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There were many excellent games that could have been chosen from the Turin Olympiad to be included in this week's radio show. Here was a feast of chess with virtually all of the top players in the world on view. We have settled for an entertaining and balenced slection.
We kick off with a triumph of home preparation. Check out Aronian's 11 Nf7!! which demolished Navara at a stroke!
Aronian,L (2756) - Navara,D (2658) [E17]
37th Olympiad Turin ITA (11), 02.06.2006
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nc3 Ne4 7.Bd2 f5 8.Qc2
Bf6 9.Ne5 d5 10.cxd5 Nxc3 11.Nf7!!
Nielsen-Kamsky is a 4...a6 Slav, particulalry interesting to me as I spent half of last week talking about this line in Hamburg.
Nielsen,PH (2646) - Kamsky,G (2671) [D15]
37th Olympiad Turin ITA (8), 29.05.2006
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 5.c5
The last move, 5.c5, introduces a critical variation.
Is the Petroff (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6) dull. Not in the hands of Bologan and Charbonneau, who provide us with an uncompromising battle:
Bologan,V (2666) - Charbonneau,P (2510) [C42]
37th Olympiad Turin ITA (13), 04.06.2006
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Be7 7.Be3
Nc6 8.Qd2 0-0 9.0-0-0 Ne5 10.Kb1 Re8 11.h4N
Then we close with the following:
Grischuk,A (2719) - Nogueiras,J (2556) [C11]
37th Olympiad Turin ITA (12), 03.06.2006
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 Qb6 8.Na4
Qa5+ 9.c3 In this French Black elects to block with 9...c4!?,
a common enough move, but can this really be good?
O. Wurzburg, 1895
White to play and mate in three
You can mail your answers to andrew@andrewmartinchessacademy.com. There's a prize for the lucky winner! See you on the server at 20:30 GMT / 21:30 CET this Wednesday!
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