{"id":1311,"date":"2011-10-25T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1311"},"modified":"2011-12-15T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T08:39:12","slug":"hungary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1311","title":{"rendered":"Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name of Federation<\/strong>: Correspondence Chess Committee for the Hungarian Chess Federation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of Foundation<\/strong>: 1960<\/p>\n<p><strong>ICCF Delegate<\/strong>: Iv\u00e1n Bottlik (<a href=\"mailto:iccf.hu@gmail.com\">iccf.hu@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>E-Mail contact<\/strong>: Attila Kiss (<a href=\"mailto:attilak@nagyatad.hu\">attilak@nagyatad.hu<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website: <\/strong>none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article provided by<\/strong>: Iv\u00e1n Bottlik<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>The first registered result of Hungarian correspondence chess was already a remarkable success: Pest beat Paris 2:0 in a match played between 1842 and 1845 (the Budapest of today was founded in 1873 when the cities of Pest, Buda and \u00d3buda were unified). The Hungarian consultants were mostly Sz\u00e9n, L\u00f6wenthal (who later moved to England) and Grimm.<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_647a388c' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"Paris-Pest\"]  [Site \"?\"]  [Date \"1842\"]  [Round \"\"]  [White \"Paris\"]  [Black \"Pest\"]  [Result \"0-1\"]  [Eco \"C50\"]  [Annotator \"\"]  [Source \"\"]   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.O-O Nf6 5.d4 d6 6.d5 Nb8 7.Bd3  O-O 8.h3 c6 9.c4 cxd5 10.cxd5 Ne8 11.Qc2 g6 12.Nh2 Ng7 13.f4  f5 14.fxe5 Qb6+ 15.Kh1 Nh5 16.Rf3 fxe4 17.Bxe4 Rxf3 18.gxf3 Bxh3  19.Ng4 Ng3+ 20.Kh2 Bxg4 21.fxg4 Nxe4 22.Qxe4 Nd7 23.b3 Qf2+ 24.Qg2  Qe1 25.Bb2 Bg5 26.Nd2 Bf4+ 27.Kh3 Qe3+ 28.Nf3 Bxe5 29.Bxe5 Nxe5  30.Re1 Qxf3+ 31.Qxf3 Nxf3 32.Re7 Rf8 33.Rxb7 Rf7 34.Rb8+ Kg7  35.a4 Kf6 36.a5 Ke5 37.a6 Kxd5 38.b4 Ne5 39.g5 Nc6 0-1   [Event \"Pest-Paris\"]  [Site \"?\"]  [Date \"1842\"]  [Round \"\"]  [White \"Pest\"]  [Black \"Paris\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [Eco \"C42\"]  [Annotator \"\"]  [Source \"\"]   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O  O-O 8.c4 Be6 9.Qc2 f5 10.Qb3 dxc4 11.Qxb7 c6 12.Bxe4 fxe4 13.Ng5  Bf5 14.Nc3 Qd7 15.Qxd7 Nxd7 16.Ngxe4 Bc7 17.Re1 Rab8 18.Re2 Nb6  19.Nc5 Bd6 20.N5e4 Bc7 21.Nc5 Bd6 22.N5e4 Bc7 23.Nc5 Bd6 24.N5e4  Bc7 25.Nc5 Bd6 26.N5e4 Bc7 27.Nc5 Bd3 28.Re3 Bc2 29.Ne6 Rf7 30.Nxc7  Rxc7 31.Re2 Bd3 32.Bf4 Bxe2 33.Bxc7 Re8 34.Bxb6 axb6 35.Re1 Bh5  36.Rxe8+ Bxe8 37.Ne4 b5 38.a3 Bg6 39.f3 Kf7 40.Kf2 Ke6 41.Ke3  h6 42.g4 Kd5 43.Nc3+ Kd6 44.f4 Be8 45.f5 Bd7 46.Ne4+ Ke7 47.Kf4  Be8 48.Ke5 Bf7 49.h4 Bd5 50.g5 hxg5 51.hxg5 Bg8 52.g6 1-0   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_647a388c' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='302' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the 1880s and 1890s the French chess periodical \u201cLa Strat\u00e9gie\u201d and the prominent chess column of the famous weekly \u201cLe Monde Illustr\u00e9\u201d organised the first international tournaments for individuals in the history of CC. Dr. Gy\u00f6rgy Mayer achieved excellent results (he even won first place once) in the tournaments organised by \u201cLa Strat\u00e9gie\u201d; and in those organised by \u201cLe Monde Illustr\u00e9\u201d, Dr. Imre Engel played excellently.