Match between Ilia Smirin and Nigel D Short
Event: Interpolis
Variation: French – Winawer, advance, poisoned pawn, Konstantinopolsky variation
Eco code: C18
Pgn File:
[Event “Interpolis”]
[Site “Tilburg”]
[Date “1992.10.18”]
[Round “4.2”]
[White “Smirin, Ilia”]
[Black “Short, Nigel D”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “2555”]
[BlackElo “2680”]
[ECO “C18”]
[Annotator “Knaak,R”]
[EventDate “1992.10.08”]
[PlyCount “79”]
[EventType “k.o.”]
[EventRounds “7”]
[EventCountry “NED”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “1993.02.01”]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8.
Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Ne2 Nbc6 11. f4 Bd7 12. Qd3 dxc3 13. Rb1 d4 14.
Ng3 O-O-O 15. Ne4 $2 (15. Be2) 15… Nxe5 $1 16. fxe5 Qxe5 17. Qe2 Bc6 18.
Ng3 Qh8 $5 (18… Qd5 19. Qc4 Qd6 20. Ne2 e5 21. g3 Kb8 22. Rg1 Ka8 23. Bg2
Nd5 $17 { Tarasov-Hajduk/Leningrad/1951 }) 19. Qf2 Rg6 20. Bd3 Rf6 21. Qe2
Rd5 22. Ne4 Rff5 23. Kd1 Ng6 24. g3 Rfe5 $17 25. Qg4 f5 $1 (25… Ne7 26.
Qh4) (25… Be8 26. Ng5 f5 27. Qf3) 26. Qxg6 fxe4 27. Bc4 e3 $1 { /\
28…Be8-+ } (27… Be8 28. Qh6) 28. Rf1 d3 $5 (28… Qxh2 29. Rf8+ Kc7 30.
Rf7+ Bd7 31. Ke1 e2 $17) (28… Be8 29. Qf6 Qxh2 $19 { /\ 30…e2, 30…d3
}) 29. Bxe3 $8 (29. Bxd3 e2+ $19) 29… dxc2+ (29… Be8 $5) 30. Kxc2 Rxe3
31. Bxd5 $6 Bxd5 $2 (31… Qxh2+ 32. Kb3 c2+ 33. Kb2 Qh8+ $3 $19) 32. Kc1
$1 Re2 33. Rb5 $16 Bc6 34. Rc5 Qd8 35. Rd1 Re1 36. Qc2 Rxd1+ 37. Qxd1 Qf6
38. Qd6 Qh6+ 39. Kc2 Qe3 40. Rxc3 1-0
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