College Chess / UT Dallas versus U. Belgrade
Back row, left to right: UT Dallas Chess Coach Rade Milovanovic (native of Serbia), GM Aleksandar Indjic (first board in the match for UT Dallas, native of Serbia), GM Denis Kadric (UT Dallas player, native of Bosnia Herzegovina); front row, left to right: Snjezana Milovanovic (Rade's wife, native of Bosnia Herzegovina) and Katarina Djakovic, UT Dallas grad student (not on chess team, parents are from Serbia).
37. ... Bf6 38. Kb3?? Ra1?
The move 38. ... Rd3+! was a winning contin- uation as after 39. Ka2 Nb5 I am losing material.
39. Bd4 Bxd4 40. Rxd4 a5 41. Rd7 Ne6 42. Ne5 Rb1+ 43. Kc2 Rxb4 44. Rxf7+ Kg8 45. Re7 Nc5 46. f3 a4 47. Ra7 b5 48. Kc3 Rf4 49. Kc2 b4?! 50. Ra5
55. Rc8+ Rf8 56. Rc7 Nd6 57. Kxb3 The situation has changed completely and I’m
on top now. We are both playing with seconds on our clock here.
57. ... Rb8+ 58. Kc2 Rb5 59. Nd3 Rd5 60. Rc5 Rxc5+ 61. Nxc5 Kf7 62. Kd3
This endgame with a pawn down for Black is
hard, especially when you are playing using the increment of five seconds after every move.
Until this moment Nikola played almost a
perfect game. Now both of us were in time trouble so we had to play the rest of the game instinctually.
24. Qd3 Qxd3 25. Nxd3 Bxa3 26. Kc2 I am a pawn down in the endgame. I think the
chances of my getting a draw are similar to his chances to win this position.
26. ... Bd6 27. Ra1 Bb8 28. Ra4 Kf8 29. Re4 g5 30. hxg5 hxg5 31. b4 Rd5 32. Kc3 Rd8 33. Kc4 Bd6 34. Kb5 Be7 35. Ne5 Rd1 36. Nc6
He has lost control over the position. Black is not better anymore.
36. ... Nc7+ 37. Ka4? We were both in time trouble and making
serious mistakes. 37. Kc4 would have given me an equal position.
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50. ... b3+? Best is 50. ... Ne6! and it turns out the a-pawn
is untouchable because of 51. Rxa4 b3+ 52. Kxb3 Nc5+ with a winning advantage to Black.
51. Kb2 Ne6 52. Ra6 Nc5 53. Rc6 a3+ 54. Kxa3 Nb7?
The continuation 54. ... Ra4+ 55. Kb2 Ra2+ 56. Kb1 Na4 57. Rc4 would lead to an equal position.
62. ... Kg6 63. Kd4 Nb5+ 64. Ke5 Na3 65. Nd7 Nc4+ 66. Ke6 Nd2 67. Ne5+ Kh6 68. Kf6, Black resigned.
Black resigned because he will lose the pawn
on g5. At the end I can say this game was full of unexpected turns. Eventually I succeeded in winning it with some luck for sure.
FRENCH DEFENSE, CLASSICAL SYSTEM (C13)
IM Vladimir Lukovic (2439, SRB) GM Sahaj Grover (2498, IND) Notes by Grover.
1. e4 e6
I am always comfortable playing the French Defense, one of my main weapons. 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3
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