LABIRINTI E CASEMATTE: Tatiana Kosintseva

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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Closing Time

侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) – Alina l’Ami
Sharjah; September 6, 2014
Vienna Game C26

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 Bc5 5. Nge2 0-0 6. 0-0 a6 7. h3 d6. If 7. ... Nd4 then 8. Kh2 b5 9. d3 Bb7 10. f4 with an edge, Kholmov – Kurajica, Skopje 1969. 8. Kh2 Ne8 9. d3 f5 10. f4 fxe4 11. Nxe4 Bb6 12. N2c3 d5 13. Ng5 Nf6 14. fxe5 Nxe5 15. d4 Ng6

16. Rxf6! Rxf6. 16. ... gxf6 is met by 17. Nxh7! with an overwhelming attack. And also after 16. ... Qxf6 17. Nxd5 Qxd4 18. Qxd4 Bxd4 19. Nxc7 Rb8 20. Nce6 White stands much better. 17. Qh5 c6 18. Qxh7+ Kf8 19. Nf3 Bc7 20. Ne2. Clearly not 20. Bg5? since 20. ... Bxg3+! 21. Kxg3? Rxf3+! turns the tables. 20. ... Qe8 21. Bg5 Rf5 22. Re1 Qf7 23. Bd2 Rxf3?? A grave blunder. Black should have played 23. ... Qf6, although after 24. Nf4 White would have retained at least the initiative. 24. Bb4+ Ne7 25. Qh8+ 1 : 0.

侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) vs. Alina l’Ami
Sharjah; September 6, 2014
Photo: Maria Alekseevna Emelianova

Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva – 居文君 (Jū Wénjūn)
Sharjah; September 6, 2014
Sicilian Defence B32

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d6 6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 b5 8. Nd5 Nge7 9. c4 Nxd5 10. exd5 Nd4 11. cxb5 Be7 12. Bd3 0-0 13. 0-0 f5 14. bxa6. For 14. Kh1 Bf6 see González de la Torre – Maze, Elgoibar 2005. 14. ... f4 15. Nc2 f3 16. Nxd4 exd4 17. gxf3 Bg5 18. Kh1 Bf4 19. Bxf4 Rxf4 20. Rg1 Bxa6 21. Bxa6 Rxa6 22. Qe2 Ra8 23. a4 Qf6 24. Ra3 Kf8 25. Qe6 Rxf3 26. Qxf6+ Rxf6 27. Kg2 Rf5 28. b4 Rxd5 29. Rd1 Ke7 30. a5 Rb8 31. a6 Ra8 32. Kf3 Kd7 33. Ke4 Rb5 34. Rxd4 Ra7 35. Ra4 Rb6 36. Kd5 Rbxa6 37. Rxa6 Rxa6 38. Rf4 Rb6 39. Rf7+ Ke8 40. Rf4 Kd7 41. Kc4 Kc6 42. Rf7 d5+ 43. Kb3 Rb8 44. f4 Rg8 45. f5 Kd6 46. h4 d4 47. Kc4 Ke5 48. Re7+ Kxf5 49. Kxd4 Kg4 50. Re4+ Kf3 51. Re3+ Kg4 52. Re4+ Kf3 53. Re3+ Kg4 54. Re4+ ½ : ½.

居文君 (Jū Wénjūn)
Sharjah; September 6, 2014
Photo: Maria Alekseevna Emelianova

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Boleskine House

Expressly annotated by 尼斯湖水怪

Alina l’Ami – Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva
Sharjah; August 27, 2014
Nimzo-Indian Defence E56

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 0-0. The most neutral development. 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nf3 d5 7. 0-0 Nc6 8. cxd5 exd5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. h3 Qe7 11. b3 Rd8 12. Bb2 Ne4 13. Ne2 Bd6. Tatiana tries incisive methods. Another try is 13. ... Nb4 14. Bb1 Bf5 as in the game Mkrtchian – 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), Jermuk 2012. 14. Rc1 a6 15. Bb1 Be6 16. Ned4 Bd7 17. Qe2 f5 18. Rfe1 Rf8. Seeking a more favourable field of action. 19. Bd3 Rae8. Offering a Pawn. 20. Nxc6 bxc6 21. Bxa6 f4. Partly showing her cards. 22. exf4 Bxf4 23. Rcd1 Qf7. Intending ... Bf4-d6 or ... Qf7-g6 with excellent prospects of attack. 24. Qf1. Probably safer than 24. Bd3 Nc3 (24. ... Bxh3!?). 24. ... Qh5 25. Be2

