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Pavel Blatny vs Charles Van Buskirk
Western Class Championship (2004), Agoura Hills USA, rd 5, Jan-18
Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01)  ·  1-0

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Jan-23-22
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  kingscrusher: This line is unsound for White - Nxe5 is far too greedy in my view.
Jan-23-22
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  saffuna: Great to find someone who does not "analyze by result." Just because Blatny won doesn't mean he played the opening correctly.

After studying the position for a long time, with an itsy bitsy teeny weeny bit of help from Stockfish, I believe white was already worse before his 12th move, and that 12. Nxe5 was in fact the best move.

"My" analysis is that white's opening mistake was 8. fxe5. Nc3 or c4 would have been better.

Jan-23-22
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  saffuna: Just looking at the position with no silicon aid, Blatny not only captures a central pawn while his king is still in the center (with no immediate prospect of getting to safety), he also used three moves to do it. He probably should have been developing pieces instead.
Jan-26-22
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  kingscrusher: Good points <saffuna> - at move 8, there are 3 key alternatives I believe - Nc3, c4 and Qe2 - these seem better than trying to be forceful with 8.fxe5

Raymond Keene exposes the dangerous black gambit and bypasses it with 8.Qe2 which he also talks about in his annotations of this game:

Keene vs A Martin Gonzalez, 1977
Keene vs A Martin Gonzalez, 1977

I did quite a bit of analysis of 8.Qe2 and it seems White can have very exciting variations indeed

Cheers, K

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