Daniele Vocaturo – Migchiel de Jong
52nd SchaakFestival; Groningen, December 22, 2014
French Defence C18
52nd SchaakFestival; Groningen, December 22, 2014
French Defence C18
From the report by Schaakstad Groningen: “The game between GM Daniele Vocaturo [...] and IM de Jong saw a novelty in a French Winawer on the 9th move. Black’s response was not the best, his dark squares became fatally weak. The Queen sacrifice 22. Bxd6 by the Italian student was the epilogue to a nice ending of the game”.
1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Qg4 f5 8. Qg3 Nc6 9. Nf3 cxd4 10. Bb5!? Quite an interesting Pawn sacrifice. The vintage alternative was 10. cxd4 Nge7 11. Bd2 0-0 12. Bd3 Bd7 13. h4 f4?! (better 13. ... Kh8) 14. Bxf4 Nxd4 15. 0-0 Nef5 16. Qg4 Nxf3+ 17. Qxf3 Nxh4 18. Qh5 Nf5 19. g4 g6 20. Qh2 Nd4 21. Kg2 with advantage to White, Minić – Khasin, Belgrade 1968. 10. ... dxc3 11. a4 a6 12. Bxc6+ bxc6 13. Ba3 c5 14. Bxc5 g6 15. Bd4 Qc4 16. Ra3 Bd7 17. Rxc3 Qxa4 18. 0-0 Nh6 19. Qg5 Nf7 20. Qf6 0-0 21. Bc5. Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett writes: “[...] A chaotic position, typical of many Winawer-French games. In general, White plays with his pieces, ignoring his pawn structure (or even sacrificing his Pawns!); Black plays for the better ending (Pawn structure!). With such opposing visions of how to play, it is no wonder that the Winawer-French has given chess literature such memorable games. Here Black must decide what to do about his attack Rook. If 21. ... R(moves) then 22. Nh4!? might follow, with ideas such as Rc3-g3 or even the immediate explosion on g6. Black decided to push back the White Queen with” 21. ... Nd6!?
1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Qg4 f5 8. Qg3 Nc6 9. Nf3 cxd4 10. Bb5!? Quite an interesting Pawn sacrifice. The vintage alternative was 10. cxd4 Nge7 11. Bd2 0-0 12. Bd3 Bd7 13. h4 f4?! (better 13. ... Kh8) 14. Bxf4 Nxd4 15. 0-0 Nef5 16. Qg4 Nxf3+ 17. Qxf3 Nxh4 18. Qh5 Nf5 19. g4 g6 20. Qh2 Nd4 21. Kg2 with advantage to White, Minić – Khasin, Belgrade 1968. 10. ... dxc3 11. a4 a6 12. Bxc6+ bxc6 13. Ba3 c5 14. Bxc5 g6 15. Bd4 Qc4 16. Ra3 Bd7 17. Rxc3 Qxa4 18. 0-0 Nh6 19. Qg5 Nf7 20. Qf6 0-0 21. Bc5. Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett writes: “[...] A chaotic position, typical of many Winawer-French games. In general, White plays with his pieces, ignoring his pawn structure (or even sacrificing his Pawns!); Black plays for the better ending (Pawn structure!). With such opposing visions of how to play, it is no wonder that the Winawer-French has given chess literature such memorable games. Here Black must decide what to do about his attack Rook. If 21. ... R(moves) then 22. Nh4!? might follow, with ideas such as Rc3-g3 or even the immediate explosion on g6. Black decided to push back the White Queen with” 21. ... Nd6!?
22. Bxd6! An alegant Queen sacrifice for Rook, Knight and passed Pawn. Both 22. Qe7 and 22. Qg5 are answered by 22. ... Ne4! (Spraggett’s analysis). 22. ... Rxf6 23. exf6 Kf7 24. Be7 Qa5 25. Rc5!? Also 25. Ne5+ Kg8 (25. ... Ke8 26. Bd6!) 26. f7+ Kg7 27. f8=Q+ Rxf8 28. Bxf8+ Kxf8 29. Nxd7+ Ke7 30. Rc5 should win. 25. ... Bb5 26. c4! dxc4 27. Ng5+
Kg8. Equally after 27. ... Ke8 28. Bd6 Black’s King is doomed. 28. Bd6 Qd2!? Spraggett writes: “Black is counting on this move to slow White’s attack down. Attacking both the Bishop and the Knight. It appears that White must play 29. f7+ Kg7 30. Be5+ Kf8 when only 31. Bf4! keeps the pressure. However, White finds much better:” 29. Rc7!! Qxd6. Spraggett writes: “This beautiful shot is immediately decisive! White threatens mate in two moves. Taking the Knight does not stop that, so Black decided to take the Bishop (Note that 29. ... Be8 allows a mating net: 30. Rg7+ and 31. f7! followed by Bd6-e5)”. 30. Rg7+ Kf8 31. Nxh7+ 1 : 0.
Daniele Vocaturo
Photo: Schaakstad Groningen
Photo: Schaakstad Groningen
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