Sunday
Dec122010
Carlsen-Nakamura, According to Ken Regan
Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 12:08AM
Once again IM Ken Regan has very kindly filled in with an annotated game from the London Chess Classic. Today, we're treated to his comments on Magnus Carlsen's win over Hikaru Nakamura from round 4. Here it is - enjoy!
Reader Comments (2)
>>today both of them are "just playing chess"---what a concept!
Quote of the day :).
I thoroughly enjoyed IM Regan's excellent notes. In this Carlsen-Nakamura Dutch, however, he passes over Naka's ungainly 8 ... Nbd7?! Kasparov used to get this setup for Black via a 1 ... g6 and 2 ... Bg7 order, and his approach was ... a5, ... c6, ... Na6, and ... Bd7. Kasparov's win against Mikhail Gurevich is one of his best known games:
M. Gurevich - G. Kasparov, Reggio-Emilio 1991-92: 1 c4 g6 2 Nc3 Bg7 3 g3 e5 4 Bg2 d6 5 d3 f5 6 e3 Nf6 7 Nge2 a5 8 0-0 0-0 9 b3 c6 10 Bb2 Na6 11 Qd2 Bd7 12 Kh1 Rc8 13 Rae1 b5 14 e4 Nc5 15 cb5 cb5 16 ef5 Bxf5 17 Ne4 b4 18 Rc1 Nfxe4 19 de4 Bd7 20 Rcd1 Bb5 21 Qe3 a4 (and 0-1, 54).
Kasparov had many followers so here are a couple more nice examples of purposeful Black play (varying at moves 10 and 12)
S. Giardelli (2450) - G. Hernandez (2520) Buenos Aires 1998: 12 Rad1 Re8 13 h3 Rc8 14 Kh1 Kh8 15 f4 Nc5 16 e4 b5 17 fe5 de5 18 cb5 cb5 19 Nd5 Nxd5 20 ed5 b4 21 Rfe1 Bb5 22 Nc1 Nd7 (and 0-1, 35);
T. Markowski (2568) - K. Sasikiran (2573) Istanbul (ol) 2000: 10 Ba3 Na6 11 Rc1 Rb8 12 Bb2 Bd7 13 d4 e4 14 d5 Qe7 15 dc6 bc6 16 Qd2 Rfd8 17 Rcd1 Be8 18 Na4 Nb4 19 Nc1 c5! 20 Nc3? (20 a3) 20 ... d5 21 Nxd5 Nfxd5 22 Bxg7 Nc7 23 Bd4 Ne6 24 Ne2 a4 15 Qb2 cd4 26 ed4 ab3 27 ab3 Nd3 0-1