ya4!? 11. 8e3 Age7 12. Ad4 a6
White wants to economise on Abd2 and 12...a5 13. Axe6 Wxe6 14. a3 &xc3
he protects the c4-pawn with his queen — 15. Dxcsa—
a move that is often played without thinking. 13. Axe6 Wxe6 14. Hxe2 Wxe5 15. 2h3+
Possibly it is quite simply a strong move. £5 16. 8g5 Wc5 17. Haei Hd7 18. 2£g2
&xc3 19. bxc3 He8 20. &xc6 1-0
6...Wd7 7. 292 d3?!
7...0-0-0 8. 0-0 &b8 (Black is now A poisoned rook
ready for the discovered attack with @xe5.
o8...&h3+£) 9. Abd2! Axe5? 10. Wb3! Game 92 [D10]
&x#3+ (10...Ac6? 11. AeS!) 11. Axf3 Wes Hammes (2305) - Rudolph (2240)
— Harari,
12. Bd1 £c5 13. YWb5!+-, Mittelman Eislingen 1996
Hampstead 1998. 1. d4 d5 2. c4c6 3. Ac3 dxc4 4. e3 b5
8. 0-0 It cannot be said that Black is setting a trap,
but the white move which follows appears
8. exd3? Wxd30.
to be an appropriate reply to the ‘cheeky’
8...dxe2 9. Het defence of the Ac4.
 & Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

5. Axb5?
32x in Mega 2005. 5. a4 b4 6. Ae4o.
5...cxb5 6. Wf3 Yc7!

6...Ac6 7. Yxc6+ &d7=.

7. Yxa8 &b7 8. Yxa7 e5!

8...e6? 9. d5! &c5 10. d6 Wxd6 (10...2xd6

11. Wd4 The queen is back home; there-
fore 8...e5! and not 8...e6) 11. Yxb7 &£b4+
12. e2 Wd34+ 13. &f3 Wf5+=.

9. &xc4

9. d5 8c5 10. d6 &xd6—-+. 7...Abd7?

9...bxc4 10. Af3?! A) 7...Ac6? 8. g4 2g6 9. h4+ is also similar

to the game itself.
10. Wa4+! Ad7 11. Af8 exd4 12. exd4
£6 F.
B)7...2d6 8.94 £xe5 9. gxf5 £d6 10. gt
0-0 11. YF3.00.
10...Aa6!
C) For the main line 7...Afd7 see the next
Now the queen on a7 can no longer be res- game.
cued. 8. g4 &g6
11. Axe5 De7 A) 8...£e4 9. 13 &g6 10. h4 h6 11. Axg6
fxg6+.
A 4c8.
B) 8...Axe5 9. dxe5 Axgd4 10. Wad+!
12. d5 Af5!
®e7 (10...8%d7? 11. £2b5+-) 11. Wb4+
A £2¢5, @d7 12. Wxb7+ We7 13. £b5+ a8
14. Yxa8++-.
13. Axc4 &c5 14. d6 Wc8 15. Ab6 Yc6
16. b4 &xb6 17. b5 Yxb5 18. d7+ &d8 9. h4 h6
19. a4 Wc6 0-1 ...@xe5 10. dxe5 Ad7 11. h5+-.
10. Axg6 fxg6 11. 8d3 Sf7 12. Yo2
Axg4 13. &8xg6+ &g8 14. Axd5 exd5
The original Bogoljubow trap
15. WS 2b4+ 16. Be2 WE 17, Wxg4 Afs
18. 2d3+- De6 19. WES Wxf5 20. &xf5
Game 93 [D12]} @f7 21. Bd2 &xd2 22. &xd2 g6 23. Lc2
Bogoljubow- Gothilf g5 24. 2b3 Had8 25. hxg5 Axg5 26. Hh5
Moscow 1925 &g6 27. Hah1 Hd6 28. &c24 &g7
29. Hg1 Hg6 30. &d1 1-0
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Af3 Af6 4. e3 LF5
5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Ac3 e6
Bogoljubow trap No. 2
After 6...Ac6 White can follow the Bo-
goljubow line with 7. Ae5 e6? 8. g4+. Game 94 [D12]
7. Ded Knaak (2487) - Smeets (2537)
(see next diagram) Bundesliga 2005/06

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 22 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit e Game 94 Knaak—Smeets DN
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Af3 Df6 4. e3 BF5 15. &2xc6+ Wxc6 16. Kaci Wd5 17. Yg3 f6
5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Ac3 e6 7. Ded DAfd7! 18. &b8 — perhaps not a forced variation, but
8. Yb3!? it is clear that White’s lead in development is
This sets a further trap. more important than Black’s extra pawn;
b) 10...Wb6 11. &b5
b1) 11...8xg2? 12. Bgl £h3 13. Hol Wxd4
14. Axd7 x4 15. Axf8+ Ac6 (15...&xf8
16. Ae2+—) 16. Ae2 Wd6 17. &xc6+ bxc6
18. Yxh3 &xf8 19. YWce3t/+-;
b2) 11...8d6 12. Axe4 &xe5 13. Lxe5 dxe4
14. &xg7 Hg8 15. Re5
Here White should have the advantage; this
can be proved by a few variations.
15...a6 (15...Wa5+ 16. &f1 [16. %e2!7]
16...Ac6 17. 2f4£) 16. Bc1! Wad+
21a &f1!2 Yxb54+ 18. Yxb5 axb5
8...%c7?! 19. Hc8+ ke7 20. Bxg8 Exa2 21. %e2 Hxb2+
22. %e3 Ac6 23. Hh80;
As an excuse for the young Dutchman, one
can point out that this mistake had already b22) 17. &d1 we7 18. Se2 (18. Wh3 Axed
been made by some strong players (includ- 19. YWh4+ &d6 20. dxe5+ &xe5; 18. 2xd7
ing Tony Miles) and that until then it had ®xd7 19. Yxb7 Wb5 20. Wxe4 Wxb2)
never (!) been refuted over the board, al- 18...Axe5 19. dxe5;
though grandmasters such as Pomar, Bur- b23) 17. &e2! 17...&@e7 (17...Ac6 18. &xc6
makin and Arencibia had the chance to do bxc6 19. &g3+) 18. &a4! Ac6 (18...b5
so. Moreover, there is a better known vari- 19. Wa34+ b4 20. Wh3!) 19. Wa3+ &d8
ation with 6. &b3, where 6...¥c7 is the cor- (19...W%b420. Wxb4+ Axb4 21. 2xd7 &xd7
rect reply. It has to be said, however, that 22. Hc7+ %e8 23. Bxb7+-) 20. &xc6 Wxa3
many careful players, such as Max Euwe, 91. &c7+ Be7 22. bxa3 bxc6 23. Bxc6+.
preferred 8...%/c8!=. Once again the best 10. Ab5 “d8
move is not so obvious.
9. e4!
White opens up the route for his £c1 to f4
with gain of tempo, giving up a pawn to do
so. The motif is not unknown, but the double
move of the pawn is more frequently seen
as a way of clearing the road for the other
bishop.
9...dxe4?
After this White’s advantage is absolutely
clear. We think that things are more difficult
for him after 9...&xe4 10. &2f4 and now:
11. Ac4! Ab6?!
a) 10...Axe5 11. 2xe5 Wb6 12. &b5+ Ac6
13. Axe4 dxe4 14. 0-0 (14. Het !?) 14...a6 Now White wins easily.

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 & Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

11...Ac6 12. Abd6+ &xd6 13. Axd6+ &f8

14. Axf5 exfS 15. Wxb7 Hc8 (15...%c8
16. 8a6 Wxb7 17, &xb7 Axd4 18. &xas
Ac2+ 19. e2 Axal 20. &c6 ce7 21. &xd7
&xd7 22. &d2 Ac2 23. &c3+-) 16. 295
{6 17. &f4 Ab6 18. Bct Axd4 19. Bxc8
Axc8 20. &c4 Ac2+ 21. we2 Ad4+
22. &d2!+/+-.
12. 8f44+- Ad5 13. Abd6+ &xd6
14. Axd6+ &e7
14...2f8 15. Wxb7 Ad7 16. Axf5! Axf4
17. Wb4+ g8 18. Ae7+ &f8 19. Acé++-.
9...4%b6?
15. Ya3 d7 16. &£b5+ 1-0
A) 9...8%b8 10. Wc4 We5+ 11. &e3 Hc8
12. Wb3+.

A knight attack B) 9...e6 10. dxe6 &xe6 11. Yxb7 &b4+

12. Ac3+.
10. 8e3! Wa5+
Game 95 [D10]
10...Af6 11. &xb6 Axe4 12. Ac7+ &asB
Certek (2275) - Ertl 13. Axa8+ axb6 14. Bd1+-.
Vienna 2003
11. b4! Yxb5 12. 8xb5 &xb5 13. a4 Af
14. Yd4 8d7 15. Df3 4\g4 16. 0-0 e5 17.
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Ac3
dxe6 &xe6 18. Ag5 1-0
4\c6
By 4...Af6 Black would avoid the variation A surprising resource
in the game.
5. e4
Game 96 [D12]
Kozul (2605) -
The same position is sometimes reached via
IIlescas Cordoba (2640)
the Sicilian with 2. c3 Ac6. XXXII Olympiad, Yerevan 1996
5...dxe4 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Af6 4. AF3 BF5
5. 2d3 &xd3 6. Yxd3 e6 7 0-0 Abd7
5...Af6 6. e5 Ded 7. &d3z.
8. Ac3 &2b4 9. Bd2 a5 10. a3 Se7 11. b3
6. d5 De5 11. e4? (it is surprising that Black, who
6...Ab8 7 Wad4+ Ad7 8. £f4 (8. AbS a6 has not yet even castled, now has a tac-
9. £95 f6 10. Hcl axb5 11. Yxa8 Abs tical opportunity) 11...Ac5! 12. dxc5 dxe4
12. Hxc8 Axc8 13. &e3+t) 8...Agf6 9. Hct +. 13. Wxd8+ Bxd8 14. £63? (al4. Axe4
A@xe4 15. 8xa5 Ba8 16. &b4 &xc5 +, Black
7. Wa4+ 2d7 8. Yxe4 Ag6 has a very pleasant endgame) 14...exf3
8...Ag4!? 9. h3 A4f6 10. Wed+. 15. gxf3 Ad7 16. Aa4 Ae5 17. Kfct Axf34
0-1, Granero Roca-Saldano Dayer, Alicante
9. Ab5
2000.
This was only tried twice in the 10 games 11...0-0 12. e4?
with this variation. Overlooking a tactical resource, which
in
(see next diagram) practice usually occurs one move earlier.

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 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 98 Schroer
- Torre GY

6. &xb8?! Bxb8 7. Wa4+?

12...Ac5!!+ 13. dxc5 dxe4 14. Wxd8
Hixd8 15. Da4? White is too greedy and is caught in the trap.
7...2d7 8. Yxa7? &2£b4+ 9. Abd2

15. Ags Exd2 16. Agxe4 Bd3 +.
45...exf3 16. Hfd1 Hd3 17 &8c3 Had8
18. Hel H8d7 19. Hact fxg2 20. Ab2
Hf3 21. doxg2 Hf5 22. a4 Hd323.Hed1
Hdf3 24. He2 hS 25. h3 g5 26. b4
27. axb4 g4 28. hxg4 Axg4
axb4
h4
99. Hh1 Exf2+ 30. Hxf2 Axf2 31. Hat
32. Ab6 h3+ 33. @h2 Hg5 34. Hg1 Hxgi
35. &xgi Ag4 36. Ac8 &f8 0-1
9. Ac3 Ae4 10. Ad2 Axd?2 11. &xd2 &c6
12. a3 &xc3+ 13. bxc3 Ha8 14. Wc5 Had
15. Wb4 Bb5-+.
= g._gc6 40, HeS5 Aed 11. Axcé bxc6
49 ay Axd2 13. Hxd2 Axd2+ 14. &xd2
= x hoy 15. ect Wb8 16. Wo5 Hbt+
17. &d2 Wb2+ 18. Be3 We1+ 0-1
Blacks steals the initiative

Game 98 [D13]
2 Schroer (2365) — Torre (2540)
A poisoned pawn New York 1985
4. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Af3 Af6 4. cxdS
Game 97 [D13] exd5 5. Ac3 Acé 6. Lf4 £947!
;
Balhar (1605) - Herancourt (1582) A typical trap — but with best play White
Forchheim 2002
should get an advantage.

7. De5

14. d4 d5 2. Df3 Af6 3. c4 c6 4. cxd5 Interestingly, strong players prefer the in-
cxd5 5. &f4 e6 nocuous 7. e3.
7...4b6!?
re
Usually 5...Ac6 is played. The text move
This is part of the trap.
blocks the path of the £c8 to f5 or g4, but it
also sets a trap.
8. Axg4 Axg4
(see next diagram)
(see next diagram)

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 Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

A clever move of the rook’s

pawn

Game 99 [D13]
Rasmussen (2142) - Esposito (2232)
Budapest 2004

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Ac3

4AMf6 5. 244 Dc6 6. Af3 Y&b6 7. a3

Not a trap, but the best move in the position.

9. Axd5?
17x in Mega 2005.

9. e4! (9x in Mega 2005) 9...e5! (naturally,

this is a totally confusing position if you do
not have Fritz to help you) 10. &d2 (10. &b5
The most usual move. 10...Af6!£) 10...f5
11. Axd5 Wxd4 12. WF8 Wxed+ 13. Wxed
fxe4 14. Ac7+ &d7 15. Axa8 &c5 16. 0-0-0
Ad4 17. £e1 Hxa8 18. Re2 AE 19. &c3 Ad5
20. Bhel +.
9...Wa5+ 10. Ac3 edt 7...4xb2?

The position is anything but clear, but we 8x in Mega 2005.

would rather have Black’s initiative than 8. Da4 Wb5 9. Bd2 Abs
White’s extra pawn.
A) 9...Ad8? 10. e4 Wd7 11. Ae5 Wc7 12. Bet
11. e4? Ac6 13. &2b5 &d7 14. Axd7 Axd7 15. exd5
1-0, Keglev -Brajkovi
iéé, Zagreb 1997.
A) 11. d5?! exf4 12. dxc6 bxc6F.
B) 9...Wa6 10. e3 b5 11. Ac3 Wb7 12. &xb5
B) 11. dxe5? Wb6 12. £93 Yxb2 13. Ket
a6 13,2037)
Bd8 14. Wc2 Wxc2 15. Bxc2 Ad4 16. Bc
£a3F. 10. e4
10. Ae5! &d7 (10...Wa6 11. Hct We6 12.
C) 11. &xe5 &b4 5. e4
£d7 13. Yb3+—) 11. Ac5+-.
11...2b4 12. &8d2 exd4 13. Ab1 Ate
10...Wd7 11. Ae5 Wd8 12. 8b5+ 4\bd7
14. 2d3 0-0 15. 0-0 Ae5 16. We2 Hfes
13. Ac5 e6 14. 4\cxd7 &xd7 15. Dxd7
17. a3 &xd2 18. Axd2 Had8 19. Hact
4)xd7 16. exd5 exd5?
Afg4 20. Ac4 Axc4 21. &xc4 Wg5
22. 2d3 He7 23. Hc2 Wh4 24. h3 Ate 16...a62,
25. Hfcl1 g6 26. Hc7 DAhS5 27. Wg4 We 17. 0-0+- 2e7 18. Yg4 g6 19. fel £5
28. b4 Wd6 29. Bxe7 Wxe7 30. Hc5 20. We2 Hfs 21. 295 Hf7 22.
We5 a6
Ag7 31. &c4 d3 32. 8d5 d2 33. Wd 23. Wh8+ Hf8 24. Yxh7 Ef7 25.
Wg8+
b6 34. Hc2 Bxd5 0-1 1-0

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 7.2 Traps in the Queen's Pawn Game and Queen's Gambit ¢ Game 101 Blasovszky — Kurth 4)

Fatal passivity Against ‘normal’ replies this would not be a

bad move; White must play energetically.
Game 100 [D14]
Legky (2483) - Velasquez (2055)
St. Quentin 2002

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. D3 Af6 4. cxd5
cxd5 5. Ac3 AcE 6. Lf4 SF5 7. e3 e6
8. &b5

7. e4! Axe4?
Logical, but bad. 7...2g6 would naturally be
very pleasant for White!
8. &xc4 e6
8...Wxd4 9. &b5+ Ac6 10. Wxd4 cxd4
11. Axc6 Axc3 12. bxc3 a6 13. Axd4+ axb5
14. Axf5+-.
8...2e7? 9. 8b5++—- %e7 10. Wh5! Yxd4
8...2d7 is the main line. 10...£g6 11. Axg6+ fxg6 12. WIS Af6
13. Yxb7++4+-.
9. Hed Hc8?
11. Yxf7+ &d8 12. Ye8+?
13x in Mega 2005.
Out of several strong moves 12. £e3
9...%b6 10. g4 £g6 11. h4 a6 12. 2xc6+ is the clearest. 12...Ad6 (12...Wxed
bxc6 13. We2 h5 14. Axg6 fxg6 15. g5 Ad7 13. O-O-0++-) 13. &g5+ &c8 14. &d7+
16. Wc2 &f7 17. 0O-0-0+.
&c7 15. Ab5+ Axb5 16. 2xb5++-.
10. Axc6 bxc6 11. &a6 0-0 12...8c7 13. Ad3?
-41...Ha8?! 12. 2b7 +. 13. Wt7+ &c8.
12. &xc8 Yxc8 13. 0-0 1-0 13...Axc3 14. &f4+ 2d6 15. 2xd6+
Wxd6 16. “xh8 Axb5 17. 0-0 Ad4
18. Yxg7+ Ad7 19. Ae1 Hd8 20. Lh1
A stroke that backfires bs 21. Wg3 Wxg3 22. hxg3 Ded
23. Ha3 DAc4 24. g4 &xg4 25. Hg3 Hd5
Game 101 [D17] 26. Af3 &xf3 27. gxf3 Axb2 28. Hg8+
(2220) - Kurth (2305) tc7 29. Hg7+ Hd7 30. Hg5 Axaé4 31. £4
Blasovszky
Budapest 1994
b5 32. &g2 c4 33. Hed c3 34. Hbi c2
35. Hol Hd6 36. Bh5 &b6 37. Xxh7 b4
dxc4 38. Hai b3 39. Bxa4 ci 40. Bhxa7
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. D3 D6 4. Ac3
Wc6+ 0-1
5. a4 &£5 6. Ded c5?!
 Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

Fatal greed

Game 102 [D17]

Sharavdorj (2427) - Fernandes
Ulaanbaatar 2002

1.d4d5 2. c4c6 3. Af3 Af6 4. Ac3 dxc4

5. a4 £f5 6. Ded eG 7. f3 2b4 8. e4 Bxe4
9. fxe4d Axed 10. 2d2

11. e4?
At this point White still had a chance to gain
an advantage; e.g. 11. Bd1 was simple and
good.
11...2xc3! 12. bxc3 @c5 13. Whi
Acxe4F 14, Yxb7
a14. &a3 He8 15. Yxb7 Yb8 16. Was
4\xc3F.

10...4%h4+? 14...Axc3

A) 10...%xd4 11. Axe4 14...Wb6 15. &xb6 axb6 F.

Wxed+ 12. Wee
&xd2+ 13. &xd2 is the much discussed 15. £a3 Wb8 16. Wa6 Bc8 17. Rfci Dfd5
main line. 18. Wd3 Af4 19. Yco2 Ace2+ 20. Shi
B) 10...&xc3? 11. bxc3 Wh4+ 12. 93 Axg3 Axc1 21. Bxc1 Ag6 22. g3 Wb7 23. We4
13. hxg3 Wxh1 14. Yg4 Ad7 15. Yxg7 Wed+ Wb3 0-1
16. &d1 Bf8 17, Axc4+, Rogozenko-Hafner,
Berlin 1994. A sore point
11. g3 Axg3 12. hxg3 Wxh1 13. Wg4!4-
0-O 14. 0-0-0 f5?! 15. &xc4!! fxg4 Game 104 [D20]
16. 2xe6+ Gh8 17. Ag6+ 1-0 Della - Antunez
Tandil 2003
A misguided advance 1. e4 C6 2. d4. d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 dxc4
5. &xc4 AT6
Game 103 [D718] 5...Ac6 6. Af3 2g4? (a ‘natural’ desir
e
Thomas - Flohr to increase the pressure on d4. a6...
e6)
Hastings 1937/38 7. &xf7+ &xf7 8. Ags+ &e8 9. Wxg4 Wxd4
10. We6 (10. We2+-) 10...e54 11. £e3
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Af3 Af 4. Ac3dxc4 Wxe6 12. Axe6+ Hcg 13. Ac3
Af6 14. 0-0
5. a4 2f5 6. e3 e6 7. &xc4 £b4 8. 0-0 h6 15. Ab5 &f7 16. Acs b6
17, Ad3 e6
0-0 9. £d3 &2xd3 10. Yxd3 Abd7 18. Bact 87? 19. Bxc6 1-0, Calié
- Milde,
(see next diagram) Bochum 1990.

ie
 ; ic Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 106 Shabalov—Miton Q)
6. Af3 £94?

6. Yb3! We7?
6...£c5 7. &xf7+ &f8 8. 0-0 Ac6 9. exd4
7. &xf7+ &@xd4 10. Axd4 &xd4 11. 2e3 &xe3 12. fxe3
c6 13. &c4t, Pomar Salamanca -—Duckstein,
Crude, of course, and things like this are fre-
Vienna 1972.
quently seen.
7. O-O0+ b5
7...2xf7 8. De5+ Ves 9. Axg4 Axg4 7...dxe3 8. &xe3 Ac6 9. He1 Ad8 10. Ad4
10. Yxg4 Ac6 11. Se3 Wad+ 12. Ac3 £e6 11. Ac3 +.
Wa6 13. d5 Ded 14. Yh5+ Af7 15. f4 g6 8. &xb5+ c6 9. &c4 Ba6 10. exd4+-
16. Wf3 DAd6 17. &f2 &g7 18. Hhe1 &f7 &xc4 11. Yxc4 Wd6 12. He1+ &e7 13. b3
19. Bact &xc3 20. Hxc3 Wxa2 21. 2c5 4\d5 1-0
Wxb2+ 22. He2 Wb5 23. 2xd6 exd6 14. Ba3+-.
24. Hc7+ %f8 25. Hee7 Wb2+ 26. &g3
Wf6 27. He6 Wd8 28. Wc3 Hg8 29. Hf6+ A poisoned knight
1-0
Game 106 [D20]

Game 105 [D20] Shabalov (2613) -— Miton (2544)

Bermuda 2003
Kunin (2459) - Feller (2167)
Trier 2002 4. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 Ac6 4. 2e3
Ot 5. DAc3 e5 6. d5 Dad 7. Af3 2d6
4. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. &xc4
exd4 5. Af3!?

5. Wb3 We7!.

5...0f6?

(see next diagram)

8x in Mega 2005.

A) 5...£b4+!? 6. &d2 &xd2+ 7. Wxd2 Afé

8. 0-0 0-0 9. exd4#/=.
B) 5...dxe3? (nobody plays like this)
8. Wa4+? &d7 9. Yxa5 a6 10. Ae2?
6, &xf7+ &e7 7. Wb3 An6 8. LHS +.

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 & Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

A) 10. Ab1? Axe4 11. di? c3! 0-1, Illescas 6. 24

Cordoba- Sadler, Linares 1995.
6. ed is the alternative, but it is hardly any
B) 10. Aa4! We7 11. a3 0-0 12. &xc4 b5 better.
13. 2d3 bxa4 14. 0-0 Efb8=, Latzke
- Zeller,
6...2a6
Germany 2001.
C) 10. &xc4 b6 11. Yxa6 Bxa6 12. &xa6 0-0 6...¥%/a5 has not proved its worth.
13. 0-0 Ag4 14. 2d2 f5t, Karpov—Lautier, 7. Af3!
Monte Carlo 1996.
7. f3 and 7. e5 have also been tried. The text
D) 10. 2c5 b6 11. 2xd6 bxa5 12. £a3 &b5
move steers the game into a relatively forced
(12...4b8!?) 13. b3 Axe4 14. Axed cxb3 variation.
15. 0-0-0 bxa2 16. &b2 f6-+, Epishin-—
Baburin, Vienna 1998.
7...b4
10...Axe4 11. 0-0-0 c3! 12. b4 b6 7...Wa5? 8. a4 b4 9. Ab5 &xb5 10. axb5
13. Wa3 a5 14. Yb3 axb4 15. Ag3 Ha3! Wxb5 11. Ad2+.
16. Yxa3 8. 2xb8 bxc3
16. Yc4 Axg3 17. hxg3 Wa8—+.
A) 8... xb8? 9. Wa4+ Ad7 10. Yxa6 bxc3
16...bxa3 17. Axe4 0-0 18. Axc3 f5 11. bxc3 Wb2 12. Hd1 Wxc3+ 13. Ad2 +.
19. 2c4 b5 20. £b3 b4 21. De2 f4! 22.
B) 8...2xb8? 9. Wa4+ Wd7 10. Yxa6 bxc3
4\xf4 exf4 23. 8d4 Wa8 24. Rd2 Wa6
25. Hc2 £a4 0-1 11. bxc3 Axe4 12. Ae5+.
9. Wa4+ Wd7 10. Yxa6 cxb2 11. Hb
A pretty back rank mate Exb8 12. Ded
12. &2xc4+ is probably better. White com-
Game 107 [D20] pletes his development as quickly as pos-
Shirov (2706) - Motylov (2641) sible. 12...2b6 13. Wa3 @Axe4 14. Bxb2
FIDE World Championship, Wb7 15. Bxb6 Wxb6 16. 0-0 f6 17, Wad+
Moscow 2001 @d8 18. d6 e5 19. 8e6 Wb7 20. Wa5+ 1-0,
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 c5 4. d5 Af6 Nielsen —Karjakin, Hastings 2002.
5. Ac3 b5 So far things have been relatively forced
This variation was very popular then, even after 7, @f3. Now Black must find the correct
among the world’s top ten players. Today queen move.
3...€5 is more usual, or else they deviate
with 5...e6.

12...Wb7?