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBudapesti Sakk-Szemle\u201d (Budapest Chess Review), the chess periodical of those days, organised the first Hungarian individual CC tournament between 1893 and 1897. On this occasion two young men \u2013 who at the start of the tournament were only promising OTB players \u2013 achieved joint first place and rose to become world class champions: G\u00e9za Mar\u00f3czy and Rezs\u00f6 Charousek. Third place was for Gy\u00f6z\u00f6 Exner, fourth for Dr. Adolf V\u00e9rtes, fifth for Dr. \u00c1rp\u00e1d Csipk\u00e9s, sixth for Dr. Gy\u00f6rgy Mayer (out of 19 players, all of which were Hungarian).<\/p>\n<p>In the second decade of the 20th century, the Hungarian daily papers and chess periodicals organised a series of CC tournaments. The most remarkable one was organised by the \u201cAlkotm\u00e1ny\u201d (Constitution) between 1912 and 1914. Besides well-known players of many nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, some foreign players also took part in this event. In first place was Dr. Mikl\u00f3s Br\u00f3dy, followed by Kosta Rozic, J\u00e1nos Balogh, Ferenc Chalupetzky, Jen\u00f6 J\u00e1noss and Dezs\u00f6 Elekes (out of 20 players). Forty years later, well after getting their doctorates, Dr. Balogh and Dr. Elekes were members of the gold medallist team in the first CC Olympiad\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When the First World War began the tournament was interrupted and two years later it was declared finished. The final results of some adjudicated games were never published, but the final result was left unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>When Hungary lost two-thirds of her thousand-year old territory in the Treaty of Paris (1920), so many excellent chess players and organisers became new citizens of neighbouring countries. For example, Dr. Mayer, Dr. Br\u00f3dy, Dr. Balogh (who repatriated from Transylvania to Budapest in 1934) and Dr. V\u00e9csey (who repatriated from Czechoslovakia to Budapest in 1934).<\/p>\n<p>In the CC Olympiad of European countries (1935 to 1937) the Hungarian team (Dr. Balogh, Dr. Nagy, Chalupetzky, Szigeti, Dr. Gecsey and Sz\u00fccs) won the Preliminaries \u2013 and later the final (1937 to 1939) with Dr. Balogh, Dr. Nagy, Szigeti, Barcza, Boros and Sz\u00fccs. This tournament corresponded to the CC Olympiads organised after the Second World War, but did not include teams from other continents, due to the undeveloped air mail service of those days.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian players also participated in the IFSB Bundesmeisterschaft (Federation Championship) which was the predecessor to the individual World Championships. The Hungarian players were Dr. Balogh (as Romanian citizen) in 1930-31 (2nd\/3rd place), 1932-33 (4th place), and again as a Hungarian in 1936-37 (7th\/8th place); Szigeti in 1937-38 (1st place), 1936-37 and 1938-39 (3rd\/4th place); and finally Dr. Nagy in 1936-37 (7th\/8th place) and in 1937-38 (4th\/6th place).<\/p>\n<p>Fernschach (edited by Hans-Werner von Massow and others) was printed in Hungary from 1936 to 1939. Its publisher was L\u00e1szl\u00f3 T\u00f3th, the well-known chess editor from the town of Kecskem\u00e9t. The first CC tournament book was also published by him, dealing with the IFSB Bundesmeisterschaft 1932-33 (it was edited by Chalupetzky in 1935).