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hi everyone this is Grandmaster Eugene Perelstein

and today I would like to show you one of the games

which I won in a nice style

this is actually a small miniature

in the recent team tournament that I played in China

in the Beijing Mind Sports Games

so let's begin I'm white against

none other than the renowned Grandmaster

Yevgeny Svechnikov of course

everyone knows the Svechnikov

variation of the Sicilian

and this is named after him

so I decided not to taste my luck with

my luck with e 4 because after c 5 knight of three

knight c 6 we are playing the Sveshnikov

so d 4 this is what I'm talking about C d knight of 6

knight c 3 e five

D6 so this is the main line

and my

my opponent is a world renowned expert in this opening

okay so that's why I decided to play D4

and as a matter of fact

a while ago I did a lecture on the exchange Slav

and I pointed out all the subtleties that

you have to know of the Bishop

G5 variation

because of black is not quite familiar with that setup

he could easily get in trouble

so let me show you what I'm talking about so d 4 d 5

c 4

c 6 and the exchange slap begins with the next move

C takes d

so a lot of people don't like these openings

as a matter of fact

they think they're kind of dry and without any

you know interesting play

so let me try to show you how this game illustrates

complete opposite so C takes d knight c 3 knight of 6

and the line that I prefer is this move

a rare move in the exchange slab bishop g five

so the key idea behind this move is to put pressure

on black and make him

decide what he wants to do

so for example he can play E6

but this closes down the c 8 bishop

if he plays knight c 6

this is by the way what my opponent played

then he allows me to ruin his pawn structure

with the move bishop takes knight

and as you are aware

this common idea of doubling up pawns

is quite common in such openings as trumpowski

and the theoretical move

night to e 4 is not as widely known

and this allows white some interesting possibilities

as I showed you earlier

such as night takes

pawn takes and this quiet looking move a 3

after which it's not so easy for black to develop

because night c 6 runs into d 5

alright but let's keep

this position in mind

and now Svashnikov plays Knight to c six

he is a very experienced grandmaster

so

he knows that even though I'm gonna double his points

the two bishops

he thinks should be enough to compensate for that

so let's see what happens

so I take of course G pawn takes

if you take with the e pawn

then the d 5 is a real problem

you really have to defend it with all your pieces

and there is really no counterplay

and really no chance to open up the position

for the bishops

where is after G takes F at least in the long term

you can go for either e five break or f 5

f 4 break

alright so I play E 3

e 6 and now the perpetual dilemma

I had a choice to play night f 3

which is a totally reasonable move or bishop to d 3

as it turns out in the game

it doesn't really matter because I played both of them

but the perpetual dilemma is

which piece do you develop first

whenever you have two moves that look about the same

and how do you pick the one that's kind of

makes more sense

and my advice to you is make the move that gives you

as many options as possible

so let's see

what triggered my decision to play Bishop d 3 first

so the idea of Bishop d 3 No. 1

I'm developing my piece No. 2

I still have an option to play Knight G to e two

besides night of 3

so notice the difference and I'm keeping my queen open

if I play night of 3 the only option

that I still have is to put my bishop on e 2

or b 5

and it's clear that d 3 is is much better square

so that's why Bishop d 3

I think is slightly superior to knight f 3

but as we see it doesn't really matter

so he plays bishop to d 6

and now I had a choice to play knight g 2

but I preferred knight to f 3 which is more active

and here my opponent plays F 5

so let's discuss this move here for a second of course

e 5 is gonna be very hard to implement

having the weakness on d 5 and castling kinda

looks dangerous if you if you look at it

because my bishop on d 3 is in the H7 point

this mobile F5 has two main ideas

number one is to totally lock down my g 3 bishop

and No. 2 is to go for this F

with the idea to ruin White's pawn structure

and try to get rid of your double pawn

so that's my next move it's quite obvious g 3

completely stopping f 4 idea

and here he plays bishop to d 7

so he kind of has

the option to keep the king in the middle

so he doesn't want to commit with castle

and I play rook to c one

the same goes for me

I wanna keep my king in the center