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 = 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit
Pj d2...4b5? 13. Exb2!.
B) After, for example, 12...W%d6 (12...Wc7
also works) 13. Wa4+ Ad7 14. Axc4 Wf6
15. YWc2 White wins back the pawn and the
position should be evenly balanced.
13. Hxb2! 1-0
Black will be mated.
e Game 109 Markus —Krivokapic Q
25. a5 Wc7 26. Hol Axc3 27. Wxc3 b5
28. axb6 Wxb6 29. Hc2 Hce7 30. &e2
a5 31. b3 Wb4 32. Wxb4 axb4 33. Ha2
g6 34. &f1 Hdd7 35. &b5 Ha7 36. Hc2
Hd1+ 37. &g2 Hb1 38. &c4 Haai 39. h4
&g7 40. e4 Hei 41. Rd2 Hxc4 0-1
Who castles wins

The retreat is cut off Game 109 [D23]

Markus (2527) — Krivokapié (2310)
Game 108 [D23] Montenegro 2004

Csom (2510) - Lukacs (2420) 1. d4 d5 2. DAf3 Df6 3. c4 dxc4 4. Wa4+

Budapest 1979 &bd7 5. Ac3 e6 6. e4 c5!?
1. d4 d5 2. Af3 Df6é 3. c4 dxc4 4. Wa4+ 6...a6 is a solid move.
c6 5. Yxc4 &f5 6. g3 e6 7. 2g2 Abd7 7. d5 exd5 8. e5
8. 0-0 £e7 9. Hd1 0-0

8...d4?
10. Ac3? Only 8...b5! is playable 9. Yxb5 Hb8 10. Wad
d4 11. exf6 dxc3 12. &xc4 Bb4! 13. Wc2
Sometimes Ac3 is played first and then Hd1,
Qxf6 14. b3! &e6 15. 0-0 &xc4 16. bxc4
but the mistake has already been made more
Le7 17. WxC3 oo.
than 20 times.
9. exf6 dxc3 10. &xc4+- Yxf6
10...2c2!
10.2-0%t0md1.ue0-0 fg7 12. Hel+ fs
This unusual move takes away the white Pachman-Kuijpers, Tel Aviv
13. £f44—-,
queen’s last retreat square and threatens
1964.
11....Ab6, trapping it.
11. 295 Wc6
41. e3 &xd1 12. Axd1 c5 13. We2 Hc8
A) 11...W/f5 12. 0-0 f6 13. Bfel+ Le7 14. 2e6
14. DAc3 a6 15. Ded Wh6 16. 4\xd7
Wd3 15. Hadi b5 16. YWg4 Wxd1 17 Bxd1
®xd7 17. d5 £6 18. 2d2 2xc3 19. &xc3
c2 18. &xd7+ &f8 19. Bel 1-0, Lundin-Ed.
exd5 20. &xd5 Afé 21. 2g2 Hcd8
Lasker, Schlechter memorial, Vienna 1951.
22. Wc4 Hd7 23. a4 Hfd8 24. &f3 Add

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 sia) Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

B) 11...W%g6 12. 0-0 f6 13. Had1 c2 14. Bd2 6...2xf3 7. gxf3 c5! 8. Yxb7 Abd7
fxg5 15. Aed Wf5 16. Axd7 &xd7 17. Bxd7 9. dxc5
Wxd7 18. &£b5+, Kramnik-S. Polgar, Monte
Should Black manage to take on d4, White’s
Carlo 1994.
pawn structure would deteriorate even more.
12. 0-0-0!
9...2xc5 10. f4 0-0
12. &xf7+?! &xf7 13. Wi4+ be8 14. We3+=. White may even stand better, but in practice
12...cxb2+?! things look quite bad for him.
12...2£e7 13. Yxc6 cxb2+ 14. &xb2 bxc6
15. &xe7 &xe7 16. Bhe1+ &d8 17 Aed
&c7 18. Axd7 &xd7 19. He7 Had8 20. &xf7
Ehf8 21. f3 1-0, Garcia Palermo-— Gelfand,
Oakham 1988.
13. &b1!
All this was first seen in the game Taimanov—
Polugayevsky, 27th USSR Championship,
Leningrad 1960, where White also won
quickly after 13. ®xb2 Se7 14. Bhe1 f6
shel slop
13...We4+?
A) 13...2e7 14. Bhet Wxa4 15. Bxe7+4+- 11. 0-0?
transposes to 13...%/xa4. 11. Wg2!?.
B) 13...Wxa4 14. Bhe1+ Se7 15. Bxe7+ 11...2d5!!
Sf8 (15...d8? 16. Hexd7+ &e8 17. Bd8#) Cutting off the queen’s retreat.
16. Exf7+ cg8 (16...%e8 17 Rel+ Aes 12. Hd1?
18. Bxe5+ &e6 19. &xe6+-) 17. Bfxd7+
Wxc4 18. Bd8+ #f7 12. &xd5 Eb8 13. Wc6 (13. Wa6 exd5
19. Aed5+ wes
20. Axc4+-. 14. Wd3 Af6s) 13...8b6 14. Edi Bxc6
(14...We7!?) 15. &8xc6 &d6 16. Bxd6 Wc7
14. &xb2 1-0 17, Bxd7 Wxc6 18. Bdt W319. Ac3 Wg44 5.
12...2b84 13. YWc6 Wh4 14. Dc3 HbG
Holes in the pawn shield 15. Wxd7 Axf4 16. Ae2 Ah3+ 17. &g2
@xf2 18. Bd4 Ag4 19. Ria Wxho4
Game 110 (25 | 20. &f1 &xe3 21. 8d5 &xf4 0-1
Foguelman - Bronstein
Interzonal, Amsterdam 1964 The Greek gift again
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Af3 Af6 4. e3 8g4
Game 111 [D26]
This line is no longer fashionable.
Remlinger (2420) - Whitaker
5. &xc4 e6 6. Yb3!?
Las Vegas 1996
Of course, White does not have to play so
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Af3 Ate 4. e3
aggressively. e6
5. &xc4 c5 6. 0-0 a6 7. £d3 b5 8.
dxc5
6. Ac3 and 6. h3 are alternatives. &xc5 9. We2 0-07!
 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen's Gambit ¢ Game 113 Arsovic —Mozetic GY

7...Ac6 is the usual move; 7....Abd7 is also oO

worth considering.
10. e4 De
23x in Mega 2005.
10...&b7
eel»
be)
Cc)
be
ie» b>
fo
UE
BH
[Spe
off
|° ion

12. h3?
After 12. g3 leads to a normal theoretical
position with over 70 games in Mega 2005.
12...Ad4 13. hxg4 Axe2+ 14. &xe2 2d7
15. e5 &c6 16. &f4 0-0 0-1

A dubious pawn sacrifice

Game 113 [D28]

11...Ad5?
But this is the decisive mistake.
A) 11...2xf3 12. Wxf3 Ad5 13. We4+.
Arsovié (2418) - Mozetié (2448)
Belgrade 2003
1. d4 d5 2. Af3 Af6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 e6
5. &xc4 c5 6. 0-0 a6 7. We2 bd 8. 2d3
&b7 9. dxc5 &xc5?!

B) 11...Afd7 12. Ac3t (12. &xh7+?! &xh7 40x in Mega 2005.

13. Ag5+ wg6 14. Wd3+ f5 15. Axe6
[15. exf6+ &xf6 16. b4 £b6 17, Wd6 &2g6!0]
15...We7 16. Axf8+ Axf8 17, Wg3+ &f7 0).
42; &xh7+ &xh7 13. Ag5+ &g6
14. Ye4+ 1-0

Knights on the attack

Game 112 : [p20]

O’Reilly - Motwani (2355)
XXVIII Olympiad, Thessaloniki 1988
1. d4 d5 2. Df3 Afé 3. c4 dxc4 4.e3e6
5. &xc4 c5 6. 0-0 a6 7. a4 We7 8. We2
2c6 9. Ac3 &d6 10. dxc5 &xc5 11.e4
A\g4
(see next diagram)
This position can arise in different ways. Both
sides can deviate on several occasions, but
perhaps they do not want to, because it is
not clear who is setting the trap here. In
any case, the text move is mostly criticised,
probably correctly so. 9...Ac6o.

eee
 © Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

10. &xb5+ 9. £h4?

White wins a pawn. Objectively speaking,
9. £f4 2b4 (9...g5 can now be met with
he should stand better, but this needs to be
10. &c7! Wxc7 11. Axe4) 10. Wc2 Axd2
proved in practical play. Our impression is
11. Axd2 e5=.
this: if White has the higher Elo rating, he
will win. Otherwise Black has posted good 9...g5!-+ 10. 293 g4 11. 0-0-0 Axg3
results. 12. hxg3 gxf3 13. gxf3 Wd5 14. Wc2
10...Abd7 Wxa2 15. 2c4 Wat+ 16. DAb1 Ab6
10...axb5 11. Yxb54+ &c6 12. Wxc5 &xf3 17. 2b3 Dd5 18. e4 DAb4 19. Yc3 a5
13. gxf3 Had has also been played, but White 20. d5 a4 21. d6 axb3 22. Yxb4 8g7
should still be better. 23. Wd2 2d7 24. f4 Ha4 0-1
11. 2d3 Wc7 12. Ac3 0-0
In return for the pawn Black has pleasant
Premature opening of the
play for his pieces and a slight lead in devel-
opment. position
13. 2d2 Bfd8 14. BRfd1 Ded 15. Axe5
Wxe5 16. 202 h5 17. &h1 Ag4 18. f4 WG Game 115 [D380]
19. 2e4 Wh4 20. g3 We7 21. WI3 Habs Campos Moreno (2491) -
22. h3 Af6 23. &xb7 Wxb7 24. Yxb7 Candela Perez (2416)
Exb7 25. Da4 Ba7 26. 8a5 Bxdi+ Mancha Real 2000
27. Hxd1 &xe3 28. Hd8+ @h7 29. h4
Hb5 30. £e1 Hd5 31. Hxd5 exd5 32. &g2 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Af3 e6 4. Yc2 Affe
Ae4 33. Ac3 Axc3 34. &xc3 d4 2-12 5. &g5 h6 6. 2xf6 Yxf6 7. g3 4d7 8. &g2
dxc4 9. &xc4
Attack on both wings

Game 114 [30]

Azmaiparashvili (2676) - Shirov (2715)
Dubai 2002
1. c4 e6 2. d4d5 3. Af3 Afé 4. 895 dxc4
5. Wa4+ Abd7 6. e3 c6 7. Yxc4?! Wa5+
8. Abd2 Ae4
A very tricky move.

9...e5?

a9...2d6 10. Ac3 We7 11. 0-0 0-0

12. Ae4
£c7 13. Haci e5=.
10. dxe5 @xe5 11. Axes Wxe5
12. 2xc6+!4+- bxc6 13. Wxc64+ eas
13...e7 14. Yxa8 Wxb2 15. Wxc8
Wxat
16. 0O-0+-.

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 f2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen's Gambit ¢ Game 116 Arkhipov -Serensen &)

14. Ac3 &2d6 15. 0-0-0 e7 16. Yxa8 After 9...WI5!2 10. Wxg7 We2 11. Age2
Wc5 17. Rd5 We7 18. Bxd6 &xd6 19. Wed Wxb2 12. Bot Ad7 13. Yxh8 White is win-
e6 20. Wh4+ &c6 21. Wxc7+ &xc7 ning, but he still has some serious techni-
22. Hd1 g5 23. Hd4 h5 24. h4 Bg8 cal difficulties to overcome. 13...Adf6 14. e4
25. Ad5+ @b7 26. Hb4+ Bab 27. Ac7+ &b7 15. e5 0-0-0 16. exf6 &e4 (Miles—
@a5 28. Hb5+ fad 29. b3+ a3 Jelling, Copenhagen 1993)17. Wg7+-.
30. Axe6 gxh4 31. Ad4 Hg4 32. Ha5+ 10. &xb8 D5
1-0

A trap against the Noteboom

Game 116 [D3]

Arkhipov (2510) - Sorensen (2305)
Gausdal 1991

1. c4 e6 2. Ac3 d5 3. d4 c6 4. Sf4
A trap aimed at Noteboom players.
4...dxc4 5. e3 b5 6. a4 2b4?
. Black plays as though in the Noteboom Vari- 11. Ye5?

ation and thereby falls into the trap.
White contents himself with a small advan-
tage.
11. c7 ?! is very dangerous; the three games
in Mega 2005 were won by Black! a 11. Wf4
&b7 12. Wed Wd7 13. Wco7 Wd5 14. Age2
0-0 15. O-O-O.
11...%b7 12. £c7 £6 13. W4 e5 14. 2xe5
fxe5?
a14e.go<-
15. Wxe5+ &d8 16. Af3 He8 17. Wf4 Hed
18. Yg5+ 2e7?
a18...We7 19. 2e2+.

6...Af6!?. 19. Wh5 He6 20. Ded &f6 21. Yxh7

&xe5 22. dxe5 Hxed 23. 0-0-0+ 2d7
24. f4 Hc5 25. e4 De3 26. Wh8+ &c7
as 97, Rxd7+ &xd7 28. Wh3+ 29. exf5
Q)f5
In other cases there is a knight on {Sine
_..Wd5 9. Yg3 He8 30. f6+ &d8 31. Be 2 Wf7 32. Hd1+
a. soc7 33. 8f3 gxf6 34. Ad5+ Lbs
= : 35. Db4 We6 36. Wxe6 Hxe6 37. £5 Eb6
White now wins material. Despite this, things
38. Hd8+ He8 39. Hd7 He7 40. Hd8+
are not so simple, as is proved by some

Black victories. Hc8 41. Hd7 a5 42. Ad5 Hbc6 43. Axf6
9...He7 1-0

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 6 Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen's Gambit

A queen sortie to the kingside 10. Af3 Abd7 11. 0-0 0-0 12. Hfe1 Hae8

Game 117 [D31]

Padurariu (1781) - Taras
Eforie 2001

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Df3 e6 4. Ac3 dxc4

5. e3 b5 6. a4 8b4 7. 2d2 a5 8. Ded

12...Bfe8 13. e4? dxe4 14. Axe4 Bxed!

15. Bxe4 Ac5-+.
13. e4? dxe4 14. Axe4 Axe4 15, Bxe4
4\c5! 0-1
White needs to recognise this motif before
playing 13. e4.
8...2xc3?!
A) The usual way of falling into the trap is:
A disastrous check
8...£b7?! (88x in Mega 2005) 9. axb5 &xc3
10. bxc3 cxbS 11. Hb1 Wd5 12. Wg4! g6
Game 119 [D31]
13. e4 Wxed+ 14. Wxe4 &xe4 15. Exb5+.
B) 8...Af6! 9. axb5 &xc3 10. &xc3 cxb5 Hanley (2278) - Trent (2249)
11. b3 2b7 12. bxc4 b4 13. &b20. Witley 2001

9. &xc3 &2b7 10. YWg4+ g6 11. d5 h5 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Dc3 8e7 4. exd5

12. Wf3 Hh7 13. dxc6 &c8 14. axb5 Wd5 exd5 5. &f4 c6 6. Yc2
15. Yxd5 exd5 16. b6 1-0 The idea of this move is to prevent &f5 or
provoke g6.
Misguided opening of the 6...2d6!?
position

Game 118 [D31]

Gaitan Ramirez (2080)-
Cifuentes Parada (2483)
Dos Hermanas 2000
1. c4 e6 2. Ac3 d5 3. cxd5 exd5 4. d4
c6 5. 2f4 Af6 6. e3 85 7, 2d3 &xd3 8.
Wxd3 £2d6 9. &xd6 Yxd6
The exchange of both sets of bishops has
brought about a completely level position.
 a 12 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 121 Spencer— Wheatley Q)
7. @xd5!? 5...dxe4 6. 8c4?!
Since neither alternative promises an advan-
tage, the text move is at least worth consid- A questionable trap — Black really has to co-
ering. 7. &xd6; 7. &g3. operate for it to work!
7...4a5+?
6...cxd4!
Black does not recover his pawn like this.
A) 7...cxd5? 8. &xd6 Wxd6 9. Yxc8++-. A) 6...@c6 is very playable.
B) 7...2e6 8. 2xd6 Wxd6 9. Ac3 Wxd4 is
playable. B) As is 6...Af6 (6...%xd4? 7, Wb3 Wd7
C) 7...&xf4! 8. Axf4 Wxd4 9. Ad3. There 8. Re3+).
has been no experience with this position
7. Yb3
and it must be evaluated as more or less
equal. However we would prefer to be White. The trap relies on Black now protecting f7.
8. Ac3 &xf4 9. We4+ De7 10. Wxf4
a6 11. e4 Be6 12. Af3 Ab4 13. Wd2 7...4e7?
0-0-0 14. 8e2 g5 15. 0-0 h6 16. a3 Dab
17. b4 Wc7 18. &xa6 bxa6 19. Hfci f5 A) 7...84d7 8. Axe4 Ac6 9. 2d2 6.
20. We2 fxe4 21. Axe4 2d5 22. Ac5d
B) 7...Af6! is very strong. 8. &xf7+ ®e7
@i5 23. Wxa6+ Bb8 24. Wd3 W4 9. Ab5 (9. £142 Ac6 10. Ad5+ &xf7!
25. De5 Axd4 26. He1 Hhf8 27. Aed7+
11. Ac7+ &g6 12. Axa8 &b4+-+) 9...Ac6
tha8 28. Ab6+ &b8 29. Acd7+ &b7 10. &8d2 Wb6F.
30. Ac5+ &b8 31. Axd5 Hxd5 32. Wh7
Wxf2+ 33. @h1 Exc5 34. bxc5 AbS 8. Ad5 Wd7?
35. Hab1 Hf7 36. &xh6 &c7 37. a4 1-0
8...4d8 9. Yg3 Aaé 10. Wed+ Ae7 11. &b5+
A dubious Marshall Gambit (11. Af6+ gxf6 12. Wxf6 Wa5+ 13. &d2
Wh500; 11. £95!7) 11...8d7 12. &2xa6 Wad+
Game 120 [D32] 13. &d2 Wxd5 14. Yxd5 Axd5 15. &xb7 =.
Mah (2200) - Vuckovic
Zagan 1995 9. &f4+ Ad6 10. Wg3! &xf4a 11. Wxf4
d8 12. Wed DAc6? 13. Yxg7 Wg4
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Dc3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5
14, 84+ d7 15. Yxf7+ &d8 16. Yc7+
5. e4?!
&e8 17. Yd6 1-0
This Marshall Gambit cannot be recom-
mended.

A dangerous gambit

Game 121 [D32]

Spencer (1796) - Wheatley (2022)
Newport 2002

4. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Dc3 c5 4. cxd5 cxd4

5. Wa4+ £d7 6. Yxd4 exd5 7. Wxd5 Ac6

(see next diagram)

a
 & Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

8. e4? 11...b5?
This represents all those variations where 37x in Mega 2005.
White avoids the simple e3. By playing e3 he 11...06 or 11...8e8 is called for.
has to shut in his £c1, but in return he has
an extra pawn. 12. Axc5! Axc5 13. Het
We aren't sure whether Black can recover the
8. Af3 ATE 9. Wd1 &c5 10. £957! (10. e3)
pawn, but even if he can he is left with a ruin
10...W%/b6 11. e3 Yxb2 12. &xf6 gxf6 13. Ad5
of a position.
(still the best; after 13. Wc1 £a3! 14. Ae2
A@\b4 15. Wxb2 &xb2 16. Hd1 &a4 Black 13...Axb3 14. Yxb3 Aad 15. Wxb5 294
wins the exchange) 13...Ab4?! (13...8f5 15...£e6 has been played more often, but
14. Wc1 £a3 15. Yxb2 &xb2 16. Bd1 0-0-0 even then Black does not get sufficient com-
17. &2c4 Le6t) 14. Ac7+? (14. Bb1! Ac2+ pensation for the pawn.
15. &d2! Yxa2 16. Ac3! Axe3+ 17. Axa?
4\xd1 18. Bxd10)
16. Hc5 Hb8 17, Wxa5 Bxb2 18. e3
14...%e7 15. Bc1 fad
16. Wd2 Ac2+ 17, be2 (17, Exc2 &xc2F) Wb8 19. De5 &xe5 20. dxe5 Wxe5
17...ad8-+
21. 28xd5 WE 22. Hc4 £e27! 23. RFA
18. Ad4 &xd4 0-1, Heene-
&xf1 24. Hxf6 Hb1 25. h4 gxf6 26. &h2
man -—Stada, Soest 1996.
Eb5 27. Wd2 Hc5 28. e4 &g7 29. e5 f5
8...Af6 9. Wd1 &c5 10. 243 Wb6 30. Yg5+ @h8 31. Ye7 1-0
11. We2 &g4 12. Wd2 0-0-0 13. Af3
&xf3 14. gxf3 Ded 15. We2 Axd3+ 0-1
Advancing too quickly

Knights without protection Game 123 [D34]

A. Hansen
- J. Nielsen
Game 122 [D34] Alborg 1947
Szabo - Padevsky
Kapfenberg 1970
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 5 4. exd5 exd5
5. Af3 AcE 6. g3 Af6 7. &g2 &e7 8.
0-0
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Hc3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 0-0 9. 8g5 £e6
5. Af3 Ac6 6. g3 Af6 7. 2g2 £e7 8. 0-0 9...c4 10. Ae5 Se6 11. Wd2 (11. f4 is the
0-0 9. b3 De4 10. 2b2 Af6 11. Dad main line)
(see next diagram) (See next analysis diagram)
 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit e Game 125 Glek— Yudasin G)

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Af6 4. cxd5

exd5 5. 295 8e7 6. e3 0-0 7. &d3

11...Wa5? (just what White was hoping for;

instead, 11...&c8 would be good) 12. Axc6
bxc6 13. Axd5! 1-0, and Black resigned in
view of 13...W/d8 (13...Wxd2 14. Axe7+ &h8
15. &8xd2+-) 14. Axe7+ Wxe7 15. 2xc6+-,
Jordan-Campe, Bad Zwischenahn 2002.
10. Hel c4 11. Ae5 Hc8 7...b6?
White is intending f2-f4, so Black sets alittle his move simply loses a pawn and has al-

pep. ready been played on numerous occasions

(over 100 times in Mega 2005).

8. &xf6 &xf6 9. Wh5 g6 10. Yxd5 c6

11. Yxd8 Bxd8 12. £e4 He8 13. Age2
£a6 14. &2f3 Bc8 15. Hol Ad7 16. Ae4
8e7 17. Ad2 He7 18. Bxc6 Hac8
19. Hxc7 Hxc7 20. Ac3 b5 21. &d1 Ab6
22. Ad5 Dxd5 23. &xd5 b4 24. b3 2d3
25. &2c4 1-0

A bishop without squares

_ 12. £47
Game 125 [D35]
12.e3 A 13.f4#.
Glek (2615) - Yudasin (2625)
12...Axd4! 13. &xf6
Tilburg 1994
13. Wxd4? &2c5-+.
13...gxf6 14. Af3 AfS 15. Wd2 &c5+ 0-1
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 d5 4. cxd5
A popular mistake exd5 5. £95 c6 6. e3 2e7 7. Rd3 294?!

Black would like to exchange off his light-

Game 124 [D35] square bishop like this (via g6), but the risk
Echavarria (2364) - Clavijo (2375) is too great.
(see next diagram)
Medellin 2001

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 Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit
8. Wce2 &h5
8...Abd7 9. h38 &£h5? (aY...2&e6)
White now wins at least a pawn.
a) 10...2g96 11. f5 2h5 12. g4 &xg4 13. hxg4
A@\xg4 14. &xe7 Wxe7 15. e4+:
b) 10...h6 11. &xf6
b1) 11...&xf6 12. g4 &g6 13. &xg6 fxg6
14. Wxg6+ &f8 15. Af8 Wes 16. Wd3 Web
17. 0-0-0 He8 18. Ae5 Axed 19. fxe5 &h4
20. Ae2 g5 21. Ehf1+ 1-0, Toth-Beyen, Nice
1974;
b2) 11...Axf6 12. 94 Axg4 13. hxg4 &h44
14. &f1 &xg4 15. Wg2 1-0, Pira—Loiret,
France 2002.
9. &xf6 &xf6 10. £4! 2g4
10...8£e7 11. &f1 Ad7 12. h3t.
11. £5 g6 12. h3 &xf5
12...2h4+ 13. &f1 &xf5 14 m= xin
15. ABE.
13. 2xf5 gxf5
Black has just managed to save his bishop,
but his pawn structure is now worse than
White’s.
14. Age2!
14. Wxf5?! Ad7 15. Af3 We7 16. &f2 Web =.
14...2h4+ 15. g3 &g5 16. 0-07!
16. Wxf5! Ad7 17, e4 WIE 18. Bf1 dxe4
19. Axe4 Wxf5 20. Ad6+ we7 21. Axf5+
e6 22. g4t.
16...2xe3+ 17. @h2 Ad7 18. Bxf5 We7
19. Haf1 f6 20. H1f3 0-0 21. Bh5 f5
22. Ad1 295 23. h4 2f6 24. He3! Wf7
25. Hxf5 Hae8 26. Af4 Hxe3 27. Axe3
We8 28. HhS5 We4 29. xed dxe4
30. Af5 He8 31. &g2 c5 32. dxc5 Axc5
33. Ah6+ &g7 34. Ag4 £e7 35. Hed &f8
36. b4 Ad3 37. Hxe4 Axf4+ 38. Hxf4+
&g7 39. He4 &F8 40. Ah6 Hc8 41. DFS
2f6 42. a4 Hc6 43. b5 Hc3 44. Ad6 b6
45. Hf4 Hc2+ 46. Hf2 Hxf2+ 47. &xf2
£e5 48. Af5 LF7 49. &f3 &e6 50. De3
£c7 51. g4 Be5 52. g5 2d8 53. &g4 d4
54. Df5+ &c5 55. h5 &b4 56. Ad4 &xa4
10. f4!. 57. &f5 2e7 58. g6 hxg6+ 59. hxg6 £f8
60. Ae6 £h6 61. &g4 1-0
A popular mistake
Game 126 [D35]
Likavsky (2295) - Krajnak
Bratislava 1991
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 4f6 4. cxd5
exd5 5. 895 8e7 6. e3 c6 7. 8d3 De4 8.
&xe7 Yxe7 9. Yc2
Oxi
Sea tele:
15x in Mega 2005. This too is a ‘popular’
mistake. a9... 25.
10. @xd5! cxd5 11. Wxc8+ #7
12. Wxf5+ Af6 13. a3 Acé6 14. Df3 g6
15. Wg5 Hhe8 16. h4 Ab4 17. axb4
Wxb4+ 18. &f1 Wb3 19. Dei Hacg
84—
 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 129 Waterkamp
— Stelter GY

20. h5 gxh5 21. &xh7 Hg8 22. &xg8+

Exg8 23. Wf5 1-0

An old trap

Game 127 [D35]

Mayet —- Harrwitz
Berlin 1847
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 AE 4. £g5
4\bd7 5. cxd5 exd5

Gelenczei ‘sells’ this move as a trap.

7...dxe4 8. &c4 We7? (8...Ad5! is much

stronger) 9. Ag5+-— is the point, but

7...Axe4! 8. Axe4 We7!

