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(12) Miles,T - Gurevich,A
can op, 2001
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.c4 Bb4+ This move is risky. [5...Be7!?; 5...Nh5!?] 6.Nfd2 0-0 7.a3 Be7 8.Nc3 c5 [8...d5 In my database I found 7 games of Miles in this line, nearly all victories!] 9.d5! Miles was saying afterwards that it was his good fortune that his opponent was playing a line that he had refuted 20 years ago! 9...d6 [9...exd5 10.cxd5 Nxd5 (10...Bxd5 11.Nxd5 Nxd5 12.Qf3 Nc7 13.Qb7 d6 14.Nc4 Qd7 15.0-0-0 As in Miles-Timman, 1979 (!!). Black has big problems developing.) 11.Qf3] 10.e4 Re8 11.Be2 Nbd7 12.0-0 Nf8 13.Be3 Ng6 14.Qc2 Bf8 15.Rae1 It is not that Black's position is so bad, as it is that Black simply has no play. 15...a6 16.b4 e5 17.g3! Fifty years ago this type of move was considered a revelation. Today every King's Indian player understands this type of move. What follows is the 'massage': black tries to get counterplay while white invades the q side. 17...Bc8 18.f3 Bh3 19.Rf2 Be7 20.Bf1 Qc8 21.Rb1 h5 22.Qd1! This is a nice manoevre. 22...Bxf1 23.Qxf1 h4 24.bxc5 bxc5 25.Nb3 Threatening to go into c6 later, as well as double rooks on the b line. 25...Qd8 26.Qh3 I don't know if this move is necessary, but it is annoying for black! 26...Rb8 27.Rfb2 Nh7 28.Nd1 Bg5 29.Bf2 Qf6 30.Qg4! White contains black's counterplay with ease. 30...Bh6 31.Ne3 Ng5 32.Nf5 One can almost feel for the black pieces. 32...h3 33.Be3 Ne7 34.Nxh6+ gxh6 35.Nd2 Rxb2 36.Rxb2 Ng6 37.Kf2 Nf4 A desperate try. Miles handles it with ease 38.Rb3 Ng2 39.Bxg5 Qxg5 40.Qxg5+ hxg5 41.Rb6 And that is how simple chess can be... 41...Kf8 42.Rxd6 Rb8 43.Rxa6 Rb2 44.Ke2 Ra2 45.Ra5 Ra1 46.Rxc5 1-0
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