Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 17:11:06 02/10/02
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On February 10, 2002 at 19:58:24, Dan Andersson wrote: >1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 Be7 7. O-O O-O >8. f4 Nc6 9. Be3 Bd7 10. Kh1 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Bc6 12. Bd3 Nd7 13. Qe1 Bf6 14. >Bxf6 Qxf6 15. Rd1 Rfd8 16. b4 b6 17. Bb5 Nb8 18. e5 dxe5 > >[D]r2r2k1/pp1n1ppp/2bppq2/8/4PP2/2NB4/PPP3PP/3RQR1K w - - 0 16 >White has one really good plan. And it's a fairly unusual one for the Sicilian. >16. b4 with the plan to dislodge the knight from protecting the e5 square. And b4 has been used in similar positions, Anand vs Kasparov (IIRC in ther WC match) and Karpov - Ljubojevic (~early 90's Argentina, thematic tournament) but not exaclty like here. >black has oly one good reply 16... Nf8 to defend the king. 16... b6 is met by >17. Bb5 and 16. a6 is roughly the same after 17. a4. What if a6/ a4 b6? is Bxa6 viable? Regards, Miguel > >MvH Dan Andersson
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