{"id":1104,"date":"2018-04-23T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T08:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T01:08:41","slug":"gipslis-tukmakov-annotated-special-guest-gm-suat-atalik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/2018\/04\/gipslis-tukmakov-annotated-special-guest-gm-suat-atalik\/","title":{"rendered":"Gipslis v Tukmakov &#8211; Annotated by special guest GM Suat Atalik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chess in Latvia was always associated with the World Champion Mikhail Tal (1936-1992). However just a year younger then him, GM Aivars Gipslis (1937-2000) was a full fledged Grandmaster since 1967 and representing first the republic in Spartakiads then the country in international tournaments. Participant of several Soviet championships, an Interzonal contender and winner of many international tournaments Latvian number 2 was a well known international figure in the chess world. Here is just another example of his logical play, providing him a good win against equally well known Ukranian GM Tukmakov.<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><pre style='display:none;'><textarea id='pgn4web_a722082' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>  [Event \"URS\"]  [Site \"Soviet Union\"]  [Date \"1975.??.??\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Gipslis, Aivars P\"]  [Black \"Tukmakov, Vladimir B\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"B63\"]  [Annotator \"Atalik,Suat\"]  [PlyCount \"57\"]  [EventDate \"1975.??.??\"]  [EventType \"game\"]  [EventRounds \"9\"]  [EventCountry \"URS\"]  [SourceTitle \"EXT 2010\"]  [Source \"ChessBase\"]  [SourceDate \"2009.11.30\"]  [SourceVersion \"1\"]  [SourceVersionDate \"2009.11.30\"]  [SourceQuality \"1\"]   1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 Be7 {Playing against the Richter-Rauzer Attack} ({many preferred counter measures with} 7... a6 8. O-O-O Bd7 9. f4 b5) 8. O-O-O O-O 9. Nb3 {An important line} ({ avoiding the exchange of Knights with} 9. f4 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Qa5) 9... Qb6 10. f3 Rd8 ({I am more for the immediate} 10... a6 11. g4 Qc7 12. Be3 b5) 11. Be3 (11.  Nb5 Rd7 12. Qe1 {is a known line forcing Black's pieces to be awkwardly placed. }) 11... Qc7 12. Qf2 $1 {Considered to be best since it does not allow a6-b5} ( {neither does not run into} 12. g4 d5 $1 (12... a6 $4 13. Bb6)) 12... Nd7 $6 ({ Black should not be afraid of an isolani} 12... d5 13. exd5 Nxd5 14. Nxd5 Rxd5 15. Rxd5 exd5 $13) 13. Nb5 Qb8 14. h4 a6 15. N5d4 Nxd4 ({In case of} 15... Qc7  16. g4 Nce5 17. g5 b5 18. h5 Nf8 19. g6 $1 {should start an attack absolutely a la Tal.}) 16. Nxd4 Qc7 17. g4 Nc5 18. g5 b5 $2 {Under the present circumstances the stereotypic counterplay with a6-b5 may be way too slow especially in the absence of Nc3.} ({A possibly novelty stands forward for the keen eyes with} 18... e5 $5 19. Nf5 Be6 20. h5 Bf8) 19. h5 d5 20. e5 Bd7 { Like it happenned in many games transformation from a Sicilian into a French pawn structure did not serve well for Black.} (20... Qxe5 $2 21. Nc6) 21. Qh2  $1 (21. f4 Ne4) 21... Na4 {[#]} 22. Rd3 $1 {Prelude for an extremely logical exchange sacrifice} ({defending against} 22. g6 $4 Nxb2 23. Kxb2 Ba3+ 24. Kxa3 Qc3+ 25. Nb3 b4#) 22... Nc5 23. g6 $1 Be8 (23... fxg6 24. hxg6 hxg6 (24... h6 25. Bxh6 $1) 25. Qh7+ Kf7 26. Rh6 {with a winning attack.}) (23... Nxd3+ 24. Bxd3 {just makes the last underdeveloped piece to participate in the attack.}) 24. h6 $1 {The files should be opened} (24. gxh7+ $2 Kh8) 24... fxg6 25. hxg7  h5 26. Rd2 Rd7 27. Bh3 Bf7 28. Rg1 Kxg7 {[#] At the very moment Black believed to cover all his King-side weaknesses} (28... Kh7 29. Qf4 $1) 29. Bxe6 $3 {comes the combination!} (29. Bxe6 $3 Nxe6 (29... Bxe6 30. Rxg6+ $1) 30. Nxe6+ Bxe6 31. Rxg6+ Kxg6 32. Rg2+ Kf7 33. 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However just a year younger then him, GM Aivars Gipslis (1937-2000) was a full fledged Grandmaster since 1967 and representing first the republic in Spartakiads then the country in international tournaments. Participant of several Soviet championships, an Interzonal contender and winner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}