At the edge of the circle!
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on Mon, 03/16/2009 at 6:54am.
At the edge of the circle!
Some years ago I had to play in a tournament against a strong International master with an Elo about 2500 ( Today he is a grandmaster). The evening before I saw on TV an Sumofight, which inspired me very much.-
A young bullstrong heavyweight attacked an old but experienced opponent directly and pushed him almost out of the circle. But some centimeters before the edge his iniatiative was stopped by the old one.
The next minutes the young one tried all to get him over the edge: "Only ten centimeters," , he might have thought! But the other stood like a rock at his place.
At last the young one started an almost desperated attack, but the old one countered and throwed him head-over over the edge into the depth ,where the public was sitting.
And under standing ovations, petals raining from the ceiling on him, the old one stood alone in the spotlight of the circle.-
If you believe or not, but this fight became to a pattern for me during the game against the IM next day
1. Pushed to the edge!
In the opening I was almost outplayed by the IM . After 12 moves I stood at the "edge of the circle"!
2. Standing at the edge I got his initiative stopped!
I knew, that I would loose with normal moves very quickly. He was already better developed than me and would won his first pawn in the next moves. I had to do something to stop his initiative.-
I decided to give the c4- pawn directly!
3. He took risks to get me "over the edge",- and was countered!
Soon came the situation to for draw by threefold repition! I would been more than satiesfied with it. But my opponent not! He tried to get me over the edge and took risks.His removed very far to win a pawn-
When he was short in time, I started a counter at kingside.. He lost obviously the overview and went himself over the edge in a grandious finale
4 .So how did I concretly get him over the edge?
The tactics decided at the end. After his resigning the petals fall softly from heaven on my head :-)!
( see move list for the different variations)
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