Adrian Mikhalchisin - Opening Bluff

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Adrian Mikhalchisin:

Opening bluff

In chess sometimes appeared such situation,

when one of the players starts to play for win

at any price. In some cases it is possible to

do it from the early openings. We call such

way as BLUFF and the most brilliant figure

of this style weas great Mikhail Tal. He used

this method in different situations, but in the

openings he was successfull with this

method too.

Tal M. : Portisch L. B11

Bled 1965

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 de4 4.Ne4 Bg4 5.h3

Bf3 6.Qf3 Nd7 7.d4 Ngf6 8.Bd3 Ne4 9.Qe4

e6 10.00 Be7 11.c3 Nf6 12.Qh4 Nd5 13.Qg4 Bf6 14.Re1 Qb6 15.c4?!

Normal way was quite possible here: 15.Qh5

g6 16.Qf3 Bg7 17.a4 a5 18.h4, with

attacking chances. But Tal decide to play

beautifully and dangerousely.

15...Nb4

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Bad was 17...Be7 18.Bg6 hg6 (18...Kd8

19.Bf5 Qd4 20.Bf4 Re8 21.Re1) 19.Bg5 Qc7

20.Re1 Qd7 21.Qg6+. But very good was

17...Kd8 and White has no more than

perpetual.

18.Bf4 Rd8

Did not help now 18...Re8 19.Bd6 Be7

20.Re1 Qd8 21.Re3.

19.c5 Nd3

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Tal saw the line which led to draw: 20.Bh6

Qb2 (20...Qc7 21.Qf6 Kg8 22.Bg7) 21.Qf6

Ke8 22.Qe6 Kf8 23.Qf6.

20...Nf4 21.Qg4 Nd5 22.ba7 Ke7 23.b4

Ra8?

Slightly better would be 23...Kd6 24.b5 Kc7

25.Qg3 Rd6 26.bc6 bc6 27.Rb1.

24.Re1 Kd6 25.b5 Ra7? 26.Re6 Kc7

27.Rf6 1:0.

Christiansen L. : Foygel I. B15

USA 2002

In the next game it was performed very

similar idea.

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 d5 5.h3

Nf6 6.Bd3 de4 7.Ne4 Ne4 8.Be4 Bf5 9.Bf5

Qa5 10.c3 Qf5 11.00 Nd7 11...00 was the simple alternative. 12.Re1 Re8 13.Bg5 (13.Qb3 is the typical method

again. 13...Qb5 14.Qb5 cb5 15.Bg5

provoking more and more weaknesses.

15...e6 16.d5 f6 17.Bh4 e5 18.Nd4, Velimirovic : Zivkovic, Svetozarevo 1990)


13...e6 14.Qd2 (14.Re5!? is very impressive,

but White cannot claim more than adequate

compensation for the exchange: 14...Be5

15.de5 Na6 16.Qd4 h6 17.Bh6 Rad8 18.Qh4

Qh5 19.Qf4 Qf5 20.Qh4 Qh5=, with only

repetition of moves, Palkovi : Barczay,

Hungary 1995) 14...Nd7 15.Bh6 Bh6 16.Qh6

Rad8 17.Re3 and Rae1, with the well-known

pressure on the e file. 17...Qf6 18.Rae1 c5

19.d5 e5 20.c4, Loginov : Sandhu, Oberwart 1997.

12.Re1 e6 13.Qb3 Qb5

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(14.a4 Bf6 15.a5 a6 16.c4 g5 17.d5!? ed5

18.cd5 Nc5 19.Qb6 Rd5 20.Qa7 Nd7 and

White's unprepared is beaten back, Kochyev : Zilberman, USA 1975) 14...Nb6 (14...h6

15.d5!) 15.c4. Now the Knight on b6 is

badly placed. 15...h6 16.a4 Bellin : Kusnir, Haifa 1976.

13...b6 14.Qa3 is the next provocation.

