(1) Bonin,J - Furdzik,R [E00]
Nassau Champ. (10), 18.12.2000
[Rafal Furdzik]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 dxc4 5.Na3? Bxa3 6.bxa3 b5³ D 7.Bg2 [7.Bg5] 7...Bb7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Rb1 Be4 10.Rb2 a6 11.a4 Nd5 12.axb5 axb5 13.Ng5! Nc3! The whole plan is to have a Queen on d5 and Night on a4, Night will support passed pawn(s) on the queen side and it will bother white forces (rook). It is better then then playing Bg2 because it does not weaken the black squares h6, g5, f6 and the white bishop could be really dangerous. [13...Bxg2? 14.Qc2! g6 15.Kxg2÷ h6,g5,f6] 14.Qd2 Bxg2 15.Kxg2 Qd5+ 16.f3 Na4 17.Qc2 [17.e4? 2 line too weak] 17...f5! 18.Rb1 Nc6 19.e4? Bonin lacks a strategic understanding. The queen has been placed on d5 purposely to provoke moves like e4, so the second rank will become weak and without white squared bishop it will be very difficult to survive. Please notice that by having a Queen on d5 it is much better the having a Night there. This way black has more space for his pieces. There is also a lot of pressure on the d4 pawn. Night on g5 is useless and black does not want to play h6 allowing white to transfer the Night to f4 and weakening white squares g6, h7 19...Qd7 [19...Nxd4? 20.Qxa4] 20.Be3 h6 21.Nxe6 Qxe6 22.d5 Qf6 23.dxc6 Nc3 24.Ra1 fxe4 25.fxe4 Rxa2! Transferring game to completely winning endgame [25...Qe5µ] 26.Qxa2 Qxf1+ 27.Rxf1 Nxa2 28.Ra1 Ra8 29.Bf4 b4 After this I offered a draw, since it was giving me second place already no matter if I win or draw. Plus it was already late and Bonin likes to play those kind of hopeless endgames (it happened last time in Manhattan Champ.). [29...b4 30.Bxc7 b3 31.Be5 Rc8! 32.c7 c3-+ It took me maybe 1 minute to find this variation !] 1/2-1/2