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d3. Even I can bite someone’s finger if
they put it in my mouth8.
16…Bf7 17.Rac1 e6 White’s simple plan
of invading down the file is difficult to
meet.
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file.
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31.Rc8 Nc3 32.Nxc3 dxc3 The passer is
no threat.
They do still say that, don’t they? Heard
it in a movie. Is there a qualified hipster
in the audience? I’d like a ruling.
8
Steinitz said that, bunch of years ago. Or
was it Tartakower? I forget. Anyway, it’s
funny...
18.Rc2 Be7 19.Rfc1 b5?! Gaining some
room to maneuver, but either the central
break 19...d5 or even the crude 19...Rc8
would be better.
Supplemental Game
(ChessCube.com):
20.Ne2 Clearing the decks for c-file action and also ready to sneak attack with
Nd4 and Nc6 if allowed.
White: baffoj
Black: checkmate47
(Opening:A00 - Novosibirsk Opening)
20...e5 20...Kd8 slows White down a little, but does not help in the long run.
1.Nc3 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qh4
Nf6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.e4 Qc7
8.0–0–0 b6 9.Nb5 Qd8 10.e5 Nd5
11.Nd6+ 1-0
33.Nf3 Bh5 34.Rc5 g6 35.d4 Bg4
36.Rxc3 Be6 37.Rc5 Bc4 38.e5 Bg7
39.d5 Rd8 40.d6 h6 41.a4 Be2 42.Nd4
Bd3 43.axb5 Ra8 44.h3 Ra1+ 45.Kh2
Ra2 46.Kg3 Here Robert gently laid
down his king. 1-0
1
Wikipedia informs that this is no less
than the 3rd largest city in modern Russia,
and carries the nickname “The Chicago
of Siberia”. I was born and raised in the
original.
21.Rc8+ Rxc8 22.Rxc8+ Bd8 23.Ra8 d5
24.Rxa6 d4 25.Bf2 0-0 26.Rc6 Nb6
27.Rc5 Be8 28.fxe5 fxe5 29.Rxe5 (Jesse
Cohen was on site offering free analysis
for anyone’s game. He asked me if he
could see the game and we looked at it
together. Right around here he shook his
head and said simply “Nothing more to
see here...”) Robert fights on.
2
Colorado Chess Informant, July 2012,
page 8, article “My Games at the Salute
to Bobby Fischer.”
3
I am not being sarcastic. The ultimate
bible for 1.Nc3, “Knight on the Left:
1.Nc3” by Harald Keilhack’s (English
translation of original German work,
August 2005) doesn’t even mention it.
k
4
I have my own self-published pamphlet
“The Queen Knight’s Attack for the True
Believer”, now out of print, where I cover
it. It has a worldwide print run of about 4
copies.
5
“The successful warrior leads his opponent to the Battlefield and is not led there
by him.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War, chapter on Emptiness and Fullness.
6
29...Bf6 30.Rc5 Na4 The rest of the game
is not very interesting but does serve as a
stark reminder of the power of the open
This is one of those “Rorschach moves”.
If I’d have lost, everyone would call it a
huge waste of time. But since I won, it
looks like some sort of Kramnik style super - refinement. I was tempted to give it
“!!” and claim it was the basis of my
whole strategy, rather than the nambypamby, bet-hedging, wimp out move it
really is.
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