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The only move that parries Be4 and Bxh7+.
17.Qa2 Qa4 -/+
Another piece comes to attack the c4 weakness!
Jimenez Zerquera
Bent Larsen
Havana 1967
Black to move
In this balanced position, one of the best players of the world from the last century and even an analyst of the ex-world champion Robert James Fischer came up with a very interesting strategic idea: trade the fianchettoed bishop for the centralized knight on e5.
14...Nxe5 is also very playable and natural.
15.dxe5 d4!
Larsen is right to consider that doubling the pawns on the e-file is fine since the white dark-squared bishop will not be strong and Black will have nice control over the center and the open f-file.
16.Bh6 Rfd8!
The only good square for the rook, supporting the d4-pawn.
17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.Rfe1
And we need to be fast now since White is now threatening to play Qg4 once the e5-pawn is protected by the rook.
18...Rd5! 19.Bf4?!
White tries to protect the e5-pawn, but now we can clearly see how the black knight is superior to the white bishop.
19...Rf8! 20.g3 d3!
This move is very strong! The white queen should keep an eye on f2. That is why Qd2 is mandatory. The problem for White is that when the knight arrives to e5 later, f3 will be easier to access!
21.Qd2 g5
Capturing the e5-pawn with the knight in the next move and we can see how the light squares are extremely weak. Black is much better.
Levon Aronian
Boris Gelfand
Julius Baer GenCup Prelim 2022
White to move