[Event "Julian Borowski-A 4th"]
[Site "Essen"]
[Date "2002.05.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "Kortschnoj, Viktor Lvovich"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C13"]
[WhiteElo "2674"]
[BlackElo "2635"]
[Annotator "Kasimdzhanov,R"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2002.05.16"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[EventCategory "16"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 090"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.09.20"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.09.20"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
{[%evp 0,67,30,13,50,36,36,19,78,25,23,30,30,22,24,17,58,29,38,44,53,50,27,33,
44,46,31,21,61,45,24,29,50,27,93,27,58,51,79,72,89,103,121,41,58,42,71,132,127,
127,127,156,156,156,156,156,179,181,179,200,192,190,195,190,192,194,178,176,
176,176]} {This game was played in the last round, and in first 8 I lost 3 and
drew 5. Of course I felt myself obliged to try to win this game} 1. e4 e6 2. d4
d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Nbd7 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Nf3 c5 8. Bc4 Qa5+ 9.
c3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 h6 $6 $146 (11... cxd4 $142 12. Qxd4 h6 {and it is
very difficult to avoid exchanges} 13. Bh4 Rd8) (11... Rd8 12. Re5 $36 {
was played in Morozevich-Korchnoi, 2001, and black couldn't be very happy with
the openning results}) 12. Bh4 Rd8 13. Qe2 (13. Re5 $5) 13... cxd4 14. Nxd4 Bd7
15. Rad1 Kh8 (15... Rac8 $5 16. Bb3 (16. Nxe6 $6 Bxe6 17. Bxe6 fxe6 18. Qxe6+
Kh7 19. Rxd8 (19. Qxe7 $2 Rxd1 20. Rxd1 Qa4 $1 $17) 19... Rxd8 20. Qxe7 Re8 21.
Bxf6 Rxe7 22. Rxe7 Qf5 23. Rxg7+ Kh8 24. Rg6+ $11) 16... Qc5 $14) 16. Rd3 (16.
b4 Qc7 17. Bg3 (17. Nf5 $6 exf5 18. Qxe7 Ng4) 17... Qb6 18. Be5 Ba4 19. Rd3
Rac8 20. Rg3 $36) 16... Ng8 (16... Qc5 17. Rf3 Rac8 18. Bd3 $14) 17. Bg3 Rac8
18. Rf3 Bf6 19. Bd3 Qd5 $2 {a decisive mistake. During the game I thought that
black's position was already beyond repair, but Fritz7 found a chance to hang
on} (19... Ne7 20. Rxf6 $1 gxf6 21. Bh4 Kg7 22. Qf3 Ng8 23. Qg4+ Kh8 24. Re3 e5
25. Qe4 $18) (19... Bxd4 $1 20. cxd4 f6 $1 {Fritz7} 21. Qe4 f5 22. Qe2 Bc6 23.
Re3 Qd5 24. f3 Qxd4 25. Be5 Qb6 26. Bc4 $44) 20. Be4 Qxa2 21. Bb1 $1 Qd5 22.
Qd3 g6 23. Rxf6 $1 Nxf6 24. Be5 Kg7 25. Qg3 Qc5 26. Re3 Bc6 $1 {the only move.
I had forseen this position when playing 20.Be4 and wasn't sure how to proceed,
but still went for it feeling that there should besomething} 27. Bxg6 $1 (27.
Nxe6+ $2 Kh7 28. Re1 Qe7 29. Nxd8 Rxd8 $13) (27. Qf4) 27... fxg6 (27... Qe7 28.
Bc2+ Kf8 29. Qf4 Nd5 30. Qxh6+ Ke8 31. Rg3 $18 {and black is completely
helpless} Kd7 32. Nxe6 $1 Qxe6 33. Bf5 $1 Qxf5 34. Qd6+ Ke8 35. Rg8#) 28. Bxf6+
Kh7 (28... Kxf6 29. Rxe6+ Kf7 30. Qxg6+ Kf8 31. Rf6+) 29. Bxd8 Rxd8 30. Rxe6
Qg5 31. Qxg5 hxg5 32. Re7+ Kh6 33. h3 Bd5 34. Nc2 $1 $18 {Here the ruler of
the black pieces said "You won" and stood up from the table. A second later I
heard, not for the first time in my life, the ominous words "But still he
can't play chess". And for all I know, he might be right.} 1-0
