PERIODICAL ANALYSIS OF CURRENT OPENING PRACTICE N CHESS The Master's Choice Surprising moves in well-known positions Ivanov FR 19.3 I A it A I 4 i Afc#£ AA A A AAA a 2 .* KrasenkowSI 37.12 I i AW 4 1 1 A A 1 1 A A A A A A A A S Sosonko Gl 11.1 I %A AAA A A A A A A A A A A A A^ a *& a 18...£d5or18...'ah5 11...0-GoM1...&e7 11.J2.e2 or 11. -Id2 YEARBOOK The Grandmaster Guide to Opening News NIC YEARBOOK 52 1999 NEW IN CHESS Contributing authors Adams Langeweg Sosonko Anand Leko Stetsko Bagirov Lukacs Stohl Bosch Marin Svidler Dreev Meulders Timman Golubev Mikhalchishin Tiviakov Gufeld Pelletier Van Wely Hazai Pliester Van der Sterren Se. Ivanov Ponomariov Van der Tak Jonkman Rogers Van der Weide Kortchnoi Sapundjiev Vilela Kostakiev Serper Vokac Krasenkow Shirov Welling Kuijf Solozhenkin Edited by Genna Sosonko and Paul van der Sterren YEARBOOK 52 The Grandmaster Guide to Opening News INTERCHESS BV Editorial Staff: Supervisor: Editors: Translation: Proofreading: R. Olthof G. Sosonko, P. van der Sterren A. van de Oudeweetering, K.P Neat P. Verhagen Productional Staff: Supervisor: Data processing: Typeshop processing: H.A. Roest C. W. van der Zanden, J. de Groot Interchess BV Information System: Database: Database Software: Opening Classification: Typesetting System: New in Chess Database NiCBASE3.0 NiC KEY 4.5 NiCPublish Printed in the Netherlands CIP-code Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag New in Chess Yearbook periodical analysis of current opening practice ed. by Genna Sosonko and Paul van der Sterren. ISSN 0168-7697 4 times a year Yearbook 52 (1999) ISBN 90-5691-059-0 geb./hardcover ISBN 90-5691-060-4 ingVsoftcover ISBN 90-5691-061-2 CD-ROM SISO 621 .25 UDC 794.1 .05(058) Trefw.: schaken; openingen © INTERCHESS BV No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the publisher. 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Box 1093, 1810 KB Alkmaar, The Netherlands Phone: 00-31 -(0)72 - 5. 1 27. 1 37 Fax: 00-31-(0)72- 5.158.234 E-mail: editors@newinchess.com WWW: http://www.newinchess.com CONTENTS NiC Forum Key Opening Variation Page SO 5.14 Scotch Classical Variation 5.£ic6 8 RL7.4 Ruy Lopez Berlin Variation 9 SI 44.10 Sicilian Closed Variation 5.£}ge2 9 SI 17.6 Sicilian Dragon Variation 9.0-0-0 10 Nl 23.6 Nimzo-lndian Classical Variation 4...d5 5.a3 11 KP14.3 Two Knights Max Lange Attack 9...±f8 12 BI7.16 King's Indian/Benoni Four Pawns Attack 9...fle8 12 SL4.4 Slav Piece Sacrifice Variation 10.1^3 13 IG5.7 Italian Evans Gambit 5...J.a5 13 SI 9.2 Sicilian Gothenburg Variation 1 1.<£se6 14 Sosonko's Corner Column 15 Database Survey Key SI 14.1 SI 14.7 SI 18.6 SI 19.14 SI 37.12 SI 38.16 SI 45.10 KF 8.8 + 10.8 FR3.6 FR6.4 CK3.4 Opening Sicilian Sicilian Sicilian Sicilian Sicilian Sicilian Sicilian King's Fianchetto French French Caro-Kann Variation Najdorf Variation 6.lg1 Najdorf Variation 6. J.e3 <&g4 Dragon Variation 12.^1 Scheveningen Variation 7.g4 h6 Sveshnikov Variation 9.£}d5 Sveshnikov Variation 9. Jif6 Closed Variation 7.£sh3 The Pterodactyl 3...C5 4.dc5 Wa5 Advance Variation 6...<£ih6 Classical Variation 6.iLe7 #e7 7.f4 Panov Variation 5...<£ic6 6.J.g5 Page 18 22 26 33 38 43 47 52 57 62 66 Key Opening Variation Page RG6.10 Petroff Anand's Butterfly Novelty 12.g4 71 RL7.3 Ruy Lopez Classical Variation Part I 6...J.b6 74 RL7.3 Ruy Lopez Classical Variation Part II 7.iig5 79 RL7.4 Ruy Lopez Berlin Defence 9.<2}c3 86 RL17.6 Ruy Lopez Marshall Attack 12.d4 & 15.He4 92 IG2.13 Italian Giuoco Piano 10. ..<£>h5 96 VO 12.3 Van Geet 1...d5 is the best reply 102 SL4.1 Slav The poisonous 6.<£sh4 108 SL7.8 Slav Botvinnik Variation 13...£\e5 113 QG 4.4 + 4.6 Queen's Gambit Falling back on 5...J.b4 117 Nl 27.16 Nimzo-lndian Vienna Variation 7. ±c4 122 Ql 16.11 Queen's Indian Nimzowitsch 4...J.a6 129 Gl 1.2 + 2.2 Grunfeld Indian Fianchetto Variation 6...£>c6 137 Gl 11.1 Grunfeld Indian Smyslov Variation 9.Wb3 c5 143 KI5.2 King's Indian Lanka's shocking 12...Se8 148 Kl 31 .2 King's Indian The variation with 5.<£sge2 152 QP 1.13 Queen's Pawn 3.±g5 Ag7 4.