Kings Indian Defence Opening Novelty {kingscrusher}

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Analysis of Yannick Pelletier vs Hikaru Nakamura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks4qJ-b ... glKxhRzDcw


Fen:r1bq1rk1/2p1npbp/1p1p2p1/P2Pp3/2P1Pn2/B1N5/P2NBPPP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 13
White to play the novelty 13. axb6

[pgn]
[Event "European Club Cup"]
[Site "Skopje MKD"]
[Date "2015.10.19"]
[EventDate "2015.10.18"]
[Round "2.21"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Yannick Pelletier"]
[Black "Hikaru Nakamura"]
[ECO "E97"]
[WhiteElo "2557"]
[BlackElo "2816"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5
7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. b4 a5 10. Ba3 b6 11. bxa5 Nh5 12. Nd2
Nf4 13. axb6 Rxa3 14. Nb5 Ra5 15. bxc7 Qd7 16. a4 Ba6 17. Nb3
Bxb5 18. cxb5 Qxc7 19. Nxa5 Qxa5 20. g3 Nxe2+ 21. Qxe2 Bh6
22. Rfb1 Rb8 23. b6 Rxb6 24. Rxb6 Qxb6 25. a5 Qc5 26. Ra4 Kg7
27. a6 Nc8 28. Rc4 Qb5 29. Qa2 Nb6 30. Rc6 Na4 31. a7 Qa5
32. Kg2 Qxa7 33. Rc4 Bg5 34. Qxa4 Qb7 35. Rb4 Qc7 36. Qc6 Qa7
37. Qxd6 Be7 38. Qxe5+ 1-0[/pgn]

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Jan Gustafsson made a video too : https://chess24.com/en/live/video/pelle ... --ecc-2015

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Jan Gustafsson made a video too : https://chess24.com/en/live/video/pelle ... --ecc-2015

Thanks for sharing. I must confess that in the position after black's 28th move, as white I would have been tempted by 29. Rxc8

[d]2n5/5pkp/P2p2pb/1q1Pp3/2R1P3/6P1/4QP1P/6K1 w - - 0 29

Totally missing black's nice follow up 30. ... Be3!!

29. Rxc8 Qxe2
30. a7 Be3!!

[d]2R5/P4pkp/3p2p1/3Pp3/4P3/4b1P1/4qP1P/6K1 w - - 0 31