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Game of the Week
With Analysis by IM Greg Shahade
June 10th, 2003
Tonight was the
first week of live radio coverage of the NY Masters! I’m currently listening
to the replay, that will start every Tuesday as soon as the original
broadcast is over. This is great, because after playing in the event, you
get a chance to hear what the live commentators are saying, not something
you often get a chance to do in chess. Once again, to hear live coverage go
to chess.fm! (Do not put the www before chess.fm, or else you will not be
directed to the website)
We had an exciting lineup tonight of four GM’s, including
the crowd favorite, 15 year old Grandmaster, Hikaru Nakamura. Hikaru has
just recently surpassed Varuzhyn Akobian as the top rated player in the
nation under 21 years old. Other GM’s in attendance were all time NY Masters
money leader, GM Leonid Yudasin, Polish GM Alex Wojtkiewicz and Czech GM
Pavel Blatny. Pavel is always on a tight schedule, and had to take a last
round bye, as he has a plane flight at 6 am!
Participant List for 60th
NY Masters
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1. GM
Leonid Yudasin
2. GM Hikaru Nakamura
3. GM Alex Wojtkiewicz
4. GM Pavel Blatny
5. IM Jay Bonin
6. IM Justin Sarkar
7. IM Mikhail Zlotnikov |
8. NM
Gregory Braylovsky
9. FM Boris Privman
10. FM John McCarthy
11. NM Joan Santana
12. Qualifier – David Grasso
13. Filler – Evan Rosenberg
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Blatny,P (2563) - Bonin,J (2440) [A01]
60th New York Masters New York (3), 10.06.2003
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1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c5 3.e3 a6 4.g3 Nc6 5.Bg2 e5 6.d3 Be6 7.Nd2
Qd7 8.h3
I think this opening is called
“The Hippo”. Man, it’s so hard to pay attention to writing this report while
listening to the replay broadcast at the same time!
8…f6 9.Ne2 Nh6 10.e4 d4 11.Nc4 Bxc4 12.bxc4 b5
Bonin seems to have taken advantage of
Blatny’s strange opening, and has a space advantage all over the board.
13.cxb5 axb5 14.h4 c4
Jay continues to invade Blatny’s
territory. Jay is playing with great confidence tonight!
15.Bh3 Qd6 16.0-0 g5!?
A startling blow by Bonin, breaking apart
Blatny’s kingside, however forfeiting the right to his own king safety
should he ever want to castle kingside.
17.hxg5 fxg5 18.Bc1 Qg6 19.c3 Qh5 20.Be6 Nd8 21.Bf5 Nxf5
22.exf5 Ra6!!
Oh my! The rook is swinging to h6 and
it’s going to be all over! Bonin is going to move to 3/3….??
23.Nxd4!
A great practical decision by
Blatny and the only real move. Blatny will win a bunch of pawns for the
piece, and these pawns are always more important in the endgame.
23...Qxd1 24.Rxd1 exd4 25.dxc4 dxc3 26.cxb5 Rd6 27.Bxg5
Nb7 28.Re1+ Kf7 29.Rac1 Rd3 30.Re6 Nd6 31.b6 Rg8 32.Bh4 Rg4 33.Kg2 Rb4
Blatny has three pawns for the piece, but
its going to be very difficult to hold on to that b6 pawn. After black wins
the b pawn and white wins the c-pawn, I see a draw arising pretty soon
after.
34.Bf6 Nxf5 35.Rc6
35...Bc5??
Oh no! A terrible blunder which
loses instantly for Bonin. Better was something simple like ….Rd6, trading
the c3 pawn for the b6 pawn. It should be a draw , but black would still
have some slight wining chances. Now Bonin is toast.
36.Bxc3!
Oops. White has the TRIPLE threat
of Bxb4, Rxc5 and Rf6 check, winning the knight on f5. Black has no chance
to defend.
36…Rc4 37.b7
1-0
And now the fourth threat rears it’s
head, as one of the pawns, that white sacrificed the knight for, becomes a
queen.
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