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Samuel Sevian vs Wenjun Ju
FTX Road to Miami (2022) (rapid), chess24.com INT, rd 2, Jul-10
English Opening: King's English. Four Knights Variation Fianchetto Lines (A29)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 11 (minimum 7s/ply)8.a3 was played in Nakamura vs Anand, 2016 (1-0) 9...h6 10.Be3 Ba5 11.Qa4 Ng4 12.h3 Nxe3 13.fxe3 gxh4 = -0.30 (32 ply) ⩲ +1.26 (36 ply) 10...Nb8 11.Qa4 gxh4 12.Qxb4 Re8 13.gxh4 Qxh4 14.a4 f5 ⩲ +1.00 (35 ply)+- +3.32 (33 ply) 11...Ba5 12.Bxe4 b5 13.Qd3 Qe7 14.Bf4 hxg3 15.fxg3 f5 +- +2.73 (31 ply)+- +4.21 (35 ply)21...Bf3 22.Bxf3 exf3 23.Rxe5 Rfd8 24.Rg5+ Kh8 25.Be3 +- +6.31 (34 ply)1-0

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Kibitzer's Corner
Jul-11-22
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  An Englishman: Good Afternoon: We most emphatically did *not* play the English Four Knights in this fashion back in my time! White's 8.0-0 piece sacrifice (real or temporary) does not appear in the CG database until 2019. Black does not seem to have known the theory; having missed 9...h6!, the pawn sacrifice 11...Ba5; 12.Bxe4,bxc6; 13.Bxc6,Rb8 might have proven necessary.
Jul-20-22  catlover: I wonder if this a variation Sevian prepared or if was just a wild off-the-books variation in which Ju Wenjun came out a piece down.
Jul-20-22  SChesshevsky: <...wonder if this a variation Sevian prepared...>

Good question. Looks normal English through move 5. Black looking to equalize via e5 pawn causing mayhem thanks to ...Bb4. Some good tests in Kasparov- Karpov 1987 match.

Think 6. Nd5 is not common. So I'd guess Sevian came well prepared. Natural is just move 6...Bc5 to ok position it seems.

But 6...e4 is fighting. Probably foolish if not clear on theory. Guessing a key part is beware the trapped B possibility. Seems the result shows Ju Wenjun wasn't as prepared sufficiently.

Think the B can be at least initially saved at move 14... by chasing the queen but black suffers some losses with a terrible position.

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