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Vidmantas Malisauskas vs Mika Karttunen
European Team Championship (2009), Novi Sad SRB, rd 9, Oct-30
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Panov Attack. Main Line (E54)  ·  1-0

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May-01-11  psmith: Whappen? Loss on time?
May-01-11  Gilmoy: I think Black is stuck. The Ph6 gives <weak back rank> (WBR), so the Nd7 is pinned to d8. White plans Kg2 to unpin his own N. Then Black's N is hanging because White's Qxd7 is a mate threat from WBR, and Black's Qxe3 is no longer a check.

Even Nf8 doesn't save Black because of Qd8-Nf5 threatening Ne7+. Kf8 just (eventually) drops h7, and White's h-pawn will cost at least the N.

So Black's Q must eventually drop back to defend. Then one Black piece is tied down to the WBR, while White has easy access to great outposts. Nf5 controls e7 and g3 (which snuffs Qc6). Black is so busy defending d7,d8,e8 that he has no firepower to devote to f5, so White has an eventual g5-push to open either g, or the a1-g7 diagonal. There's surely a clever sequence involving Kg2, Qe4, Qd4, N(d5,f5), and g5 that ties Black up in knots. Pushing the Q-side pawn majority doesn't defend against any of that.

As for the tournament situation, this was the last round (9 of 9), and Finland's other 3 boards scored 2.5 of 4 vs. Lithuania: http://www.olimpbase.org/2009e/2009...
Probably Karttunen held out until Finland knew they had clinched the win, then didn't feel like defending a terrible position for 20+ moves.

May-01-11  psmith: Thanks. That was obvious. I think I was half asleep when I posted that question.

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