Gajewski Gambit

Gajewski Gambit

As chess gambits go, the Gajewski Gambit with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0 0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0 0 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 d5!? is a relative newcomer to the game. The position after White's tenth move had been reached thousands of times with 10...c5 being universally played, before the Polish grandmaster Grzegorz Gajewski revealed recently that Black has a fascinating, almost Marshall Attack-like gambit at his disposal with 10 …d5!? The introductory game came at the 2007 Czech open, when Gajewski uncorked it against the unsuspecting Kuznetsov, in a brilliant attacking game that soon became a hot candidate for novelty of the year. It was then given the seal of approval at elite level by being taken up after this by Carlsen and Leko.

Report from the Enciclopedy of Chess Gambits:

[html] Gajewski [Spanish: Closed, Chigorin, 10.Bc2] 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Ab5 a6 4.Aa4 Cf6 5.OO Ae7 6.Te1 b5 7.Ab3 d6 8.c3 OO 9.h3 Ca5 10.Ac2 d5

[pdf] Gajewski [Spanish: Closed, Chigorin, 10.Bc2] 1.e4 e5 2.Bf3 Bc6 3.Cb5 a6 4.Ca4 Bf6 5.OO Ce7 6.De1 b5 7.Cb3 d6 8.c3 OO 9.h3 Ba5 10.Cc2 d5

Pitching a Perfect Chess Game

Lubomir Kavalek

The Huffington Post, 8/21/11

Asked to name his best game, the legendary Bobby Fischer pointed to his encounter with Donald Byrne from the Rosenwald Trophy in New York in 1956, but admitted it wasn't perfect. "There is no perfect game in chess," he said. After all, we are human and we make mistakes. But according to the Hungarian writer and International Master Tibor Karolyi, Anatoly Karpov came close to playing a mistake-free game at the 1974 chess olympiad in Nice, France, and only a tiny error deprived him of creating a perfect game. It was played when we met on the top board of the USA-USSR match. It became one of Karpov's most analyzed games.

Of the 17 games we played against each other in major competitions in the span of 13 years (photo above is from Buenos Aires in 1980), Karpov won four games, I won once and we drew 12 games. My victory came in our first encounter in Caracas 1970 and we played our last game in Hannover, Germany, in 1983.

In his prime, the former world chess champion Karpov played like the famed FC Barcelona soccer team. Beautiful one-touch passes, allowing the Barca players to keep possession of the ball most of the time, were similar to Karpov's little chess moves that would deny his opponents the control of the game. He fought for every inch and giving him space was deadly. You can feel it from Karolyi's work, published by Quality Chess. The 560-page first volume Karpov's Strategic Wins 1 - The Making of a Champion covers years 1961-1985. The 576-page second volume Karpov's Strategic Wins 2 - The Prime Years embraces years 1986-2010.

Karolyi dissects Karpov's wins thoroughly and the books examine Karpov's career in detail. It was a colossal undertaking and Karloyi spent several years studying his protagonist. He delivers a fascinating account of Karpov's skills.

When I met Karpov in Nice, he was number two rated player in the world behind Fischer; I was number 10. It was the first time he played the top Soviet board and I felt the pressure with each of his moves. Still, I was able to keep his advantage to a minimum. The game was heavily analyzed, specially the concluding stage. Experts such as Mark Dvoretsky, Mihai Marin, Alexander Motylev, Karpov himself and others tried their hands in finding a logical conclusion. Karolyi devotes some 16 pages to it, showing most of the analysis and his improvements. He claims that Karpov made only one small inaccuracy. Was he pitching a perfect game?

This is hard to say because at a critical point I missed one move that could have saved me. True, I was pressed by time, but I should have found a pretty rook pin at the end of a logical sequence. The trouble was I had to move my rook backwards.

