Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 04:45:18 07/21/04
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The Ten Most Important Novelties of Informant 89
Tomislav Paunovic
Chess Informant Editor
The voting for the Most Important Novelty brought Veselin Topalov a convincing
20-point margin of victory. He is probably the only Top 20 player who is not a
regular contributor to Informant, but he duly deserved it. The game annotations
appear in Chess Informant 89 courtesy of his opponent Ivan Sokolov. Topalov is
also the only player with two Top 10 novelties, the other being his win against
Anand from Wijk aan Zee, which finished in eighth place. Among these first eight
novelties there was only one that was not played at Wijk! The other game that
received votes from all the members of the jury was Bologan - Svidler. Dautov
was credited as the author of the novelty, which helped it place second, just
four points ahead of Akopian - Kramnik.
Launching his stunning novelty, Topalov gambited his e-pawn to make way for his
pieces. Acceptance of the pawn would result in a considerable spatial and
development advantage for White, who could then set up a bind that would keep
Black’s pieces inactive and probably irreparably ruin Black's position. The
Dutchman had no choice but to defend passively, at the cost of a serious
positional concession; his rook became a serious liability, without much hope of
being in play.
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