for a little bit at least

and make a useful move

my rook taking over the open c file

and now he castles and I castle

now of course I can try to go all out with this move

perhaps rook g 1 and g four

but with the king in the middle

and opening up the position

looks a little bit risky and furthermore if I play G4

he could always play F4 and close down the G5

so I think castling

is

is a better positional move

alright so far so good we are finishing the development

and now the last move for Spassky is

he wants to connect his rooks

and he plays queen 7 which is quite a reasonable move

so let's try to figure out the plan here for white

so we are all done with the opening stage

and now we're through to the middle game

now in the middle game we need to decide

No. 1

is how does white take advantage of the weakened pawns

and number two is

how do we perhaps take control over the queen side

maybe night a 4 night C 5 idea

now black has to be careful about his king side

because a 5 point could be a target

and if the 5 a 5 pawn goes the whole position collapses

so some ideas

for example he has to watch out for is knight h 4

queen h 5 and g four

and on the queen side

he has to pay attention to night a 4

night c 5 and possible pawn expansion with a 3 b four

so that's my next move is obvious

point to a 3 so this is kind of a prophylactic move

you may say I'm taking control of the b 4 square

shown to my opponent that I might go 94 before 95

and No. 2

I'm not quite ready to commit to either queenside

or kingside

and whenever you have an option to play on either side

and there is a useful move that you can do

this is a good position to take an example from

because really

this is what I call a quiet type of position

where even if you lose a temper or two

it might not matter

but the key here is to be able to always keep in mind

different plans and keep your options open

so black plays Rook f to c 8

in a way this is a committal move

because he takes away the rook

from protecting his king

but on the other hand he thinks to himself

well likely sooner or later

we're gonna trade everything on the C file

and the game would Peter down to a draw

well this is what he thinks

but in reality

I have a very tricky idea that I came up at the board

and let me tell you another thing

this is time control

here is game 25 + 5 second increment

so we're playing in a rapid pace

does it

is very hard to really concentrate and think for a

long time

to figure out all the nuances of this position

but I spotted this very interesting possibility

and it begins with a diversion on the Queen side

with the move night to be five

so of course

black doesn't want to part with his dark squared bishop

he plays bishop b 8 and this is exactly what I wanted

because next he has to play a 6

and now I get to win another critical time

I play knight h four

so he plays a 6

this is logical move and now after night c 3

it turns out that he is slowly getting into trouble why

well No. 1

I'm threatening to play night a four and night B6

or night C5

so he really has to take care of these dark squares

so the obvious move for him is to play D5

and this is exactly what he does again

it looks like black is doing great

because his next move is gonna be bishop to d 6

knight a 5 perhaps knight c 4

and he may actually take control over

but not until I play this move

queen h 5 and this is a really

really nasty threat from which there is no defense

or there is no easy defense I should say

because my next move

so let me actually give you

a chance to figure out what my next move is

so he plays this normal looking f 6

would I do

to bring his queen into the game with queen g 7

or queen f 7 or perhaps even bishop e 8

and now

let me give you a minute or so to try to figure out

the combination that I started with

my next move

and this is why I call this game a miniature

because this combination in this quiet looking totally

ruins black spawn structure and completely annihilates

black

so the correct move here is to sacrifice the knight

knight takes f five

so if you saw this idea when I played 95 93

it makes sense I wanted to get his bishop to be 8

and let me tell you why so he has to take

I take on d 5 with the knight okay

with two threats if his queen moves to f 7 or d 6

then I can play knight b 6

and it turns out that there is no defense

because he's gonna lose more than just

material here he's gonna lose everything

he's gonna if he plays Rook a seven

I can take on on C8 and I can take on F5

and this is simply totally winning

besides that what else can I do

well in this position

keep in mind that I can also take here

and then the ship takes F5

and again this is really bad position for him

