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PAGE 1 THE CHESSARIAN FEBRUARY 26, 2021 ANALYSIS CORNER This is the Bryan Countergambit, deeply by Brian Clark analysed by Kieseritzky, and which sometimes bears his name. It is not considered a sound move by most players today. 5. Bxb5 Nf6 6. Nf3 This is a common developing move, but in addition the knight attacks Black's queen, forcing Black to move it instead of developing his own side. 6... Qh6 7. d3 With this move, White solidifies control of the There are a number of games that can be critical centre of the board. German called "Immortal Games" because they are so grandmaster Robert Hubner recommends spectacular. Donald Byrne vs Bobby Fischer, 7.Nc3 instead. New York 1956 comes to mind as does G. 7... Nh5 Kasparov vs V. Topalov, Wijk an Zee 1999. This move threatens ...Ng3+, and protects the Adolph Anderssen was one of the strongest pawn at f4, but also sidelines the knight to a chess masters of 1800's and his opponent, poor position at the edge of the board, where Lionel Kieseritzky was also a strong master knights are the least powerful, and does not when they produced this . develop a piece. The notes are from Wikipedia. The game 8. Nh4 Qg5 deserves to be remembered by modern Better was 8...g6, according to Kieseritzky. players. 9. Nf5 c6 This simultaneously unpins the queen pawn White: Black: Lionel and attacks the bishop. Modern chess engines Kieseritzky suggest 9...g6 would be better, to deal with a Opening Bishop’s Gambit (ECO C33) very troublesome knight.

1. e4 e5 2. f4 This is the 's Gambit: Anderssen offers 10. g4? Nf6 11. Rg1 !(diagram) his pawn in exchange for faster development. This was one of the most popular openings of the 19th century and is still occasionally seen, though defensive techniques have improved since Anderssen's time. 2... exf4 3. Bc4 The Bishop's Gambit; this line allows 3...Qh4+, depriving White of the right to castle, and is less popular than 3.Nf3. This , however, also exposes Black's queen to This is an advantageous passive piece attack with a gain of tempo on the eventual sacrifice. If Black accepts, his queen will be Ng1–f3. boxed in, giving White a lead in development. 11... cxb5? 3... Qh4+ 4. Kf1 b5?!(diagram) Hübner believes this was Black's critical mistake; this gains material, but loses in

PAGE 2 THE CHESSARIAN FEBRUARY 26, 2021 development, at a point where White's strong position, there are actually many ways to win, development is able to quickly mount an and he believes there are at least three better offensive. Hübner recommends 11...h5 moves than 18.Bd6: 18.d4, 18.Be3, or 18.Re1, instead. which lead to strong positions or 12. h4! without needing to sacrifice so much material. White's knight at f5 protects the pawn, which The Chessmaster computer program attacks Black's queen. annotation says "the main point [of 18. Bd6] 12... Qg6 13. h5 Qg5 14. Qf3 is to divert the black queen from the a1–h8 White (Anderssen) now has two threats: diagonal. Now Black cannot play 18...Bxd6? Bxf4, trapping Black's queen (the queen 19.Nxd6+ Kd8 20.Nxf7+ Ke8 21.Nd6+ Kd8 having no safe place to go); 22.Qf8#." Garry Kasparov comments that the e5, attacking Black's knight at f6 while world of chess would have lost one of its simultaneously exposing an attack by White's "crown jewels" if the game had continued in queen on the unprotected black rook at a8. such an unspectacular fashion. The Bd6 move 14... Ng8 is surprising, because White is willing to give This deals with the threats, but undevelops up so much material. Black even further—now the only black piece not on its starting square is the queen, which 18... Bxg1? is about to be put on the run, while White has The move leading to Black's defeat. Wilhelm control over a great deal of the board. Steinitz suggested in 1879 that a better move 15. Bxf4 Qf6 16. Nc3 Bc5 would be 18...Qxa1+;[5] likely moves to follow An ordinary developing move by Black, which are 19.Ke2 Qb2 20.Kd2 Bxg1. also attacks the rook at g1. 19. e5! 17. Nd5 This sacrifices yet another white rook. More White responds to the attack with a importantly, this move blocks the queen from counterattack. This move threatens the black participating in the defense of the king, and queen and also Nc7+, forking the king and threatens mate in two: 20.Nxg7+ Kd8 rook. Richard Réti recommends 17.d4 21.Bc7#. followed by 18.Nd5, with advantage to White, 19... Qxa1+ 20. Ke2 although if 17.d4 Bf8 then 18.Be5 would be a At this point, Black's attack has run out of stronger move. steam; Black has a queen and bishop on the 17... Qxb2 back rank, but cannot effectively mount an Black gains a pawn, and threatens to gain the immediate attack on White, while White can rook at a1 with check. storm forward. According to Kieseritzky, he 18. Bd6! (diagram) resigned at this point. Hübner notes that an article by Friedrich Amelung in the journal Baltische Schachblaetter, 1893, reported that Kiesertizky probably played 20...Na6, but Anderssen then announced the mating moves. The Oxford Companion to Chess also says that Black resigned at this point, citing an 1851 publication.[7] In any case, it is suspected that the last few moves were not actually played on the board in the original With this move White offers to sacrifice both game. his rooks. Hübner comments that, from this 20... Na6

