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Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 8 Round 9 Playoffs
Vladimir Gaspariants (FM) - Kevin Spreggett (GM) [board 1]
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Commentaries by Danny Goldenberg (FM) after 3...d5!? Vladimir replies with 4.d3!? and the game goes to an unknown area for both players (my assumption). The whole game was based on strategy; white's plan was to control the center and attack on the king's side and at the same time Kevin (black) was thinking about getting an attack on the opposite side. 4...d4 may be not the best reply by black in this situation. 4...d:e4 is leading to an equal position. The idea of 6.Bh3 is very deep. White plan is to play f4, I believe that it is obvious. Bh3 prevents black from replying with e5, f6,Be6, Qd7 - Zemish type structure. Then the best plan for white would be to push f5, but this after exchanging the white square bishops... 9...f5!? led to a serie of very complicated exchanges on f5: g:f5 followed by e5 and white gained control of the center. The position remained pretty unclear, although white (I think) had a slight advantade. 20.Kg1! is a begging of a very interesting plan. White queen goes to g1 and will help the attack. After c4, white knight from e2 will go to d5. 27.Re3?! is bad simply because white will have no time to bring their knight on d5 due to Nd4 followed by Nc2. After the knights exchange on d4 white lose a part of their advantage... 35...b5! is creating lots of weak squares on queen side and black get the potential advantages (also time pressure for white). 55.Qc6? was the final blunder. White would still have good chances for a draw after 55.Qa8! Rg2!? 56.Qg2Bd5 57.Qg1!! followed at one point by e6 and Qa1+ . A very interesting and useful game! |
