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Alexander Beliavsky vs Viktor Kupreichik
"Alex in Wonderland" (game of the day Feb-06-2010)
URS-ch Young Masters (1973), Kiev URS, rd 10, Feb-??
Sicilian Defense: Dragon. Classical Variation General (B72)  ·  1-0

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Nov-30-07  patzer2: Of course <al wazir>'s (and also Fritz 19's) 21. Qc3!! sets up overwhelming threats against the weakened castled position, and may be an even better "human" than computer solution to today's puzzle.
Nov-30-07  patzer2: <DukeAlba> You're welcome. I'm glad you like the collection.
Nov-30-07  patzer2: Anyone care to venture exactly where Black went wrong in this game? I'm not a big fan of the early 8...Qb6, as the more solid 8...Nc6 as in F Kuijpers vs Botvinnik, 1963 would appear to give Black better long-term prospects. However, Black seemed to do OK with 8...Qb6 after 9. Be3 Qa5 (declining the poison pawn offer) in Jacimovic vs V Kovacevic, 1989.

In any event, White's piece sacrifice 18. Raf1!!, offering the White Knight for an overwhelming attack on the weak castled position, appears to be sound.

Nov-30-07  newzild: I got the order wrong, playing Rxg7 first, then Nf5. This is the first one I've missed this week. Much harder, and a very impressive game.
Nov-30-07  YouRang: <patzer2: Anyone care to venture exactly where Black went wrong in this game? >

Good question. It's hard to believe that this could be decisive, but it appears that things started going downhill for black after he grabbed the b2 pawn with 9...Qxb2.

Sure, black is up a pawn, but at the cost of burning up several tempos and accepting awkward queen position for the rest of the game. Taking the b2 pawn also reveals that black underestimated how quickly and efficiently white could mount a kingside offensive - all while black's queen is trapped queenside.

Here is how things went downhill for black:

<1> 9...Qxb2 - takes pawn, but with costs discussed above.

<2> 10...Qb4 - another tempo spent trying to get the queen back into the game.

<3> 11. e5! - White begins a sequence that takes control of the center and opens the f-file for his rook.

<4> 14. Rf4! - White develops his rook with tempo (attacking bishop). Black must burn another tempo to save the bishop(14...Bd7).

<5> 15. Nd5! - White develops his knight with tempo (attacking queen). Black must burn yet another tempo to save queen (15...Qa5) -- and it's STILL awkwardly placed.

<6> 16. Nxe7+ - So white gets the pawn back, again with tempo (check).

<7> 17...Qd8 - Yes, another tempo burning queen move -- just to return the queen back to her home square!

Anyway, you can see that since move #9, white has been developing and black has been shuffling. It's not hard to see why, by move #18, black is terribly underdeveloped and white has a robust attack underway.

I would say that Pb2 was poisoned.

Nov-30-07  GannonKnight: Missed ... I dismissed 21. Nf5 a bit too early. I knew that somehow you had to get the black Bishop out of the way, but I didn't see that way. It looks so easy now ... 4/5 so far ...
Nov-30-07  RandomVisitor: After 9.Be3, best for black is likely 9...Nc6:

FEN:


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(23-ply)
1. (0.05): 9...Nc6 10.Qd3 Ng4 11.Bxg4 Bxd4 12.Bxd4 Qxd4+ 13.Qxd4 Nxd4 14.Bd1 f5 15.Nd5 fxe4 16.Nxe7+ Kg7 17.Re1 Bf5 18.c3 Rae8 19.Nd5 Nc6 20.g4 Bd7 21.g5

2. (0.24): 9...Qa5 10.Nb3 Qc7 11.Bf3 Nc6 12.Qe2 Bd7 13.Rad1 Rfe8 14.a3 Na5 15.Nxa5 Qxa5 16.Bd4 e5 17.fxe5 dxe5 18.Be3 Bc6 19.Rd6

Dec-01-07  CaptGeorge: I still new at this, but I missed it. I thought 21.Nf5 Qxe6 refuted N move. Oh, well.
Dec-01-07  patzer2: <You Rang> <RV>, Thanks for the analysis and suggested improvements.
Feb-06-10  Mate Hunter: <kevin86>

26...Ke8 27. Bc5 Kd8

Feb-06-10  Figs: What if 21...Nc6, Freeing the rook on the 8th rank, covering the d4 square, and threatening the fork on e5?
Feb-06-10  Chess Carnival: Figs, too slow at this moment. The fork threat is an illusion: 22.Nxg7 Ne5 23.Nxe8 Nxd3 and Rf8 is mate!
Feb-06-10  Figs: I see, thanks Chess Carnival
Feb-08-10  kevin86: I like an attack where the opponent take pieces,but the attack just grown in intensity.
Mar-21-10  donehung: Now thats how you punish a pawn grabber!
Oct-14-10  sevenseaman: Combinations in Boxing, Fencing, Wrestling many other games are attractive but in chess I find them irresistibly alluring.
Oct-14-10  ughaibu: Guess the move score: 49
Dec-30-10  falso contacto: in this game, white has too many knights.
Jan-07-15  bharat123: An interesting continuation is
25.Qb3+ Kh8 (25..Kf8 26.Bc5+ Ke8 27.Qg8+ Bf8 28. Qxf8) 26.Bxg7+ Kxg7 27.Qxb7 winning the rook
Dec-17-15  Whitehat1963: Truly impressive finish!
Feb-17-24
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  GoldenKnight: 18. N(d4)f5 jumped out at me right away. White did play it later. I don't feel like analyzing it. Can anyone give me an indication if this would work on move 18? It still looks strong to me. Thanks!
Feb-17-24  mel gibson: Too many lines -
I picked a wrong line.

Stockfish 16 finds no quick checkmate and says:

18. Raf1

(18. Raf1 (1.Raf1 Qxe7 2.Rxf7 Rxf7 3.Rxf7 Qb4 4.c3 Qd6 5.exd7 Nxd7 6.Rxg7 Re8 7.Rf7 Qd5 8.Rf1 Ne5 9.Qd1 Kg8 10.Re1 Nf7 11.Bf2 Re5 12.Rxe5 Nxe5 13.Qe2 Kf7 14.Bg3 Nd7 15.Nf3 h6 16.h3 g5 17.Bf2 a6 18.Qc2 Nf8 19.Nd4 b5 20.Nf5 Qe6 21.Qd3 Ng6 22.Nxh6+ Ke8 23.Qf3 Nf4 24.Ng4 Kf7 25.Be3 Qd5 26.Qf1 Qxa2 27.g3 Qe2 28.gxf4 Qxf1+ 29.Kxf1) +5.62/52 691)

score for White +5.62 depth 52.

Feb-17-24
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  Breunor: Omg what a great combination! I think Beliavsky deserves to be more prominent, I really like his games.
Feb-17-24
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  chrisowen: Muggle it was ez cup Raf1 fog aof jif buck it was abridge it was lip i c ae it was bob flick Raf1 buff.
Feb-17-24  Messiah: Really difficult!
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