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Baadur Jobava – Jan H. Timman
Match Game 2; Hoogeveen, October 13, 2014
Queen’s Indian Defence E12

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3 Ba6 5. Qc2 Bb7 6. Nc3 c5 7. e4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Nc6 9. Nxc6 Bxc6 10. Bf4 Nh5 11. Bd2. All over the world nearly everyone recalled 11. Be3 Bd6?? (for 11. ... Qb8 12. g3 f5 see Lutz – Karpov, Dortmund 1993) 12. Qd1 1 : 0 Christiansen – Karpov, Wijk aan Zee 1993, match game 1. 11. ... Qc7 12. g3. Departing from 12. Nd5 Qb7 13. Bd3 Bd6 14. 0-0 Qb8 15. g3 exd5 16. exd5 Bb7 17. Rfe1+ Kd8 18. Bc3 Nf6 19. b4 Qc7 20. Qb2 Kc8 21. Bxf6 gxf6 22. Qxf6 Rd8 23. Rac1 Bf8 24. c5 bxc5 25. bxc5 a5 26. c6 dxc6 27. dxc6 Ba6 28. Bf5+ Kb8 29. Qxd8+ Qxd8 30. c7+ 1 : 0 Jobava – Iturrizaga Bonelli, Khanty-Mansiysk 2009. Jobava said: “I tried to remember that game but of course I couldn’t”. 12. ... Bc5 13. Bg2 0-0 14. 0-0 Rac8 15. Rac1 Nf6 16. b4 Be7 17. Qd3 Qb8 18. h3 Rfd8. Jobava said afterwards that 18. ... d6 would have been better. 19. Rfe1 Bb7 20. e5 Ne8 21. Ne4 d6 22. exd6 Bxd6. The alternative was 22. ... Nxd6 in order to answer 23. Bf4 by 23. ... Qa8. 23. Qe2 Be5. Worth considering and possibly better was 23. ... Be7!? (Jobava). 24. c5. Sharper was 24. Ng5! Bxg2 25. Qh5 with a promising attack. 24. ... bxc5 25. bxc5 Bc6 26. Ba5 Rd7. Jobava: “Perhaps 26. ... Rd4 was better. The Rook may go to a4 and on 27. Bc3 you can go 27. ... Rd7 28. Bxe5 Qxe5. Ah, no, White wins material with 29. Nd6!”. 27. Ng5 Bxg2 28. Kxg2 Bf6 29. c6!? “I wanted to try something”, Jobava said. On 29. Ne4 Qa8 leads nowhere. 29. ... Rd5?? Oblivious to the danger! Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett comments: “Here Black should play 29. ... Rd6! with a perfectly reasonable game. White will lose his c-Pawn but remain with enough ‘tricks’ to keep the game roughly balanced”.

30. Nxf7!! Rxa5 31. Qxe6 Kf8 32. Rcd1? White could have won on the run with 32. Qd7! Rxa3 (or 32. ... Rc7 33. Rxe8+ Qxe8 34. Qxc7 Rxa3 35. Nd6+-) 33. Rb1 Qa8 34. Rb7+-, as originally shown by Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett. 32. ... Qc7? “32. ... Qa8! is unclear”, Spraggett says. We give a sample variation: 32. ... Qa8! 33. Nd6! Nxd6 34. Qxd6+ Kg8 35. Re6 Rd8 36. Rxf6! Rxd6 37. Rfxd6 and most probably White will survive. 33. Nd8! Rxd8 34. Rd7! 1 : 0. “Incredibly stupid”, Timman moaned.