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Hello my friends. This month we have many sharp and interesting games. It looks like people have started to play more adventurously now that Spring is on its way. And speaking about beauty and drama certainly game number 2 is the cherry on the cake. Unfortunately for Luke, he was on the wrong end of the result. His king was dancing around and everything was good until one mistake at the end. There are some interesting new ideas from White, and in all the games he was trying to create an attack and played aggressively so it is good for us that we have interesting games. There is one game in the Alekhine Defence which was more positional and a couple of interesting Modern Defenses, and then, as usual, many Caro-Kanns, mostly in the Advance Variation.

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Alekhine’s, Exchange Variation 5.exd6 exd6 6.Nc3 Be7 7.Bd3 0-0 [B03]

In Durarbaily, - V - Gazik, V we have an Alekhine’s Defence, Exchange Variation with 8.Nge2:

The game followed one of the main lines and after there was a lot of maneuvering from both sides. At some point Black started counterplay with 19...f5 and later managed to gain an edge and was pushing, but White held the endgame to a draw.



Modern Defence 4.f4 a6 5.Nf3 b5 6.Bd3 Bb7 [B06]

Madaminov, M - McShane, L was in the Modern and was really spectacular. From the start it went into one of the sharpest lines and White introduced a new idea, 11.Qe1, and started his attack:

Black left the king in the centre and tried to destroy White's centre. Later the black king was casually walking around the central areas of the board. Black had an advantage but in the complications White managed to trick him and win this exciting game.

Nigmatov, O - Bernadsky, V featured the same line in the Modern, and here White found a very interesting new idea with 12.a5:

He quickly took control of the initiative and started an attack on the kingside. Black made a mistake and White managed to win easily after that.



Caro-Kann, Two Knights Variation 3...dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Qe2 [B11]

Raja, H - Oparin, G was a Caro-Kann, Two Knights Variation with 5 Qe2:

White tried to make the game more interesting with 11 Qe3 and managed to complicate it a lot. Black was forced to go into a very long forced line where it looked like he was in trouble. However, somehow he managed to escape and it finished with a perpetual check.


Advance, Short Variation 5...Ne7 6.Nbd2 h6 [B12]

Yip, C - Bok, B was a Caro-Kann, Short Variation. White tried an interesting plan with 12.Ne1 and managed to get a slightly more pleasant position.

Black managed to complicate and was doing okay until he made a big positional mistake with 33...f5 and suddenly he was just lost, and White easily converted the endgame.


Caro-Kann Advance 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 Ne7 6.Nge2 [B12]

Bogdanov, E - Chan, K was another Caro-Kann Advance Variation, but where White went for a gambit line with 6.Nge2:

soon the game went into and endgame where White had compensation for the pawn. Black was fine but he decided to go into some tactics where he missed a trick and White suddenly won.


Caro-Kann, Advance 3...c5 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Qxd4 Nc6 6.Qf4 [B12]

Ponkratov, P - Poormosavi, S was a Caro-Kann Advance Variation with 3...c5, and already after less than 10 moves it was a new position when Black went for 8...e6:

White was trying to exploit the weak dark squares on the kingside and Black was developing. It was complicated and White started to give up pawns in order to open the black king, and he managed to create a strong attack and with some nice tricks won the game.


Caro-Kann, Advance 3...c5 4.dxc5 e6 5.Qh5 [B12]

Gavrilescu, D - Ghimpu, S was in the same Caro-Kann Advance Variation, but with the very rare line 5.Qh5:

White went for quick development but black had a solid game in the centre, At some point Black decided to open the game with 14...d4 and it got complicated. White found a nice trick and managed to create a strong attack and won the game.



Till next month, Marian

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