In the book "Invisible Chess Moves," Emmanuel Neiman and Yochanan Afek talk about the problem. "Forward moves are easier to find than backward moves, "they write. "Human beings usually walk forward, they seldom walk backward and hardly ever horizontally." In chess "we learn to move pawns (always forward) and to develop pieces toward the center and in the direction of opponent's pieces. There is a general movement from the back to the front, and some players are even reluctant to go backward on principle." It is an outstanding book, originally published in French and recently brought out in English byNew In Chess.

Let's see what happened in Nice. For the first 29 moves Karpov and I fought tooth and nail and we reached the following position:

Karpov (2700) - Kavalek (2625)Nice 1974

White is better, but Black's game is solid and the bishops of opposite colors give it a drawing flavor. The only loose pawn on a6 can be protected easily. Karpov finds a way to improve his position and create winning chances.

30.h6 (Karpov is closing the kingside and fixes the pawn on h7. But how is he going to win it?) 30...Bf8(Keeping the pawn h6 under observation.) 31.Kc3 (Karolyi devotes six pages to 31.g5. The move locks the kingside completely, but it is not easy to envision how white could break through. Anyway, Karolyi shows the winning ways and concludes that white's king move is the only inaccuracy Karpov made during the entire game.) 31...fxg4 32.Bxg4 Kf7 33.Be6+ Kf6 34.Bg8 (White was able to dribble his bishop to g8, attacking the h-pawn. After 34.Kb4 a5+ 35.Kb3 Rc7 36.a3 g5 black is fine.) 34...Rc7 (Surprisingly, the computer engines suggest a pawn sacrifice as the way out. After 34...e6, for example:
a) 35.dxe6 Rh5=;
b) 35.Bxh7 exd5 36.Rg1 (36.Bg8 Bxh6! 37.Rxh6 Kg7) 36...Rxc4+ 37.Kd3 Rxf4 38.Rxg6+ Kf7 the white pieces stumble against each other.;
c) 35.Bxe6 a5 36.Kb3 Rc7 37.Ka4 Rxc4+ 38.Kxa5 white still has some chances after 38...Rxf4? 39.a4 the passed a-pawn is dangerous, but black should play 38...Be7 to keep the a-pawn in check.) 35.Bxh7 e6 36.Bg8 exd5 37.h7

37...Bg7? (A time pressure blunder. The correct 37...Rxc4+! gives black good drawing chances, for example
a) 38.Kd3 Bg7 39.h8Q?! [39.Bxd5!? would be the only try to win, but after 39...Rc5 40.Ke4 Bh8 41.Rg1 Rb5 black has some chances to hold.] 39...Bxh8 40.Rxh8 and I missed the backward rook move 40...Rc8! threatening 41...Kg7, black draws. But not 40...Kg7? 41.Bxd5 Rc5 42.Rg8+ Kh7 43.Be6 wins as I calculated, abandoning the idea.
b) Better seems 38.Kb3 Bg7 39.Bxd5 Rc8 40.Be4 threatening 41.Rg1 with some pressure.)
38.Bxd5 Bh8 39.Kd3 Kf5 40.Ke3 Re7+ 41.Kf3 a5 42.a4 Rc7 43.Be4+ Kf6 44.Rh6 Rg7(Unfortunately, 44...Kg7 45.Rxg6+ Kxh7 46.Rg1+ Kh6 47.Rh1+ Kg7 48.Rh7+ drops a rook.) 45.Kg4(Black is in zugzwang and must lose the pawn on g6.) Black resigned.

Long Live the Chess King

7/22/11

The Huffington Post

Lubomir Kavalek

Chess sometimes becomes a beautiful game even in the eyes of those who don't play it. Find a charming town, bring back its glorious past, turn people into chess pieces, invite kids and a jester and you can evoke magical moments.

Every year since 2005, the picturesque Slovak town of Banska Stiavnica stages a game of living chess. It is a powerful, almost mystical, spectacle with human chess pieces dressed into medieval costumes and armed with spears and swords. They are moving on a big chessboard to the sound of drums and trumpets.

