Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 11:12:40 05/31/04
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On May 31, 2004 at 10:36:43, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >CHESS Lubomir Kavalek >By Lubomir Kavalek >Monday, May 31, 2004; Page C10 > >Ukrainian grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk, a runner-up in the 2002 FIDE world >championship, won the gold medal yesterday at the fifth European championship in >Antalya, Turkey. He defeated veteran Bosnian grandmaster Predrag Nikolic in a >playoff after both players shared first place in the main event with 9 points in >13 games. Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian clinched the bronze medal. > >Against Finnish grandmaster Tomi Nyback, Ivanchuk created a positional >masterpiece in the style of former world champion Jose Raul Capablanca. It began >with a subtle opening idea in the Slav defense. > > +++ Nyback-Ivanchuk +++ >1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Nh4 Bd7!? (An awkward retreat, >but after 7.e3 Ivanchuk would have a choice between holding on the pawn with >6...b5 or transferring to the Queen's Gambit Accepted with 7...e6 8.Bxc4 c5.) >7.g3 (White chooses to gambit the pawn, placing his light bishop on the long >diagonal.) 7...e6 8.Bg2 c5!? (An amazing exchange sacrifice, giving black a >strong counterplay in the center.) 9.d5 (After 9.Bxb7 Bc6 10.Bxa8 Bxa8 11.0-0 >cxd4 black has a good compensation for the exchange.) >9...exd5! (Ivanchuk's improvement on the game Sakaev-Popov, St. Petersburg 2004, >where after 9...Nxd5 10.Nxd5 exd5 11.Qxd5 Nc6 12.Qxc4 Be7 13.Be3 0-0 14.0-0 Na5, >a draw was agreed to.) I've tried to follow and input this game into my shredder 8, three times, its a horrible annotated game can you give me the board coordinates instead?
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