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52...Nc4
First decisive mistake, which deprives from
the possibility to even score. Even kids now
that in the endgame it's very important to
centralize or even better activate the king.
USE THE KING!
52...Kg5 53.b6 Nd7 54.b7 Nb8 55.Kg2 Kf5
56.Kf3 Ke5 57.Ke3 Kd5 58.Kd3 Kc6+.
53.b6 Na5
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54.h4!!
I remember very well this moment, the
move was made with only 9 seconds left on
the clock! Here I started to use my extra
time but the shock was so big that I even
couldn't find the draw.
54...d5 55.Kg2 d4 56.Kf2 d3 57.Ke1
57.Ke3 Nc4.
57...Nb7
The knight has to go.
58.Kd2
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58Nc5??
The final decisive mistake, which sent me
directly to the ticket office in order to book
my flight from Khanty. Here I see the reason
in a destroyed psicological mood together
with standard thinking, which is useless in
lost or difficult positions. If I would look for
IDEA I might have found 58...Nd6!! 59.Kd3
Kh4! This is the conceptual part of the
IDEA - to activate the king. 60.f6 Kg5 61.f7
Nf7 62.b7 Ne5! and this is the tactical
foundation of the IDEA. 63.Ke4 Nd7=.
59.Ke3 Kg4 60.f6 d2 61.Ke2 Nd7 62.f7
Kf5 63.b7 Ke6 64.f8Q Kd5
Bologan go home! Lessons:
1.Having much more time againts severe
opponent's time trouble makes sence to
waist part of in order to go deepper into
calculations.
2.Any endgame is asking all the pieces to be
active including the King. This is due to a
restricted number of pieces left on the board,
so there importancy is growing up.
3.Loosing an advantage it's not necesarly yet
loosing the game. The mind flexibility
should help us to switch to a new task (make
a draw) and look for new, some times
paradoxal ideas. 1:0
Jakovenko D. : Bologan V.
Poikovsky 2013
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.e3 Nf6 5.d4
cd4 6.ed4 d5 7.cd5 Nd5 8.Qb3 Nc3 9.Bc4
Nd5 10.Bd5 e6 11.Bc6 bc6 12.00 Qd5
13.Bg5 Bg7 14.Rfc1 f6 15.Be3 Bf8 16.Nd2
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42...a5?
How can be this natural move decisive
mistake? The answer is time. Often in a
worse positions there are not many ways to
hold the defence, some times there is only
move. I think this was exactly that kind of
situation. My logic during the game was,
that I should activate at any price my pieces
especially the bishop, but beside the fact that
I am weakening my pawn and the bishop
maneuvre a6e2is quite slow, I still don't
develop the king. Instead I had a typical
pawn sacrifice in a different color positions.
42...c5 - I was thinking of giving this pawn,
only connected with the march of the king to
f5 and leaving it unprotected on c6. The
difference of the two version is huge. In case
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49.Kg7!
The king is going to queeneside.
49...Bd7 50.Ra7 Bb5 51.a4 Bc4 52.a5 Ra2
53.Kf8 Ra1 54.Ke7 Ra2 55.Kd6 Ra1
56.Kc5 Ke4 57.Ra8 Ra2 58.Bc7 Rc2
59.Re8 Kf5 60.Re5 Kf6 61.Bd8 Kf7 62.f5
Rf2 63.Bg5
Lessons:
1. It is important to feel the danger little bit
before he knocks at you door. That will
make you more concentrated and even more
prepared.
2. Activity of pieces in the minor positions
especially with the different color bishops is
very important. As well is very precious the
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In his calculations Ivan arrived to this
position, which should be an easy draw after
Kg8, since white can not improve.
45...Rd7
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In my more the 30 years chess career I first
time meet this situation when white a two
healthy (not h and a) pawns, and there is no
clear way to win. The rook on h3 is very
passive so it's clear that white has to sacrify
the pawn on g3 and to transpose into some
theoretical rook endgame with extra b pawn.
But in this case the pawn on b3 is not
advanced enough while black king is very
well placed in the center. 65.Rh4 (65.Kc3
Rc8 66.Kb4 Rb8 67.Ka3 Ra8 68.Kb2)
65...Ke5 66.g4 Ke6 67.b4 Kd5 68.Kb3 Kc6
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47...Ne3
Played after one (out of fifty) minutes left on
my clock. Before changing my mind for Ne3
I was going to play 47...Kd6 48.Ne4 Kd5.
But I didn't like 49.Ng3, so I have to place
my night on the very passive square,
assesing the position as much better for
white. What I didn't consider was the
activity of black king and the potential
weaknesses of white pawns. 49...Nh6
50.Kg2 b4 51.Kf3 Ke5 52.e4 a5 53.Ke3 Ng4
54.Kf3 Nh6 55.Nf1. The moment the knight
leaves the g3 square black has to answer
with 55...f5 ! 56.ef5 Kf5 with the easy draw.