Now White will find it difficult to achieve a
reasonable game. The conclusion: the trap
is not a good one, because Black first has to
play the weak 7...dxe4, and even then after
8. &c4 he has to play 8...We7?.
6. axd5? 9. £8e3 dxe4 10. Ad2 Ab6 11. We2 f5
Approximately 160 games in Meg 2005 and 12. 8e2 Add 13. g3 g6 14. &Bc4 Be6
still counting ... Even those with Elo ratings 15. 0-0 £97 16. Ab3 0-0 17. Ac5 Lf7
have played this. 18. Haci g5 19. &8xd5 &xd5 20. Wd2 h6
6...Axd5! 7 &xd8 &b4+ 8. Wd2 21. Hfe1 Wt7 22. &h1 f4 23. gxf4 gxf4
&xd8-+ 9. e4 He8 10. £3 £5 11. 2d3 Af4 24. Hg1 b6 25. Dad fxe3 26. fxe3 WI3+
12. &d1 &xd2 13. &xd2 Axg2 14. Ah3 27. Hg2 &e6 28. &g1 2h3 29. Hf2 Wxf2+
fxe4 15. fxe4 DAf6 16. Ags Af4 17. Af7+ 30. Yxf2 Hxf2 31. &xf2 Hf8+ 0-1
te7 18. De5 £d7 19. Hhg1 g6 20. 2e2
Had8 21. %e3 De6 22. d5 Ac5 23. kd4
b6 24. b4 Db7 25. Hafi c6 0-1 A deadly check

A risky trap Game 129 [D35]

Waterkamp - Stelter
Game 128 [p35] Dusseldorf 2000

Pinzon Solis — Letelier Martner

Mar del Plata 1951 1. c4 e6 2. Ac3 d5 3. d4 Zf6 4. cxdd
exd5 5. £g5 £e7 6. e3 2f5?
4. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 AE 4. 43
8\bd7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Wb3 c6 7. e4?! Of course this cannot be seriously recom-
21x in Mega 2005. mended as a trap.
(see next diagram) (see next diagram)
& Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

A) The pawn sacrifice 7. 2d3!? is interesting.

B) 7 Wd2 He4 8. Axe4 dxe4 9. Ae2+.

C) The former main line is now considered in-
ferior: 7. 2xf6?! Yxb2 8. Wot £a3! 9. Axd5
Wxc1+ 10. Bxc1 gxf6 11. Hc4 Aab
a) 12. Axf6+ we7 13. Ae4 b5 14. Bxc6
(14. Hc2?! Ab4ét, Andresen -—Faibisovich,
Dresden 1989) 14...2b7 15. Bh6 &xe4
16. Hxa6 &b4+ 17. d1 Ehc8&, Faibisovich
in Informator 48;

b) 12. Bc3 &d6 13. 2xa6 cxd5=.

7. Yb3?
7...He4
Os. &xf6! 2xf6 8. Wb3+.
7...Abd7! 8. Axd5? 7...2f57 8. Wxfd5 Wxb2 9. Yc8+ &e7
12x in Mega 2005. 8. Yxb7 Eb8&. 10. Ad1 Wxali 11. Yxb7+ &e6 12. Ah3+-.
8...Axd5 9. Yxd5 &b4+! 0-4 8. Axe4?!
Without this move the cheeky pawn grab on
8. &f4 &f5= (8...a6 !?).
d5 would work.
8...dxe4 9. Wxe4+ 2e6 10. 0-0-0 Wad
Raid on the queenside 11. Af3 Yxa2 12. Ad2

12. dS cxd5 13. 28c4 Wal+ 14. &c2 Ac6F

Game 130 [D35] (Se. Ivanov).
Wehnert - Hennings 12...2b4 13. d5 &xd2+ 14. Bxd2 cxd5
17th East German Championship,
15. Yb4 Ac6 16. Yd6?
Weimar 1968
16. Wa3 Wxa3 17. bxa3F¥.
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Af6 4. cxd5
exd5 5. 895 c6 6. e3 Wb6 16...h6 17, &h4
Not a bad move; moreover there are some 17. 2f4 Wal+ 18. &c2 Ho8—+.
snares ahead for White.
17...Wat+ 0-1
and White resigned in view of 18. &c2 Wad+
19. &b1 Wxh4—+.

Even Petrosian is caught

Game 131 [D36]

Kotov - T. Petrosian
17th USSR Championship,
Moscow 1949

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Af6 4. cxd5

exd5 5. 895 2e7 6. e3 c6 7, We2 Des?
 ee Traps in the Queen's Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 133 Van Wely —Piket Q
It is really astonishing how many strong play-
ers have chosen this move. In addition there
are also those who have done so when the
moves h6 and £h4 have been inserted — this
makes no difference at all.

12. Axd5! Axf4

12...cxd5 13. &c7 and the queen is trapped.
13. Axf4+-

This extra pawn still needs converting into a

win.
8. 2xe7 Yxe7
8...%xe7 9. Axe4 dxe4 10. Wxe4++4+-.
9. Axd5! cxd5 10. Yxc8+ YWd8 11. 2b5+
@c6 12. &xc6+ bxc6 13. Yxc6+ 1-0
The queen trapped at home
[D36]
Game 182
Nedeljkovié - Van Steenis
Netherlands v. Yugoslavia, Utrecht 1950
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Af3 Af6 4. Ac3 e6
5. &8g5 Dbd7 6. cxd5 exd5 7. e3 £e7
8. 2d3
8. Yc2 0-0 9. &d3 He8 10. 0-0-0 hé6 11. Lf4
b5? 12. Axb5 1-0, Junge-Andre, Germany
Game
1991.
8...0-0 9. 0-0 He8 10. Wc2 h6 11. ff4
4&h5?
Historically speaking, the first game with this
move (according to Mega), but Van Steenis
has had a lot of successors.
(see next diagram)
13...2d6 14. De2 Afs8 15. e4 2894 16. e5
fc7 17. 8e4 We7 18. Ag3 Had8 19.
Hadi £b6 20. Hfe1 &xf3 21. Af5 Wb4
22. &xf3 &xd4 23. He4 Bxe5 24. Axd4
Hxe4 25. Wxe4 c5 26. a3 Yxb2 27. AS
Hxd1+ 28. &xd1 Wc1 29. Wd3 HAe6
30. h4 b5 31. De7+ Bh8 32. g3 g6
33. &g2 Ad4 34. &f3 &g7 35. h5 Wc4
36. Yxc4 bxc4 37. Ad5 Abd 38. a4 c3
39. 8d1 DAd6 40. Axc3 Lf6 44. Abd
@xb5 42. axb5 ®e5 43. 2b3 gxhS
44, &xf7 &2d4 45. &f1 c4 46. Be2 c3
47, &xh5 %&c4 48. £e8 &b3 49. Bd1 c2+
50. &c1 &c3 51. f4 1-0
Too little compensation
133 [D36]
Van Wely (2655) - Piket (2630)
FIDE World Championship,
Groningen 1997
1. d4 Df6 2. c4 e6 3. Dc3 dd 4. ant3
&\bd7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. &g5 Le7 7. e3
0-0 8. Yc2 c6 9. 2d3 He8 10. h3 4\e4?

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There is no need for this move. Black gets
very little compensation for the pawn.
(50...c3 51. Ha4+—) 51. Bxb1 Axb1 52. Bxc4
Axa3 53. Bc5+-.
48...2f8 49. Hh8+ %e7 50. Hh7+ &f8
51. Bh8+ &e7 52. Bh7+ %2-"2
52. d6+ ®%e6 53. Exd8 &xe5!o.

Trying to trap the queen

Game 134 [D37]

Brody - von Gottschall
16th German Chess Union Congress,
Dusseldorf 1908
1.d4 d5
1... Af6 2. Af3 d5 3. c4 cB 4. Ac3 a6 5. Hed
11. 8xe4 dxe4 12. Axe4 Wa5+ 13. &f1! A\bd7 6. 2f4 66 7. e3 £e7 8. &d3 0-0 9. 0-0
Be8 10. ct Axed 11. dxe5 Ad7 12. cxd5
13. Wd2?! &b4 14. Ac3 Ab6 (A Ab6-c4x
b2) 15. a8 Ac4 16. Yc1 &d6 17. 0-0 h6
exd5 13. Axd5 Axed (13...cxd5? 14. e6+)
18. 2f4 &xf4 19. exf4 Wh5 20. Ae5 Adé6
14. Axe7+ Wxe7 15. £b1 Ag6 16. 293 Le6
17. Wa4 b5 18. Wa5 £d5 19. e4 Ac4 20. Bfet
21. Yd1 WS 22. Wd2 f6 23. Ad3=, Arkell—
Banchev, Toulouse 1990.
hS 21. h3 h4 22. &h2 Wg5? 23. Exc4 1-0,
Tsorbatzoglou—Argiroudis, Kavala 1995.
13... 5
2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Af6 4. Af3 Le7 5. Af4
The move sets a trap. 5. £95 0-0 6. e3 Abd7 7 Het a6 8. cxd5
14. 2xe7 exd5 9. £d3 c6 10. 0-0 He8 11. &f4 ATs
12. Ned Ag6 13. £93 Axe5? 14. dxe5 Ad7
14. He1?? looks natural, but 14...&xg5
15. Axd5 cxd5 16. e6 Ae5 17. &xe5 &xeb6
15. Aexg5 Wxc2 16. Bxc2 h6—-+.
18. Wh5+, Riediger—Singer, Furth 1999.
14...Hxe7 15. Afd2 Ab6 16. Bei DAdS 5...0-0 6. e3 a6 7. Re1 Abd7 8. cxd5
17. 2g1 Ab4 exd5 9. 2d3 c6 10. 0-0 He8 11. h3 Df8
17...%g6 was suggested as an improvement. 12. Ae5 Ag6 13. &Bg3 Axe5 14. dxe5
18. Ac3 2f5 19. Wd +. Ad7
18. &b3 (18. Wa4) 18...a5 19. Ad6 Wd3
20. Axc8 Exc8 21. Ac4 Yxb3 22. axb3
b5 23. Ad6 Hd8 24. Af5 He6 25. g4 g6
26. Ag3 Ad3 27. Hal f5 28. Kd1 Ac5
29. gxf5 gxf5 30. Axf5 Axb3 31. &h2
Ef6 32. Rhgi+ &f8 33. Hg5! h6 34. h5
a4 35. e4 b4 36. e5 Hg6! 37. Bd3 c5!?
38. d5! a3 39. bxa3 c4 40. RF3 Ad2
41. Rf4 b3 42. Axh6+ e8 43. Ag4 b2?!
44. Bh8+ ®e7 45. Hh7+ &e8 46. Hh8+
e7 47. Bh7+ &e8 48. DAf6+?
48. d6! gives a relatively simple and forced
win: 48...&dxd6 49. exd6 Exd6 50. Bb7 b1W 15. Axd5! Axe5
 ee. Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit « Game 136 Summerscale —Mednis &)

15...cxd5 16. e6 He5 17. &xe5 &xe6+. B) The most solid is 15...06 16. 0-0 £a6
17. 2xa6 Wxaé (Ravi-Donchev, New Delhi
16. Axe7+ Yxe7 17. &b1
1986; thanks to the exchange of bishops,
The bishop pair constitutes a clear advan- Black is not mated) 18. Wb3+.
tage here.
16. Hxf5! gxf5 17. 0-0 De7 18. Be5 Wad
17...Ag6 18. e4 Wg5 19. Bh2 Wb5 20. b3 This has already happened several times and
Se6 21. f4 Had8 22. Wc2 &c8 23. Wf2 it makes things easy for White.
Wb4 24. Hcd1 Af8 25. e5 8e6 26. f5 h6 9 (19...exh2+
182.206") 192) S16!
£d5 27. &h4 Hd7 28. Yg3 Wad 29. £2f6
20. &h1+—) 20. We2! &xh2+ 21. &h1 Wd
g6 30. YWg5 1-0 22. Ae4! Wc6 23. Whd+-.
19. Wb3! 1-0
Counter on the kingside
The bishop pair is not
Game 135 [D37] everything
Bagirov — Muratov
Kirovabad 1973 Game 136 [D3t]
Summerscale (2500) - Mednis (2400)
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 2b4 4. We2
Cannes 1997
c5 5. dxc5 &xc5 6. Df3 0-0 7. 2f4 Ac6
8. e3 d5 9. Hd1 Wad 10. a3 1. c4 D6 2. Ac3 e6 3. Af3 d5 4. d4 2e7
5. £4 0-0 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 &xc5 8. We2
A well-known position, which can arise from
as well as the &c6 9. a3 Le7 10. 0-0-0 Wad 11. g4
the 4. Wc2 Nimzo-Indian
dxc4 12. &xc4 e5 13. g5 exf4 14. gxf6
Queen’s Gambit with 24.
&xf6 15. Ad5
This is a long theoretical line in which one
absolutely has to know the next move as
well.

10...He4?!

10...£e7 is indicated.
bxc3
41. cxd5 exd5 12. Hxd5 4)xc3 13.
15...2d8?!
Wxa3 14. Ag5! g6 15. 2c4 2f5?
.ad8? 15...2e7! has proved to be the only feasible
A) Most moves lose, for example 15.. move. Even Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand
6
16. Axh7! &xh7 17, Bh5+ &g7 18. £e5+ have been unable to win against it.
erda m
19. Hg5 1-0, Portisch- Berger, Amst
16. Khg1 h6?
1964.

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There are several playable moves instead of 7. &xf6 &2xc3+ 8. bxc3 Yxc3+?
this, although the defender’s task is a thank-
less one.
8...gxf6 9. cxd5 exd5+.
A) 16...£e6 17. Ag5 2xg5 18. Exg5 &xd5 9. Ad2 gxf6 10. cxd5 cxd4?
19. Bdxd5 Wc7 20. Yc3 g6. 10...6xd5 -11. Bol Wb2-12. Eco" Wa
B) 16...fxe3 13. Bxc5+-—.
17% fxe3 g6 (17...2e67
18. Bxg7+ &xg7 19. Yg2+ &h8 20. Hgi+-) 11. Hco1 Wad 12. Bxc8+ 1-0
18. h4—.
17. We4!+- &hs8
The queen escapes
A) 17...fxe3 18. Bxg7+ &xg7 19. Bgi+ &h8
20. Wi4 h7 21. Af6+ Bxf6 22. &d3+4+-. Game 138 [D38]
B) 17...Wo5 18. Bxg7+ &xg7 19. Hg1+ &g5
Prazak (1650) - Séerba
20. Axg5 hxg5 21. Exg5+ &h6 22. Bgt Wade Frymburk 2000
23. £d3+4+-.
18. Exg7 f5 1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 e6 3. c4. d5 4. Ac3 Ab4
18...2xg7 19. Hgl+ &h8 20. Yxf4 +-. 5. 895 b6?

19. Wxf4 &xg7 20. Hgi+ Yh7 21. Wg3 16x in Mega 2005.
1-0

A ruined structure

Game 137 [D38]

Allemand - Camus (1710)
Herlies 2002

1. d4 d5 2. c4 Af6 3. Ac3 eG 4. £g5 &b4

5. Af3 c5 6. e3 Wa5?
13x in Mega 2005.

6. Wa4+ Dc 7. Yxc6+ &d7 8. Wb7

The queen is not trapped.
8...a6 9. &2&xf6 gxf6 10. cxd5 Eb8
11. Wxa6 b5 12. dxe6 fxe6 13. a4 0-0
14. axb5 1-0

Overestimating the bishop

pair

The most common move, but it only leads to

Game 139 [D338]
Voslar - Jirovsky (2570)
doubled f-pawns. a6...0-0.
Neratovice 1992

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Af6 4. 295

4@\bd7 5. Af3 &b4 6. e3 c5 7. a3?!

26x in Mega 2005.

11...Yxc4+?!
16x in Mega 2005. What could be wrong
with taking a piece with check?
After 11...gxf6 it is unclear whether White
can achieve any advantage.
There is no time for such moves here. 7. £d3
12. &g1 Ad7
and 7. cxd5 are the main options.
Naturally not 12...gxf6 13. Hc.
7...2xc3+ 8. bxc3 Wa5 9. Wb3 De4 12...0-0? 13. Wg4 g6 14. eS! (14. Wr4?
10. Hoi? @d7 15. e5 Axf6 16. exf6 Yh8 17. Hct
Wb4 18. Whe Bg8 19. AZ Wb2 20. Wg5
10. cxd5 Axc3 11. dxe6 Ae4+ 12. Ld
&d7 21. Ded Se8 22. h4 Bd8 23. Hec7
0-0 a. Ed5 24. Axf7+ &xf7 25. Exf7!£ Bxg5?
10...cxd4 11. exd4 26. Bxh7+ s&xh7 27. hxg5#) 14...Wco3
(14...Ac6? 15. Axc6 Wxg4 16. Aye7#;
41. cxd5 Axg5 12. Axg5 dxe3F. 14...Ad7? 15. AfS Wxg4 16. Ah6#) 15. Bd
Qd7 16. i4 Axf6 17. exf6 Shs 18. AFS 2d7
11...Axg5 0-1 19. Wh6 Wxf6 20. Ags Wg7 21. Wxg7+ &xg7
and White threw in the towel because of 22. Bxd7t.
12. Axg5 dxc4 13. 2xc4 Wxg5-+. 13. Hco1 Wb4?
13...Wa6 14. &xg7 Hg8 15. 2h6=.
14. &xg7 Hg8 15. Axe6! fxe6 16. Wh5+
Taking the wrong bishop god8 17. Yxh7 Bxg7
17...He8? 18. &f6+! Axf6 19. Wc7#.
Game 140 [D39] 18. Wxg7 Wd2 19. Wc3
Yermolinsky (2420) - Speelman (2495
) 19. Wh8+ se7 20. Hal b6 21. Wg7+ &d8
Leningrad 1984 22. hd Bb7 23. hd Bc8 24. Bh4 Hec2
25. Wg8+ &e7 26. Wg3t.
4. Ac3 49...%xc3 20. Exc3 Af6 21. f3 &d7
4. D3 d5 2. d4 Af6 3. c4 dxc4
22. &f2 &c6 23. %e3 He7 24. h4 Hg8
e6 5. e4 &b4 6. &g5 c5 7. &xc4 cxd4
10. bxc3 25. g4 e5 26. hS5 Dh7 27. h6 e6
8. Axd4 Wad 9. &xf6 &xc3+
Yxc3+ 11. &f1 28. Hh5S Hg5 29. He1 &f6 30. Hh2 Hg8
(see next diagram)
31. Bh5 eG 32. Hd1 Afé 33. HF5 Axg4+

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34. fxg4 Hxg4 35. Hh5 Hxe4+ 36. &d2 10. Ya4+ Ac6 11. Axc6 &xc3+ 12. bxc3
Hd4+ 37. &c1 He4+ 38. &b2 &f3 39. h7 £d7
Hc8 40. Kh6+ 1-0

Deadly intermediate check

Game 141 [D39}

Mihaljevic - Nickoloff (2390)
Toronto 1993

1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Af3 d5 4. Ac3 &b4

5. &g5 dxc4 6. e4 c5 7, e5 cxd4 8. Wa44
4c6 9. 0-0-0 £d7

13. Yb4!
The queen steps out of the pin with a threat
of mate; White keeps his extra piece.
13...4/xf6 14. Ad4 1-0

A poisonous waiting move

Game 143 [D40]

10. Axd4?
10. Ae4 Le7 11. exf6 gxf6 12. Bh4 Hes
13. @b1 0».
10...2xc3 11. Axc6 &xe5! 12. Yb5 &c7
13. &xf6 bxc6 14. &8xd8 0-1
and White resigned because of the interme-
diate check 14... 2f4+!.
Correa (2345) - Van Riemsdijk (2435)
Brasilia 1994
1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 e6 3.c4.d5 4. Ac3 c5
5. e3 Dc6 6. a3
White makes a useful waiting move, and in-
tends to take on c5 only when the &f8 has
been developed.

A subtle intermediate move

Game 142 , [D39]

Piket (2470) - Karolyi (2475)
Lvov 1988

1.4 d5 2. Af3 Af6 3. c4 e6 4. Ac3 dxc4

5. e4 &b4 6. 295 c5 7. e5 cxd4 8. 4\xd4
Wad 9. exf6 Yxg5?
First 9...2xc3+ is obligatory.

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- ‘a
7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 145 Baches Garcia— Canal

o6...a6.

tsWen x
b g
@

aa
7. cxd5 exd5
~N

7...Axd5 makes no difference. 8. 2b5 2b7

(8...4%d6? 9. dxc5+-; 8...2d7 9. Axd5
exd5 10. dxc5+ bxc5 11. 0-0 [11. Wxd57
Wa5+] 11...%b8 12. &a4+) 9. Wa4 Hc8
10. Ae5 c7 11. Yxa7 +.

8. &b5 &8d7

8...8b7 9. Wad Wc7 10. Aed5 Bc8 11. Yxa7 +.

9. He5!
9. dxc5 bxc5 10. Axd57? Axd5 11. Wxd5 6...cxd4 7. Axd4
Wad+—-+. 7. exd4 £b4 8. &b2 (8. &2d2 Ae4F) 8...Ae4
9. Hoi Wad 10. Wc2 Wxa2F. ;
9...Axe5
7...2b4 8. &b2
Otherwise Black must give up the bishop
8. 2d2 Axd4 9. exd4 dxc4 10. bxc4 0-0
pair, which, however, would be the lesser
(10...8/xd47? 11. Wa4+4—-) 11. Yb BabdFt.
evil.
8...Wa5 9. Ade2F dxc4 10. bxc4 0-0
10. dxe5 &xb5 11. Axb5 Ag8& 11. a3 Hd8 12. Wb3 &e7 13. Yb5 Yc7
fia 125; 14. Bd1 &8d7 15. Wg5 h6 16. 4\b5 hxg5
17. Axc7 Hac8 18. Ab5 De4 19. Hed4
12. Wa4!+- te7 13. Axa7 Wes a6 20. Axc6 &xc6 21. Ad4 &a4 22. Het
14. Dc6+ Ve6 15. Yg4+ f5 16. exf6+ e5 23. 2d3 Ac5 0-1
soxf6 17. Wf4+ eG 18. We5+ &d7
19. Yxd5+ &c7 20. Ded Af6 21. Wt7+
The isolated pawn belongs
Wxf7 22. Axf7 Hg8 23. f3 g5 24. e4 HeB
25. &xg5 Axe4 26. fxe4 Hxe4+ 27. &f2
behind bars
Hg7 28. &f3 Hc4 29. Hed He2 30. Sf4
[D42]
Hgxg2 31. Ad3+ &b7 32. Hhgi Hxg1 Game 145
33. Hxg1 c4 34. Hg8 &xa3 35. bxa3 Hc3 Baches Garcia (2399) - Canal
36. Hd8 Hxa3 37. @e4 cxd3 38. Hxd3 La Pobla de Lillet 2003
1-0 4. e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. cxd5
Yxd5 5. Dc3 Wd8 6. Af3 e6 7. d4 Af6
8. &8d3 Ac6 9. 0-0 £e7 10. a3 0-0
Misguided fianchetto
This position can come about as a result of
quite different openings, including the Sicil-
Game 144 [D40]
ian and Caro-Kann; the ‘official’ classifica-
Perez Aleman (2280) - tion by ECO code is D42, so that makes it a
Macias Alejandro Queen’s Gambit.
Las Palmas 1991
41. &c2 a6 12. Wd3 bd 13. Het
The trap is set - Black does not have many
4. d4 d5 2. c4 €6 3. e3 AG 4. 4c3 c5
6. b3? moves which promise a playable position.
5. Df3 Dc
(see next diagram)
(see next diagram)

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10...Af6; 10... 2f6.

11. Axd5 Yxd5

After 11...exd5 12. &xh7+ &xh7 13. Yo2+

+— White simply wins a pawn.

12. £8e4 Wd6 13. De5!

After 13. Yc2 White may win a pawn, but the

position is not so clear.

13..,2b7

13...Axe5 14. £f44-.

13...2b7? 14, 2f4!
Often played, but wrong! a13...g6+£.
A discovered attack by the e5 on the f8
14. d5! exd5 15. 8g5 He4?!
can now hardly be prevented; White wins at
15...g6 16. Bxe7 Wxe7 17 Axd5 Axd5
least the exchange.
18. 28xe7 Acxe7 +, Ligterink
- Donner, Leeu-
warden 1977. 14... 2f6
16. Axe4 f5
14...Bfe8 15. Wh5 g6 16. Axg6+-.
16...dxe4 17 Wxe4 f5 18. We6+ Hf7
19. £2b3+-. 15. Ag6 Wxd4 16. Axf8 &xf8 17. Yxd4
17. Ac5 1-0 &xd4 18. Had1 Hd8 19. &xc6 1-0

A knight without roots

The isolani’s lust to expand
Game 146 [D42]
Brodsky (2515) - Kobeliov (2375) Game 147 [D42]
Perm 1997 Franco Ocampos (2500) -
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Paunovié (2320)
46 5. Ac3 e6 6. AfF3 Ac6 7. cxd5 Axd5 Vrnjacka Banja 1983
8. 2d3 2e7 9. 0-0 0-0 10. He1 b6?
This mistake occurs very frequently. The 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4
knight on c6 will be Black’s Achilles’ heel. AF6 5. Ac3 e6 6. AF3 Le7 7. cxd5 Axd5
8. 2d3 Ac6 9. 0-0 0-0 10. a3
10. Be1 Af6 11. a3 is more accurate.
10... Af6 11. Het b6

11...Axd4? 12. Axd4 Wxd4? 13. &xh7++—-

12. 8c2!? &b77!

a12...2a6 13. b4 Hc8 14, &b2 (14
bs
Aa5z) 14...8c4= (14...Ad5? 15. b5
Axc3
16. Wd3!4+-, Anand -Adams, London 1987),

13. Wd3
 ; 72 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 147 Franco Ocampos-—Paunovié GY

Of course, this is not a genuine trap, but 6G) M8:28x95° 19, @xgS hd5 20. 2xg6
rather an important attacking motif. You need (20. &b3!? Ded 21. W4 &d5 22. Ae4+-)
to know the defence. 20...fxg6 21. Wc4+ wg7 22. Wt7+ &h6
23. Wxb7 Wxg5 24. Wxc6+, Demarre-
Chaumont, Paris 1991.
B) 13...Wd7? 14. d5 exd5 (14...Ad8 15. 295
g6 16. d6+-, Votava—Izsak, Stockerau 1991)
15. &g5 g6 16. Bxe7 Wxe7 (16...axe7
17, 2xf6+—) 17. Axd5+—-, Bernat- Mendez,
Mar del Plata 1979.
C) 13...!%d6? 14. d5! Ad8 (14...exd5
15. £95+-) 15. 295 g6 16. Wd4!4-.
D) 13...W%c8!? 14. &95!? (14. d5? £a6!F)
14,..2a6 15. West.
E) 13...g6! 14. &h6 He8 15. Had £.
13...c8? 14. d5 Abs
A) 13...#e8? 14. d5! exd5 15. &g5 fAye4 A) 14...Aa5 15. 895 g6 (15...Exc3 16. Wxc3
16. Axe4 dxe4 17. Yxe4 g6 18. Wh4 &xd5 17. Wd3+, Barbulescu-Campora,
Luzern 1985) 16. d6 &xd6 17. &xf6 Yxf6
a) 18...h5 19. &b3 We7 20. We4 &g7
18. Wxd6 &xf3 19. gxf3 Ac4 20. Wg3+,
Coleman -—Gilbert, England 1996.
B) 14...exd5? 15. 295 Ae4 (15...g6 16. Hxe/
Wxe7 [16...Axe7 17. &2xf6+—] 17 4\xd5
&xd5 18. &xe7+—, Novik—Zubov, Dos Her-
manas 2003) 16. Axe4 dxe4 17. Wxe4 g6
(17...f5 18. Wh4 £xg5 19. Axg5 h6 20. We4+
&h8 21. Af7++—-, Suhail—Al Tamimi, Beirut
2000) 18. &h6 He8 19. Bad Woc7 20. 2b3

eG Ad8 21. Yd4 1-0, W. Schmidt—Imanaliev,

XXXI Olympiad, Moscow 1994.
21. &xf7!! &xf7 22. &h6 Wd7 (22...8h8 15. dxe6
23. We6+ he8 24. Hadi Ad8 25. Yxg6+ Af7 15. Ag5 Bxc3 16. Wxc3 Wxd5 17, Wh3t.
26. Ags Yc4 27. &)xf7 Yxf7 28. Bxe/+ &xe7
15...4%xd3 16. 2xd3?
29. Wd6+ 1-0, Wirthensohn-—Pritchett, Mid-
dlesbrough 1979) 23. Wc4+ &f6 24. Wc3+ 16. exf7+! Exf7 (16...&xf7 17, AeS5+ &g8
Ad4 25. Axd4 2f7 (25...Hac8 26. 4&\c6+ 18, &xd3+) 17, &xd3 Axf3 18. gxf3+.
4-0, Barle-Grosar, Maribor 1989) 26. Af3 16...2&xf3 17. exf7+ &xf7 18. gxf3 Hfds
8f8 27. &xf8 1-0, Stoica—Flis, Polanica 19. Bc2t Ac 20. Le3 Ad4 21. &xd4
Zdrdj 1983; Hixd4 22. He2 Hh4 23. &b3+ &f8
24. De4 Dxe4 25. fxe4 Hc 26. e5 2c5
b) 18...Wc7 19. &2b3 2d6 (19...h5 20. Bact
27. e6 &e7 28. Hd1 Hd6 29. &g2 Hxd1
88 21. Af6 Ag7 22. &xg7 &xg7 23. AgSE,
vv, Frunze 1985) 20. £6
- Veliko 30. &xd1 a5 31. &b3 h6 32. h3 Hf4
Makaryche
33. Hd2 Hd4 34. He2 Hf4 35. Ba2 g5
h5 21. Wg5 &h7 22. 2c2 1-0, Dizdar-
36. Hd2 Hd4 37. He2 Hf4 38. 8d5 Hd4
Dizdarevié, Sarajevo 1988;

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39. 2f3 Hf4 40. 894 Hd4 41. He5 Hf4 Lightning from a clear blue
42. f3 Hce4 43. He2 Hd4 2-2
sky

A tricky sideline Game 149 [D44]

Emmerich (2203) - Ballester (2114)
Game 148 [D483] Paris 2001
Veingold (2475) - Koskinen (2310)
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Dc3 c6 4. Af3 Afé
Tampere 1998
5. 295 dxc4 6. e4 b5 7. e5 h6 8. £h4 g5
1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Ac3 c6 9. exf6 gxh4 10. De5
5. £95 h6 6. 2h4 dxc4 7. e4 &e7
This move is not so bad; even with best play
it is not easy for White to demonstrate an
advantage.

