Study Your Own Game! (vs Ronen Har-Zvi)

An old advice and repeatedly given by Masters when asked about on how to improve ourself is to annotate your own game. Desperately looking for ways to improve, i follow the advice and annotate a lot of my games and learn a great deal from the effort. The annotation is far from perfect and that's why we have to go back and see the game from fresh eyes, again and again.

To quote Kasparov:

	To play creatively without being afraid of taking chances and to posses a polished chess style in no way releases you from the need for persistent hard work. On the contrary, you must constantly perfect your playing, deepen and widen your opening repertoire, refine your techniques, and analyse complicated endgames. Chess, after all, is not just an accumulation of acquired knowledge; chess is dynamic, and apparently definitive conclusion may in actual fact be just an interim one. The truth has to be proved every time. Even my own annotations to games are not unshakeable as far as i am concerned. I like to keep updating them, making them more precise: many ideas come to be reaccessed, including, of course, one's own ideas. I willingly go over my own mistakes again and analyse them.

So, this in one of mine *wink* I'm sure will keep updating my analysis! How i wish the GM himself would be able to give his own annotation!

Yusof - GM Ronen Har-Zvi 2514,
Simultaneous Match World Chess Live, 31.07.2007.
[Time control: 45"+20']

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qc2 Bb7 6. Bg2 Bb4+ 6 .. c5 7. O-O cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bxg2 9. Kxg2 Bc5

7. Bd2 a5 8. O-O O-O 9. a3 Be7 10. Nc3 d5 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Ne5 Nbd7 13. Bf4 Rc8 14. Rad1 Re8 15. Qb3 c6

        

16. e4 To claim my supremacy of d5 square. Note the pawn could not be taken due to Qxf7+

16. ... Nf8! 17. Bh3 Perhaps better is 17. Be3 17 .. Ne6 18. exd5 cxd5 19. Be3 Knight at e6 is strong so 19. Bxe6 fxe6 20. Rc1 maybe a good idea.

19 .. Bd6 20. f4 Ba8 21. Nb5 Bb8 22. Rc1

        

22. .. h5 Very instructive move! 23. Rxc8 Qxc8 24. Rc1 Qd8 25. Nc6 Bxc6 26. Rxc6 Ng4

        

27. Bxg4?! After the exchange of my light Bishop, i have the feeling that i've weaken light squares around my King. Perhap 27. Bd2 is better

27 .. hxg4 28. Bf2 Qd7 29. Rxb6

        

29. .. Bxf4! 30. Nc3 30. gxf4 Nxf4 31. Qc2 Ne2+ 32. Kg2 Nf4+33. Kg1 (33. Kf1? g3!; 33. Kh1? g3!) 33 .. Ne2+ 34. Kg2 Nf4+

30 .. Ng5 31. gxf4 Nh3+ 32. Kf1? Mistake! 32. Kg2 Nxf4+ 33. Kg3 Qf5 34. Rb8 Nh5+35. Kg2 Nf4+ 36. Kg3 (36. Kf1 Qd3+!;36. Kh1 Qd3 37. Rxe8+ Kh7 38. Qd1 Qh3!!) 36 .. Nh5+ +/=)

        

32 .. Qf5!! -+ The only move that bring advantage to black! See how the Queen control b1-h7 diagonal, especially b1 and d3 square. Why i didnt see this?!

33. Qb5 My evaluation during the game that white is completely winning in this position. But, after next move, i just realize i'm in in big problem and begin to think hard

33. ... Re7! 34. Rb8+ Kh7 35. Re8 Qxf4! 36. Nd1? but all option is lost nevertheless!

        

36. .. Rxe8? The GM made a mistake which gives white chance to come back! 36 .. Qf3!! 37. Rxe7 Qxd1+ 38. Re1 Qf3 and mate in all possibilities!

37. Qxe8 Qf3 38. Qe1?! [38. Ke1 Nf4 (38 .. Qh1+ 39. Kd2 Qxh2 40. Qe5 +/-) 39. Bg3 Ne6 40. Nc3+-)

38. .. Nf4! 39. Ne3 a4?! [39 .. g3! 40. Qb1+ (40. hxg3 Qh1+ 41. Bg1 Qh3+42. Kf2 Nd3+ -+) 40 .. g6 41. hxg3 Qh1+ 42. Bg1 Nh3 -/+)

40. Qd1 Qh1+ 41. Bg1 f5! 42. Qc2 Qf3+ 43. Bf2 Qh1+ 44. Bg1 Qf3+

        

45. Qf2? Deadly mistake! Although in time trouble, i'm still stubborn due to the material advantage!

45. ... Qe4? 45 .. Qh3+!! 46. Ng2 Qd3+ 47. Ke1 Qb1+ 48. Kd2 Qxb2+ 49. Kd1 Qb1+ 50.Kd2 Nxg2 -+ 46. Qc2 Qf3+ 47. Bf2 Qh1+ 48. Bg1 [Repetition] 1/2-1/2