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The black knight covers c7 as White was 1. e4 e6 2. Qd1e2 Bf8c5 3. c3 Nb8c6 threatening 21.Nxg7+ Kd8 and 22.Bc7#. Another attempt to defend is 20...Ba6, 4. d4 (diagram) allowing the black king to flee via c8 and b7, although White has enough with the continuation 21.Nc7+ Kd8 and 22.Nxa6, where if now 22...Qxa2 (to defend f7 against Bc7+, Nd6+ and Qxf7#) White can play 23.Bc7+ Ke8 24.Nb4, winning; or, if 22...Bb6 (stopping Bc7+), 23.Qxa8 Qc3 24.Qxb8+ Qc8 25.Qxc8+ Kxc8 26.Bf8 h6 27.Nd6+ Kd8 28.Nxf7+ Ke8 29.Nxh8 Kxf8, with a winning endgame for White. 4… Nc6xd4 5. cxd4 Bc5xd4 6. Ng1f3 21. Nxg7+ Kd8 22. Qf6+! (diagram) Bd4c5 7. e5 h6 8. Nb1c3 f5 9. exf6 (en passant) Qd8xf6 10. Nc3d5 Qf6g6 11. Nd5xc7 (diagram)

This queen sacrifice forces Black to give up his defense of e7. 22... Nxf6 23. Be7# 1–0 At the end, Black is ahead in material by a considerable margin: a queen, two rooks, and 11… Ke8d8 12. Nc7xa8 d6 13. g3 Bc8d7 a bishop. But the material does not help 14. Bf1g2 Qg6e8 15. Bc1e3 Bd7b5 16. Black. White has been able to use his Qe2d2 Kd8e7 17. Be3xc5 dxc5 18. remaining pieces—two knights and a bishop —to force mate. Qd2c3 Ng8f6 19. Qc3xc5 (diagram) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Cornelia Raath-Lotter vs David Pfeiffer

19… Ke7f7 20. Nf3e5 Kf7g8 21. Na8c7 Cornelia David Qe8h5 22. Nc7xb5 1-0

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Anderssen also played the following Rather than defending his own position, spectacular game against Jean Dufresne in Black offers a counter-sacrifice to activate his 1852. Notes from Wikipedia. a8 rook with tempo. Burgess suggests 11...a6 instead, to allow the b-pawn to advance later White: Anderssen Black: Dufresne with tempo. Opening: Evans Gambit (ECO C52) 12. Qxb5 Rb8 13. Qa4 Bb6 (Evergreen Game) Black cannot castle here because 14.Bxe7 would win a piece, as the knight on c6 cannot 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 simultaneously protect the knight on e7 and The Evans Gambit, an opening popular in the the bishop on a5. 19th century and still seen occasionally today. 14. Nbd2 Bb7? White gives up material to gain an advantage Black must castle without delay. in development. 15. Ne4 Qf5? (diagram) 4... Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. 0-0 d3 (diagram)

