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If you are following the World Team Championships you know that Nakamura won against Gelfand in a very nice game. There was a discussion about that game and how Nakamura played blitz and won easily. It seems to me that Nakamura knew the game Ftachnik-Cvitan which was played in 1997. Cvitan won in 26 moves by sacrificing his Queen. It was an amazing game. I saw it on one of the videos by IM Andrew Martin courtesy of Chessdoctor. In this game from the 5th round in Turkey Nakamura deviated with 20...Bf8. At this point there were also different tries such as 20...Ne8 and 20...a:b6
Here is game Gelfand-Nakamura [Event "7th World Team Championship"][Site "Bursa TUR"][Date "2010.01.09"][Round "5"][White "Gelfand,B"][Black "Nakamura,Hi"][Result "0-1"] [BlackElo "2708"] ["][WhiteElo "2761"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Nd2 Ne8 10.b4 f5 11.c5 Nf6 12.f3 f4 13.Nc4 g5 14.a4 Ng6 15.Ba3 Rf7 16.b5 dxc5 17.Bxc5 h5 18.a5 g4 19.b6 g3 20.Kh1 Bf8 21.d6 axb6 22.Bg1 Nh4 23.Re1 Nxg2 24.dxc7 Nxe1 25.Qxe1 g2+ 26.Kxg2 Rg7+ 27.Kh1 Bh3 28.Bf1 Qd3 29.Nxe5 Bxf1 30.Qxf1 Qxc3 31.Rc1 Qxe5 32.c8Q Rxc8 33.Rxc8 Qe6 0-1 The game can be seen here: http://www.chess.com/news/russia-and-usa-lead-wtc-4601 Here is the ending of the Game Ftachnik-Cvitan: (after 20.Kh1 what was played in Gelfand-Nakamura)20.... Nh7 21.d6 Qh4 22.Bg1 Bh3 23.bxc7 Bxg2+ 24. Kxg2 Qxh3+ 25.Kxh3 Ng6+ 26.Kg2 Nh4+ and mate next.

1 comment:

  1. Nice game. It made the news at many places. In 5 days, another big event, Corus 2010 starts featuring many top players.

    In the game, several analysis suggest white should have taken on g2 after the knight sac.

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