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ANNOTATED GAME
Team match
marcosnatal (1937) vs. sligunner (2086)
Annotated by: sligunner
(2029)
Chess opening: QGD (D31), semi-Slav, Noteboom variation
marcosnatal (1937) vs. sligunner (2086)
Annotated by: sligunner
(2029)
Chess opening: QGD (D31), semi-Slav, Noteboom variation
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21... Rd4 |
I really liked this move. Yet again it's a tempo gainer (the obvious threat is 22...Rxe5+). Also, taking with the rook on c4 is now a very nasty threat because a) it gains a tempo by attacking white's queen on c1, and b) a subsequent discovered check with a rook move is brutal. Meanwhile, because the black knight is still on e5 the king plan of f3 and g2 is impossible. | ||||
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22. Nd2 |
To stop the rook taking the c4 pawn. | ||||
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22... Nxc4 23. Ke1 |
23.Nxc4 Rxc4 leads to the same assessment of the rook discovered check. | ||||
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23... Qe6+ |
Now the black queen comes to the e-file with a gain of tempo. This wasn't a difficult move to find. A check, after all, is a check. | ||||
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24. Kf1 Nxd2+ |
Bang goes the defender of the f3 square. | ||||
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25. Bxd2 Qd5 |
And now a double attack (on the bishop on d2 and the rook on h1). Black's reply is forced. | ||||
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26. Ke2 Qe4+ 27. Be3 Rc4 |
The rook finally arrives at c4 with tempo, and eyes up the c2 square. I thought this was a strong move, but didn't quite appreciate how strong until I started to examine the white queen's options for retreating from the attack. | ||||
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28. Qg1 |
An unfortunate necessity. Other queen moves lead to a debacle: 22.Qb1 Rc2+ 23.Kd1 (Ke1 then Qxh1+) Qd3+ followed by mate on e2; 22.Qd1 Rc2+ 23.Kf1 (or e1) Qxh1+. 22.Qd2 or b2 and the black rook going to c2 is decisive. | ||||
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28... Bh6 |
Obvious. The idea behind this move is to exchange the e3 bishop which is the glue holding together white's defence. | ||||
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29. Kf1 Bxe3 30. fxe3 Rc2 |
The rook reaches c2 and it's all over because of the twin threats of 31...Qf3+ and 31...Qd3+ (note, those white squares again). | ||||
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31. Qf2 Qxh1+ 32. Qg1 Qf3+ 33. Ke1 Qe2# |
Fitting, I think, that mate is given on e2, the square on which white's KB should probably have never visited. If you're looking for an opening to play against 1.d4 and 2.c4, then the Semi-Slav is rich in possibilities. Obviously, you have to be clued up on the Meran and the Anti-Meran (both covered in Flear's and Kaufman's books), but I've found that the positions you get with black always seem to be nicely unbalanced and offer chances of fighting for the initiative (a bit like playing the Najdorf Sicilian against 1.e4). The Nimzo-Indian also fits the bill against 1.d4 and 2.c4, but white can avoid it by not playing 3.Nc3. personally, I don't much like playing the black side of the Queens Indian (3.Nf3 b7), and the Bogo-Indian (3.Nf3 Bb4+) offers at least one forced variation which gives black a cramped position that, at best, is drawish. So my advice is: MUG UP ON THE SEMI-SLAV: ("there is one defense that does it all – the Semi-Slav" says Kaufman). | ||||
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