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No. 77, June 23, 2010

OPENINGS

WHAT’S HOT AND WHAT’S NOT?

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Carlsen goes

romantic

By IM Merijn van Delft & IM Robert Ris

Frequency

The Kings Tournament has become very exciting

in the second part and Carlsen has reached a new

personal record of a (virtual) 2825 Elo. Smeets is

the new Dutch Champion and we also examined the

Capablanca Memorial and the Danzhou tournament.

WHAT’S HOT?

Score

Carlsen had a slow start in the tournament with three draws, but since

he started playing all romantic openings he just kept winning: the King's

Gambit, the Dragon and the King's Indian. They seem to be very inspiring

for him and even though the resulting positions are not necessarily very

good, Carlsen is making the most out of the tactical chances that arise. In

our Game of the Week Carlsen introduced a relevant novelty in the Dragon.

In the diagram position he went for the tricky 10...¦b8!?.

More romantic chess: Nigel Short had a very creative approach in the

opening in Cuba, including comfortable draws with Black against Ivanchuk

and Dominguez. Furthermore, we have new examples of the counter-

attacking French: Bruzon-Short, Ortis-Nogueiras and Wang Hao-Ding

Liren. In the PGN you'll also find Carlsen-Radjabov (Accelerated Dragon),

some Petroff games and Nepomniachtchi-Ivanchuk (Caro-Kann 3.f3).

Smeets successfully added 1.d4 to his repertoire. He comfortably drew Van

Wely with Black, whereas Giri failed to solve this task. Below we'll update

you on the King's Indian Sämisch and the Grünfeld Fianchetto. Potkin

continued the trend of beating the Nimzo-Indian with two good wins.

Source: Megabase + TWIC, 2500+ only

The only two games Short lost, were because he was overdoing it with White: last week against Ivanchuk and this week against

Nepomniachtchi. It is also possible to be too creative in the opening and mostly confuse yourself. Black was suffering with the Berlin

this week, see Nepomniachtchi-Bruzon and Li Chao-Ni Hua in the PGN file. Reinderman

lost twice with the Dutch Defence at the Dutch Championship - especially Giri showed the

weakness of the a2-g8 diagonal.

WHAT’S NOT?

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ChessVibes OPENINGS what’s hot and what’s not?

No. 77, June 23, 2010

The never returning white knight

Nisipeanu played his pet line against the Dragon, but ran into a very well prepared world’s

number one. The brave white knight went to a7, as theory recommends it, but it never

returned home. Is 10... ¦ b8!? now killing the line with 10. ¢ b1?

GAME OF THE WEEK

advisable to protect g5 with 18.h4 but after

18...£c7 19.£d6 £xd6 20.¦xd6 ¥e6 White ’ s ¤

on a7 is still in trouble.

18...£xg5

Black has regained his pawn and is clearly on

top. His pieces are better coordinated, while

White's pawn structure on the kingside has been

spoiled. Subsequent play is not forced, though

it's hard to come up with any improvements

for White.

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19.¤e4 £f4 20.¥e2

White also finally connects his rooks, but all

Black's pieces are on superior squares.

20...¥e6 21.£a3 ¤c4

Claiming the pair of ¥s.

22.¥xc4 ¥xc4 23.¤d6 ¥f8 24.¦d4 £e5

Even stronger would have been 24...£g5! with

the idea to meet 25.¦xc4 with 25...£g2.

25.¦xc4 ¥xd6 26.£d3 ¥f8 27.a4

Chasing the £ with 27.¦e4 £d6 28.¦d4 is not

possible in view of 28...£b6.

27...¦bd8 28.£b3 £d5 29.¦c3

29.¦c7 allows 29...£xb3 30.cxb3 ¦e2 and after

31.¦c2 Black finally can picks up the ¤ by

31...¦xf2! 32.¦xf2 ¦a8.

29...£d2 30.¥e3

30.¦c7 can be parried by 30...¦e6.

30...£e2 31.¥b6?

This allows a deadly attack on the king, but

White's position was beyond repair anyway.

