Annotated chess game: Budapest Gambit is bad

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ANNOTATED GAME

Budapest Gambit is bad
remch (1621) vs. riwulof (1756)
Annotated by: riwulof (1977)
Chess opening: Budapest (A52), Rubinstein variation

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Bf4 Nc6	if 4...g5, then the good plan is 5.Bd2 to bring the bishop on the a1 h8 diagonal.
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: Extraordinary game, this. White gets much the better of it well into the ending, then somehow lets it all slip away from him.


5. Nf3 Bc5	?! theory say Bb4
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: In view of Black's 7th move, he could have saved a tempo by the immediate check.


6. e3 Qe7 7. Bg5 Bb4+ 8. Nc3 Qc5 9. Bf4 Ngxe5 10. Nxe5 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3 Nxe5 12. Qd4	!
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: Possiby 8...Bxc3ch with 9...Qe6 or maybe 9...Qa3 to follow?


12... Qxd4	d6 loose the knight after Qxc5



13. cxd4	White is better : center, development and soon a pawn
	2 comments archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: Not just better: a lot better. Bishop pair, central majority, lead in development... Talk about accumulation of (small?) advantages!! marinvukusic (2161) on 01-Jul-07: This is an easy win for white. The plan: Bc7, Kd2, Bd3 or Kd3, Be2->Bf3, then probably Rhb1 etc.


13... Ng6 14. Bxc7 b6 15. Bd6 Bb7 16. d5 Nh4	To come back on f5 and remove the bishop that prevent 0-0. By the way, put pressure on g2
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 30-Jun-07: Understandable, but the knight ought not to be able to survive there, except to go back to g6...


17. e4 f6	To link the rooks together, as Nf5 is no longer possible
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: 17...f5 18.e5.


18. Rb1	Plan suggestion : A) f4, g3, Bh3 or g2, 0-0, rook e1 and f1, then push the center. B) after removing the N, Be2, 0-0, Rb and c1, push a pawn. Then either black take and c pawn go ahead, or b pawn should fall.
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 30-Jun-07: White's game is so good there are probably lots of winning plans. I probably would have gone along the lines suggested by the annotator, but the text looks fine to me!


18... Ba6 19. Rb3 Kf7 20. g3 Ng6 21. Bd3	Ra3! to force black bishop to passivity
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: ...and after 21.Ra3 ..., 22.f4 and 23.Bh3 when White has a huge game.


21... Rhc8 22. Rc3 Ne5 23. Bxe5 fxe5 24. O-O	Previous exchanges improved black position.
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: Instead of 0-0, 24.Kd2 was worth considering, freeing up the rook, and keeping the king close to the action.


24... Rc5 25. Rfc1 Rac8 26. a4 Ra5 27. Bc2	? Ra1 or Ra3, =
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: Instead of 26.a4, 26.R3c2 might have been worth considering, to release the half-pin on the c-pawn, at the same time protecting the a-pawn against a possible rook manoeuvre onto that file. If Black responds with 26...b5, White can just take, forcing the rooks off, and remaining a pawn ahead in the ensuing bishop ending. How winnable that ending will be is hard to say: White's central pawns are awkwardly placed on the White squares, so there may be some technical difficulties to surmount... * Clearly, 27.Bc2 will lose a pawn, but 27.Ra1 b5! or 27.Ra3 b5! looks pretty horrible as well, the one move exploiting both pins that have suddenly appeared on the a- and c-files! * What hope, then, for White? He can bring his K into action by Kg2, or try and mitigate the loss of the a-pawn by 27.c5 Bxd3 28.Rxd3 Rxa4 29.c6, say. (This is a tricky line, and much might depend on move order. But it looks as though White gets a playable rook ending out of it, with OK drawing chances...


27... Rxc4 28. Bb3 Rxe4 29. d6+ Kf6 30. Rc3c7	Also to consider Rf3
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: But not 30.Rf3ch Kg6 31.Rc7?? Re1ch 32.Kg2 Bf1ch 33.Kg1 Bh3#


30... Rc5 31. Rc1xc5 Re1+ 32. Kg2 Bf1+ 33. Kf3 bxc5 34. Rxc5	Rxd7 or Rxa7 would be faced by c4. I'm not sure who is better in any case.
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: 34.Rxd7 must have been very tempting, all the same: 34...c4 35.Bc2


34... Rb1 35. Bd5 Rb4 36. Ra5	a5 !? Now the rook is kind of trapped.
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: No better seems 36.Rc1 Ba6 (or ...Bd3) 37.Ra1 Rd4


36... a6 37. Ke3 Rb6	Win a pawn



38. Bg8 h6 39. Rd5	?? but it is difficult to find a god move anyway. f4 probably
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 30-Jun-07: Actually, quite a clever attempt to save the pawn by White, were it not for for Black's next move...


39... Bc4 40. a5 Rb3+ 41. Ke4 Bxd5+ 42. Bxd5 Ra3
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2355) on 29-Jun-07: Interesting ending - a dire example of how easy it is to go wrong and lose horribly however big the advantage going into an endgame. Mind you, Black's active defence would have had something to do with it as well!