102. 2b77
A) 10...Ad7? 11. Axf7 Yxt6 (11... .xf7?
12. Wh5+ &xf6 [12...42g8? 13. Yg6+ &g7
14. Wxg7#] 13. Wxh4++4-) 12. Axh8+-.
7...95 8. £93 b5 is the main line.
B) 10...Yxf6 is the main line.
8. &xc4?
a) 11. 862 2d6? 12. Ae4 &b44 (12...We7
8. &xf6 and 8. e5 are the main moves. 13. 2h5 &xe5 14. dxe5 Wb44+ 15, Sf1 HEB
8...axe4 9. Axed 16. a3 Wb3 17, Af6+ 1-0, Schumacher-—
Raba, Budapest 1991) 13. &f1 We7 14. a3
9. 2xe7 @xc3 10. bxc3 Wxe7 and White
£a5 15. £h5 0-0 16. Wg4+ &h7 17. &xf7
does not have enough compensation.
1-0, Pétursson Isler, Bern 1992:
9...2xh4 10. Axh4 YWxh4 11. Ad6+ &e7
b) 11. a4 2b4 (al1...&b7 12. £e2 c5)
12. g3 Wg5 13. De4 Wa5+ 14. Dc3 b5?
12. 2e2 c5 13. 0-0 cxd47! (this capture
14...&d8 is the natural move. White does not only benefits White) 14. Yxd4 Ad7 15. Wea
have enough play for the pawn. Bb8? (15...4%xe5 16. Wxa8s +/+) 16. Axd7
15. 2b3 &xd7 17. Ad5 1-0, Novikov—Feher, Bu-
dapest 1989.
15h 12,
11. Axf7 Yxf6
15...d8 16. Yd2 Wb6 17. 0-0-0 &b7
18. Rhe1 Ad7 19. f4 &f8 20. £5 exf5? 11...2xf7? 12. Wh5+ &xf6 13. Wxh4+4+-.
21. Ye2 &g8 22. We7 1-0 12. Axh8 Wxh8 13. Wh5+ 1-0
 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 152 Cabrera—Polop Q)
Castling into it 1. d4 d5 2. Af3 Af6 3. c4 e6 4. Ac3
c6 5. e3 Abd7 6. 2d3 &b4 7. 0-0 0-0
Game 150 [D45] 8. 2£d2
Portisch (2625) — Ribli (2605)
Candidates Tournament,
Montpellier 1985
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. DAf3 dd 4. Ac3 c6
5. e3 Abd7 6. Yc2 2d6 7. b3 0-0 8. 8e2
e5
Black is aiming for a trap; objectively speak-
ing he would do better to play 8...dxc4
9. bxc4 ed.
9. cxd5 @xd5 10. Axd5 cxd5 11. dxe5
4\xe5

8...He8?
26x in Mega 2005.
8...b6? has been played less often. 9. Axd5!
But the result is the same!
9. Axd5!
This win of a pawn happened in only six
games.
9...&xd2 10. Axf6+ Wxf6 11. Axd2 e5
12. d5 cxd5 13. cxd5 “@c5 14. We2 Axd3
15. Wxd3 e4 16. Axe4 Wg6 17. Acd 2f5
12. 0-0? 18. e4 &xe4 19. Axe4 Hxe4 20. Hact
Hd8 21. Wb5 b6 22. Wd7 Hee8 23. Hfet
19x in Mega 2005.
Hf8 24. We7 h6 25. Hed1 a5 26. dé Wg5
Portisch is not the only grandmaster to have
27. Wic7 b5 28. Hc5 Wg4 29. f3 Web
played this. a 12. &2b2 £b4+ 13. or alles, Ha8
30. Exb5 Hc8 31. We7 Wxa2 32. d7
12...Axf3+ 13. &xf3 Wh4 14. h3?
33. ds 1-0
14. g3 WI6 15. &xd5 8f5 16. &b2 (16. e4
‘®h3 17. Bd1 £e5 0-1, Prusikin-Buhmann,
German Championship, Bad K6nigshofen
Raid on the kingside
2007) 16...&xc2 17. &xf6 gxf6 18. &xb/ F.
14...2xh3-+ 15. Bd1 &h2+ 16. efi Wf Game 152 [D46]
17, &xd5 £f5 18. e4 894 19. 2a3 Wab+ Cabrera Tormo - Polop Morales
0-1 Valencia 2004

4. d4 d5 2. Af3 Af6 3. c4 e6 4. 4\c3 c6

Neglected win of a pawn
5. e3 &d6 6. 2d3 Abd? 7. 0-0 0-0 8. e4
[D46] dxe4 9. Axed Axe4 10. 2xe4 AE
Game 151
Vidmar — Marshall After 10...e5 11. dxe5 Axed 12. Axed &xe5
Karlsbad 1911 43. &xh7+ &xh7 14. Wh5+ &g8 15. Wxe5£

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the opposite -colour bishops give Black, with An unfortunate imitation

some justification, hopes for a draw.
11. &8c2 c5 Game 153 [D46]
Alo lMS28. Farago (2502) - Sentef (2171)
Baden-Baden 2002
12. &g5!
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Ac3 4f6 4. e3 e6
5. Af3 Abd7 6. Yc2 2d6 7. 2d3 dxc4
8. &xc4 e5 9. 0-0 exd4 10. exd4 0-0
11. h3?!
This sets a trap, but objectively it is not the
soundest move. a11. £b3!7 =.

12...cxd4?
If you play a variation which is considered
somewhat inferior (...&d6), you should at
least know it well. There are over 30 games
with 12...cxd4 in Mega 2005.
12...h6 13. 2h4 cxd4 14. Wxd4 8e7
15. Wc3 +. 11...h6?
13. Wxd4
8x in Mega 2005. 11...Ab6 12. &b3 Abd5=.
12. &xh6!!
13. 8Wd3?! is met by 13...He8
12. Wg6+.
13...8e7 14. Wh4!
12...gxh6?
White has scored 14 out of 14 from this pos-
ition (Mega 2005). 12...Ah7+.
14...h6
13. Wg6+ Bhs 14. Yxh6+ Dh7
14...8g8 15. Ags5 8f4 16. Aces &xg5
14...96 15. Had1 &£d7 16. Ae5+-.
17, AxgdS Wad 18. Yg6+ h8 19. &xf7+-.
15. 2xh6! gxh6 16. Yxh6 Hes
15. Wxd6 Ab6 16. Yxd8 Rxd8 17. &xf7
A) 16...Wa5 17. Ags e5 18. Hael Wa2 48 18. Ded 1-0
19. &h7+ Bh8 20. Hed 1-0, Kaniansky
-Kriz,
Slovakia 1998.
Insufficient threats on the
B) 16...e5 17. Hae1 Wd6 18. Yg5+ hs
19. Wh4+ g7 20. Bxe5+-.
kingside
C) 16...2d6 17. Hadi e5 18. c5 1-0, Jaffe— Game 154
Baird, New York 1911.
[D46]
Pendurin (2269).- Novikov (2434)
17. Ag5 1-0 Donskoy 2003

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 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit ¢ Game 155 Shakarova—Zankovich bY

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 c6 4. Af3 Af6

5. e3 £d6 6. 8d3 0-0 7. 0-0 Abd7 8. b3
Hes
This position can be reached by various
move orders; usually b3 does not fit in well
with White’s position.
9. e4?

White sets a trap which was first seen in

Fine-Yudovich, Moscow 1937. a7. Af3=.
7...a6!
... and Black appears to fall into it.
7...d4? 8. Ad5 @Axdd 9. Bxd8 &b4+
10. Wd2 &xd2+ 11. &xd2 &xd8 12. cxd5
would have been better for White.
8. Axd5?
9...2b4!-+ In the end, not such a strong move.
It is surprising how often this move was not 8. Wad £d7 9. cxdd5 Wb6 10. 2e3 &xb5
played, e.g. ina game Van Wely —Kuijf, Ger- 11. &xb6 &xa4 12. Axa4 2b4+ 13. &d
many 1995. 4Nbd7 o.
10. 295 8...axb5! 9. Axf6+

10. e5 &xc3 11. exf6 &xa1! Most players are

afraid of this, but White has too few threats LAaWe 4 =
on the kingside. sa eB aKa
10...&xc3 11. He1 dxe4 12. Bxc3 exf3
13. Yxf3 e5 14. &xf6 Axf6 15. dxe5
Hxed5 16. Wf4 We7 17. Hc2 h6 18. f3 2d7
19. Y/d4 c5 20. Wf2 Hes 0-1

The trapper trapped

Game 155 [D50]

Shakarova - Zankovich 9...4Yxf6!!
Simferopol 1989 Surprise!
9...gxf6? 10. Yxd8+ &xd8 11. &xf6++—-.
1. d4 Dfé 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 d5 4. &g5 c5
5. D3 cxd4 6. Axd4 e5!? 7, Adb5?!
10. &xf6 &b4+ 11. Wd2 &xd2+ 12. Bxd2
gxf6 0-1
16x in Mega 2005.
White has too little for the piece she has lost.
(see next diagram)
 sia) Chapter 7 Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen’s Gambit

Cambridge Springs Defence 12. Hot Wxd2+ 13. Wxd2 &xd2+

(Part 1) 14. &xd2 0-0 15. h4

After 15. hd1 He8 16. @e2 b6 17. e4 &b7

Game 156 [p52] 18. f3 Hac8 19. 2d6 a6 20. &e3 White’s two
Karavdin — Pilipchuk bishops give him some compensation.
Lvov 1999
15...He8 16. 2g3 b6 17. Ehd1 £b7 18. £3
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. DAc3 Af6 4. &g5 Had8 19. %e2 h5 20. Bc3 Vh8 21. Ha3
a5 22. Had3
4\bd7 5. Af3 c6 6. e3 Wad
22. Bb1 !?.

22...b5 23. 2b3 a4 24. &8c2 Sa6 25. &f2

Hc8 26. He1 Ab6 27. Hdd1 Ac4 28. £d3
A\b2 29. Hd2 @xd3+ 30. Bxd3 b4
31. Hd2 He7 32. 846?!
32. Hc5!?.

32...Hb7 33. Hb2 b3 34. a3?

34. axb3 Exb3 35. Exb3 axb3 36. Hc3 Ed8

37. &c7=.

34...2d3 35. &c5 &c2 36. Rd6 Hds

7. 2d3? 37. &c5 e5 38. ®e2 exd4 39. exd4 Hb5
105x in Mega 2005. 40. e3 He8+ 41. &f2 Hbb8 42. Hel f6
43. Ee7 Hxe7 44. 8xe7 He8 45. &8c5 He6
7...dxc4 8. &xc4 46. 2b4 &g8 47. 8d2 &f7 48. £e3 f5
8. £xf6 cxd3 9. &h4 &b4 10. Yxd3 b6 F. 49. g3 Be7 50. #e2 &d6 51. &d2 ea5
52. £f2 &c4 53. 8g1 Hd6 54. &c1 c5
8...Ae4 9. 24 Axc3 10. bxc3 55. Hxc2+ bxc2 56. &xc2 cxd4 57. &f2
10. Wd2? &b4-+. Ee6 0-1
10...%xc3+?
10...e5! is called for: 11. dxe5 (11. Yb3 exf4 Cambridge Springs Defence
12. &xf7+ &d8 13. 0-0 &c7 14. exf4 Ab6F)
(Part 2)
11...Wxc3+ 12. Ad2 Axe5F.
11. Ad2 Game 157 NB ior|
For the pawn White has a slight lead in de- Wyatt - Swindall
velopment, which is annoying. Stillwater 2002
11...2b4
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 c6 3. Ac3 d5 4. AF
11...e57! 12. Hol Wad 13. dxe5 £a3 e6 5. 295 Abd7 6. e3 Was 7. Ad2 2b4
(ioe bana, a3!o) 14. Hb1 Axe5 15. 0-0 8. Wc2 0-0
0-0 16. &c2&.
(see next diagram)

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 7.2 Traps in the Queen’s Pawn Game and Queen's Gambit ¢ Game 158 Marovié-Tsagan Q
17. Hg3 £h5 18. Bh3

9. 2d3?
A well-known and well-loved mistake. 18...296?
9. cxd5 or 9. &xf6 is necessary.
The move is a very natural one, with the result
9...dxc4 0-1
that quite a few players have fallen into this
and White resigned in view of 10. 2xf6 cxd3 trap. After 18...%b4 Black should equalise.
11. Yxd3 Axf6—-+.
19. Wxg6!! hxg6 20. 2xf7+ Hxf7
21. Hh8+ &xh8 22. Axf7+ Bh7 23. Axd6
Deadly knight fork
White is only a pawn up, but that should be
enough to win.
Game 158 [D683]
Marovic - Tsagan 23...Hd8 24. He6 Add 25. Af7 Hs
Krakow 1964 26. Ag5+ Lh6 27. D3 Hf4 28. h4 HFS
29. De5 Af4 30. Hd6 Vh7 31. f3 Hes
4. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Af6 4. Bg5 32. g3 De2+ 33. &f2 Axd4 34. f4 DFS
&e7 5. e3 0-0 6. Het Abd7 7. Af3 c6 35. Hd7 He7 36. Hd8 Ah6 37. Bh8+
8. £d3 dxc4 9. &xc4 Add 10. Bxe7 &xh8 38. Axg6+ &g8 39. Axe7+ &f7
Wxe7 11. 0-0 Axc3 12. Hxc3 e5 13. We2 40. Ac8 we6 41. &F3 ad 42. Ab6 g6
exd4 14. exd4 Af6 15. He1 Wd6 16. A\g5 43. g4 Df7 44. Dc4 a4 45. Be4 Dh
&g4 46. De5 c5 47. g5 DAf5 48. Axg6 Ad6+
12x in Mega 2005. 49. &f3 Dc4 50. h5 Ad2+ 51. Be2 1-0

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 Chapter 8

Grunfeld Defence

8.1 Typical motifs in the Griinfeld

Black often tries to create swift counterplay on the queenside with Wa5, but he has to be
careful that he does not make too many moves with his queen.

Game 159 [D82] Game 160 [D92]

Novikov (2719) - Shahade (2352) Gershon (2571) - Shabalov (2613)
New York 2002 Bermuda 2003
1. d4 @f6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. &f4 &g7
5. e3 c5 6. dxc5 Wad 7. Het dxc4 8. 1. d4 @f6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. Af3 &g7
&xc4 Yxc5? 5. £4
23x in Mega 2005. a8g...0-0.
5. €3 C5?! 6. dxc5 Wad 7. cxd5

7...Axd5? 8. Wxd5 &xc3+ 9. Ad2! &xd2+

9. Ab5! 10. Yxd2 Yxc5?
With the double threat of Ac7+ and &xf7+. Otherwise Black would be a pawn down.
9...%b4+ 10. &f1 Aa 11. a3 Was
11. Bct Ws 12. Ad4 Wd7 13. &b5 Ac6
12. 8c7 1-0
14. Exc6 1-0, Valerga—Rivero, Buenos Aires
and Black resigned in view of 12...Axc7
1992.
13. @xc7+ Wxc7 14. &xf7+ &xf7
15. Bxc7+-. 5...0-0 6. Het
Of course, 6. Hc1 is nota trap in itself, but
The following example is much more com- the
whole variation confronts Black with
plicated: prob-
lems.
 8.2 Traps in the Griinfeld e Game 161 Gligori¢ -Langeweg fN

6...c5
6...dxc4 is a good way to deviate.
7. dxc5 dxc4
7...£e6 is another branch.
8. e4 Wad
A) 8...8%xd1+7?! 9. Bxd1 Aaé6 10. eS+.
B) 8...Aa6?! 9. e5+.
C) 8...Abd7 9. c6E.
a) 16...Aa6? 17. Ad6+-;
9. e5 Hd8? (9...Aan5!?) 10. 2d2!
b) 16...8%c6 17. 0-0! (17, Ad6? Wd7 18. Wxd7
From now on things are more forced.
&®xd7 19. Axc8 Bxc8 20. f4 Hc2= 21. #e2
10...0g4 11. &xc4 Yxc5 12. Ae4 Wb6 he 22s] exb2 20. do Ga 2-2,
T. Petrosian-Benk6, Candidates Tourna-
ment, Curacao 1962) 17...Wd7 (17...2e8?
18. Wf3 Ad7 19. Wf7+ BLh8 20. Ae6 gs
21. A4g5 Axed 22. 2c3+—) 18. Wf3 &hs
19. Af7+ &g8 20. Ah6+ &xh6 21. £&xh6 WS
22. Wb34+ WI7 23. e6 WIS 24. Wxb7 Acé6
25. Ad6 Yxe6 26. Axc8 Exc8+t;
c) 16...2f8 17. Wh3!
c1) 17...h5 18. b4+;
C2) v.60 16, eb Wc6 (18...4f5 19. A\xg7
Exe5 20. Wc8+ &h7 21. 0-0 Bxe4 22. 2c3
@5 [22...Wc6 23. Wi8+-] 23. Ae8+-) 19. £3
43. &xf7+! &xf7 14. Afgs+ Les? BF7 20. Ad8&+.

14...%g8! 15. Hxc8 Exc8 16. Wxg4. This is 15. Hxc8! Hxc8 16. Yxg4 Ad7
the position White was aiming for, Known 16...8c4 17, Ad6+ Wxd6 18. Yxc4 Wxed5+
since Petrosian—Benk6, Curacao 1962. 19. &d14+-.
Black has only two sensible moves, which
17. Ad6+! 1-0
_ are usually not found over the board.

8.2 Traps in the Grunfeld

No eternal pin
for
Game 161 [D80] 7...cxd4 8. exd4 £h6 tends to be better
)
Gligorié (2600) - Langeweg (2425 Black.
Amsterdam 1971 8. Df3 cxd4 9. exd4
£g5 Be4
41. d4 Df6 2. c4 g6 3. &c3 d5 4. (see next diagram)
5. £8h4c5 6. e3 Wad 7. Yb3 4\c6

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9...297? 10. Wf3?

Played relatively often.
Black increases the pressure on d4, but he
10. Af3; 10. £3? YWb7 11. Wo2 Sf5 12. e4
overlooks that the pin on the 4c3 is not eter-
Bac8 13. Hcl &d7 14. Ae2 £b5 15. d5 &h6
nal.
16. f4 &xe2 17. Bxe2 &xf4 0-1, Papadakis-—
10. cxd5! Axc3 Alonso, Dos Hermanas 2004.
10...Y%b5! 11. Ye2?
10...Axd4 11. Axd4 &xd4 12. Wb5+ Wxb5
13. &xb5+ was certainly what Black over- A) 11. Ae2 Wb4+ 12. Ac3 &b7 13. We2
looked. &xg2+ (ECO).
B) 11. Yxa8? Wxb2 12. Rd4 £94 13. Yc6
11. bxc3 &xd4 12. Hc1 1-0 Wb4+ 14. Sf &xd1—-+.
11...Wb7-+ 12. Hei Yxg2 13. YF3 2£b7
14. Wxg2 &xg2 15. f3 &xhi 16. &f2
Trying to exchange the Bac8 17. De2 26 18. Hc5 &h4+ 19. £93
queens Hxc5 20. dxc5 &f6 21. b4 Hc8 22. &f4
a5 0-1

Game 162 [D84]

Golod (2552) - Shipov (2593) Castling with check
ACP Internet Blitz 2004
Game 163 [D85]
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. &f4 &g7 Nepomniachtchi - Itkin (2237)
5. e3 0-0 6. cxd5 Axd5 7. Axd5 Yxd5 Cherepovets 2001
8. &2xc7 1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 g6 3. c4 &g7 4. Dc3
d5 5. cxd5 @xd5 6. e4 4)xc3 7. bxc3
Of course this can be played. Black gets c5
8. 2e2
compensation for the pawn, but no more if
White plays correctly. In any case there are a Here 8. Hb1 or 8. £63 is better.
few snares around. 8...Ac6 9. £e3 &g4 10. Rb1 (a10.
e5)
10...2xf3 11. &xf3 cxd4 12. cxd4
&xd4
8...Ha6 9. &xa6 bxa6 13. &xd4 Axd4
(see next diagram)
(see next diagram)

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 8.2 Traps in the Griinfeld ¢ Game 165 Hanko-Vrabec {NY

12. e5?
Gligorié was the first to fall into this trap
(against Hartston, Hastings 1973/4). It may
be a different position, but the motif is the
same.
12...Axe5! 13. &b3 (13. dxe5 Wc6)
13...Ad7 14. Had1 Hfe8 15. Wei Afé
16. &f4 Wc6 17. f3 Ad5 18. &8g3 b5
19. Hf2 Had8 20. Wa3 Wb6 21. c4 bxc4
22. &xc4 e5 23. Hff1 &f8 24. Wa4 &c6
25. Yb3 Wxb3 26. &2xb3 &b5 27. Hfet
&xe2 28. Hxe2 Ac3 29. Hxe5 Hxed
14. &xb7? 30. &xe5 Axd1 31. &xd1 c5 32. 216 Hb8
33. &8b3 897 34. &xg7 &xg7 35. dxc5
14. 0-OF. Ho8 36. 4 Hxc5 37. Bf2 £6 38. &e3 g5
14...Wa5+ 15. Wd2 39. fxg5 fxg5 40. #e4 &F6 41. Bd4 HFS
415. 11 Wa6+—+. 42. h3 Hf2 43. 8d5 Hd2+ 44. &c5 Les
15...Axf3+ 16. gxf3 Yxd2+ 17, &xd2 on
0-0-0+ 0-1
Take my rook

Black lures the e-pawn emesis [D86]

forward Hanko —- Vrabec

Hrazany 1974
D86
ear sete 4. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. cxd5
Ftaénik ee a fed) Dxd5 5. e4 Axc3 6. bxc3 Lg7 7. 2c4
le
0-0
s.
4. d4 Df6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 dd 4. cxd5 = 7...b6 8. W3 0-0 transpose
&g7 7. &c4 8. WZ b6
4xd5 5. e4 4&\xc3 6. bxc3

0-0 8. De2 Ac6 9. 0-0 b6 10. 2g5 &b7

11. YWd2 Wd6
We also meet this trap in similar form.

9. e5 £a6

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10. Yxa8?! 14. &8b4?

10. 2d5 c6 11. &b3 00. The presumed win of the queen proves too
10...8xc4 11. Yxa7? tempting.

11. Af3! c5o0; 11. WF f6!T. 14...Yf3!! 15. 0-0

11...Ac6 15. gxf3 Axf3+ 16. Sf1 £h3#.

11...Wd5! 12. f3 Aab-+. 15...Wxe4

12. Wa4 @xe5 13. dxe5? Black is a pawn up and White has no com-
pensation for it.
13. Ae2 Ad3+F.
16. 2b5 a6 17. 2a4 &f5 18. Ac3 Wea
13...4%d3 14. Yd1 Wfi+ 0-1
19. 2xe7 &xb1 20. &xf8 2d3 21. &xg7
&xg7 22. Abi &xf1 23. Ad2 Wxd5
A Houdini-like escape 24. &xf1 Hd8 25. Wal Yd4 26. We f6
27. Af3 Wxa4 28. Axe5 b5+ 0-1
Game 166 [D86]
Waffenschmidt - Eidinger (2165) A popular mistake
Baden 1998
Game 167 [D91]
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. cxd5
4\xd5 5. e4 @xc3 6. bxc3 c5 7. &c4 Galié (2265) - Kinez (2130)
£g7 8. De2 Ac6 9. Be3 cxd4 10. cxd4 Zagreb 1993
Wa5+?! 11. &2d2 Wa3 1. Df3 DFE 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. d4 &g7
Black’s last two moves set up a genuine trap. 5. 895 De4
12. Rb1
After 12. 0-0 White in turn sets a trap,
since 12...Axd4? 13. Axd4 &xd4 14. &b4
Wxb4 15. Yxd4+— has the double threat of
16. Yxh8+ and 16. &xf7+.
12...0-0 13. d5?
After 13. 0-0 Black has great difficulties.
13...Ae5

6. Axd5?
In 18 games in Mega 2005 a piece was lost
like this. 6. &2h4 and 6. cxd5 are the main
lines.
6...Axg5 7. Axg5 e6 8. Axc7+ Wxc7
9. e3?
This is a peculiarity: White falls into a secon
d
trap!

