Dutch Defense - Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 - Boris Gelfand vs Hikaru Nakamura - Round 6

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Dutch Defense - Tata Steel 2012 - Boris Gelfand vs Hikaru Nakamura: 2012 World Chess Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand opens with d4, and Nakamura employs the Dutch Defense as black. Gelfand commits himself early with 12. Ng5 and 13. Nxe6 to win the black Be6, however this maneuver costs him valuable time in the center. Nakamura is able to achieve a space advantage in the center and especially cramp the white Bg2, while preventing the infiltration of white's rooks on the c7 square with 24. ...Be5. Gelfand fails to sense the danger in the position and does not stop black from opening the position with 26. ...d4, leading to a dangerous attack against white's king. The white Ba3 is an idle spectator, enabling Nakamura to achieve a powerful past pawn with 31. ...exf2+ and accurately convert his advantage with 35. ...Red4 - leading to Gelfand's capitulation.


PGN:
[Event "Tata Steel Chess 2012"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands"]
[Date "2012.01.20"]
[Round "6"]
[White "GM_Gelfand"]
[Black "GM_Nakamura"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2739"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Opening "Dutch: Leningrad, main variation with c6"]
[ECO "A88"]
[NIC "HD.07"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. c4 Bg7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Nf3 d6 7. O-O c6 8. d5
e5 9. dxe6 Bxe6 10. b3 Re8 11. Bb2 Na6 12. Ng5 Qe7 13. Nxe6 Qxe6 14. Qc2 Nc5
15. Rad1 Rad8 16. e3 Nce4 17. Nxe4 fxe4 18. Rd2 d5 19. cxd5 cxd5 20. Qc5 b6
21. Qb5 Nh5 22. Ba3 Bf8 23. Bb2 Bg7 24. Ba3 Be5 25. Rc1 Nf6 26. Rdc2 d4 27.
Rc6 Qf5 28. exd4 Bxd4 29. Qxf5 gxf5 30. Bh3 e3 31. Bxf5 exf2+ 32. Kf1 Be3
33. Rb1 Ne4 34. Bxe4 Rxe4 35. Rc2 Red4 {Black wins} 0-1

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[jknow2255]

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[Dysanfel23]

@joost2433 I should also say that I may have played Rc2 in that position as I would probably have not seen how it loses. Only in retrospect could I see how bad Rc2 was.

[joost2433]

@Dysanfel23 11:48 'Gelfand is pretty busted here', while the position is only a little, tiny better for black. Also, don't forget that as an 1800 player, you're still a very good chess player. I think this guy's audience is people that don't see those things immediately. He's just not telling the truth, so what's to defend?

[Dysanfel23]

@joost2433 I am a 1800 player and I could see that Rc2 was the death move. He didn't need to state the obvious, did he?

[joost2433]

I am a 2200 ELO player, and your video totally sucks! The game was of course drawn, until a horrible blunder by Gelfand, Rc2. I skipped the video to that point and looked what you had to say about it, but you didnt even mention it. You made it look like a very regular, straightforward victory while it wasn't. Now please don't try to make money by lying to lesser chess players, or are you not good enough yourself to see that the game was highly probably drawn at that moment??

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