David Janowski vs Friedrich Jakob (1900)

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David Janowski vs Friedrich Jakob
12th DSB Congress, Munich (1900), Munich GER, rd 8, Aug-02
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Main Line (D63) · 1-0

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Dec-06-18		KEG: Janowski had a miserable time at Munich 1900. By this 8th round game, he was tied for 7th--11th place 2.5 points behind the leader. But even in the funk that seemed to have enveloped Janowski's play at this tournament, he had little trouble defeating the hapless Jacob, who was a pawn down in a hopelss ending by move 17. The only notable feature of this game was Janowski's cute final move. 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 0-0 7. Rc1 b6 This line, which was then a popular way to combat the QGD, is not quite a Tartakower Defense, since Black has not played h6. It is seemingly inferior to 7...h6, 7...c6, and 7...dxc4, but is certainly playable. 8. Bd3 To be sure he saves a tempo, Janowski should probably have played 8. cxd5 here immediately. 8... dxc4 Missing the chance to win a tempo with 8...dxc4. 8...c5 was another good line for Black here. 9. cxd5 Janowski does not give Jacob a second chance to initiate the capture and gain a tempo. 9... exd5 10. 0-0 a6 Playing a la Janowski. 10...c5, 10...Ne4, and 10...h6 were all better. 11. Ne5 Not bad, but 11. Bf5, 11. Qc2, and 11. Bf4 were all stronger choices. The position was now: click for larger view 11... c5 "?"--Tournament Book. The Tournament Book's proposed 11...NxN was surely better [12. dxc5 Ne4!]. But the text was not all that bad and Jacob still had a playable game at this point. 12. f4 "!"--Tournament Book. This certainly gave Janowski a strong center formation, and was probably even better than 12. Qf3. 12... Ne4 "?"--Tournament Book. The text was indeed a blunder, and Black was destined to lose a pawn after the ensuing exchanges. 13. BxB QxB 14. BxN dxB 15. NxN QxN 16. dxc5 This left: click for larger view 16... QxQ "?"--Tournament Book. The text is hopeless since Black now enters an endgame in which he must lose a pawn anyway and face doom in the form of an eventual White passed pawn on the Queen-side. Jacob's only real chance was to abandon any hope of saving the pawn and seek counterplay with 16...Qc6?! 17. RfxQ bxc5 18. Na4 Jacob should surely have seen this coming. Now he loses his c5 pawn and will be a dead duck once Janowski creates a passed pawn. 18... f5 Only making matters worse. Jacob should have tried for some sort of counterplay with 18...Bc6 or perhaps tried 18...h6, though his task would likely still be hopeless. 19. Nxc5 19. Rxc5 or 19. Nb6 were perhaps even better. The position was now: click for larger view As I will discuss in my next post on this game, from here on it was target practice for Janowski against an opponent who appeared (understandably) resigned to defeat.

Dec-07-18		KEG: Post II Janowksi obviously had a won game after 19. Nxc5, but having a win doesn't always translate into victory. Nere, Jacob did nothing to make Janowski's task difficult: 19... Bc8 To offer any real resistance, he should have played 19...Bc6. 20. Rd6 20. B4 was also very strong for Janowski here. 20... a5 21. Rcd1 21. Rc4 was even better, but Janowski, as Lasker once said, enjoyed having a won game so much he often could not bear to part with it. So here--without jeopardizing his chances--Janowski took his time. 21... Ra7 Getting this Rook to the c-file was a futile plan. Jacob should--if he wanted to continue--try to bring his King into action with 21...Kf7. 21...g6 and 21...Re8 were also better than the text. 22. a3 The first step to trading off pawns on the Queen-side and getting an unstoppable passed pawn. 22... Rc7 23. b4 g6 24. R1d5 axb4 25. axb4 This left: click for larger view The White b-pawn is poised to march off to Queen-hood. Janowski nonetheless managed to extract every ounce of pleasure in converting his advantage and foiling every effort by Jacob to bring the game to a quick conclusion. 25... Kf7 26. Kf2 Ke7 The only meager chance of offering resistance lay in something like 26...Re8. 27. Ke1 Taking the slow boat to winning and eschewing the more forceful 27. Kg3 27... Rf6 This offer to trade Rooks was suicidal, but the game was lost anyway. 27...Re8 was theoretically "better." 28. RxR KxR This left: click for larger view 29. Kd2 Janowski was apparently enjoying himself too much to play the crushing (and obvious) 29. b5. 29... Rc6 30. Kc3 Still too busy making merry to push his b-pawn! 30... Be6 Almost forcing Janowski to wrap up the game. 30...Ke7 was the best try. 31. Re5 Ba2? Putting his Bishop where it can not impede the advance of the White b-pawn. 32. B5 At last! 32... Rd6 33. g4 Deciding to have a little fun on the King-side instead of wrapping up the game with 33. b6. 33... h6? If he really wanted to continue the game, Jacob should have least made an effort to stop the b-pawn with 33...Bd5, hopeless though even this would have been. 34. gxf5 gxf5? 34...Bd5 was the only way to carry on for even a little while. The position was now: click for larger view Now Janowski was able to have a little fun: 35. b6! 1-0 Jacob no doubt belatedly recognized that 35...Rxb6 would run into 36. Nd7+. And if 35...Bd5 36. RxB!! (36...RxR 37. b7 Rd8 38. b8(Q) RxQ 39. Nd7+). A neat finish by Janowski, who may have been waiting for a pretty way to conclude this otherwise forgettable game.

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