[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: This Week's ChessBase Show: Nielsen-Hillarp Persson

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
This Week's ChessBase Show: Nielsen-Hillarp Persson
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1186009587.shtml


   A few months ago I presented the game Ivan Sokolov-Tiger Hillarp
   Persson, a spectacular contest won by the latter. If you go back and
   have a look at it, you might think it would be hard for Hillarp
   Persson to top such an achievement, but as youâll see in this weekâs
   show, his win over Peter Heine Nielsen is positively jaw-dropping.
   Hillarp Persson, a talented if inconsistent grandmaster from Sweden,
   is one of the most creative and non-traditional players on the planet,
   as youâll see in this game.
   It started innocuously enough, with a Modern (one of Hillarp Perssonâs
   pet lines) transposing into a Classical Kingâs Indian. Nielsen (then
   perhaps a newly minted GM, now regularly in the mid-2600s) essayed the
   Bayonet Attack, and the craziness rapidly ensued. Starting with our
   heroâs sacrificial novelty on move 13, everything gets crazy. On move
   14, HPâs rook is hanging, so of course he sacs a knight as well. On
   move 16 he puts a piece en prise, on the next move he puts a second
   piece where it can be attacked, constructing what must be one of the
   few self-administered pawn forks in chess history! The game never
   really returns to full rationality, but amazingly, the sequence of
   adventures concludes in an endgame with equal material (on move 26)
   where Blackâs activity decides.
   Your mind will be blown after seeing this game, but thatâs okay: itâs
   great to be reminded of what attracted us to chess in the first place.
   The only thing crazier than this game is not tuning in to watch it! I
   hope therefore to see you this Thursday night at 9 p.m. ET (3 a.m.
   Friday morning CET). Remember, the first 100 viewers get to watch for
   free! (Everyone else, too, but you wonât want to miss a minute of the
   show.)
   Directions for watching shows live (or in the archives) are [1]here.

References

   1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1114234449.shtml