[Event "Jane Addams Memorial"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2020.01.18"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Zherebukh, Yaroslav"]
[Black "Odasso, Gianluca"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "2615"]
[BlackElo "1787"]
[Annotator "Bill Brock"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2020.01.18"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qa5 7. Bd2 Qa4 {
Chicagoans remember Yury Shulman using this weapon to knock Hikaru Nakamura
out of the 2010 U.S. Championshp.} 8. Rb1 c4 9. Qc1 Nc6 10. Be2 b6 11. Nh3 Bb7
12. O-O O-O-O 13. Ng5 Rf8 14. Bh5 Nd8 15. f4 h6 16. Nf3 Ne7 17. Rb4 Qd7 18. a4
Ndc6 19. Rb1 f5 20. exf6 gxf6 21. Nh4 f5 22. Qe1 Kb8 23. Bc1 Rh7 24. Ba3 Ka8
25. a5 bxa5 26. Rf3 Rg8 27. Re3 Bc8 28. Qe2 Rhg7 29. Re1 Nd8 30. g3 {White has
a small but pleasant edge.} Nec6 31. Kf1 Nb8 32. Bf3 Qc6 33. Bg2 Na6 34. Qh5
{Odasso thought that this is where GM Zherebukh went off track.} Qa4 {
The fixed central pawn structure disconnects sections of the board: the White
queen wants to attack the Black king on the queenside via the kingside, white
the Black queen wants to attack White's kingside king via the queenside. Weird!
} 35. Bd6 Qxc2 36. R1e2 Qd1+ ({Stockfish prefers the less commital} 36... Qb1+
{, which leaves oven the possibility of an orderly retreat. But Odasso goes
all in.}) 37. Kf2 Rb7 {Even if this move loses, it has to be right.} 38.
Nxf5 Rb1 39. Ne7 ({And now Stockfish claims White is better after the
inhuman} 39. Nxh6) 39... Qg1+ 40. Kf3 e5 {Beautiful! Everything else
loses.} 41. Nxc8 Rf1+ 42. Bxf1 Qxf1+ 43. Rf2 e4+ 44. Rxe4 dxe4+ 45. Kxe4 (
45. Ke3 Qd3#) 45... Qxf2 ({The win is there after} 45... Qd3+ 46. Kd5 (
46. Ke5 Qe3+ {mates}) {but it might be beyond the power of most amateurs.
Black's surest kill is the problemlike} 46... Nb7 {it's counterintuitive to
allow White's fleeing king access to c6 and e6.} ({Fortunately for mere
mortals, the more pedestrian} 46... Qxc3 {probably wins, too.}) 47. Ne7 (47.
Re2 Rd8 48. Re7 Qb1 49. Qg4 a4 {is crushing.}) 47... Rd8 48. Nf5 Nb4+
49. cxb4 c3) 46. Qd5+ {With this move, Yaro restores the "natural order."
Not your typical grandmaster victory!} Nb7 47. Qxg8 Qg2+ 48. Ke3 Nxd6 49. Nb6+
0-1