On Saturday, July 16, they were recreating a live blindfold game I was playing against the legendary Hungarian grandmaster Lajos Portisch. The top-rated American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura became Stiavnica's king last year, defeating GM Sergei Movsesian. Who would get the royal crown this year?

Banska Stiavnica is nestled in the mountains and surrounded by beautiful lakes. Several churches and castles add to the charm of the Slovak town proclaimed by UNESCO as one of its world heritage sites. It was an important place already in the 13th century, rich in gold and silver, with 40,000 inhabitants. Only 10,000 people live there today. Many of them participated in the chess festivities.

The day of the game began with a costume parade through the town's main street to the Holy Trinity square, where most of the action took place. In the afternoon Portisch and I played simultaneous exhibitions there.

It was in January 1986 when we played a similar exhibition in Italy. Our own encounters over the chessboard go further back. We met the first time at the 1963 Zonal tournament in Halle that Portisch won ahead of Bent Larsen and Bora Ivkov. This grandmaster trio made it even to the Candidates matches. Throughout his career, Portisch was a formidable opponent to anybody and in 1981 was rated as world's number two behind Anatoly Karpov.

During the next five decades Portisch and I fought in two dozen games. He has dominated me in the world-class tournaments, but the advantage tilted slightly in my favor during chess olympiads when we faced each other on the top board. My victory in Thessaloniki in 1984 helped the U.S. team to win the bronze medals just half a point ahead of Hungary. We never played a blindfold game against each other.

Slovakia witnessed a world record in the blindfold simultaneous play in January 1921 in the town of Kosice when another Hungarian champion, Guyla Breyer (1893-1921), played 25 opponents at the same time. Breyer was an immensely talented player and theoretician. His knight leap backward (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8. c3 0-0 9.h3 Nb8) still gives fits to the proponents of the Spanish game. The defense was used by world-top players from Boris Spassky to Magnus Carlsen.

Portisch came to Banska Stiavnica not only for chess, but to give a singing performance at the closing ceremony of the International Championship of Slovakia -- part of the entire chess festival organized by Milan Maros and his team. Portisch's musical repertoire, mostly Franz Schubert's German romantic songs, fits the chess grandmaster who once famously stated that the main objective in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

When the darkness fell on Stiavnica's town square, Portisch's pieces were ready. The game could begin.
Portisch - Kavalek
Blindfold-Live chess, Banska Stiavnica,16.07.2011

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3
(In 1975 in Wijk aan Zee, I won the Leo van Kuijk prize for the most spectacular game of the tournament against Lajos Portisch and the tradition of the spectacular prizes begun. As in this game, the Samisch variation of the King's Indian defense was played and I positionally sacrificed my queen for a mere bishop and a pawn and the game was eventually drawn.)
5...Nc6
(I decided to accelerate Oscar Panno's idea to play on the queenside.)
6.Nge2 0-0 7.Bg5
(For some reason, the bishop move too far has better results than the dominant 7.Be3.)
7...a6 8.Qd2 Rb8 9.h4!?
(Portisch goes for the sharpest line. The positional answer is 9.Rc1.) 9...b5 10.0-0-0 (Larry Christiansen's 10.h5!? is preferable. The white king is pretty safe in the middle.) 10...bxc4 (The stopper 10...h5 makes it more difficult for white to ignite the attack, but in the blindfold game, with the eyes closed, you just go.) 11.h5 Nb4 (I only found out after the game that everything was played before.)

