January 5, 2010
Larry Evans, a Simultaneous Game
I tried everything to post this in some of the cool new technology available out there, but that battle got the best of me tonight. Next time I will try to provide a pgn viewer to make it easier for your benefit. On the other hand I did include some diagrams and the annotation for a game that I played with GM Larry Evans who is the only resident grandmaster in Reno NV where I currently live.
This game was played before the Far West Open at the Sands Regency in Reno 2006. GM Evans was giving a 23 board simultaneous exhibition and I didn’t want to miss an opportunity to play with the legend who befriended Bobby Fischer and was U.S. Champion five times over. Before the game I had recalled seeing a game in the Dutch Stonewall that held Larry to a draw, so I decided to use the opening for my game.
1. c4 f5 2. Nc3 e6 3. d4 Nf6 4. g3 c6 5. Bg2 d5 6. Qd3 Bd6 7. Nh3 O-O
8. O-O Bd7 9. Bf4
White’s move #7 made the game a little more interesting because I expected Nf3. For black to capture the bishop is not a good idea because that would help the knight maneuver to better squares with a threat and make time to fix the knight situation for white.
Be8 10. cxd5 cxd5 11. Rac1 a6 12. f3 Bc6 13. Rfe1 Nh5 14. Bxd6 Qxd6 15. f4
15. e4 changes the game drastically and really proves that the Bc6 will act like a pawn for most of the game. The actual move that was played in the game makes it easier for black to remain in a locked Stonewall.
Nf6 16. e3 Nbd7 17. Nf2 Ne4 18. Nfxe4 dxe4 19. Qe2 Nf6 20. Rc2 Nd5
Doubling rooks on the c-file was a better immediate idea. Blacks mentality here is to keep the locked structure and trade anything that makes a threat. If white ever plans to make any chipping moves at the queenside pawns, he would either still be forced to trade rooks or concede control of the open file. Black is looking for ways to get rid of all the pieces on the board so assume a draw.
21. a3 Qd7 22. Nxd5 Bxd5 23. Rec1 Rac8 24. Bf1 b5 25. Qd2 Bb7 26. Qb4 Rxc2 27. Rxc2 Rc8 28. Rxc8+ Qxc8 29. Qe7 Bd5 30. b4 h6 31. Qc5 Qc6 32. Kf2 Kf7 33. Ke1 g5 1/2-1/2
The final position, as well as others that led to this, show the importance of pawn structure and how to use it to formulate plans. I believe that GM Evans would have preferred a much more open game where he could try to outplay me with pieces, so my idea was to keep a very locked game. However, everything would have been quite different with 15. e4.
Chesstiger said,
January 5, 2010 at 7:29 am
I switched to blogspot.com since the platform wordpress.com doesn’t allow pgn viewers. So i suggest that you either learn to life with the fact that you cannot use pgn viewers if you decide to stay at wordpress.com. Or that you move to blogspot.com (blogger) and freely use one of the many pgn viewers available on the net.
About the game. If putting a white knight on f4 is such a good idea then i wonder why white didn’t play 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. Nf4 ?
vernonryoung said,
January 5, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Well in that case I may be looking into video for the future.
About 10. Bxd6, Qxd6 11. Nf4
The threat of moving to g5 with the knight and naturally going to f4 if it is invited (via Bxf4) is better than the immediate capture on d6. The only lessons that I ever had from a titled player were from FIDE Master Ralph Dubisch and we worked on exchange theory for a while, so I think I understand a little of why Evan’s didn’t like that trade. Dubisch always had to remind me that the pressure can stay until the perfect time to make it work for you. Now might not be a good time to alleviate pieces from the board only to get the outpost for a short time. There is a possible line …, dxc4 12. Qxc4, Bf7 13. Nd3, Nbd7 and white loses some edge.
chesstiger said,
January 6, 2010 at 2:49 pm
A way to make chess videos is show here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Majnu2006#p/u/170/3lG83-HN4Zk
vernonryoung said,
January 8, 2010 at 12:35 pm
ChessTiger, thank you very much for that link. It did help me alot and it is part of my video process. This video stuff has taken up most of my morning yesterday and same today… but I finished one and have a system for producing!!! My first video is going to post today =)
vishal said,
January 7, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Hi,
You can make pgn viewer for wordpress. I wrote about it in my blog – http://www.passionforchess.com/blog/?p=48
vernonryoung said,
January 8, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Hi Vishal! Thanks for the link. It looks a little bit technical, but I will spend some time to figure it out. I know HTML but never really learned Java Script so it should be a challenge. Thank you for offering a solution!
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