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 8.2 Traps in the Grunfeld e Game 169 Kazhgaleyev —Vachier-Lagrave fY

9...Wa5+ 10. Yd2 Yxg5 11. 0-0-0 0-0 15...gxf5 16. Rxg7 Ag4 17. &f4 h6 0-1
12. f4 We7 13. h4 Dc6 14. g4 f5 15. g5 and White resigned in view of 18. bxc3 &f8
£d7 16. 8e2 Wb4 17. Yc2 Wad 18. a3 19. Bxg4 fxg4—+.
4e7 19. h5 &c6 20. hxg6 hxg6 21. Zh3
£a4 22. b3 &c6 23. Wb2 &f7 24. b4
The off-side bishop
Wc7 25. Wb3 Eh8 26. Hg3 b5 27. c5
a5 28. &f3 axb4 29. axb4 Hh2 30. Hd2
Hxd2 31. &xd2 Had 32. Bh3 &xf3 Game 169 [D99]
33. Hxf3 Wc6 34. Hg3 Wh1 35. e4 Wh2+ Kazhgaleyev (2604) -
36. &d3 Wxg3+ 37. &c2 Wf2+ 38. &b1 Vachier-Lagrave (2348)
&xd4 0-1 Aubervilliers 2003

1. d4 Df6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. Af3 2g7

A surprise advance
5. Wb3 dxc4 6. Yxc4 0-0 7. e4 Afd7
8. 8e3 Ab6 9. Yb3 &g4 10. Hd1 Acé6
Game 168 [D96]
11. d5 De5 12. Le2 Axf3+ 13. gxf3
Polajzer (2375) - Sokolov (2425)
Lugano 1987
1. d4 Df6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 d5 4. Af3 2g7
5. Wb3 dxc4 6. Yxc4 Ac6?! 7. e4 2g4
Black forces matters immediately.

13...2h3?!
24x in Mega 2005. This position is only good
for the bishop for a short time. 13...2h5 is
the frequently played main line.
8. d5 &xf3 9. dxc6? 14. Hg1 Wd6?!
“After 9. gxf3 Ded 10. We2 c6 11. f4 Aed7 al14...Wc8 15. [4 &d7 16. f5 &h8 17. fxg6
12. &g2 White is better. fxg6 18. h4—.
9...b5! 15. f4!
That was the idea!
A f4-f5.
10. Yd3
10. Wb3 &xe4=; 10. Yxb5? Axe4!+. 15...e5?
10...Wxd3 11. &xd3 &xg2 12. Bg1 b4?! 15... 2.c8x.
12...0-0-0!? 16. f5
13. Hxg2 bxc3 14. e5?
The £h3 is trapped.
o14. Hb1 =.
14...Hd8 15. 2f5
16...gxf5 17. AbS WHE 18. 2g5 Wg6
19. Y¥xh3 1-0
15. exf6 &xf6! 16. Bb1 Bxd3—+.

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Catalan Opening

9.1 Typical motifs in the Catalan

The fianchettoed bishop on g2 pressurises the queenside and Black often has to watch out
for Ae5 or Ag5:

Game 170 [E04] 16...cxd4 17. Ae4 We7 18. &xa8 Hxa8
Polovnikova (2406) - 19. Wc8+ WF8 20. Axd6 1-0
Khurtsidze (2387)
FIDE World Championship, Elista 2004 Blackhas tobe especially careful when mov-
ing his b-pawn:
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Af3 Af 4. g3 dxc4
5. 292 &b4+ 6. 8d2 £e7 7. 0-0 0-0 G
ame 171 EO5
8. Wc2 a6 9. Yxc4 b5 10. Wc2 2b7
11. Het £d6 12. 895 Abd7 13. Aba2 Romanishin (2560) - Azmaiparashvili
Tbilisi 1979
1. Af3 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. £g2 &£e7
5. 0-0 0-0 6. d4 dxc4 7. Yc2

13...c5?
Positionally desirable, but unfortunately tac-
tically wrong. a13...8c8. 7...b5?
14. 2xf6 Yxf6? 15x in Mega 2005. Black thinks he can close
A) 14...Axf6? 15. dxc5 Hc8 16. b4 +. the h1-a8 diagonal with Ad5 whenever he
wants.
B) 14...gxf6 15. Ae4 &xe4 16. Wxed Be
f5+. 8. a4 c6 9. axb5 Dds
15. Aes! Axed 16. &xb7 9...cxb5 10. Ag5!+—, when 10...Ad5 fails
16. dxe5+-. to 11. Wxh7#.

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 9.2 Traps in the Catalan
10. bxc6 Axc6 11. Yxc4 &b7 12. Ac3
4\b6 13. Yb3 a5 14. d5 exd5 15. Axd5
4\xd5 16. Yxb7 Wd6 17. Ae5 Ach4
18. &xd5 Axd5 19. Ac6 L6G 20. Hd
Hac8 21. Axa5 Wb4 22. Bxd5 We1+
23. @g2 Exci 24. Bxc1 Yxc1 25. b3
Wc2 26. Yb5 We4+ 27. f3 Wb1 28. Ac4
9.2 Traps in the Catalan
Power of the bishops (Part 1)
Game 172 [ECT]
Tsanas (2149) - Andreou (2010)
Niforeika 2000
1. c4 Df 2. g3 e6 3. Sg2 d5 4. Af3
&\bd7 5. 0-0 £d6 6. b3 0-0 7. &b2 c6
8. d4 We7 9. Ded
Of the 36 games with this position (Mega
2005), the following move was tried in five of
them.
9...&xe5? 10. dxe5 Ag4
se
White cannot protect the e5-pawn, becau
of 14. 42 De3 — actually a typical motif.
41. e4! Agxe5 12. exd5
If Black takes on d5 with the c-pawn,
there
follows £a3!.
12...exd5 13. cxd5
e Game 173 Wilhelmi-—Lindinger ON
Wal 29. De5 Ha8 30. Wb7 Wa7 31. Yxa7
Hxa7 32. b4 g6 33. b5 Ha2 34. &f2 &g7
35. f4 Hb2 36. &f3 h5 37. h3 h4 38. gxh4
Eb3+ 39. e3 &g8 40. h5 gxh5 41. Ad7
&b2 42. Hg5+ &g7 43. h4 f5 44. Acd
1-0
White has regained his pawn and stands
clearly better.
13...Ab6? (13...ch+) 14. Het £94
15. Wd2 1-0
Power of the bishops (Part 2)
Game 173 [EO1]
Wilhelmi (2265) - Lindinger
Hamburg 1994
1. Df3 c5 2. g3 AE 3. 2g2 dd 4. 0-0
Ac6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Axd4 e6 7. c4 Wh6
8. Ab5
This can be the result of various openings;
Black is behind in development and must be
careful.
8...dxc4
Foolhardy. 8...a6!? can hardly be wrong.
9. A1c3 2c5?
8x in Mega 2005. 9...2d7o.
10. Ad6+! &xd6 11. YWxd6
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Now Black is in a difficult position — if he
manages to castle, White will win at least the
c4-pawn and then remain with the bishop
pair, including the lovely £g2. White won all
seven games with this position.
11...Ab4
11...Ae7 12. Yast.
12. Wf4
12. We5 0-0 13. &h6 is also playable.
12...2d7 13. 8e3 Wa6 14. &8c5 Abd5
15. Axd5 exd5 16. Kfd1 &e6 17. Yc7
4d7 18. &xd5 &xd5 19. Bxd5 Axc5
20. Yxc5 f6 21. Had1 &f7 22. Hd7+ 1-0
12...8b7 13. Axd5 &xc6 14. Axe7 &xe7
15. Bc1 £d5 16. Exc7 Ehc8&.
13. Yxc7! Ac2+ 14. d1 Axa 15. Aed5
Wb4?
A) 15...64? 16. Ae4+-.
B) 15...0-0? 16. Ac6 We8 17. Axb8 b4
18. Ac6!? (18. Ae4? Axb8 19. Yxb8?
Wa4+-+) 18...bxc3 19. bxc3 e5 20. d5+-.
C) 15...Axe5 16. Yxb8 0-0 17. Yxe5 &b7
18. &xb7 Wxb7 19. Wed+.
16. Ac6 1-0
A dangerous exchange
sacrifice

Game 175 [EO5]

Take my rook
Game 174
Anka (2427) - Roiz (2554)
Pardubice 2003
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. 8g2 dxc4
5. Wa4+ DAbd7 6. Yxc4 a6 7. Df3 b5
8. Wc6 Hb8 9. &f4 Dd5 10. &g5 £e7
11. 2xe7 Yxe7 12. Ac3!?
Ivkov - Robatsch
Vinkovci 1968
[EOS]
1. c4 Af6 2. Af3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. 8g2 Le7
5. 0-0 0-0 6. d4 dxc4 7. He5 c5 8. dxc5
We7 9. Axc4 &xc5 10. Ac3!
This apparently loses a pawn — an invention
by Portisch.

10... 2xf2+
Black also does not have good results with
10...&d8 11. &f4 We7+.
12. 0-0 is the other main line.
11. Hxf2 Wxe4 12. Bxf6! gxf6 13. &h6
12...Ab4? White now has a strong attack.
13x in Mega 2005. A very well-known mis- 13...Ac6?
take, which is nevertheless made time and A) 13...Wc5+?! 14. e3 f5 15. Ded We7
again even by strong players. 16. &xf8 &xf8 17, Ad6 Acé6 iteheetey| ce

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 9.2 Traps in the Catalan ¢ Game 176 Szab6—-Ivkov

B) 13...Ad7!? proved itself in Psakhis-

Stefansson amongst other games, but after
it Black must still fight hard for equality.

a) 14. e3 £5 15. &xf8 Axf8 (15...&xf8?!

16. Wh5) 16. Wd8 Wb4 17. Bd1 &g7
(17...W%xb2? 18. Wg5+ Ag6 19. Wi6!+-)
18. Hd2 Wbet;
b) 14. Ae4 Wb4 15. e3 (15. Hcl £5 16. Ad6
[16. &xf8 12] 16...Ae5 17, &xf8 Wb6+ 18. e3
Wxe3+ 19. &h1 Ag4 20. Hc2 &xf8 21. Axc8
Gf2+ 22. Exf2 Wxf2 23. 2xb7 Hb8 24. Wd8+
gog7 25. Wg5+ Bhs 26. Wd8+ &g7 27. Wg5+ 8. De5! DAfd7 ?
®h8 2-12, Psakhis—Stefansson, Winnipeg
1997) 15...f5 16. Ad6 Hed 17. &xf8 &xf8
And already Black loses material (a pawn).
18. Hel (18. Wd4 Wxd4 19. exd4 Z\c6 This too has happened very frequently.
20. d5) 18...28d7 19. Wd4 Wxd4 20. exd4 A) 8...2b7 9. e4!+.
Ac6 21. Axb7 Axd4 22. Hc7 Le8 23. Ad6 B) 8...£a6 9. cxd5 (9. e4!?) 9...cxd5 10. 2f4
Hd8 24. Axe8 &xe8 25. Hxa7t. @fd7 11. cl Axed 12. &xeSz.
14. e3 9. cxd5! cxd5

9..4xe5 makes no difference. 10. dxe5

AAe4, Wg4. 14. Ae4 Hd8 15. WF f5 16. Wt4
cxd5 11. Axd5+-.
Wd4+ 17. e3 Wed (17...%%xb2 is no better)
18. Wg5+ &h8 19. Af6 1-0, Neat— Challoner, 10. Axd5! exd5 11. &xd5 Axed 12. dxe5
Durham 1993. £h3 13. &xa8 &xf1 14. Yxf1 Ad7
15. g2 Axed 16. &f4 26 17. Hd1 We7
14...2d8 18. Hd5 Hc8 19. Wd1 Ag6 20. 2d6 We6
21. £a3 h6 22. Hd6 We8 23. Hd7 a5
14...f5 15. Ae4 f6 16. &xf8 fxe4 17. BH6+-.
24. Hib7 Bd8 25. Wc2 Hc8 26. Wd2 Hd8
15. Wh5 e5 16. Ae4 We 17. Wh4 1-0 27, 8d5 Ded 28. &g2 Wad 29. 2e7 Hd7
30. Hb8+ @h7 31. b3 Wc6 32. &2xc6
Hxd2 33. 8e4+ Ag6 34. &xf6 gxf6
35. Hxb6 Hxe2 36. &£xg6+ &xg6 37. a4
Fatal long diagonal h5 38. h4 Eb2 39. Hb5 @h6 40. Bxad
Exb3 41. Rb5 Ha3 42. Hb4 &g6 43. Hf4
Game 176 [EO6] Hal 44, &f3 Hel 45. He4 Hal 46. Be3
Szabo - Ivkov a4 47, &d2 Ha2+ 48. &c3 Hxf2 49. aS
Wageningen 1957 a2 50. &b4 &f5 51. Hf4+ ke5 52. bd
Ha3 53. a6 Hxg3 54. Had Hg8 55. a7
a8 56. &b6 f5 57. &b7 Hxa7+ 58. &xa7
1. c4 D6 2. Ac3 e6 3. Af3 d5 4. d4 Le7 £4 59. Ha5+ &e4 60. Hxh5 f5 61. Hg5
5. g3 0-0 6. 2g2 c6 7. 0-0 b6? {3 62. Hg1 f2 63. Hf #e3 64. h5 Pe2
s’. 65. Hxf2+ &xf2 66. h6 f4 67. h7 f3
_A popular error, even in the ‘best circle
68. haW &f1 69. YWh3+ Be2 70. Whs
a7...Abd7.
(see next diagram)
&e3 71. Ye5+ 1-0

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A misguided freeing move 12...c5?!

5x in Mega 2005. White had been hoping for
Game 177 haere precisely this standard move.
Najdorf - Golombek 13. dxc5! Axc5?
XIl Olympiad, Moscow 1956 13...6xc5 is better, but is a declaration of
positional bankruptcy.
1. c4 Af6 2. AfF3 e6 3. g3 Le7 4. &g2 14. Axf6+ gxf6
0-0 5. 0-0 d5 6. d4 c6 The actual point of this line can be seen
6...Abd7 7. Yc2 c6 8. Abd2 b6 9. b3 £b7 as follows: 14...2xf6 15. &2xf6 WYxf6 16. b4
10. &b2 Hc8 11. e4 dxe4 12. Axed c5 A@d7 (16...H&cd8 17. bxc5 &xc4 18. Bet bxc5
13. Axf6+ Axf6 14. dxc5. This position has 19. Wc2 1-0, Sosonko-Schrama, Nether-
already occurred several times in practice. lands 1994) 17. b5+— and the £46 is lost.
15. Yg4+ Bhs 16. Had1+- Wc7 17. De4
17. Wh4! e5 18. De4 Axe4 19. &xed f5
20. Whd5+-.
17...Axe4 18. 2xe4 2b7 19. &2xh7?
19. &b1 Wc6 20. f3 Hg8 21. Wh4 Hg7
22. &xf6+-.
19...Wc6! 20. Bd5
20. £8 &xh7 21. Wh5+ &g7 22. Hdd &c5=.
20...exd5 21. Wh5
21. 2f5 Hg8o.
14...2xc5? (a14...8xc5 15. Bfd1 Wa8=; 21...8g7 22. Hel dxc4 2-12
14...2e4!7) 15. Ag5! g6 (15...Wc7 16. &xf6
g6 17. Ae4+-) 16. &xb7 Hc7 17. £g2 Bd7 A misguided fianchetto
18. Af3 1-0, Lindenmair—Heika, Bad Wor-
ishofen 2002. Game 178 [E08]
7. @c3 b6 8. b3 Abd7 9. &b2
Palatnik (2510) - Valinis
&a6
10. Ad2 Hc8 11. e4 dxe4 12. Acxed Chania 1992
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. AfF3 Afé 4. g3 &e7
This pawn is often taken with the other 5. &£g2 0-0 6. 0-0 Abd7 7. Yc2 b6?!
knight.
118x in Mega 2005.
 9.2 Traps in the Catalan
8. cxd5 exd5?!
a8...Axd5 9. a3 (9. e4 Ab4 10. Wc3 &b7
11. a8 Aaé6 12. We8t) 9...2b7 10. e4 ASE
11. Ac3 c5 12. Bd1 cxd4 13. Axd4. White
has the more pleasant game.
9. Wc6
9g. &f4£.
e Game 178 Palatnik
— Valinis ON
9...2a6
a9...2b8 10. &f4 &b7 11. Wxc7 Wxc7
12. &xc7 Bbc8 13. &f4 Bc2 14. Hci! Bfc8
(14...8xe2 15. Abd2; 14...Bxb2 15. Hc7)
15. Ac3 Exb2 16. Aed Axed 17. dxe5=.
10. Ac3 He8 11. Ded Af8 12. Axd5
&xe2 13. Yxa8 1-0
 Chapter 10

Black Knights Tango

This original opening has been used by, among others, the American grandmasters Naka-
mura, Yermolinsky and Banjamin as a ‘dynamic weapon’. The black steeds dance in front of
the white pawns, trying to entice them to advance prematurely. Direct transpositions are
possible into the Nimzo-Indian Defence or even King’s Indian set-ups with d6, g6 and £g7,
but many lines also have a unique character.

Game 179 [E10] a4. a3; a4. Ac3.

Timoshenko (2595) - Bologan (2585)
Timisu de Sus 1998 4...exd5 5. cxd5 &£b4+ 6. Ac3 De7 7. e4
0-0!
1. d4 @f6 2. c4 Ac6

x12Wen
Black can already win a pawn by 7...Axe4
8. Wd4 &xc3+ 9. bxc3 Af6, but White has a
Aakaeawa good game after 10. c4 or 10. &£d3.

a A
~N

8. 2d3 Dg6 9. 0-0 He8 10. Het

10. Wc2 d6 11. 895 &d7 12. Bact h6

13. 2xf6 Wxf6 14. &b5 c6 15. dxc6 bxc6
16. Ad5 cxd5 17. &2xd7 Exe4 18. Wc6 Ed8
19. Wxd5 Hf4 20. Bc7 &c5 21. b4 Ab6
22. Bb7 Ded 23. Bh3 Axf3+ 24. gxf3 Hxf3
25. Exf7 Wg6+ 26. 292 Exf7 0-1, Cunning-
ham-— Christiansen, New York 2000.
3. Af3!
A) 3. dd Hed 4. e4 €6 5. Ac3 &b4.~x is not 10...c6 11. Wb3 8d6 12. h3 b5 13. a3
very promising. &b7 14. 8e3 a6 15. Hadi Wc7 16. &g5
B) 3. Ac3 e5 4. d5 He7 is also not danger- LF4 17, &xf6 gxf6 18. a4 Hab8 19. axb5
ous for Black; he continues with Ag6 and axb5 20. &f1 8a8 21. Ad4 b4 22. Bad
can develop his £f8 at b4 or c5. cxd5 23. exd5 He5 24. Bxe5 fxe5
3...e6 25. Af5 d6 26. Wd3 &b7 27. g3 &g5
28. h4 2f6 29. b3 &c8 30. We4 Bxf5
3-06 424103=.
31. YWxf5 897 32. 8d3 h6 33. £f1 De7
4. d5?!
34. Wb1 f5 35. Ab2 e4 36. 4\c4 Wc5
23x in Mega 2005. This is what Tango play- 37. Wc1 RS 38. Wa Axd5 39. Wd2 Ac3
ers are hoping for; now Black gets a com- 40. Wxd6 Wxd6 41. Exd6 f4 42. gxf4
fortable game. Exf4 43. De3 Bxh4 44, 8c44 Yo—Vo

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Queen’s Indian Defence

Black adopts a light-square strategy and aims in particular to control the a8—h1 diagonal.
This often results in combinative possibilities against White’s kingside castled position. But
Znosko-Borovsky’s comment is also valid: ‘The duel between the bishops on g2 and b/7
creates the opportunity for various traps, in which Black usually comes off worse.’

March of the black g-pawn 9...9xf3 10. axb4 fxg2 11. &xg2 &xg2
12. Hgi &b7 13. &h4 d6 14. e4 Abd7

18. &e2 Hdg8 19. Hagi Hxg4 20. Bxg4

Tarrasch —- Bogoljubow
h5 21. Hg3 &b8 22. Wf5 &c8 23. 2g5
Gothenburg 1920
h4 24. Hf3 Wf8 25. &xf6 Axf6 26. Wxf6
1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. 8g5 2b7 £94 27. h3 Wh6? 28. hxg4 1-0
5. e3 h6 6. &h4 2£b4+ 7. Abd2?
Tactics come first
This loses a piece, although surprisingly
many games were not lost as a result. Game 181 [E12]

ie Van der Sterren (2445) -

Farag6o (2495)
Albena 1983
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Af3 b6 4. a3
£a6 5. Yc2 2b7 6. Dc3 c5 7. e4 cxd4
8. Axd4 d6 9. Re2 Le7 10. 0-0 0-0
11. Kd1 Abd7 12. Adb5?! Wbs 13. BF4?
This is tempting, because it either wins the
d6-pawn or forces Black to play e5, which is
positionally favourable for White, but ...

7...95 8. £9394 9. a3
9. Ded Ded 10. Yxg4 &xd2+ 11. &e2 2b4?
(11...Wg5-+) 12. &h4 Le7 (12...0g5!?
43. Wh5 WG 14. £4 WS) 13. Wg7 Hf8 14. 4\g6
fxg6 (14...Ag5 15. Axf8 &xf8 16. Whs
We7 17. a3o) 15. Wxg6+ Hf7 16. Wg8+ Hf8
17. Wg6+ 2-2, Uhlmann -—Kinnmark, Halle
1963.

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13...e5! 0-1 5. 2d3 c5 6. 0-0 £e7 7. Ac3 cxd4

White loses a piece after 14. 2g5 a6—+, and 8. exd4 d5 9. cxd5 Axd5 10. Aed
so he decided to call it a day.
A good variation for White.
Into the line of fire 10...0-0 11. YWg4

Game 182 [E14] White can also play 11. Wh5, after which
11...Af6 12. Wh4 transposes into the game.
Gligori¢ - Joyner
But Black has the option of 11...g6 12. Wh3
Hollywood 1952
4\c6.
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Af3 b6 4. e3 &b7
5. £8d3 c5 6. 0-0 Ac6 7. Ac3 £e7 8. b3 11... 06 (11...f5!?) 12. Wh4
0-0 9. &b2 cxd4 10. exd4 d5 11. We2
A normal theoretical move, but it is based on
an instructive trap.
11...dxe4 (11...Ab4; 11...8c8) 12. bxc4

12...Ac6?
A popular mistake (15 games in Mega 2005).

12...Aaxd4? Correct is: 12...Ae4! (12...Abd77?! 13. Bd t)

In six games Black did not believe this and he 13. Wh3 Wxd4 14. &f4 (14. Axf7 Bxf7
went wrong by taking the pawn. a12...Ab4. 15. 2xe4 &xed 16. Wg4=) 14...Af6 15. De2
13. Axd4 Wxd4 14. Ad5 Wc5 15. &xf6! Wa4 Wad and Black can hold his own.
gxf6
13. 295 g6
15...2xf6 16. Wed g6 17. Axf6++-.
16. Wg4+
16. Axe7+ Wxe7 17, Wg4+ Bh8 18. Wh4+-.
16...2h8 17, Wh4 5 18. Axe7 We5 19. c5
bxc5 20. &£b5 1-0

A surprise stroke

Game 183 [E14]

Lerner (2568) - Enders (2474)
Bad Worishofen 1999
1. d4 Af6 2. Af3 b6 3. c4 e6 4. e3 &b7
 Game 186 Dunkelblum—Henneberke Q)
A) 13...h6 14. &xf6 &xf6 15. Wed g6 1. d4 e6 2. Af3 Af6 3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Bd2
16. Axc6 Wd6 17, Wf3!4+—. &xd2+ 5. Wxd2 b6 6. g3 2b7 7. 292 d6
B) 13...Axe5 14. &xf6 Axd3 15. &xe7+ win- 8. Ac3 Ae4?!
ning the exchange.
There are 19 games with this mistake in
14. £a6!!
Mega 2005. a8...0-0.
A surprise stroke on the opposite wing.
14...h6 15. 2xh6 Ad5 16. Wh3 1-0

The errant knight

Game 184 TES

Browne (2525) - Ashley (2355)
Philadelphia 1991
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Af3 b6 4. g3 2a6
5. Abd2 £2b7 6. &2g2 c5 7. e4

9. WI4! Axc3?

A) 9...4/f67! loses a pawn: 10. Ad2 4c5

11. dxc5! &xg2 12. Bgl Sc6 13. cxd6
Wxf4 (13...cxd6 14. Wxd6 +-) 14. gxf4 cxd6
15. Bxg7+.
B) 9...Af6 is an admission by Black of his
mistake, but perhaps objectively it is best.
10. e4+.

7...Aaxe4? 10. Ag5! 6 11. &xb7 fxg5 12. We3 Ad7

12x in Mega 2005. a7...cxd4. 13. Wxe6+ &f8 14. &xa8 Wxa8 15. f3
8. De5! Ac3? 1-0
A) 8...A\d6?! 9. &xb7 Axb7 10. WZ Ad6
. 11. Yxa8+-.
Catastrophe on the light
B) 8...d5 9. cxd5 4\d6 (9...exd5?! 10. 4\xe4
dxe4 11. Wa4+ Ad7 12. £h3 £c8 13. YWc6
squares (Part 2)
Eb8 14. Axf7+—) 10. dxc5 bxc5 11. 0O-O+.
9. Wh5 g6 10. Wh3 1-0 Game 186 tETo}
Dunkelblum - Henneberke
Catastrophe on the light Beverwijk 1963
squares (Part 1)
1. c4 c5 2. D3 Df 3. d4 e6 4. g3 b6
Game 185 [E16] 5, £g2 £b7 6. d5 exd5 7. Ah4 g6 8. Ac3
Becker - Fuss &g7 9. 0-0 0-0 10. £95
(see next diagram)
Vienna 1933

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5...&£e7 6. 0-0 0-0 7 Ac3 Aed4 8. YWc2

4)xc3 (this is a quite normal position; it oc-
curs more than 2000 times in Mega 2005!)
9. Ag5? (this ‘trick’ has only been tried
out four times) 9...Axe2+! 10. Yxe2 &2xg2
11. Axh7 &xf1 12. &xf1 &xh7 13. We4+ &g8
14. YWxa8 Ac6 15. YWb7 Wc8 0-1, Opsahl-
Blumin, Toronto 1936.

