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Oleg Romanishin vs Vasyl Ivanchuk
Ukrainian Championship (2004), Kharkiv UKR, rd 2, Aug-26
Semi-Slav Defense: General (D43)  ·  1-0

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Sep-09-04  themindset: wow, black held onto the gambit pawn all the way through, and look what it got him.
Sep-16-04  jeffnool: great game for white
Sep-16-04  Whitehat1963: Great game for white, indeed. After 28...Rc3, I probably would have been willing to bet on the outcome. Black looks good to me. But the combination that begins with 30. Rxf8 takes away every danger convincingly. Never would have seen it.
Jan-02-21  Jambow: The rook bishop swap starting with 31... Rh4+ was the work of genius what a lesson to behold. The whole game is special but that is master class.
Jun-01-23
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  plang: White often delays the development of the queen knight in the Catalan or develops it at d2; the system used in this game with the knight at c3 is a specialty of Romanishin. In Sosonko-I.Sokolov 1995 Netherlands Championship Black had played 10..Be7 and had gone on to win; 10..c5 was new. 14..F5?! was very risky; 14..Bd5 would have been a solid alternative. In response to Romanishin's 18 e4! a better response would have been 18..fxe 19 Qe2..Rc8 20 Qxe4..Qd5 21 Rfe1 though White would have maintained a strong initiative. 29..Qc6? was a blunder; necessary was 29..Rg8 30 Bd2..Rc7 31 Bxh6!..Qc6 though White would still have had a clear edge. 35 g5?! complicated White's efforts to win; 35 Rxb4..Ra1 36 Bf4..c1(Q) 37 Bxc1..Rxc1 38 Rb7 would have quickly decided matters. Black, in turn, didn't take advantage of the opportunity presented him mistakenly opening the h-file with 35..hxg? allowing White to transfer his rook to the h-file protecting his bishop; a tougher defense would have been 35..Kh7 36 gxh..b3 37 Rb4..Ra1 38 Be3..c1(Q) (38..Rb1 39 Rb7..b2 40 Rxg7+..Kh8 41 Rb7 and Black queens too late to save his king) 39 Bxc1..Rxc1 40 hxg..Ra1 41 Rxb3..Rxa4 42 Rb7 though White should still win.

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