Author: Amir Ban
Date: 04:51:16 05/19/98
Third round of the Dov Porat Memorial was played yesterday.
Junior played against the 19 year old GM Boris Avrukh (ELO 2525). There
were no previous encounters. Once again the game was drawn. This time it
was Junior who had to fight for for the draw, but that part it did well.
In an irregular queen's pawn, Junior reached a good position, but then
carelessly weakened the queen side and had to defend. Reaching the
endgame with a pawn less and against the two bishops, it managed to show
that such positions are quite defensible. The GM dragged the game to
nearly 6 hours, did not make any obvious mistakes, but could not find a
win.
I briefly browsed through the game with Fritz5 and Hiarcs6, and was
surprised to find that Fritz understands the issues in this game better.
Hiarcs is even more enthusiastic about 21...a5 ? than Junior, and
remains optimistic for black for many moves later. It also overstates
white's endgame advantage. This just goes to show.
I am now going to see Kasaprov play simultaneous against the Israel
national team. This will be transmitted live on ICC. Alon Greenfeld and
Junior will commentate on site at the Kasparov Academy.
[Event "Dov Porat Memorial"]
[Site "Givataim, Israel"]
[Date "19-May-98"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Boris Avrukh"]
[Black "Junior 4.9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "?"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Bg4 4. c4 {Black out of book} e6 5. Qb3 b6 6.
Ne5 c6 7. Nxg4 Nxg4 8. Be2 Qh4 9. g3 Qh3 10. Bf1 Qh6 11. h3 Nf6 12. Bg2
Be7 13. Nd2 Qg6 14. O-O O-O 15. Re1 Rd8 16. Nf3 Ne4 17. Ne5 Qf5 18. Rf1
Bd6 19. Nf3 h6 20. Bd2 Nd7 {Junior prefers black here} 21. Rfc1 a5
{Ouch! Now there's a huge hole on b5. Junior realizes the problem only
next move} 22. cxd5 cxd5 23. Be1 Rac8 24. Qb5 Bc7 25. Qe2 Bb8 26. Qa6
Nd6 27. b3 Bc7 28. a4 Qh7 {A computer-type waiting move. The queen's
main task is guarding c2 so why not from here ? It must have been
frustrating not to find a punishment for this move} 29. Bc3 Nb8 30. Qe2
Ne4 31. Bb2 Qf5 32. Ba3 h5 {A waste of time in view of what comes next.
Perhaps Bd6} 33. Nd2 Nd7 {Losing a pawn, but otherwise white doubles
rooks on the c-file} 34. Nxe4 dxe4 35. Rc6 Bb8 36. Qc2 Rxc6 37. Qxc6 Qg5
38. h4 Qd5 39. Bxe4 Qxc6 40. Bxc6 Nf6 41. Rc1 Bd6 42. Bb2 Rc8 43. Bf3
Rxc1 44. Bxc1 e5 45. dxe5 Bxe5 46. Ba3 g6 47. Kf1 Nd7 48. Ke2 Nc5 49.
Bd5 Kg7 50. e4 Kf6 51. Bc1 Ke7 52. Bg5 f6 53. Be3 Bc3 {Offering to draw}
54. Bf4 Bd4 55. f3 Nd7 56. Bc7 Ne5 57. Bg8 Bc5 58. f4 Nc6 59. f5 {Gives
up a pawn to avoid the opposite color bishop ending} gxf5 60. exf5 Nd4
61. Kd3 Nxf5 62. Ke4 Ne3 63. Bf4 f5 64. Kd3 Ng4 65. Kc4 Nf6 66. Bd5 Ne4
67. Kd3 Nf6 68. Bf3 Bd6 69. Bxd6 Kxd6 70. Kc4 Ng4 71. Kb5 Kc7 72. Be2
Kb7 73. Bc4 Kc7 74. Be6 Ne3 75. Bf7 Nf1 76. Bxh5 Nxg3 77. Bf3 {Bg6 also
draws} f4 78. h5 Nf5 79. Kc4 Kd6 80. Be4 Ke5 81. Bd3 {If Bxf5, both
pawns queen} Nd6 82. Kc3 Nf7 83. Bg6 Nh6 84. Kd3 Ng4 85. Ke2 Kf6 86. Kf3
Kg5 87. Be8 Nh2 88. Ke4 Ng4 89. Kf3 Nf6 90. Bf7 Ng4 91. Bg6 Ne5 1/2-1/2
Amir
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