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Yue Wang vs Veselin Topalov
Nanjing Pearl Spring Tournament (2010), Nanjing CHN, rd 10, Oct-30
Gruenfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack (D82)  ·  0-1

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Oct-30-10  whiteshark: <Novelty of stem-game: 12. ...Rc8>
Oct-30-10  luzhin: 37.Nxe3?? is suicide. 37.Rb4 must be played, although I suspect that Yue even missed chances to win earlier --33.Rb3 looks nice for White.
Oct-30-10  whiteshark: <luzhin> Indeed, <33.Rb3!!> was the winning move.


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Yue played it like a blatantly materialistic.

Oct-30-10  I play the Fred: I am missing the point of 33 Rb3. If white wants black to give his LSB for the rook, does this course of action not open lines for the black rooks?

<33 Rb3 Bxb3
34 Nxb3 bxc4>

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Oct-30-10  whiteshark: <35.Bxc4> protects Nb3 and holds it all together.


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And after Kc2 (threat Nxc5) ♙d4 will be captured sooner or later. Material imbalance ♘♘♙:♖ should favour White.

Oct-30-10  Landman: Great game by Topalov.
Oct-30-10  Eyal: As far as the opening is concerned, Alex Yermolinsky on ICC was criticizing the quality of Topalov’s play (and prep) – apparently, Black is known to equalize in this line with 12...e6 followed by either 13.Nc3 Bxc3 14.bxc3, spoiling White’s pawn structure so that his pawn advantage doesn’t count for much, or - more interestingly - 13.Nc7+ Nxc7 14.Bxc7 Rc8, e.g. 15.Bd6 b5! 16.b3 bxc4 17.Bxc4 Na4! 18.Rd2 Bb5 19.Rc2 Bxc4 20.bxc4 Kd7 21.c5 Rc6 22.Ne2 as in Van Wely vs Svidler, 1997; Yermolinsky played this same line a year later vs. Igor Novikov in the New York Open – the game reached the same point and continued 22...Nxc5 23.Bxc5 Rhc8 with a draw on move 31, showing more explicitly why VW and Svidler agreed to the draw.

Instead of …e6 Topalov played 12…Rc8, a move which aims at preparing …e6 without allowing Nc7+, but holding off e6 allows 13.Bg5!, probably the best response, taking advantage of this delay (attacking e7, where 13…e6? Would allow 14.Nf6+ and 13…f6 as played by Topalov blocks the bishop on g7). At this point Topalov sank into thought, showing he wasn’t prepared for this, and kept playing simply with a pawn down. Of course, eventually he managed to create tactical complications, confuse Wang Yue, and win anyway...

Nov-03-10  Topista: Poor quality for a former champion, lucky result.
Nov-03-10  Petrosianic: Former champion. Good one.

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