B06 Motylev Alexander (RUS) - Chernyshov Konstantin (RUS) Krasnoyarsk (Russia) 2003

[#]1.e4 g6 2.d4 ¥g7 3.¤c3 a6 4.h4 d5 Konstantin Chernyshov prepared this opening for the Russia championship especially. 5.¤d5 c6 6.¤e3 £d4 7.£d4 ¥d4 8.h5 ¤d7

9.f4! It seems that Motylev forgets about his pieces for some time trying to check out how far his pawns may advance! 9...¥g7 Otherwise Black must recapture with his f-pawn in a response to hxg6, which he would like to avoid. 10.e5 ¤b6 11.g4 ¤h6

[Black may play sternly on the king's side: 11...g5 12.¤f5 ¥f5 13.gf g4 , but after 14.¤e2 ¤h6 15.¤g3 O-O-O he cannot claim solving his opening problems.]

12.g5 ¤f5 13.¥d3 ¤g3 14.h6! ¥f8

[After 14...¥e5 15.fe ¤h1 16.¤e2 the black knight is locked on the h1-square.]

15.¦h2 ¤d5 16.¢f2 ¤f5 17.¤f5 ¥f5 18.¥f5 gf It is just impossible to make one good bishop out of two bad ones. Black trades off his light squared bishop hoping that his dark squared one will revive afterwards. He experiences a bitter disappointment:

19.e6! fe 20.¤f3 e5 Otherwise the black f8-bishop is buried alive. 21.¤e5 e6 22.c4 ¤e7 23.¥e3 ¦g8 24.¦d1 ¤g6 25.¤g6 ¦g6 26.¢f3 ¦d8 27.¦d8 ¢d8 28.¦d2 ¢c7 29.¥d4 ¥e7 30.c5! Previously bars in the black king's bishop's cage were black. Now they are painted white and that is all the difference. 30...a5 31.a3 ¢c8

[31...a4 32.¥e5 ¢c8 33.¦d4 ¥c5 34.¦a4]

32.b4 By developing his last pawn on the queen's side, White creates a symmetrical pawn formation pleasant for one's eye. 32...a4 33.¥e5 ¥d8

[33...¦g8 runs into 34.¥g7! followed by 35.g6.]

34.¢e3 ¥e7 35.¦d4 The white king's triumphant march to the queen's side demands a special ceremony. 35...¥d8 36.¢d3 ¥c7 37.¥c7 ¢c7 38.¦d6 Black resigned. The game may be passed off as some Nimzowitch's or Rubinstein's masterpiece. [1:0]