Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 06:36:00 05/19/01
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On May 18, 2001 at 15:47:05, Dan Andersson wrote: >The King plays the Old-Indian defence, and gets to exchange pieces thus getting >a solid and passive position that seems playable or at least without any serious >weakness. Whites bishop is by no means weak as it has the ability to >singelhandedly defend the Queen side while the heavy pieces regroup and prepare >the opening pawn break e4-e5, the bishop could make blacks defence against this >hard by the threat of Bb5. Seeking a no existing initiative (or maybe kings >position bonuses) The King erroneously goes on a rampage on the kings side, >helping white advance his pawns. Passive defence is the only way in Old-Indian, >black should defend passively making white pay for the e4-e5 advance. Clearly >not a good opening for The King. > >Regards Dan Andersson Nice summary - still the Old-Indian carries some poison... The famous game Averbakh-Kotov, Zuerich 1953 springs to mind. [D]1r4nk/1p1qb2p/3p1r2/p1pPp3/2P1Pp2/5P1P/PP1QNBRK/5R2 b - - 0 30 Averbakh has just played 30.Ne2 when Kotov unleashes his shocking 30.-Qxh3+!! The white king is forced to a heavy walk right into the mine field at f5. The whole Old-Indian game: Averbakh,Y - Kotov,A [A55] Candidats Tournament Zuerich (14), 23.09.1953 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 Nbd7 4.Nc3 e5 5.e4 Be7 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 c6 8.Qc2 Re8 9.Rd1 Bf8 10.Rb1 a5 11.d5 Nc5 12.Be3 Qc7 13.h3 Bd7 14.Rbc1 g6 15.Nd2 Rab8 16.Nb3 Nxb3 17.Qxb3 c5 18.Kh2 Kh8 19.Qc2 Ng8 20.Bg4 Nh6 21.Bxd7 Qxd7 22.Qd2 Ng8 23.g4 f5 24.f3 Be7 25.Rg1 Rf8 26.Rcf1 Rf7 27.gxf5 gxf5 28.Rg2 f4 29.Bf2 Rf6 30.Ne2 Qxh3+ 31.Kxh3 Rh6+ 32.Kg4 Nf6+ 33.Kf5 Nd7 34.Rg5 Rf8+ 35.Kg4 Nf6+ 36.Kf5 Ng8+ 37.Kg4 Nf6+ 38.Kf5 Nxd5+ 39.Kg4 Nf6+ 40.Kf5 Ng8+ 41.Kg4 Nf6+ 42.Kf5 Ng8+ 43.Kg4 Bxg5 44.Kxg5 Rf7 45.Bh4 Rg6+ 46.Kh5 Rfg7 47.Bg5 Rxg5+ 48.Kh4 Nf6 49.Ng3 Rxg3 50.Qxd6 R3g6 51.Qb8+ Rg8 0-1 According to Bronstein, after 33.Kf5 Kotov had very little time left until the time control. Otherwise he would surely have found Stahlberg's postmortem suggestion 33.-Ng4!, as a cleaner and quicker way to victory. Sune
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