25. ... Bxh3. A break-up sacrifice. 26. gxh3 Re6. Threatening ... Re6-g6+. 27. Ne5. A lemon would be 27. Kh1? on account of 27. ... Be3! and wins. 27. ... Qg5+ 28. Qg2? The crisis. Another blunder would be 28. Ng4? Nxf2! and Black wins. In view of her adversary’s threatening position Alina should, for better or for worse, have resigned herself to 28. Bg4!, after which White may hope to hold her own. For example: 28. ... Rxe5 29. Qg2 Re7 30. Ba3 c5 31. Bf3 Rf5 with roughly equal chances. Now the sequel is dramatic: 28. ... Qxg2+. Or 28. ... Bh2+ 29. Kxh2 Rxf2 and wins. 29. Kxg2 Bxe5 30. Bxe5 Rxf2+ 31. Kg1 Rxe5 32. a4 Rf8 33. Rc1 Rg5+ 34. Kh1 Ng3+ 35. Kh2 Rf2+ 0 : 1.

Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva
Photo: Maria Alekseevna Emelianova

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

剪下、複製、貼上 (Cut, copy and paste)

Nafisa Muminova – Tatiana Kosintseva
Khanty-Mansiysk, April 15, 2014
Sicilian B83

Alina l’Ami: “The Uzbek player played an excellent, sharp Scheveningen Sicilian variation today against Tatiana Kosintseva, which brought her an important victory! From outside (and for the players either, as revealed during the press conference), it was not clear where and when precisely did things go wrong for Black; perhaps 11. ... Nxd4 was premature”. 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Be2 Be7 7. 0-0 0-0 8. f4 a6 9. a4 Nc6 10. Be3 Qc7 11. Kh1 Nxd4. For the proper course see 11. ... Re8 12. Qd2 Nxd4 13. Bxd4 e5 see E. Geller – U. Andersson, Moscow 1981. 12. Bxd4 Bd7 13. e5 Ne8 14. Bd3 Bc6 15. Ne4. White develops a powerful initiative by natural means... 15. ... Bxe4 16. Bxe4 g6 17. Rf3 d5 18. Bd3 Bc5 19. Bc3. Obviously White doesn’t give up the pair of Bishops. 19. ... Qe7 20. Qe1 Nc7 21. Qg3 d4 22. Bd2 Nd5

23. f5! A devastating break! 23. ... exf5 24. Bg5 Qc7 25. Rxf5! A daring although easy Rook sacrifice. 25. ... Ne3. The Rook is taboo: 25. ... gxf5 26. Bf6 mate. 26. Rf3 Rae8 27. Bf6 Re6 28. Qh4. The blatant threat is 29. Qxh7+! Kxh7 30. Rh3+ Kg8 31. Rh8 mate. 28. ... Rxf6. Despair, but on 28. ... h5 29. Qg5 wins. 29. exf6 Re8 30. Bxg6! 1 : 0. Indeed, after 30. ... hxg6 31. Rh3 or 30. ... fxg6 31. f7+ Black is dead and buried. Alina l’Ami: “The beautiful execution reminds the public of the same deadly break of Hóu Yìfán against Dzagnidze!”.

Nafisa Muminova
Khanty-Mansiysk, April 15, 2014
Photo: Nikolay Bochkarev, Alina l’Ami

Sunday, April 13, 2014

The Sheltering Sky

Aleksandra Konstantinovna Kostenjuk – Tatiana Kosintseva
Khanty-Mansiysk, April 10, 2014
Two Knights C58

