(1) IM Hsu Li Yang (2385) - Jiravorasuk (2245) [E60]
Asian Cities, Dubai, 1996
[Hsu Li Yang]
Normally, Hsu picks up a pawn, grind...grind (yawn...) and wins the endgame with relative ease. However, once in a while, he gets inspired to play games like this... 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.Nf3 d6 6.0-0 Nbd7 7.Qc2 e5 8.Rd1 Re8 In this line of the KID, White delays the development of the Queen Knight in case it has a future on d4 (to c4 and d6) 9.dxe5 Nxe5! 10.Nd4!? c6 11.h3 Qb6 12.b3 Nfd7 13.Nc3 Nc5 [13...Nxc4?? 14.Na4+-] 14.e4 a5 15.Be3 a4 16.Rab1 axb3 17.axb3 Qc7?! [17...Qb4!²] 18.f4! Ned7 19.b4 Ne6 20.Ndb5!
The sacrifice was made for several reasons-1) I saw no other way of proceeding, 2) White obtains two pawns and cramps Black's position, 3) I did not see a clear way for Black to refute the sacrifice. 20...cxb5 21.Nxb5 Qb8 22.Nxd6 Rf8 23.c5 Ra3 24.Rb3 Rxb3 25.Qxb3 Nf6 26.b5 Ne8 27.e5 Nd8 vaguely reminiscent of the famous Karpov-Kasparov game where all of Karpov's pieces were stuck on the back rank. 28.Qa4 Be6 29.Nxb7!!+- 29...Nxb7 30.c6 Nd8 31.b6 Bxe5 desperation 32.fxe5 Qxe5 33.Qf4 Nxc6 34.Bxc6 Qh5 35.Rd8 Qe2 36.Qf2 1-0
