[#] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.f3 f6 4.e3 f5 5.c3

[5.d3 xd3 6.xd3 e6 7.O-O bd7 8.d1 e7 9.c3 O-O 10.e4 dxe4 11.xe4 xe4 12.xe4 f6 13.e2 c7 14.g5 1/2-1/2, Korchnoi Viktor(2639) - Komarov Dimitri(2540), St. Petersburg 1997 Ch St. Petersburg]

5...e6 6.h4 e4 7.f3 g6 8.b3

[8.xg6 hxg6 9.a3 bd7 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.d3 d6 12.f4 a6 13.O-O b5 14.d2 b6 15.e1 c8 16.e2 c4 17.a4 b4 ...1-0, Rashkovsky Nukhim N(2514) - Masserey Yvan(2349), Biel 2001 It (open)]

8...b6 9.xg6

[9.d2 xb3 10.axb3 c2 11.cxd5 exd5 12.b4 g5 13.c1 gxh4 14.xc2 xb4 15.e4 dxe4 16.fxe4 xc3 17.bxc3 xe4 18.h6 d7 ...1-0, Agdestein Simen(2591) - Shirov Alexei(2718), Bergen 2001 Match (active);

9.xb6 axb6 10.g4 d6 11.g5 fd7 12.cxd5 exd5 13.e4 dxe4 14.xe4 xe4 15.fxe4 g6 16.f3 c5 17.e3 c6 18.O-O-O e7 ...1-0, Onischuk Alexander(2658) - Balcerak Jakob(2431), Germany 2001 Bundesliga 2000/01]

9...hxg6²/= +0,48 CAP 10.f2N

[10.d2 bd7 11.g3 (11.O-O-O xb3 12.axb3 d6 13.h3 h5 14.d3 g3 15.he1 O-O-O 16.cxd5 exd5 17.e4 dxe4 18.fxe4 f6 19.e3 h5 ...1/2-1/2, Kramnik Vladimir(2772) - Shirov Alexei(2718), Astana 2001 It (cat.20)) 11...d6 12.f2 xb3 13.axb3 a6 14.g2 O-O 15.g4 b5 16.g5 h5 17.c5 c7 18.f4 f5 19.e2 f7 ...1-0, Ivanchuk Vassily(2717) - Grabarczyk Miroslaw(2489), Warsaw 2001 Polish Supercup (team);

10.g3 bd7 11.d2 d6 12.f2 c7 13.g2 d8 14.e1 O-O 15.c1 b8 16.f2 fe8 17.e2 f8 18.hd1 b6 19.e4 dxe4 ...1/2-1/2, Karpov Anatoly(2679) - Anand Viswanathan(2790), Monaco 2000 It "Melody Amber" (active);

10.c5 c7 11.d2 bd7 12.f4 e7 13.d1 e4 14.xe4 dxe4 15.g3 h6 16.c2 f5 17.c4 g5 18.O-O-O b5 19.cxb6 axb6 ...1/2-1/2, Milov Vadim(2604) - Hauchard Arnaud(2527), Istanbul 2000 Olympiad]

10...bd7 11.g3?! +0,16

[11.xb6!? axb6 12.b3 b4 13.b2 +0,58]

11...c7 12.cxd5 exd5 13.g2 b6 14.d3 xb3 15.axb3 a6 16.e4 dxe4 17.fxe4 c5 18.e5 cxd4 19.exf6 dxc3 20.e1 d8 21.d1 c8?! +0,54

[21...c8!? 22.bxc3 gxf6 23.e4 c7 +0,10]

22.a4 gxf6?! +1,06

[22...e5!? 23.fxg7 xg7 24.bxc3 d8 +0,37]

23.c4 b8?! +2,00

[23...d8!? 24.e4 c2 25.xc2 c8 +1,06]

24.e4 b6?? +5,00

[24...c5!? 25.e3 cxb2 26.xc5 xc5 +2,00]

25.d8 a7 26.c7 [1:0]