Jouko Aijala vs Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1969)

Jouko Aijala vs Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Dresden WchT st 1969 · Sicilian Defense: Classical Variation. General (B56) · 0-1

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Jun-21-04		sneaky pete: Instead of playing 19.Nxf6+? white can win with 19.Nxe7+ followed by 20.Nxc8 etc. Black's attempt to attack after losing pawn and exchange can easily be parried. Funny thing: some of black's moves leading to this lost position are loaded with !! in books by experts like Gufeld, Sapi/Schneider and Ward, and white's 16th move sometimes gets a ?, but I have seen no master repeat Ljubo's bluff, so they know better.

Jun-21-04		SicilianDragon: I think Black can save himself with 18...Nxd5 19. Qxh7+ Kf7 20. Bh6 Rg8 21. exd5 Qxa2 as in the following game: [Event "Karl Mala mem op"] [Site "Griesheim"] [Date "2003.07.24"] [Round "5"] [White "Brethauer,Sarah"] [Black "Kreiling,Carsten"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B79"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0-0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.0-0-0 Qa5 11.g4 Rfc8 12.Bb3 Ne5 13.h4 b5 14.h5 Nc4 15.Bxc4 bxc4 16.hxg6 fxg6 17.Qh2 Rab8 18.Nd5 Nxd5 19.Qxh7+ Kf7 20.Bh6 Rg8 21.exd5 Qxa2 22.Ne6 Qxb2+ 23.Kd2 Qc3+ 24.Ke2 Qe5+ 25.Kf2 Bxe6 26.dxe6+ Qxe6 27.Rhe1 Qf6 28.g5 Qc3 29.Re2 a5 30.Rde1 Qd4+ 31.Kg2 e5 32.f4 Rbe8 33.fxe5 Qg4+ 4.Kf1 Rxe5 35.Rf2+ Rf5 36.Ree2 Qh3+ 37.Kg1 Qg4+ 38.Kf1 Qh3+ 39.Kg1 Qg4+ 40.Kf1 Qh3+ 41.Kg1 1/2

Jun-22-04		sneaky pete: >SicilianDragon< You are right, thank you for supplying that game. Of course black should play 18... Nxd5 but my point is that theory suggests the losing move 18... c3? is winning. When this line was played against me in a correspondence game 10 years ago (sneaky pete vs NN, corr 1994) I spent some days analysing 18... Nxd5 19.Qxh7+ Kf7 and concluded 20.Bh6 is unsatisfactory but 20.Nf5 is very promising. I never rechecked those analyses after NN played 18... c3!! and duly lost. White against Ljubo is by the way not "Ioho" bot Aijala Jouko from Finland.

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