0168 KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE
29th Snowstorm Special, Rd 4, 2/25/01, Charleston, SC
David Causey (1984) Patrick McCartney (1929)
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 f3 0-0 6 Be3 Nc6 7 Nge2 a6 8 Qd2 Rb8 9 Nc1 e5 10 d5 Nd4 11 Be2 (The main reply is 11 N1e2 and then Black has the option of playing 11...c5 12 dc6 Nc6 or else 11...Ne2 12 Be2 Nh5 leading to
roughly equal play in both cases.) 11...b5 12 cb5 Nb5 13 Nb5 ab5 14 b4 Ne8 (With White's last move stopping Black's play on the queenside, he shifts his focus over to the Kingside.) 15 0-0 f5 16 ef5 (Black's attack on the Kingside is at lightning speed, and while this move stops the immediate 16...f4, it doesn't help White all that much in the long run.) 16...gf5 17 Nb3 f4 18 Ba7?! (I do not like this move for White. It seemed as though the only hope, if any, was to play 18 Bf2, and answering 18...Qg5 with 19 g3 though Black still would have a clear advantage.) 18...Ra8 19 Na5 Qg5!(This wins at least an exchange for Black as he has the twin threats of 20...Rxa7 now that White no longer has the fork on c6, and in response to 20 Bf2, 20...Bh3 forcing White to give up the exchange on f1) 20 Nc6 Bd7(Threatening to remove the guard, and at the same time, maintain the possibility to play Bh3 if White retreats the bishop.)21 a4 (White is willing to give up the piece in order to get advanced pawns on the Queenside) 21...Bc6 22 dc6 Ra7 23 ab5 Ra1 24 Ra1 e4! 25 Ra7 ef3 (Practically forcing the Bishop away from guarding the b5 pawn, and allowing Black to remove a lot of the pressure with the Queenside pawns.)26 Bf3 Qb5 27 Rb7 Qe5 28 Kf1 Qa1 29 Ke2 Qb2 (Another interesting possibility is 29...Bc3 when White must watch out for possible mating attacks with the Queen coming in to e1.) 30 Qb2 Bb2 31 Bg4 Bd4 32 Bd7 Bb6 33 Rb8 Nf6 (It may have been better to play 33...Kf7 intending 34...Ke7, but that is not completely clear. It does prevent the following combination though that White has to make things a bit more complicated for Black, but either way Black should come out on top.) 34 Rb6 cb6 35 Be6 Kg7 36 c7 Nd5! 37 c8=Q Rc8 38 Bc8 Nb4 (In return for being up the piece, Black will be up a pawn, as the f-pawn is going to drop, along with having 2 disconnected passed pawns. The one inconvenience for Black is that all pawn promotions are on light squares, the squares the bishop controls.)39 Kf3 Nd5 40 Bb7 Nc3 41 Kf4 Kf6 42 Ke3 (White has nothing better, as the Black knight covers d4. White will eventually have to give way to the Black king at some point anyway, might as well do it now.) 42...Ke5 43 Kd3 Nd5 44 Kc4 Ne3 45 Kd3 Nf1 46 h3 Ng3 47 Kc4 Nf5 48 Kb5 d5 49 Kb6 d4 50 Kc7 d3 51 Kd7 Nh4 (While this move works, even better was 51...Nd4!! and the pawn will promote immediately as all entries for the White bishop are covered.) 52 Bc6 d2 53 Ba4 Nxg2 54 Ke7 Kf5 55 Kf7 h5 56 h4 Nh4 57 Bd1 Kf4 0-1 (Notes by McCartney)