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| acirce: 30.Qd2 Nf7 31.Qg2 Qe5 32.Rg8+ Ke7 33.Rxa8 Qe1+ 34.Qg1 Qe4+ draw might happen. But it's very complicated. <jamesmaskell> He was 2710 in 1997. Must have been very high on the list. In the 80's he was top-5 at times. |
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| Jul-01-05 |
| azaris: Of course he is in ridiculous time trouble as usual. |
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Aug-07-05
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| TheAlchemist: This is the game between Beliavsky and Nisipeanu from the last round of the Individual European Championship 2005 in Warsaw. Before the game, let me just illustrate the background. Beliavsky and Nisipeanu were leading the tournament with 9/13, 5 players were behind them with 8,5 points. With a draw, both would be guaranteed a tie-break, with whomever would win out of the 5 players behind them. Only Radjabov managed to win (against Dreev). Beliavsky evaluated, that he had little chance in rapid tie-breaks against younger opposition, so he chose to play and the risk that comes with it. Unfortunately, Beliavsky lost. Such was the will of Caissa. So unfair, rewarding Nisipeanu, who proposed a draw after only 10 moves, while Beliavsky, one of the rare true chess fighters, was left far behind, in 8th place. It was the second time in only a short period of time he suffered such a fate (HP Global Challenge). Two draws, that would add around 50,000$ to his bank account, but would never heal his wounded pride, had he done such a thing... Beliavsky - Nisipeanu (after the annotations by GM Georg Mohr) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
The Nimzo-Indian is a good weapon in such a situation. Beliavsky is a specialist in 4.Qc2, but opted for the main line, 4.e3, trying to avoid unpleasant surprises. 4.e3 O-O 5.a3 Bxc3 6.bxc3 c5 7.Bd3 Nc6 8.Ne2
Beliavsky obviously wants to sharpen up the game. The text move is preparing the advance of the f-Pawn. 8...d6 9.e4 e5 10.O-O h6 11.d5 Ne7
As mentioned before, Nisipeanu offered a draw after move 10, but Beliavsky declined. 12.f3 Ng6 13.Be3 Nh7 14.Qc2 b6 15.Kh1 Bd7 16.g3!
Preparing the push f3-f4. Black will have to take, otherwise f4-f5 would probably lead to a decisive advantag on the Kingside for White. White will have dangerous central Pawns, and the e5-break will always be a threat. 16...Qc7 17.f4 exf4 18.gxf4 f5!?
Black wants White to clarify his intentions. 18...Nf6 was also an option. 19.Rg1 Nh4 20.e5!
The decisive break. White is much superior on the Kingside. 20...dxe5 21.fxe5 Ng5
The critical moment of the game. Computer analysis shows, taht White is completely winning at this point. |
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Aug-07-05
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| TheAlchemist: 22.Bxg5?
Correct was 22.Bf4!, with the terrible threat of e5-e6. 22...Nh3 is the only reasonable defence. Beliavsky saw that. But what he didn't see, was the cold-blooded 23.Raf1!!, and the party's over. After 23...Nxf4 24.Rxf4 the Knight on h4 is lost (24...Qd8 25.e6), and Black must accept the challenge: 23...Nxg1 24.Rxg1, with the threats of e5-e6 and Bxh6. Fritz suggests 24...Qb7 25.Bxh6 Rf7, where White must choose between 26.Rg3 with stepping up the pressure, or the forced variation 26.e6! Bxe6 27.Nf4 Nf3 (26...Bd7 28.Qf2) 28.dxe6 Nxg1 (28...Ne1 29.Be4!) 29.Kxg1 Rff8 30.Bg5 with a decisive advantage. 22...hxg5 23.Rxg5?
White would be slightly better in the alternative: 23.e6! Bxe6 24.Rxg5 Bc8 25.Rf1. White's pride, the Pawn on e5, is destined to die anyway. 23...Nf3 24.Rg3 Nxe5 25.Rag1 Rf7
Beliavsky was disillusioned with the attack he had just a couple of moves ago, and didn't realize his advantage had gone. He had to start thinking about the draw. 26.Nf4! Nxd3 27.Nh5?
