Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:14:54 02/06/02
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> First of all I want to Categorically Deny all the above accusations, I never
>have written any email to you, Nor would I know how to spam? whatever that is???
>I think you are just looking for trouble, I haven't even had any conversation
>with you here on CCC, you simply butted into a fued between Albert Silver and
>Myself,
Look, there is no *feud*. You wrote a nasty post declaring the upcoming match
between Van Wely and Rebel as without any interest whatsoever, not to mention
spitting on a top 10 player. I couldn't disagree more, and think you should be
extremely grateful that Ed Schroeder goes to the trouble and expense to organize
such a high level match. It sure beats the interminable computer tournaments
organized all over the place. I mean no disrespect to those who do them, it's
just a question of degree of interest. Anyone can do them, this is rare. So I
qualify the post denigrating his efforts as a troll.
In case you're curious here is an extract of the game you complained about
commented from a daily magazine I subscribe to called Chess Today. Chess Today
is an incredible deal and I cannot recommend it enough. It costs $15 for 4 moths
and comes into your e-mail EVERY DAY. You get the latest news in PDF, test
positions, and a commented game by one of the editors: GM Baburin, GM
Scherbakov, and IM Barsky. The chess material also comes in a separate PGN file
or CBH. You can find out more at http://www.chesstoday.net
This game tells you what a solid Russian IM thinks of the game and of Van Wely
in general.
Annotated Game from Chess Today no. 456 (5/Feb/2002)
Evgeni Vasiukov (RUS) (2530) − Loek Van Wely (NED) (2714)
Aeroflot−Open A Moscow (Russia)
(1), 05.02.2002 B33
Notes by IM Vladimir Barsky
No doubt Dutch Champion, Loek van Wely, is one of the strongest GMs in the
world with an active style, good knowledge of opening theory and so on. But in
my opinion he has one rather essential fault − he's too curious. Of course
he realised, that in the following game the g5 bishop was "poisoned", but I
suspect Loek wanted to find out what would happen if, nevertheless, he took it
anyway. And 68 year old Evgeni Andreevich Vasiukov, one of the leading Soviet
GMs between 1960 and 1970, showed him very simply and earnestly.
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4
Vasiukov has played this move for decades. Of course, in this era of computers
this wasn't a secret for his opponent.
4...Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6
After this exchange the queen on d4 protects her strong central position. As a
compensation Black has the bishop pair.
7.Nc3 Nf6 8.Bg5 e6 9.0-0-0 Be7 10.Rhe1 0-0 11.Kb1 Qa5 12.Qd2!
The queen vacates the d4 square for the knight on f3 and at the same time
defends the bishop on g5.
12...Qa6 13.Nd4 Rfc8 14.f4 h6 15.h4
A common idea − now the g5 bishop has no way back to White's camp, but
obviously it's very dangerous for Black to grab it and thus allow the
opening of the h−file.
15...Qc4 16.g4 Kf8 17.f5!
White plays in quite a straightforward fashion, but in such positions with
opposite side castling, a straightforward attack is often the most unpleasant
way to play. By the way Vasiukov has always been (and still is) a very strong
attacking player, with an extremely sharp tactical vision. He has been
especially successful with the white pieces.
17...hxg5?!
For more you'll have to subscribe or go to the site. Once more the address is
http://www.chesstoday.net If any are interested, e-mail me and I'll gladly send
you a copy for your own inspection. The editors explicitly permit this in order
to let the word out BTW.
Albert
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