A joy of staying in Singapore is there are many community libraries around. For chess enthusiast a chess books can be found in every branch. Some library also has chess periodic like CHESS and Chess Life. After become a library member this year I already borrowed many chess books and yesterday I come across a book called “Sokolov’s Best Games” by Ivan Sokolov. It is a collection of 50 win by GM Ivan Sokolov, born in Bosnia but stay in Holland now.
What really make me happy about the book is there are all 1.d4 win by Ivan whenever he play white. The opening I really into it, in fact I almost never play 1.e4. There are 24 games on how to defeat the Nimzo-Indian as well, almost 50% of 50 games previewed. What was inside Ivan opponent’s brain by keep playing Nimzo-Indian against him. is there are no database in 90’s , can they see that Ivan always win this defence? Or don’t they know that he even write a book on this defence? Curious about this I search his recent games and still found many won with Nimzo Indian. Back to the book, what not make this a perfect book to me is, there are no Sicilian games being played.
Here is some search on www.chessgames.com , beside win against Nimzo-Indian, Ivan still has many many win with 1.d4.
Ivan is now playing in six player round robin format Bosna Tournament. See http://tournaments.chessdom.com/bosna-chess-2009/round-4 .
Enaknya tinggal di Singapore adalah adanya banyak perpustakaan di mana-mana. Perpustakaan ini dikelola oleh pemerintah dan tiap orang bisa jadi anggota. Tentunya bagi Singaporean biaya menjadi anggota sangat murah, malah hampir gratis. Di perpustakaan ini juga banyak buku catur. Kemaren saya meminjam satu buku, Ivan Sokolov's Best Games, dan menemukan banyak hal seru di sini. Antara lain semua partai di mana Sokolov pegang buah putih selalu dimainkan dengan 1.d4, jadi buku ini hampir mirip manual tentang gimana mengalahkan lawan pakai 1.d4. Lebih detail lagi hampir setengahnya adalah partai melawan pembelaan Nimzo-India. Setelah melihat-lihat buku ini, saya coba cari partai lain di internet dan menemukan menang si Ivan ini jago dalam hal mengatasi Nimzo-Indian. Berikut link-linknya dan terakhir saksikan partai miniaturnya melawan si Ibrahimov tahun lalu.
vs S Sulskis,2004 36th Olympiad E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation
vs Kurajica, 2004 Bosnia E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation
vs Bologan, 2004 Bosnia E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
vs Miroshnichenko, 2007 European Club Cup E49 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Botvinnik
vs Hou Yifan , 2007 Ruy Lopez Festival E49 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Botvinnik
vs K Lie, 2007 European Team Chess Champ. E37 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
vs S Sulskis, 2007 5th Gibraltar E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation
vs R Ibrahimov , 2008 President's Cup E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
vs N Abasov , 2008 President's Cup E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
vs S Maze, 2009 10th European Indiv. Champ. E28 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Var.
The game against Ibrahimov can be nominated for today's shredding chess move because of its excellent attacking game, and finished only in 21 moves.
Sokolov,I - Ibrahimov,R - President Cup 2008,Baku, Round 8
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. Bg5 c5 6. e3 cxd4 7. exd4 h6 8. Bh4 d5 9. cxd5 Qxd5? (D) the knight on f6 now can be taken and the h6 pawn became very weak. dengan langkah ini sang ratu tidak bisa lagi mempertahankan kudanya di f6. setelah terjadi pertukaran di f6, bidak di h6 sangat sulit dipertahankan. 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Nf3 Nc6 12. Qd2 now the h6 pawn is now hard to defend. Rd8 (D) 13. Qxh6 e5 14. Bd3 e4 15. Bc2 Bf5 16. Bb3 Qd7 17. Nh4 Nxd4 18. Rd1 Bg4 19. O-O Bf8 20. Qg6+ Kh8 21. Bxf7 1-0
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