<\/p>\n<p>The first Hungarian National CC championship was organised in 1941-42 with participation of excellent players: 1\u00b0. Barcza, 2\u00b0. Dr. Balogh, 3\u00b0. Brilla (known as Brilla-B\u00e1nfalvi since 1951). Thirty-six Hungarian championships have been held until today. The only players to have won three championships are Ferenc F\u00e1bri, Istv\u00e1n Gosztola and Imre M\u00fcllner.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian team won the first CC Olympiad (from 1949 to 1952) with a team made up by Dr. Balogh, Barcza, Szigeti, Sz\u00fccs, Dr. Gonda and Dr. Elekes. Later on, the Magyars won two silver medals: at the 3rd Olympiad (1958-61), teaming Dr. Balogh, Dr. Szily, Honfi, Ha\u00e1g, Dalk\u00f3, and Brilla-B\u00e1nfalvi) and at the 8th Olympiad (1977-82), teaming Ha\u00e1g, Ozsv\u00e1th, Fl\u00f3ri\u00e1n, Tompa, Meleghegyi and Brilla-B\u00e1nfalvi). The Ladies chess team achieved their best result at the 3rd Olympiad (1986-92) in which it won the bronze medal: Honfi, Bogn\u00e1r-Cynolter, Horv\u00e1th-Szalai and Dr. Hargitay made up the team.<\/p>\n<p>Several Hungarian players competed in World Championship Finals. Among the men, Dr. Balogh (three times), Dalk\u00f3, and Sz\u00e1nt\u00f3; and in the ladies, Cynolter (later Bogn\u00e1r-Cynolter), Hargitay, Honfi, K\u00e9s\u00f6 and N\u00e9meth-Csom.<\/p>\n<p>Istv\u00e1n Abonyi became President of IFSB from 1935 until 1939. Dr. J\u00f3zsef V\u00e1ndorffy was ICCF Vice-president (1976-92) and Chairman of the Rules Commission (1965-92). Iv\u00e1n Bottlik was an ICCF Vice-President from 1993-96.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>Up till the end of 2011, five Hungarians have become CC Grandmasters: S\u00e1ndor Brilla-B\u00e1nfalvi, Csaba Meleghegyi, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 B\u00e1rczay (who is an OTB Grandmaster as well); after 2001: G\u00e1bor Glatt and Tam\u00e1s Sasv\u00e1ri.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary has never had a real CC Federation. The Hungarian Chess Federation has had a CC Committee since 1960. Its leaders were Dr. Balogh, Dr. N\u00e9gyesy, Dr. V\u00e1ndorffy and Bottlik.<\/p>\n<p>The periodicals read by CC players are \u201cLevelez\u00e9si Sakkh\u00edrad\u00f3\u201d (edited by Antal Ruttkay from 1967 to 1982 and by Dezs\u00f6 Solt\u00a0 1982-2001) and \u201cT\u00e1vsakk\u201d (compiled by P\u00e9ter T\u00f3th since 1998-2002).<\/p>\n<p>At present, the Hungarian chess periodical (known as \u201cMagyar Sakk\u00e9let\u201d from 1951 until 1984, and since 1985 just as \u201cSakk\u00e9let\u201d) contains a CC column, which was originally edited by Dr. N\u00e9gyesy (from 1951 until 1985) and is currently edited by Bottlik (1985-2002).<\/p>\n<p>A reputable CC life cannot exist without high standard tournament organisation and excellent directorship. Let us mention some people who have done much valuable work: Chalupetzky, Dr. V\u00e9csey, Dr. N\u00e9gyesy, Dr. V\u00e1ndorffy, Jenik, S\u00f6reghy, Dr. N\u00e9meth, Dr. Frivaldszky, Klink\u00f3, B\u00f3na and Bottlik. Both Dr. N\u00e9gyesy and Dr. V\u00e1ndorffy became Honorary Members of ICCF.