Thursday, January 3, 2019

London System Poisoned Pawn

Black grabs the poisoned pawn in this flexible London System 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bf4. The solid approach places pawns on e3, d4, and c3. In the grandmaster battle between Ivan Sokolov and Loek Van Wely, White played 7.c4 to open up the position. Black's queen picked off a pawn on b2 and the knight on e2. White won the queen in return.

Sokolov (2588) - Van Wely (2622), 4th CNE ch-NED Rapid Amstelveen, 18.11.2018 begins 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.Be2 [5.c3 e6 6.Nbd2 Bd6 7.Bd3=] 5...Bg4 6.0-0 e6 7.c4 cxd4 [7...dxc4 8.Nbd2 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bxe2 10.Nxe2 Qd3=] 8.Nxd4 Bxe2 9.Nxe2 [9.Qxe2 Nxd4 10.exd4 dxc4=] 9...dxc4 10.Qa4 Qb6 11.Na3 Qxb2 [11...Bxa3 12.bxa3=] 12.Nb5 [12.Nxc4 Qxe2 13.Qb5=]
12...Rd8 [12...Qxe2 13.Nc7+ Ke7 14.Nxa8+-] 13.Rab1 Qxe2 14.Nc7+ Kd7 15.Rxb7 e5 16.Bxe5 Bd6 [16...Rb8 17.Rxb8+-] 17.Nd5+ Ke6 18.Nf4+ 1-0

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