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Mystery game #20: Black sailing along, up 3 pawns, then --- POW: Rxf7!!
Mystery game #20: Black sailing along, up 3 pawns, then --- POW: Rxf7!!
Here is the text of an interesting game. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to discuss the game's aspects, such as variations, key junctures, player strengths, setting, era, time controls, etc.
Victor Krayushkin (2117) -- Mavros Whissell (1960), Canadian Open, Kapuskasing 2004 (9). Played 2004-07-17. Time controls 40/120, SD/60. Reti / King's Indian Attack, A07.
This is another game for which the score sheet confused me when doing the database for the event on site at the time. I only had Victor's score sheet, it is in script Russian notation, the letters are large, and overlap into the space for adjacent moves! His 'e' and 'c' are virtually identical, as are his 'b' and 'f'. Actually, his handwriting is very attractive! I spent some time on it, struggled, and put it away, then got back to it recently. However, we have it now!
This striking game follows an original path in the Reti / King's Indian Attack. Black is seemingly doing well in the middle game, being up three pawns, but the next few moves, highlighted by White's fine combination, show very starkly Black's lack of piece coordination and lagging development. Black needed to get his QR into play. The move 30.Rxf7!! leads to Black giving up his Queen for two rooks; I am not sure if there was a better try to defend. White's Queen takes over the game and wipes out all of Black's material. Victor and his son Nikita, of Granby, Quebec, both played successfully in the event; and Nikita was a challenger in the B10 CYCC, which took place at Kap., just before. Nikita got his rating over 2300 a few years ago; neither Victor nor Nikita have been active in CFC chess in recent years. Mavros has long been one of the Sudbury region's best players; he is now rated over 2000.
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