📘 20...Qh4!
The best defence to kick away the White Queen from the c5-outpost and prepare the c5-lever.
20...Qh4 21.Rf3 Rce8 22.Rg3 Qe7 23.Qh5 c5 -/+
The best defence to kick away the White Queen from the c5-outpost and prepare the c5-lever.
20...Qh4 21.Rf3 Rce8 22.Rg3 Qe7 23.Qh5 c5 -/+
📘 The winning move with the idea of ...Bg5.
27...N×f3
(27...Nd3 28.B×d3 c×d3 29.Bg7 +-)
28.Q×f3 Q×b2 29.N×d6 K×h6 30.Q×f7 Rhg8 31.Bd1 Nf6 32.f4 Ra6 33.R×g6+! R×g6 34.Nf5# 1-0
27...N×f3
(27...Nd3 28.B×d3 c×d3 29.Bg7 +-)
28.Q×f3 Q×b2 29.N×d6 K×h6 30.Q×f7 Rhg8 31.Bd1 Nf6 32.f4 Ra6 33.R×g6+! R×g6 34.Nf5# 1-0
📘 26...f5!
Clamping down forever on the e4-square. Besides the wretched bishop, White is suffering from another positional infirmity. That is, from a strategic point of view Black has in effect an extra pawn: the white pawns on d4, e3, f4, and h2 are restrained by the black pawns on d5, f5, and h7. In contrast, on the queenside, Black has a 3-2 majority with the capacity to break through and create a passed pawn on the c-file with ...b7-b5, ...a7-a5 and ...b5-b4 etc. However, Black will certainly not rush to advance his queenside pawns, as he doesn't want to give the white rooks any targets.
27.Kf3 Kf7 28.a4 Rg8=/+.
Clamping down forever on the e4-square. Besides the wretched bishop, White is suffering from another positional infirmity. That is, from a strategic point of view Black has in effect an extra pawn: the white pawns on d4, e3, f4, and h2 are restrained by the black pawns on d5, f5, and h7. In contrast, on the queenside, Black has a 3-2 majority with the capacity to break through and create a passed pawn on the c-file with ...b7-b5, ...a7-a5 and ...b5-b4 etc. However, Black will certainly not rush to advance his queenside pawns, as he doesn't want to give the white rooks any targets.
27.Kf3 Kf7 28.a4 Rg8=/+.
📕 18.Qf1!
Kramnik plays in Karpovian style. By quietly sliding his queen to f1, he breaks the pin that the black queen and bishop are exerting on f3 and so takes the sting out of Black's ...e6-e5 advance.
18...Nbd7 19.b4.
Kramnik plays in Karpovian style. By quietly sliding his queen to f1, he breaks the pin that the black queen and bishop are exerting on f3 and so takes the sting out of Black's ...e6-e5 advance.
18...Nbd7 19.b4.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 387
B: Bf8 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%
C: Ba6 – 2
👍👍👍👍 29%
A: Qd8 – 1
👍👍 14%
👥 7 people voted so far.
B: Bf8 – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 57%
C: Ba6 – 2
👍👍👍👍 29%
A: Qd8 – 1
👍👍 14%
👥 7 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 388
A: b5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
B: g6 – 1
👍 10%
C: Qd8 – 1
👍 10%
👥 10 people voted so far.
A: b5 – 8
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 80%
B: g6 – 1
👍 10%
C: Qd8 – 1
👍 10%
👥 10 people voted so far.
FIDE Interzonal tournament, Moscow 1982. round 4; Mikhail Tal (USSR) vs John van der Wiel (Netherlands). Tal won a brilliant game in only 22 moves.
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Bent Larsen and Bobby Fischer enjoying themselves during the 1966 Piatigorsky Cup in Santa Monica, in the garden of the patrons Jacqueline and Gregory Piatigorsky.
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