31...¦d1+

and White resigned in view of 32.¦xd1 £xd1+

33.¢a2 ¦e1 34.£c4 £a1+ 35.¢b3 ¦b1.

0–1

Nisipeanu, LD (2672) - Carlsen, M (2813)

Kings Tournament (Medias), 19.06.2010

B76, Sicilian, Dragon

but doesn't really solve Black's problems. A

recent example went 14.g5 d4 15.¥f4 e5 16.gxf6

dxc3 17.£xc3 ¥xf6 18.¤xc6 bxc6 19.¥e3 with

an edge for White in Kosteniuk-Gaponenko,

Ohrid 2009.

14.g5 ¤h5!N

Carlsen improves on an earlier game, where

Black quickly ended up in a lost position after

14...¤d7? 15.exd5 exd5 16.¤xd5 ¤de5 17.¥b6

£d7 18.f4 ¤f3 19.£f2 ¤fd4 20.¥c4+- Balogh-

Fier, Beijing blitz 2008.

15.¥f2?!

15.exd5?! exd5 16.¤xd5 (16.¤xc8 d4!; 16.£xd5

£xd5 17.¤xd5 ¥e6) 16...¥e6 17.c4 (17.¥c4

¤a5) 17...£d7 favours Black. However, White

should have gone for 15.¤xc8! d4 16.¥f2 ¦xc8

17.¤e2 with a more or less balanced game.

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15...¥d7!

This simple move was missed by Nisipeanu.

16.exd5 exd5 17.£xd5

White could have better opted for 17.¤xd5

though after 17...¥e6 18.c4 (18.¥c4 ¤e5)

18...¥f5+ 19.¢a1 ¦a8 20.¤xc6 bxc6 21.¤c3

£a5 Black has tremendous play for the pawn

deficit.

17...¤e5!

The ¤ can ’ t be undermined here, but more

importantly it avoids to be exchanged by the ¤

on a7.

18.£b3

From a practical point it would have been

1.e4 c5 2.¤f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.¤xd4 ¤f6 5.¤c3

g6 6.¥e3 ¥g7 7.f3 ¤c6 8.£d2 0–0

9.0–0–0 d5 10.¢b1

10.exd5 ¤xd5 11.¤xc6 bxc6 12.¥d4 is still

considered the main line, while 10.£e1 has

ocassionaly been tried before by Nisipeanu.

10...¦b8!?

Obviously hoping the b-file to be opened. A

fashionable alternative is 10...¤xd4 11.e5 ¤f5

12.exf6 exf6 (The old 12...¥xf6 13.¤xd5 £xd5

14.£xd5 ¤xe3 15.£d2 ¤xd1 16.£xd1 assures

White an edge.) 13.¥c5 d4 14.¥xf8 £xf8 15.¤b5

¤e3 which we covered in CVO ’ s 26 (Nisipeanu-

Radjabov from last year ’ s event) and 53.

11.¤db5

Although this is White ’ s main possibility, the

present game may cause people to start

investigating new resources after moves like

11.¥e2 and 11.h4.

11...a6 12.¤a7 e6 13.g4

Nothing can be gained from 13.exd5 exd5

14.¤xc8 ¦xc8 15.¤xd5 ¤xd5 16.£xd5 £xd5

17.¦xd5 ¤b4 18.¦c5 ¦ce8! 19.¥d2 ¦d8=

Caruana-Smerdon, Budapest 2007. 13.h4?!

(White hardly has time to launch an attack)

13...£c7 14.exd5 (14.h5 d4!) 14...¤xd5 15.¤xd5

exd5 16.¤xc6 bxc6 was perfectly fine for Black

in Naiditsch-Guseinov, Istanbul 2003.

13...¦e8!

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Again Carlsen anticipates the opening of a file

for his ¦. 13...£c7 has been seen more often,

NISIPEANU - CARLSEN

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ChessVibes OPENINGS what’s hot and what’s not?