so either way you look at it

is really really annoying

and there is no easy way to defend against it

and if she plays queen of 7

then after this exchange knight b 6 simply wins

because if he plays rook a 7

he doesn't even get to keep two pieces for the rook

because after night takes rook

he simply loses and if he moves his bishop from d 8

then I pick up a bishop on d 7 so wow

this is really interesting position

so

he has nothing better to do than to play queen to d 8

and again if I take on a five

this is playable position

but for example takes

takes because I have 3 pieces for the piece

and I'm still attacking so white is better

but not winning not winning right away

but I have a very strong move

that basically puts the game away

this quiet looking move

let's see if you can figure it out queen to h six

with a simple idea

night takes f six and of course after night takes F 6

h 7 falls and black is in total ruin

so now

this is actually an interesting position to look at

because

just take a look at the rooks a 8

c 8 the bishop on b 8

Black's pieces are all clustered on the queen side

and nobody's helping on the king side

and the idea 9 a b five to get the bishop to B 8

then have him play a 6 and b 5

to weaken up the queen side

is really a divergent technique

which is a prelude to the combination of knight x

f five

so notice how to play on the king side

first you have to kind of

weaken your opponent on the queen side

so that's why

I think this is a very interesting miniature

and now of course

the game is almost finished

because if this is not a rapid game and some

after a few moves you're gonna see what happens

so king h 8 knight X

and the only way to defend now is to play queen e 7

and the final touch is this mini combination

let's see if you can find it

I'll give you a minute or so

and the combination is quite obvious

it's there's nothing fancy here you just simply

trade the knight for the bishop

and give this check

and why is this good well

it turns out that king g 8 simply loses a queen

after bishop takes f f 5

followed by bishop C e 6 check

this is totally lost now what about

queen to G7

and this is by the way what's special about it well

queen G7 loses as well

because here I simply take on C6

and I get my piece back but not only that

I'm gonna get the pawn on f 5 as well

so white is gonna be up four pawns

that's more than enough to win

but for some reason

I thought he would resign in this position

but for some reason he plays on

probably because he thinks it's opposite color bishops

but more likely because it's a rapid

uh rapid game

and of course there's chance to blunder

so queen takes queen

rook takes queen f four

he's gonna lose the point

it's better to take towards the center

so G takes f and of course this is completely winning

I'm just gonna march my pawns and there is no defense

but let me show you just a few more moves

that black has completely no chance to make a draw here

he plays now Rook a 7 with idea to activate the rook

and I'm not afraid of that

I just simply march my king to f 3

where it's gonna support the pawns

King g 7 now simply rook e 6

King f 7 rook h 6

pointing to him that look

you still have a weakness on h 7

even though I'm up 4 points

ha ha

king g eight and simply king of 3

so this is complete domination

I'm gonna play rook g 1

and notice that the rook on a 7 has to babysit

the pawn on a 6 this is totally disaster

a little possession

and uh just a few more moves

he plays king h 8 rook g 1

notice that I can bring my rook to g 5 and h 5

among other things he plays rook d eight

and I decide to play rook 2

rook 1 to g 6

using the pin and putting pressure on the a six pawn

a 5

and now I just pick up another pawn

so I already lost count how many pawns I'm up

but it's a lot

it's probably like five or so and Rugby seven

and simply a 4 seals the deal

and he actually played on until believe it or not

move 54 55 and you can look at the full game

which is gonna be attached but for now

I think I kind of made my point to show you that

in this game it's clear that black

completely underestimated my chances on the king side

so you see even in the quietest openings

the exchange slaw it's important to always be alert

and to look for different tactics

and No. 2 notice the how black

white diverted black spaces to the queen side

with the move night b 5

and then after Bishop b 8 I played

on the on the king side and after a 6

I move knight back to c 3

what I did to play knight a 4

kinda hoping he would play b 5 and fall into this uh

combination so I hope you enjoyed this

and I'm pretty sure my opponent

Yevgeny Speshnyakov didn't enjoy this game at all

so have a great time talk to you later bye bye