What's New - October 2001
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Welcome to the October update! Ruslan Scherbakov |
Marshall Gambit
OCT01/01 In the last round of the Russian Cup Valery Filippov needed to win to aspire to the overall victory. A difficult task with the black pieces, but fortunately Andrey Kharlov was also very eager to play for a win. Filippov introduced a risky novelty and found himself in a rather difficult situation but then his brave play caused the opponent to lose control over the situation.
Anti-Moscow Gambit
OCT01/02 A tough battle in the principal line. Black was skillfully finding good counter-chances but spoiled the excellent defence by moving his king to the wrong square.
OCT01/03 The early knight's jump Nf3-e5, Veselin Topalov's favourite, is a rare guest in tournament practice but perhaps White's attention was just distracted by 10. h4.
OCT01/04 This game reminds me of the interesting battle R.Scherbakov - Yagupov, St. Petersburg 1999 (RS136. where White sacrificed the piece and two pawns but then Black was almost forced to give everything back in order to quieten the position.
Meran
OCT01/05 Arthur Yussupow crushed his young opponent in this deep line, which was more popular some 20 years ago. Small wonder as nowadays youngsters rarely study the lines which are older than they are...!
OCT01/06 A very solid knight on d5 and powerful bishop on b7 can compensate such serious drawbacks as playing without castling and also without the h8-rook. Here White tried to pressurize Black's kingside by the typical rook's manoeuvre Rc1-c4-g4 but failed to achieve his goal.
OCT01/07 Glenn Flear shows an improvement in this rare line. Curiously enough, it was already indicated in his opponent's analysis but Yuri probably forgot it or just mixed something and produced a series of doubtful moves which created unnecessary problems for White...
OCT01/08 In this game White decided to check his opponent's memory in the very deep line, connected with a piece sacrifice. It looks like after the game Karpov - Anand, FIDE Wch, Lausanne (m/1) 1998 (RS34) all possible continuations were thoroughly analysed and nothing really harmful for Black has been found.
OCT01/09 Denis Yevseev found the truth in a deep line which hadn't looked too dangerous for Black since the game Akopian - Riazantsev, Dubai 2000 (RS251, but at some point he failed to find the right way.
Chebanenko System
OCT01/10 An ambitious approach to counter the Chebanenko system. The new Russian Cup holder, Valery Filippov, conclusively smashed his opponent but Black obviously had better ways to offer good resistance.