<\/p>\n<p>The history of Hungarian CC was reviewed in Volumes 1 to 4 of the \u201cMagyar Sakkt\u00f6rt\u00e9net\u201d (Hungarian Chess History). The period from 1842 to 1944 by Gedeon Barcza, \u00c1rp\u00e1d F\u00f6lde\u00e1k and Iv\u00e1n Bottlik (the series is being continued), and the period between 1842 and 1984 can be found in the Appendix of Grodzensky-Romanov\u2019s book \u201cCorrespondence Chess\u201d, Hungarian translation (text by Bottlik).<\/p>\n<p>There is not enough room here to mention the many famous events and significant personalities of the past and we are sorry that due to this, we cannot show a long series of games. But here are two of those: the first is an interesting battle between the two winners (1.-2.) of the first Hungarian individual CC tournament (1893 to 1897) \u2013 Charousek and Mar\u00f3czy.<\/p>\n<p>How different was the destiny of these two geniuses from Hungary! Both became world-known OTB players in 1896, but Charousek gave up playing tournament chess in 1898 and died two years later; Mar\u00f3czy however was still actively and successfully playing in 1936 (!), when he was first board of the Hungarian gold medallist team at the Munich OTB chess Olympiad. He died in 1951. The second game is a brilliant win by Dr. Balogh, who played CC for more than 70 years and during 40 of them, he was among the world\u2019s best players.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the decade that elapsed since the report about the international activities of Hungarian competitors published in the edition of the ICCF Gold, their participation has continued albeit in somewhat reduced form, compared to past activities.<\/p>\n<p>In the field of higher level competition:<\/p>\n<p>Our team finished 8th in the finals of the XIVth Olympiad for men (Csaba Sz\u0171cs, P\u00e9ter Hardicsay, Attila Kiss, Istv\u00e1n Schrancz, Tam\u00e1s Sasv\u00e1ri , Ervin J\u00e1nosi), and took part in the semi-finals of the XVth, XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Olympiads.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of individual results, G\u00e1bor Glatt finished 8th in the final of the XVIIth World Championship for men, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Jakobetz 14th in the XXIst, Tam\u00e1s Sasv\u00e1ri 12th in the XXIInd World Championship finals.<\/p>\n<p>Tam\u00e1s Sasv\u00e1ri finished 2nd in the EU\/FSM\/63 European Championship and M\u00e1ria N\u00e9meth 4th in the VIth Women\u2019s World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Attila Kiss finished 2nd in the AEAC Alcazar Memorial Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Our representatives are participating in other venues as well, such as World Championship preliminaries, tournaments for M, Ist and IInd class, thematic tourneys (the latter producing some Hungarian winners).<\/p>\n<p>Our organizers have been awarded the Bertl von Massow medal (received by Attila Kiss) and Honorary Membership (Iv\u00e1n Bottlik).<\/p>\n<p>Several competitors have attained GM, SIM, IM, WGM and WIM titles (see the chapter on ICCF titleholders).<\/p>\n<p>We have organized national championships and occasionally played matches against other nations.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ngg-breadcrumbs\">\n    <\/ul>\n<div class=\"ngg-albumoverview\">\t\n\t<!