Game of the week May 1, 2022 by Robert Huntington [Event "New England Open 1991"] [Site "Framingham, MA"] [White "Alexander Ivanov"] [Black "Michael Casella"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B16"] [WhiteElo "2647"] [BlackElo "2282"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "59"] [EventDate "1991.09.??"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "6"] [EventCountry "USA"] [SourceTitle "Chess Horizons?"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "1998.11.10"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "1998.11.10"] [SourceQuality "1"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. c3 Bf5 7. Ne2 (7. Nf3 $1 e6 8. g3 Nd7 9. Bg2 Bg7 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 Re8 12. Be3 $14) 7... Nd7 8. Ng3 Bg6 9. h4 h5 10. Be2 Qa5 11. b4 Qc7 12. Nxh5 e5 (12... a5 $1 13. b5 cxb5 14. Bd2 $14 {Maninen-Karttunen, Mikkeli 1998}) 13. Ng3 O-O-O (13... f5 $5) 14. h5 Bh7 15. O-O f5 (15... Nb6 16. Qb3 $16 {is slightly better for Black}) 16. dxe5 Nxe5 $6 (16... Bg7 17. Bg5 $16) 17. Qa4 Kb8 (17... a6 18. Rd1 Bd6 19. Bf4 Nf3+ 20. Bxf3 Bxf4 21. Ne2 $16 {is another small improvement for Black}) 18. Be3 $6 (18. Rd1 Bd6 19. b5 $18) 18... a6 19. Rad1 $6 (19. Qa5 $1 Qxa5 20. bxa5 Re8 21. Rad1 $18) 19... Bd6 20. f4 $6 (20. Qb3 Ng4 21. Bxg4 fxg4 22. Rfe1 $18) 20... Nd7 (20... Ng4 21. Bxg4 fxg4 22. Qa5 Qxa5 23. bxa5 Bc2 24. Rd2 Bh7 25. Bd4 $16) 21. Qa5 b6 $2 (21... Qxa5 22. bxa5 Bc7 23. Bc4 $18) 22. Qxa6 Rde8 ( 22... Be7 23. Bf3 $18 {is an irrelevant improvement for Black}) 23. Rxd6 Qxd6 24. Bxb6 Nxb6 25. Qxb6+ Kc8 $2 (25... Ka8 26. Rd1 $18 {is also an irrelevant improvement}) 26. Bf3 $6 (26. Ba6+ Kd7 27. Qb7+ Kd8 28. Qc8+ Ke7 29. Re1+ $18 { is the quick method}) 26... Re4 $2 (26... Qc7 {puts up more (futile) resistance }) 27. Ne2 (27. Qa6+ {is quicker}) 27... Rhe8 (27... Qc7 {would prolong the game needlessly}) 28. Bxe4 (28. Nd4 $1 {is even stronger}) 28... fxe4 29. Nd4 e3 (29... Qc7 30. Qa6+ Qb7 31. Qc4 {and Black gets to play a few more moves}) 30. b5 (30. Nb5 {is a true bone crusher but the text suffices}) 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: 36