6. £d2 &xd2+ 7. Wxd2 0-0 8. Ac3 DAe4

9. Ye2 Axc3 10. Ag5!?

10...h6
This has been considered a mistake since
Samisch and Marshall lost with it (against
Paul List and José Raul Capablanca respec-
tively). But things are not so clear; it is also
unclear whether Black can equalise with
other moves.
11. &xf6 &xf6?
But this is definitely a mistake. After
11...xf6 it is not certain that White can
achieve even a slight advantage. 12. Axd5
£xd5 13. Yxd5 (13. &xd5!? Ac6 14. Bb1 The Monticelli Trap — named after the Ital-
is interesting) ian Mario Monticelli (1902-1995) — occurred
13...ac6 14. Yxd7 Bac8
26x in Mega 2005. But it is not clear whether
15. Radi Bfd8 16. Wb7 Aad 17. Yxa7 Axc4
18. b3 Ad2 19. Bfe1 g5 20. Wa6 Eb8 21. Af3 White actually achieves an advantage.
Ha8 22. Wb7 Hab8 23. Wc7 Ebc8 24. Wb7 10...Ae4
Hb8 Y—-¥2, Fogarasi-Ortel, Hungary 1992.
10...Wxg5 11. &xb7 Axe2 12. Wxe2 Acé6
12. Axg6!+- Hes 13. &xa8 Hxa8 is also playable.
12...fxg6 13. 2xd5+ &xd5 14. Wxd5+4-.
11. 2xe4 2xe4 12. Wxe4 Wxg5 13. Wxa8
13. Af4 Ac6 14. &xd5 Hb8 15. We2 Wa5+?
Ad4? 16. YWg6+ 1-0
13...Ac6 14. Yb7 Axd4 and Black’s com-
pensation is sufficient (Euwe— Capablanca,
The Monticelli trap
Amsterdam 1931).

Game 187 LETG] 14. &f1 Wa6 15. Wea Wxc4 16, b3 Yb4
17. Wd3 c5 18. dxc5 Wxc5 19. &g2 £5
Monticelli - Prokes
20. Haci Wa3 21. Hce2 d5 22. Hc7 Wd6
Budapest 1926
23. Khe1 Ad7 24. 81c6 We7 25. Rxa7 f4
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Af3 b6 4. g3 £b7 26. Hec7 fxg3 27. hxg3 WF7 28. f3 Rds
5. 892 &b4+ 29. Rxd7 1-0

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Nimzo-Indian Defence

12.1 Typical motifs in the Nimzo-Indian

As long as the bishop on b4 is not exchanged, Black must be careful when moving his
d-pawn.

Game 188 [E32] Black must watch his £b4 in general:

Harper -— Ucha
Buenos Aires 1992 Game 189 [E62]
Zilberman (2425) - Liss (2325)
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 2b4 4. Ye2
Tel Aviv 1991
4. D3 b6 5. 2g5 h6 6. 2h4 &b7 7 e3 d6? A
relatively popular error; there are 18 games in 1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 2b4 4. e3 b6
Mega 2005. 8. Ya4+ Ac6 9. d5 bd 10. Yxb5 5. &£d3 &b7 6. Df3 0-0 7. 0-0 d5 8. Bd2
Eb8 11. dxc6 £a8 12. &xf6 gxf6 13. Wad f5 4@\bd7?!
14. Wce2 &xc6 15. a3 £a5 16. 0-0-0 1-0,
Cappelle la Grande This is considered a mistake, but things are
Ghitescu-Tsiganova,
1993. not quite so simple.
4...b6 5. e4 &2b7 6. 2d3 d6?
There are 22 games with this position and in
only 11 cases is the gift accepted.

8...dxc4 9. &xc4 Abd7 is the main line.

7, Wa4+ Dc6 8. d5 exd5 9. cxd5 Axd5
40. exd5 0-0 11. dxc6 We8+ 12. Age2
1-0
9. Axd5!? Axd5 10. cxd5 &xd2
11. dxe6!?
11. Yxd2 &xd5 12. e4 (or first 12. We2)
should give White a small advantage, but in

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practice it has not been possible to convert

it to a full point.

11...&xf3 12. gxf3 fxe6

After 12...2xe3 13. fxe3 fxe6 Black main-

tains material equality, but White is clearly
better here.

13. Wxd2

It seems as if White is also somewhat better

here.

13...Wh4
66x in Mega 2005.
A) 13...c5 14. 2e2 Wf6 15. Hadi Had8s+.
Bo. Wao Ontot
B) 13...8xf3? 14. £e4 Wg5+ 15. &h1 Hafs a6. Age2 Ae4 7. Yd3 cxd4 8. exd4 Axf2
16. &xf3 Bxf3 17, Bgl Wd5 18. Bg2+-. 9. &xf2 Wxg5F.
14. 8e4 6...cxd4 7. &xf6 &xc3+ 8. e2
8. bxc3 Wxc3+ 9. &f2 Wxe3+ 10. &g3
14. Wc2!? c5 15. &cd Hae8 16. Wed gxf6—+.
Wh3 17, Wg4 Wxg44 (17...Wh6 18. Badt +) 8...d3+ O-1
18. fxg4 cxd4 19. f4 dxe3 20. Bae +.

14...Hf6 15. f4 Hd8 16. f3 Hh6 17, WF2 Another typical black motif is play against
We7 18. Haci c5 19. Kfd1 Hf8 20. &h1 the weakened squares on the c-file:
Eh5 21. dxc5 Axc5 22. 2b1 e5 23. b4
“a6 24. a3 exf4 25. exf4 Ac7 26. f5 Ab5 Game 191 [Eso]
27. Ket Wh7 28. Wg3 Ad4 29. 8e4 Axf5
Frare — Sunye Neto (2530)
30. We5 Wf7 31. Hc7 WIG 32. Wxf6 gxf6
Campinas 1994
33. Hg1+ @h8 34. Bxa7 Ad6 35. 243
f5 36. Rd7 Kh6 37. a4 Df7 38. He7 HE 1. d4 @f6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 £b4 4. 63 0-0
39. a5 bxa5 40. bxa5 Ad8 41. a6 Ac6 5. 2d3 d5 6. a3 &xc3+ 7 bxc3 dxc4
42. Eb7 Ded 43. a7 1-0 8. &xc4 c5 9. Af3 Wc7
This position has its quirks.
If White develops his queen’s bishop early he
must always watch out for Ya5 followed by
Aye:

Game 190 [ESO]

Steinert (2055) - Eingorn (2604)
Oberwart 2002

1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 fb4 4. &g5

c5 5. e3?
(see next diagram)

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10. Yc2 13. Ha2 Hc8 0-1, Petri-Tischbierek, Bad

a0. £a2; Worishofen 1999.

A) 10. 8d3? cxd4 11. cxd4 Wc3+-+4. 10...b6 11. 0-0? (a11. £d3) 11...cxd4
12. cxd4 £a6
B) 10. We2? cxd4 11. Axd4 (11. cxd4
White loses the exchange.
b5! 12. &xb5 Wco3+-+) 11...e5 12. Ac2
(a12. Abd Wc6 13. 0-0 a6 14. a4 axbd 13. 8d3 Yxc2 14. &xc2 &xf1 15. &xft
15. axb5 Wxc4 16. Yxc4 Bxai +) 12...2f5 &4\c6 0-1

12.2 Traps in the Nimzo-Indian

A mobile queen 17. cxb5 Exb5 18. &f1 Hb7 19. Wed d5
20. Wa4 &d7 21. &b5 Exb5 22. Wxb5
Lb6 23. Wd3 Dad 24. Wc3 f6 25. &d1
Game 192 [E30]
we7 26. %e2 Hc8 27. Wc2 &b5+ 28. &f2
Dankert (2291) - St. Schmidt (1895) Ec7 29. Yg6 &d8 30. Hd1 Ac4 31. b3
Hamburg 1999
Ad6 32. Yg4 De4+ 33. Wxe4 1-0
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 L2b4 4. Bg5
c5 5. d5h6 6. 2h4
Opening an escape route

Game 193 [E37]

Euwe - Najdorf
Mar del Plata 1947
4. d4 Df6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Bb4 4. YWe2
d5 5. a3 &xc3+ 6. Yxc3 Ae4 7. We2 c5
8. dxc5 Dc6 9. cxd5 exd5 10. Af3 2F5
11. b4 0-0
41... 2\93812, Wb2) Axhis ds; Wxg7 Hs
14. &BhE We7 15. Yxf8+ Yxf8 16. 2xf8 &xf8
17. b5 Dad 18. Ad4=.
12. &b2
White sets a trap.
6...axd5?
5x in Mega 2005.
7. &xd8 Axc3 8. We2?!
After 8. Wb3!? Ae4+ 9. ed1 Axf2+ 10. Bc2
soxd8 11. Y%g3 Axh1 12. Wxg7 Hes 13. g4+
the
the active queen is clearly superior to
pieces, especially since the steed on h1 will
bite the dust.
8... De4+ 9. &d1 Axf2+ 10. &c1 &xd8
41. e3 Axh1 12. g3 Acé6 13. &g2 Axg3
14. hxg3 Hb8 15. D3 b5 16. a3 £a5

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12...Ag3? 7, Wxg7!?
12...He8 and 12...b6 are the main lines. In Gelenczei this is still a move with two
13. We3 d4 14. Axd4 @xd4 15. fxg3! question marks.

This frees the f2-square for the king. 7. Ya3! is the main line.

15...Ac2+ 7...4a5+ 8. &d1 Axf2+ 9. &c2 HB

15...Ae6 16. e3+-.
16. &f2
White has two extra pawns.
16...%g5 17. h4 Wh6 18. g4 £e4 19. g5
Wg6 20. Hd1 £6 21. Yb3+ wh8 22.
Exf6+ 23. &xf6 Wxf6+ 24. &g1
25. Hh3 h6 26. Hf3 &xf3 27. exf3
28. Wd5 Af5 29. Yxb7 Ae3 30. Het
31. He2 Wd4 32. g3 He8 33. Wa6
34, We6 Axfi1+ 35. &xf1 Wai+ 36.
Wxa3 37. WI7 Yxb4 38. He8+ 1-0
Who traps whom?
Game 194 [E388]
Van Welly (2629) - Bunzmann (2596)
Bundesliga 1999/2000
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 &b4 4. We2
c5 5. dxc5 &8xc3+
In conjunction with the next move, this was
considered a trap. But it appears that Black
is in great danger of falling into his own trap.
6. &xc3 De4
10. 8e3
10. Ah3 Axh1 11. Ag5 (after 11. &h6 White
regains the material, but we fail to see an
advantage; 11...8%xc5 12. e3 d5 13. fe2
[13. Wxf8+ Yxf8 14. &xf8 &xf8 15. £e2 =f
13...Ad7 14. Exh1 dxc4 15. Wxh7 Af6
gxt6
16. &xf8 Wxe3 17, Wh8 Wxe2+ 18. &b1
Hs
4\d5 00) 11...%xc5 12. e4 d5 13. Axh7 Ad7
Ad4
14. exd5 Af2 15. BH6 Hed 16. Hel w.
Yc3
Hd8 10...Axh1
g2 At the moment it is difficult to evaluate this
position.
11. DAf3
If you do not count the Ah1, White is only the
exchange down, but he has excellent play
for it.
11. Ah3?2! is met by 11...b6 12. AgS £b7
11...b6
A) 11...f6 12. gt.
B) 11...Wb4 12. b3 d5 13. cxd6 b5 14. c5
(Bunzmann) with good compensation.
12. Ded!
12. Ag5? &b7! (12...d5? 13. Axh7 Adz
14. g4 Wa6 15. b3 &b7 16. Axf8 Axis
17, &h6 Ad7 18. £92 bxc5 19. Wg8+ &e7
20. £g95+ f6 21. Wg7+ ce8 22. &xf6 Axt6
23. Wxf6+) 13. &d1 Aa’ 14. Axh7 0-0-0
15. Axf8 d5—+.
12...f5?
This simply loses.
A) 12...h5!2.
B) 12...Ac6 13. Ag4 5 14. Afe+ x6
15. Wxf6 bxc5 16. g4 &b7 17, &g2 Ab4é+
18. &b3 &xg2 19, &g5=.

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C) 12...2b7 13. Ag4 f5 14. Af6+ Bxf6
15. Wxf6 2e44+ 16. edi f4 17, Wh8+=.
13. 8g5! Wxc5 14. Yxh7! 1-0
A dubious trap
Game 195
Kotsur (2455) - Ospanov (2295)
Sofia 1994
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 Bb4 4. e3 b6
5. 2d3 &b7 6. Age2?!
We have our doubts about this move.
¢ Game 196 Lugovoi-—Balashov ZY
Instead of this, Black had two variations in
which he would remain the exchange up.
A) 11...Ad3+ 12. Yxd3 &f8 13. Bxf7+
x7 F.
B) 11...2f8 12. Bxf7 &xf7 13. Yxf2+ &e8F.
12. Wxf2 &xg7 13. Af5+ 1-0
Ouch!
[E43]
Crossfire
Game 196 faera
Lugovoi (2566) - Balashov (2500)
Krasnoyarsk 2003
1. d4 Df6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 2b4 4. e3 0-0
5. 8d3 d5 6. Af3 b6 7. a3 2d6 8. e4!
dxe4 9. Axe4
This position sometimes arises from a vari-
ation of the Queen’s Indian; then the knight
arrives here from d2.
9...2b7?
(see next diagram)

Strangely enough, this mistake has often

happened, but it has only been punished
once.
A) 9...£¢7?! 10. Axf6+ 2xf6 11. £e4 c6+.
B) 9...Abd7+.

6...2xg2 7. Hgi 2e4

7...£f3 is also worth considering.
8. &2xe4?
Of course, not 8. Bxg7? on account of
8...£g6!.
More usual is 8. a3! &xc3+ 9. Axc3 2xd3
(9...£g67?! 10. e4%. This is the actual idea
behind 6. Age2 and in this way Black would
fall into the trap) 10. Yxd3 hs 11. e4 4\c6
42. 8e3 d6 13. 0-0-0. 10. Axf6+!+—- Wxf6
8...axe4 9. Rxg7 Axf2! 10...gxf6 11. &h6 Be8 12. Aed f5 13. Whd
Wf6 (13...2xe5 14. dxe5 Ad7 15. 0-O0-0+-)
Thus Black keeps his extra pawn.
14, Ag4+-.
10. Yc2 11. &g5 &xf3 12. Wd2! 1-0
42... £f4 13. &xf4 Axg2 14. Hg1 Ac6
10, @xi2? Wi6+—+.
15. Bxg2 Axd4 16. We3+-.
10...Wh4 11. Ag3 &f87?

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Weaknesses on the dark A surprisingly bad position

squares
Game 198 [E54]
Game 197 [E53] Knaak (2465) - Marinelli (2260)
Antoshin —- Estrin
Lugano 1989
Leningrad 1957 1. d4 @f6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 &2b4 4. e3 0-0
5. 2d3 d5 6. Df3 c5 7. 0-0 dxc4 8. &xc4
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 &b4 4. e3 c5 cxd4 9. exd4 b6 10. &2g5 £b7 11. We2
5. &d3 0-0 6. Af3 d5 7. 0-0 Abd7 8. a3 4\bd7 12. De5

12...8e7?
8...dxc4?
What is especially surprising here is how
9x in Mega 2005. 8...8a5 and 8...&xc3 are badly Black stands after this ‘normal’ move.
the main lines. 12...2x¢3 13. bxc3 We7 on.
9. axb4 cxd4 13. Had1
6x in Mega 2005.
9...cxd3? 10. bxc5 and White will have an
extra pawn. 13...8c8
13...6 14, Sha,
10. &xh7+! Axh7 11. Yxd4
14. Hfe1+ 85?!
White’s advantage is greater than it appears There is no sensible move available to Black.
at first sight: the doubled b-pawns do not 14...A\d5?! 15. &xd5 &xd5 16. Axf7! Hxt7
play any role, but Black’s a- and c-pawns 17. 2xe7+-.
tend to be weak. Furthermore, the opposite-
15. 2a6+- Ha8 16. Axd5 Axd5 17. Ac6
colour bishops increase White’s advantage,
We8 18. Axe7+ Axe7 19. d5 Axd5
as the dark squares in Black’s camp are very
20. 2b7 Wb8 21. &xa8 Wxas 22. Wg4
weak, whereas White can protect his light
®h8 23. Hd3 1-0
squares with f3 and e4.
11...Ab6 12. e4 Wxd4 13. Axd4 £d7 A greedy queen
14. 8e3 Af6 15. £3 Ac8 16. Efd1 De7
17. Ac2 a6 18. &c5 Hfe8 19. De3 b5 Game 199 [E56]
20. e5 Afd5 21. &xe7 Hxe7 22. 4\exd5
Novotelnov - Smyslov
exd5 23. Axd5 Bxe5 24. Ab6 1-0 19th USSR Championship, Moscow 1951

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 12.2 Traps in the Nimzo-Indian ¢ Game 199 Novotelnov
— Smyslov Q)
1. d4 @f6 2. c4 e6 3. Ac3 2b4 4. e3 14...Ae5 15. &b2 Wa2 16. Axed Wxd5 saves
d5 5. Df3 0-0 6. 2d3 c5 7. 0-0 Ac6 the queen, but White has sufficient compen-
8. a3 2a5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. dxc5 &xc3 sation for the exchange.
11. bxc3 Wa5
15. e4
11...2g4 is more often played.
Now the black queen will find it hard to es-
12. c4 cape.
Here 12. Yc2 has proved to be good; the
15...2d7
text move sets a trap.
15...Ad7 16. &2b2 Wa2 17. Ad2+-.
16. &8b2 Wa2 17. Ad4 Hfc8
A) 17...Axe4 18. &xe4 Ac4 19. 2xh7+ Bhs
POP Sis aide ,;co+—
B) 17...2a4 18. Wc3+-.
18. Bai+- Hxc5 19. Bxa2 Bxc2
20. Axc2 Hc8 21. f3 &b5 22. Dei &xd3
23. Axd3 Ad7 24. &d4 b6 25. Ab4 He4
26. £e3 f5 27. exf5 &f7 28. He2 &f6
29. g4 De5 30. Yg2 g6 31. fxg6 hxg6
32. h4 Af7 33. &g3 Ab3 34. Ac6 He3
35. £f2 Hd3 36. He3 Hxe3 37. 2xe3 Ad6
12...%c3? 38. 295+ &f7 39. Axa7 DAcd 40. Lf4
42...dxc4 13. &xc4 Y&xc5 should be level. &\c4 41. Ab5 Ye7 42. h5 gxh5 43. gxh5
13. cxd5! Yxai1 14. Yc2 Dad &f6 1-0

King’s Indian Defence
13.1 Typical motifs in the King’s Indian
Black usually wants to play ...e7—e5 in the King’s Indian, but this is not always possible.
Game 200 [E61]
Farag6 (2425) - Papastavropoulos
Graz 1972
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 &g7 4. &f4 d6
5. e3 Abd7 6. Af3 0-0 7. Le2 He8 8. h3
8...e5?
There are 29 games in Mega 2005 with this
move. Others have the sequence 8. 0-0 e5?
The advance e7-e5 is not so easy to get in.
9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Axe5!
The opposition of the queens on the d-file
costs Black one defender of e5.
10...Ae4
A) 10...Axe5 11. Yxd8 Bxd8 12. &xe5+4-.,
B) 10...Ah5!? 11. &xh5 Axes 12.
Le6+.
Chapter 13
11. Axe4 Axed 12. 8g5 Yxd1+ 13. Bxd1
@Ad7 14. Ac3 &xc3+ 15. bxc3 Ab6
16. c5 Ad7 17. c6 bxc6 18. &f4 Ded
19. 28xe5 Hxe5 20. Hd8+ &g7 21. 0-0
Hd5 22. He8 &b7 23. He7 Hc5 24. Hdt
Hf8 25. Rxc7 &c8 26. c4 Had 27. Hd2
c5 28. 8f3 2e6 29. 8d5 YF6 30. e4 Eb8
31. f4 Hb1+ 32. ®h2 Hal 33. &xe6 &xe6
34. Hdd7 g5 35. He7+ ©f6 36. Hxf7+ 1-0
This important motif occurs in many ver-
sions:
Game 201 [E61]
Schleifer (2285) - Latendresse (2065)
Québec 1995
1. d4 Af6 2. c4
2. Af3 g6 3. &g5 &g7 4. c4 dé 5. Ac3
O-O 6. e4 e5? (here White has played
2g5 instead of &e2 — this makes a differ-
ence!) 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Yxd8 Exd8 9. Ad5
(9. &2xf6 &2xf6 10. Ad5 also wins material)
9...A\bd7 10. Bd1 f8 11. Axc7 Eb8 12. £d3
Ac5 13. &c2 Afxe4 14. Re7 AF5 15. &2xf8
&xf8 16. &xe4 Axed 17. Ad5 Ac5 18. 0-0
&g7 19. Axe5 1-0, Martinez Maluje—Svara,
Buenos Aires 2003.
2...96 3. Ac3 8g7 4. &g5
4.e4d6
&e2 a) 5. f4 e5? (69x in Mega 2005)
(see next analysis diagram)
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 = 13.1 Typical motifs in the King’s Indian e Game 202 Belov—Soloviov {N

come later) prevents variations with £f5 and

£94.

B BwWeanki
This is clearly premature. 6. dxe5 dxe5
7. Yxd8+ &xd8 8. fxe5 Afd7 (8...Ag4
9. &8g5+ #e8 10. 0-0-0 Ac6 11. Ab5+—-)
9. 895+ #e8 10. Add &xed (10...Aa6
11. Af3 c6 12. Af6++) 11. Af3 2d6 12. Bd
4\c6 13. 2e2 Ac5 14. 2f6 Bg8 15. ed 1-0, 6...e5? 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Wxd8 Hxd8
Ullmann—Ehrenfried, Hassloch 1999; 9. &xf6 &xf6 10. Add5 Bxd5 11. cxd5
e4 12. 0-0-0 c6 13. &£¢4 b5 14. &b3 a5
b) 5. Af8 0-0 6. Le2 e5 is the main line. 15. dxc6 @xc6 16. Hd6 1-0
4...0-0 5. e3
5. e4 d6 Against the Samisch variation Black of-
ten combines ...e5 with the pawn sacrifice
a) 6. £8 e5? 7 dxe5 dxeS 8. Wxd8 Hxd8 ... Ac6-d4:
9. Ad5 Hd6 10. Axc7 Aaé6 11. Axa8 Ab4
12. Hd1 Ac2+ 13. we2 Ad4+ 14. &f2 1-0, Game 202 [E84]
Safyanovsky -Rezak, Bratislava 1992; the
Belov (1972) - Soloviov (2457)
move order at the beginning was different;
St. Petersburg 2004
b) 6. &e2 e5? (a good hundred times in
Mega 2005) 1. d4 Df6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 2g7 4. e4 dé
5. £3 0-0 6. £e3 Ac6 7. Age2

7, Wd2 e5 8. d5? Ad4! (from Black’s point

of view, this pawn sacrifice is almost always
justified, if White has to give up his dark-
square bishop and Black retains his own on
g/)

7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Wxd8 Exd8 9. AdS Axd5

10. &xd8 Af4 11. 0-0-0 Aaé 12. 2g5+-.
5...d6 6. 2e2!?
White is not really speculating on the blunder
which follows. But this transposition (Af3 will

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9. &xd4 exd4 10. Wxd4 Axed! (an-
other tactical point) 11. Wd3 (11. Wxe4
Re8—-+) 11...Wh4+ 12. ®e2 Axc3+ 13. bxc3
He8+ 14. &d2 &h6+ 0-1, Bekker Jensen-
Skovgaard, Copenhagen 1995.
7...a6 8. YWd2 Eb8 9. Act
9. Ag3?! (the intention behind the previous
move was not to get the knight to g3 in two
moves, but to control the d4-square) 9...e5!
10. d5 Ad4!
This position has been reached more or less
by force after 9. Ac1. Considerable difficul-
ties are lurking in wait for White.
14...d5
14...8e8!1?; 14...Wa571.
15. cxd5 cxd5 16. exd5?! (416. e500)
16...8b4!?
After 16...8e8+ 17. 262 Hb4 18. 0-0 (18. &c5
tranposes) 18...Ae4 (18...8xd4 19. Wxd4
Ag4 [19...Ae4 20. Wxe4 Bxe4 21. fxe4]

Kew we 20. Wc5 Axh2 21. Bfel Wh4 22. Hed)

vy 19. fxe4 &xd4+ 20. &h1 £e5 Black has a

giant of a bishop on ed.
17. 28c5 He8+ 18. &8e2 Hxb2 19. Yxb2
4\xd5
5x in Mega 2005.
20. He1 Wad 21. Ya3?
21. Sf1 Wxc5 (21...8xc3 22. Wa3: 21...
@xc3 22. &b4 Wxa2 23. &xc3 Wxb2
24. &xb2 &xb2) 22. Axd5 Wxd5&.
11. &2xd4 (11. £d3 is the lesser evil) 11...exd4
12. Ace2 (12. Yxd4? Axed is another motif 21...%xa3 22. 2xa3 Axc3F 23. He2
which needs to be known) 12...c5 13. dxc6 £f5 24. Rb2 Ab5 (24...2d7—+) 25. Bb3
bxc6 14. Axd4 (White has won a pawn, but 4d4 26. Hb2 Ab5 27. Bb3 Ad4 28. Hb2
it is hardly possible for development to be 42c2+?
completed without losing material) 14...%b6 28...82d3 29. Hb8 Ac2+ 30. &d2 Bxbs
15. Ab3 Hd8 16. Se2 Le6 17. Hcl Ad7 31. 2d6 &xe2 32. &xb8 Ad4F.
18. Bc2 Ac5 19. £d3 Axb3 20. axb3 Wxb3
29. Hxc2 &xc2 30. &d2 &h6+ 31. &xc2
21. 0-0 &xb2 22. &h1 &g7-+, De La Cruz— Hxe2+ 32. &b3 &f8 33. &xf8 &xfs
Goutor, Mallorca 2004.
34. Hg1 @e7 35. a4 &d6 36. &b4 wed
9...e5 10. d5 Ad4 11. Ab3 c5! 12. dxc6 37. ®a5 Ha2 38. He1+ &f6 39. Hgt h5
bxc6 13. Axd4 exd4 14. &xd4 40. h4 %e5 41. g3 Ha3 42. He1+ &f5
43. Hf1 £6 44. &b4 Ha2 45. ea5 a3
46. &b4 Hd3 47. &c5 Hb3 48. &c4 He3
49. &c5 Hb3 50. &c4 Hb2 51. &c5 a5
52. @c6 Hb3 53. &c5 Hb4 54. Hat g5
55. hxg5 &xg5 56. Ha3 f5 57. &c6 0-1

White must always be careful when playing

&h6:

Game 203 [E87]

Horkai (2165) - Bognar (2150)
Budapest 1998
 = 13.2 Traps in the King’s Indian * Game 204 Okechukwu - Mac Intyre GY

1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 Lg7 4. e4 dé played h6 in order to provoke £&xh6; in that

5. £3 0-0 6. £e3 Abd7 7. Wd2 e5 8. d5 case he may not win a pawn but the ex-
a5 9. £h6? change of a wing pawn for a centre pawn
favours the second player. But if Black’s c-
pawn has already moved, things look dif-
ferent — White in turn can win an important
pawn with @xe4 and @xd6.
10. fxe4 Wh4+ 11. g3 Yxh6-+ 12. Af3
Wxd2+ 13. &xd2 Ac5 14. Het f5
15. 892 &h6+ 16. &d1 Ad3 17. He2 fxe4
18. Axe4 Aci 19. Hf2 Be3 20. Hc2 &F5
21. Axe5 dxe5 22. Hxc1 &xc1 23. &xct
&xe4 24. &xe4 Hf2 25. c5 Haf8 26. dé
cxd6 27. cxd6 b6 28. d7 &f7 29. h4 ®e7
30. Rd1 H2f6 31. h5 Hd8 32. hxg6 hxg6
33. Hd5 He6 34. &f3 Bxd7 35. Bxd7+
6x in Mega 2005. &xd7 36. 894 we7 37. &xe6 &xe6
9...axe4! 38. &d2 &d5 39. &d3 e4+ 40. Le3
This motif also exists in quite similar pos- ge5 41. a4 g5 42. &d2 &d4 43. He2
itions, sometimes even when Black has e3 44. Se1 &d3 45. &d1 0-1

13.2 Traps in the King’s Indian

Hunting the queen

Game 204 [E61]

Okechukwu (2140) - Mac Intyre (2304)
Lowell 2002

4. d4 Df6 2. Af3 g6 3. c4 &g7 4. 4\c3

0-0 5. &g5h6 6. &2h4 c5 7. e3 d6 8. 2e2
£f5 9. Yb3?!

