The British Chess Magazine
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IM Julian Meszaros
For the final part of our look at using analogy in chess, let’s take a look at one of my
recent games from the British Championship plus a couple of game fragments from
my previous practice. Knowledge of the
ideas from these older games helped me
to a good win against one of England’s top
players.
G J Meszaros
O SK Williams
Torquay, 2013
Dutch D02
[Meszaros]
1 d4 d5 2 f3 c6 3 c3 e6 4 bd2 f5
In my opinion the Stonewall is very risky
against the queen’s pawn openings, especially
against the London System.
5 e5 f6 6 df3 e7 7 f4 0–0 8 e3 c5
Black decides to play on the queenside.
9 d3 bd7 10 h4
This was a hard decision: I play the Stonewall
myself with Black, and I knew that the right
plan for White was to force g2–g4. From this
point of view h2–h3 looks more logical, but
with the move played I did not give up my
dreams of attacking.
10…e8?! 11 e2 h5?
This seems like a good plan, but by the classical rules of chess (‘do not use your queen for
blockading’) it simply cannot be good.
12 0–0–0
“Alea iacta est.” The die is cast. At this moment, I
decided to play for a win.
12…c4 13 c2 ×e5 14 d×e5!
From a positional point of view this is a terrible
move, but I always teach my pupils that there
is no successful attack with an f6 knight
defending.
14…e4 15 g4!
“Eppur si muove!” (And yet it does move!)
Unexpected and effective.
Chess Coach
IM Julian Meszaros has been a professional chess coach since 1992, and currently works with both juniors and adults
in London and the surrounding area.
Widely regarded as the most successful Hungarian trainer of the past two
decades, he was head coach at the Peter Leko Chess School in Hungary before moving to England last year. Many
of Julian’s ex-students are now IMs and
GMs, and he has been the main coach of
many medallists in international competitions, including two age-group World
Junior Champions. For nearly 20 years
Julian was also the Hungarian Chess
Federation’s Junior Supervisor, leading
its junior team in dozens of world tournaments and developing the regional
and central chess school system in Hungary.
Julian speaks, translates and publishes
in several languages, and has written a
highly-regarded book on opposite-coloured bishop endings.
email: [email protected]