Boris Gulko vs Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (1998)

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Boris Gulko vs Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Elista Olympiad (1998), Elista RUS, rd 12, Oct-11
Queen's Indian Defense: Petrosian Variation (E12) · 1-0

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May-25-10		plang: 4..c5 is a sideline of the Petrosian system leading to a position similar to the Benoni. The gambit 6 Nc3!? was first played in the game Plaskett-Turner at Nottingham a few months before this game. If Black had played 7..exd White would have had a powerful initiative after 8 Bxc4..dxc 9 e5..Ng8. In the earlier game Turner had played 8..d6 but White had won with a strong attack. The position after 9..Nxe4 10 Qa4..Nd6 (if 10..exd 11 Bf4!) would have been unclear. Nisipeanu's clever rook sacrifice with 12..Be7, 13..0-0 and 14..Bg5 gave him dangerous counterplay which would have been sufficient had he played 18..Rxb2+ 19 Kd1..h6 20 Rb1 (if 20 Rc1..Qa6! wins)..Qxc3 21 Rxb2..Qxb2 22 Qxc6..Qb1+ with a perpetual. Nisipeanu may have overlooked 20 b4! which returned material but took over the initiative. After 24..Qxa1 25 Rc8+..Rxc8 26 Qxc8+..Kg7 (21..h6 would have avoided this line and held out longer) 27 Qc3+ with a routine win.

Oct-26-15		Plaskett: Indeed. Turner chose 6...Bxc4 7 e4 Bxf1 8 Rxf1 d6 9 dxe6 fxe6 10 Qb3 Qc8 11 Bf4 Nc6 12 0-0-0 e5 and white got the edge by 13 Bxe5!!. But a student of mine proposed 11...Nh5!? as a possible improvement for black.

Oct-29-15		Plaskett: Here´s another adventure of mine in this line. Played Vs a twice Champion of the USSR, at a rate of 25 minutes per player, it occured in an internet tournament of 2004 Plaskett,J. - Psakhis,L. [E12] Internet WCN, 10.2004 6.Nc3 Bxc4 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Rxf1 d6 9.dxe6 fxe6 10.Qb3 Qd7 [10...Qc8 11.Bf4 Nc6 12.0-0-0 e5 13.Bxe5 dxe5 14.Ng5 Nd8 15.f4 Nd7 16.fxe5 c4 17.Qb5 Be7 18.e6 Bxg5+ 19.Qxg5 Nxe6 1-0 (35) Plaskett,J-Turner,M/Nottingham 72/453 1998 (35)] 11.e5 Ng4 12.exd6 [12.Bf4 d5] 12...Bxd6 [12...Nc6] 13.Bg5 0-0 14.Rd1 [14.0-0-0 Nc6 15.Nb5 (15.Ne4 Nd4 16.Nxd4 cxd4 17.Rxd4 Bf4+) 15...Na5 (15...Nd4 16.Nfxd4 cxd4 17.Rxd4) 16.Qa4 a6 17.Qxg4 (17.Rxd6 axb5 18.Rxd7 bxa4 19.h3) 17...Qxb5 18.Qxe6+ Kh8 19.a4 (19.Qxd6 Nc4) 19...Qxa4 (19...Qb4 20.Rxd6 Nc4) 20.Qxd6 Nb3+ 21.Kb1 Qa1+ 22.Kc2 Qa4 23.Qd3 c4 24.Qc3 Nd4+] 14...Rxf3 [14...Nc6 15.Ne4] 15.gxf3 Ne5 16.Ne4 c4 17.Qc3 Nd3+ 18.Rxd3 ... [18.Ke2 b5 (18...Be5 19.Qxc4 Nxb2 20.Rxd7 Nxc4 21.Rd8+ Kf7) 19.Rg1 Be5 20.Nf6+ Bxf6 21.Bxf6 g6 22.b3 Nf4+ 23.Ke1 Nd5 24.Qc2 Qf7 (24...Kf7 25.Ba1 Nc6 26.bxc4 bxc4 27.Rg4 Nce7) 25.Ba1 Qxf3 26.bxc4 bxc4 27.Qxc4 Nd7 28.Rg3] 18...cxd3 19.Rg1 Bxh2 [19...e5; 19...Nc6; 19...Qc7 20.Nxd6; 19...Bf8 20.Nf6+ gxf6 21.Qxf6] 20.Rg2 Qc7 [20...Qc6 21.Bf6 Qxc3+ 22.Bxc3] 21.Rxh2 Qxc3+ 22.bxc3 ... [22.Nxc3 Nd7 23.Kd2 Ne5 24.Rh3] 22...h6 23.Bf4 Nc6 24.Kd2 Rd8 25.Ke3 Kf7 26.Bg3 Rd5 [26...Na5] 27.Rh4 Ne7 28.Kd2 e5 [28...Ra5; 28...Nf5 29.Rh1] 29.Rh1 Nc6 30.f4 ... [30.c4] 30...exf4 31.Bxf4 Na5 32.Nd6+ Ke6 33.Re1+ Kd7 34.Re4 Nb3+ 35.Kd1 g5 and Black Resigned 1-0

Oct-29-15		perfidious: Twice got to play this subvariation, with both opponents choosing the normal 6.Qc2: against Jonathan Yedidia in a Boston Met League from 1982-83, I managed to survive for a draw, but in a 5-2 game with Tal in '88, the lion showed some teeth and utterly waxed me. Would submit the latter game if I could remember how old Misha smashed my position.

May-30-19		Plaskett: By the way, I tried hard to impress upon Jonathan Speelman´s second, Jonathan Tisdall, to try my gambit of 6 Nc3! Vs Timman in the final game of their 1989 Candidates Semi-Final match. Tis´ listened to my spiel down the phone but said they were grateful but Suba had some ideas in another opening. In fact Speelman was to lose the game and so the match to a nasty dummy knight sacrifice by Jan on a2. Yet he and Jan remained friends and he recently told me that when later visiting Timman´s Amsterdam home he was given a cake or some such which featured the very position of that knight sacrifice. 6 Nc3! is my idea and was first deployed in a Blitz tournament in Coventry, 1982, against Keith Arkell. I forget the moves but I won. It got it´s next outing in January 1984 when I beat Paul Littlewood with it at the Northampton Weekend Open. After 6...Bxc7 7 e4 Bxf1 8 Rxf1 he tried 8...a6. I gave away a piece but won an odd ending anyways. Lastly, in an Olympiad game vs Speelman himself, Romanishin played 8...d6 and following 9 dxe6 fxe6 10 e5?! and they agreed a draw before much longer. Afterwards Spess said that he thought 10 e5?! to be the main line and added, "I don´t know anything about the theory of this game!" He reached 4th in the world on the ratings list. But I think that remark he actually meant...

May-26-20		wordfunph: "In the penultimate round of the event Boris Gulko a great tactician who usually prefers to grind his opponents down, defeated Romania's L.D. Nisipeanu with a daring and original point-blank pawn sacrifice on move six which later resulted in Nisipeanu parting with major material in an effort to break out of his cramp. Certainly, this game represents one of the more shocking theoretical discoveries in quite a while, and may dissuade players of the Queen's Indian from using the previously accepted move order which Nisipeanu employs." - GM Michael Rohde Source: Chess Life 1998 Dec.

May-26-20		pawn to QB4: Looks like GM Rohde didn't do his homework: it was a shocking theoretical discovery in 1982.

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