[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: This Week's ChessBase Show: Sutovky-Smirin, Israel 2002

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
This Week's ChessBase Show: Sutovky-Smirin, Israel 2002
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210128047.shtml


   The city of Baku, Azerbaijan, seems almost a factory for great chess
   players. Garry Kasparov, Teimour Radjabov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov,
   Vugar Gashimov, Vladimir Akopian, and the star of today's show, Emil
   Sutovsky. While he's a bit lower-profile than most of the other Baku
   natives these days, the Israeli transplant has had a career almost
   everyone - including almost every GM - would be proud of: grandmaster,
   former world junior champion, former European champion, winner of
   nearly 40 international tournaments and a career peak rating of 2697.
   Further, it's not only his results that have been exceptional; he is
   renowned for playing beautiful attacking games. Perhaps his greatest
   game so far came against Ilya Smirin, from the 2002 Israel
   Championship. Smirin, himself a great player (a few months before this
   game he was over 2700), played a novelty in an anti-anti-Sveshnikov
   variation, but Sutovsky was either better prepared or experienced some
   over the board inspiration. Whatever the story, this week's hero
   devised a real two piece sacrifice that gave him enduring attacking
   chances, but nothing that could be calculated to a finish in advance.
   Sutovsky's idea proved absolutely correct, and after a number of
   accurate building moves, he finished the job with a beautiful final
   blow. All in all, a masterpiece in miniature.
   It's a game worth seeing, and watching the show this Wednesday night
   at 9 p.m. ET is a great way to pass the time between the just-finished
   FIDE Grand Prix (in Baku!) and the pending MTel Masters. The show is
   free and directions can be found [1]here. Hope to see you then!

References

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