davidmoodychess ([info]davidmoodychess) wrote,
@ 2006-07-27 19:10:00
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Smorgasbord
If you've never seen this game, you must play through it. White sacrifices every one of his pieces. Literally.

Serper,G - Nikolaidis,I [E70]
St. Petersburg, 1993

1.c4 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Nge2 Nbd7 6.Ng3 c6 7.Be2 a6 8.Be3 h5 9.f3 b5 10.c5 dxc5 11.dxc5 Qc7 12.0–0 h4 13.Nh1 Nh5 14.Qd2 e5 15.Nf2 Nf8 16.a4 b4 17.Nd5

We start off with the QN, to get a couple of passed pawns.

17...cxd5 18.exd5 f5 19.d6 Qc6 20.Bb5

The KB gets into the act.

20...axb5 21.axb5 Qxb5

21...Qb7 22.c6 Qb8 23.b6 would be a pretty picture.

22.Rxa8 Qc6 23.Rfa1 f4 24.R1a7 Nd7

24...fxe3 is met by 25.Qd5!

25.Rxc8+

The QR goes, to keep the Black king in the center.

25...Qxc8 26.Qd5

Abandoning the QB to its fate.

26...fxe3 27.Qe6+ Kf8 28.Rxd7

Take the KN while you're at it!

28...exf2+ 29.Kf1 Qe8 30.Rf7+

The KR joins the rest of the gang.

30...Qxf7 31.Qc8+ Qe8 32.d7 Kf7 33.dxe8Q+ Rxe8 34.Qb7+ Re7 35.c6

Go ahead! Make my day!

35...e4 36.c7 e3 37.Qd5+ Kf6 38.Qd6+ Kf7 39.Qd5+ Kf6 40.Qd6+ Kf7 41.Qxe7+

After having actually survived to the time control, the queen forces herself on Black.

41...Kxe7 42.c8Q Bh6 43.Qc5+ Ke8 44.Qb5+ Kd8 45.Qb6+ Kd7 46.Qxg6 e2+ 47.Kxf2 Be3+ 48.Ke1 1-0

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(Anonymous)
2006-07-29 02:10 pm UTC (link)
It would have been more noteworthy---and more impressive---if White had won. ;-) Any patzer can throw it all away and lose. (Though GM Serper is certainly no patzer.) Was this at a standard time control? It looks like a one minute Bullet game gone wrong. ;-) I wonder what's the most pieces sacrificed by someone who won. If you can dig up a game where someone sacs everything and wins it'd make a nice companion to this game. :-) ---Scheherazade

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[info]davidmoodychess
2006-07-29 03:06 pm UTC (link)
Whoops. Thanks for catching the boo-boo; I have corrected the entry, though I was tempted to leave it at 0-1 and make up some silly reason why White lost the game.

By the way, it was indeed, an actual tournament game at a slow time control. That's why White repeated moves to get to move 40; for some reason, he was short on time.

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(Anonymous)
2006-07-31 09:39 pm UTC (link)
See, I thought white ought to win, but *I'm* a patzer, so I figured there was something subtle that I was missing. LOL! Glad you corrected the score. It really is a wild game.---Scheherazade

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