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***
January,
2002.
I have received dozens of e-mails, some of them with a less than positive
tone.
When I said, "Some games are just as brilliant as the GM games,"
...
Well several people have said I did not know what I was talking
about!!
(They also challenged me to give at least one example.)
A story of one game, and how it affected me.
(See the buttons above for the links!!)
I
remember I was very young (about 1970) and someone showed me a magazine
with
a game in it. The game was very, very brilliant, (it seemed it contained
an endless
supply of almost unbelievable sacrifices!); but for many years I
could not remember it.
A
year or so later, someone purchased me a copy of the new book, "The King
Hunt In
Chess," by William Cozens. (A very good book, but this game
was not in it. The reason
I even bother to mention this will not become obvious ... unless you read on!)
Then
later ('72 or 73) I saw a book with this same game in it. I think the names of
the players
were given (perhaps incorrectly) as White: "Konstanpenko," and
Black: "Kharchiev."
(This is purely from memory, but I am sure it is pretty close.)
I
copied the game score down in a notebook - which I have since lost many years
ago.
*** I thought the game was lost for all time, but I should have known
better.
***
I
remember being at a U.S. Open, (1977, I think); and someone asked
me,
"What is the most brilliant game you have ever seen?" (I had
already seen - by this
time - about 50 to 100 GM games that I considered extremely brilliant. I
had also
already played through all of Fischer's games, when I had checked this
book
out from the public library. I also had read dozens of chess books. So I
was NOT
ignorant of chess, or general Master practice. But I also had NOT
given the matter
much thought; at least not at that point in my life.)
I
replied - in answer to the question posed - it was a game between two unknown
Soviet players from the 1960's; ... such was the impression this game had left on
me!!
I was berated heavily, and
several Masters joined this discussion. But I maintained
this game was very
profound. (I still do!)
***
The
very next year the local library received a very large grant from a fellow who
passed
away, and who had been a member of our chess club. He stipulated in his will
that a
percentage of this sizeable grant be used to purchase chess books.
As
a result, our local public library purchased a copy of (then) IM Andy
Soltis's new
book, "Chess To Enjoy." I kept this
book for nearly a year. (I had a friend who worked
at the check-out desk, he fudged the rules a little bit.) I went over
every game twice.
I even copied out portions of this book by hand to a notebook, so I would have
it when
I eventually had to give the book back!
On
page # 202, I found my old friend, .........
The game,
Ostapenko
- Jarchev; USSR, 1969.
(Black's name has been given in MANY different forms ... "Jarcev,
Kartsev, Kharchev," etc.)
There is a fairly detailed analysis of this game there. For instance he gives no
comments
or annotations for like this first 17 moves, but then he begins in-depth
annotation. For the
period of moves from move 18 to move 23 takes two whole pages. He gives all of
these
moves a single exclam, except for White's 19th, 21st, and 23rd moves, to which he
assigns
a DOUBLE EXCLAM to these moves. He goes on to assign several more exclams to
the
rest of the game. Suffice it to say, this game is - as I said - VERY, VERY,
BRILLIANT!!
The
years passed by, & I went on to study many games and many other books. My
maternal grandmother lived in New York for many years, I went there as often as I could.
Many people showed me games over the years.
But the haunting memory of that one game
...
I
saw this same game several more times over the years, books, magazines,
etc.
(I know I saw a position from this game once in a problem
book.)
A
few years ago, (around '97) I purchased the book, "The King-Hunt,"
...
by GM John Nunn. (and William Cozens.) Basically what
had happened is that
Nunn had taken the book by W. Cozens, and re-done it. He eliminated several of
the
original games and added around 15-20 new ones. And game # 43, (starting
on
page 114); is the game, Ostapenko - Yartsev!
We meet again!
I
plan on soon doing an in-depth analysis of this game, (It's
done!!) I have already
started
on this project, but be warned - these things can often take months, or even
years!, to complete. I don't know if I will publish the fully annotated version.
It's
too long.
Here
is just the raw game score of this game.
Click
HERE to see this game in a js-replay format.
***
March
25th, 2002: I have been working for several months now on annotating this
game. I am having to (TRY to) learn the theory of this line, it is very
complex.
Additionally, this game is very complex, and I do not believe I could do it
justice
by just bashing it out quickly. Since this game affected me so deeply, I want
to
annotate it in-depth ... and bring it to the net in its un-altered form.
***
April 09, 2002: I am still working on this
game!!
(I am doing an entire repertoire on this variation ... just so I can say
I have,
at least!, a basic understanding of the theory of this VERY sharp
line!!!
---> The process of making a repertoire involves - for me
- of inputting all of the
lines and columns and notes that MCO has on this variation ... into the
computer.
I have done this for literally DOZENS of opening lines.)
***
*** June/July 2002: I am pretty much done
with this game. ***
See
the buttons at the top of the page. One is a link to a
relatively briefly
analyzed game ... BUT with a java-script replay page.
The other one is a
TEXT-ONLY page that took
nearly a year to finish. I actually started on
This project in the EARLY 90's, but I had several set-backs. (One of
my earliest computers crashed after 3 years of work. I had no back-ups.)
I started again on this project (Velimirovic Attack) for real in
August of 1999.
Although I did NOT always work faithfully on it, I have always come back to
it.
I
am also working on a BOOK/CD-ROM project that I hope to also have
published
as a regular book as well. If you are interested, click HERE.
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