0129 KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE
Wendy's XVI, Rd:5, 7-26-00, Charlotte, NC
Jon Pietras (1752) Justin Daniel (2002)
1. d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.Nc3 d6 5. e4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 (The Petrosian System remains a solid system for White, as White gets a fairly easy-to-manage middlegame and black must play precisely to equalize) 7...a5(The only good counter) 8. h4!? h5 9. Bg5 Qe8 10.Qd2!? (the f3-knight usually claims the d2 square, but white's idea has merit-trade dark squared bishops and attack on the K-side) 10...Na6 11.Nh2 (the drawback of white's queen move) 11...Nc5 12.f3 Bd7 (Here I planned ...Nh7,...f6,..., ...a4, and ...f5 in response to Q-side castling and a pawn storm against my king, where I can block the K-side with ...f4 and if white captures, recapture with my bishop and take over the light squares around the white king) 13. O-O?! (white puts a damper on my plan, but I believe this is a positional error as black now takes over on the K-side and white's h2 knight will have trouble getting back into play) 13...Nh7 14. Bh6 f5 15. Bxg7 (else 15...Bxh6 16.Qxh6 f4! -/+) 15...Kxg7 16. exf5 gxf5 17. g4! (Otherwise 17...f4 and 18...Qe7 with advantage) 17...f4 (17...hxg4? just gives white a mobile pawn phalanx after fxg4 and if black captures twice, white takes the initiative e.g 17...hxg4 18 fxg4 fxg4 19 Rxf8 Qxf8 20.Rf1 with initiative, although the game would still be unclear) 18. g5 Bf5 =/+ 19. Rfe1 Qg6 20.Bf1 Kg8 ( I desperately wanted to play e5-e4 here but this would boomerang after 21. fxe4 Nxe4 22. Nxe4 Bxe4 23. Qd4+ and black is history) 21. Bg2 b6 22.Ne4! (great defense by white, I never could find the right move order for a5-a4, Rae8, and e5-e4) 22...Rf7( I was fishing here, Bxe4 would have left white with the "bad bishop, which after white recaptures and plays Qe2 followed by Bh3 or Bf3 the bishop becomes a monster)23. Qe2 Kh8 24. Nf1? (the knight had to guard g4 and f3, now the white monarch comes under a huge attack) 24...Nxe4 25. fxe4 25...Bg4! (now white must interpose with his bishop or else black's f-pawn eats white alive) 26. Bf3 Nxg5! 27.hxg5(27. Bxg4 f3 or simply hxg4 as in thegame) 27...Qxg5 28. Bxg4?! (more stuborn was 28 Qg2 followed by Kf2, but after 28...Rg8 29. Kf2 Rfg7 black still has menacing compensation for his slight material deficit) 28...hxg4 29.Qh2+ Rh7 30. Qg2 g3 (to weave a mating net around the white king) 31. Rad1 (31. Nd2 Rh2! 32 Nf3 Rxg2+ 33. Kxg2 Qg7 34. Rh1+ Kg8 and the black king escapes after Rf8-f7 and Kf8-e7, if Nh4-f5 than black sacrifices his rook for white's knight and wins with the connected passed pawns) 31... Rg8 32. Rd3 Rh2! 33. Qh3 Qh4 34. Re2 Rf2! 35. Rxf2 gxf2 ++ mate
(Notes by Justin Daniel)