-- List of galleries -->\n\t\n\t<div class=\"ngg-album\">\n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-albumtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php\/nggallery\/hungary\/hungary?page_id=1311\">Hungary<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-albumcontent\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php\/nggallery\/hungary\/hungary?page_id=1311\"><img class=\"Thumb\" alt=\"Hungary\" src=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/gallery\/hungary\/cache\/vandorfy.jpg-nggid0286-ngg0dyn-240x160x100-00f0w010c011r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-description\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ngg-album-gallery-image-counter\"><strong>7<\/strong>&nbsp;Photos<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n \t \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class='ngg-clear'><\/div> \t\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>==============<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_c12f52e7' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"Algerian Jubilee Invitational Tournament\"]  [Site \"?\"]  [Date \"1993\"]  [Round \"\"]  [White \"Brilla-Banfalvi, Sandor\"]  [Black \"McNab, Dr. A. Colin\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [Eco \"B07\"]  [Annotator \"\"]  [Source \"\"]   1.d4 d6 2.e4 g6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Be3 Nf6 5.Qd2 Nbd7 6.Nf3 Qc7 7.e5  { The pawn sacrifice was probably a novelty at the time.} dxe5  8.dxe5 ( 8.Nxe5 Nxe5 9.Bf4 {would be less risky} ) Nxe5 9.Nxe5  Qxe5 10.O-O-O Qd6 {!} 11.Qe1 Qe6 12.Nb5 {!?} {  It would have been impossible to calculate the combination in its entirety, yet  the spirit of combativeness and chess intuition vouches for the validiti of the  move. In today's world, with computer programs of powerful calculating ability,  such risktaking would be inadvisable . 12. Qd2 is the sound continuation.}  cxb5 13.Bxb5+ Bd7 ( 13...Nd7 14.Qc3 Rg8 {!} { is quite playable for Black.}  ) 14.Rxd7 {!} Nxd7 15.Qc3 a6 {?} ( 15...Bg7 {!} 16.Qxg7 O-O-O  17.Bxd7+ Qxd7 18.Qxf7 Kb8 {would have favoured Black.} ) 16.Bxd7+  Kxd7 17.Rd1+ Ke8 18.Qxh8 Qxa2 19.Rd3 Qa1+ 20.Kd2 Qa5+ 21.c3 Rd8  22.Rxd8+ Qxd8+ 23.Kc2 g5 24.Qxh7 Qd5 25.g3 g4 26.h4 gxh3 27.Qxh3  Qd7 28.Qh1 Qa4+ ( 28...Qc6 {?} 29.Qxc6+ bxc6 30.Kb3 Kd7 31.Ka4  Kc7 32.Bc5 $18 { after the tempestuous preliminaries, the Zugzwang would decide the outcome!}  ) 29.Kb1 e6 {?} {29. ... Qb3 or 29. ... Qb5 would have rescued the game.}  30.Qxb7 Qd1+ 31.Bc1 Bh6 32.f4 Qd3+ 33.Ka2 Qxg3 34.Qxa6 Qe1 35.Qc8+  Ke7 36.Qc5+ Kd7 37.Be3 Qd1 38.b4 Bg7 39.Qb5+ {  The enterprising spirit of the eighty year old correspondence grandmaster (born  in 1914) is truly remarkable! The considerably abbreviated analysis is that of Brilla-B\u00e1nfalvi.}  1-0   [Event \"6th Ladies CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"?\"]  [Date \"2002\"]  [Round \"\"]  [White \"Jurczynska (POL), Anna\"]  [Black \"Nemeth (HUN), Maria\"]  [Result \"0-1\"]  [Eco \"B42\"]  [Annotator \"\"]  [Source \"\"]   1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Nf6 6.O-O d6 7.c4  b6 8.Nc3 Bb7 9.Qe2 g6 10.f4 Bg7 11.Be3 O-O 12.f5 {?!} {Better was 12. Rad1.}  exf5 13.exf5 Re8 {!} 14.Rae1 g5 ( 14...Nbd7 {!} 15.fxg6 fxg6  16.b3 Qc7 { followed by Ne5 or Nc5, with good prospect for counterplay.}  ) 15.Nc2 { After 15. Qd2!?, Ng4 16. f6!,Bxf6 17. Bf5 White pieces would get good play.}  Nbd7 16.Qd2 h6 17.Bd4 Ne5 18.b3 Qc7 19.Ne3 Neg4 20.h3  ( 20.Nxg4 Nxg4 21.f6 d5 {!?} ) Nxe3 21.Rxe3 d5 {!!} {At the very least, Black has equalised.}  22.Rxe8+ Rxe8 23.Qf2 dxc4 24.Bxc4 b5 25.Bxf6 Bxf6 26.Nd5 Qd6  27.Nxf6+ Qxf6 28.Be2 Be4 {!