After 27.Qg2 Qf4 28.Rxg7 Kf8 29.Rxf7 Kxf7 30.Qg7 Ke8 31.Qg8 Ke7 32.Rg7 Kd6 33.Ryd7 Kxd7 34.Qe6 with perpetual check. 27...Nxe5 28.Rxg7 Rxg7 29.Rxg7 Kf8 30.Qg2?
The last chance for Beliavsky. 30.h3 would continue with the attack, with an unclear position. 30.Qd2! draws, after 30...Nf7 31.Qg2 Qe5 32.Rg8 Ke7 33.Ra8 Qe1 and Qe4 with perpetual check. Beliavsky was afraid of 31...Be8 32.Rg8 Ke7, but didn't see that 33.Rg6!! was winning, not losing. 30...Ng4 31.Rxg4 fxg4
A promising-looking sacrifice, that is, however, losing. Now Nisipeanu demonstrates his nerves of steel in time trouble and converts into a win. 32.Qf2 Kg8 33.Qf6 Be8 34.Qg5 Kf8 35.Nf4 Bf7 36.Qf6 Ke8 37.d6 Qb7 38.Kg1 Qe4 39.d7 Kxd7 40.Qxf7 Kc6 41.Qf6 Kb7 42.Nd5 Qe1 43.Kg2 Qf3 46.Qxf3 hxf3 47.Kxf3 Rh8 48.Kg3 Ka6 49.Ne7 Re8 0-1 Such was te struggle for first place at the Individual European Championship. |
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| Aug-20-05 |
| csmath: I find this tournament amusing. I can clearly see how much, much better tournament is played in Iceland and wonder what is the point in analizing GM games. Just joking. |
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| Apr-10-06 |
| PhilFeeley: You don't appear to have any of his games from the 2005 Austrian Championship. Here is one he lost: [Event "TCh-AUT 2005-6"]
[Site "Austria AUT"]
[Date "2005.11.19"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Bischoff,K"]
[Black "Beliavsky,A"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2555"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[EventDate "2005.11.18"]
[ECO "A17"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. e3 d5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. Bxd7+
Nbxd7 8. O-O a6 9. Qb3 Nb6 10. d3 Be7 11. Ne2 O-O 12. Bd2 Qd6 13. Ng3 g6
14. e4 c4 15. Qd1 dxe4 16. dxe4 Qc6 17. Qc2 Rac8 18. Rae1 Qa4 19. Qc1 Qxa2
20. Bc3 Nbd7 21. Nd4 b5 22. Qh6 Rfe8 23. Ra1 Qxa1 24. Rxa1 b4 25. Be1 Bc5
26. Nc2 c3 27. bxc3 b3 28. Ne3 a5 29. Nd1 Nxe4 30. Kf1 Nb6 31. Rxa5 Nc4 32.
Rb5 Bf8 33. Qf4 Nxg3+ 34. hxg3 Red8 35. Ne3 Nxe3+ 36. fxe3 Rd1 37. Rxb3 Bd6
38. Qf3 Rc1 39. Ke2 1-0 |
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| May-04-06 |
| Whitehat1963: Hilarious that this guy's rating is higher than Spassky's and Tal's ever were! |
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May-05-06
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| Karpova: This would not be hilarious. Only someone who never heard of Beliavsky would think that way. I doubt that Beliavsky ever achieved a rating of 2710. The ratings were generally lower than today at the time of his peak. |
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May-05-06
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| acirce: Beliavsky was 2710 on the July 1997 list according to http://www.chessbase.com/newsprint...., http://www.chess.gr/eso/elo/2_97int..., http://members.fortunecity.com/njur... |
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May-05-06
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| Karpova: thank you very much, <acirce>!
Quite interesting to see that Beliavsky actually made it. |
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| May-05-06 |
| Whitehat1963: <Karpova>, my comment wasn't intended to take anything away from Beliavsky, who is obviously an excellent player, but rather to point out that rating inflation is out of control. Was Tal ever rated above 2700? Was he a better player than some who are currently rated above 2700? |
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May-05-06
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| Karpova: I found this post from <Maatalkko> on Jan Timman 's page:
<BTW Mihail Tal had one freak year in 1979 when he won two major tournaments that were FIDE rated. His rating went from 2610 to 2705, making him the third player ever to be over 2700 (after Fischer and Karpov). They only updated ratings once a year back then, so for all of 1980 he was over 2700. However, he bombed most of his tournaments that year, so he crashed from 2705 to 2550 at the end of the year, the largest drop in a single rating update that I know of.> |
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Dec-17-06
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| JointheArmy: We share the same birthday. Sagitarrius' rule. |
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| Apr-05-07 |
| Deceptor: 53 years old and rated 2648. Could Beliavsky be new Korchnoi? |
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Apr-11-07
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| JointheArmy: Brilliant game by Beliavsky today.