A poor move that loses a tempo. 15...0-0 Black attempts to slow White's rapid 16.Bxd3 also gives White a very dangerous development by depriving the queen's knight attack (Neishtadt, 1961).[5] Better was 15...d2! of its preferred c3 square and forcing White 16.Nexd2 0-0 (Lasker), although White still to spend a tempo capturing the pawn. This has a clear advantage. move was favoured by Dufresne, but is today considered inferior. Most popular today is 16. Bxd3 Qh5 17. Nf6+!? 7...Nge7, in order to answer 8.cxd4 or 8.Ng5 A dramatic sacrifice, although several with 8...d5. Other alternatives include commentators have pointed out that 17.Ng3 7...dxc3 (the risky "Compromised Defence") Qh6 18.Bc1 Qe6 19.Bc4 wins material in a and 7…d6. simpler way.[4][7] Or 18.Nf5 and White has a 8. Qb3 clear edge.[6] The Chessmaster computer Immediately attacking the f7-pawn. FIDE program annotation says "this [sacrifice] is Master Graham Burgess suggests 8.Re1 not without danger, as Black now obtains an instead. open g-file for counterplay." 8... Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 White's e5-pawn cannot be taken: if 9...Nxe5, 17... gxf6 18. exf6 then 10.Re1 d6 11.Bg5, when 11...Qf5 (11...Qg6 Rg8 19. Rad1! 12.Nxe5 dxe5 13.Rxe5+ wins the bishop) (diagram) 12.Nxe5 wins the knight (if the knight is recaptured with 12...dxe5, then 13.Qb5+ A somewhat followed by 14.Rxe5+ wins). controversial move, 10. Re1! Nge7 11. Ba3 b5?! which has been both exulted and

PAGE 5 THE CHESSARIAN FEBRUARY 26, 2021 criticised over the years. It sets a deep trap, 25.Re5 Bxf2+ 26.Kh1 Nf4 27.h3 and now which Black walks into. In Common Sense in either 27...Qb1 or 27...Nxg2 will probably Chess (1895), the then-world champion draw for Black.[7] Analysis published in the Emanuel Lasker praised it as "one of the most early 1930s by O. Hoppe and H. Heckner subtle and profound moves on record". found a win for White after 25.Bd3! (instead However, probably influenced by the analysis of 25.Re5), but Black can also improve with of Paul Lipke which revealed defensive 24...Nxf6 (Kasparov). Zaitsev's 21...Rxg2+ possibilities for Black, he later criticised the (rather than 21...Kxd7) also appears to be move, saying that 19.Be4 would have won sufficient for a draw.Hoppe and Heckner also relatively easily.[8] Lasker's analysis turned found a win for White after 20.c4 Rf4? out to be faulty, however. Analysis by Jacob (Lipke) 21.Bg6!!. Better is 20...Bd4 (Zaitsev, Murey and German Fridshtein published in 64, 1976 or 20...Rxg2+! (Kasparov). 20.Re4 the Soviet magazine 64 in 1975 found that has also received renewed attention as an after 19.Be4 Qh3! 20.g3 Rxg3+ 21.hxg3 attempt for White to gain the advantage. The Qxg3+ 22.Kh1 Bxf2 23.Bxe7! (Lasker's final assessment of 19...Rg4 remains unclear. 23.Re2? is refuted by 23...Nd4!) 23...Qh3+! 24.Nh2 Bxe1 25.Rxe1 Qh4! 26.Qd1! Nxe7 Most analysts have followed Staunton in 27.Bxb7 Qxf6 it is unclear whether White is rejecting 19...Rxg2+?! on account of 20.Kxg2 winning. Subsequent analysts such as Zaitsev Ne5 21.Qxd7+!!, but I.J. Good contended that and Kasparov have agreed with this after 21...Kxd7 22.Bg6+ Ke6 23.Bxh5 Rg8+ assessment. 24.Kh3! N7g6 25.Bg4+ Kxf6 26.Nxe5 Nxe5 19... Qxf3? 27.Be7+ Kxe7 28.Rxe5+ Kf6 White does not "Who would have played anything else have a clear win in the endgame. here?!" (Lipke, 1898). White cannot play In 1958, analysis by readers of the Schach- 20.gxf3 since the g2-pawn is pinned by the Echo came to the conclusion that 19...Bd4 rook on g8. Black now threatens to take and 19...Qh3 are even better than 19...Rg4 either on f2 or g2, both major threats to the and sufficient to force a draw.[14] (19...Bd4 white king, but Anderssen has a shattering was also found independently by Zaitsev.[11]) resource available. This view is endorsed by Burgess, who quotes Dissatisfied with the lack of analysis in the the lines (a) 19...Bd4 20.cxd4 Qxf3 21.Be4 game's original publication, Howard Rxg2+ 22.Kh1 Rxh2+ 23.Kxh2 Qxf2+ and (b) Staunton published a detailed analysis of 19...Qh3 20.Bf1 Qf5! (not analysed by several of Black's alternatives in the Chess Staunton) 21.Bd3 Qh3, repeating moves in Player's Chronicle in 1853. Staunton each case. analysed 19...Ne5, 19...d6, 19...Bc5, 20. Rxe7+! Nxe7? (diagram) 19...Rxg2+ and 19...Qh3, concluding that Black was lost in all lines.[3] This was the accepted view for many years, until the German master Paul Lipke published analysis in the May and June 1898 issues of the Deutsche Schachzeitung.[7] Lipke recommended 19...Rg4!? for Black, concluding that it offered Black excellent drawing chances with best play. Lipke's main This loses instantly to a very attractive mate line went 19...Rg4 20.Bc4 Qf5! 21.Rxd7! Kxd7 in four. 20...Kd8 would put up more 22.Ne5+ Kc8 23.Nxg4 Nd5 24.Qd1 Nd8 resistance, but White should win after

