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I.C1S TIMI.S CHESS By JACK PETERS INTERNATIONAL MASTER B12 SUNDAY, MARCH ll.l'WO SI) 1 Hi a um i JDADL Two pawns up, White is winning An uncharacteristically lifeless gamo by Kasparov Qb4 27 Rhel Rd6 28 Oc2 Rdb6 29 R2 Qf4 30 h3 Gulko calmly protects ovorything. Rc6 31 Qd2Qf6Nol3l Qxd2 32 Roxd2 11x03? 33 RdBt. 32 Ka1 Rb7 33 Qh6 Rc8 34 Rad2 QaB 36 Q3 Kg7 36 g4 Re8 37 Qd4 Rd7 38 012 Rc7 39 Rd3 RaB 40 Qd2 As 40 Rxc3 4 1 bxc3 delonds a2. h8 41 Rd6 Rc4 42 Rd4l Finally simplifying, as 42 Rcc8 43 Ra4 exchangos Rooks. Rac8 43 Kbl OeB 44 f4 Qe6 46 Qe2 Rxd4 48 Rxd4 Ob6 47 Qd2 Oa6 48 Qd3 Qc6 49 a3 Og2 60 Rd6 Rb8 61 Oe2 QhlOr 51 Qxh3 62 QeB Of 1 53 Ndl.

62 Ka2 Re863 Qd3 Re1 64 Qd4, Black Resigns. nam won In his notns. Knspnrov ilisinissos 12 QbO as mlotior Why did he change his mind' 13 Qd2 Nd7 14 Bc4 N6I6 16 NxfSt Bxf67l Weakening o3, but at a high price. Without his KB, Black has low Ihronls on the al-h8 diagonal. 16 Bxf6 Nxf6 17 Ne2 ReB 180-0-0 dB 19 Bd3 Black has a bit of compensation.

67l More logical is 19 2INa4Qc722 Kb I .16 fights back. 20 bxa8 As 20 BxnC 21 Bxa6 Qxa6 22 Nc3 is sale lor White. d4 21 Kb1l Anticipating 21 Bxa6 22 Bxa6 Qxa6 23 Ncl, defending. Re3 Threatening 22 Rxd3 23 Qxd3 BIB. 22 Bc4l Bxa6 23 Bxa6 Rxa6 Also hopoless is 23 Qxa6 24 Ncl Rd8 2B Rhe 1 24 Nxd4 Re8 25 Ne2 Rb8 26 Nc3 I id Start bur Day Right.

By subscribing to The Times, you'll receive the West's finest newspaper early each morning. Tb begin service, call 1-800-LA TIMES. abcdefgh March 11. 1990 Position 15053: White to play and win. From the game Belyavsky Spassky, Linares 1990.

Solution to Position 15052: 1 Nxc6! bxc6 2 Bxd5 cxdB 3 Qa4 Kd8 4 Bb6. or 3 KI8 4 Bc5, wins Black's Queen. II 2 Bxd4, then 3 Bxc6 Ke7 4 Qxd4 wins a piece. Note that 1 Bxd5'! BxdB 2 Qa4 b5! 3 Qxb5 KI8 is less convincing. I ii I K.i:i).iiov had pmpnind the loply 12 Ot)t)i' Nxc3 13 Ic3 Bxc3 14 Ndi.

mun.icinr) lb Nbb 12 BbBI Threatening the iikuwci 13 Bob Nxc3 Stopping the tiiroat by 12 Nxg3 13 hxg3 Bib 14 Qb3 Bxc3 lb Qxc3 Qxc3 16 bxc3 lots White plant a Knight on d4 And White emerges a pawn ahead alter the tricky 12 Bfb'l 13 BcB Nxc3 14 bxc3l QxoB lb NxoB Bxc2 16 cxb4 13 Bxc6 bxc67l Tougher is 13 Qxc6 14 bxc3 BxcS, although IB h4 loosens Black's pawn structure. 14 a3l Instead, IBKdl QIB 16Bxh8 g4 gives Black too much counterplay. g4 Desperation in a bad'posmon. Not satisfactory are 14 BaB IB BIB IB Qd2 No4 16 Qxb4Tig3'l7 hxg3 Be4 18 Qd4. and 14 QfB 16 QxfB BxfB 16 axb4 NbB 1 7 Ra6.

Spassky had already used 89 minutes. Kasparov only 19. 15 BaB Ne4 16 axb4 QfB 17 BxhB gxf3 18 Rgl I Black has little for the exchange. Qg4 19 Qdl NgB 20 Qd4 Ne4 21 Qe6 Ba6 22 Qf4 Qg6 II 22 Qg8. one way to win is 23 Qxh6 24 Bg7.

23 Qxf3 16 Black's last hope is to trap White's Bishop. 24 Qf4 Kf7 25 f3 NgB 26 Kd2 Foreseeing 26 Rxh8 27 Rxa7 KI8 28 Qd6. mating. QfB 27 h4 Qxf4 28 exf4 Nh7 29 g4. Black Resigns.

