Thursday 13 December 2007

Miniature of the Month - November

A game from the Ukrainian Championship where White treats the French Defence with the contempt it deserves. The Knight sac on f7 destroys Black's position.

Onischuk,V (2469) - Jakimov,V (2434) [C10]
Ukrainian Chess Championship (Final) Kharkov UKR (7), 23.11.2007

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Nbd7 6.Nxf6+ Nxf6 7.Nf3 Be7 8.Bd3 c5 9.Qe2 cxd4 10.0-0-0 Bd7 11.Bc4 Qa5 12.Rxd4 Bc6 13.Ne5 Nd7 14.Nxf7!! Bxg5+ 15.f4 Qc5 Instead of this Fritz suggested the bizarre (but legal) 15. ... O-O 16.Qxe6+ Be7 17.Nd6+ Kd8 18.Nxb7+ 1-0

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder how often Jakimov plays the French? That Nxf7 line also crops up in the Fort Knox and is relatively well known.

Anonymous said...

The French deserves 'contempt'? - lol