We're starting a series of posts titled "Stockfish 17 chess engine analyzes the grandmasters' game." We hope you enjoy it. The game we're featuring today was played a few days ago at the European Chess Championship between Bernadskiy, Vitaliy and Wojtaszek, Radoslaw. Be sure to notice the very interesting four-rook endgame and the move 40. Re6!!
[Event "Round 7: Bernadskiy, Vitaliy
- Wojtaszek"]
[Site "lichess.org"]
[Date "2025.03.22"]
[Round "7.19"]
[White "Bernadskiy, Vitaliy"]
[Black "Wojtaszek, Radoslaw"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2529"]
[BlackElo "2659"]
[Annotator "Tactical Analysis 6.4 (10s)"]
[PlyCount "119"]
[EventDate "2025.??.??"]
{[%evp
9,119,0,11,1,4,0,0,0,0,-1,24,21,25,16,50,40,56,54,67,29,26,26,28,36,29,29,32,32,29,32,41,38,46,37,49,35,34,12,12,13,9,7,7,7,7,7,8,2,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,15,16,462,473,474,471,473,449,454,456,461,412,450,426,545,501,567,567,567,494,542,530,555,549,524,504,589,581,581,521,760,714,753,736,714,677,909,746,729,19963,19953,19963,19968,29978,29975,29979,29979,29980,29980,29981,29981,29982,29982,29983]}
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qb3 a5 6. Bg5 c5 7. a3 a4 8.
Qc2 {The position is equal.} (8. axb4 axb3 9. Rxa8 cxb4 $17) 8... Bxc3+
9. bxc3 Nbd7 10. cxd5 exd5 11. e3 Qa5 {Wards off Bb5} 12. Bd3 {Wards
off Ne4} b6 13. O-O Ba6 14. Bxa6 Qxa6 15. dxc5 bxc5 16. Bxf6 Nxf6 {[#]}
17. c4 $1 Qxc4 18. Qxc4 dxc4 19. Rfc1 Ke7 {[%cal Oc4c3]} 20. Rxc4 Rhc8
21. Rac1 Ra5 22. g4 h6 23. h4 Ne8 24. Re4+ Kf8 25. Ne5 Nd6 26. Nd7+ Kg8
27. Re5 Ra7 28. Nb6 (28. Nxc5 Rac7 29. Rc3 f6 $19 (29... Nb7 30. Nxa4
Rxc3 31. Nxc3 $17)) 28... Rb8 29. Nc4 Nxc4 30. Rxc4 $11 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame. KRR-KRR} Rb3 31. Re8+ Kh7 32. Rxc5 Rxa3 {...Ra1+ is the strong
threat.} 33. Rcc8 Ra1+ 34. Kg2 {Black must now prevent h5.} a3 $2
{[%eval 462,36] [%wdl 1000,0,0][%mdl 8192] Black cannot hold the game
after this.} (34... Kg6 $11 {[%eval 16,32] [%wdl 7,992,1]}) 35. h5 $1
$18 {[%csl Gc8][%cal Re8h8]} g5 {Threatens to win with ...a2.} 36. Rh8+
Kg7 {...a2 would now be deadly.} 37. Rcg8+ {[%mdl 64] Deflection} Kf6
{Strongly threatening ...a2.} 38. Rxh6+ Ke7 {[#]} 39. Rgg6 $1 Rb1 {[#]
aiming for ...a2.} (39... fxg6 40. Rh7+ Kf8 41. Rxa7 gxh5 42. gxh5 $16)
(39... Rg1+ 40. Kxg1 a2 41. Ra6 (41. Rxg5 $2 a1=Q+ 42. Kh2 Ra4 $19)
(41. Re6+ Kf8 $18) 41... a1=Q+ 42. Rxa1 Rxa1+ 43. Kg2 $18) 40. Re6+ $3
{[%mdl 512]} Kf8 (40... Kd7 41. Ra6) 41. Ra6 Rbb7 42. Rh8+ Kg7 43. Ra8
Rxa8 44. Rxa8 {KR-KR} Rb4 45. Kf3 (45. Rxa3 Rxg4+ 46. Kf3 Rh4 $11)
45... Rb3 46. Ra5 Kh6 47. Ke4 Rb2 {[#]} 48. f4 $1 (48. Rxa3 Rxf2 49.
Ra6+ Kg7 $16) 48... gxf4 49. exf4 (49. Rxa3 fxe3 50. Kxe3 (50. Rxe3 Kg5
$11) 50... Kg5 $11) 49... a2 50. Ra6+ Kg7 51. g5 Rh2 52. h6+ Kh7 53.
Kf5 {Intending Ra7 and mate.} Rb2 54. Ra7 Kg8 55. Ra8+ Kh7 {White
mates.} 56. Kf6 Rf2 57. f5 {[%cal Bf4f5,Bf5g6][%mdl 32]} (57. Kxf7
Rxf4+ 58. Ke7 (58. Ke6 Rf2 $11) 58... Rf2 $11) 57... Rg2 58. Ra7 (58.
Kxf7 Rxg5 59. Ke6 (59. Rxa2 Rxf5+ 60. Ke7 Kxh6 $11) 59... Rg2 $11)
58... Kg8 59. g6 (59. Rxf7 {is a self mate.} a1=Q+ (59... a1=B+ 60. Kg6
$11) 60. Ke6 Re2+ (60... Rxg5 {leads to mate.} 61. Rd7 Qa6+ {[%mdl 64]
Skewer, Deflection} 62. Ke7 Qxh6 63. Rd8+ Kh7 64. Rf8 Rg7+ 65. Rf7 Qe3+
66. Kf8 Rxf7+ 67. Kxf7 Qe5 68. Kf8 Qc7 69. Ke8 Kg7 70. f6+ Kxf6 71. Kf8
Qf7#) 61. Kd7 Kxf7 62. g6+ Kf6 63. g7 Qd4+ (63... Kxf5 64. g8=Q Rd2+
65. Qd5+ Rxd5+ 66. Kc6 Qa5 67. Kb7 Rd7+ 68. Kc6 Rc7+ 69. Kd6 Qe5#)
(63... Qa8 64. g8=Q Qxg8 65. h7 Qd5+ 66. Kc8 Rc2+ 67. Kb8 Qb3+ 68. Ka8
Ra2#) 64. Kc6 Qc4+ (64... Kxf5 65. g8=Q Rc2+ 66. Kb7 Rb2+ 67. Kc8 Qc5+
68. Kd7 Rb7+ 69. Kd8 Qe7+ 70. Kc8 Qd7#) 65. Kb7 Rb2+ 66. Ka8 Qa6#)
59... fxg6 60. fxg6 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.02 (flawless)
/Black=0.31. Loses game: --- Black=1 Inaccurate: White=1 Black=2 OK:
White=19 Black=14 Best: White=4 Black=5 Strong: White=3 ---} 1-0
Comments
Post a Comment