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Game of the Week August 19th, 2003 Our regular NY Masters champion, Leonid Yudasin was absent again this week as he’s busy playing a closed event in California, however he was effectively replaced by super strong Estonian GM, Jan Ehlvest. Last week’s champion, Jay Bonin, was present as usual. Bonin is coming off the NY Masters of his life, with a perfect 4/4 score, and everyone wondered…..would he be able to continue the magic this week? Participant List for 69th NY Masters
Ehlvest and Gonzales moved off to a quick 2/2 score with victories over Boris Privman and Ron Young. Now the question was…who would join them at the top. Would it be GM Alex Stripunsky or 21 year old 2210 player Yaacov Norowitz? (2) Norowitz,Y (2204) - Stripunsky,A (2660) [D00] [Click here for an interactive JavaScript board] 1.d4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Bd3 c6 4.Nd2 Bg4 5.Ne2 Nbd7 6.f3 Bh5 7.Nf4 Bg6 8.Nxg6 hxg6 9.f4
Norowitz’s favorite stonewall formation 9...e6 10.c3 Bd6 11.0-0 Qe7 12.Qe2 g5
Looks like we’ve got another action packed game ahead of us! Stripunsky BLASTS open the position of whites kingside. The f-pawn is pinned as if moved it would allow black to take on h2. 13.Nf3 g4 14.Ne5 0-0-0 15.g3 Ne4 16.Bxe4 dxe4 17.Qxg4 f5 18.Qe2 Bxe5 19.fxe5 Rh3 20.b4 Rdh8 21.Rf2 Nf8!
A fine idea by Stripunsky. He wants to attack white’s kingside, but how to do so with the knight completely out of play. He comes up with this attempt to reroute the knight via h7-g5-f3! 22.b5 cxb5 23.Qxb5 Nh7 24.Rb1 Ng5 25.Ba3
Norowitz doesn’t stand by and watch his king get brutally attacked. Instead he goes on the offensive! Both sides are attacking ferociously….who will be first?? 25...Qc7 26.Bd6 a6 27.Qa4 Nf3+
28.Kf1 Qf7
29.Qc6+!? Given the time situation (16 seconds remaining for Norowitz with a 5 second increment), this brilliant queen sacrifice to force a draw is quite impressive. However if Norowitz had more time he might have found the winning blow Rb5!, with the idea bringing another piece into the attack via c5. After this move Stripunsky would have had no defense. After the text a draw is forced and is soon agreed upon. 29...bxc6 30.Rb8+ Kd7 31.Rb7+ Kc8 32.Rb8+ 1/2-1/2
A hard fought and action packed game from these two guys. Norowitz is showing that his 2210 rating might be quite a bit low compared to his actual playing strength.
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