11...Ae4!
9. 0-0 is the normal move.
11...Qa5? 12. Wa6 &c8 13. Wb5 8b87?

9...Ac6! 10. dxc5 dxc5 11. Yxb7? 14, Yxb8 1-0, Varga-Rajlich, Szentgotthard
(see next diagram) 2001.

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 ee) Chapter 13 King’s Indian Defence

12. Axe4 A Trap with prominent victims

12. Add Wad5+ 13. &f1 (13. b4 Axb4
14. Axe7+ Bh8 15. Axf5 Axa2+ 16. &f1 Game 206 [E69]
gxf5+) 13...e6F.
Aronian (2502) —- Marjanovi€é (2451)
12...2xe4 13. 0-0 Hb8 14. Wa6 Exb2 Bucharest 1999
0-1
Resignation is early, but justified. 1. Df3 Af6 2. g3 g6 3. L292 Lg7 4. 0-0
0-0 5. c4 c6 6. d4 d6 7. Ac3 Wa5d 8. e4
e5 9. h3 Abd7 10. He1 exd4 11. Axd4
Queen with no retreat
Bed 12. 2f1 He8 13. 8e3 Be6 14. Axe6
Rxe6 15. a3?
Game 205 [E69]
Cu. Hansen (2608) —- Kunze (2354)
Bad Godesberg 1999

1. c4 Af6 2. Ac3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2

0-0 5. d4 d6 6. Af3 Abd7 7. 0-0 e5 8. e4
c6 9. h3 exd4 10. Axd4 He8 11. b3 Ac5
12. He1 Wb6 13. 2e3 a5 14. kb1 Yb4?

6x in Mega 2005. Even Karpov and Nikolié

have been trapped this way!

a5. &g2t.

15...Axe4!
The motif also occurs in similar positions:
15x in Mega 2005.
16. 84?!
15. Adb5!
16. Hc1+; 16. Axed? Wxet! 17 Wxel
The retreat squares for the black queen are
aio
being cut off.
15. Acb5!. 16...Ag5 17. &g2
15...cxb5 a7. ht Ad3-+.
15...Acxe4 16. Axe4 Axe4 17. a3 Wxei+
17...Def3 0-1
18. Yxe1 cxb5 19. cxb5+.
16. Axb5 Afxe4 17. a3! and White resigned in view of 18. Exe6 Wf5!
19. &h1 Axh3 20. 2d3 Axf2+ 21. &g2 Axd3
17, £d2? Lgd4oo, 22. Be3 Afel+ 23. Bxet Axet+ 24. Wxel
17...4%xb5 18. cxb5 Ac3 19. &xc5 1-0 &xd4—+4,

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 13.2 Traps in the King’s Indian ¢ Game 208 Umezinwa-—Formanek &)

Transposing into the Volga Transposing into the Volga

Gambit (Part 1) Gambit (Part 2)

Game 207 [E74] Game 208 [E74]

Popov - W. Schmidt Umezinwa (2325) - Formanek (2335)
Polanica Zdrdj 1969 Chicago 1993

:. 4 tak= A g6 3. Ac3 2g7 4. e4 dé 1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 &g7 4. e4 dé

. £e2 0-0 6. 295 c5 7. d5 a6 5. £e2 0-0 6. 895 c5 7. d5 b5 8. cxb5
lf Black wishes to play on the queenside, a6 9. bxa6?!
then objectively speaking the immediate 62 x in Mega 2005. a9. a4
7...05 is perhaps called for. But the text =
move is quite good as a trap.

9...%a5! 10. YWd2 Abd7 11. Af3 2xa6

8. D3? 14x in Mega 2005. Black has reached an

advantageous f f the Vol it.
31x in Mega 2005. It locks as though White goats ioin.o1 the Velde em
still has full control of b5. 12. 0-0 Hfb8

8. a4+ was indicated. 12... Axe4! 13. Axed Wxd2 14. Afxd2 &xe2
15. Bfel &8d3 16. &xe7 Hfb8 17 &xd6
8...b5! 9. cxb5 axb5 10. &2xb5 Axe4! Exb2 +.
11. Axe4 Wa5+ 12. Ac3 &xc3+ 13. bxc3
Wxb5 14. Ad2 (a14. We2F) 14...Wd3 13. Hab1? @xe4! 14. We3 Axc3
15. c4 e6 16. dxe6 &xe6F 17. We2 &xc4! 15. bxc3 Exb1 16. Bxb1 Yxa2 17. Het
18. Yxd3 &xd3 19. &d1 Ac6 20. a4 fxe2 18. Hxe2 Wxd5 19. 8xe7 Ded
HfeS 21. Bf4 c4 22. Af3 Re2+ 23. Hd2 20. Axe5 Yxe5 21. g3 Wd5 22. Wei We4
&xf3 24. gxf3 DAd4 25. &xd6 Hads 23. Hel d5 24. Yb1 &xc3 25. Wb7 Wa6
26. 8g3 He2+ 27. &c3 He2+ 28. &b4 26. Wxa6 Hxa6 27. Het &b4 28. &xc5
Hd5 29. Hhd1 Ac6+ 30. ka3 Hc3+ Hc6 29. £e3 Exci+ 30. &xci d4 31. &f1
d3 32. &b2 £5 33. £3 Hf7 34. &F2 Bd2
31. &b2 Hb3+ 32. &ci Ad4 33. Ha2 c3
35. Ad4 £4 36. gxf4 &xf4 37. vei Leb
34, a5 Hb4 35. a6 c2 36. Hxc2 Ab3+
38. £f2 &e5 39. h3 Ye6 40. di &F5
37, &b2 Hxd1 38. Hc8+ &g7 39. a7
41. £e1 &g5 42. 803 &2e3 0-1
Qd4+ 40. &c3 Hb3+ 41. &c4 Hci+ 0-1

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Strike in the centre
Game
209 (ieG]
Basagié (2355) - Holoubkova (2190)
XXXI Olympiad, Moscow 1994
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 8g7 4. e4 dé
5. f4 0-0 6. Af3 Daé 7. Le2 e5 8. fxe5
dxe5 9. d5 @c5 10. Yc2?
71x in Mega 2005. a10. £95.
10...Afxe4! 11. Axe4 £5 12. 8d3 &xe4
13. 2xe4 f5
Black already has at least the better game,
probably even a clear advantage.
14. &xf5 Bxf5!2
14...gxf5 is of course also good.
15. £e3 e4 16. &xc5 exf3 17. 0-0 YWg5
18. Hae1 &8e5! 19. &h1
19. £b4 f2+ (19...2xh2+? 20. &xh2 Wh4+
21. &g1 Bhd 22. Bxf3+—) 20. Bxf2 &d4F.
19...2xh2! 20. &xh2 Wh4+ 21. 91 BhS
22. gxf3 Whi+ 0-1
Game 210 bE7.6]
Englisch - Tarrasch
4th German Chess Union Congress,
Hamburg 1885
432
King’s Indian Defence
1. d4 @f6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 2g7 4. e4 dé
5. f4 0-0 6. Af3 Abd7
This is not considered to be so strong.
7. 2e2 e5?!
42x in Mega 2005.
This move can probably be criticised, but
Gelenczei’s ?? seems a bit exaggerated.
8. dxe5 dxe5 9. fxe5 Ag4 10. 2g5 Wes
10...f6 11. exf6 £xf6 is perhaps playable, al-
though computers consider that White has a
clear advantage.
11. Ad5! Agxe5!
11...Adxe5? 12. h3! Axf3+ 13. gxf38+-.
12. 867?
White falls into the trap.
A) 12. Axc7? Axf3+ 13. &xf3 Wed 14. Axa8s
Wxg5F.
B) 12. Wd2! Bb8 13. Axc7 Axf3+ 14. gxf3
Wed 15. Ad5+.
12...Axf3+ 13. &xf3
ogxicl?.
13...c6 14. &xf8 Wxf8 15. Ac3
It is probable that, despite being the ex-
change up, White does not stand any better:
Black has a tremendous amount of play on
the dark squares.
15...W%e5
15...Ab6!?.
16. Yb3 He5 17. 0-0-0 Axc4?
17...2e6 18. Wxb7 He8s.
18. Hd8+ &f8 19. Rhd1 Se6 20. Rxa8
Wg5+ 21. &b1 Ad2+ 22. Rxd2 &xb3
 | 13.2 Traps in the King’s Indian * Game 211 Grétarsson-Van der Wiel
23. Hdd8 8c4 24. Rxf8+ &g7 25. Hfd8
b5 26. b3 &f1 27. Hd7 Wc5 28. Ad1
b4 29. Hd2 We5 30. Hxa7 Wxh2
31. Hdd7 @h6 32. Exf7 8£d3+ 33. &ct
We5 34. &d2 &xe4d 35. &xe4 Wxed
36. Ae3 Wb1 37. ke2 Yb2+ 38. &F3 c5
39. Had7 Wc3 40. g4 Wal 41. Bxh7+ &g5
42. Hd5+ &f6 43. g5+ &e6 44. Rdd7 1-0
Van der Wiel’s patent
Game 211
Grétarsson (2440) -
Van der Wiel (2555)
Leeuwarden 1995
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 2g7 4. e4 dé
5. £4 0-0 6. Af3 c5 7. dxc5 Wad 8. 2d3
@td7?
Van der Wiel’s patent move, which has the
reputation of being very dubious. This game
looks like the final refutation. .
8...%xc5 is a steady move.
9. cxd6! (Ljubojevic)
9. 8d2? Axc5 10. &c2 Wb4!? (10...ac6!
is a good move) 11. £b3 (11. Ad5! Wxc4
42. Wb1! protects both b2 and e4, a la Fritz;
not the sort of thing you would normally
reckon with in a practical game) 11...Wb6
42. We2 Axb3 13. Ad5? (13. axb3 Wxb3+)
13...Wa6 14. Hd1 Wxa2 15. Ac7 Aaé 0-1,
- Tal, Reykjavik 1964.
Johannessen
Q)
9...2xc3+ 10. bxc3 WYxc3+ 11. Wd2
Wxai 12. dxe7 He8 13. e5 Ac6 14. 0-0
4\d4
[E76]
15. Ag5!
15. £b2? Axf3+ 16. gxf3 Wxa2 17. £5 (Ljubo-
jevic-van der Wiel, Wijk aan Zee 1986)
17...xe7+; (van der Wiel).
15...Ac5
A) 15...Ab3 16. axb3 Wd4+ 17. &h1 Acd
18. Axh7+-.
B) 15...Ae6 16. Axe6 fxe6 17. 2xg6! hxg6
18. 8a3 Yxfi+ 19. &xf1 &F7 20. f5!+—- (Lig-
terink).
16. 8a3 Ach3 17. Wf2! YWc3 18. Wh4 hd
19. De4 Yxd3 20. Af6+ Lh8 21. Axe8
AE5
21...De2+ 22. Bh1 Ag3+ 23. hxg3 Wxfi+
24, &h2+-.
22. Wi6+ &g8 23. Ad6 (23. Ac7+-)
23...8e6 24. Axf5 &xf5 25. axb3 Yxb3
26. e6! Ye3+ 27. Bhi Wxe6 28. &b2
Wxf6 29. 2x6
Black is totally paralysed and he could have
resigned at this point.
29...He8 30. Kal a6 31. &g1 Se6 32. c5
£d7 33. &f2 Bh7 34. Be3 g5 35. fxg5
cog6 36. &f4 &c6 37. g3 Ha8 38. Hd
He8 39. Hd8 a5 40. wed a4 41. &d6 &F5
42. c7 eb 43. Hxe8 Sxe8 44. &d8
1-0
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A Knightmare 4\xe2+ 18. Axe2 Wxh5-—+, Viahov—Vasilev,

Primorsko 1989.
Game 212 [E83] 9...exd4 10. Ad5 Aged 11. YWc2 Axd3+
Cooke (2237) - Zimmerman (2346) 12. Yxd3 De5 13. Yb3 c6 14. Adf4 b5
Budapest 2001 15. 0-0 Hb8 16. a4 a6 17. Ad5 £e6 18. f4
4\d7 19. 5 &xd5 20. exd5 0-1
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 8g7 4. e4 dé
5. £3 0-0 6. 8e3 Ac6 Two knights for one fork
6...e5 7 £d3? (this has been tried quite
often — almost 40 games in Mega 2005) Game 213 [E90]
7...Aag4! (surprisingly, this direct refutation Norman — Vidmar
was shown in one of the first games, but has Hastings 1925/26
only been seen three times in total) 8. &d2
(8. fxg4 exd4 9. g5 dxe3 10. AF3 &g4 11. h4 1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 2g7 4. Af3
11. h4 but even if White simply picks up 0-0 5. e4 d6 6. 2d3?! 894 7. h3 &xf3 8.
the Ae3, his position is ruined) 8...exd4—+ Wxf3 Ac6 9. 2e3
9. Ab5 Hed 10. We2 c5 11. 0-0-0 a6 12. Aa3 9. Ae2 Ad7 10. We3F.
@\bc6 13. Ae2 Se6 14. Af4 Ab4 15. Wb3 9...Ad7
A\bxd3+ 16. Axd3 Axc4 0-1, Sliwa-Tolush,
Bucharest 1953.
7. 2d3?
You need to be careful with this move in the
Samisch Variation.

7...e5 8. Age2?!

10. Ae2?
There are 17 games with this mistake.
10. dS Ace5 11. Ye2 Axd3+ 12. Wxd3F.
10...Ade5! 11. dxe5 Axe5 12. Wg3
4xd3+ 13. @f1 c5 14. h4 Wd7 15. h5
We6 16. Bh4 Wxc4 17. hxg6 fxg6 18. Wh3
A@xf2 19. &xf2 &8d4 0-1
53x in Mega 2005. Or 8. d5 Ad4F.
8...0g4! 9. &d2 Chess is not checkers
a9. fxg4 exd4 10. Axd4 (10. &f22! dxc3
11. Axc3 Ded 12. Re2 Le6F) 10...8xd4 Game 214 [E92]
11. &xd4 Axd4 12. 0-0 c6 13. Bb1? Wg5 Kabanov (2507) —- Schebler (2463)
14.h3 h5 15. gxh5 &xh3 16. Bf2 £94 17, £62 Pardubice 2004

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 13.2 Traps in the King’s Indian * Game 216 Moreno Carnero—German

1. Af3 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 &g7 4. e4 dé

5. d4 0-0 6. 8e2 e5 7. 8e3 Ag4 8. &g5
#6 9. 8c1 exd4 10. Axd4 f5 11. exf5?
This ‘natural’ exchange is a mistake, since
Black does not have to recapture!
11. &xg4 fxg4oo; 11. h3 Ah6o.

A well-known mistake. Instead of this, Black

can play 9...@c6, but 9...exd4 and 9...f5 are
also interesting.
10. dxe5 dxe5?
This loses a pawn.
After 10...fxe5 11. c5! Black is simply
11...Axf2! 12. &xf2 Wh4+ 13. g3 Yxd4+ very badly placed: 11...@f7 12. cxd6 cxd6
14. Wxd4 &xd4+ 15. &g2 &xc3 16. bxc3 (12...Axd6 13. Ab5 Ac6 14. 295 Lf6
&xf5 15. &h6 He8 16. Axd6 cxd6 17. &c4+ &h8
And Black is simply a pawn up. 18. Wd2+, Wirthensohn - Milov, Switzerland
1996) 13. O-O+, Popov—Socko, Bydgoszcz
17. He1 DAd7 18. 2h6 £e4+ 19. Ygi Hfes
2001.
20. £94 Ac5 21. He3 2c6 22. Hd1 Hxe3
23. &xe3 b6 24. 2h6 He8 25. Hf1 2d7 11. Yxd8 Hxd8 12. Ad5 Hd7?
26. &f3 &e6 27. &c6 Hc8 28. Het &xc4 12... Aa6 13. Axf6+ &xf6 14. 2xh6 Acd
29. He7 &xa2 30. &g2 a5 31. Bh3 2f7 15. Ad2 +/+-.
32. &h4 a4 33. 2c1 &f8 34. He3 &g7 13. &xh6 1-0
35. He7 &f8 36. He2 £c4 37. He3 Ad3
38. £a3 &f7 39. 8d5+ &xd5 40. Bxd3 A fearless queen
£04 41. Hf38+ &g7 42. He3 HF8 43. g4
h6 44. &g3 c5 45. He1 Hf1 0-1 [E94]
Game 216
Moreno Carnero (2375)-
A knight on the rim
German (2440)
Buenos Aires 1996
Game 215 [E92]
1. d4 Df6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 2g7 4. e4 dé
Kruppa (2520) - Moliboga (2295)
Kiev 2003 5. Df3 0-0 6. &e2 e5 7. 0-0 Wes
Black is threatening the Ae4.
1. d4 g6 2. c4 &g7 3. Af3 dé 4. A\c3 Df6
8. He1?!
5. e4 0-0 6. Se2 €5 7. 8e3 Ag4 8. 2g5
£6 9. &c1 Ah6? This is not sufficient protection.
21x in Mega 2005. 8...exd4 9. Axd4
(see next diagram) (see next diagram)

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1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. DAc3 8g7 4. e4

d6 5. Af3 0-0 6. Be2 e5 7. 0-0 exd4
8. Axd4 He8 9. f3 Ac6 10. 2e3 DAh5
11. YWd2 Af4

The position has already appeared 150

times. White has various moves which will
eventually help him secure a slight advan-
tage, say 12. Bfd1 or 12. Hf2.

9. Yxd4 is perhaps unusual, but playable.

However, after 9...Abd7! Black can be sat-
isfied with his opening.

9...Axe4! 10. Add Wd8 11. 23

11. Ab5? c6F.
11... Axf2! 12. &xf2 Wh4+ 13. &g1
13. g3 Wxd4+ 14. Wxd4 &xd4+ 15. £e3 12. 8d1?!
4\c6 F.
But saving the light-square bishop is not one
13...2xd4+ 14. @h1 8e5 15. Bxe5 dxe5 of them.
16. Axc7 Hd8 17. 8d5? 12...Axd4 13. &xd4?

17. WI e4 18. £e2 Aa6 19. Axa8 £g4F. White had to play 13. &xf4 — and of course
he could have played it one move earlier.
17...8&xd57?
13...Wg5! 14. 2e3
17...&d7 was called for.

18. Axd5? (18. cxd5+—) 18...Aa6 0-1

and White resigned, but the position is com-

pletely unclear now and may be roughly
equal according to Fritz.

Catastrophe on the dark

squares (Part 1)

Game 217 [E94]

Oliwa (2440) - Pedzich (2425) 14...8d4!! 15. Het
Brzeg Dolny 1996 15. &xd4? An3+ 16. &h1 Wxd2—-+4.
 13.2 Traps in the King’s Indian ¢ Game 219 Bergez-— Vassallo Barroche Q)
15...2xe3+ 16. Exe3 Axg2! 17. He2 in Lugano, and Chikovani at the Karseladz
Af4+ 18. hi &e6 19. b3 Wed 20. Het Memorial Tournament in Gori.
c6 21. &c2 Had8 22. Hadi &h3 23. De2
8g2+ 24. &g1 Wc5+ 25. Wd4 0-1 12. fxe4

12. Axe4 Axed 13. fxe4 &xd4+F.

Catastrophe on the dark
12...8xd4+ 13. Wxd4 Wxg5 14. Yxd6
squares (Part 2)
14. Had1!? &e6 (14...8d8? 15. e5! Aes
Game 218 [E94] 16. Wf2 dxe5 17 Wxf7+ @h8 18. Ae4
We3+ 19. &h1 £d7 20. Wf6+ Ag7 21. 8xd7
Farag6o (2475) - Berg (2410)
1-0, Pugachov-— Movsesian, Mlada Boleslav
Tastrup 1990
1993) 15. Wd2 Wxd2 16. Exd2 a5 17. Bxd6.
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 &g7 4. e4 d6 White has recovered the pawn, but Black is
5. 2e2 0-0 6. 28g5 Abd7 7. YWd2 c6 clearly better.

A flexible move. Black can, as in the game, 14...%e3+ 15. Bh1 Axe4 16. Axe4 Yxe4
play e7-e5, but he also has the option of 17. ae1 £e6 18. We7 Hae8 19. Yb4 2d5
d6-d5. 20. Hg1 b5 21. b3 Wh4 22. Wc3 bxc4
8. Af3 e5 9. 0-0 exd4 10. Axd4 Ac5 93. &xc4 &xc4 24. bxc4 W2 25. a3
Exel 26. Hxe1 Hd8 27. h3 h5 28. Yes
These are all the main moves; the position Wxe3 29. Hxe3 &f8 30. He5 Hd7 31. Hc5
has been reached 66 times. He7 32. He5 &g7 33. g4 hxg4 34. hxg4
11. 3? &f6 35. Hc5 %e6 36. &g2 kd6 37. Had
c5 38. &f3 %e5 39. Ye f5 40. Ha6 fxg4
18x in Mega 2005.
A1. Hxg6 &f5 42. Hd6 He7+ 43. &f2 &f4
44. Hd5 g3+ 45. &f1 Hed 46. Hd7 a5
47. Hf7+ Bf5 48. Bd7 &f3 49. &g1 Ha
50. Hd3+ &g4 51. &g2 Hf2+ 52. &gt
He2 0-1

A deadly stroke

Game 219 [E94]

Bergez (2392) -
Vassallo Barroche (2470)
Mislata 2001
After 11. &f4 White has solid prospects of
some advantage.
1. e4 g6 2. d4 &g7 3. c4 d6 4. Ac3 eS
11...Afxe4! 5. d5 a5 6. Se2 Daé 7. Df3 Afé6 8. 0-0
This trap was first sprung in 1968 by Yefim 0-0 9. Hb1 Ac5 10. Yc2?
Geller, who claimed no less than three (see next diagram)

(!) victims with it in the space of a few

13x in Mega 2005.
weeks: Adamski and Holm at the Olympiad

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oy 2x in Mega 2005. In this specific position,

2 Black cannot afford the usual advance of the

ba A f-pawn.
12. &2xf4 exf4 13. e5 dxe5 14. Axe5

be
Dmg»| At first sight it is not apparent just how catas-

A trophic Black’s situation is. The decisive fac-

tor is the difficulty in developing his queen-
4) side.
i> Y
»
S2,
pres
10...Afxe4!
Of course this little combination also exists
in similar positions.
11. Axe4 Axe4 12. £e3
12. Wxe4 &f5-+.
12...Ac5 13. Ebd1 b6 14. b3 &f5
15. Yb2 2d7 16. a3 f5 17. b4 e4 18. Ad4
£419. &xf4 Exf4 20. bxc5 bxc5 21. Yd2
e3 O-1
14...a5
14...8e8 15. c5 Axd5 16. Yxd5+
Attack on the wing - counter Wxd5
17. Axd5 Bxe5 18. Bxe5 &xe5 19. Hel +_.
in the centre
15. c5!? axb4 16. 8c4 (16. Yb3!?)
Game 220 [E97]
16...2e6 17, dxe6 bxc3 (17...£xe5!?)
18. Ad7 He8 19. Wf3 Ha4 20. &b3 Hb4
Lputian (2580) - Nalbandian (2475)
21. Haci @h8 22. Rxc3 Acé6 23. Hd3
XXXII Olympiad, Yerevan 1996
Ad4 24. Wd5 3 25. gxf3 Wg5+ 26. &h1
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 2g7 4. e4 dé Wh4 27. e7 Wxf2 28. Hde3 Deb 29. H3e2
5. £e2 0-0 6. Af3 e5 7. 0-0 Acé 8. d5 He4 30. Yxe4 1-0
&e7 9. b4 Dh5 10. Het Afa 11. £F1 £5?
A trapped bishop

Game 221 feos

Nobili (2048) - Maurer (2189)
Cannes 2000

1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. Ac3 897 4. e4 dé

5. 8e2 0-0 6. Af3 e5 7. 0-0 Acé6 8. d5
Ae7 9. b4 a5 10. 8a3
This is usual, but White must be aware of the
dangers.

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 13.2 Traps in the King’s Indian ¢ Game 222 Batyrov —Aliev LY)

10...0h5 @e7 9. Ae1 Ad7 10. Le3 f5 11. f3 f4

10...axb4 is the main line. 12. 8f2 g5 13. Ab5!?

11. Het The question is, whether 13. a4 or 13. &c1 is

best; the text move sets a trap.
Wacol,
13...a6?
11...f5 12. Ad2
33x in Mega 2005. 13...b6! is called for.
12. AgdS (12. c5!?) 12...Af6 13. &f3? h6
14. Ae6 &xe6 15. dxe6 axb4 (Laclau- 14. Da7!
Touzane, Montpellier 2000) 16. &xb4 c5-+; lf White can manage to get in A@xc8, he has a
12...Af6 13. £3? strategically won game; the £c8 is extremely
important for Black’s kingside initiative.

