侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) – Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga
2nd Ruy López International Chess Festival; Mérida, April 9, 2008
Spanish Game C92
2nd Ruy López International Chess Festival; Mérida, April 9, 2008
Spanish Game C92
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Be7 6. Re1 b5
7. Bb3 0-0 8. c3 d6 9. h3 Nd7 10. d4 Bf6 11. a4 Bb7 12. axb5
axb5 13. Rxa8 Bxa8? Best is 13. ... Qxa8 and if 14. d5 then 14. ... Na5 15. Bc2 Be7 16. Na3 c6 17. dxc6 Bxc6 18. Qe2 Qa6 19. Nd2 Rb8 20. b4 Nb7 21. Bd3 Nd8 22. Nb3 Nf6 23. Na5 Bd7 24. c4 bxc4 25. Bxc4 Qa8 26. Nc2 Ba4 27. Bb3 Bxb3 28. Nxb3 Ne6 29. Qd3 d5 30. exd5 ½ : ½ Tal – L. Z. Stein, 32nd USSR Chess Championship, Kiev 1965. 14. Na3 Qb8 15. d5 Ne7
16. Nxb5! 1 : 0. Well, after 16. ... Qxb5 17. Ba4 Black will end up only a Pawn down, but that is enough to make Granda Zúñiga feel disgusted enough to resign! Curiously enough, 7th World Chess Champion Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov, too, once fell into such a “dark hole”, and after 16. ... c6 17. dxc6
Nc5 18. Bc4 Bxc6 19. Qxd6 Nxe4 20. Qxb8 Rxb8 21. Na3 Ng6 22. Bf1 Nc5 23. Nc2 e4 24. Nb4 Ba8 25. Nh2 Rd8 26. Be2 Nd3
27. Bxd3 exd3 28. Rd1 Ne5 29. f4 Nc4 30. Rxd3 he found himself down two Pawns for no compensation, Boleslavsky – Smyslov, 18th USSR Chess Championship, Moscow 1950.
