I use computer a lot, I must admit. I check analyses, variations, and I have to do this, because everybody else does so, and one has to check and re-check everything. But I use computers a little strangely, because while I am looking at a position with one eye, I can be watching a film or doing something else as well.
Viswanathan Anand
Interviewed by WGM Elmira Mirzoeva for the Russian radio station Mayak on 5 November, 2009. http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5930
California 1951 ABCD-Los Angeles
Prins has a daring style. When he last met Kashdan, 14 years ago, in the 1937 International Team Tournament at Stockholm, he chose Bird's Defense to the Ruy Lopez. Their fierce struggle ended in a draw.In the following game, played November 21, last year, as another event in the Al Bisno Chess Drives, Prins goes too far. In consequence of his choice of opening, he incurs an unbearable weakness of his King's position. Then he failed to seize an undeserved chance for consolidation and, instead, loses the exchange.
Notes (abridged) by Hans Kmoch, Chess Review , January 1952, page 23.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bb4 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 h6 7.Bxf6 Qxf6 8.Bxc4 0–0 9.0–0 Nc6 10.e5 Qe7 11.Qe2 b6 12.Qe4 Bb7 13.Bd3 f5
13...g6 14.d5!
a) 14...exd5 15.Nxd5 Qd8 16.Nf6+ Kg7 17.Rfd1 Qe7 (17...Nxe5 18.Nh5+!) 18.Nd5 Qc5 19.Rac1 Qa5 20.Nxb4 Qxb4 21.Rxc6;
b) 14...Nd8 15.d6!;
c) 14...Bxc3 15.dxc6;
d) 14...Na5 15.d6 Bxe4 16.dxe7 Bxd3 17.exf8Q+ Kxf8 18.Rfd1 Bxc3 19.bxc3 Be4 20.Nd4 is slightly better for White.
14.exf6 gxf6 15.Qh4
15.Qg4+! Qg7 (15...Kh8 16.Nh4±) 16.Qxe6+ Kh8 17.Ne4 with a slight edge for White.
15...Qg7 16.Ne4 Rad8 17.Ng3 f5
17...Ne7 was better.
18.Nh5 Qf7 19.Bc4 Kh8??
19...Kh7
20.Nf4! Qf6
21.Nxe6 Qxh4 22.Nxh4 Rfe8 23.Nxd8 Rxd8 24.Nxf5 Nxd4 25.Rad1 c5 26.a3 b5 27.axb4
bxc4 28.bxc5 Rg8 29.Ng3 Ne2+ 30.Kh1 Nf4 31.f3 h5 32.Rd6
1–0
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7 sections.
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EXPERT: $400-200-101 (u2100: 100-100)
A: $400-200-101 (u1900: 100-100)
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