KING MARCH
King as an attacking piece in the middle game is hard to believe. In 1991,GM Nigel Short astonished the chess world with his famous King manoeuvre in the middlegame (Kg1-h2-g3-f4-g5-h6) against GM Jan Timman in the Tilburg Tournament. Here is the game:
[Event
"Tilburg 1991"]
[White
"Nigel
Short"]
[Black
"Timman, J."]
[Result
"1-0"]
[ECO
"B04"]
["Alekhine
Defence"]
1.
e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5
3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 g6
5. Bc4 Nb6 6.
Bb3 Bg7 7. Qe2 Nc6 8.
O-O O-O 9. h3 a5
10. a4 dxe5 11.
dxe5 Nd4 12. Nxd4 Qxd4 13.
Re1 e6 14. Nd2 Nd5
15.Nf3 Qc5 16.
Qe4 Qb4 17. Bc4 Nb6 18. b3 !? Nxc4
19. bxc4 Re8 20. Rd1 Qc5
(26...
Bxe5 27. Rxf7 Kxf7
{If 27... Bh8 28.
Bf4 h5 29. Rxc7 is
winning for white.}
28.
Nxe5+ Kg8 29. Nxc6 Bxc6
30. Qf6 Rf8 31. Qg7#)
27.
Bxg7 Kxg7 28. R1d4 Rae8
29. Qf6+ Kg8 30. h4 h5
[Now Short surprised the whole world by
marching his king into the enemy territory with a threat of Kh6 and Qg7#!!]
31. Kh2 !! (See Diagram)
Position
after White's 31st move.
31....Rc8
(31...
Bc8 32. g4 hxg4
{If 32... Bxd7
33. gxh5 Kh7 34.
Ng5+ Kh6 35. Nxf7+ Rxf7
36.Qxg6#, and if 32... Bb7
33. Rd3 is clearly winning for white}
33.
Ng5 ! Bxd7 34. h5
gxh5 35. Qh6 g3+ 36. fxg3 is
winning for white since Qh7 mate cannot be prevented.)
32.
Kg3 Rce8 33. Kf4 Bc8
34. Kg5
The
Final Position. Black Resigns.
1-0
(Since
34. Kg5 Kh7 {34... Bxd7 35.
Kh6 is winning for white} 35.Rxf7+
{35. Qxg6+ Kh8 36. Qh6+ Kg8
37.Kf6 +-} 35... Rxf7
36. Qxf7+ Kh8 37. Kh6 with forced mate to follow )
This game was declared the best
game of the Chess Informant 53 .It scored
73/90 and outclassed the Kasparov-Anand game by 3 points margin. The jurists of
the selection committee were the leading players like Korchnoi, Yusupov,
Speelman, Ribli etc. Except Ribli who gave 2 points for this game,
all other jurists gave 7-10 points. The jurists must not have seen the R.Teichmann-Consultants
game, otherwise their decision might have been different.
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