12.Ng3 (Portisch makes a stronger move. In the game Wallach-Naroditsky, Las Vegas 2008, white played 12.Nf4 c5 13.dxc5?! [After 13.hxg6 cxd4 14.Qxd4 hxg6 15.Nxg6 fxg6 16.e5 Be6 17.exf6 exf6 18.Qxd6 Qxd6 19.Rxd6 Kf7 the game is roughly equal.] 13...Qa5 14.hxg6? [14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.Bxc4 Qxc5 16.Bb3 was necessary.] 14...Nxe4?! [The talented San Francisco junior missed 14...Nxa2+! 15.Nxa2 Qxa2 and black should win.] 15.Nfd5! Rb7 16.gxh7+ [After 16.Nxe4 Nxa2+ 17.Kb1 white wins.] The rest went: 16...Kh8 17.fxe4 Nxa2+ 18.Kc2 Bd7 19.Bxc4 Nxc3 20.Nxc3 Rxb2+ 21.Kxb2 Qa4 22.Bb3 Rb8 23.Qc2 Be6 24.Rd5 Bxd5 25.exd5 dxc5 26.Rh4 c4 27.Kc1 Qa1+ 28.Kd2 cxb3 29.Qd3 Qb2+ 30.Ke3 Qxg2 31.Bf4 Rc8 32.Ne2 b2 33.Qf5 e6 34.dxe6 fxe6 35.Qxe6 Qb7 36.Be5 Rd8 37.Nf4 Qe4+ 38.Kxe4 draw.)

12...c5 (I thought I should bring as many pieces as possible on the queenside to tickle the white king. 12...d5 did not cross my mind since 13.Bh6 gives white a powerful attack; however 12...Nd3+ 13.Bxd3 cxd3 would have slowed white's advances.) 13.d5 (Lajos is playing it safe. He could have gained a clear advantage with 13.hxg6 cxd4 14.Bxf6 exf6 15.gxf7+ Rxf7 16.Qxd4.)

13...Qa5?! (Bringing the queen out seems natural, but the computer engines scream for the stunning knight sacrifice 13...Nfxd5!, for example

A. 14.Nxd5 Nxd5 15.Qxd5 (15.exd5 Rxb2 16.Qxb2 Bxb2+ 17.Kxb2 Qb6+ 18.Kc2 Bd7 and black should win.) 15...Qa5! threatening 16...Bxb2+, black has a winning attack.

B. 14.exd5 Bxc3 15.bxc3 Qa5! 16.cxb4 Rxb4 17.Qc2 black can win the queen immediately 17...Qa3+ 18.Kd2 Rb2 19.Rc1 Rxc2+ 20.Rxc2 Qb4+ 21.Ke2 (21.Ke3 f6 22.Bh6 Qe1+-+) 21...Qb1 22.Rxc4 Bb7 and black should win; or he can first bring more pieces into the attack 17...Bd7 18.Bxc4 Qa3+ 19.Kd2 Rb2 with a winning advantage.

The knight maneuver 13...Nd7! seems also strong, for example 14.Bxc4 Ne5 15.Qe2 Nxc4 16.Qxc4 a5 17.e5 h6 18.Be3 Ba6 19.Qe4 Qb6 with a massive storm.)

14.Bxc4 Nd7! (I came to this idea one move too late. The knight wants to leap into attack, creating a havoc in white's camp. "As a former King's Indian player you should have known to keep the knight on f6 to defend your king," GM Jan Plachetka told me after the game, but I felt the knight could play a more ambitious role in the game.) 15.hxg6 (At this point Lajos announced "pawn h5 to h6," but it was an obvious slip of the tongue and he quickly corrected himself with "pawn h5 takes g6.")

15...Ne5? (I should have been punished for this reckless move. I was briefly contemplating to retake with the f-pawn, but I thought I could gain a tempo by attacking the bishop. As a matter of fact 15...fxg6 was correct, for example 16.Bh6 Bxh6 17.Qxh6 Rf7 stops white's attack and after 18.a3 Qb6 white can't cash in the knight since after 19.axb4 Qxb4 20.Rd2 Qxc4 black is clearly on top.) 16.Bh6? (Lajos could have finished the game with 16.gxh7+! Kh8 17.Bh6 when black would have had to resort to some acrobatics with 17...Bf6 18.Qe2 Rd8 but after 19.Rd2 making room for the king to move to the kingside, white enjoys sufficient material advantage to win.)

