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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
©
Jon Speelman 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
5
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
7
9
11
14
18
23
27
31
35
3
8
40
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
49
51
56
6
3
69
76
86
93
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
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
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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