World Team 06: Dutch defeat Ukraine

[Event "World Teams 2013"] [Site "Antalya TUR"] [Date "2013.12.02"] [Round "6.2"] [White "Robson, Ray"] [Black "Guseinov, Gadir"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B30"] [WhiteElo "2613"] [BlackElo "2607"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "r4rk1/3n2p1/p1n1pq2/1ppp3Q/3P1P2/P1P3bP/1P1N2P1/R1BR1BK1 b - - 0 20"] [PlyCount "36"] [EventDate "2013.11.26"] [WhiteTeam "USA"] [BlackTeam "Azerbaijan"] [BlackTeamCountry "AZE"] 20... c4 {Black's played a good came and he has a very nice position. He will recover the lost pawn by taking on f4 next move and it seems like things are going well.} 21. Nxc4 $1 {A shocker. The move is not only spectacular at sight but it is probably also the best move.} bxc4 22. Qg4 {The point is that the bishop on g3 is surprisingly trapped.} Qh4 $2 {Faced with the shock Guseinov doesn't react the best way.} (22... Bxf4 23. Bxf4 Qxf4 24. Qxe6+ Qf7 25. Qxc6 { leaves White two pawns ahead, but this position is not so easy to play as White is very passive and there are some real dark squared weaknesses. A draw might be likely.}) (22... Bh4 23. g3 Bxg3 24. Qxg3 {also gives Black plenty of compensation for the material, this time just a pawn.}) 23. Qxe6+ Kh8 24. Qxd7 (24. Qxd5 $2 Rf6 25. Qxd7 Rd8 $1 {Lands White in trouble.}) 24... Na5 25. Qxd5 Nb3 26. Rb1 Nxc1 27. Rbxc1 Bxf4 28. Bxc4 Rad8 29. Qa5 Rc8 30. Bd3 Bc7 $2 {The losing mistake.} (30... Rc6 $1 {it was imperative to protect h6 with a rook so as to free the queen to go to g3.}) 31. Qd5 g6 32. Bxg6 {Now Robson comfortably wins... he is five pawns up after all.} Kg7 33. Qh5 Qf2+ 34. Kh1 Rh8 35. Qg4 Rh4 36. Qd7+ Kxg6 37. Rf1 Rxh3+ 38. Qxh3 1-0

[Event "World Teams 2013"] [Site "Antalya TUR"] [Date "2013.12.02"] [Round "6.4"] [White "Ipatov, Alexander"] [Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A46"] [WhiteElo "2630"] [BlackElo "2793"] [PlyCount "82"] [EventDate "2013.11.26"] [WhiteTeam "Turkey"] [BlackTeam "Russia"] [WhiteTeamCountry "TUR"] [BlackTeamCountry "RUS"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 {Not the most formidable of moves, but who wants to get into a theoretical duel with a near 2800?} h6 4. Bh4 d6 5. e3 g5 6. Bg3 Nh5 {Immediately going after the dark-squared bishop is a common way of exploiting its rapid deployment. Although admittedly this is more common on King's Indian type of setups.} 7. Bd3 Bg7 8. Nbd2 Qe7 9. c3 Nd7 10. Qc2 a6 11. O-O-O b5 {The game is already quite strange. White has castled queenside but it seems like he is coming under some pawn storm fire, while Black is simply pushing all his pawns and not developing too much.} 12. Nb3 Rb8 13. Kb1 O-O 14. Nfd2 f5 {White has transferred all of his pieces to the queenside for the defense so Black resumes his kingside expansion. White hoeps to exploit the weaknesses left by these pawn movements, for example c6 looks like a tempting target at the moment.} 15. f3 Nxg3 16. hxg3 c5 17. Na5 Rb6 18. f4 d5 19. b4 $5 {A little intrepid pawn sacrifice.} c4 {That was politely declined.} (19... cxb4 20. cxb4 Qxb4+ 21. Ndb3 {and the control of the c-file is actually significant. Black's position is quite difficult to play here even if with perfect play he might be able to retain his extra pawn and slowly push White away.}) 20. Be2 Nf6 21. Rdf1 Bd7 22. Qd1 g4 {The position is completely locked up, but that doesn't mean it is a draw just yet. Notice that if anything happens that knight on a5 will never return to the game.} 23. Kb2 Rf7 24. Qc1 Bf8 25. Kc2 Rh7 26. Rh2 Be8 27. Rfh1 Nd7 {Black's last moves seem rather pointless, but Kramnik has a devilish idea in mind. How exactly, or if, Ipatov can stop it even if he knew it was coming is rather difficult to explain.} 28. Qb2 h5 29. Kc1 e5 $3 {An excellent and unexpected break. This is the type of moves that computers would never play but Kramnik does it without a problem.} 30. dxe5 Nxe5 31. fxe5 Qxe5 {White is horribly placed to deal with the opening of the position. Notice how useless his rooks on the h-file are and how bad his knight is on a5. This wouldn't be issues in a closed position which is why the sacrifice is easily justified.} 32. Nf1 Bg7 33. a3 (33. Kd2 {is not aesthetically pleasing but was perhaps better than the game continuation. Black would continue with} Re6 $17 { and further pressure on e3.}) 33... Qxc3+ 34. Qxc3 Bxc3 {Black is technically down material but he has so much activity it just doesn't look like it.} 35. Bd1 Re6 36. Bc2 Bg6 37. Nd2 Rxe3 38. Rd1 Bf6 39. Rhh1 d4 40. Rde1 Rhe7 41. Rxe3 Rxe3 {Kramnik showed it is not wise to play so passively against a 2793 player. } 0-1