Maia Chiburdanidze vs Samuel Reshevsky (1978)

Maia Chiburdanidze vs Samuel Reshevsky
Vilnius 1978 · Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Breyer Defense Zaitsev Hybrid (C95) · 1/2-1/2

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Aug-21-12		Abdel Irada: Perhaps I'm suffering chess blindness, but I don't see an obvious refutation to 12. ...xe4.

Aug-21-12		Calar: There is none, as far as I can see. Maybe the move order is mixed up.

Aug-21-12		LoveThatJoker: <Abdel Irada> I gave the position after 12...Nxe4 to Stockfish. It produced the following after considering it for 25 minutes, A) 13. Ne3 c5 14. dxe5 dxe5 15. Nf5 Re8 16. Bc2 Nef6 17. Nxe5 Nxe5 18. Rxe5 Qxd1+ 19. Bxd1 Bf8 20. Rxe8 Rxe8 21. Be3 g6 22. Nh4 Be7 23. Bf3 Ne4 24. g3 Bf6 25. Re1 <-0.52/24> B) 13. Bc2 f5 14. a4 Kh8 15. Qe2 bxa4 16. dxe5 Nxe5 17. Nxe5 dxe5 18. f3 Bc5+ 19. Be3 Bxe3+ 20. Qxe3 Ng5 21. Qxe5 Bxf3 22. Rxa4 Be4 23. Bxe4 Nxe4 24. Rd4 Qc8 25. Ne3 <-0.76/23> According to Deep Fritz 13's Opening Book, 12. Bc2 is the main book move. LTJ PS. It should also be noted that Stockfish says that 12...g6? was bad in that it both missed 12...Nxe4, and in that it actually allowed White a chance to get on the winning track with 13. Bh6! - leading to at least a < > advantage.

Aug-21-12		Abdel Irada: <LTJ>: Thank you for the research. I've played against the Breyer before, and I've often wished I could omit c2 and simply carry on with the f1-g3 maneuver without delay, but this confirms my impression that White can't get away with that — unless, of course, Black plays carelessly, as we see here. In conjunction with Judit Polgar vs Spassky, 1993, in which Judit could have won at least the exchange and a pawn had she taken alert advantage of Spassky's erroneous transposition, it appears that GMs are far more vulnerable than one might have thought to hazardously blitzing through openings.

Aug-21-12		LoveThatJoker: <Abdel Irada> Well stated! Thank you kindly for the note. :) LTJ

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