So, one of the reasons of my mistake was
not using properly my time, second
underestimating the activity of my king in
the mentioned line and the third is coming
up ...
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48.h6+ !!
I mainly considered the forced line 48.d6
Kd6 49.h6 Nd5! This nice move completely
block my mind 50.Ne4 Ke5 51.hg7 (51.h7
Nf4) 51...Ne7 and black at list is not worse.
48...gh6
In case of 48...Nd5 49.hg7, comparing with
the previous line the knight doesn't have the
square e7 in order to stop the g pawn. And
this exactly what I blundered. So, the third
reason of my mistake was not proper
calculation, especially not considering the
all candidates moves even on the first move.
49.d6
Another brillant win in the endgame by
Laznicka against me with the little time left
on the clock.
Lessons:
1. Don't play on opponent's time. Never!
Use the time advantage to know more about
the position, explore and enjoy doing it.
Take it like a must exercise.
2. Even the game goes the way you
calculated, after each made move review
your previous calculations.
3. The moment it is difficult for you to
assess a position, or you don't like it - it's
like been in a fog, light on the bright lamp of
your brain and try to go one move, one idea
further in the position.
1:0.
Bologan V. : Nepomniachtchi I.
Poikovsky 2013
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 e6 4.e4 d5 5.Nc3 de4
6.fe4 e5 7.d5 Bc5 8.Nf3 Qd6 9.Bd3 Nbd7
10.Bd2 a5 11.Qe2 00 12.000 Re8
13.Kb1 Nh5 14.g3 Ndf6 15.Be3 Bd7
16.Rd2 Ng4 17.Bc5 Qc5 18.Nh4 Ra6
19.Re1 Kh8 20.h3 Ngf6 21.Qh2 Rb6
22.Nf3 Qe7 23.Rc2 Ng8 24.Be2 f5 25.Bd3
f4 26.g4 Ng3 27.c5 Rf6 28.g5 Rff8 29.Ne2
Ne2 30.Ree2 h6 31.Rg2 Qh7 32.h4 h5
33.Rgd2 Bg4 34.Qf2 Qg7 35.Rc3 Ne7
36.Bc2 Nc8 37.Qg2 Rd8 38.Nh2 Bd7
39.Bd3 c6 40.d6 b6 41.Ba6 bc5 42.Bc8 Bc8
43.Qf2 Bg4 44.Rc5 f3 45.Ra5 Rf4 46.Ra7
Qf8
Having a strategically winning position
during the biggest part of the game, I
sudenly realized that the last ten moves we
used for different purposes. I was hesitating,
calculating and actually doing nothing,
while Ian got rid of his bad pieces, made a
passed pawn and already started to create an
unpleasunt threats. At this moment having
also a little time left, I was very close to
loose the calm and even the game.
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47.Ng4!
Only move. I've already understood that it's
me who has to fight for the draw. It was
painful but I had to low down my ambitions
in this game. So I was lucky to find a forced
draw.
47...hg4
47...Rg4 48.Qb6! Remember this square!
48...Rg2 49.Qc7 Qg8 50.Rd1 f2 51.Qe7+.
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48.h5!!
Opening the h file allows white to create the
second front.
48...Re4??
Of course my opponent saw that after
48...g3 49.Qg3 f2 50.Rf2 Rf2 51.Qe5 Kg8
52.Qe6 Kh8 53.Qe5 the game will and to
perpetual check, but he had a lot of extra
time, while I was in the time-trouble, the
fact which definitely damaged his
objectivity.
49.hg6
I am pretty sure that my opponent
considered only the most natural 49.Qh4 the
line which coinceded with my first candidate
move 49...g3 50.Qe4 Qf5! 51.Qf5 gf5. To be
honest, during the game I thought, that I am
loosing, which likely forced me to look for
better moves, but even here white has a
handsome draw 52.Rd1 g2 53.g6 f2 54.h6
g1Q 55.Rh7 Kg8 56.Rg7=.
49...g3
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52.Ka1!! I am sure that move also escaped
from Ian's attention. 52...Qg4 53.g7! Now
the game is over.
50...Re1 51.Kc2 Qf5 52.Rd3!+ Rd7
53.Rd7 Qd7 54.Qc7 Re2 55.Kc3 Qg7
56.Qd8 Qg8 57.Qf6
Lessons:
1. Same like lesson 3 in the game with
Nepomniaschii. With the only difference
that this time I followed my advice, calm
down and found a clear way to draw.
2. Don't rush in the winning position with
much more time on the clock. Pay much of
attention to the possible and even impossible
opponent's counterchances.
3. Under severe time pressure don't give up
psycologically, continue looking for the
moves, opportunities. From my own
experience I can say, that I found many only
moves with seconds left on the clock.
1:0.
50.Qb6!
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