14...a5 15.c4 and Black's has been successfully weakened. 15...Bf8 16.Qb3 Bb4

17.Re2 00 18.Bg5 Lobron : Gruenfeld, Luzern 1979.

14.Re6?!

This sacrifice is far from correct! Logical

was natural 14.Qb5 and White could get

slightly better endgame, but IGM

Christiansen is in attacking mood! 14...cb5

15.d5 Nc5 16.de6 Ne6 (16...fe6 17.Nd4) 17.Ng5.

14...fe6 15.Qe6 Kd8!

15...Kf8?? loses to 16.Bf4+. 16.Bg5

16.Ng5 is also not enough: 16...Kc8 17.Nf7

Qd5! 18.Qd5 cd5 19.Nh8 Bh8 and White is

simply a piece down.

16...Kc8

Or 16...Kc7 17.Bf4 and then 17...Kc8.

17.Re1 Rf8

17...Qd5 18.Qd5 cd5 19.Re7 Rg8 was also

rather tempting!

18.Qe7

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Black overlooked terribly strong

intermediate move two moves later.

Black had logical winning idea: 18...Rg8!

19.Qf7 Qd5 20.Re8 Kc7!+. 19.Qg7 Rf3 20.Re5!

Its is simply protecting Bishop g5!

20...Qb2 21.gf3 1:0.

Averbakh Y. : Tal M. A76

Riga 1958

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 ed5 5.cd5

d6 6.e4 g6 7.Be2 Bg7 8.Nf3 00 9.00 Re8 10.Qc2 Na6 11.Bf4 Nb4 12.Qb1


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Of course, this sacrifice is a bluff, but to

refute it,White has to calculate a lot and very

precisely and far.

13.Ne4 Bf5 14.Nfd2 Nd5

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moves, but usually just one way is correct.

15.Bd6?

Other options were 15.Bg3 Qe7 (Euwe

found that Tal had another interesting option

15...Bh6 16.Bd3 (16.Qd3 Nb4 17.Qf3 Nc2;

16.f4 Bg7! with a lot of threats) 16...Nb4

17.Re1 Nd3 18.Qd3 d5+) 16.Bb5 Be4 17.Ne4 Qe4 18.Be8 Qe8 19.Bd6 Qc6 20.Bg3

c4 it was Tals intention to play with the

exchange down. The best way was 15.Bg5

Qg5 16.Ng5 Bb1 17.Bc4 Bf5 18.Bd5 Bb2

19.Bf7 Kg7 20.Be8 Ba1 21.Bd7 Bd7

22.Ra1.

15...Nf6 16.Bf3 Ne4 17.Ne4 Be4 18.Be4

Qd6 19.Qc2 Re7 20.Bf3 Rae8 21.Rad1

Bd4 22.a4 b6 23.b3

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With extra pawn and control over important

central file Black starts his attack.

24.Rd2 h5 25.Re2 Re2 26.Be2 h4 27.Kh1

Qf4 28.g3 Qf6 29.Qd1 Rd8 30.Bg4 Bf2

31.Qe2 Rd2 32.Qe8 Kg7 33.gh4 Qd4

34.Bh3 Qd3 35.Bg2 Rd1 0:1.

Averbakh Y. : Spassky B. E74

Leningrad 1956

In many cases after the opening one player

founds himself in very unfavourable

situation,that only help is to change situation

dramatically,even with the help of some

crazy sacrifices!

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 d6 4.d4 Bg7 5.Be2

00 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 Qa5 8.Bd2 a6 9.a4 e5 10.g4 Ne8 11.h4 f5 12.h5 f4 13.g5 Qd8

14.Bg4 Nc7 15.Bc8 Qc8 16.Nf3


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Black is completely helpless, but this move

changes the course of the game

dramatically, what is not according to White

taste.

