In Chess Opening: Queen’s Gambit Theory to Practice and Chess Opening: Nimzo-Indian Defense Theory to Practice, you have seen that starting with the basic theory of the respective openings discussed in Chess Opening: Control of Center – Part 3 and Chess Opening: Control of Center – Part 2, how some actual games proceeded to bring win to White as well as Black. The idea was to enable you to look carefully at the moves by the players to understand where White or Black went wrong in following the rules of chess strategy as well as chess tactics, which handed over the game to their opponents.
In continuation of the same theme for developing your comprehension about the opening theories, we now take up two games using Sicilian Defense that was discussed in Chess Opening: Control of Center – Part 1. Here also, White wins one game and Black wins the other within practically the same number of moves. None of the players may be known to you but all had ELO ratings in 2300-2600 range.
Since you have seen the first five moves of Sicilian Defense Najdorf variation in Chess Opening: Control of Center – Part 1, here we start with move 6 in both the games (ECO code: B95)
| Borek Bernard-Tomas Civin Prague, 2003 |
Leonid Milov-Robert Ruck Griesheim, 2002 |
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| 6. | Bg5 | e6 | 6. | Bg5 | e6 | |
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| Position after move 6 | Position after move 6 |
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| 7. | Qf3 | Nbd7 | 7. | Qf3 | h6 | |||||
| 8. | 0-0-0 | Qc7 | Had 5. … a6 not been played, White Knights would be able to move to b5 to harass the Black Queen. | 8. | Bh4 | Nbd7 | ||||
| 9. | Qh3 | Nc5 | 9. | 0-0-0 | Qc7 | |||||
| 10. | Bxf6 | gxf6 | 10. | Qh3 | Be7 | |
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| Position after 10 moves | Position after 10 moves |
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| You may note that White’s position is nearly identical in both games, but Black’s position looks cramped in both, though more solid in game 2. |
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| 11. | Be2 | b5 | 11. | f4 | b5 | |||||
| 12. | a3 | Rb8 | 12. | a3 | Rb8 | |||||
| 13. | b4 | Nb7 | 13. | e5 | dxe5 | |||||
| 14. | Bh5 | Nd8 | 14. | fxe5 | Nxe5 | |||||
| 15. | Rhe1 | Bd7 | 15. | Bg3 | b4 | |
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| Position after 15 moves | Position after 15 moves |
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| 16. | Nd5! | exd5 | 16. | axb4 | Rxb4 | |||||
| 17. | exd5+ | Be7 | 17. | Nf3 | Nfg4 | |||||
| 18. | Rxe7+ | Kxe7 | 18. | Qh5 | Bf6 | |||||
| 19. | Qe3+ | Ne6 | 19. | Re1 | g6 | |
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| Position after 19 moves | Position after 19 moves |
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| 20. | Bxf7 | Kxf7 | 20. | Nd5 | exd5 | |||||
| 21. | dxe6+ | Kg7 | 21. | Nxe5 | 0-0! | |||||
| 22. | Nf5+ | Kg6 | 22. | Nxg4 | Bxb2+ | |||||
| 23. | Rd5 | Resigns | White was threatening 24. Qh6# 23. … h6 24. Qg3+ Kh2 (24. … Kh5 25. Ng7#) 25. Qg7# 23. … Bxe6 24. Qh6+ Kf7 25. Qg7+ Ke8 26. Qxc7 (threatening 27. Qe7#) Bxf5 27. Qxb8+ Kf7 28. Qxh8 etc. White missed a quicker win by: 23. Qh6+ Kxf5 24. Qh5+ Ke4 (24. … Kxe6 25. Re1# or 24. … Kf4 Rd4#) 25. Qd5+ Kf4 26. Rd4# |
23. | Kd1 | Rd4+ | White Resigned. After 24. Ke2 Qxc2+ 25. Ke3 Qd2+ 26. Kf3 Bxg4+ 27. Qxg4 Rxg4 28. Kxg4 Qg5+ 29. Kf3 (29. Kh3 Qf5+ 30. Kh4 Bf6#) Qh5+ etc. with checkmate only a matter of time. |
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| The final position | The final position |
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5 Comments
no mommaent
Your post chess openin Siciilan theory to practice shows the moves for only one of the two games. What are the moves for the second game?
@Pieter Bruce
We are a bit perplexed. When we open the articles, we can see moves for both games, one along the left half of the page and the other along the right half. Is there a display problem?
[...] of Sicilian opening in Chess Opening: Control of Center – Part 1 and showed examples in Chess Opening: Sicilian Defense Theory to Practice about the kind of play that can win for White or [...]
i think bruce is right – only the prague game’s moves are displayed. i do suggest that the moves of both games are displayed side by side.
all in all, i did enjoy the presentation of the main objective in the game as i am just a beginner! do keep it up and many thanks!