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Mystery game #100: Smooth Master performance defeats 'Only correct defense to QG'!
Mystery game #100: Smooth Master performance defeats 'Only correct defense to QG'!
Here is the text of an interesting game. You can discuss the game, variations, player strengths, era, setting, format, time controls, etc. I will provide all data in a few days. Enjoy!!
NM Maher Saleh (2313) -- Emil Smilovici (2058), Kingston Open 2003 (2). Played 2003-02-01. Time controls 30/90', SD/60'. Queen's Gambit, Tarrasch Defense, D34. TD: Frank Dixon, Organizer: Rob Hutchison.
About one century ago, fierce debate raged in the chess world over the 'correctness' of various defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934), a German medical doctor, never a full-time chess professional, was one of the world's strongest players for 30+ years. He was also a popular writer and theoretician, who insisted that HIS variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5) was the 'ONLY correct defense'. It ran up against the positional plan from Akiba Rubinstein (another top world player for more than two decades), of an early exchange of pawns om d5, followed by a kingside fianchetto, and this plan enjoyed good success; it is the main line today for White. The rise of other lines in the QG for Black, notably the Slav and Semi-Slav, put the Tarrasch into partial eclipse during the 1920s and 1930s. It was partially revived in the 1960s by GMs Paul Keres and Boris Spassky, two super-GMs who loved active piece play; both used it with success. GM Garry Kasparov rode it to victories in Candidates' matches in the early 198s0; usually Kasparov was able to hold the draw against his top-class rivals. It remains an occasional choice among GMs today.
Here, in a clash between two very experienced Ottawa players, we see the Tarrasch reached through a Reverse Grunfeld move order; this is NM Saleh's favourite line. Black needs to find activity for his pieces, to counter White's patient pressure against the Black isolated pawn on d5. In this game, with the Prague Variation 9.Bg5, Black's best-scoring choice, out of a variety on move 11, seems to be 11...Qb6. Later, Black chooses to advance the isolated pawn with 15...d4. He does not get quite enough play to hold off White's eventual breakthrough, which gains force as time control approaches at move 30. This is an instructive game for the variation, well played by White.
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