17.dc6 bc6 18.Nh4 Qe8 19.hg6 hg6 20.Qg4

Rb8 21.Nd1 Ne6 22.Ra3 Nd4 23.Rah3 Qf7

24.Bc3 Rfe8 25.R3h2 Qc4

Stronger was here 25...d5.

26.Ng6 Re6

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Simpler would be 27.Rh8 Bh8 28.Rh8 Kg7

29.Rb8 f3 30.Nf4 ef4 31.Qf3.

27...Rg6 28.Qf5 Qe6 29.Qe6 Re6 30.Bc3 d5

31.f3 Rb3 32.Rh3 c4 33.Kd2 Rg6 34.Rg1

d4 35.Ba5 Bf8 36.Rg4 Rd6 37.Kc2 Rd7

38.g6 Rdb7 39.Be1 c5 40.Rgh4 Bg7 41.Ba5

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Suddenly Black longstanding inititive started

to give some results.

42.bc3 Ra3 43.cd4 ed4 44.Rf4 Ra2 45.Kd3

Rb1 46.Rh1 Ra4 47.Kc2 Rb5 48.e5 d3

49.Kd3 Rf4 50.Bc3 Rf3 51.Ke4 Rg3 52.Kf4

Rg6 53.Ne3 Rb8 54.Nf5 Rf8 55.Rh5 Re8

56.Ke4 Rg1 57.Rh3 Bf8 58.Kd5 Rd1

59.Ke4 Rc1 60.Kd5 Rd1 61.Ke4 Rd7

62.Nh6 Bh6 63.Rh6 Rh7 64.Rg6 Kf7

65.Rf6 Ke7 66.Rc6 Kd7 67.Rc5 Rh6

68.Kd5 Rb6 69.Ba5 Rb5 70.Rb5 ab5 71.e6

Re6 72.Kc5 Re5 73.Kb6

.

Taimanov M. : Larsen B. D37

Vinkovci 1970

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 c5 5.dc5

00 6.Bf4 Bc5 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.e3 d5 9.a3 Qa5 10.Rc1!? Be7 11.Be2 dc4 12.Bc4 Nd5!?

13.Bd5 ed5 14.Qb3!?


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It is extremely dubious from positional point

of view try to change course of the game.

Larsen did not liked his position at this

moment.

14...d4?! 15.Nd4 Nd4 16.ed4; 14...Rd8 15.00. 15.Bg3 g4 16.Nd4?

Taimanov was so surprised by the wrong

flank attack, that he lost the objective

evaluation of the position. Correct was

16.Ne5! Bf6 (16...d4 17.ed4 Nd4 18.Qd5

Qd8!) 17.Nc6 bc6 18.00. 16...Nd4 17.ed4 Bg5 18.00 Did not improve the position 18.Rc2 Re8

19.Re2 Re2 20.Ke2 Bd7.

18...Bc1 19.Rc1 Be6 20.h3!?

Of course Taimanov avoids Queens

exchange 20.Qb7 Qb6.

20...gh3

Wrong was try to swap the Queens

20...Qb6? 21.Qb6 ab6 22.hg4=.

21.Be5?! f6!

From here Larsens calculation is superb.

21...Qb6? 22.Nd5!

22.Ne4 fe5 23.Qg3

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It was necessary to see this beautiful tactics,

when both GMs started to calculate this line.

23...Kh8? 24.Qe5; 23...Kf7? 24.Ng5 Ke7

25.Qe5.

24.Qg4 Kh8+ 25.Ng5 Qd2 26.Rc7 26.Rf1 hg2.

26...Qf2 27.Kh2 Qg2 28.Qg2 hg2 29.de5

Rac8 30.Rb7

Did not save the game 30.Rh7 Kg8 31.Rh6

Kg7 32.Rd6 Rf2.

30...Rc2 31.Nf7 Kg7 32.e6 Kf6 33.e7 g1Q

34.Kg1 Rg8 0:1.

