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Mind-bending analysis and insructive comment from a man who

has participated in world chess at he very highest levels

World championship candidate and three-times British Champion Jon

Speelman annotates the best of his games. He is renowned as a great

fighter and analyst, and a highly original player. This book provides

entertainment and instruction in abundance.

Games and stories from his:

•

World Championship campaigns

•

Chess Olympiads

•

To>level grandmaster tournaments, including the World Cup

Jon Speelman is one of only two British players this centuy to gain a

place in the world's top five. He has reached the sem>finals of the world

championship and is one of the stars of the English national team, which

has won the silver medals three times in the chess Olympiads.

Jon Speelman's Best Games

Jon Speelman

B. T. Batsford Ltd, London

First published 1997

ISBN 0 7134 6477 I

British Libray Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.

A catalogue record for this book is

available from the British Library.

Contents

All rights reseved. No part of this book may be

reproduced, by any means, without prior permission

of the publisher.

Introduction

Typeset and edited by First Rank Publishing, Brighton

and printed in Great Britain by

Redwood Books, Trowbridge, Wilts

for the publishers,

B. T. Batsford Ltd,

583 Fulham Road,

London SW6 5BY

Pat I Growing up as a Chess player

Juvenilia

I JS-J.Fletcher, British U-14 Ch., Rhyl1969

2 JS-E.Warren, Thames Valley Open 1970

3 A.Miles-JS, Islington Open 1970

4 JS-Hanau, Nice 1971

5 R.O'Kelly-JS, Cambridge-Middlesex 1971

6 JS-J.Nunn, British U-21 Ch., Blackpool 1971

7 JSG.H.Bennett, Islington Junior A 1971

8 J.Mestel-JS, Hastings Challengers 1971172

9 Holtzl-JS, Hastings Challengers 1971172

10 M.Basman-JS, British Ch., Brighton 1972

II JS-Schauwecker, Hastings Challengers 1972173

3 8

4 3

International Titles

12 JS-T.B.Bennett, Lloyds Bank, London 1977

13 JS-J.Fedorowicz, Hastings 1977178

14 JS-H.Ree, Lone Pine Open 1978

15 JS-M.Stean, London 1980

16 JSG.Sosonko, London 1980

17 JS-V.Kovacevic, Maribor 1980

18 JS-A.Kuligowski, Maribor 1980

6 3

A BATS FORD CESS BOOK

Editorial Panel: Mark Dvoretsky, Jon Speelman

Commissioning ditor: Paul Lamford

General Manager: David Cummings

Seven Days in London

19 JS-N.Short, London (1st matchgame) 1988

20 N.Short-JS, London (2nd matchgame) 1988

21 JS-N.Short, London (3rd matchgame) 1988

100

104

108

112

22 N.Short- JS, London (4th matchgame) 1988

23 J-N.Short, London (5th matchgame) 1988

123

134

Pat II Four Themes

Skiting the Precipice

24 M.Chand1er-JS, British Ch., Edinburgh 1985

25 L.PsakhisJS, Hastings 1987/88

26 G.Kasparov- JS, Linares 1992

137

144

150

Introduction

'Reginicide'

160

27 J.LevittJS, British Ch., Torquay 1982

160

When, more than ive years ago, a book of my games was irst

mooted, I realised at once that this would be a serious project. A

professional, even then, for a decade and a half - now more than

two decades - I wanted to incorporate not only my (more or less)

mature output: but also some indication as to how the apparently

somewhat 'vegetarian' adult animal developed. Some of this mate

rial dated back as far as 1969. There was no way that the traditional

chronological approach could do justice to such a body of work.

Unwilling immediately to commit myself to such a large under

taking, I turned to 'masterly inactivity'; failing actually to sign a

contract for the work until a few weeks before I finally delivered it

and initially taking refuge in a long succession of lists.

Eventually I decided on a mixed approach, including some

c . hronological materi . al but also several chapters devoted to par

ticular themes. As With most such books, the material wasn't writ

ten in the order in which it inally appeared. I began with the games

against Tony Miles (Game 33) and Zsuzsa Polgar (Game 35),

worked my way through the match with Nigel Short, 'Prelate

Power' and 'Reginicide' and only towards the very end took in

'Juvenilia' (my thanks to my editors - I'd always assumed the third

vowel was an 'a') and 'International Titles' before a final burst of

'Blood on the Board'.

