Jan-Krzysztof Duda plays best game in the Bundesliga!

by Johannes Fischer
9/19/2016 – In Germany's first league, the "Bundesliga", 16 teams with eight players each play a 15-round round-robin team tournament. Now, the readers of "schachbundesliga.de", the internet portal of the "Bundesliga", voted for the best game of last season. However, voters did not have to go through all games of the season, 15 made it to the shortlist. The most votes received Jan-Krzysztof Duda's win against Grzegorz Gajewski, a fine example of the power of pawns.
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958 games were played in the season 2015/2016 (two games were forfeited because the players were ill), and the drawing percentage was below 50%. 294 games ended with a win for White, 223 with a win for Black, 441 games were drawn. Thus, the editorial board of "schachbundesliga.de had a substantial number of candidates to choose from. The 15 of the most exciting and well-played games made it to a shortlist. Then the readers were asked to vote and Jan-Krzysztof Duda was rewarded for the bold and creative play he showed against his countryman Grzegorz Gajewski.

Jan-Krzysztof Duda: at the Chess Olympiad in Baku Duda
played for Poland and scored 7.0/10 on board 2.
(Photo: schachbundesliga.de)

In the "Bundesliga" Duda plays on board one for the team of the Hamburger SK and finished the season with 4.0/7 (four wins, three losses, no draws). The following game was played in round 14, during the match Hamburg vs Dresden.

 
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Bd3 Bg4 5.Bc2 Nc6 6.d3 e6 7.Nbd2 Be7 8.h3 Bh5 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.g4 Bg6 11.Nh4 Nd7 12.Ndf3 Nde5 13.Nxe5 dxe5 14.g5 0-0-0 15.Bd2 Kb8 16.0-0-0 Ka8 17.Kb1 b5 18.Qf3 Qd7
Black provokes complications and invites the white queen pawn to snatch the pawn on f7. 19.Nxg6 hxg6?! Objectively, 19...fxg6 might have been stronger but Black did not play 18...Qd7 to follow-up with 19...fxg6. 20.Qxf7! White accepts the invitation and grabs the f-pawn. Rdf8 21.Qxg6 Bd6 With the idea to play 22...Ne7. 22.Bb3 c4 23.dxc4 Ne7 24.Qxg7 Rhg8 25.Qh6 Rh8 26.Qg7 Rhg8 27.Qh6 Rh8
With 28.Qg7 White secures the draw. But Duda had different plans. What did he play?
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Duda,J2663Gajewski,G26271–02016B50BL 1516 USV TU Dresden - Hamburger SK14.1

The shortlist:

 
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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e3 Nxc3 6.bxc3 g6 7.Qa4+ Nd7 8.h4 h5 9.Qc2 Bg7 10.a4 0-0 11.Bc4 Nb6 12.Ba2 Bf5 13.e4 Bg4 14.Ng5 a5 15.Rb1 c4 16.Ba3 Rc8 17.Rb5 Bd7 18.Rxa5 Nxa4 19.Bb4 b5 20.0-0 Qb6 21.d4 e5 22.Rb1 Rfd8 23.Rxa4 bxa4 24.Bc5 Qf6 25.Bxc4 Be8 26.Rb6 Rxc5 27.dxc5 Qe7 28.Qa2 Bf6 29.Bd5 Bxg5 30.Rxg6+ Kf8 31.Rxg5 Qxc5 32.Rf5 Qxc3 33.Bxf7 Qe1+ 34.Kh2 Qxe4 35.Bg6+ Qxf5 36.Qa3+ Kg7 37.Bxf5 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Rapport,R2649Li,C27561–02015A34BL 1516 Schwäbisch Hall - SG Solingen1.1
Gharamian,T2660Ragger,M26950–12015C77BL 1516 Schwäbisch Hall - SG Solingen1.2
Mchedlishvili,M2635Parligras,M25860–12015E08BL 1516 SG Turm Trier - Turm Emsdetten3.3
Voekler,B2354Saltaev,M24891–02016B19BL 1516 Erfurter SK - SV Mülheim Nord5.8
Carlstedt,J2453Sandipan,C25831–02016A11BL 1516 Hamburger SK - SG Solingen6.6
Rapport,R2721Aronian,L27921–02016A07BL 1516 SG Solingen - OSG Baden Baden9.2
Bluebaum,M2605Belezky,A24481–02016E14BL 1516 Werder Bremen - Bayern München10.4
Raykhman,A2421Heinemann,T24530–12016E15BL 1516 Schwäbisch Hall - Hamburger SK11.8
Powierski,E2306Haba,P24901–02016C07BL 1516 Erfurter SK - SK Norderstedt11.3
Kasimdzhanov,R2694Li,C27551–02016C42BL 1516 OSG Baden Baden - Schwäbisch H12
Zelbel,P2437Pruijssers,R24671–02016C32BL 1516 Hansa Dortmund - Turm Emsdetten12.2
Markgraf,A2510Feygin,M24711–02016C11BL 1516 SV Mülheim Nord - Werder Breme12.7
Piorun,K2657Boensch,U25531–02016B80BL 1516 USV TU Dresden - Schachfr. Berl7.5
Duda,J2663Gajewski,G26271–02016B50BL 1516 USV TU Dresden - Hamburger SK14.1
Krassowizkij,J2446Van Kampen,R26430–12016E99BL 1516 SV Griesheim - SG Solingen15.2

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Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".

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