Kortschnoj V. : Luther T. E01

Essen 2002

This game is a brilliant example of forced

bluff and a mess which it creates!

1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.g3

dc4 6.Bg2 Nbd7 7.00 b5 8.Bg5!? Bb7 9.a4 Qb6 10.Ne5 Ne5

Viktor Korchnoi: There were two games Romanishin : Sveshnikov, where the great

specialist of this position continued 10...Rd8.

In the second game (1999) white played

11.a5 Qa6 12.Nd7 Rd7 13.Bf6 gf6 14.Ne4

Be7 15.Qc1 and obtained some advantage.

Taking on e5 looks as the most natural

move, but presumably it has a clear

refutation ... (15.b4!?).


11.a5?

Viktor Korchnoi: I failed to guess what Romanishin had in mind in this position. The

move is wrong. White had to play instead, as

I realized after long home work 11.de5 Nd5

(11...Nd7 12.Ne4) 12.ab5 Nc3 (12...cb5

13.Bd5 ed5 14.Nd5 Qc6 15.e4 Bc5 16.b4!

and black has problems to complete his

development) 13.bc3 cb5 14.Bb7 Qb7

15.Qd4 with white's advantage. Although

even now it is not clear to me, whether the

pressure of white is decisive, say, after

15...Qd7 16.Qe4 Qd5. 11...Qa6 12.de5 Nd5 13.Ne4 h6 14.Be3

Viktor Korchnoi: White has already burnt the bridges some time ago, and this move is

fully in the spirit of his inflammatory tactics.

If 14.Nd2, then black, I believe, would not

have any problems to develop his pieces. 14...Ne3

Viktor Korchnoi: After 14...000 15.Bc5! white would hinder black development for

long time. 15.fe3 Rd8

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Viktor Korchnoi: Despair. And one might say, not yet motivated. After 16.Qc2 Be7 (or

16...Rd5 17.Rf4 Re5 18.Raf1 f5 19.Qc3 Rd5

20.Nf6! - black has problems to defend his

highly compromized position) 17.Rf4 00

18.Nf6 white would have had strongest

attack.

16...Kd8 17.Rf7 b4

17...c3 was also playable.

18.Rd1 Ke8??

Simple winning move here was 18...Kc8.

19.Rdd7 c3

Chances for win were kept with 19...Bc8.

20.Nd6

Viktor Korchnoi: At this moment I realized that white is not losing, and making the

move I simultaneously offered a draw. Then,

a few seconds later, I grasped, that White has

more than a perpetual check, that black can't

avoid mate! 20.Nd6 Bd6 21.ed6 Qa5

22.Rfe7 Kf8 23.Rb7 and the only way to

escape mate is to play 23...Qb6, what

anyway would not save the game: 23...Qd8

24.Rf7 Kg8 25.Rg7 Kf8 26.Rbf7 Ke8

27.Bc6 .

Kramnik V. : Leko P. A37

Dortmund 2013

1.c4 c5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Nf3

d6 6.00 e6!? 7.b3 Nge7 8.Bb2 00 9.e3 e5!? 10.d3 h6 11.a3 Be6 12.Nd2 d5! 13.cd5

Nd5 14.Rc1

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Correct way in this typical Maroczy

structure with reversed colours. Not


14...b6?! 15.b4!, with the idea of 15...cb4

16.Nd5 Bd5 17.Rc6.

15.Nc4 Rb8!

Not 15...Qd7?! 16.Ne4! b6 17.b4! and if

17...f5 18.Ned6.

16.Qe2

After 16.Ne4 b6 (the weakening of d6 is not

particularly important: White has nothing to

attack by his knights from this square) 17.b4

cb4 18.ab4 is answered by 18...b5!

16...b6 17.f4 ef4 18.gf4 f5 19.Rfd1?! b5!

