Michael Langer vs Alex Yermolinsky (2009)

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Michael Langer vs Alex Yermolinsky
Stillwater Winter FIDE Open (2009), Stillwater, Oklahoma USA, rd 5, Feb-15
Scotch Game: Blumenfeld Attack (C45) · 1-0

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Aug-13-21		deanman58: Love this game!!

Dec-22-23		FSR: White's play was very tricky, and successful, but objectively unsound. Black's mistake was cashing in with 13...Bxf1? He obviously overlooked 14...Qd7 15.Be6! White would have been busted if Black had instead played 13...Qd7! or the refinement 13...g5! (even better according to Stockfish 16) and now 14.Qf2 Qd7 or 14.Bxf7+ Kd7! 15.Qf2 Nh6! 16.Bb3 Rf8 17.Qe2 Bxf1 18.Rxf1 Rxf1+ 19.Qxf1 Qf8! It's easy sitting with one's engine by one's side . . .

Nov-14-24		FSR: Annotated by Kavalek at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...

Mar-17-25		FSR: Kavalek's analysis: <1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Be3 Qf6 6.Nb5?! (The Blumenfeld Attack is a positional calamity. White ends up with a terrible double-pawn, giving black an excellent outpost on e5. But the tactical threats along the open lines are dangerous.) 6...Bxe3 7.fxe3 Qh4+ (It is interesting to look at what the chess giants preferred here: Both David Bronstein and Paul Keres suggested 7...Qe5, while Mikhail Botvinnik played 7...Kd8.) 8.g3 Qd8! (More solid than 8...Qxe4.) 9.Qg4 g6 (Akiva Rubinstein's choice. Michele Godena's 9...g5, denying the white queen the square f4, was played in the game Langer-Onischuk, Stillwater 2005, and appeared in other Langer games.) 10.Qf4 d6 11.Bc4 Ne5 12.0-0 Bh3! (Pentala Harikrishna's splendid pawn sacrifice from his game against Wang Hao, Taiyuan 2005. It continued 13.Bxf7+ Kd7 14.N1c3 g5 15.Qxe5?! [15.Qf2 Nh6!] 15...dxe5 16.Rad1+ Ke7 17.Nd5+ Kf8 18.Nbxc7 Kg7 19.g4 Bxg4 20.Nxa8 Nh6 and white resigned.) 13.N1c3 (A new move that confused Yermolinsky.) 13...Bxf1? (A blunder. The correct defense 13...Qd7! has been suggested a few years ago. After 14.Bxf7+ Nxf7 15.Nd5 0-0-0 16.Qxf7 Bxf1 17.Qxf1 c6 18.Qc4 Nh6! white doesn't have enough for the exchange and after 14.Nd5 0-0-0! black should win.) 14.Rxf1 Qd7? (This leads to a pretty finish, but even after 14...Ne7 15.Bxf7+ Kd7 16.Nd4 black's troubles are not over.) 15.Be6! Qc6 (White wins either after 15...Qxe6 16.Nxc7+; or after 15...Qd8 16.Bxf7+ Kd7 17.Nd5!) 16.Nd4 (After 16...Qa6 17.Bxf7+ Kd8 18.Bxg8 wins.) Black resigned.>

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