1.e4
b6
2.d4
Bb7
3.Bd3
g6
4.Nf3
Many of your opponents will settle for 4 Nf3 and this is a very sensible move. White does not attempt to annilhate Black,settling instead for simple, effective central control and steady development.
Yet Black can feel satisfied too having avoided many of White's more incisive lines of play.
Gaprindashvili drags her opponent into the swamp,where the Hippopotamus feels quite at home.
4...Bg7
5.0-0
d6
6.c3
e6!?
7.Bg5
Ne7
8.Nbd2
Nd7
Three rows - that's all Black has. White is allowed to set up his pieces more or less as he pleases and Black will react accordingly.
9.Re1
h6!
10.Bh4
0-0
11.e5
White feels that he has to go somewhere and starts the action. He should have continued to build up although it is tough to get a purchase on the elastic Black position. I give some ideas without providing a definitive assessment. [ 11.a4
a6
12.Nc4
Nf6
13.Qc2
g5
14.Bg3
Nh5
; 11.Nc4
a6
12.Qe2
Qe8
13.Rad1
d5
14.exd5
Nxd5
15.Bg3
Qe7
16.Ne3
Nxe3
17.Qxe3
c5
; 11.Qe2
a6
12.Rad1
Qe8
13.Qe3
e5
Black is pitching in all of these lines.]
11...dxe5
12.dxe5
g5
An ex-world champion never loses a sense of timing . Gaprindashvili is wily; she notices that White can be provoked.
13.Bxg5?
[ Hussan should have settled for 13.Bg3
Nf5
14.Be4
Bxe4
15.Rxe4
Nc5
16.Re2
Nxg3
17.hxg3
Qd5=