20.Nd2 Qd7 21.Qf2 a6

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In a strategically difficult position for him,

Kramnik decided to complicate matters. In

such situations bluff is always unpleasant for

the opponent, who waits for swift

developments in slightly better position.

22...Qa7?!

After accepting the sacrifice White would

not have objectively sufficient compensation

for a piece: 22...fe4 23.Ne4 Bb2 and if

24.Nc5 Qd6 25.Qb2 b4!? (but indeed a lot of

complex play would have still been ahead

there).

23.Nc5 Qc5 24.d4 Nd4 25.ed4 Qd6 26.d5

Bf7 27.Na2 Bb2 28.Qb2 Rfd8

Preferable was 28...Rbd8!?

29.Qd4 Rbc8

After 29...Qa3 White has 30.Nb4 a5

31.Na6! attacking the b8 rook.

30.Rc8 Rc8 31.Nb4 Rd8= 32.Qa7!? Rd7

33.Qa6

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After this wrong exchange, Black finds

himself in a difficult ending. Black would

have been no worse after 33...Qc5!

34.Na6 Nd5

After 34...Bd5, one idea is 35.Nc5 Rd6 36.a4

ba4 37.Na4 and if 37...Bb3 (37...Kf7 38.b4)

38.Rd6 Ba4 39.h4.

35.Nc5 Rd8 36.Rd4 Kf8

Or 36...Rc8 37.Rd5! Bd5 38.Bd5. 37.Nd3! Ke8 38.Ne5 Be6 39.Ng6

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complicated realization.


39...Rd7 40.Kf2 Rg7 41.Bd5 Rg6 42.Be6

Re6 43.Rd5 Ra6 44.Rf5 Ra3 45.Rb5 Kd7

46.Kf3 Kc6 47.Rb8 1:0.

Timman J. : Huebner R. C10

Wolvega 2006

In modern chess exist tendency to prepare

bluff, a bit unsound line, but opponent has to

know it! Otherwise hell spend a lot of time

and doubtefully will find the correct

refutation.

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 de4 4.Ne4 Nd7 5.Nf3

Ngf6 6.Nf6 Nf6 7.Bg5 c5 8.Bc4 cd4 9.00 Be7 10.Qe2 00 11.Rad1 Qb6 12.Rd4 Qb2 13.Bd3 h6

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15.Rd8 Bd8 16.Bh7 Kf8.

14.Bh6 gh6 15.Qe5! Qb6?

Black cracks under pressure and did not find

the best way: 15...Kh8 16.Nd2 Qb6

(16...Rg8 17.Ne4 Kg7 18.c3!) 17.Rh4 Rg8

18.Qf4 Rg7 19.Rh6 Kg8 20.Qh4 Kf8 21.Rf6

Bf6 22.Qf6 Bd7 23.Ne4 Bc6 and White has

just some compensation for exchange.

16.Rh4 Rd8

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Even better would be 17.Qf4 Kf8 18.Ne5.

17...Kf8 18.Qg3 Ke8 19.Ne5 Qc7 20.Bb5

Kf8 21.Rh8 1:0.

Radjabov T. : Ivanchuk V. A37

Khanty-Mansiysk 2011

1.Nf3 c5 2.g3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.Nc3

e6 6.d3 Nge7 7.h4 h6 8.Bd2 b6 9.h5 g5

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decided from the start to create maximal

pressure,even on the cost of material.

10.Ng5!? hg5 11.Bg5 Bc3?


Black eliminates a dangerous knight, which

via e4 could go to d6 or f6. He also takes the

string out of h5h6, but that comes at a high price as now Black's squares are weak.

Ivanchuk is a great player, but here he made

a bad decision. 11...f6. IGM Zagrebelny

suggested 11...Bb7 12.h6 (12.Ne4 Qc7

13.Qd2 f5 14.h6 fe4 15.hg7 Rh1 16.Bh1

Qe5) 12...Be5!?

