A smashing finale: Eljanov-Kuzubov

Checking into Playchess last night, bereft of chess on a World Championship rest day, I had a quick look at the decisive games in the day's play in the Ukranian championship. Chucky lost what appeared to me to be a messy game where he threw away too much, though I haven't analysed the game.

Instead, my eye was caught my Eljanov- Kuzubov which was a classic KID in Bronstein style.

Black to play and win

The first move in the diagram position is 'obvious', but calculating it through to a conclusion is not easy. In fact, there are several waves of tactics. I have analysed the game and posted it below (thanks to the wonderful one click facility of Chessbase12: as a child of the 1960s, I still think it wonderful that from my home here in Manchester I can watch games in Lvov, Ukraine, and then analyse and post them for all to see- miraculous, really).

http://www.viewchess.com/cbreader/2014/11/16/Game24898875.html

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