1988-02-26 - Burgess, Graham 0-1 Fedorowicz, J
Graham Burgess's first game against a GM. Ar Keed gets a great position out of the opening but uses up a lot of clock time doing it. Graham fails to consolidate his advantage and then sadly loses all control trying to beat the clock instead.
[Event "ARC YOUNG MASTERS"] [Site "?"] [Date "1988.02.26"] [Round "2"] [White "Burgess, Graham"] [Black "Fedorowicz, J"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A57"] [WhiteElo "2280"] [BlackElo "2560"] [Annotator "Mordue,Tyson"] [PlyCount "66"] [EventDate "1988.??.??"] {Originally annotated by Graham Burgess (GKB) in BCT Issue 71, May 1988. His opening remark for this encounter was "My first game against a Grandmaster. " Auspicious. My own was against Tony Miles in 1982 and, as Black, I resigned after 26 undistinguished moves.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. Nc3 axb5 6. e4 b4 7. Nb5 d6 8. Bc4 {"Chris Beaumont had told me not to play this against Hebden. Well, Fedorowicz isn't Hebden!" GKB.} Ra5 $5 9. a4 $5 {"A novelty, improving on 9 Qe2 from Whitehead-D Gurevich, which was first played in GKB v M Simons at the Keynsham Quickplay 1987. It went 9...g6 10 e5!? dxe5 11 Be3 Qb6?! 12 Qb3 Na6 13 Nf3 Ng4 14 d6 e6 15 Rd1 Bd7 16 Bg5 h6 17 Bh4 g5 18 Bg3 Bg7 19 h3 and White was on top." GKB.} bxa3 {Rahman Y vs. Halkias, Tanta 2002 continued 9...g6 10.Nf3 Nxe4 11.Qe2 f5 12.Ng5 Nxg5 13.Bxg5 Bg7 14.O-O h6 15.Bh4 g5 16.Qh5+ Kf8 17.Bg3 f4 18 h3 Nd7 with a seige-like game that Black won in 41 moves.} 10. Rxa3 {"I now saw that 10 Bd2 fails rather horribly to 10. ..Nxe4 11 Bxa5 Qxa5+ 12 Ke2 Qb4." GKB. Deep Rybka extends this line with 13. b3 Bd7 14.Qd3 Bxb5 15.Bxb5+ Nd7 16.Bc4 Nc3+ 17.Kf1 and says Black is roughly +1. I would have thought that 10 Rxa3 was the natural move anyway.} g6 $2 { "Afterwards Fed favoured 10...Rxa3, but then White can use the b-file to bring a Rook in." GKB. There is nothing wrong with 10...Nxe4 either, but even GMs need to get pieces developed. After the text Black loses some tempi and White gets a strong initiative.} 11. Rxa5 Qxa5+ 12. Bd2 Qd8 13. Qa4 Bd7 14. Qa7 {"It's certainly an amazing feeling to be pushing a strong GM about a bit, especially when it's on a demo board." GKB. I once forced Keith Arkell into the long retreat ...Qh1-a8 but that wasn't on a demo board. As some compensation I secured his resignation a few moves later. The first time I think I ever got on a demo board wasn't until Caerleon in 2006. My round 3 win featured on one but that was straightforward enough. In Round 4 I had the White pieces against Vladimir Dobrov, a Russian GM. The final position from that game stayed up on the electronic demo board for hours! Back to the current game Deep Rybka says 14 Qa8 is even stronger and has White at +2. The threat is 15 Ba5 Qc8 16 Na7 Qa6 17 Qxb8+. The point of Graham's move is have the sequence Nb5-c7(+)-a8-b6 available.} Bg7 15. Ba5 Qc8 16. Nc7+ Kf8 {"Looks fantastic for White but I couldn't find a clear kill, e.g. 17 Na8 Be8!?; whilst 17 f3 looks too slow and cedes some dark squares. But simply 17 Nf3 looks very powerful - if 17...Nxe4 18 Na8 is now much stronger." GKB. Deep Rybka points out that the cunning reply to 17 Na8 is 17...Bc6! After 18 dxc6 Nxc6 White has too many things en prise - 19 Qc7 Qxa8. The engine advocates 17 f3, and also 17 Bd3 just to defend e4, but after 17 Nf3 it will play 17...Nxe4 because Graham's suggested 18 Na8 is once again met by 18...Bc6.} 17. e5 $2 { "Splits Black's Pawns but gives him the d6 square." GKB. If only you can folllow it up with d5-d6 and a cup of hot coffee!} dxe5 18. Nf3 Ne4 {"Always put a horse on the gift square!" GKB. This is usually good advice, particularly if the square is a central one. However, I will just refer the interested reader to Mordue-Allison, under the Versus Revisited tab, where Black didn't look a gift horse in the mouth and got hit by a Greek gift in reply!} 19. O-O Bf6 $2 {It looks as though Black is slowly unwinding but this move allows a tactic that gets spurned. Better are 19....Bg4 and 19...Nd6.} 20. Re1 {Much better is 20.Na6! Nxa6 21.Bxa6 Qe8 22.Re1 Bf5 23.Bd3 Nd6 24.Bxf5 Nxf5 25.Qxc5 and White has regained with a clear advantage, +0.82 according to Deep Rybka.} Nd6 21. b3 {"Appalling indecision in time-trouble. White still has good chances of an advantage after the natural 21 Nd2 Kg7 22 Bc3." GKB. After 21 Nd2 Deep Rybka prefers 21...Bf5 22 Qxc5 Kg7 23 b4 calling it equal. Surely White stands better here with more active pieces and an outside passed Pawn. Otherwise to maintain an advantage the engine suggests 21 Bd3 or f1 and then 22 Qxc5.} e4 22. Nd2 Bf5 {"White's pieces are now on silly squares. I was also just about to lose on time..." GKB. Deep Rybka still thinks it's equal but it wouldn't have felt that way to Graham.} 23. Qxc5 Kg7 24. Rc1 Nb7 25. Qa7 Nxa5 26. Qxa5 Qd8 27. Bb5 Be5 28. g4 $2 {This is a desparate move clearly motivated by time pressure. The engine still says this position is roughly equal because, although White's pieces may 'stand on silly squares' the Black ones aren't so great either.} Bxg4 29. Nxe4 Nd7 30. Ng5 $2 {Hoping for a fork on e6 but in reality just losing two tempi.} h6 31. Bxd7 $2 {Another time-trouble error handing Black the two Bishops in an open position as well as activating the Black Queen.} Qxd7 32. Ne4 Bf3 33. Ng3 Qh3 0-1
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