13...axb4 14. &xb4 c5 15. dxc6 Wb6+

14...&xa7 15. 2xa7 b6
Naturally, White’s play was far from the best,
but it was important to show the dangers It has been shown that Black cannot win the
faced by the &b4. The motifs recur in similar trapped bishop, so he remains the exchange
form. down.
16. &h1 Yxb4 17. Hb1 Wxc3 18. cxb7 16. b4 2£b7 17. c5! bxc5
&xb7 19. Hxb7 Ac6 20. Ab1 Wd4
17...dxc5 18. Hc1! (18. bxc5 Axc5) 18...Ac8
21. Yb3 Aad 0-1
19. bxc5 £a8 (19...axc5 20. Bxc5! bxcd
21. &xc5+) 20. c6 Af6 21. £&xb6! Axb6
A knight on the rim 22. &£xa6+, Korchnoi—Hulak, Zagreb 1987.
guarantees the win 18. bxc5 dxc5
18...%a8 19. &b6! cxb6 20. c6+— (Kor-
Game 222 ~ [E99] chnoi).
Batyrov (2360) - Aliev (2225)
19. Hol Ag6 20. 2xc5 Axc5 21. Hxc5+—-
Ashkhabad 1996
Hf7 22. Had £f8 23. &xa6 2xa6 24.
1. d4 Af6 2. c4 g6 3. 4\c3 &g7 4. e4 d6
Hxa6 &c5+ 25. &h1 &d6 26. Wa4 “8
5. Df3 0-0 6. Le2 e5 7. 0-0 Ac6 8. dd 27. Ha8 Wf6 28. Wes hd 1-0

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 Appendix

Index of Sources

There are actually three sources from which we have drawn our material:
a) books about opening traps — see below for details.
b) our own memories, tips from others and what we came across while doing this work.
C) a relatively systematic trawl of the Mega database. An example of the method: B33, 1-0
or 0-1, up to approx. 20 moves; after that we scanned those games which were found.
Our reference database is Mega 2005, which is constantly referred to. Mistakes which are
found in there in large numbers can happen again at any time.
For a) the classics are:
Znosko-Borovsky: Eréffnungsfallen am Schachbrett (Traps on the chess board)
Gelenczei: 200 Eréffnungsfallen and 200 neue Eréffnungsfallen (200 Opening Traps
and 200
New Opening Traps).
It will come as a surprise to many readers that several nice examples from the classics
were
not included in our book. There are numerous reasons for this:
— practice has shown that a move that was once rejected is in fact playable
- Fritz has found a fly in the ointment
— opening theory has moved on
— and finally: a trap is never actually seen in practice.
The best examples are those which occur more than once in Mega.
Of course there are
borderline cases — games, which are in Mega, but which we have not
included, because the
mistake came more in the early middlegame; or games which only
occur once in Mega, but
are of value as an example — often the same motif Crops up again
in quite a similar position.
There are also traps which work quite well in blitz or rapid chess,
but simply do not occur in
chess with a classical thinking time, because they are too transpare
nt.
The boundaries are extremely fluid, and much is certainly
subjective. What seems natural
for one person may, of course, be a blunder for someone
else. But in the long run, whether
it is a simple error or a disaster is not important. As it is said:
‘You learn best from your own
mistakes’.

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 Appendix ¢ Index of Openings G)

Sources:
ChessBase Mega Database 2005
ChessBase Informator-CD
ChessBase Correspondence Database 2004
Informator Encyclopaedias A-E in various editions
Various other ChessBase-CDs, above all training databases.
Various NIC-Yearbooks
GM Andrew Soltis, Grandmaster Secrets: Openings, Thinkers’ Press, 2003
Graham Burgess, 107 Chess Opening Surprises, Gambit, London 1998
Eugéne Snosko-Borowsky, Eréffnungsfallen am Schachbrett,
9th edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1981
Jakob Neistadt, Eréffnungsfehler und lehrreiche Kombinationen,
Schachverlag Rudi Schmaus, Heidelberg 1978
Emil Gelenczei, 200 Eréffnungsfalien, 6th edition, Sportverlag, Berlin 1978
Emil Gelenczei, 200 neue Eréffnungsfallen, 2nd edition, Sportverlag, Berlin 1976

Index of Openings

Numbers refer to Games.

1.€@c3 4-5 Nimzo-Indian Defence 188-199

Albin Counter-Gambit 89-91 Queen’s Gambit
Bird Opening 8, 10 Accepted 72, 104-113
Black Knights Tango 179 Botvinnik Variation 148-149
Catalan Opening 170-178 Cambridge Springs Defence 156-157
Chigorin Defence 83-88 Canal-Prins Gambit 155
Dutch Defence 61-67 Exchange Variation 74, 122-124, 129-139
English Defence 28 Orthodox Defence 158
English Opening 1. c4 Ragozin Defence 140-142
1...e5 14-19 Rare Moves 81, 82
Hedgehog set-up 20-21 116-119, 145-147, 150-154
Semi-Slav Defence
Sidelines 11-13, 22, 24-26
Semi-Tarrasch Defence 143-144
Symmetric Variation 23, 27
Slav Defence 70-71, 73, 92-103
Englund Gambit 29
Tarrasch Defence 120-121, 125-128
From Gambit 7
159-169 Variations without Ac3 114-115
Grtinfeld Defence
Queen’s Indian Defence 180-187
Indian Sidelines 40—47
Queen's Pawn Game and Colle System 31, 68-69,
King’s Indian Defence 200-222
75-80 .
Larsen Opening 6
Sokolsky Opening 1-3
Lisitsyn Gambit 9
52-60 Trompowsky Attack 32-39
Modern Benoni Defence
30 Volga Gambit 48-51
Modern Defence

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Index of Names

Numbers refer to pages.

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 Appendix e Index of Games &)

Index of Games

A page number in bold indicates that the first-named player had the black pieces. A page number in brackets
means a particular game was referred to on that page.

A —Réti 63
Acebal Muniz, Antonio-—Gil Reguera 55
Adorjan, Andras — Spassov 40
—Zsinka 24
Aliev, Kerim—Batyrov 139
Allemand, Christian- Camus 90
Andersson, Ulf—Loureiro 55
Andreou, Dimitrios
— Tsanas 109
Anka, Emil—Roiz 110
Antoshin, Viladimir—Estrin 124
Antunez, Pablo—Della 72
Arkell, Keith -—Knott 19
Arkhipov, Sergey
- Sorensen 79
Aronian, Levon-—Marjanovic 130
Arsovic, Zoran—Mozeti¢ 77
Asanov, Bolat—Seredenko (9), 32
Asensio Lisan, Teodoro —Valmana Canto 50
Ashley, Maurice - Browne 117
Asylguzhin, Radik—Bairachny 28
Aubert, Laurent—Benitah 36
Azmaiparashvili, Zurab-Romanishin
— Shirov 78
B Chatalbashev, Boris —Beikert 38
Babo, Miguel —Marca! 35
Baches Garcia, Guillermo -Canal 93
Bagirov, Vladimir—Muratov 89
Bairachny, Ruslan—Asylguzhin 28
Balashov, Yuri—Lugovoi 123
Balhar, Michael—Herancourt 69
Ballester, Alexandre— Emmerich 96
Barcza, Gedeon-O’Kelly de Galway 25
Bartels, Hans—Lukacs 61
Basagi¢, Vesna-Holoubkova 132
Basekin, Duygu-Stefanova 27
Batyrov, Sapar—Aliev 139
Becker, Albert—Fuss 117
Beikert, Gtinther—Chatalbashev 38
Belevicius, Arturas —Buzas 53
Bellin, Robert — Tzoumbas 58
Belov, Mikhail—Soloviov 127
Benitah, Yohan—Aubert 36
Berg, Klaus —Farago 137
Bergez, Luc- Vassallo Barroche 137
Bernal Moro, Luis Javier —Borrajo 61
—Rebole Arbea (10), 17
Blasovszky, Istvan—Kurth 71
Bognar, Csaba—Horkai 128
Bogoljubow, Efim—Gothilf (10), (11), 66
—Tarrasch 115
Boivin, Rejean— Garnier 16
Bologan, Viktor— Timoshenko 114
Borrajo, Alberto —Bernal Moro 61
Brodsky, Mikhail—Kobeliov 94
Brody, Miklos—von Gottschall 88
Broman, Hannu-Vuori 49
Bronstein, David—Foguelman 76
Browne, Walter—Ashley 117
Bunzmann, Dimitrij-Van Wely 122
—van Wely (10)
Burn, Amos-— Marshall 57
Buzas, Narvydas-—Belevicius 53
Cc
Cabrera Tormo, Federico—Polop Morales 97
Cadillon, Joao—Rey Cid 33
Campos Moreno, Javier— Candela Perez 78
Camus, Alain-Allemand 90
108
Canal, Sala—Baches Garcia 93
Candela Perez, Jose-Campos Moreno 78
Certek, Pavel—Ertl 68
Cerveny, Peter —Kantorik 47
Cifuentes Parada, Roberto—Gaitan Ramirez 80
—|banez Lozano 59
Ciszek, Mieczyslaw —Pielaet 37
Claesen, Pieter—Stinis 15
Clavijo, Jorge Mario—Echavarria 83
Cooke, Eric— Zimmerman 134
Correa, Aron-Van Riemsdijk 92
Csom, Istvan—Lukacs 75
Cugini, Werter-Delchev 26
D
Dankert, Peter-—St. Schmidt 121
Delchev, Aleksander —Cugini 26
Della, Morte German -Antunez 72
Del Rio Mayayo, Pablo-Teyssou 45
Dittmar, Peter—Vatter 39
Djurié, Stefan —Efimov 56
Doroshkevich, Viadimir—Tukmakov 21
Dunkelblum, Arthur—Henneberke 117
E
Echavarria, Johann-Clavijo 83
Efimov, Igor—Djuri¢ 56

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Eidinger, Helmut—Waffenschmidt 106 Grinev, Valery —Shukin 20

Eingorn, Vereslav
— Steinert 120 Grosch-—Kucharkowski 13
Emmerich, Philippe —Ballester 96 Grunfeld, Ernst-Torre Repetto 48
Enders, Peter—Lerner 116 Gruz, Ewa—Madej 64
Englisch, Berthold —Tarrasch 132 Guindy, Esmat—Ca. Hansen 56
Ertl, Oliver—Certek 68 Gulko, Boris —Ftaénik 105
Esposito, Luca—Rasmussen 70
Estrin, Yakov—Antoshin 124
Euwe, Max—Najdorf 121 H
Halldorsson, Gudmundur - Ligterink 62
Hammes, Michael— Rudolph 65
F Hanko, Pavol—Vrabec 105
Farag6, lvan-Berg 137 Hanley, Craig-Trent 80
—Papastavropoulos 126 Hansen, A.—J. Nielsen 82
—Sentef 98 Hansen, Carsten- Guindy 56
—Van der Sterren 115 Hansen, Curt—Kunze 130
Feller, Joseph —Kunin 73 Harper, Horacio—Ucha 119
Fernandes, Emanuel-Sharavdorj 72 Harrwitz, Daniel— Mayet (9), 85
Fernandez Garcia, Jose Luis—Troncoso Gutierrez 28 Henneberke, Franciscus— Dunkelblum 117
Fischer, Robert James —UhlImann 46 Hennings, Artur—Wehnert 86
Flohr, Salo—Thomas 72 Henrichs, Thomas —Rebber 33
Foguelman, Alberto —Bronstein 76 Herancourt, Friedrich — Balhar 69
Formanek, Edward—Umezinwa 131 Hodgson, Julian- Gluckman 31
Franco Ocampos, Zenon—Paunovié 94 —Illescas Cordoba 21
Frare, Fernando Cesar -—Sunye Neto 120 —Van der Wiel 30
Friedrich, H.-Grabarczyk 60 Holoubkova, Martina—Basagié 132
Frithiof, Mike—Pullin 50 Horkai, Andras—Bognar 128
Ftaénik, Ljubomir—Gulko 105 Hort, Viastimil— Rodriguez Vargas 32
Fuss, Immo-—Becker 117 Hubner, Robert-Vaganian 23

I
G Ibanez Lozano, Antonio -Cifuentes Parada 59
Gaitan Ramirez, Alfonso -Cifuentes Parada 80
lllescas Cordoba, Miguel—Hodgson 214
Gali¢, Kruno—Kinez 106
—Kozul 68
Gallagher, Joseph-—Terentiev 30 Itkin, Dmitry— Nepomniachtchi 104
Garnier, Sebastien — Boivin 16
Ivkov, Borislav—Robatsch 110
Georgiev, Kiril— Goldin 23
—Szabo 111
German, Gustavo- Moreno Carnero 135
Gershon, Alik—Shabalov 102
Gil Reguera, Juan Carlos—Acebal Muniz 55 J
Gleizerov, Evgeny —Minasian 42 Jackelen, Thomas—Schulz 64
Glek, Igor—Yudasin 83 Jahn, Otilia—Kauschmann 31
Gligorié, Svetozar—Joyner 116 Janahi, Zeyaad - Villamayor 52
—Langeweg 103 Jirovsky, Milos—Voslar 90
Gluckman, David- Hodgson 31 Joyner, Lionel-Gligorié 116
Goldin, Alexander - Georgiev 23 Juntunen, Jaakko —Nivala 15
Golod, Vitaly—Shipov 104
Golombek, Harry —Najdorf 112 K
Golyak, Isay—Knaak 13 Kabanov, Nikolai-—Schebler 134
Gonzalez, G.-Vidal 17 Kantorik, Marian-Cerveny 47
Gonzalez Velez, Fermin-Miralles Brugues 40 Kaposztas, Miklos — Meister 42
Gostisa, Leon- Rogulj 44
Karavdin, Igor—Pilipchuk 100
Gothilf, Solomon Borisovich— Bogoljubow (10), (11),
Karolyi, Tibor Jr. —Piket 92
66 Kauschmann, Herbert—Jahn 31
Gottschall, Hermann von-Brody 88
Kazhgaleyev, Murtas — Vachier-Lagrave 107
Grabarczyk, Miroslaw —Friedrich 60
Khurtsidze, Nino -Polovnikova 108
Grétarsson, Helgi Ass—Van der Wiel 133
Kinez, lvo—Galié 106
—van der Wiel (9)
Klein, Dieter- Randerath 59

Klein, Juan Carlos—Szab6 45
Knaak, Rainer—Golyak 13
— Marinelli 124
—Smeets (11), 66
—Wintzer 48
Knott, Simon -—Arkell 19
Kobeliov, Andrey —Brodsky 94
Koskinen, Henri—Veingold 96
Kotov, Alexander-—T. Petrosian 86
Kotsur, Pavel-Ospanov 123
Kozul, Zdenko —Illescas Cordoba 68
Krajnak, Martin—Likavsky 84
Krasenkow, Michal—Peng 24
Kratzer, Mario—Meyer 64
Krivec, Jana—Vogel 57
Krivokapic, Marko —Markus 75
Kruppa, Yuri—Moliboga 135
Kucharkowski, Jens—Grosch 13
Kunin, Vitaly—Feller 73
Kunze, Carlo—Cu. Hansen 130
Kurth, Justus — Blasovszky 71
Le
Langeweg, Kick-—Gligori¢é 103
Latendresse, Simon-Schleifer 126
Legky, Nikolay —-Velasquez 71
Lerner, Konstantin— Enders 116
Letelier Martner, Rene-—Pinzon Solis 85
Ligterink, Gert—Halldérsson 62
Likavsky, Tomas-—Krajnak 84
Lindinger, Markus —Wilhelmi 109
Liss, Eran—Zilberman 119
Loginov, Valery—Shaposhnikov 19
Loureiro, Luiz—Andersson 55
Lputian, Smbat— Nalbandian 138
Lugovoi, Aleksey —Balashov 123
Lukacs, Péter-Bartels 61
—Csom 75
M *
Macias Alejandro, David - Perez Aleman 93
Mac Intyre, Paul-Okechukwu 129
Madej, Agnieszka—Gruz 64
Mah, Karl—Vuckovic 81
Marcal, Paulo—Babo 35
Marinelli, Tullio—Knaak 124
—Osmanbegovic 37
Marjanovic, Slavoljub —Aronian 130
Markus, Robert-Krivokapic 75
Marovié, Drazen-Tsagan 101
Marshall, Frank James- Burn 57
—Vidmar 97
Masten-Varache 22
Maurer, Fritz—Nobili 138
Mayet, Carl—Harrwitz (9), 85
Mednis, Edmar John-Summerscale 89
Appendix * Index of Games
Meins, Gerlef—Schumacher 25
Meister, Yakov —Kaposztas 42
Meyer, John—Shamkovich 43
Meyer, Thomas -— Kratzer 64
Micele, Omar-—Sosa 36
Mihaljevic, Josip —Nickoloff 92
Minasian, Artashes— Gleizerov 42
Miralles Brugues, Jordi— Gonzalez Velez 40
Miton, Kamil—Shabalov 73
Moliboga, Viadimir—Kruppa 135
Mongeau, Diane -—Trottier 60
Monticelli, Mario—Prokes (10), 118
Moreno Carnero, Javier— German 135
Motwani, Paul—O’Reilly 77
Motylov, Alexander-—Shirov 74
Mozeti¢, Dejan—Arsovié 77
Mumenthaler, P.—Neeracher 38
Muratov, Viadimir—Bagirov 89
Miller, Herbert—Wells 58
N
Najdorf, Miguel—Euwe 121
—Golombek 112
Nalbandian, Tigran—Lputian 138
Nedeljkovic, Srecko—Van Steenis 87
Neeracher, M.—Mumenthaler 38
Nepomniachtchi, Dmitry —Itkin 104
Nickoloff, Bryon-Mihaljevié 92
Nielsen, Julius—A. Hansen 82
Nivala, Tuomas —Juntunen 15
Nobili, Denis — Maurer 138
Nogin, Nikolai—Vinitsky 52
Norman, George Marshall—Vidmar 134
Novikov, lgor—Shahade 102
Novikov, Maxim —Pendurin 98
Novotelnov, Nikolai-Smyslov 124
oO
O’Kelly de Galway, Albéric— Barcza 25
O’Reilly, Edward — Motwani 77
Okechukwu, Ilwu-Mac Intyre 129
Oliwa, Marek-Pedzich 136
Osmanbegovic, Suad-— Marinelli 37
Ospanov, Arman-Kotsur 123
P
Padevsky, Nikola-Szabo 82
Padurariu, Ciprian-Taras 80
Palatnik, Semon-Valinis 112 ;
Papastavropoulos, Andreas -Farago 126
: Parkanyi, Attila—Varga 44
Pasztor, Ferenc—Vaulin 21
Paunovic, Dragan- Franco Ocampos 94
Pedzich, Dominik —Oliwa 136
Pejka, Marek- Wilk 14
145,
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Pendurin, Evgeny —Novikov 98 Sentef, Nikolaus —Farago 98

Peng, Xiaomin—Krasenkow 24 Seredenko, Vladimir—Asanov (9), 32
Perez Aleman, Pedro Tomys—Macias Alejandro 93 Shabalov, Alexander— Gershon 102
Petre, Nad Titus—Vioreanu 41 —Miton 73
Petrosian, Tigran—Kotov 86 Shahade, Jennifer— Novikov 102
—Ree 22 Shakarova, L.—Zankovich 99
Pielaet, S.— Ciszek 37 Shamkovich, Leonid—Meyer 43
Piket, Jeroen—Karolyi 92 Shaposhnikov, Evgeny —-Loginov 19
—Van Wely 87 Sharavdorj, Dashzeveg — Fernandes 72
Pilipchuk, O.-Karavdin 100 Shipov, Sergei-—Golod 104
Pinzon Solis, Felipe—Letelier Martner 85 Shirov, Alexei—Azmaiparashvili 78
Piskov, Yury —Reprintsev 62 —Motylov 74
Plachetka, Jan—Zinn 18 Shukin, lgor—Grinev 20
Polajzer, Danilo—Sokolov 107 Smeets, Jan—Knaak (11), 66
Polop Morales, Jose Antonio — Cabrera Tormo 97 Smejkal, Jan-Tatai 44
Polovnikova, Ekaterina—Khurtsidze 108 Smyslov, Vasily —-Novotelnov 124
Popov, Luben—W. Schmidt 131 Sokolov, lvan—Polajzer 107
Portisch, Lajos —Ribli (10), 97 Soloviov, Sergey — Belov 127
Prazak, Ondfej-Séerba 90 Sorensen, Bent—Arkhipov 79
Prokes, Ladislav—Monticelli (10), 118 Sosa, Ruben-Micele 36
Pullin, Matthew —Frithiof 50 Spassov, Liuben-Adorjan 40
Speelman, Jonathan —Yermolinsky 91
Spencer, Douglas — Wheatley 81
R Spielmann, Rudolf—Schenkein 16
Randerath, Volker—Klein 59 Steenis, Hendrik Jan van— Nedeljkovié 87
Rasmussen, Rogvi— Esposito 70 Stefanova, Antoaneta—Basekin 27
Rebber, Christian —Henrichs 33 Steinert, Martin-Eingorn 120
Rebole Arbea, Inaki- Bernal Moro (10), 17 Stelter, Wilhelm-—Waterkamp 85
Ree, Hans-T. Petrosian 22 Sterren, Paul van der—Farago 115
Reilly, Tim—West 41 Stinis, Steven—Claesen 15
Remlinger, Larry -Whitaker 76 Stockmann, Michael -Zuschlag 50
Reprintsev, Alexander —Piskov 62 Summerscale, Aaron—Mednis 89
Réti, Richard -Bogoljubow 63 Sunye Neto, Jaime—Frare 120
Rey Cid, Jose-Cadillon 33 Swindall, Robert-Wyatt 100
Ribli, Zoltan—Portisch (10), 97 Szab6, Laszlé—Ivkov 111
Robatsch, Karl—Ivkov 110 —Klein 45
Rodriguez Vargas, Orestes —Hort 32 —Padevsky 82
Rogers, lan-Semkov 63
Rogulj, Branko-Gostisa 44
Roiz, Michael—Anka 110 T
Romanishin, Oleg—Azmaiparashvili 108 Taras, llie Bogdan —Padurariu 80
Rudolph, Johannes— Hammes 65 Tarrasch, Siegbert
- Bogoljubow 115
—Englisch 132
Tatai, Stefano-Smejkal 44
Ss Terentiev, Denis —Gallagher 30
Sandner, Gunter—UhImann 26 Teyssou, Denis -Del Rio Mayayo 45
Séerba Jiti-Prazak 90 Thomas, Andrew —Flohr 72
Schebler, Gerhard—Kabanov 134 Timoshenko, Georgy - Bologan 114
Schenkein, J.—Spielmann 16 Torre, Eugenio—Schroer 69
Schleifer, Michael—Latendresse 126 Torre Repetto, Carlos—Grtinfeld 48
Schmidt, Stephan —Dankert 121 Trejos, Enrique—-Valdes 26
Schmidt, Wtodzimierz—Popov 131 Trent, Lawrence-Hanley 80
Schmitthdfer, Herbert
- Schneider 27 Troncoso Gutierrez, Adrian- Fernandez Garcia 28
Schneider, Georg
- Schmitthofer 27 Trottier, Julie—Mongeau 60
Schroer, Jonathan— Torre 69 Tsagan, T.—Marovié 101
Schulz, Klaus-JUrgen—Jackelen 64 Tsanas, Thanasis—Andreou 109
Schumacher, Olaf—Meins 25 Tukmakoy, Viadimir—Doroshkevich 24
Semkov, Semko- Rogers 63 Tzoumbas, Anastasios — Bellin 58

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U WwW
Ucha, Luis— Harper 119 Waffenschmidt, Joachim —Eidinger 106
UhImann, Wolfgang —Fischer 46 Waterkamp, Volkmar Erik— Stelter 85
— Sandner 26 Wehnert, Lutz—Hennings 86
Umezinwa, George-Formanek 131 Wells, Peter—H. Muller 58
Wely, Loek van-Bunzmann (10), 122
—Piket 87
Vv
West, Guy-—Reilly 41
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime-Kazhgaleyev 107
Wheatley, Chris—Spencer 81
Vaganian, Rafael —Htibner 23
Whitaker, Robert—Remlinger 76
Valdes, Leonardo -Trejos 26
Valinis, G. —Palatnik 1412 Wiel, John van der—Grétarsson (9), 133
Valmana Canto, Jaime-—Asensio Lisan 50 —Hodgson 30
Van Riemsdijk, Herman -—Correa 92 Wilhelmi, Christian —Lindinger 109
Varache-— Masten 22 Wilk, Krzysztof—Pejka 14
Varga, Zoltan—Parkanyi 44 Wintzer, Joachim-—Knaak 48
Vassallo Barroche, Mauricio—Bergez 137 Wyatt, Matt—Swindall 100
Vatter, Hans-Joachim — Dittmar 39
Vaulin, Alexander—Pasztor 21
Veingold, Aleksandr-—Koskinen 96 Y
Velasquez, Jean-Luc —Legky 71 Yermolinsky, Alex—Speelman 91
Vidal, Ramon- Gonzalez 17 Yudasin, Leonid-Glek 83
Vidmar, Milan Sr.—Marshall 97
—Norman 134
Villamayor, Bong —Janahi 52
Vinitsky, Igor--Nogin 52 Z
Vioreanu, Bogdan-—Petre 41 Zankovich, V.—Shakarova 99
Vogel, Heike—Krivec 57 Zilberman, Yaacov—Liss 119
Voslar, Jan—Jirovsky 90 Zimmerman, Yuri— Cooke 134
Vrabec, MiloS—Hanko 105 Zinn, Lothar—Plachetka 18
Vuckovic, Bojan—Mah 81 Zsinka, Laszl6—Adorjan 24
Vuori, Hannu-—Broman 49 Zuschlag, Volker—Stockmann 50

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There are traps lurking in every stage of a chess game, but we find
them especially often in the opening. It is well known that you should
learn from your mistakes, and after a thorough study of the first
volume of this series, students will be well equipped to deal with the
typical traps after 1.e4.
In this second volume, the two internationally recognised grandmaster
authors — Rainer Knaak is considered an expert on the opening, and
Karsten Miller on the endgame — now cover those traps which can be
expected after the double advance of the white d-pawn. The scenario
is basically the same: the victim makes some quite ‘normal’ move — a
piece is developed, something is captured, or a threat is set up and
parried. The reply, for the most part an unusual one and therefore
totally unexpected, then almost inevitably leads to a rapid win for the
‘trapper’.
For every important opening after 1.d4 such as the Queen’s Gambit or
the King’s Indian Defence, there are introductory texts with the most
typical trap motifs, of which you should be aware.
There are two other important plus points of this genuinely entertaining
book:
— as a welcome side effect, your own combinative ability is gua-
ranteed to improve significantly;
- atthe same time you can systematically expand your opening
repertoire, in order yourself to set traps. As the legendary
Frank Marshall liked to do. In the history of chess the Ameri-
can was virtually the ‘king of trappers’, because already from
the very first move he was aiming to set a clever trap...

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