D31 Mamedyarov Shakhriyaz (AZE) - Schneider Dmitry (USA) Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) 2003

[#]1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.¤c3 c6 4.e4 de 5.¤e4 ¥b4 6.¥d2 £d4 7.¥b4 £e4 8.¥e2 ¤a6 9.¥a5 The Slav gambit is a perfect opening when one wants to confuse an opponent before anything.

[For example, with the move 9.¥f8!?]

9...f6?! A rather careless move which obtains a nice statistics.

[Instead, Black may prevent the white queen's intrusion to rank 8 with the move 9...b6;

as well as with the move 9...¥d7]

10.£d8 ¢f7 11.O-O-O e5 12.¥d3!

[It happened so that they played only 12.f3? against grandmaster O.Korneev, the chief expert in the 9...f6?! system.]

12...£f4 13.¢b1 ¤c5 14.¤e2 £f2 This is just outright bad.

[14...£g4 is the only move there though White's advantage is big in this case too.]

15.¦hf1 £g2 16.£c7 ¤e7

17.¦g1! Black can resign already... 17...£g1 But he does not want to do so!

[17...£f2 White can deliver a simple and beautiful checkmate after: 18.¦g7! ¢g7 19.£e7 ¢g8 20.¥h7! ¦h7 21.¦d8#]

18.¦g1 ¤e6

[All the beauty is left 'behind the scene' again: 18...¤d3 19.¦g7! ¢g7 20.£e7 ¢g6 21.¥d8!]

19.£d6 b6 20.¥b4 c5 21.¥e4 ¥b7 22.¥d5! ¥d5 23.cd ¤g5 24.¦g5! Well, the opponent provides White with an opportunity of sacrificing something which he uses right away! 24...fg 25.£e6 ¢f8 26.d6 ¤g6 27.¥d2 ¦e8 28.£f5 Black resigned, [...]

[willing not to watch the xtermination of his army: 28...¢g8 29.d7 ¦d8 30.¥g5]

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