Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:12:27 02/11/02
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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
>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.
Some analysis with help from Fritz 7b:
1.b4!
[1.e5 dxe5 2.f5 Qg5 3.Qe2 Nf6 4.fxe6 fxe6 5.Ne4
(5.Bc4 Nd5 6.Ne4 Qg6 -/+) 5...Nxe4 6.Bxe4 Rxd1 7.Rxd1 Rd8 -=]
[1.Qg3 Rac8 =]
1...Nf8
[1...Rac8 2.b5 Bd5 3.exd5 Rxc3 4.dxe6 fxe6 5.f5! +-]
[1...a6 2.a4 Rac8
(2...b6 3.Bxa6 Rxa6 4.b5 Raa8 5.bxc6 Nc5 6.Nb5 ±)
(2...Nb6 3.b5 axb5 4.axb5 Be8 5.e5 Qh6 6.Rf3 f5 7.exf6 Qxf6
(7...gxf6 8.Qxe6+)
8.Ne4 Qe7 9.Ng5 g6 10.Rh3 +-)
3.b5 axb5 4.axb5 Bd5 5.exd5 Qxc3 6.dxe6 ±]
[1...b6 2.Bb5 Rac8
(2...Nb8 3.f5 a5
(3...e5 4.Bxc6 Nxc6 5.Nd5 +-)
4.e5 dxe5 5.fxe6 Rxd1 6.exf7+ Qxf7 7.Qxd1 Qe8 8.Qd6 Bxb5 9.Nxb5 +-)
3.Rxd6 Nb8 4.e5 ±]
[1...Nb6 2.b5 Be8 3.e5 Qh6 4.Ne4 d5 5.Nd6 f5 6.Nxb7 Rd7 7.Nd6 Bh5
8.Rd2 Nc8 9.c4! Nxd6 10.exd6 Rxd6 11.c5 ±]
2.b5 Be8 3.e5 Qe7 4.Ne4 dxe5 5.fxe5 Rd5 6.Nd6 f6 7.Nxe8 Rxe5 8.Nxf6+ gxf6 9.Qh4
±
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