Game of the week April 7, 2019 by Robert Huntington [Event "Paul Keres Memorial 1991"] [Site "Vancouver, BC"] [White "Lubomir Ftacnik"] [Black "Zvonko Vranesic"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D37"] [WhiteElo "2590"] [BlackElo "2401"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "78"] [EventDate "1991.05.??"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "6"] [EventCountry "CAN"] [SourceTitle "Canbase"] [SourceDate "2015.08.19"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2015.08.19"] [SourceQuality "1"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 ({The immediate} 6... c5 {is more common}) 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Bg3 ({The main line here is} 8. Nxd5) 8... Nxc3 (8... c5 9. Bd3 cxd4 10. exd4 N7f6 11. Ne5 Nb4 $11 {Macieja-Nakar, Dallas 2017}) 9. bxc3 c5 10. Bd3 cxd4 (10... b6 11. Be4 $6 (11. O-O $11) 11... Ba6 12. Bxa8 $6 (12. Bd3 $11) 12... Qxa8 $15) 11. exd4 $5 (11. cxd4 Qa5+ 12. Nd2 Nb6 $11) 11... h6 $6 (11... b6 12. O-O (12. Be4 Ba6 13. Bxa8 $2 (13. Qa4 $11) 13... Qxa8 $17) 12... Bb7 $11 {Colin-Koziak, Sautron 2015}) 12. O-O Qa5 ({ Better is} 12... Nf6 13. Ne5 $14) 13. Qb3 (13. Ne5 $1 $16) 13... Nf6 14. Rfe1 ( 14. a4 $1 $14) 14... Bd7 15. c4 (15. Ne5 $14) 15... b6 $6 (15... Rac8 $14) 16. a4 Rac8 17. Bf4 $1 Qb4 18. Qa2 (18. Qc2 $1 Nd5 19. Bd2 Qd6 20. Ne5 $16) 18... Rfd8 19. a5 (19. Ne5 $14) 19... Bc6 $11 20. axb6 Bxf3 21. gxf3 axb6 22. Be5 Ra8 (22... Nd7 $1 $11) 23. Qe2 Rxa1 (23... Bd6 $1 $11) 24. Rxa1 Nd7 $6 (24... Bd6 $1 $11) 25. Bc7 $14 Rc8 ({Better is} 25... Rf8) 26. Qe4 Nf6 $6 (26... g6 27. Bf4 $14) 27. Qb7 $16 Re8 28. Qxb6 Qd2 29. Bf1 $2 (29. Qb3 $1 $16) 29... Nd7 30. Qb3 (30. Qa7 Bf6 $11) 30... Qxd4 $11 31. Rd1 Nc5 32. Rxd4 (32. Qb5 $5 Qxd1 33. Qxe8+ Bf8 34. Kg2 $11) 32... Nxb3 33. Rd7 Nc1 (33... Kf8 $11) 34. Bb6 Nb3 35. Rc7 (35. Be3 $11) 35... Kf8 36. c5 Rb8 $4 (36... Bd8 37. Rb7 Na5 38. Ra7 Nc6 39. Rd7 Bf6 $11) 37. c6 $18 Bc5 (37... Rxb6 38. Rc8+ Bd8 39. c7) 38. Rb7 Rc8 39. c7 Bxb6 1-0 your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts Views: 33