12.bc3 Bb7 13.Qd2! Qc7 14.Bf6 000 Black has serious problems with Black

squares here. He can't play 14...Rh7 in view

of 15.Be4 Ng8 16.Qg5 Nf6 17.Qf6 Qd8

18.Qd8 Nd8 19.Bh7 Bh1 20.f3+ and the bishop is trapped.

15.000 Rhg8

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It is not positional idea-just pure

dynamical,as Black has problems with

recapture.

16...dc6?

Now the black bishop is closed forever.

After 16...Bc6 17.Be7 Rde8 18.Bg5 Bh1

19.Rh1 a bishop and two pawns are stronger

than a rook. 16...Nc6 does not help either -

17.h6 Rg6 18.Bd8 Qd8 19.h7 Qh8 20.Rh4,

with winning with the strong pawn h7.

17.h6 Rg6 18.h7 Rf6 19.h8Q Rh8 20.Rh8

Kd7 21.d4!

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+-tR0 9zplwqksnp+-0 9-zpp+ptr-+0 9+-zp-+-+-0 9-+PzP-+-+0 9+-zP-+-zP-0 9P+-wQPzP-+0 9+-mKR+-+-0 xiiiiiiiiy Now it is time to open Black King.

21...Qd6 22.Qg5! Rf5 23.Qh4 cd4 24.Rd4

Rd5 25.cd5 Qa3 26.Kb1 cd5 27.Rh7 Qc3

28.Rf7 1:0.

Tal M. : Keres P. C83

Moscow 1967

Bluff works not always and the biggest guru

of it had failed sometimes too!

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.00 Ne4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.de5 Be6 9.Qe2

Be7 10.c3 00 11.Bc2 Qd7! 12.Rd1 Very risky was to accept pawn sacrifice

12.Be4 de4 13.Qe4 Bf5 14.Qe3 Rae8 with

strong pressutre in the center.

12...f5 13.Nbd2 Kh8!?

I would say, that it is small provokation from

Keres,as normal way would be.

13...Rad8.

14.Nb3

Very dubious would be 14.Ne4 fe4 15.Be4

de4 16.Rd7 ef3; but very interesting would be attack of Black pawn chain. 14.a4 b4

15.c4.

14...Bf7 15.Nbd4

15.Nfd4.

15...Bh5


XIIIIIIIIY 9r+-+-tr-mk0 9+-zpqvl-zpp0 9p+n+-+-+0 9+p+pzPp+l0 9-+-sNn+-+0 9+-zP-+N+-0 9PzPL+QzPPzP0 9tR-vLR+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy 16.Nf5?!

Once more natural was 16.a4, but Tal wants

activity and decided to bluff, but Keres was

on alert!

16...Qf5 17.Rd5 Bg6 18.Qe3 Rad8 19.Rd8

Rd8 20.Nd4 Nd4 21.cd4 c5 22.d5 Qe5!

23.f3 Bg5 24.f4 Qd5 25.Be4

Of course Tal's decision to bluff was

supported by his wrong calculation. He

overlooked at the end of variation 25.fg5

Qd1 26.Bd1 Rd1.

25...Be4 26.fg5 Qd1 27.Kf2 Qc2

Simpler was 27...Rf8 28.Kg3 Qd6 29.Kh3

Bf5 30.g4 Bd3.

28.Qe2 Rf8 29.Ke1 Qa4 30.b3?

A bit better was 30.Be3.

30...Qd4 0:1.

Conclusion

After analyse of the above examples, we can

say that opening bluff is a powerfull

psychological and technical weapon.

Especially, when the time control is

becoming shorter.

Application of such method demands some

experience and knowledge plus bravery and

right moments. The most important feature

of it is huge pressure on the opponent, which

is very diffucult to survive. This method

does not guarantee automatic success, but

used correctly against some weakness of

opponents style and in some decisive

moments of the tournaments is

very effective.

Documents

Adrian Mikhalchisin - Opening Bluff