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Alexandra Kosteniuk vs Maia Chiburdanidze
European Team Championship (Women) (2005), Gothenburg SWE, rd 8, Aug-06
Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation. Main lines (B18)  ·  0-1

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Aug-12-05  bane77: 21.b3 is weakening the king's side. I'd rather play 21.Ne4 with g4 and g5 and I think white is better. 25.axb3 is a huge mistake which is directly losing like in the game, but with 27...Nxc4! 28.bxc4 Qb6 black wins immediately. After 25.Qxb3 gxf6 26.Bxh6 fxe5 27.Ne4 white is very good. Too bad for white. I think she ruined the position under the pressure that her team needed to win.
Jan-10-06  likestofork: I agree that 21. b3 unnecessarily weakens the White King's position, but I'm thinking that she missed an opportunity to permanently seize the initiative. If instead of 19. Qc2, White trades Queens, 19. Qxb5 cb 20. Ne4, then she's centralized her Knight, blunted any sort of attack that Black had, messed up Black's pawn structure, and set things up for an attack on the kingside with g4-g5-Rg1. Black can either eschew castling, or castle into that mess.

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