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Game of the Week July 29th, 2003 We had some exciting new players in this week’s NY Masters. Along with 3 GM’s (Yudasin, Stripunsky and Ibragimov), we had reigning World Under 18 girls champion, the German IM and WGM, Elisabeth Paehtz. We also had two new female players in the competition, as Georgian WGM, Tea Lanchava-Bosboom is in town and decided to check out the action. Also joining us was new USCF Executive Board member, Beatriz Marinello. Our third and final new competitor was 23 year old Radu Murgescu, originally from Romania, but now living in Ithica, New York. Participant List for 66th NY Masters
We had some more wild action in round 2…. Stripunsky was outplaying Lanchava throughout the game, when she made a valiant attempt at a comeback, getting the position to Rook+ 2 pawns versus Rook+knight+pawn. However she couldn’t go all the way, and Stripunsky eventually picked off her pawns and scored the victory. Braylovsky looked as if he would take advantage of his first round gift victory, as he was brutally attacking Ibragimov. The game looked hopelessly lost, but Ibragimov defended in wizardly style, moving his black king all the way from d7 to g4, avoiding mate from Braylovskys queen+rook. Braylovsky shook his head and he could find no way to finish off Ibragimov, and used the queen to force perpetual check. We had all the makings of an exciting matchup on board one, as young German phenom Elisabeth Paehtz would square off against the NY Masters champion, Leonid Yudasin. (2) Paehtz,E (2467) - Yudasin,L (2692) [B96] [Click here for an interactive JavaScript board] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qc7 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.Be2 Nc6 10.Qd2 h5 11.0-0-0 Bd7 12.Kb1 0-0-0 13.Qd3 Be7 14.Nxc6 Qxc6 15.Qh3 Qc5 16.Rhf1 Kb8 17.f5
17...Qe5 A very thematic idea in this opening, as it’s nearly impossible to evict the queen from e5. Both players had used very little time up to this point, showing very strong understanding of such Sicilian structures. Now Paehtz begins a long-winded plan to kick the queen off of e5, but will this plan take too long?? 18.Bc4 Bc8 19.Bb3 Rdg8 20.Rde1 Bd8 21.Nd1 The knight will go to f2 and then to d3 to push the queen out of e5. However this leaves black with plenty of time to drum something up…21...Ba5 22.Re3 Rg5 23.Nf2 exf5 24.Nd3
24...Qd4 25.exf5 Rxf5
A tactic based on the undefended position of the white rook on e3. Unfortunately for Yudasin, he forgot to take into account the undefended position of his bishop on a5. As is usual for strong GM’s, things work out anyway, as black wins enough pawns to counteract the loss of two minor pieces for the rook. We have a long and exciting struggle up ahead, as Yudasin will try to use the pawns in the endgame, while Paehtz tries to use her pieces to attack the king in the middlegame. 26.Rxf5 Bxf5 27.Qxf5 Qxe3 28.Qxa5 Qg1+ 29.Qe1 Qxg2 30.a4 Qxh2 31.Qe7 Rc8 32.Qxf6
32...h4 33.Nf4 h3 34.Ka2 Ka8 35.Qh6 f5 36.Nxh3 f4
37.Qh7 White had a very interesting attempt at this point, of which I made the bold claim that it was completely winning. I was wrong as is often the case…. I saw that after 37.Qxd6!? Qxh3 38. Bd5, black has problems, as white is threatening Qxa6+. If black plays the blunder 38….Ka7, white wins with 39. Qe7! Rb8 40. Qc5 Ka8 41. Qb6 Qf1 42. c4. The bad news is that on move 38….black should forget about the a6 pawn, and simply defend b7 with 38….Qh7, giving black a healthy advantage.37...Rc5 38.Bd5
This move forces a draw, but most likely white had no better choice, as the knight on h3 was very unpleasantly pinned. When black captures the bishop on d5, white immediately picks up the rook with Qg8+. 38...Rxd5 39.Qg8+ Ka7 40.Qxd5 Qxh3 41.Qd4+ Ka8 42.Qxf4 1/2-1/2 An exciting, action packed game by two very fast players! They both had over 10 minutes on the clock at the end of this one!
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