1/14/2022 – Robert Huebner is considered Germany’s most successful player since Emanuel Lasker. From 1971 to 1988 he constantly belonged to the world’s top 20, achieving his all-time high in 1981 when he was number 3 on the Elo list. Huebner participated in four World Championship candidates cycles and in 1980 advanced to the final where he faced Viktor Kortschnoj. In ChessBase Magazine #205 our authors comment on their personal favourite Huebner game - resulting in an exclusive collection of 16 games from 1970 to 2017. In addition, Karsten Mueller presents a selection from Huebner's best endgames. And Mihail Marin in his strategy check comes to a surprising result for himself! Here we show you an excerpt from Marin's video as well as Karsten Müller's analysis of his favourite game: Huebner-Kasparov (Dortmund 1992). We hope you enjoy it!
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"Deep in his soul he is a concrete player"
From Mihail Marin's article: "Huebner's strategic skills".
How can Robert Huebner's style of play best be described? Mihail Marin has analysed 16 games of Robert Huebner - mainly from the Interzonals from 1970 to 1979 - and in his article he sheds light on various strategic elements of his play. As usual, he precedes the analyses and training exercises with an introductory video, which states at the beginning:
"For many years I have been convinced that Robert Huebner was a strict positional player. I had maybe some subjective reasons for that. He is a science man, he is a specialist in languages, he also looks so serious, so professional over the board, so that his chess should be about something serious, I thought..."
Excerpt from Mihail Marin's video introduction (CBM #205)
Playing time of the full video in ChessBase Magazine #205: 32:34 min.
"My favourite game by Robert Huebner"
Karsten Mueller analyses Robert Huebner - Garry Kasparov (Dortmund 1992)
Defeating a reigning World Champion is always something special. Here, on top of that, Huebner manages a victory in typical Kasparov style. He relies on his chances in the kingside attack and is rewarded.
Kasparov also plays for a win as usual and wants more than
18...c4 19.Bxb4 Nxe5 20.Nxe5 Bxe5 21.Bc3 Bxc3 22.bxc3 Nc5 (Knaak in CBM 29), which should be fairly even.; Not, however, the rushed 18...Qc4? 19.Re1 Qa6 20.a5 c4 21.Nf4 Nef8 22.Bf1
19.Nd2 Ba6 Kasparov spurns the pawn and goes fully into his counterplay.
19...Nxe5!? was also strongly in question, though, e.g. 20.f4 Nd7 21.e5 Ba6 22.Rf2 Rad8
20.f4 c4 21.Kh2 Rad8 21...Nb6? 22.f5
22.Qc2?
There is no real progress on the queenside.
22.Nf3 was called and the game should balance, e.g. 22...Bf8 23.Ned4 Nxd4 24.Nxd4 Bb7 25.Nc2 b3 26.Ne3 Ba6 27.Rc1 c3 28.Rxc3 Bxf1 29.Qxf1 Qxa4 30.Bxf8 Rxf8 31.Qc1
22...Nb6 23.Rfd1 Bf8? After that Huebner's play on the kingside gets going after all.
After 23...c5! 24.Bf1 Rc8 (Huebner in CBM 29), on the other hand, it is slowed down.
24.Nf3 c3 25.Ned4
Now it's getting really uncomfortable. Huebner strengthens his initiative in the style of Kasparov, who now plays wrong under pressure:
25...Nxd4? This exchange only increases the white attacking harmony.
This and 15 other brilliant games by Robert Huebner - annotated by Martin Breutigam, Adrien Demuth, Romain Edouard, Michal Krasenkow and Viktor Moskalenko among others - can be found in the "Special" of ChessBase Magazine #205!
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