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21.Rxd7+ Kc8 22.Rd8+!! Kxd8 (if 22...Rxd8 1. e4 e5 2. Ng1f3 Nb8c6 3. Bf1c4 Bf8c5 23.gxf3; if 22...Nxd8 23.Qd7+ Kxd7 24.Bf5+ 4. b3 Ng8f6 5. Nb1c3 d6 6. h3 O-O 7. Ke8 25.Bd7#) (Staunton, 1853)[3] 23.Bf5+ Bc1b2 Nc6d4 8. O-O a6 9. d3 (diagram) Qxd1+ (Rubinstein, 1921).[12] Another way is 23.Be2+,[10] but White must play accurately: after 23...Nd4! 24.Bxf3 Bxf3 25.Rxd4+? leads to a probable draw after 25...Bxd4 26.Qxd4+ Kc8 27.Qd3 Bxg2 28.f3 Bh3+ 29.Kf2 Rb6 30.Qxh7 Rg2+ 31.Ke3 Be6 (Levenfish, 1959). [15] White must instead play 25.g3! (Neishtadt, 1961)[5] Bxd1 26.Qxd1 "with a boring but winning endgame" (Kasparov).[16] It is unclear whether the following moves were actually played, or whether Anderssen 9… b5 10. Bc4d5 c6 11. Nf3xd4 c6xd5 simply "announced mate", a common 12. Nd4c6 Qd8c7 13. exd5 b4 14. Nc3e4 practice at the time. The Deutsche Nf6xd5 15. Nc6xe5 dxe5 (diagram) Schachzeitung where the game was originally published simply said "White mates in 4 moves", without providing the actual moves. [2] 21. Qxd7+!! Kxd7 22. Bf5+ Double checks like 22.Bf5+ are powerful because they force the king to move. Here it is decisive. 22... Ke8 Or 22...Kc6 23.Bd7#. 23. Bd7+ Kf8 16. Qd1g4?? Bc8xg4 17. hxg4 Bc5d4 Some sources give 23...Kd8 as Black's move, 18. Bb2xd4 exd4 19. Ra1c1 Nd5c3 20. with the same reply, 24.Bxe7#. Ne4xc3 Qc7xc3 21. Rf1e1 Rf8e8 22. 24. Bxe7# 1–0 (a pure mate) Kg1f1 Qc3b2 23. g5 Qb2xa2 24. Re1e4 Re8xe4 25. dxe4 Qa2b2 26. Rc1e1 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Qb2xc2 27. e5 Qc2xb3 28. f4 g6 29. Kf1f2 Ra8c8 30. Re1e4 Rc8c2 31. White: Anand Sinha. Black: Steve Woods. Kf2g1 Qb3g3 32. Kg1f1 Qg3f2. 0-1 Giuoco Piano @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