&bd2 158 QP9.2 Queen's Pawn 1.d4d5 2J,g5 165 HD6.3 Dutch Leningrad Variation 7...C6 8.1^3 170 HD 11.5-10 Dutch Staunton Gambit 4. J.g5 174 EO 9.2-3 English Bellon Gambit 4.. .b5 182 EO 44.13 English An English-Nimzo Hybrid 9.J.d2 187 Theory Key FR 19.3 Opening French Variation Tarrasch Variation 4. ..^5 Page 196 Code System International Code System 218 NIC Classification Summary 222 NIC Statistics 227 General Index of database surveys, theoretical articles and NiC Forum items YB/7-52 228 FORUM including SOSONKO'S CORNER NIC FORUM The NiC Theory Forum is a platform for discussion - between readers, authors and editors - of developments in chess opening theory in general and particularly in variations analysed in previous volumes of this Yearbook Series. Contributions for these pages should be sent to our GM editors Genna Sosonko and Paul van der Sterren. Editors NiC Yearbook P.O. Box 1093 NL 1810 KB Alkmaar The Netherlands Fax 00-31-(0)72-5158234 E-mail: editors@newinchess.com Sicilian Gothenburg Variation SI 9.2 Sicilian Dragon 9.0-0-0 S1 17.6 Closed Sicilian SI 44.10 Ruy Lopez RL7.4 Evans Gambit IG5.7 Scotch Opening SO 5.14 Max Lange Attack KP 14.3 Slav Defence SL4.4 Nimzo-lndian Classical Variation Nl 23.6 King's Indian/Benoni: Four Pawns BI7.16 The highlights of this Forum instalment are the articles by Dimitar Kostakiev on the Ruy Lopez Exchange endgame, (SO 5.14/RL7.4), and - together with Georgi Sapundjiev - on 'one of the most beautiful variations' of theNimzo(NI 23.6), along with Jose LVilela'saccount of an attempt to improve Black's play in a sub-variation of the Dragon (S1 1 7.6). Two letters offer additional information on variations discussed in Yearbook 51 (SI 44.10 and Bl 7.16). The remainder consists of contributions by our editorial staff. Paul van der Sterren shows a way for Black to play for a win in a drawing line of the Slav and Bram van der Tak reports that the days of the Max Lange may finally be over (KP 14.3), but -on a happiernote, at least from the 3. J.c4 players' view-point- thatthe Evans Gambit is still in business. This section concludes with yet another Dale Kirton novelty in - per- haps you've guessed - the Gothenburg Variation. Learn from the Classics by Dimitar Kostakiev SO 5.14 RL7.4 10.Wg5?l f5 11.0-0 h6 12.Wh5 iLb6 is premature, Rouchouse- G.Flear.Montpellier 1997 (0-1, 59). 10...&g6 11.#g5! Young Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, the sensation of Las Vegas 1999, dem- onstrated that he is well ac- quainted with the vintage lessons from Lasker's, Tarrasch's and Ca- pablanca's heritage. SO 5.14 Nisipeanu,Liviu-Dieter Khalifman,Alexander Las Vegas 19.08.1999(6.4) 1.e4 e5 2.ftf3 £ic6 3.d4 ed4 4.<&d4 Ac5 5.ftc6 Wf6 6.Wd2 dc6 7.&C3 £e7 8.Wf4 We6 9.£d3 0-0 10.0-0 I A 1# iii AAA k w % i. A <£1 AAA AAA a Sk n<4> At this point Nisipeanu must al- ready have had in mind the typical endgame which is the subject of this contribution. ll.Wg3?! is in- ferior as the exchange on g3 would double White's kingside pawns, thus diminishing their majority ad- Forum vantage and consequently reduc- ing White's winning chances. This can be seen from the games Nunn- G.Flear, Hastings 1996/97 and Rethy-Eliskases, Ujpest 1934, in which White had doubled f- pawns. Khalifman replied 11...We5?! It will soon become clear why it would have been better to avoid this typical endgame. 12.#e5 <5te5 13.&e2 Ag4 14.Ag4 £ig4 15.h3 £>f6 16.He1 Sfe8 17.*f1 Ab4 18.f3 Sad8 19.£f4 Hd7 20.Sad1 Ac3 21.bc3 iiil 1 i . # AAA Al A ISA 11 a Ai ■A III A ■All 2* Thus a variation on the well- known Ruy Lopez Exchange end- game has arisen from the Scotch Opening. In the Ruy Lopez White's queenside pawns are usu- ally intact. Here they are doubled and isolated, seemingly an easy target. However, Emanuel Lasker was the first to demonstrate that White's chances are decisively better in spite of the doubled pawns. His third match game against David Janowsky - another chess titan - is one of his most in- structive victories on the same topic and it will repay close study. Let us mention also that according to Capablanca's lessons White should win since there are pawn majorities on both sides. In brief: The great Siegbert Tarrasch - commenting the above-mentioned game from the world's crown match (p...
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