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Evgeny Tomashevsky vs Peter Svidler
Russian Championship Superfinal (2005), Moscow RUS, rd 3, Dec-21
English Opening: King's English. Four Knights Variation Fianchetto Lines (A29)  ·  0-1

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Dec-21-05  The17thPawn: Looks like a deficit of almost two hundred rating points is a bit much for Tomashevsky to overcome. Svidler still seems sharp as a tack since his strong showing at the world championships.
Dec-21-05  csmath: <Looks like a deficit of almost two hundred rating points is a bit much for Tomashevsky to overcome.>

This game is very good learning material for me. Ordinarily I had almost an axiom about English - always 1. ... e5 but also 4. ... d5 (or as soon as possible). I have never given any thought to 4. ... Nd4.

But now looking at the position after 10 moves there is no weakness in black position, in fact I would prefer playing black. It is very interesting that even though white has centralized his rooks it is black that has the initiative.

Tomashevsky overlooked (?) tactical strike by black

28. Rc1? ... Bxb4

and after losing a pawn from an inferior position he finds himself in a lost position and resigned probably discouraged.

Very, very easy win by Svidler. I shall try this opening by black the first time I have a chance.

Dec-21-05  notyetagm: 28 ♖c1?? ♗xb4! exploiting the fact that White's a3-queen and d2-bishop are tied to the defense of the loose c1-square because White has backrank problems and hence they cannot also defend the b4-pawn (<OVERWORKED>).
Dec-22-05
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  Honza Cervenka: <I have never given any thought to 4. ... Nd4.> Neither do I. It looks quite interesting and against live opponents it works well as people usually know that they should not take the Pawn. But I would not have tried to play this line against Hydra or any other silicon patzer....:-D

MChess vs Christiansen, 1991

Dec-22-05  chessnewbie: what's the win here?
Dec-22-05  HalfOpenFile: How does black respond to 5. Nxe5?
Dec-22-05  setebos: the b pawn is unstoppable
Dec-22-05
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  Honza Cervenka: <How does black respond to 5. Nxe5?> The idea is 5.Nxe5 Qe7 and white Knight cannot retreat for mate: 6.Nd3?? Nf3#. White is forced to play 6.f4 and his position looks pretty bad at the first glance, but in the game (the only one with 5.Nxe5 in the database) MChess (comp) vs Christiansen 1991 (see the link above) the comp (not extremely strong one) managed to survive and won.
Dec-22-05  csmath: Yes but white would be in big trouble against a more powerful "program" than Larry Christiansen. In that game

10. ... dxc4 (instead of a5)

as proposed by Shredder leaves white in big trouble

11. Bg2 ...

and now in proper order

11. ... a5!

12. Nxc2 ... Qxc2

13. cxd3

and apparently black is significantly better.

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