The drums stopped and silence dropped on the old town square. It seemed it lasted an hour, but only a few seconds elapsed. I froze, unable to think. The drums, the applause after each move by nearly 1,000 spectators, brought my brain to halt. Didn't Lajos hang a bishop?

16...Nxc4?? (A terrible blunder. I must have been on another planet, thinking about previous misses and not paying attention to the situation on the board. It was a decisive moment and I failed to fight back with 16...fxg6 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 and white has to be careful, for example

A. 18.Qh6+ Kf7 19.Qxh7+ (19.Nf5! is good here.) 19...Ke8 white went too far, burning bridges behind him. Black has a deadly attack, for example: 20.Bb3 c4 21.Ba4+ Bd7 and black wins.

B. 18.Qe2 Qb6 or18...Bd7 with equal chances ;

C. 18.Nf5+! the best reply 18...Bxf5!? [Other moves are not great, for example 18...Rxf5 19.Qh6+ Kf7 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.Qxh7+ Ke8 22.Qg8+ Kd7 23.Qxb8 Nxc4 24.Rh8 and white wins; or 18...gxf5 19.Qh6+ Kf7 20.Qh5+ Ng6 21.Qxh7+ Ke8 22.Qxg6+ Kd8 23.a3 Qb6 24.Rd2 winning.] 19.exf5 Qb6 [19...h5 is possible] 20.Rde1 Rxf5 21.Qh6+ Kf7 22.Qxh7+ Ke8 23.Na4 Qa5 equalizing.)

17.gxh7+ (This led to a quick mate, but before we got there, lots of pieces disappeared from the live board. The spectators got their money's worth since every capture resulted in a swashbuckling duel on the live board.) 17...Kxh7 18.Bxg7+ Kg8 19.Rh8+ Kxg7 20.Qh6 mate.

"What happened to my king? Did he get killed by a sword?"
"No," they said." They only took his crown away and placed it on Portisch's head."
A new king of Banska Stiavnica was born.

Pictured below from the left: Portisch, the chief organizor Milan Maros, Kavalek.

"Congratulations, Lajos. You can smile now!"

