1983-01-01 - Tyack, R 0-1 Copeland, Graham
Another correspondence game. White launches an eight-Pawn(!!) attack against Graham's Nimzovitch Defence. He leaves a lot of holes that Graham fills in with his pieces. "Total destruction" in just 20 moves!
[Event "CORRESPONDENCE"] [Site "?"] [Date "1983.01.01"] [Round "?"] [White "Tyack, R"] [Black "Copeland, Graham"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B00"] [Annotator "Doe,John"] [PlyCount "40"] {This game features the extremely rare Eight Pawns Attack. The problem with that is the pieces don't get developed. Notes, as well as the Black piece moves, by Graham Copeland (GP).} 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. c3 Qd7 {Black already leads 3-0 in pieces developed.} 5. Ne2 f6 {Attacking the head of the Pawn chain which White is justified in reinforcing.} 6. f4 Nh6 7. h3 $5 {"This is committal but interesting." GP. Deep Rybka changes its evaluation from near-equality to plus 0.35 for Black.} Bg6 {"To allow...Nf5." GP. So White prevents it.} 8. g4 {Mariotti-Gligoric, Praia de Rocha Zonal tournament 1969 featured the six-Pawn attack.} e6 9. Ng3 O-O-O 10. b4 {"But this is extravagant." GP.} Kb8 11. a4 {And now we have the advance of all eight Pawns after just 11 moves. White doesn't get to make another eleven moves! Deep Rybka thinks Black is 0.6 better.} fxe5 12. fxe5 Be7 13. h4 {"13 Be3 Bh4 14 Bf2 Qf7! 15 Ra2! is just about defensible." GP. Actually it's not. Black can play the ironic 15...Bxg3 16 Bxg3 Bxb1 17 Qxb1 Qf3 18 Rg1 Qxc3+ when the White Bishops do nothing whilst the position opens up. However, Deep Rybka says 14 Rg1 is better. It doesn't think the text is so bad either. Why allow Black to occupy h4?} Be4 {"Intending 14...Rhf8 and 15...Bf3." GP. I have a preference for the alternative 14...Rdf8 with the option of ...Qd8 attacking h4 again.} 14. Nxe4 $2 {Foolishly swapping off his only developed piece. I prefer 14 Rh2 Rdf8 15 Be2 Qd8 16 g5 Nf5 and Black is about to play ...h6 opening up the Kingside where he has more pieces. This should be to Black'a advantage. What actually happens is even better.} dxe4 15. Qe2 $2 {Black was threatening 15... Nxe5. Graham wrote "Best was 15 Be2 but then 15...Qd5 16 Be3 Nxe5 17 dxe5 Qxe5 18 Qc2 or Qc1 Rhf8 is a dominating position for Black." Indeed Black is threatening 19...Qg3 and 19 Bd2 creating cover for the King is no good because of 19...e3, while 19 Rh3 is met by 19...Bxh4+. Deep Rybka suggests after 15 Be2 Qd5 the simple 16 0-0 but after the equally simple 16...Bxh4 it has Black at +0.6. Originally Deep Rybka considered two other moves. It quickly rejected 15 Bxh6 gxh6 because this just gives Black an open g-file to play on, and the absence of the dark-squared will probably make itself felt soon. The engine looked at 15 Bb5 for a long time before decided that both 15...Rhf8 and 15...Qd5 were good, and the latter was strong enough to force 16 Bxc6. The problem here is that White has no real plan whereas Black does. Blast open lines and try to get at the White King while there is no defensive co-ordination. The text allows Black to do exactly that.} Nxd4 $1 16. cxd4 { "If 16 Qxe4 Nb3 winning." GP.} Qxd4 17. Ra2 {If 17 Bb2 Bxb4+ is instant annihilation.} Bxb4+ {That's three Pawns for the piece already. White's side of the board is a huge void and the Black pieces are rushing to fill it} 18. Nd2 {If 18 Bd2 e3 is still winning material. After 19 Bxb4 Qxb4+ White has to interpose on d2 again.} e3 19. Rh3 Nxg4 20. Rg3 exd2+ {"White resigns because of the forced continuation 21 Bxd2 Bxd2+ 22 Rxd2 Qa1+ 23 Rd1 Rxd1+ 24 Qxd1 Qxe5+ (winning the Rook -TM). There is nothing better for a Hypermodernist that destroying his opponent's centre. I certainly had fun in this game: Total destruction!" GP.} 0-1
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