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Jan Cervenka vs Pavel Matocha
Prague tch (2025), Prague CZE, rd 1, Jan-14
Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (B51)  ·  1-0

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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-05-25
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  Honza Cervenka: Canal Attack was probably a big surprise for my opponent in this game. At least his chosen dragon-like setup with 7...Qb6, though not unseen before, is definitely not the optimal way of handling of this line from black's side, and his following reaction on my aggressive advance of central Pawns was very unfortunate. After just 12 moves I got an utterly won position. The game continued in expected direction quite smoothly to my 22nd move, where one possible winning continuation was 22.Re1 Be5 23.Rxf8 Rxf8 24.f4 Bf6 25.Qe8 +-, but instead of that I played hasty 22.Qe7+?! Rd7 23.Re1? (with intention 24.Qxd7+ Kxd7 25.R1e7#; of course, the Queen cannot be taken for mate) completely missing trivial 23...Rxf7. After that practically all white's advantage was gone but the position was still quite dangerous and difficult for black, who had to play precisely to avoid quick disaster in the position. And patient defence was never a cup of coffee of my opponent, who went for aggressive and utterly misguided 25...b5? instead of calm 25...Rf8! ⩲ giving me the second chance to win. I did not find by far the best 26.Nxd6!!, though I was considering it, as in growing time pressure I was unable to calculate all possible lines after 26.Nxd6 Rf8, but 26.Na3 was good enough, especially after 26...a6(?) (26...c4 was a bit better). Another pretty alternative continuation could have been 29.Ra8 but 29.Nc4 was less complicated.

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