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42...¦f4!! 43 ¥c6+ ¢c8
43...¢b8 44 ¦g1!.
44 ¢c2!
44 ¦xf4 a2–+.
44...¦xf1 45 e6 ¦c1+! 46 ¢b3 a2 47
exf7 ¦a3+ 48 ¢c4 ¦a4+ ½–½.
White cannot go to the d-file because
of ...¦d1+ and ...¦d8.
Bogo-Indian Defence (E11)
Aleksandr Pyshkin (RUS) -
Gabriel Blasberg (ARG)
Estrin Memorial 1995
Notes by GM Gabriel Blasberg
1 d4 ¤f6 2 c4 e6 3 ¤f3 ¥b4+ 4 ¥d2
£e7 5 g3 ¤c6 6 ¥g2 ¥xd2+ 7 ¤bxd2
d6 8 0–0 a5 9 e4 e5 10 d5 ¤b8 11
¤e1 0–0
A different plan was chosen by the
young player Tal Shaked against Piket:
11...h5 12 h3 ( or 12 ¤ef3 V.Tukmakov-
K.Arkell, Reykjavik open 1990) 12...h4 13
g4 ¤bd7 14 ¤d3 g5 15 b3 ¤f8 16 a3 ¤g6
17 ¦e1 0–0 18 b4 ¥d7 19 f3 b6 20 £c2 c5
Piket-Shaked, Fontys, Tilburg 1997.
12 ¤d3 ¤a6
12...h6 13 £c2 ¤a6 14 a3 ¤c5 15 b4
¤xd3 16 £xd3 ¤h7 17 £c3 axb4 18 axb4
¦xa1 19 ¦xa1 f5 led to a draw in 38
moves in J. Lopez Martinez-D. Suarez,
Spanish Ch, Torrevieja 1997.
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13 £c2
White could not break Black’s position
after 13 f4 ¤g4 14 £e2 f6 15 f5 ¤h6 in
Tempone-Slipak, Clarin GP 1995.
13...c6
“Observing” the white queen at c2.
14 dxc6
a) 14 £c3 cxd5 15 cxd5 ¥d7 16 ¦fc1
¦fc8 17 £a3 ¥b5 18 ¥h3 ¦xc1+ 19 ¦xc1
a4 (½-½ in 54 moves) Farago-Drasko,
Sarajevo 1983;
b) 14 ¦fc1 ¤d7 15 a3 ¤dc5 16 ¤xc5
¤xc5 17 b4 axb4 18 axb4 ¦xa1 19 ¦xa1
¤a6 20 £c3 c5 21 b5 ¤b4 (½-½ in 76
moves) Yusupov-Vyzmanavin, Moscow
1981.
14...bxc6
From this point, the game is “out of
the books”.
15 £c3
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15...¤c5!?
A very important decision. In view
of the threat £xa5, I make this “ugly”
move, that allows White to “destroy” my
queenside pawns. I did not like 15...a4
or 15...¤c7.
16 ¤xc5 dxc5
We have arrived at a pawn structure
similar to the drawn game Portisch-
Fischer, Sousse 1967, which started with
a King Indian! These structures were
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