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Can you beat Magnus and earn 250 euro?
All readers of Jeroen Bosch’ best-selling SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises (“Tired of main lines? Shock your opponent with an SOS!”) are invited to send us their games with an SOS-idea. The player of the best game wins 250 euro. You can send us your entry until September 1, 2004.
SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises (208 pages; € 21.95) by Jeroen Bosch is available with your local chess bookseller and with New In Chess.
HD 13.6 (A04)
White player  Magnus Carlsen   
Black player  Sergey Dolmatov
Moscow Aeroflot open 2004 (3)
 
 
 
 

1.f3 f5 2.d3!?

As Bosch writes in his book on page 127: This modest-looking move is in fact an effective reaction to Blacks first move. White prepares e4, arguing that 1...f5 is a weakening move.ø

2...d6 3.e4 e5 4.c3 c6 5.exf5 xf5 6.d4 xd4


Bosch follows the game Krasenkow-Kindermann, Panormo 2001, which saw A)_6...b4 7.b5+ c6 8.a4 And ended in a white win. He wonders what Krasenkow had planned after B)_6...xd4 as he was not impressed by a game Romanishin-Malaniuk, Tallinn 1987, that petered out to a level position after 7.xd4 exd4 8.xd4 f6 9.d3 xd3 10.xd3 c6 11.0-0 e7

7.xd4 exd4 8.xd4 f6 9.c4!

Perhaps it was this improvement that Krasenkow had in mind. White gets an overwhelming initiative.

9...c6 10.g5 b5


[On 10...d5 11.0-0-0 would be very strong

11.b3 e7 12.0-0-0 d7 13.he1 d8?! 14.xe7!

The beginning of the end.

14...xe7 15.f4 d7 16.e4 d5 17.xf6 h6 18.h4 g5 19.d4!

The final blow.

19...gxh4 20.xd5 is no option, so Black resign.
SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises