My best games

The following game has been played in the seventh round of the Hungarian Open Championship. My opponent was the Olympiad Champion, two times world champion-candidate GM Sax Gyula.
I had 4 points out of 6, so I wanted to play for a win!

Csonka Balázs (FM, 2277) - Sax Gyula (GM, 2463),
Zalakaros 2012.06.14.


1.d4,Nf6 2.c4,g6 3.Nc3,d5 4.cxd5,Nxd5 5.e4,Nxc3 6.bxc3,Bg7 7.Be3,0-0 8.Nf3,Nd7!?

Better is 8...c5 transposing back to the main theory. Play might continue 9.Rc1,Qa5 10.Qd2,Rd8 11.d5,e6 12.Bg5!

9.Bd3,c5 10.0-0,Qa5 (10...Qc7 11.Qd2 with the idea of Bf4 or Bg5.) 11.Qb3,Qc7!?




With this manouvre Black managed to avoid my plan with Qd2 and Bf4, kicking the Queen from her ideal square. After this move, I spent 40 minutes on calculating the lines, and I think I managed to find the best plan!

12.e5!?,e6  (What else?!) 13.h4! (First, it can look a bit strange, but you will see, black's king is in big danger!)

13...Nb6 14.Be4 (14.h5??, c4 and White can resign; 14.dxc5?!, Nd7 and White's centre will collapse) 14...c4!?

An interesting idea, closing the centre, but achieving a total contol over the d5-square. The downside is that the white queen already on c2, and can help the attack. Another idea was 14...Bd7!? 15.dxc5 (otherwise Bc6 is coming) Nd5 16.Bd4! (16.Bxd5,exd5 17.Qxd5,Bc6 18.Qd6,Qc8 with very good compensation), Bc6 17.Re1! (17...Nxc3 was a threat!) and white should be slightly better.

15.Qc2,Nd5 (15...Bd7 16.h5,Bc6 17.Ng5 with attack; after 15...Nd5 my opponent offered a draw. Of course my next move was obvious, but I spent 10 minutes on the decision. Finally I continued the battle!)      16.h5,Nxe3 17.fxe3




And White is slightly better, thanks to his very strong centre and dangerous attack. I had almost 20 minutes on my clock, but my opponet had only 4 minutes left!

17...Bd7 (17...Rb8! was better, but it's very hard to find over the board. I think everybody would hurrying exchangeing the strong bishop on e4 with Bd7-c6. The idea behind this move is to connecting the eliminate of the bishop (now, from b7) with the queenside counterplay! 18.Nh2,b5 19.Ng4,Bb7 20.h6,Bh8 21.Bxb7,Rxb7 22.Qf2,Qe7 and black can hold.

18.Nh2,gxh5? (A wrong decision in an already worse position. But also after 18...Bc6 19.Ng4,Bxe4 20.Qxe4 Black faces an unpleasent position.) 19.Bxh7,Kh8





              20.Qe2! and White is winning. 20...Bxe5 

A "desperado-sacrifice", made with only seconds on the clock. 20...Kxh7 21.Qxh5,Kg8 22.Ng4,f5 [otherwise 23.Nf6 coming with mating attack. 22...f6 leads to same] 23.exf6,Be8 24.Qg5 with winning attack.

21.dxe5? 

Missing the simple winning with 21.Qxh5!,Bxh2 22.Kh1,Kg7 23.Qg5!,Kxh7 24.Rf6 and the mate is unavoidable. Somehow I missed the very simple 24.Rf6 :) Although, the rest was not so hard.

21...Qxe5 22.Nf3 (22.Bc2 winning as well), Qg7 (22...Qxc3? 23.Ng5!) 23.Be4,Rac8 24.Rad1 (I could  take on b7, but I didn't want to allow any counterplay.) Ba4 25.Rd4,f5 26.Bc2,Be8 27.Rh4,b5   28.Nd4,Rf6





29.Nxe6!? (Trying to exchanging more pieces, but 29.e4! was even stronger!) 29...Rxe6 30.Bxf5,Rcc6 31.Bxe6,Rxe6 32.Qf3,Kg8




33.Re4! (Exchanging the last dangerous piece, with the help of a small trick.) 33...Rxe4 (33...Bc6 34.Qf8! is the trick) 34.Qxe4,Qd7 35.Qe5,Bg6 36.Qg5,Kh7 37.Rf6,Qd3 38.Re6 and Black resigned. 1-0














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