The British Chess Magazine
517
(a) 23…g8 24 h5 b4 25 h6 g5 26 h8+
g7 27 h6#
(b) 23…f5 24 ×g7+ h8 25 g4 b7 26
h7+ ×h7 27 g7#
f7 e7 (7…e7 8 g7#) 8 g8#.
3 ×f8 ×f8 4 ×g7+ 1–0
Now back to the main game:
XIIIIIIIIY
9-trl+-tr-mk0
9zp-+-vl-zpp0
9-+-+p+-+0
9+p+-zP-+q0
9-+p+LvLpzP0
9+-zP-zP-+-0
9PzP-+QzP-+0
9+-mKR+-tR-0
xiiiiiiiiy
20 ×g4 e8
The only move, because after 20…b7 21
×g7! ×e2 22 ×h7+ g8 23 g1+ mate is
unavoidable.
24 h5+ g8 25 h6 ×h6 26 ×h6
f8 27 g6
A winning position, but I had just 30 seconds
per move until move 40.
27…b4 28 c×b4 ×b4 29 d1 d7
29…c3 30 b×c3 c4 31 d8 ×c3+ 32 d2.
30 h5 c3 31 b×c3 b6 32 f4 a3+ 33
d2 a4 34 a1 d7+ 35 e2 c6 36
×e6+ h8 37 e8+ h7 38 g6+ h8
39 b1 b2
39…f3+ 40 ×f3 ×g6 41 h×g6 with a
hopeless position for Black.
40 e8+
1–0
21 dg1 f7 22 ×h7! ×h7 23 g6!
The point of the combination. Williams loses
his queen or gets mated.
Follow us on
www.britishchessmagazine.co.uk.
23…h8
Selected Games
GM Nigel Short
[email protected]
G L Gerzhoy
O ND Short
Canadian Open, 2013
QGD, Classical D63
[Short]
It is not pleasant, or polite, to
mention certain things, but I was confronted
by an appalling stench of cigarette smoke during this game. I had almost forgotten how distracting it can be.
1 d4 f6 2 f3 d5 3 c4 e6 4 c3 bd7
5 g5
These standard moves took me slightly by
surprise because my opponent had shown a
marked tendency towards e3 systems of late.
5…h6
I never know whether this is a good or bad
move in the Queen’s Gambit. Half the time it