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Enrico Paoli
(2300) -
GM Ulf Andersson (2535);
[B85]
FRG-ch int / Dortmund, GER / (R#15) / 1973.
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POTD _ Wednesday / January 11th, 2012.
I literally have dozens of
books on the Sicilian, so I thought I would take a look at this game.
(My chief interest was to find out where White went wrong.)
1.e4 c5; 2.Nf3 e6; 3.d4 cxd4; 4.Nxd4 Nc6;
5.Nc3 a6; 6.Be2 Qc7; 7.Be3 Nf6;
This is all common Sicilian stuff.
8.a3!?,
This is probably just a waste of time, although I can show you many games by 2600+
players that played a3 before move 15 in the Sicilian.
(When I looked it up, I found that this is actually a line here.) [more]
[ One of my games from Mobile once went something like:
8.0-0 Bb4!?;
9.Na4!? Nxe4?;
Horrible, simply castling was
to be preferred here.
10.Nxc6 Qxc6; 11.Nb6 Rb8; 12.Qd4 Bf8;
13.Bf3 f5; 14.Rad1! Rg8; 15.Bxe4 Qxe4;
16.Qxe4 fxe4;
17.Bf4 d6T; (forced) 18.Bxd6 Bxd6;
19.Rxd6, "+/" (±)
White had the upper hand,
and went on to win.
(Sort of an opening trap,
many opponents cannot resist the temptation to grab the e-Pawn there.) ]
8...Be7;
9.f4 d6; 10.0-0, "+/="
10...0-0;
White is just a little better in this position. (space)
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r1b2rk1/1pq1bppp/p1nppn2/8/3NPP2/P1N1B3/1PP1B1PP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 11
Gopal, Lanka, Balashov and Yurtaev are just a few of the masters that have won on the White side of this position.
11.Qe1,
According to the new Fritz PB, this is probably White's most popular option here.
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r1b2rk1/1pq1bppp/p1nppn2/8/3NPP2/P1N1B3/1PP1B1PP/R3QRK1 b - - 0 11
The idea is to transfer the WQ over to the King-side for a strong attack in that sector.
[ The move of: RR 11.Kh1, was the second option. ]
11...Nxd4!;
Sooner or later, Black has to swap off a couple of sets of minor pieces ...
12.Bxd4 b5;
13.Qg3 Bb7; 14.Rae1!?,
Not sure about this one ... I guess that this would be OK, if White's plan was Bd3,
and attack ...
since the d-file would be blocked by many of White's pieces. (>/= 14.Rad1 - Fritz 12.)
[ 14.Bf3, "+/=" A.J.G. ]
14...Bc6;
15.Bd3,
White proceeds as planned, ECO gives 15.Kh1 here.
Now Fritz is showing that
Black should play 15...Rad8; with plans of possibly ...d5; coming up soon.
15...e5?!;
Judging from Fritz's reaction, this is premature for Black.
16.fxe5 Nh5;
17.Qh3!?,
This was OK, but maybe not the very best here for White.
[ An improvement was: >/= 17.Qf3!
dxe5;
Otherwise, Black dropped a
Pawn for nothing.
18.Nd5! Bxd5T; 19.exd5 Bc5T; 20.Bxh7+! Kxh7;
21.Qxh5+ Kg8; 22.Bxc5 Qxc5+;
23.Rf2 f6; 24.Rd1 Rfd8; 25.Qg4, '±'
(Maybe " +/- ")
{Analysis Diagram}
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r2r2k1/6p1/p4p2/1pqPp3/6Q1/P7/1PP2RPP/3R2K1 b - - 0 25
White is a solid Pawn up. ]
17...dxe5;
Take a look:
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r4rk1/2q1bppp/p1b5/1p2p2n/3BP3/P1NB3Q/1PP3PP/4RRK1 w - - 0 18
A very complex position.
18.Be3?,
This passive retreat completely ruins White's game!
[ Much better was:
>/= 18.Nd5 Bxd5T; 19.exd5 exd4;
20.Rf5! Nf4; 21.Rxf4 g6; 22.Qh6,
"~" (Approx. equal.)
{Analysis Diagram}
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r4rk1/2q1bp1p/p5pQ/1p1P4/3p1R2/P2B4/1PP3PP/4R1K1 b - - 0 22
According to the chess engines, the position has level chances, although I would rather play White - in this position. ]
18...g6;
"=/+"
Now Black is slightly better, although not by much.
19.g4?!,
(Probably - '?')
Now White is just blindly lashing out ... ... ...
[ Definitely better was:
>/= 19.Bh6 Rfe8; 20.Kh1 Bf8;
"~" (unclear)
when Black's chances are
to be preferred here. ]
19...Nf4;
20.Qh6??,
A horrible blunder ...
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r4rk1/2q1bp1p/p1b3pQ/1p2p3/4PnP1/P1NBB3/1PP4P/4RRK1 b - - 0 20
Black to move.
[ White had to play something like the following line:
20.Qg3 Rad8;
21.Bxf4 exf4; 22.Qxf4 Bd6; 23.Qd2 Rfe8;
"/+"
{Analysis Diagram}
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3rr1k1/2q2p1p/p1bb2p1/1p6/4P1P1/P1NB4/1PPQ3P/4RRK1 w - - 0 24
however, in this particular position, Black is much better. ]
The rest of the game does not interest me. (Andersson always had pretty good technique.)
20...Bg5!;
21.Bxf4 Bxh6; 22.Bxh6 Rfe8; 23.Rf3 Qe7; 24.Ref1 Qh4; 25.g5 Qg4+;
26.Kh1 Ra7; 27.h3 Qc8;
28.Kh2 Qa8; 29.Rf6 Rd7; 30.R1f2 Red8; 31.h4 Qb7; 32.a4 Rd6;
33.R6f3 R8d7; 34.axb5 axb5; 35.Kg3 b4;
36.Nd5 Bxd5; 37.exd5 Qxd5; 38.b3 e4; 39.Bc4 Qe5+; 40.Rf4
e3;
"-/+"
0 - 1
The analysis for this page was prepared with the excellent program, ChessBase 10.0. (My main engine was Fritz 12, I also use Houdini 1.5.)
The HTML was polished with several different tools and programs, (mostly FP) ... the text was checked for spelling with MS Word.
The diagrams were created with the program, Chess Captor 2.25. (And also ChessBase 10.0.)
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