Wednesday, 27 November 2013

When tricks don't work

Of the 6 decisive games from the World Teams Championship (from a total of 20 games), not a single one was won by White. Looking through them, I saw at least two games where White 'thought' they were winning, only to see the line chosen blow up in their faces.
In the game below White must have thought he had found a clever way of winning a pawn with 16.Nxd5 (as 16. ... Qxb5 fails to 17.Nxf6+). But 16. ... Qza2 was a rude awakening, as suddenly the exposed White king is caught in a cross fire of checks, and White is just lost.


Abdel,Razik Khaled - Meier,Georg [D37]
World Teams 2013 Antalya TUR (1.1), 26.11.2013

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. e3 O-O 8. h4 c5 9. cxd5 cxd4 10. Nxd4 exd5 11. Qh5 Nc6 12. O-O-O Be6 13. Rd2 Nxd4 14. exd4 b5 15. Bxb5 Qa5 16. Nxd5 Qxa2 17. Nxf6+ gxf6 18. d5 Rac8+ 19. Bc6 Qa1+ 20. Kc2 Qxh1 21. Rd3 Kh7 22. Rc3 Rxc6 0-1


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