| 3rd Karpov International Chess Tournament / Poikovsky, 16-24 April 2002 |
Brief grandmasters commentaries after 6th round.
| Sergey
RUBLEVSKY: Giovanni employed new idea 16...f5!? (instead of Kg7? as Martinovic played against me) with further sacrifice of the exchange. Good compensation could be achieved for Black. However, White's position was full of dynamic. I opened the position and obtained the advantage. Of course, not all was so easy. Black had no more defense after tactical 31.Qe6! gxh4 32.Rc6! |
Giovanni
VESCOVI: It was interesting game. I used new idea to sacrifice the exchange. I think, we both played well. Position was unclear. Just before the zeitnot I went wrong… |
Rublevsky,S - Vescovi,G 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.c4 Nc6 6.Nc3 g6 7.d4 Bg7 8.d5 Bxc3+ 9.bxc3 Na5 10.Nd2 e5 11.0-0 Nf6 12.f4 exf4 13.Rxf4 Nh5 14.Rf1 0-0 15.e5 dxe5 16.Ne4 f5!? [16...Kg7?] 17.Nxc5 Qd6 18.Ne6 Nxc4 19.Nxf8 Rxf8 20.Bh6 Rd8 21.Qb3 Qc5+ 22.Kh1 b6 23.Bg5 Rd7 24.Qa4 b5 25.Qa6 Qxd5 26.Rab1 Kg7 27.Rxb5 Qd3 28.Re1 h6 29.Bh4 g5 30.Rc5 Nb2 31.Qe6! gxh4 32.Rc6! h3 33.Qxh6+ Kg8 34.Rc8+ Rd8 35.Qg5+ 1-0 |
Rafael VAGANIAN: Our game was very complicated. 25…Qg4 deserved attention (instead of 25…h5). After 26.Rae1 White improved his position. I made a mistake playing 26…Nf5. White had a chance for winning, rook ending was very hard for me. Alexey lingered one time and finally I could make a draw. |
Dreev,A-Vaganian,R |
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Alexander ONISCHUK: I played a bit "impudent" in opening; from the very first moves strove to complicate the position. I guess, on 8...Bd6 White had a good retort 9.f4. After White's 9.Nge2 Black obtained the stable advantage, strange though it may seem… May be, I could win even earlier; but I missed something and the fight was a bit more long. |
Obodchuk,A-Onischuk,A |