Friday, May 29, 2009

'The Pawn Storm'

Some lighter fare this time: an amusing game between Moshe Czerniak (white) and Menachem Kalir (Israeli Championship, 1970) -- a rather extreme case of mutual pawn storms.

1. e4 c5 2. g3 Nc6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Ne2 Bg7 5. 0-0 d6 6. d3 Nf6 7. f4 0-0 8. Nd2 Ne8 9. Nc4 b5 10. Ne3 Rb8 11. f5 b4 12. g4 a5 13. Qe1 a4 14. g5 Ne5 15. Nf4 Nc7



16. Qh4 f6 17. Nfd5 e6 18. fxe6 Bxe6 19. Nxc7 Qxc7 20. gxf6 Qd8 21. Nd5 Bxd5 22. Bg5 Qc7 23. exd5 h6 24. fxg7 Rxf1+ 25. Rxf1 black resigns.

Source:
British Chess Magazine vol. 92, no. 11, p. 448 (Novermber 1972). Kalir's first name from Jeremy Gaige's Chess Personalia: a Biobibliography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2005 [1987]).

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