Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 12:07:52 07/07/04
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The meatiest part of the book is obviously the annotated games section. In the
past, I have examined the novelties played at later stages in the games. In
Tukmakov-Huss, Geneva 2004 we see a good example of flank chess: 1 Nf3 Nf6 2 c4
e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 (so far everything is normal and at this point Kramnik normally
plays the more quiet and sane 4 Qc2 as in his game against Zhang Zhong, which he
annotated in this volume. But Tukmakov is going in another direction...) 4 g4 h6
5 Rg1 b6 6 Qc2 Bb7 7 a3 Bxc3 8 Qxc3 d6 9 Bg2 Nbd7 10 h4 Kf8 11 g5 hxg5 12 hxg5
Ne4 13 Qe3 a5 14 b4 with a clear advantage for White. Chess seems to get ever
stranger all the time.
This time, however, I will look at early novelties:
1) 1 c4 c5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Nf3 e5 4 e3 Nf6 5 Be2 d5 6 d4 e4N
2) 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 c5 3 d5 b5 4 Bg5 Qb6 5 c4 bxc4 6 Nc3 Na6?!N
3) 1 d4 e6 2 c4 f5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Qc2 Be7 5 Nf3 0-0 6 d5!?N
4) 1 d4 e6 2 c4 f5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Qc2 Be7 5 Nf3 0-0 6 h3 b6!N
5) 1 e4 Nf6 2 e5 Nd5 3 d4 d6 4 Bc4 c6 5 f4 dxe5 6 fxe5 Be6N
6) 1 1 Nf3 g6 2 e4 d5 3 exd5 Qxd5 4 d4 Bg7 5 c4 Qd8 6 h3 Nh6!N
7) 1 d4 d6 2 e4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 Bg5 a6 5 a4 Nf6 6 Qd2N
8) 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 e5 c5 4 Nf3 Bg4 5 c4 cxd4N
9) 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 e6 4 Bxc6 bxc6 5 b3 f6 6 Ba3N
10) 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 e6 4 0-0 Nge7 5 Ba4!?N
11) 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nd2 c5 4 Ngf3 cxd4 5 Nxd4 Ne7 6 Bb5N
12) 1 e4 d6 2 d4 Nf6 3 Nc3 e5 4 Nf3 Nbd7 5 g4!?N
13) 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 b6 5 f3 Ba6 6 Bd2N
Without a doubt the most spectacular novelty is number 12, an idea of Vallejo
Pons' that Shirov used against Azmaiparashvili in Plovdiv 2003. With the
development of theory these days, it is an accomplishment to play a novelty on
move 5 or 6 without it being complete rubbish.
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