The venerable Ruy Lopez (Spanish) chess opening is named after the Spanish priest Ruy Lopez de Segura who researched it and published his results in a book in 1561. To this day, it remains one of the most popular openings with a vast amount of theory. It offers subtle positional play as well as opportunities for tactics and it is safe to state Anand Sinha that if you learn and understand the Ruy

PAGE 7 THE CHESSARIAN FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Lopez you will be a strong player. It has So far, both players follow known theory. featured in the games of every World Here, Black has to do something because Champion and there are many defences White’s strong centre gives him the option of available for Black so the choices fit any style launching a strong kingside attack. Black’s of player. best alternative to 17…,f5 is to play 17…,c4. 18.axb5. axb5. 19.Nd4, Ne5. 20.Rxa8, Qxa8. In many of the main lines, analysis has been 21.Nxb5, Rc8. 22.Na3, Ba6. 23.Re3, Nbd3. carried deep into the game with new moves 24.Bxd3, cxd3. 25.b3, Be7 = appearing only after 20 or more moves have ben played.The game below features the 18.exf5, RxR+. 19.QxR, Bxd5. 20.Be4, Flohr-Zaitsev variation and it was the main Nf6 defence used with great effect by former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. It was 20.Ne4,Nf6. 21.Nxf6+, Qxf6. 22.Nh2 is used by him in his title match with Garry possible. Kasparov in Seville. 21.Bxd5, Nbxd5. 22.Qe6+, Kh7. 23.Ne4, White: Brian Clark. Black: Edgar Calvelo b4. (diagram) Ruy Lopez. Date: January 2021, casual game.

1.e4, e5. 2.Nf3, Nc6. 3.Bb5, a6. 4.Ba4, Nf6. 5.O-O, Be7. 6.Re1, b5. 7.Bb3, d6. 8.c3, O-O. 9.h3, Bb7 (diagram)

A better choice may be 23…,Nxe4, 24.Qxe4, Nf6.

This is the characteristic move of the Zaitsev 24.Nfg5+, hxg5. 25.Nxg5+, Kh8. variation. 26.Nf7+, Kh7. 27.Ng5+. Draw agreed.

10.d4, Re8 11.Nbd2, Bf8. 27.NxQ, bxa3. 28.bxa3, RxNd8. 29.Qf7, Re8 White can play 11.Ng5 attacking the f7 pawn. is a likely continuation. After 11…,Rf8. 12.Nf3, Re8. 13.Ng5 the players can repeat moves to reach an early For White to attempt to win this position draw if they wish but few do so. with Queen and Bishop versus Rook, two Knights and a Bishop would be arduous. The 12.a4, h6. plan needs to be for White to advance the g+h 13.Bc2, exd4. pawns to remove the protection around the 14.cxd4, Nb4. Black King. Black has play using his extra 15.Bb1, c5. pawns and pieces. 16.d5, Nfd7. 17.Ra3, f5. (diagram) PAGE 8 THE CHESSARIAN FEBRUARY 26, 2021

January 2021 Chess Quiz February 2021 Chess Quiz Paehtz,E.-Lazane Vajda, S.

White to move Black to move. Greg Farrell sent the correct solution. 1. Ne4 Qe7 2. Nc6 Qe8 Solution in March 2021 Chessarian 3. Nd6 trapping the queen.

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