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GM Lubosh Kavelek comments on Kostenjuk-Pogonina and Kosintseva-Pgonina in his Washington Post column of Monday, June 20, 2005

http://www.washingtonpost.com

hi all,

I really enjoy these discussions about this line, I hope my question does`nt spoil this thread:
Everybody wants to play 16. ...Bxf1
(1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. O-O-O Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Qc7 11. Kb1 Be6 12. h4 Rfc8 13. h5 Qa5 14. hxg6 hxg6 15. a3 Bc4 16. Rh3 Bxf1), what about 16. ...b5?
e.g. 17.Bc4 bc4 18.g4 Rab8 with some pressure on the b-file....?

http://www.france-echecs.com/diagramme/imgboard.phpfen=1k5r/pp3npp/3rp3/1R1pq1P1...

The code is

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I have ommitted the start and end square brackets so that you can actually visualise the code. The top diagram is produced with just the same code plus a couple of square brackets.

If I have been able to work out FEN notation, I guess anybody can...

I guess it will be nice if that php code was also available at this site.....

regards,

Those that are really interested Madhacker I hope already know what the position is 

There is one advantage to not having a diagram though, that being the chance of offhand, useless and little thought out posts, would, with any luck, be greatly reduced.

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I would have inserted a diagram, the problem is, I don't know how.

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Wow!! Swiss_Dragon, this powerful new idea of Kosteniuk or her trainer GM Alexei Korotylev is really extremely unpleasant for black.    

It is not at all clear to me at the moment how Black can significantly improve, as the threats on the h file are just devastating in many lines.

I am not sure if it is a lost cause for Black just yet, but he does well and truly have his work cut out for him.

Over the coming weeks I will try to find some resources for Black. Hopefully a viable solution can be found.

In the meantime, keep hope alive.

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My topic is 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2 O-O 9. O-O-O Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Kb1 Qc7 12. h4 Rfc8 13. h5 Qa5  14. hxg6 hxg6 15. a3 15... Bc4 16. Bxc4 Rxc4.

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..and here I said that I thought that rather than 24. Qb2 as proposed, White should go in for 24. Rxe2 Qb5+  25. Qb2 Qxe2  26. c4+ Kg8  27. Qc3, saying that it looked pretty bad for Black.

TopNotch proposed 27...Qg2, which I think is probably the best move, and expressed the view that the position is not very testing for Black.  I then suggested 28. Rd7 Qxg5  29. Rxb7 Qc5  30. Kb2.  In a little conversation that TopNotch and I have been having on another thread, he did concede that the ending appears slightly favorable for White but not as bad as "pretty bad for Black" would seem to imply.

Well, shall we examine this?  Since we're down to Q+R and four or five pawns on each side, we may be able to discover Truth here.  I confess that I am not a strong enough player to know it just from looking at the position.  Once again, I am at work and without sight of the board, but I think that White has pawns a3, c2, c4, e4, f3, king b2, queen c3, rook b7; Black has pawns a7, e6, f7, g6, king g8, Queen c5, rook c8.  Objectively, all positions are either won, lost or drawn, so that about this one?  Anyone have any opinions, analysis or perhaps condemnations of my whole understanding of chess?   (It may be useful to consider, of course, whether all this really is best play after 27. Qc3.)
 
One obvious question is whether Black can draw the rook and pawn ending after  30...Qxc4  31. Qxc4 Rxc4  32. Rxa7, but to me that looks like it might be difficult.   [If no one else cares to contibute, I'll just edit this post to add what more I learn.] For example, last night a student and I looked at 32...f5, but White meets this with 33. Re7 fxe5  34. Rxe6 exf3 (34...Rd6!? occurs to me now)  35. Rf6.

We also decided that White's best reply to 30...a6 appears to be 31. a4 (and not the pointless 31. Qf6).

The eBooks were basically intended as simple guides to the annotated games, so you could easily see which game went where. I guess they could best be compared with the introductions to chapters in 'New Ideas in ...' type books.