[Event "TCh-FRA Top 16 GpA 2024"] [Site "Chartres FRA"] [Date "2024.05.31"] [Round "2.1"] [White "Erigaisi, Arjun"] [Black "Kunin, V."] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C41"] [WhiteElo "2761"] [BlackElo "2522"] [Annotator "Monokroussos,Dennis"] [PlyCount "55"] [GameId "501108831454"] [EventDate "2024.05.30"] [EventType "team"] [EventRounds "7"] [EventCountry "FRA"] [SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1543"] [Source "Mark Crowther"] [SourceDate "2024.06.03"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2024.06.03"] [SourceQuality "2"] [WhiteTeam "Club d'Echecs METZ Fischer"] [BlackTeam "MARSEILLE Echecs"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Qxd4 {Not as popular as recapturing with the knight, but it's probably good for some advantage while being a little less theoretically demanding.} a6 (4... Nc6 {is the most common move, with a position resembling the old main line of the Chekover Sicilian after} 5. Bb5 Bd7 6. Bxc6 Bxc6 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. Bg5 Be7 9. O-O-O {This position goes back to an 1858 Morphy-Harrwitz game (won by Black!), and is perhaps best known from an old Alekhine game that's worthwhile as an analysis exercise as there are lots of interesting mistakes to detect.} O-O 10. h4 h6 11. Nd5 hxg5 12. Nxe7+ Qxe7 13. hxg5 Nxe4 14. Rh5 Qe6 15. Rdh1 f5 16. Ne5 dxe5 17. g6 {1-0 Alekhine,A-Hoelsder Alekhine sim Amsterdam 1933}) 5. Bg5 Nc6 6. Qe3 Be7 7. Nc3 Bxg5 8. Nxg5 h6 9. Nh3 Nf6 10. Nf4 O-O $2 {White's attack is too easy, so this is a serious error.} (10... Be6 $146 {=/? followed by ...Qe7 and ...0-0-0 was the way to go.}) 11. O-O-O b5 12. f3 $16 b4 $146 (12... Ne5 {0-1 Vishnu,P (2538)-Hera,I (2611) Biel MTO op 50th 2017 (3) was a slightly better choice, but White remains clearly better, notwithstanding the eventual result.}) 13. Nce2 Ne5 14. g4 c5 $6 15. h4 $18 Qa5 $2 {Pulling the queen away from the defense isn't going to make anything better.} 16. Kb1 d5 17. g5 $1 (17. Nxd5 Nxd5 18. exd5 Nc4 19. Qf4 Na3+ 20. bxa3 bxa3 21. Ka1 $18 {is also winning, but at least here Black has a (very slight) initiative.}) 17... d4 (17... Nc4 18. Qc1) 18. Qf2 Nh7 19. gxh6 g6 {Perhaps Black thought this would buy him some time before his kingside collapsed, and he'd manage to scare up a threat or two on the queenside.} 20. Qg3 Re8 21. Rg1 Kh8 22. Nc1 $1 Bb7 23. Ncd3 {Removing the guard.} Nc6 24. Nxg6+ $1 fxg6 25. Nf4 $1 {Even better than taking on g6, which also won.} Ne5 26. Nxg6+ Nxg6 27. Qxg6 Rg8 28. Qg7+ $1 {A complete massacre. There's being a GM (Kunin), and there's being a world class GM (Erigaisi).} (28. Qg7+ $1 Rxg7 29. hxg7+ Kg8 30. Bc4+ Bd5 31. Bxd5#) 1-0