[Event "Scheveningen"]
[Site "Scheveningen"]
[Date "1913.07.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Mieses, Jacques"]
[Black "Alekhine, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C22"]
[Annotator "Mueller, Karsten"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "1913.08.??"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1997.11.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 Be7 5. Bd2 Nf6 6. Nc3 O-O 7. O-O-O d5 8.
exd5 Nxd5 9. Qg3 Bh4 10. Qf3 Be6 11. Be3 Nxc3 12. Rxd8 Nxa2+ 13. Kb1 Raxd8 14.
Be2 Nab4 15. Nh3 Rfe8 16. Nf4 Bf5 17. Rc1 g6 18. g4 Be4 19. Qh3 Bf6 20. Bf3
Bxf3 21. Qxf3 Ne5 {An interesting moment for the assessment of Black's
positional queen sacrifice has arisen. Mieses did not dare to take the b7 pawn
as this opens an attacking road for Black's rook.} 22. Qe2 ({
But Kasparov sheds new light on this (see page 345):"According to Alekhine,} 
22. Qxb7 $5 {would have lost due to the combined attack of the f6 bishop and
the rook on the b-file. However after} Rb8 ({Hubner:} 22... Nec6 23. c3 Rb8 24.
Qxc7 Be5 25. Qd7 Red8 26. Qxd8+ Rxd8 27. cxb4 Nxb4 28. Ne2 {
and the position is equal.}) 23. Qg2 $1 {Huebner: The move} g5 {does not contri
bute to the clarification of the situation, e.g. 24.Nh5 Bh8 25.Qf1 etc. (see
lines below)} (23... Nc4 24. c3 Nxb2 (24... Na6 25. Qc6 $1 Rxb2+ 26. Ka1 Reb8
27. Qxc4 R2b5 28. Rc2) (24... Na2 25. Kxa2 Rxb2+ 26. Ka1) 25. cxb4 $1 {
So I ask the readers: How to evalute this position?}) 24. Nh5 (24. Bxa7 Nc4 25.
Bxb8 Nd2+ 26. Ka1 Rxb8 27. Nh5 Bxb2+ 28. Kxb2 Nd5+ 29. Ka3 Ra8+) 24... Bh8 25.
Qf1 (25. Rd1 Nc4 26. Qf3 Na3+ 27. bxa3 Nd3+ 28. Ka2 Rb2+) 25... Nf3 26. Qh1
Rxe3 27. fxe3 Nd2+ 28. Ka1 Kf8 29. Qg2 Nd3 30. Rd1 Bxb2+ 31. Ka2 Nc1+ 32. Rxc1
Bxc1 33. Qd5 Rb2+ 34. Ka1 Rb1+ 35. Ka2 Rb2+ {and in all cases Black draws by
perpetual check.  When you have doubts about this or another analysis in
Kasparov's work, please write. Garry welcomes all suggestions!}) 22... c5 23.
Rg1 c4 24. h4 Nd5 25. Nxd5 Rxd5 26. f4 Nd3 27. Qf3 Rb5 28. cxd3 Rxb2+ 29. Kc1
cxd3 30. Kd1 Rc8 31. g5 Rcc2 32. Ke1 Rb1+ 33. Qd1 Bc3+ 0-1

