Winning Chess Manoeuvres by Sarhan Guliev

Author:Sarhan Guliev
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New in Chess

Black has a solid, but passive position. Konstantinopolsky decided to do nothing:

19…Rd7 20.c3 Qc7 21.Qg5 Qd8 22.Qh5 Qf6 23.a4 b6 24.Rde1 Red8 25.f4 Rb7 26.Qf3 Rc7 27.g4 g6 28.Re5 Kg7

While Black has been standing still, White has advanced almost all of his pawns to the fourth rank. If he manages to break through, then his approach will be crowned with success, but if not, then Black will reap the rewards of his cautious defence. Everything depends on concrete variations.

29.Qg3!

A very strong move: the queen x-rays the rook at c7. Combinational motifs hang over the board. The position deserves to be examined in detail.

Thus, after 29…Nd7, there is the tempting combination 30.g5 Qe7 31.f5!? and if 31…N×e5, then 32.f6+. But Black replies 31…Qd6! 32.f×e6 (32.f6+ Kg8) 32…N×e5 33.d×e5 Qd2 34.e×f7 R×f7! 35.B×f7 Rd3! (of course, not 35…K×f7 36.e6+) 36.Qf2 Q×f2+ 37.K×f2 K×f7 with good drawing chances.

Instead of 31.f5, more convincing is 31.R×e6! f×e6 32.f5! and then:

32…Rcc8 33.f6+ N×f6 34.R×e6 Qc7 35.g×f6+ Kh8 36.Re5 c5 37.Qh4 c×d4 38.Re7 or 37…Re8 38.f7;

32…e5 33.R×e5! Qf8 (33…N×e5 34.f6+) 34.f6+ N×f6 35.g×f6+ Q×f6 36.Re6 Qf7 37.Qe5+ Kh6 38.R×c6! with further material gains.

In the game, there followed

29…c5 30.b×c5 b×c5

And here White missed the chance of a decisive breakthrough: 31.g5 Qe7 32.d5 Nd7 33.f5! Qd6 (33…g×f5 34.R×e6!) 34.f6+ Kg8 35.d×e6! N×e5 36.e7!.

But let us return to the position in the previous diagram. Few people drew attention to Botvinnik’s commentary, but it actually deserves the closest attention: «Striving for counterplay, Black should have continued 19…a5, which would have resulted in the opening of the a-file.» Briefly stated, and without an exclamation mark being put against the move …a7-a5. But it is this move which solves all the defence’s problems.

Now let us go forward 42 years.

Surya Shekhar Ganguly

Ruslan Ponomariov

Szeged 1994

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