Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 13:12:04 08/07/05
In the old days Morphy and others excelled in tactics. Later on Mikhail Tal
showed up with a playing stile that presented the opponents with huge amounts of
practical problems. Nowadays the "lightenings from the blue" are more rare. But
in the 9th round of the EU-chT in Gothenburg it happened. Bareev must have been
surprised when young Swedish GM Emanuel Berg uncorked 16.Bg6!!? The defending
task proved just too much for the super-GM. So far, the whole combination looks
correct. Bareev could have played stronger, to keep the balance, but that is
easier said than done...
[D]r4rk1/pbq1bpp1/1p2pn1p/2P1N1N1/7P/3B4/PPP1QPP1/2KR3R w - - 0 16
GM Berg 2539 - GM Bareev 2688 Gothenburg 2005
[Event "EU-Tch"]
[Site "Göteborg"]
[Date "2005.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Berg, Emanuel"]
[Black "Bareev, Evgeny"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2539"]
[BlackElo "2688"]
[Annotator "Larsson"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2005.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2001.01.01"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. Nf3 O-O 8.
Qd2 Be7 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. O-O-O b6 11. h4 Bb7 12. Qe2 c5 13. dxc5 Qc7 14. Neg5 Nf6
15. Ne5!?N h6 16. Bg6!!? hxg5 17. hxg5 fxg6 18. Nxg6 Ne4 19. Rh8+ Kf7 20.
Ne5+ Qxe5 21. Qh5+ g6 22. Rh7+ Qg7 23. Rxg7+ Kxg7 24. Qh6+ Kf7 25. Qh7+ Ke8 26.
Qxg6+ Rf7 27. c6 Bxc6?! (27... Bxg5+ 28. Kb1 Bxc6 29. Qxe6+ Kf8 30. Qxc6 Re8 =
{Fritz}) 28. Qxe6 Bb7? (28... Kf8! 29. f4! Rxf4 30. Qxc6 and white is better
{Fritz}) 29. g6 Rg7 30. Rh1 Nf6 31. Rh8+ Rg8 32. g7 1-0
Sune Larsson
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