Photo images by Marian Garai

Barclays International Chess Festival

Barclays International Chess Festival

Time	Sunday, September 4 at 5:00pm - September 11 at 4:00pm
Location	Highlands Institute Via della Scultura 15 Roma - Eur Rome, Italy
Created By	Circolo Scacchi Vitinia
More Info	Montepremi complessivo - Total Prizes : € 16.500 Enrolled Players - Giocatori già confermati GM Kaido Kulaots GM Igor Khenkin GM Aleksander Delchev GM Gawain Jones GM Tamir Nabaty GM Martyn Kravtsiv GM Yuri Solodovnichenko GM Vladimir Georgiev GM Alexandr Fier GM David Berczes GM Laszlo Gonda GM Marin Bosiocic GM Alojzije Jankovic GM Alexandre Dgebuadze GM Shanava Konstantine GM Davit Jojua GM Mickail Ivanov GM Lexy Ortega GM David Arutinian GM Vasif Durarbeyli IM Bryan Smith IM Diego Di Berardino IM Virgilio Vuelban IM Saptarshi Roy IM Somak Palit IM Suvrajit Saha IM Vaibhav Suri IM Tomescu Vlad IM Roman Chytilek IM Sam Collins IM Leon Lederman IM - WGM Tania Sachdev WGM Nazi Paikidze WGM Adriana Nikolova WGM Kruttiga Nadig WGM Sopiko Guramshvili WIM Vesna Rožič FM Alessandro Bove FM Marco Corvi FM Angelo Damia FM Alain Fayard FM Ladron Pinto de Guevara Paolo FM Mario Sibilio FM Guido Caprio FM Martin Skliba FM Filip Umanec M Marco Quimi M Davide Cappai M Marco Lantini WFM Ksenija Novak CM Fiammetta Panella CM Bruno Roberti CM Giorgio Pala CM Antonio Barletta Yulia Astanovskaya 1N Daniela Movileanu CM Rosario Lucio Ragonese CM Alessandro Almonti CM Giuseppe Andreoni CM Adolfo Colombrini CM Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli CM Marco Massironi CM Giorgio Pala CM Luca Albertini CM Stefano Bellincampi 1N Sergio Graziani Shmuel Itzhaki Adrian Montañés Arribas Ignacio Madurga Lopez CM Fabrizio Maggi CM Danilo Santivecchi CM Paolo Carola CM Marco Medori CM Savino Di Lascio PREISCRITTI OPEN B 1N Enzo Viscogliosi 1N Andrea Manfroi 1N Luigi Sipione 1N Luigi Rinaldo 2N Emanuele Baiocchi 2N Valerio Rossi NC Andrea Caputo 2N Simone Bocci 1N Tommaso Bernardini 3N Tommaso Di Nezio 3N Riccardo Buldini 3N Andrea Loreti NC Sofia Bizzarro NC Alessio Imperi Galli NC Luca Buldini 3N Girolamo Mossa 2N Placchetta Omero NC Palozza Christian NC Edoardo Di Piero 2N Massimo Carconi NC Bossi Alessandro 2N Paolo Andreozzi 1N Marco Iandolo NC Lorenzo Torricelli 1N Minikh Edouard NC Andrea Alfarano 1N Luigi Maggi NC Edoardo Di Piero 1N Tomassetti Giuseppe 1N Marco Iandolo Torneo Internazionale OPEN A September 4th - 10th 2011; 15.30 p.m. September 7th: 10 a.m. - 16.30 p.m September 11th 10am Admission: players with FIDE- or IT-rating ELO 1900 and more. Direttore di gara: AI Manlio Simonini 9 Turni sistema svizzero/9 Rounds Swiss system Cadence: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. Il giocatore che arriva alla scacchiera dopo 60 minuti dall’inizio della sessione di gioco perderà la partita. Any players who arrives at the chessboards after 60 minutes from the start of the session shall lose the game. 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RIMBORSI SPESE ASSOLUTI 1) 700 € 2) 500 € 3) 400 € 4) 350 € 5) 250 € 6) 200 € 7) 150 € 8) 100 € Premi di fascia /Prize Range( 6 premi totali) Players 1600-1799 1) 150 € +50 €* 2) 100€+50 €* 3) 75 € +50 €* Players Elo under 1600 1) 150 € +50 €* 2) 100€+50 €* 3) 75 € +50 €* Giocatori under 16 1) 100 €* 2) 75 €* 3) 50 €* * Premi in buoni libro Caissa Italia Sponsor Tecnico della manifestazione: Caissa Italia Editore Programma Domenica 4 Settembre ore 15:00 Termine Iscrizioni e sorteggio Domenica 4 Settembre ore 17:00 Primo turno Lunedì 5 Settembre ore 15.30 Secondo Turno Martedì 6 Settembre ore 15.30 Terzo Turno Mercoledì 7 Settembre ore 9:30 Quarto Turno Mercoledì' 7 Settembre ore 16:30 Quinto turno Giovedì 8 Settembre ore 15:30 Sesto Turno Venerdì 9 Settembre ore 15:30 Settimo turno Sabato 10 Settembre ore 15:30 Ottavo Turno Domenica 11 Settembre ore 10.00 Nono turno Domenica 11 Settembre ore 15.30 Premiazione Direzione di gara: AI Manlio Simonini Iscrizioni: OPEN A €65 (€55 Over 60; €45 under 18) OPEN B €55 (€45 over 60; €35 under 18) (+ 20€ dopo il 15 Agosto) Le iscrizioni vanno effettuate entro il 14 Agosto 2011 tramite bonifico bancario; eventuali iscrizioni dopo tale termine comporteranno una maggiorazione di € 20 e saranno accettate solo compatibilmente con la disponibilità di spazio e materiale. 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