May-02-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
click for larger viewI have quite a few games on my D.B. with this line and what appears to be best move 6...Qxg5 getting two minor bits for a Rook. Though White usually gets a pawn as well when Black goes the b6 and Bb7 way to pick up the a8 Knight. (Nxb6). I have Black winning the majority of the games. Only four games here (Black leads 3-1) Velimirovic is the first here to play 6.Bg5 but I have it being played by Gary Keeley at the 1984 Detroit Open. (0-1 in 30+ moves) would not be at all surprised to find an earlier one. *** |
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May-03-20
 | | Fusilli: Weird. I would assume that Velimirovic played 6.Bg5 because he bet on outplaying his opponent in the resulting unbalanced position. But it doesn't look appealing at all to me. After all, black plays this pawn structure because he obtains plenty of piece play in this line. Why wouldn't black want to have two pieces for rook? |
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May-03-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Fusilli,
<'Why wouldn't black want to have two pieces for rook?'> Before embarking on such a move as 6.Bg5 you have to talk yourself into it. You also get an uncastled King and (usually) a pawn.) add in Velimirovic (The Tal of Yugoslavia) and you are guaranteed a good fun game, which is what we have here. Also four years earlier Simic beat Velimirovic with this 4.e5 line Velimirovic vs R Simic, 1994. So Velimirovic side-stepped a Simic pet line, probably picked up some time on the clock and played chess instead of who has the best memory. *** |
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May-10-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Checked out a couple of opening books for this 6.Bg5 idea. No joy. So figured it might be in a book I do not have. I found the advert for a chess book I do not own claiming it might in there. Next week I'll start doing book reviews on books I have never read....which is about 90% of my collection. I have done this before but the new twist will be reviewing a book I do not even own. Article was shaping up nicely but got side-tracked by a super-duper unheard melody from Kapengut - Ustinov, Riga 1975 ending thus: 
click for larger viewIt's not here, I could submit it but then some horn-rimmed cold-ass will happen along and splash computer analysis all over it, (Then stroll off into the sunset thinking they have done something worthwhile.) So after sucking my readers in with 6.Bg5 and the promise of great things to come, I do not even show one game with it. Ended up inventing joke title for chess books. https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... *** |
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May-10-20
| | Fusilli: <Sally> That's quite a gem, Kapengut-Ustinov. Don't worry, you wouldn't be the first one to comment on a book you haven't read, let alone the first one to have a library with 90% of unread books! (I'll have to check my own percentage... If you read the first three pages and decided the book is not worth your time, does it count?) As for the variation, I continue to not be curious about it, lol. I'd watch the Velimirovics of this world play it any day though. |
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May-10-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Fusilli,
Three pages is good. Four pages make you an expert in that variation. Think I'll keep mentioning 6.Bg5 but never actually analyse or ever show a game with it and correct, any Velimirovic game is worth the time to go over. |
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May-11-20
| | Fusilli: <Sally Simpson> I just went over this one. Check it out: Velimirovic vs L Shamkovich, 1979 |
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May-18-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Finally got around to examining 6.Bg5 in this variation. (with help from Robert Bellin and a 1993 BCM article,) https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... Plus the 1914 match that could have prevented WWI. *** |
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Jun-13-20
 | | phileasfogg: There are a few examples of the 7.Bg5
Qxg5 line in "The Sicilian Taimanov" by
Pavlidis, p.26. Just a couple of pages, but it is something. Overall he likes black. |
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Jun-13-20
| | phileasfogg: In the main game given, Khorunzhy-Kirpikov, corr. 2014, black plays 2...e6 before playing 6...e5
and white plays 6. Bf4 before 7.Bg5, so the exchange sacrifice comes one move later (same position). |
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Kibitzing
sac: 6.Bg5