Starting Out: The Queen's Gambit by Shaw John

Author:Shaw, John [Inconnu(e)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Published: 2014-11-30T01:00:00+00:00

Game 35

Miton-Markowski

Cappelle la Grande 1999

1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 c6 4 e4 dxe4 5 Nxe4 Bb4+ 6 Bd2 Qxd4 7 Bxb4 Qxe4+ 8 Be2 (Diagram 4)

Diagram 4

What about the g2-pawn?

This is also a heavily theoretical move, indeed at GM level it is more popular than 8 Ne2.

8...Na6

The greedy 8...Qxg2 is rarely played because after 9 Bf3 Qg6 10 Ne2 White’s activity and the possibility of Rg1 is more important than the additional pawn.

9 Ba5

Other valid bishop moves are 9 Bd6 and 9 Bc3.

9...f6

This boldly allows the check but prepares f7 as a safe square for the king. Preventing the check with 9...Bd7 or 9...b6 is also reasonable.

10 Qd8+ Kf7 11 Nf3

A major alternative is 11 0-0-0. This has the advantage of unpinning the bishop, thus introducing ideas with Bh5+, the downside being that White’s king is fairly exposed.

11...b6 12 Bc3 Nc5

This logical move prepares ...Bb7, completing development and expelling the white queen. The immediate 12...Bb7 is not the simple piece blunder it may appear – 13 Qd7+ Ne7 14 Qxb7 wins the piece but Black can exploit the queen’s lack of squares with 14...Nc5 15 Qc7 Rhc8 16 Qg3 Nf5, and White must return the material with, for example, 17 Ng5+ since 17 Qh3 allows Black to win back the piece anyway with 17...Nd3+ 18 Kf1 Nf4.

13 Rd1 Bb7 14 Rd7+ (Diagram 5)

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