Bundesliga 2009-10 (8-9)
Adams scores 1.5/2 in the Bundesliga
IM Malcolm Pein - Friday 12th February 2010
Michael Adams had a good weekend in the Bundesliga scoring 1.5/2.
Michael Adams turned out for Baden-Baden in the German Bundesliga at the weekend and scored 1.5/2. His team lead the competition after nine of the fifteen rounds with a perfect score. Baden-Baden even achieved a rare whitewash and defeated Berlin 1903 8-0. Baden-Baden's strength is illustrated by the fact that Adams plays on board 3. Luke McShane's Werder Bremen are in joint second place having dropped two match points. One of those was to the bottom club Erfurter SK who were out-rated by an average of over 180 points per board but managed a 4-4 draw. McShane played on board 1, losing one game and drawing one. Baden-Baden have 18 match points with with Werder Bremen and SG Solingen, who used to dominate the league, on 16.
The g7-g5 thrust, sacrificing a pawn to wrest control of the dark squares and secure the key square e5 is a common manouvre in the Najdorf. White is taken by surprise here and blunders.
S Bromberger - E Najer
Sicilian Najdorf
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qc7 8.Bd3 Be7 9.Nf3 Nc6 10.0-0 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.fxg5 hxg5 13.Bxg5 Ng4 14.Qd2?
(Black has compensation after 14.Bxe7 Qb6+ 15.Kh1 Nxe7 or 15...Kxe7 16.Qd2 f6 17.h3 Bd7)
14...Nce5 15.h3?
(15.Bf4 Qc5+ 16.Kh1)
15...Qc5+ 0-1
Black takes on f3 and then g5 emerging a piece ahead.
Evgeny Najer
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S Bromberger
Final position after 15...Qc5+
Another miniature from earlier in the season. The position is roughly balanced before Black allows a classic mating combination.
T Nyback - U Von Herman
Bogo-Indian
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 d5 5.a3 Be7 6.e3 0-0 7.Bd3 c5 8.b3 cxd4 9.exd4 b6 10.0-0 Bb7 11.Qe2 Nc6 12.Bb2 Re8 13.Rfe1 Bf8
(We have a position from the line 4.e3 against the Queen's Indian Defence but Bb4-e7 has given White the extra move a3 which is quite useful. Black would like to attack c4 and d4 whereas White hopes to open diagonals for his bishops and attack the black king)
14.Rac1 g6 15.c5! e5
(15...bxc5 16.dxc5 a5)
16.dxe5 bxc5 17.Ng5 Nh5 18.Qg4 Bc8
(18...Bg7 19.Ndf3 Qb6 20.Nxh7 Bc8 21.Qg5 Kxh7 22.Qxh5+ Kg8 23.Qh4 Qxb3 is far from clear)
19.e6 !
U Von Herman
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Tomi Nyback
Position after 19.e6
19...Rxe6 20.Qxh5! 1-0
20.Qxh5 gxh5 21.Bxh7#
