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Emil Sutovsky vs Rauf Mamedov
Baku Open (2010), Baku AZE, rd 9, Aug-31
Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Bastrikov Variation (B48)  ·  1-0

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Sep-01-10  YouRang: This was Mamedov's (black) only loss at Baku, but his position collapsed quickly. It appears that his problems started on move 10 [diagram]


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He played the reasonable looking <10...Bc5> to challenge white's DSB, but the exchange of bishops left black's d6 square rather weak, and white wasted no time planting his knight there:

<11.Bxc5 bxb5 12.e5! Nd5 13.Nd6+> forcing the king to move, thus wrecking black's ability to castle [diagram]


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This knight brought havoc to black, and the game quickly went downhill <13...Ke7 14.f5!> [diagram]


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The f5 pawn advance carries more threats:

- The queen can move laterally to f4, g4 or h4 (with check).

- Once the queen moves, it vacates c4 allowing the LSB to attack the black queen from b5 (thanks to the knight).

- Of course, the pawn itself threatens fxe6, breaking up the defense around black's locked-in-the-center king.

<14...f6 15.Qg4! fxe5 16.Bb5! Qxd6 17.Qxg7+> winning the exchange with check, to be followed up with the strong <19.O-O-O!> pinning black's knight, and this pin ultimately finished off black a few moves later.

Oct-28-10  ReikiMaster: Indeed punishment came very quickly. Black didn't even have time to play Ba6 until the game had been decided. Hence one could say that 8..b6 turned out to be a wasted tempo. 24.Qh5 threatens Nd5 and c5.

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