} 29.Bg4 Rc8 30.Qe3 Bb7 31.Qa7 Ba8  32.Qe3 Kg7 33.Rf2 Rc3 34.Qe1 a5 {!} 35.Bh5 b4 36.Bg4 Rg3 37.Re2  Qd4+ 38.Kh2 Rc3 {Threatening Qf4+ and Rc1. Now the exchange of the Queens will cause the pawn on f5 to fall.}  39.Qd2 Rd3 40.Qb2 Kf6 41.Qxd4+ Rxd4 42.Kg3 Be4 43.Re1 Bxf5 44.Bxf5  Kxf5 45.Re2 Rd3+ 46.Kh2 Kf4 47.Rc2 Rc3 {!} $19 48.Rf2+ Ke4 49.Rxf7  Rc2 50.Rh7 Rxa2 51.Rxh6 Kd3 52.Rg6 a4 {!} 53.bxa4 b3 54.Rxg5  Rxa4 55.Kg3 b2 56.Rb5 Kc3 57.Rxb2 Kxb2 58.h4 Kc3 59.h5 Re4 {!}  {Keeping White's King from the fourth rank, while making it possible for the Black King to penetrate via d4 and e5.}  60.h6 Kd4 61.h7 Re8 62.Kg4 Rh8 0-1   &nbsp;   [Event \"17th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"?\"]  [Date \"2002\"]  [Round \"\"]  [White \"Korolev, Sergey Ivanovic\"]  [Black \"Glatt, Gabor\"]  [Result \"0-1\"]  [Eco \"C45\"]  [Annotator \"\"]  [Source \"\"]   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nb3 Bb6 6.a4 a6 7.Nc3  Nf6 8.Bg5 d6 9.Qe2 {One of the classical main lines of Scotch Game.}  h6 10.Bh4 { Grafikon #} O-O {!} {} {  This novelty is based on the idea to compensate White's kingside attac in the  centre or at the queenside.Moreover the move points out the drawback of Qe2;  black king leaves the \"e\" file immediately, where the white queen and king will be threathened by motives.}  ( 10...Nd4 11.Nxd4 Bxd4 12.Qd2 Be5 13.Bd3 {} {by Yudovich (Enciclopedia)}  ( 13.f4 {} Bxc3 14.Qxc3 Nxe4 15.Bxd8 Nxc3 16.Bxc7 { and we would have bee in an endgame immediately, where - in my opinion - Black should have had to fight for equalization.}  ) ) 11.O-O-O { There is no better choice for White to continue his plan.}  ( 11.Nd5 g5 12.Nxb6 cxb6 13.Bg3 Nxe4 {!} 14.O-O-O Bf5 15.f3 Nxg3  16.hxg3 Rc8 17.Rd2 ( 17.Rxh6 Bxc2 ) ( 17.c3 Qf6 ) Qd7 18.Rxh6  Rfe8 ) Re8 {!} 12.Bxf6 {  A hard decis ion to change the binding bishop while losing a tempo as well.  White supposed to gain the tempo back later and to eliminate Black's pair of bishops.}  ( 12.Nd5 {?!} g5 13.Nxf6+ ( 13.Nxb6 Rxe4 14.Qd3 cxb6 15.Bg3 Rxa4 )  Qxf6 14.Bg3 Be6 ) Qxf6 13.Nd5 Qd8 {  Important perception! From d8, on the diagonal a5-d8, black queen will be able  to support the attack more efficiently than from the squares g6 or h4.}  14.Nxb6 {?} {  White seems to kill two bird with one stone eliminating the unpleasant black  bishop and tearing the pawn structure apart, but the white king can be attacked thanks to the weakness caused by a4.}  ( 14.h4 Ba7 15.g4 Ne5 16.f3 b5 {Black's attac k is also dangerous, but White would have got some counterplay at the kingside.}  ) cxb6 15.Qe3 {[15. Qd3, Be6 16. Qxd6, Qf6]} ( 15.Qd3 Be6 16.Qxd6  Qf6 ) Be6 16.Nd4 b5 {!} {Critical position. By his next move White opens the \"a\" file on himself, winch will turn out to be fatal.}  17.axb5 {?} { Hardly can Black's attack be stopped by other moves either.}  ( 17.Nxc6 bxc6 18.Qd2 Ra7 ) ( 17.Nxe6 Rxe6 18.f3 d5 )  ( 17.Kb1 Qa5 18.Nxc6 bxc6 19.Rxd6 Rad8 ) ( 17.Be2 {(or 17. Bd3)}  Qa5 ) Nxd4 18.Qxd4 axb5 19.b3 {?!} ( 19.Bxb5 Qg5+ )  ( 19.Bd3 Ra4 20.b4 Bc4 $19 ) ( 19.b4 {!?} {This move - taking away the a5 square from the queen - would have led to longer fight after}  Ra2 20.Bd3 Qg5+ 21.Kb1 Rea8 22.h4 Ra1+ 23.Qxa1 Rxa1+ 24.Kxa1  Qf6+ ) Ra2 {!} 20.Bd3  (20. Bd5 Qa5 {!} 21. Bxe8 Bxb3 {! -+}) (20. Kb1 Qc7 {!!} 21. Rc1 (21. Kxa2,  Qxc2+ 22. Qb2, Ra8#) 21. ... Rea8 22. 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