BATUMI CHESS OLYMPIAD 2018 ROUND 9 – PIORUN vs NAKAMURA

Nakamura’s Olympiad woes continued in round 9.

This game is from round 9 of the 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad. It features Kacper Piorun with White against Hikaru Nakamura with Black.

Today’s game features a Scandinavian Defence.

Piorun,Kacper (2612) - Nakamura,Hikaru (2763)

43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open Batumi (9.3), 03.10.2018

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd8 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 g6 B01: Scandinavian Defence [5...Bf5 6.Ne5 c6 7.Bc4 e6 8.g4 Bg6 9.h4 Bb4 10.f3 Nd5 11.Bd2 Bxc3 12.bxc3 b5 13.Bxd5 Qxd5 14.h5 f6 15.hxg6 fxe5 16.Rxh7 0–1 (40) Ragger,M (2659)-Laznicka,V (2654) Novy Bor 2017] 

6.Be2 Bg7 7.0–0 0–0 8.Bf4 Nc6 9.Qd2 b6 10.Rad1 Bb7 

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11.Rfe1N [11.Nb5 Nd5 12.c4 Nxf4 13.Qxf4 0–1 (36) Miranda,R (2238)-Slipak,S (2458) Caba 2018] 

11...e6 12.Bh6 Ne7 13.Bxg7 Kxg7 14.Ne5 Rc8 15.Qf4 a6 16.Rd3 b5 17.a3 Qd6 18.b4 Rcd8 19.Red1 Nfd5 20.Nxd5 Nxd5 21.Qh4 f6 

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22.c4! [But not 22.Ng4? Nf4–+] 

22...g5 23.Rg3 Ne7 [Black should play 23...bxc4² 24.Nxc4 Qd7] 

24.Qh5? [24.c5± Ng6 25.Qh5 (25.cxd6 gxh4 26.dxc7 hxg3³) ] 

24...Be4! 25.Re3 Bf5 26.c5 [Much weaker is 26.cxb5 axb5 27.Ng4 Bg6µ] 

26...Qd5 27.Bf3 Qa2 28.Nc6! Nxc6 29.Bxc6 Qc4! 30.Be4 Bxe4 31.Rxe4 e5 32.h4 h6! 33.Qf3 Qd5 34.h5 

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34...exd4 [34...Rd7²] 

35.Rdxd4 Qf7 36.g4 Rxd4 37.Rxd4 Qe6 38.Qd3 f5 39.Rd7+ Rf7 40.Qd4+ Kh7 41.Rd8 Rg7 42.Rf8 [¹42.Kg2] 

42...Qc4 43.Qxc4 bxc4 44.Rxf5 

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44...c6 [44...Rd7± 45.c6 Rd1+ 46.Kh2 Kg7] 

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