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Re:Crushing Opening Defeats cont ( knowledge) - 2007/07/10 12:46
The study of certain opening is a difficult and painstaking task. Especially in our times, when an enormous flood of information falls like rain from the shy, and at times a player, whether he be a grandmaster, master, or simply an amateur cannot manage to assimilate the mass of new ideas and continuations. For this reason unequal condition will sometimes arise in a game, when the level of knowledge of the two players in a particular variation is markedly different. One has analysed the position at home, and is familiar with all the recent theoretical analysis whereas the other find himself on unfamiliar territories and at the board begins trying to “ reinvent the wheel”
To demonstrate how knowledge is a real benefit, I have chosen a game from GM Reshevsky. The veteran American is a practical player, and has always devoted little attention to theory.
This defect was disclosed in his encounter with the ten 15 years old Bobby Fischer. Reshevsky. Chose a familiar variation of the Sicilian defence where everything seems to be well known. But it only requires Black to play incautiously on his 8th move, and white’s reaction was instant- two combinational blows decided the outcome of the game.
[b]Fischer-Reshevsky
USA Championship 1958-59
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Be3 Bg7 6.Nc3 Nf6
Black’s plan to make the thematic advance … d5 in one go, and so he delays playing … d6
7.Bc4
7. Nxc6 bxc6 8.e5 Nd5 9. Nxd5 cxd5 10. Qxd5 was possible, winning a pawn, but after 10 . … Rb8 Black has counter play.
7. … 0-0
Black persist with his plan. It is perhaps for this reason that Reshevsky avoids the more accurate 7. … Qa5, since in this case he would already have had to transpose into classical Dragon lines with … d6
8 Bb3
8. … Na5?
What a trap! The first to fall into it was Shamkovich in a game with Bastrikov, in the Russian federation championship, Sochi 1958
Black noticed the possibility of 10. Bxf7+ and so instead of 9 … Ne8 he played 9 … Nxb3 but even so he lost after 10. exf6 Nxa1 11. fxg7 Nxc2+ 12. Qxc2 Kxg7 13. f4. Rumours has it that Fischer who would follow carefully Soviet chess publication had seen this variation published and read the article.- and not in vain !
9.e5 Ne8 10.Bxf7+ Kxf7 11.Ne6
If 11. … Kxe6 then white has a forced mate : 12. Qd5+ Kf5 13.g4+ Kxg4 14 Rg1+ Kh5 15. Qd1+ Kh4 16. Qg4 mate.
Therefore Reshevsky preferred to give up his queen for two minor pieces by 11. … dxe6 and after 12. Qxd8 he continued his pointless resistance up to move 42.
[b]In all opening set-ups where almost everything appears to be known, for many players there are still plenty of blank spots These positions demands particular attention- the forcing variation which arise here must be know move by move since playing “on the off chance”, in the hope of finding the strongest continuation at the board offers little hope of success.[/b]
Post edited by: thechesscorner, at: 2007/07/10 12:47
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