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Utut Adianto vs Ian Rogers
Jakarta Zonal (1993), Jakarta INA, rd 6, Feb-02
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. Botvinnik System Reversed (A37)  ·  0-1

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Aug-18-24
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  Fusilli: Instructive game on the Botvinnik system. White played something slow (the Bd2, Qc1, Bh6 plan) and then, in this position:


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12...f6.

This is a good move and the idea is to prevent Bg5. It may be odd to expect Bg5 once white has played Bh6, but it could happen if black played the apparently more natural move 12...f5 13.b3 f4 (13...e4 is bad: 14.dxe4 Bxc3 15.Qxc3 Rf7 16.Ng5 and white is winning) and now 14.Bg5:


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White will likely trade that bishop for the knight on e7 in the next move, and that would leave three white pieces with a potential claim on the d5-square vs. two black defenders (regardless of their placement now). There is a lot more to the position than that, but if you play the Botvinnik system, you have to make sure you never end up with a monster piece on your weak central square.

Aug-18-24
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  perfidious: <Fusilli>, the other angle is that White, however antipositional it appears to give up his good bishop, is also playing to leave Black's dark-squared bishop on the board, obstructed by its own pawns, thus making it the worst minor piece, besides aiming for total control over d5. Exchanges on that square culminating in the LSBs coming off would leave a monster knight facing a hobbled bishop.

It may seem excessively abstract to view the position in this way, but this would be White's long-term aim if he can bring it off.

Aug-19-24
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  Fusilli: <perfidious> Exactly.

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