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5. As Bobby Fischer wrote in “My 60 Memorable Games”, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1969, p. 280: “Tarrasch branded this a ‘duffer’s move’ and Panov called it ‘primitive’. But there is no other way for White to try for an advantage”. 4. ... d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3? A very old move, originally conceived by Isidor Gunsberg and, in my opinion, scarcely to be commended, for it doesn’t assist at all the development of White’s game. I much prefer 8. Be2. 8. ... Nd5 9. h4!? Another old idea, first introduced by Shimon Kagan in 1965. After 9. Nxf7? Kxf7 10. Qh5+ g6 11. Bxg6+ hxg6 12. Qxh8 Qg5 Black’s attack is nearly decisive. A very infamous game – at least regarding Italy’s chess history – is the following: 9. Ne4?! f5!? (Stellwagen prefers 9. ... Nf4! 10. Bf1 f5, but... it’s just a matter of taste) 10. Ng3 Nf4 11. Bf1 Bc5!? (again Stellwagen prefers 11. ... Bd6!) 12. c3 Bb6 13. d4 Ng6 14. Bd3 0-0 15. b4 Nb7 and Black is much better; it followed: 16. Bc4+ Kh8 17. d5? Nd6 18. Bb3 f4 19. Nf1 Ne4 0 : 1, Castaldi – Keres, 7th Olympiad, Stockholm 1937. Castaldi resigned in a paradoxal position: almost all of his pieces are at home! 9. ... Nf4 10. Bf1. À la Castaldi! Probably, only Wilhelm Steinitz and Bobby Fischer could afford something like that! 10. ... h6 11. Ne4. Alina l’Ami: “After the game, Kostenjuk shared in the press conference that: ‘11. Nf3 was better than my 11. Ne4. Later on it became very sharp, I didn’t play accurate and I used a lot of time. Besides, I missed Black’s 22. ... f5’”. 11. ... Ne6 12. Ng3. An alternative is 12. a3 Be7 13. b4 Nb7 14. Bb2 O-O 15. Bc4 f5?! 16. Bxe5! Kh7 (After 16. ... fxe4 17. Qg4 White recaptures the piece) 17. Ng3 Bf6 18. Bxf6 Qxf6 19. Nc3 Nd4 20. Nge2 a5 21. Bd3 c5 22. Nxd4 cxd4 23. Ne2 Nd6 24. c4 (Clearer is 24. b5 Bb7 25. 0-0 Qxh4 26. f3) 24. ... Bb7 25. f3 Nf7 (The computer finds 25. ... Be4! 26. Qb1 Bxd3 27. Qxd3 axb4) 26. b5 Ne5 27. Qc2 Rae8 28. 0-0 (Too early, after 28. c5 Black has nothing against the white King in the center) 28. ... Qxh4 29. c5? (29. Rf2 was necessary) 29. ... Nxf3+! 30. Rxf3 (Not 30. gxf3 Rxe2! 31. Bxe2 Qg3+ 32. Kh1 Qh3+ 33. Kg1 Rf6) 30. ... Bxf3 31. gxf3 Rxe2 (After 31. ... Kh8 White has no defence against ... Rf8-f6-g6+) 32. Bxe2 Qg3+ 33. Kf1 Qh3+ 34. Kg1 Qg3+ 35. Kf1 Qh3+ 36. Kg1 Qg3+ ½ : ½ Ten Hertog – S. Ernst, Amsterdam 2012. Comments by Gert Ligterink. 12. ... Bc5 13. c3 Nb7 14. b4 Bb6 15. Na3. In order to... begin the development. 15. ... a5 16. Nc4. Perhaps 16. b5 was better. 16. ... Bc7 17. bxa5 Nxa5 18. Ne3 0-0 19. Ba3 c5 20. Bb5 Nb7 21. Bb2 Nd6 22. Be2 f5. Black’s position is already ideal. 23. Nc4 f4 24. Nxd6 fxg3 25. Nxc8 gxf2+ 26. Kf1 Qxc8 27. Bc4 Kh8 28. Qg4. If 28. d3 then 28. ... Nf4 (threatening ... Qc8-b7) 29. Bc1 Nxg2! 30. Kxg2? Qb7+ with an irresistible attack. 28. ... Qb7 29. Bc1. It does not make a good impression, but even after 29. Bxe6 Qxb2 30. Rd1 e4 White cannot survive for long.

29. ... Nf4! The coup de grâce. 30. d3. If 30. Kxf2? Qe4! wins at once. 30. ... e4 31. Be3. Also 31. Bxf4 is refuted by the “zwischenzug”. 31. ... Qb2! and so on. 31. ... Qb2! 32. Rd1 h5! 33. Bc1 Qxc1 34. Rxc1 hxg4 35. dxe4 Nh5 0 : 1.