Game of the week May 22, 2022 by Robert Huntington [Event "Leningrad Spartakiad 1969"] [White "Semen Furman"] [Black "Alexander Cherepkov"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E59"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "63"] [EventDate "1969.??.??"] [EventType "swiss"] [SourceTitle "StarBase 4.56"] [SourceDate "2004.11.04"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2004.11.04"] [SourceQuality "2"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. Bd3 O-O 6. Nf3 d5 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3 Bxc3 9. bxc3 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Qc7 11. Bb2 (11. Bd3 e5 12. Qc2 Re8 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Qxe5 15. f3 Be6 16. Re1 c4 17. Bf1 Nd7 18. e4 Nc5 $11) 11... e5 12. Rc1 $5 (12. h3) (12. a4 $5) 12... Bg4 (12... e4 13. Nd2 Ng4 14. g3 Qd6 15. Nxe4 Qh6 16. h4 Nxe3 17. Nf6+ $1 (17. fxe3 Qxe3+ 18. Rf2 Qxe4 $11) 17... gxf6 18. fxe3 Qxe3+ $11) 13. h3 Bh5 14. g4 (14. Be2 $5) 14... Bg6 15. Qe2 (15. Bb5 $5) 15... Rad8 (15... e4 $1 16. Nh4 Na5 $11 {Romanov-Klima, Karvina 1998}) 16. Ba2 (16. Rfd1 e4 $11) 16... Rfe8 (16... Qe7 {is better}) 17. Rfd1 e4 (17... h6 $11) 18. Nh4 Qe7 $6 (18... Na5 $11) 19. Rf1 (19. Ng2 $1 h6 20. Qb5 Rd7 21. Nf4 $14) 19... Kh8 20. Rce1 h6 (20... Na5 $5 $11) 21. Nxg6+ fxg6 22. f3 exf3 23. Qxf3 Ne4 (23... Rf8 $5) 24. Qg2 Qh4 (24... Na5 $11) (24... Kh7 $11) (24... Rf8 $11 { Basically, the position is equal}) 25. Kh2 (25. Bb1 $11) (25. Bc4 $11) (25. a4 $11 {In other words, the position is equal}) 25... Re7 (25... Rd7 $11) (25... Kh7 $11) (25... Ng5 $11) 26. Re2 Kh7 27. Rf4 Ng5 28. Bb1 Rde8 29. Bc1 Ne6 $4 ( 29... Na5 $11) 30. Bxg6+ $1 Kg8 (30... Kxg6 $2 31. Qe4+ Kg5 32. Qf5#) (30... Kh8 31. Bxe8 Rxe8 32. Rf1 $18 {would allow Black to hold out a little longer}) 31. Bxe8 (31. Rf5 $1 {is even stronger (not that it matters)}) 31... Nxf4 $2 ( 31... Rxe8 32. Rf5 $18 {is an irrelevant improvement}) 32. exf4 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: 28