18. Nxb5!!
click for larger viewPoint being if axb5 Ra7
[Event "European Individual 2007"]
[Site "Dresden Germany"]
[Date "2007.04.11"]
[Round "8"]
[White "GM Beliavsky, Alexander G(SLO)"]
[Black "GM Agrest, Evgenij(SWE)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D44"]
[WhiteElo "2648"]
[BlackElo "2561"]
[Annotator "Gary_Suffield"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2007.??.??"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 b5 7. e5 h6 8. Bh4 g5
9. Nxg5 hxg5 10. Bxg5 Be7 11. exf6 Bxf6 12. Be3 Nd7 13. g3 Bb7 14. Bg2 Qc7 15.
a4 a6 16. O-O O-O-O 17. axb5 cxb5 18. Nxb5 axb5 19. Ra7 Nc5 20. Qa1 Nb3 21.
Bxb7+ Qxb7 22. Rxb7 Nxa1 23. Rxf7 Nb3 24. Rxf6 Kd7 25. h4 b4 26. Re1 Ra8 27.
Bf4 Nxd4 28. Be5 Nc2 29. Rd1+ Ke7 30. Rf4 Rhc8 31. Bd6+ Ke8 32. Rf8+ Kd7 33.
Bb8+ 1-0
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Apr-11-07
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| Ron: I am glad that <JointheArmy> posted this game. It seems that 18. Nxb5!! is to open the 'a' file. Note how the rook subsequently gobbles material. |
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May-16-08
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| zdigyigy: USSR Champ in 74' and again in 90'?? you gotta be kidding me. If you looked up the definition of what a chess grandmaster is, you might find the name and games of Alexander Beliavsky. |
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Jun-02-08
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| notyetagm: From <Chess Today CT-2763>, the daily chess periodical which I -highly- recommend. <A. Beliavsky
"Korolkov - 100", 2008
click for larger viewCan you find a forced win in the end
of this beautiful study?
1.Qf5+!! Kxf5 2.Ne7+!! Rxe7
White has only the knight against Black's superior forces, and it is placed rather passively on the 1st rank. However...
3.Ne3+ Kf6 4.Nxd5+ Kf5
5.Nxe7+ Kf6 6.Nxg8+ Kf5
7.Ne7+ Kf6 8.Nd5+ Kf5 9.g4#
Wonderful, isn't it!!>
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Jun-02-08
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| notyetagm:
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| Aug-27-08 |
| GrahamClayton: Belyavsky is one of only 3 players to have won 3 or more USSR Championships without becoming World Champion - Stein and Keres are the other two players to achive this unusual feat. |
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| Aug-28-08 |
| GrahamClayton: Beliavksy has also represented 3 different countries in Chess Olympiads - USSR, Ukraine and Slovenia. |
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Dec-17-08
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| brankat: Happy Birthday Alexander! |
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| Feb-02-09 |
| paavoh: A great start for Beliavsky in the Gibtelcom tournament with 5.5/6! |
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| Mar-27-09 |
| WhiteRook48: <notyetagm> quite a bit of an endgame study |
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Sep-20-09
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| diagonal: "Big Al", former World Junior Champion, World Championship Candidate and a four-time (shared) Soviet Champion, is now - after Anatoli Karpov (currently world's no. 140) dropped out - the oldest player in the Top 100 ELO-List (september 2009, it seems that FIDE is recalculating now every second month). Beliavsky (born 1953), is far from semi-retired as other players of this age and continues to work very hard as he always did with his legendary uncompromising chess - go ahead! <GrahamClayton: Beliavsky is one of only 3 players to have won 3 or more USSR Championships without becoming World Champion - Stein and Keres are the other two players to achive this unusual feat.> Korchnoi was a four-time (always unshared) USSR chess champion, reaching his best years maybe after defecting... |
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