Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:19:03 08/14/98
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[Event "?"]
[Site "Chile"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Ivan Morovic (2600+)"]
[Black "Tiger 11,5 (running in a MMX 200 Mhz)"]
[Result "1-0"]
{ 40 moves/one hour } { Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz defense } 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.
Bb5 d6 4. d4 Bd7 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. O-O Be7 7. Re1 exd4 8. Nxd4 O-O 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10.
Ba4 Ng4 11. Ne2 Bh4 { At this stage of the game my friend and I thought Ivan was
not getting the best from the opening. The Night in g4 is a pain in the ass and
now the arrival of the bishop coerce Ivan to unpleasant moves of his pawns }
12. g3 Bf6 13. Nf4 { In the post mortem Ivan explained us that he was worried by
the hole in f3 if the black night arrived sooner or later to e5 } 13. ... Re8
14. c3 { Probably the only one in this ugly position. } 14. ... Ne5 15. f3 Rb8 {
Spectators were amazed to see how bad Ivan position seemed to be. The dangerous
holes in the king side, the probable arrival of the queen bishop at h3, etc. We
begun to expect a catastrophe. } 16. Nd3 d5 17. Nxe5 Bxe5 18. Bc2 h6?! { My
friend and I -the “spectators”- took a full minute to understand that Tiger was
not just doing an unnecesacry move. It was a trap!! Suddenly we saw that if
White played pxp, pxp and then Qxp, it followed Bd4+!! and the white house fall
in pieces. If Kf1, Bh3++; if QxB, RxR+, etc. Nevertheless, the most amazing
thing of all was to lesson the analysis of Ivan in the post mortem. He not only
saw that threat, he told us, in a split of a second where we, spectators of
expert o near master force, took half a minute, but, what is more, he saw the
“others” traps Tiger was putting if White played the natural Rb1 for playing
in the next the also natural Be3. Flashing his fingers over the board Ivan
showed us no less that five variation with all kind of tactical tricks after
pxp and then Bxcp !!, after whose completion Tiger would win a full pawn. I
have never seen before a more clear demonstration of the huge abysm between
even strong amateur players -as my friend is- and a real GM. No matter how much
you see, they always see ten times more than you... } 19. Kg2 Be6 { The first
great mistake of Tiger, said Ivan } 20. f4 Bd6 21. e5 Bc5 { The second great
mistake. Both moves of the bishops gave Ivan free tempi for launching his pawn
storm. } 22. f5 Bc8 23. Qg4 { At this stage Tiger was given a sad score of 1,
xx, according the line. } 23. ... Kh8 24. Qh5 Kg8 25. b4 Bf8 { So, winning a
time, Ivan closed the B column to any rook-dancing that could happens, as he
showed with another number of incredible variations. } 26. e6 Qf6 { If Black
played Qe7, “spectators” saw the following pretty variation: Bxph, pxB; f6!!. }
27. Be3 g6 28. exf7+ Qxf7 29. fxg6 Qd7 { At this point, on behalf of Tiger, that
showed an horrible 2,97- score, I conceded the game to Ivan. A pretty
demonstration of how a temporal weakness -king pawns- can become a tool of
utterly destruction. The ending was so good as the previous proceedings: Ivan
was very pleased , he got a lot of fun and said that Tiger had played like a
real strong master, at least 2500 in some moves, but then lost the compass and,
averaging all, he thinks Tiger 11,5 is a 2350 player. He told me next Thursday
we can repeat the experiment with the program I choose and this time I am going
to pit him against Junior 4,6. I hope that flat he is looking for will appear
after all... } 1-0
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