No. 77, June 23, 2010

THIS WEEK’S HARVEST

King's Gambit

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1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 exf4 4.¤f3 ¤f6 5.¥c4 ¤xd5 6.0–0 ¥e7 7.¥xd5 £xd5 8.¤c3 £d8 9.d4 0–0

10.¥xf4 ¥f5 11.£e2 ¥d6 12.¥xd6 £xd6 13.¤b5 £d8 14.c4 a6 15.¤c3 ¤d7 16.¦ad1 ¥g6 17.£f2

Following Short-Giri (see CVO 72) we are having another King's Gambit with Carlsen-Wang Yue. Basically 2...

exf4 must be the critical move, while 2...¥c5!? may be a very practical choice. The Falkbeer Counter Gambit

3...e4 doesn't have a very good reputation these days. Instead Wang Yue transposed to the line that can also

be reached via 2...exf4 3.¤f3 d5. Last year Jakovenko convincingly won with 4...¥d6!?. With 7.¥xd5!? Carlsen

chose a concept that was recommended by Gallagher in Winning with the King's Gambit (1992), the book I

(MvD) relied on when I played the King's Gambit as a kid. White gives up the two bishops and gets very smooth

development in return. When analysing the game at the chess club, we came up with the novelty 10...c6 11.£d2

¤a6!?N. We felt that returning the pair of bishops as Wang Yue did, doesn't completely equalize (see diagram

position). While Black should be able to hold after the forcing 21.d5!? (White should consider something like

21.b3 instead), he failed to do so in the game.

Symmetrical English

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1.d4 e6 2.c4 ¤f6 3.g3 c5 4.¤f3 cxd4 5.¤xd4 £c7 6.¤c3 a6 7.¥g2 £xc4 8.0–0 ¤c6 9.¤b3 d5

10.¥f4 ¥e7 11.a3 d4 12.¤d2 £c5 13.¤ce4 ¤xe4 14.¤xe4 £b6 15.¤d6+ ¥xd6 16.¥xd6 ¢d7

In previous issues the rising popularity of the Benoni has been extensively highlighted, as well as White's

attempts to avoid this opening. In Dominguez-Short, with 5...£c7 Black chose to play a sharp gambit, whereas

5...d5 would have led to a quieter tabiya which we discussed in CVO 58. Short deviated from the trodden paths

with the aggressive 11...d4, which in fact leaves a very suspicious impression. Black's pawn chain was perfectly

limiting the range of the ¥ on g2, so it's hard to understand why Black further weakens the white squares. After a

forced sequence, Short had the difficult task of bringing his ¢ into safety. His radical solution of 16...¢d7 worked

out very well in this game, but the tables could have been turned very easily had Dominguez found the powerful

23.e4! Improvements for both sides can be find earlier on (19.e3!?, 20...¥b7 and 22...£d6). After all, it's hard

to believe 11...d4 will get some followers, and instead the more reliable 11....a5 still does its job, though these

positions might not be to everyone's taste.

King's Indian, Sämisch

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1.d4 ¤f6 2.c4 g6 3.¤c3 ¥g7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0–0 6.¤ge2 ¤bd7 7.¥e3 c5 8.d5 ¤e5 9.¤g3

h5 10.¥e2 h4 11.¤f1 e6 12.¤d2 exd5 13.cxd5 ¥d7 14.0–0 b5 15.¤xb5 ¥xb5 16.¥xb5

¦b8 17.a4 ¤h5 18.f4 ¤d7 19.£g4 a6 20.¥xa6 ¦xb2 21.¦ab1 ¦xd2 22.¥xd2 ¥d4+

Is the Sämisch Variation becoming a problem for King's Indian players? On the most abstract level it seems that

putting pawns on c4, e4 and f3 should always give Black enough play on the black squares. Didn't Black just

start preparing a black-square strategy by putting the bishop on g7? On a personal note I (MvD) have always

had an excellent score with Black against the Sämisch (eight wins, seven draws) but in recent years two losses

were added against Miedema and Dambacher in the gambit line 6.¥e3 c5 7.dxc5 dxc5 8.£xd8 ¦xd8 9.¥xc5 ¤c6

