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Marcus E Osborne vs Jonathan Hawkins
British Championship (2015), Coventry ENG, rd 2, Jul-28
Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)  ·  0-1

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Jul-29-15  paavoh: Why on earth 28.g4, opening the lines for the opponent's Rooks?
Jul-29-15
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  Sally Simpson: Hi paavoh,

The plan (I think) was too seek complications. 28.g4 and 29.g5 as played in the game.


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Here White was wanting 29...hxg5 30 hxg5 and sink a Rook on h6. The answer to 30...Bxg5 (the f-pawn is pinned) is 31 Rcg1 when it now goes messy.

Good or bad that looks like the idea behind 28.g4.

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Not trusting the score of this game.


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Here White played 13.Ra1.

Black answered this with 13...Qd8

White then played 14.Rd1

Black replied 14...Qc7.


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And we are back where we started.

Or was all that the latest Grunfeld Theory.

Jul-30-15  paavoh: Hi Sally/Geoff, and thanks for the enlightenment.
Personally, I would've swallowed my pride and tried to calm things down, hoping to secure a draw.
Aug-04-15  saturn2: At move 18 white had established a pawn center consisiting of 4 pawns. But soon afterwards it vanished. So maybe 17 f3 instead of f4 was better.
Aug-04-15
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  perfidious: The snag with 17.f3 is that Black obtains control of the position after 17....f4; the e5 square will become a base of operations, not unlike the game Spiridonov vs Kasparov, 1980.
Aug-04-15  saturn2: I think with 17 f4 white was already dreaming of playing e5 afterwards, and if black should undermine with e6 then d6 and white would have had an impressing pawn chain f4,e5,d6. The problem was however black never allowed e5

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