Black can hardly move after 29 Rxh8 30 Rxa7 KI8 31 Re1 BI732Ree7. GM Gulko (U.S.A.) GM Kasparov (U.S.S.R.), Linares 1990: 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 6 13 The Saemisch variation against the King's Indian Defense. 0-0 6 Be3 c6 7 Bd3 e5 8 d6 bBI? A pawn sac popularized by Kasparov two years ago. The standard 8 cxdB 9 cxdB Na6 10 Qd2 NcB 1 1 Bc2 gives White an edge. 9 cxbB cxdS 10 exdB e4l? Kasparov analyzes 10 Bb7 1 1 Nge2l NxdB 12 NxdS BxdB 13 Nc3 Bb7 14 Bol, taking control of dB.

1 1 Nxe4 Dangerous is 1 1 fxc4 Ng4. NxdB 12 BgS Timman Kasparov, Reykjavik 1 988, continued 12 Qa5 13 Qd2 Qxd2 14 Bxd2 Bxb2 16 Rbl Bg7 16 Ne2 Nd 17 NcB 18 Bc2 Bo6. Black had good compensation, and ho eventually nbeound today in Section lea nnmrfi UW annllM eeie I iinTlri 2firepla 1 KJMnt I offers Imthe cThe new faster-format ranriraa INTERNATIONAL NEWS Former world champion Anatoly Kar-pov of the Soviet Union defeated Jan Timman of Holland Wednesday in the first game of their 12-game Candidates final in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The winner will meet Gary Kasparov in the 1990 world championship match, scheduled for October in Lyons, France. Karpov, the world's second-ranked player at 2730, is a heavy favorite over Timman, third-best at 2680.

According to Raymond Keene of England, Karpov has a career record of 14 wins, three losses, and 27 draws against Timman, and has not lost to him since 1980. World champion Gary Kasparov took first prize in the grandmaster tournament in Linares, Spain. Kasparov finished with 8-3, just ahead of 21 -year-old Boris Gelfand at Kasparov had to win his last-round game against Miguel lllescas to edge past Gelfand, who could only draw Vassily Ivanchuk. Players from the Soviet Union dominated the tournament, taking the top four places. Other scores: Valery Salov, 7-4; Ivanchuk, 6Vi-4'i; Nigel Short (England), 6-5; Boris Gulko (Massachusetts) and Artur Yusupov (U.S.S.R.), 5VS-5I4; Alexander Belyavsky (U.S.S.R.I, 5-6; lllescas (Spain), Lajos Portisch (Hungary), and Boris Spassky (France), 4-7; and Ljubomir Ljubojevich (Yugoslavia), 3-8.

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TODAY'S GAMES GM Belyavsky (U.S.S.R.) GM Gulko (U.S.A.). Linares 1990: 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 cxdS The Exchange variation ot the Grunfeld Defense. NxdS 5 e4 Nxc3 6 bxc3 Bg7 7 Bc4 0-0 8 Ne2 Nc6 A Gulko specialty, varying from the heavily analyzed 8 c5 9 0-0 NcB. 9 0-0 Solid. White has also tried the wild 9 b6 10 Bg5 Bb7 11 Qd2 Qd6 12 Rad1 Ftacmk once fell lor 12 Nxe5, when 13 dxo5 Qc6 attacks c4 and g2.

NaS 13 Bd3 c5 14 d5 e6 15 c4 Be6 16 Qc1l Improving on Yusupov Gulko. Hastings 1989-90, which continued 16 Qc2 exd5 1 7 exd5 Qd7 18 Ng3 Rae8 19 Bd2 Nb7 20 Ne4 Nd6. Chances are even, although Gulko went on to win exdB 17 exdB Rae8 18 Ng3 Qd7 19 Rfell Not 19 Ne4? Rxe4 20 Bxe4 Bxc4 21 Rfel Bxa2, but now White seriously threatens 20 Ne4. 1571 Correct is 19 Nb7 20 Qa3 Na5 2 1 Qc 1 Nb7 22 Ne4 IB. 20 Ne2l The new target is e6.

Nb7 21 Nf4 Rxe1 Alter 21 h6 22 NxgB hxg5 23 Nxl8 Rxl8 24 QxgB RI7 2B Re6. White's Rooks soon invade on e7 or e8. 22 Rxel Re8 23 Na6 Bh8 Allowing a breakthrough, but 23 Nd6 24 Nxg7 leaves Black permanently weak on the dark squares. 24 Nc7l Rxe1 25 Qxe1 Qxc7 26 Qe8 Kg7 27 Bd2l Qd8 II 27 14, then 28 Bc3 Kh6 29 Bxh8 Qd8 30 QeB Qf8 3 1 Bf6 mates 28 Bc3 Kh6 29 Qe3I QgB Black gets mated alter 29 KhB 30 Be2, 29 gB30Qh3Kg6 14 30 Qx(4 gB 3 1 QIB. 30 f4 Planning 30 Qd8 3 1 Qh3.

Qg4 31 Bxh8 Avoiding the pitfall 31 Be2 Bd4. Qd1 32 Bfl Nd6 33 Qh3 Qh6 34 Qc3l Eyeing both g7 and h3. Ne8 36 d6l Qdl 36 Qh3, Black Resigns. GM Kasparov (U.S.S.R.) GM Spassky (Franca), Linares 1990: 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 Qc2 Capablanca's antidote to the Nimzo-lndian Defense. d5 5 cxdS exdB 6 BgS h6 7 BH4I7 Theory claims this is bad.

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