Modern Chess Planning
On Creta I had a chance to meet and talk to many Grandmasters. Andrei Volokitin, member of the Ukranian national team, is one of the authors of “Perfect Your Chess” that I praised so much. He prefered to give more writing credit to his coach IM Vladimir Grabinsky.
Turkish player GM Suat Atalik and coach GM Predrag Nikolic were particularly friendly and we chatted almost every day. GM Efstratios Grivas was Turkish captain and someone pointed out that I should take a look at his books.
From the list of seven Grivas’ book I decided to take a look at “Modern Chess Planning”
Here is one sample, try to solve it. White is to move:
Judgement: White has the advantage, as he has two (good) minor pieces against a (quite passive) rook. Unfortunately for Black, his extra pawn is of no importance, as it is isolated, weak and blockaded. Moreover, Black’s e-pawns are more like weaknesses, as are his b- and g-pawns. Some attention must be paid to the white king’s position, as its central presence offers Black some chances for counterplay.
Planning - Choose one of the following three plans:
A: I should attack the e-pawns, starting with the one on e5. This can be done by manoeuvring my minor pieces (by Bf1 and Nd2-c4) towards that target and also involving my queen via b5 or c3. Black will not be able to defend this weakness, which will eventually drop. Then I would go after the e6-pawn.
B: I should exchange my a5-pawn for Black’s on b7. Then my a3-pawn will become passed, giving me an easy win. I can do that by playing Bf1-b5 and then a6. After the pawn exchange I shall play Bd3 and advance my a-pawn.
C: I am sure that I would like to exchange queens at a favourable moment and then proceed with all my forces against the opponent’s b-pawn. But Black would never accept this trade, so I must force it by attacking the black king. By manoeuvring my pieces against the black g6-pawn (Ng5, Bf1-d3 and Qe4) I would be able either to exchange queens and easily win the endgame or deliver checkmate.
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pascal said,
Wrote on November 21, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
i want to learn some early offenses in chess
vipiu said,
Wrote on November 28, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
I would go for plan B…as I like the central N position…helping a lot in defence and ready to attack…I would go for it as it is safer, the R will not become very active and it is logical that white B is not very active now
So ? What is the correct solution ?
Goran Urosevic said,
Wrote on November 28, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
Solution given by GM Grivas:
Exchanging queens will allow White to include
his king in the proceedings. However, Black
will not readily agree to that, so White has to
force him. Plan A (3 points) doesn’t do much,
as Black can defend with …Rc5 and/or sometimes
obtain counterplay with …e4. Plan B (8
points) also looks excellent, but Black might
get some counterplay after 47 Bf1 Rc1 48 Bb5
Rg1. The correct plan is C (20 points).
The game continued:
47 Ng5! Qd7
Or 47…Rc3+ 48 Kd2 Rc2+ 49 Kd3 e4+ 50
Nxe4.
48 Bf1!?
48 Nxe6+ Rxe6 49 Bxe6 Qxe6 50 Qxb7+
Kh6 51 a6 was also winning, but during the
game White was wrongly afraid of the possibility
of perpetual check after 51…Qg4.
48…Rc7
This looks like the only try, as 48…Rc1 49
Bb5 Qc8 50 Qe7+ leads to mate.
49 Bd3 Qc6 50 a4
The immediate 50 Qe4 was possible, but
White retains winning chances even in the endgame,
in case something goes wrong with his
attack.
50…Rd7 51 Qe4 Qc1+
The endgame after 51…Qxe4+ 52 Nxe4 Kf7
53 a6 bxa6 54 Bxa6 Ra7 55 Bb5 and Nd2-c4
would be a slow death.
52 Ke2 Qb2+ 53 Kf3 Qc3 54 Qxg6+ Kf8
55 Qf6+! Ke8 56 Qxe6+ Kd8
Or 56…Re7 57 Qg8+ Kd7 58 Qd5+ Ke8 59
Ne4.
57 Qg8+ Kc7
Or the beautiful 57…Ke7 58 Qf7+ Kd8 (if
58…Kd6, then 59 Ne4+) 59 Ne6+ Kc8 60
Qe8+ Rd8 61 Qxd8#.
58 Qc4+ 1-0
Mutum Prembir Singh said,
Wrote on January 22, 2008 @ 11:03 am
Please tell me in detail about Spanish League System.