While the initial material was written extremely episodically, the

� ody of t � e book . only . took shape over the last year. During this

time, despite certam residual Luddite tendencies (as an enthusiastic

if very occasional Linux user, I'm certainly not a huge Windows

fan) I moved on from using Chessbase 4.0 in DOS and a DOS text

editor to the more integrated environment of Chessbase for Win

dows and eventually even Microsot Works for Windows so that I

could see the diagrams embedded in the text. I hope bot h that this

28 JS-A.Martin, British Ch., Torquay 1982

164

29 JS-V.Knox, British Ch., Torquay 1982

168

Prelate Power

171

30 JS-G.Sax, Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988

171

31 JS-M.Petursson, Novi Sad Olympiad 1990

182

32 JS-J.Eh1vest, Linares 1991

197

Blood on the Board

204

34 V.KorchnoiJS, Brussels World Cup 1988 213

35 Zsu.Po1gar-JS, Dutch League 1993 219

36 JS-Z.Azmaiparashvili, Spanish Team Ch., Menorca 1994 226

37 P.van der SterrenJS, Moscow Olympiad 1994

229

38 J.Hjartarson-JS, Copenhagen (Politiken Cup) 1996

235

Bibliography

Chess for Children Raymond Bott and Stanley Morrison (Collins, 1982)

The Chess Apprentice Raymond Bott and Stanley Morrison (Collins, 1982)

London 1980 Stewat Reuben and William Hartston (Pergamon, 1980)

The Pirc for the Tounament Plyer John Nunn (Batsford, 1980)

The Pirc Defence Raymond Keene and George Botterill (Bats ford, 1973)

Developments in the Pirc and Modern ystems 1984-87 Nigel Davies

(TUI Enterprises, 1987)

The English Defence Raymond Keene, James Plaskett and Jon Tisdall

(Bats ford, 1987)

Informator

The Chess Plyer

British Chess Magazine (BCM)

New in Chess Magazine

Die Schachwoche

33 JS-A.Mi1es, British Ch., Morecambe 1975

6 Introduction

has provided for smoother analysis and that the excellent editing

has homogenised the text so that the older material isn't too readily

apparent.

Nowadays, I try to analyse - if not to play - chess in a fairly epi

sodic way. Quite long tracts of play involve natural moves, which

one could perfectly well ind in a ive-minute game; but then there

will be moments which require deep investigation. These can occur

when a plan has to be chosen, complex tactics have to be negotiated

or on the cusp between results as the game passes rom a draw to a

win or vice versa. These are always the most tense moments of a

game, in which one's body exhibits · the most stress; and have

tended to call forth a torrent of analysis as I've sought, even away

from the cordite, to lay the game to rest. I realise some of these

analyses are obsessive; and beg the reader's indulgence for the

product of sleepless nights.

There are many people I should like to thank for spurring me on.

Firstly, everybody at Batsford and in particular the present incum

bents Dave Cummings and Paul Lamford who've guided the book

through its final moments. Byron Jacobs and Andrew Kinsman of

First Rank Publishing who did the editing and typesetting. John

Nunn for his gentle chivvying when he was a Batsford adviser. Bob

Wade for endless encouragement and the use of his wonderful li

brary. And last, but far from least, Lindsay and Lawrence who had

to endure several months of a rather less domesticated animal than I

would usually wish to present at home.

1 Juvenilia

I was taught ches at the age of

six on Boxing Day 1962 by my

teenage cousin. Naturally I im

mediately wanted to play a

game; and equally naturally I

succumbed to scholar's mate -

the one where the queen lands

on 'bishop two' (presumably he

let me start, so it was 2).

Dspite this outrage, I was

fascinated. I saw the game as a

very hard puzzle; and to some

extent continue to do so to this

day. My first chess book was

Chess for Children by Bott and

Morison, soon followed by

their sequel The Chess Appren

tice - retitled years later, with

crashing mundaneness, More

Chess for Children.

I pestered my mother into

buying a fairly decent chess set

and on the same day also ob

tained my first 'real' chess

book: Bob Wade's account of

the 1963 world championship

match in which Petrosian de

feated Botvinnik. Although this

was many years too advanced

for me, it is a lovely book and I

still treasure it.

In order for a player to be

come really strong at chess,

there should be some period of

his life in which he (or she) is in

love with the game. It doesn't

have to last; you can't expect

somebody who's been a profes

sional player for twenty years to

feel the same devotion as a

child. But it is only tlrrough this

obsession that one can suck the

essence of the game into one's

very being.

For me this lasted right

tlrrough my childhood, from

soon after I lent the moves

right up to my early teens. In

common with quite a lot of

strong players, I lost my father

extremely young - in my case

just ifteen months - and my

obsession with chess to some

extent filled the emotional void

left by s absence. (Many years

later, I developed a much better

understanding of this after

reading The Ego Ideal and

Creativiy and Perversion both

by the splendidly named French

Jon Speelman

London

August 1997

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