By Grigory Bogdanovich
Again to the longer term! faraway from a dusty relic as soon as performed via nice masters resembling Rubinstein, Pillsbury, and Bogolyubov, the Zukertort approach now enjoys new lifestyles. smooth world-class avid gamers equivalent to Artur Yusupov, Teimour Radjabov, and Lázaro Bruzón have come to understand the Zukertort's wealthy strength and play it with self belief opposed to robust competition. The Zukertort method is an absolutely manageable, dynamic 21st-century commencing. frequently thought of a version of the better-known Colle process, the Zukertort stands proudly by itself, delivering White probabilities to release a pointy kingside assault or to paintings up a gradual squeeze at the queenside. during this monograph via Zukertort practitioner IM Grigory Bogdanovich, gamers of the white items will detect easy methods to construct at the resources in their place, whereas avid gamers of Black will how you can guard their territory. All alongside, the reader is handled to a positional handbook on primary topics resembling putting pawns, the remoted queen's pawn, and sacrifices to open traces for assault.
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Gelfand) But even this leaves Black with only some illusory chances . 63 :txd7 'i'xd7 64 'iWb6 ! �h7 65 g4 An undesirable, but forced weakening of the king' s position . 65 . . f6 The pawn capture 65 . . 'i'xd4 would ;ave led to a lost rook ending. - 66 l:e4 'i' c8 ' The best defence, found by Kramnik after 40 minutes ' thought. After 66 . . 'i'd5 67 'i'xa6 : a8 68 'i'e6 'i'xaS 69 'i'f7 'i'a l 7 0 "g6+ � h8 7 1 : e8+ White has every chance of winning. ' (Gelfand) 67 :e7 Only this move deprives White of a deserved victory, or, at least, makes it infinitely difficult.
He was forced to part with his queen 23 . . bxa4 (23 . . i. i. e2, the game would have been over, and the tournament in Riga could have turned out differently. But Timman too was unlucky. 20 :a4 'ji'b3 2 1 l:xaS 'ji'xd l 22 :xdl b6 23 d6! ::tac8 24 d7 :cd8 25 �xe7 ! l:t b8 2 7 :el ! �d8 28 ne8 b5 29 :a8 ! (all forced and pretty) 29 . Jba8 30 �xa8 b4 31 �d5 �g7 32 'litO and Black resigned . He is powerless to prevent the white king from making its victorious march to c8 . On this demonstration of his analytical power, at the board Krarnn i k required only 50 minutes .
But the b5 pawn can be made weak after Kramnik's trademark breakthrough. which he senses literal ly with the tips of his fingers . 27 d5 ! exd5 28 exd5 CLJf5 29 �f2 c5 . Avoiding, even if at the cost of a pawn, the complete opening up of the position . ack is hoping to securely blockade the �sed d5 pawn. {Jxb5 tUd6 After 30 . . cxb4 3 1 lI c6 followed bv Black has erected all conceivable defensive lines. but nevertheless . . g8 26 hxg5 hxg5 27 'ii'h 6 'ii' b6 28 :e2 ':d8 29 ':h3 lIg7 30 e4 !