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[#]1.¤f3 ¤f6 2.b3!? When preparing for the game, I was surprised by the Indian master's immense erudition in the opening, and I decided 'simply' to play. 2...g6 3.¥b2 ¥g7 4.g3 c5 5.c4! White is fighting for the center! 5...¤c6 6.¥g2 d6 7.O-O O-O 8.¤c3 ¥d7 9.e3 £c8 10.¦e1 [Interesting is 10.d4!? , but I wanted to prevent the lightsquared bishop exchange after 10...¥h3] 10...¥h3 11.¥h1 ¥g4 Black plans to transfer his queen to h5 making the white f3-knight's pin really annoying. 12.d3! Novelty. White vacates the d2-square for his queen. [The white queen has no suitable square for the retreat, for example: 12.£c2 £f5!? , and Black trades off into an equal ending; Smyslov played in this position 12.¤e2 , and after 12...e5 (12...£f5!?) 13.d3 ¦e8 14.¤d2 h5 15.¤e4 £d7 16.¤f6 ¥f6 17.£d2 ¥g7 returned his knight to c3: 18.¤c3 , and won, Smyslov - Himenes, Palma de Mallorca, 1970] 13.¤h4 £h5 14.f3 ¥d7 15.f4 £d1 [White is better also after 15...¥g4 16.£d2] 16.¦ad1 Black has spent a lot of tempi for the queen maneuver, and now White obtains the development lead. Now the 17.d4 advance is threatened, followed by d4-d5 and e4-e5. 16...¤e8? This is rather a lofty move: Black opens the main diagonal for his g7-bishop, preparing counterplay with ¤e8-c7, b7-b5. However... [Perhaps, he would have obtained better practical chances after 18...¥d4 19.¦d4 ¤d4 20.¦e7 ¥c8! (Bad is 20...¥c6 due to 21.¤d5 ¤e6 22.¦b7! ¥d5 23.¥d5 ٰc7 24.f5! ¤d5 25.fe ¤e3 26.e7! ¦fe8 (26...¦fb8 is merely a loss of tempo, since after 27.¦d7 Black cannot play 27...f5 due to 28.e8£ +-) 27.¤g2 ¤g2 28.¢g2 +- , and White obtains the decisive advantage thanks to the threat of ¥b2-a3xd6.) 21.¤d5 ¤c6 There is no forced win for White. It is simply so that the white pieces are positioned more actively than the black ones, which provides White with compensation for the exchange, as well as with a big advantage. 22.b4! White threatens to drive back Black's most active piece, the c6-knight. The position is quite playable, and there are two possible ways: 22...h5 Black vacates the h7-square for his king thus ousting the white rook from the seventh rank. (or 22...f6 23.¦e3 ¥d7 24.¥c3! White prepares the b4-b5 advance. (After the immediate 24.b5? Black holds with 24...¤a5 25.¦e4 f5 26.¦d4 ¤g7) 24...¢g7!? 25.b5 ¤d8 26.f5! , and White's advantage is obvious. If 26...g5 , then 27.¤f3 ¥f5 (27...h6 28.¤d4) 28.¤g5 ¢h6 29.¤f3 , with the idea of ¤d4, which provides White with the advantage.) 23.¦e1 ¥h3 24.b5 ¤a5 25.¤e7! ¢h7 26.¥d5 ¥c3 is threatened. 26...¤c7 27.¤eg6! ¦fe8 28.¦e8 ¦e8 29.¥f7white stands better , with advantage to White.] After the text move White obtains the initiative for free. 19.¦e7 ¥c6 20.¤d5 ¤f3 Black jettisons a pawn in order to activate his pieces somehow. 21.¥f3 ¥b2 22.¦e2 ¥a3 23.¤e7 ¢g7 24.¤c6 bc 25.¥c6 ¦c8 26.¥d7 White simply wants to win the time for thinking. 26...¦d8 27.¥e8 This allows Black activating. [Perhaps, White should better have retreated with the bishop: 27.¥c6!?] 27...¦fe8 28.¦e8 ¦e8 29.¤f3 ¦e3 30.¤d4 ¥c5 31.¢f1 a5 32.¤c6! It is over now. 32...¦e8 [After 32...¦f3 33.¢e1 h5 , the simplest way is 34.¤a5 h4 35.¤c6 hg 36.hg ¦g3 37.b4 +-] 33.¦d2 ¦a8 34.¢g2 ¦a6 35.¤e7 ¦b6 36.¤d5 ¦b7 37.g4 f5 38.g5 ¢f7 39.¢f3 ¥a3 40.¦e2 ¥c5 41.¦d2 ¥a3 42.h4 ¥c5 43.¦h2 ¥d4 44.h5 ¦b8 45.¦d2 ¥h8 46.h6 ¦b7 47.¢e3 ¢e6 48.¢d3 a4 49.¦e2 ¢f7 50.b4 a3 51.b5 ¦e7 Black resigned. [...] [1:0] |
