0125 GRUNFELD DEFENSE
Ole Smokehouse IV, Rd: 3, 5-13-00, Charlotte, NC
Patrick McCartney (1860) Jeff Rayfield (1852)
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 cxd5 Nxd5 5 e4 Nxc3 6 bxc3 Bg7 7 Bc4 0-0 8 Ne2 c5 9 Be3 Qa5 10 Kf1 e6 11 h4 b5 12 Bb3 c4 (Black does get a queenside majority out of this, but this pawn push is not good because it basically relieves all pressure from the d4 pawn) 13 Bc2 Nc6 14 h5 b4 15 hxg6 fxg6 16 cxb4 Nxb4 17 e5 Nd5 18 Bd2 c3 19 Bg5 Ba6 20 Kg1 Rab8 21 Ng3 Rb2 22 Rxh7! Rxc2 (22...Kxh7? 23 Bxg6+ Kg8 24 Ne4 intending 25 Qh5 and preventing 24...Rff2 giving White a huge advantage) 23 Rxg7+ Kxg7 24 Qxc2 Rc8 25 Ne4 Nb4 26 Bf6+ Kg8 27 Qc1 Qc7 28 Nxc3! Qxc3 29 Qh6 Qxa1+? (This is greedy and Black doesn't have the time to
get the queen back in play to defend his king. This can actually be considered a version of Platov's Deflection, which is based off of the Queen sacrifice in Mitrofinov's Deflection, except with a lower ranked piece, in this case the rook.) 30 Kh2 Rc7 31 Qh8+ Kf7 32 Qg7+ Ke8 33 Qxc7 Nd5 34 Qd8+ (White begins his mission to win the e6 pawn with check, not allowing Black the opportunity to play ...Qxa2 protecting both the Knight and the Bishop) Kf7 35 Qd7+ Kf8 36 Qg7+ Ke8 37 Qxg6+ Kf8 38 Qg7+ Ke8 39 Qg8+ Kd7 40 Qf7+ Kc6 41 Qxe6+ (White wins his piece back, and is now just up a bunch of pawns) 1-0