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Richard Palliser vs Peter T Roberson
British Championship (2006), Swansea WLS, rd 3, Aug-09
Benoni Defense: King Pawn lines (A65)  ·  0-1

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Aug-10-06  Albertan: Quite an upset!Roberson is rated 2122 and Palliser is an IM and rated 2413.
Aug-10-06  Albertan: The two players followed the game Barsov-Gozzoli, for the first 13 moves. Palliser's move of 14.a4 appears to be a theoretical novelty. (Barsov played 14.Rfe1 in the above mentioned game which is in the chessgames database: Barsov vs Y Gozzoli, 2003
Aug-10-06  Albertan: Palliser's theoretical novelty 14..a4 prevents Roberson from gaining queenside counterplay with the move ...b5.
Aug-10-06  Albertan: Palliser plays the interesting 16.Ne2!? which sacrifices a pawn, gaining a tempo for the pawn with 17.g4. Then he uses his knight in classical fashion to hit the weakness in the Benoni pawn structure at d6 (which ties down Roberson's knight on e8).
Aug-10-06  Albertan: With 23.Rab2 two of Roberson's pieces are tied to the defense of the Black b-pawn. Roberson could have played 23...f5 creating a discovered attack against the white knight on c3. If Palliser played 24.e5 then after 24...fxg4 25.hxg4 Bb7!? if Palliser accepted the pawn on b6 by playing 26.Nxb6 after 26...dxe5 27.g5 Nxb6 28.Rxb6 exf4 29.Rxf4 Rxf4 30.Qxf4 Rd8 31.d6 Qd4+ with an advantage to black.
Aug-10-06  Albertan: Palliser could have tried playing 25.f5!? instead of 25.Rbe1. If 25.f5 then a possible continuation is 25...Ne5 26.fxg6 hxg6 27.Nxb6 Kg7 28.Be2 Rh8=
Aug-10-06  Albertan: The move 26...c4?! ran into winning the exchange for Palliser. Instead of 26..c4 Roberson could have played 26...Qg7 and after 27.Nc6 Rb7 Roberson would not have lost the exchange.Play might have continued: 28.axb5 axb5 29.Rc1 Rb6 30.Rb1 Ba6 however White seems to have adequate compensation for the pawn.
Aug-10-06  Albertan: The move 29.e5!? is very interesting.On move 32 Palliser could have: (a) gained a protected passed pawn by playing 32.e6. Or (b)he could have gained a pawn back by playing 32.exd6 and after 32...Ne8 33.axb5 Nxd6 34.bxa6 Bxa6 35.Re6 Nb5 36.Qe3 (threatening Rd8) 36...Nd6 37.Qg3 Nf7 black has sufficient compensation for the pawn.

If Palliser had played (a) 32.e6 then
after 32...Qe7 33.Rf1 Nxe6!? 34.dxe6 Bxe6 35.axb5 axb5 36.Nxb5 d2 37.Qc3 Nd7 38.Nd4 Bd5 39.Qxd2 Qe4 40.Kh2 Qe5+ 41.Qf4 h6 42.Qxe5 dxe5 43.Nf3 e4 44.Rd1 Be6 45.g5 hxg5 46.Nxg5 Kf6 47.h4 Ke7 48.Nxe6 Kxe6 the outcome of the game is still in doubt.

Aug-10-06  Albertan: The move 35.Qf4? was a mistake. Instead Palliser should have played: 35.Qf3 and play might have continued 35...Qd4+ 36.Kg2 Kg7 37.Qf7+ Kh5 38.Rf4 Qb2+ 39.Rb2 Qd4 with a draw a likely result.

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