| Interesting and instructive chess game in the French Defense, Rubenstein Variation consisting of an example how to respond to passive play, how to bring pieces into an attack, and how to solve a tactical problem. [Event "Turkey Bowl 2007"] [Site "?"] [Date "2007.11.17"] [Round "3"] [White "Hall, Charles"] [Black "Weiss, Jacob"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C10"] [WhiteElo "2016"] [BlackElo "1756"] [Annotator "Hall,Charles"] [PlyCount "35"] [SourceDate "2003.04.29"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bd7 {The Rubenstein. Popular among several of the kids in the area, but objectively bad in today's theory.} 5. Nf3 Bc6 6. Bd3 Nd7 7. OO Ngf6 8. Ng3 {This preserves pieces on the board and takes advantage of the phenomenon Dvoretsky describes as "the superfluous piece". The N at d7 would dearly love to get to f6, and the B at c6 makes the other use, ... c5, inconvenient. Also good are:} (8. Bg5 ) (8. Qe2) 8... Bd6 (8... Be7) 9. Re1 OO {Fritz recommended taking on g3, but that's simply asinine. The doubled Pawns are no compensation for the two Bishops.} 10. Ne5 {Black's life starts to get awfully brutish.} a6 (10... Bxe5 {This psychologically tempting exchange either forces the Knight to e8 or gets mated/loses material by force.} 11. dxe5 Nd5 12. Qh5 f5 (12... g6 13. Qh6 {is pretty close to game over. Nh5!! is threatened.}) 13. exf6 N7xf6 14. Qh4 { e6 will surely fall.}) 11. Qe2 Qc8 {Planning to defend the Pa6. Fritz is already recommending chucking it with Bb5 and trying to hold on ... |
