Ivanchuk - Yusupov, Brussels 1991
Ivanchuk - Yusupov, Brussels 1991 was a game of chess in which Black won with the help of an unusual rook maneuver with a great sacrifice of material . It contains one of the most famous combinations .
The game was played in 1991 in Brussels between the 22-year-old second in the world rankings Vasyl Ivanchuk with white and the 31-year-old Artur Jussupow with black. It is the ninth game of the quarter-final match in the Candidates' tournament for the 1993 World Chess Championship . The score after eight games with a regular time limit was 4: 4 (+2 = 4 −2). Now games with a shortened reflection time of 45 minutes for 60 moves have been scheduled.
Lot
1. c2 – c4 e7 – e5 2. g2 – g3 d7 – d6 3. Bf1 – g2 g7 – g6 4. d2 – d4 With this move White steers the game over to the Fianchetto variant of the King's Indian Defense , E 67 . 4.… Nb8 – d7 5. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – g7 6. Ng1 – f3 Ng8 – f6 7. 0–0 0–0 8. Dd1 – c2 Rf8 – e8 9. Rf1 – d1 c7 – c6 10. b2– b3 Qd8 – e7 11. Bc1 – a3 e5 – e4 12. Nf3 – g5 e4 – e3 13. f2 – f4 Nd7 – f8 14. b3 – b4 Lc8 – f5 15. Qc2 – b3 h7 – h6 16. Ng5 – f3 Nf6 –G4 17. b4 – b5 g6 – g5 18. b5xc6 b7xc6 19. Nf3 – e5 g5xf4 20. Ne5xc6 Qe7 – g5 21. Ba3xd6 Nf8 – g6 22. Nc3 – d5 Qg5 – h5 23. h2 – h4 Ng6xh4 24. g3xh4 Qh5xh4 25. Nd5 – e7 + Kg8 – h8 26. Ne7xf5 Qh4 – h2 + 27. Kg1 – f1 Re8 – e6 In retrospect, Yusupov liked it better 27.… Bg7 – f6! with the possible sequence 28. Rd1 – d3 Bf6 – h4 29. Rd3xe3 Bh4 – f2 30. Re3xe8 + Ra8xe8 31. e2 – e4 Qh2 – g1 + 32. Kf1 – e2 Qg1xg2 and Black has attack. 28. Qb3 – b7? White fails to control the g6-square with 28. Nc6 – e7 !. After 28 ... 29 Te6xe7 Sf5xe7 Dh2-g3 30 K f1-g1 the game would also be in a draw by repetition of moves to end.
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Ivanchuk - Yusupov
Position after White's 28th move |
28.… Re6 – g6 !! Black poses the threat of mate 29… Qh2 – h1 + 30. Bg2xh1 Ng4 – h2 + 31. Kf1 – e1 Rg6 – g1 #, and allows the rook to capture on a8 under check. 29. Qb7xa8 + Kh8 – h7 30. Qa8 – g8 +! By giving up the queen, White finds an opportunity to conquer the rook on g6. 30.… Kh7xg8 31. Nc6 – e7 + Kg8 – h7 32. Ne7xg6 f7xg6 33. Nf5xg7 Ng4 – f2! The maneuver Ng4 – f2 – h3 with the threat Qh2 – g1 # is decisive. 34.Bd6xf4 Dh2xf4 35. Ng7 – e6 Qf4 – h2 36. Rd1 – b1 Nf2 – h3 37. Rb1 – b7 + Kh7 – g8 38. Rb7 – b8 + Dh2xb8 39. Bg2xh3 Qb8 – g3 White retired .
Follow the game
Yusupov, whose wife had given birth to a daughter a few days before the start of the match, was able to draw the second quick game and thus win the match 5.5: 4.5. In the semi-finals of the Candidates Tournament, Jussupow met Jan Timman and lost 4: 6.
The game was chosen in Schachinformator 52 by nine experts with 86 out of 90 possible points as the best of the middle third of 1991. In 1996 she was also chosen by a jury of grandmasters as the second best and by the readers of the magazine as the best of the games published since 1966.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notes based on Artur Jussupow's comments for chessbase, 1997
See also
Web links
- Ivanchuk vs Yusupov, 1991 on chessgames.com (English)