Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Hard Times (continued)

It's hard to spot a master a couple of hundred rating points AND the f-pawn and still get the point. Hard, hard times.

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Toulzac, PY. 2231 - Sengupta, D. 2496
0-1 (9th Open,Malakoff FRA) 4/22/2010
[#] 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 c6 8.Be3 e6 9.Bd3 Nbd7 10.O-O Qc7 11.Ne4 h6 12.c4
[12.Bf4 (or 12.a4) might be better here. Black is going to castle long, since his eleventh move has made the h6 pawn a target (as Anand showed Topalov in the fourth game of their match today).]
12...O-O-O 13.b4 Nxe4 14.Bxe4 f5 15.Bc2 Nb6 16.c5 Nd5 17.Rab1 g5 18.b5 Bg7 19.Bf2 Nf4 20.b6 axb6 21.cxb6 Qd6 22.Rfd1 Qd5 23.Rb3 Qxf3 24.Rxf3 Ne2+ 25.Kf1 Nxd4 26.Ra3 Kb8 27.Bd3 Nb5 28.Rb3 Nc3 29.Rd2 Rd5 [0-1]