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ANNOTATED GAME
Suba Game #1
Raicevic (2416?) vs. Suba (2530?)
Annotated by: raskerino (1841)
Chess opening: English (A22), Bellon gambit
Raicevic (2416?) vs. Suba (2530?)
Annotated by: raskerino (1841)
Chess opening: English (A22), Bellon gambit
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GM Mihai Suba is an excellent GM who's played a lot of strange ideas, and frequently pulls out oddly spectacular victories. | ||||||
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1. c4 |
GM Mihai Suba is an excellent GM who's played a lot of strange ideas, and frequently pulls out oddly spectacular victories. In this game he takes black against GM Raicevic. He begins the game with a speculative gambit and quickly gains a developmental advantage. His pieces find ingenious ways to march forward, and he wins in nice style. I recommend flipping the board as Suba plays black and having a board at your side while watching this so that you can analyze variations. | |||||
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1... e5 |
Suba played the English as white to great success. While most of his finds are for white, this is a great game against his favorite first move. I'm going to skim over the opening. | |||||
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2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 e4 |
Normally this move seems a little weak as the pawn will (and does in this game) grow weak on e4. However Suba is prepared to give up the pawn. | |||||
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4. Ng5 |
White targets the weak pawn. | |||||
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4... b5 |
This is Suba's idea, the Bellon gambit. If white takes black will get a good game via 5.cxb5 d5 or 5.Nxb5 I think is met by 5... c6 with ...d5 to follow, but maybe 5... Bb7 is a more natural continuation. I think white's best response is 5.d3 where white is solid and black's pawns will soon look weak. I initially wrote the awful idea of 5.Nxb5 d5?! 6.cxd5 Qxd5?? but that hangs a queen to 7.Nxc7 . I got a bad rating off this, and I apoligize as it was a silly mistake to make. I hope others won't rank it as harshly for one silly (but now corrected) blunder in the analysis. | |||||
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5. Qc2 |
White adds pressure to e4 while adding a potential defender to c4. | |||||
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5... bxc4 6. Ngxe4 Bb7 |
Black develops with tempo against e4. | |||||
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7. Nxf6+ Qxf6 8. Qa4 |
A reasonable move as black cannot defend c4, however, maybe white does better to play the solid 8.e3. | |||||
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8... Bc5 |
Black continues to develop with threats. | |||||
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9. e3 O-O 10. Qxc4 Bb6 |
So, after ten moves white is up a pawn, but his bishops looks AWFUL. Black's got two potentially useful files, a nice pair of bishop and an active queen. | |||||
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11. Nd5 |
However, the developed queen can also prove a weakness, white forks queen and bishop. | |||||
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11... Qd6 |
Black does not want to trade his light squared bishop for black's knight, the light one is better than the dark, because the dark squared bishop's diagonal has been blunted by the pawn one e3. | |||||
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12. Nf4 |
White is forced to make a decision with the knight, but I think this is a bad choice. I think white should trade, getting rid of one of black's bishops. Maybe I'm wrong though, as white will have an awful time developing and black has a great a file. | |||||
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12... Re8 |
Black continues development and adds a little pressure to the knight on f4. | |||||
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13. Be2 Nc6 14. O-O |
Black has basically concluded development (as opposed to white who has an embarassingly bad bishop on c1) and he now goes for the attack, the two bishop are pointing menacingly towards the king and the rest of the pieces now enter the attack with the following excellent move. | |||||
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14... Nd4 |
The knight should not be taken as after 15.exd4 Qxf4 and black has targets on d4 and e2. | |||||
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15. Bd1 |
White retains his pair of bishops, but he only has two pieces off the back rank. | |||||
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15... Re4 |
The knight still shouldn't be taken and white threatens the queen (16... Nf3 would win the white queen). Suba continues to develop with threats. | |||||
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16. Qc3 Rae8 |
And now black has concluded development. | |||||
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17. Nh3 |
The knight moves away, now black's knight is attacked but white's one developed piece (besides his queen) is now a knight on the rim, commonly known to be a weakness. | |||||
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