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Svidler Peter (RUS) - Belov Vladimir (RUS) Moscow (Russia)



[#] 31.b7

[As Sergei Shipov suggested, White retained winning chances with: 31.e8 f8 (31...h7? 32.xe6 xf3 33.g2 ) 32.a8 ]

31...xf3! 32.xe6! xf2 33.b8 h7 34.g3 A double attack on g7 and f2. However, Black finds a wonderful way to save himself.

[Bad is: 34.e3? f4 ]

34...xh2! 35.xh2 White already has two extra rooks, but he cannot avoid the perpetual check. [...]

[After: 35...f3 36.g2 d1 , the black queen delivers checks from the d1-, f3- and h5-sqaures = and in the case of: 37.e1 xe1 , she starts to move along the triangle e1-e4-h4. Draw. =]

Annotated by IM M. Notkin [½:½]