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Jeroen Piket vs Jun Xu
Moscow Olympiad (1994), Moscow RUS, rd 11, Dec-12
Slav Defense: Modern Line (D11)  ·  1-0

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Apr-29-04  J.A. Topfke: White’s control of c6 retards Black’s development. For instance, 11…Bd7? 12.Qf3 Bxb5 (12…Ra7 13.c6) 13.Qxa8 or 11…Nbd7? 12.c6, so Black must forego castling with 11…Kf8. Later Piket’s 14.Qa4 serves the same purpose of adding more pressure to c6 while making it difficult for Xu Jun to bring his pieces into play.

Xu Jun sets a small trap with 17…Na7, because if 18.Qxa5?! then 18…Qxa5 19.Rxa5 Nxb5 20.Rxb5 Bc6.

19…f5 concedes a big hole on e5, but what else? White was threatening to push 20.e4.

21.Bxd5 exd5 22.Nf4 not only trades off Black’s most active piece, but also creates a double threat against d5 and the fork of the king and queen on e6. However, after 22…Qc8 it is inaccurate to take the pawn right away: 23.Nxd5?! Nxe5 24.dxe5 Bxd5 25.exf6 gxf6.

25.e6! with the idea of Be5-d6.

With 25…Rg8 Xu Jun breaks the pin on the g-pawn and threatens to remove the defender of e6 with 26…g5, but Piket didn’t need to react with 26.h4?! because he could have followed the plan to swing his queen to the kingside in a V-pattern with 26.Qd1 Qe8 (26…g5 27.Qh5) 27.Be5 g5 28.Nh5 followed by Nf6.

26…Ng6? was a mistake, but Black didn’t see the spectacular 27.c6!. Clearance sacrifice, but clearance for what? The a3-f8 diagonal! 27…Bxc6 28.Rxa5!

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