A New ChessVideos Show: USCL Games of the Year #s 12-10
After a couple of weeks off from reviewing USCL's 2007 Games of the Year, my latest show on ChessVideos.tv takes a compressed look at the last three games to be eliminated. The show is free and available on-demand, right here.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Thursday March 20, 2008 at 1:38am
Nice show as always. I have a question about one line though. When you suggest in the first game that black play ...c3 and sacrifice the g6 knight, saying that the attack is a dead end, doesn't white have the immediate Nf6? Obviously black can't take the knight but after shuffling the queen to h4 and h7/h8 and taking the g7 pawn, isn't there some life to it?
Beware of the "obvious"! Black can and should take the knight in your line, at least if I'm interpreting your comment correctly: 25...c3 26.hxg6 hxg6 27.Ne4 c2 28.Rbc1 Bb4 and now if 29.Nf6+ gxf6! 30.exf6 Black can keep taking all the presents with 30...Bxe1. What now? White has lots of tries, but Black has so much extra swag that he can easily return some to break the attack.
(A) 31.Qh4 Qxc1 32.Ng5 (32.Be3 Qxe3!) Qxg5 33.Qxg5 c1Q 34.Be3 Bd2+ 35.Kh2 Bxe3 36.fxe3 Rc5-+
(B) 31.Qf4 Bb4-+
(C) 31.Be3 Bc3 32.Qh4 Rc5-+
(D) 31.Rxe1 c1Q 32.Be3 Qxe1+ 33.Nxe1 Rc1 34.Bh6 (34.Bxc1 Qxc1-+) Rxe1+ 35.Kh2 Qa1 36.Bg7 Rh1+ 37.Kg3 Qe5+ -+.