10.¤ge2 ¤d7 11.¥f2!?. At the Kings Tournament Ponomariov lost his games against Radjabov and Carlsen, but

in both cases White had a clear advantage after the opening. Radjabov was worse in the line starting with 6...

e5 7.¥g5!. In the diagram position Carlsen's bluff was working since Ponomariov played 23.¦f2?, while 23.¢h1!

seems to be just winning for White. Possibly Black should refrain from playing with ...h5 altogether and go for 9...

e6 10.¥e2 exd5 11.cxd5 a6 12.a4 ¥d7! 13.0–0 b5! (Bologan).

Grünfeld, Fianchetto

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1.d4 ¤f6 2.¤f3 g6 3.c4 ¥g7 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 ¤xd5 6.¥g2 ¤b6 7.¤c3 ¤c6 8.e3 0–0 9.0–0 ¦e8 10.¦e1 e6

Instead of delving deeply into the mainstream variations, Dominguez comes up with a fairly new idea at move

10. Generally, Black needs to undermine the centre in Grünfeld, but his prepatory 10...e6!? seems to be a more

subtle version of it. First of all, it avoids the d5 thrust any moment and hence it secures the position of the ¤ on

c6, allowing it to exert pressure on the centre. This means White can't push his e-pawn for the moment and has

to find another useful waiting move, which he doesn't really have. After 11.b3, Black switches plans by playing

11...e5! when the ¤ on c3 is longer protected, due to the weakened long diagonal. After Alekseev's continuation

Black comfortably equalized, because White is unable to bring his majority on the kingside in motion. In CVO 22

we mentioned the difficulties Black faces after 10...e5 11.d5 ¤a5, while this week Black couldn't entirely solve

his opening problems by the means of 11...¤e7. Hence, it seems very likely we will soon see more games with

Dominguez' invention.

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ChessVibes OPENINGS what’s hot and what’s not?

No. 77, June 23, 2010

IT'S YOUR MOVE

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LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS

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Van Wely-Spoelman, Dutch Ch (Eindhoven) 2010

White has just carried out his standard minority attack and eventually prevented the ¤ to go to e4, via g5. Black

should be careful not to end up in a strategical torture and has to operate actively. 17...c5! Absolutely the correct

decision. 18.dxc5 d4 19.¤e4?! White should have prefered 19.exd4 ¤xd4 20.£d1 ¤b3 21.£xb3 £xd3 and now

22.£c2 still gives him an edge. 19...dxe3 20.¤xf6+ gxf6 21.£xe3? A draw could have still been obtained by

means of 21.¥c3 £xd3 22.£xf6 exf2+ 23.¢h1 ¢f8 24.£h8+ ¢e7 25.£f6+ ¢f8=. 21...¤g5! White ’ s pieces are

very unluckily placed. 22.¦d1 ¦xe3 23.¥xe3 ¤e6 24.¥xh7+ ¢xh7 25.¦xd8 ¦xd8 26.¢f1 ¢g6 27.¢e2 ¤d4+

28.¥xd4 ¦xd4 29.¦b1 ¦xh4 30.¦b7 ¥e5 31.g3 ¦a4 32.¢d3 ¦xa3+ 33.¢c4 ¦f3 0–1

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Wang Hao-Zhou Jianchao, Danzhou Super GM 2010

This position from the King's Indian Sämisch very much reminds of the Sicilian Dragon. White is trying to

checkmate along the h-file and all he has to do, is to remove the defender on f6. The right way of doing this is by

the typical 14.e5! dxe5 15.d6! Making the ¤ on f6 less secure. Instead the standard 15.¤e4 ¥f5! 16.¤xf6+ exf6

17.hxg6 ¥xg6 doesn ’ t work. 15...e6 15...exd6 16.¤d5! is a checkmate: 16...¤xd5 17.hxg6 ¤f6 18.gxh7+ ¢h8

19.£xf6#. 16.¤h3! Now Black lacks counterplay: 16...¤bd7 17.¤g5 ¦b8 18.¦d2 1–0

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