Mikhail gurevich games

Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. Re1 a6 6. Bf1 d5 7. Bd3 Ng6 9. Be4 Qd6 Be3 cxd4 Nc3 Rad8 Rc1 f5 Bc2 f4 Ne4 Qd5 Bd2 Nb4 Bb3 Qh5 Neg5 Bxg5 Bxb4 Be7 Bxe7 Nxe7 Rc7 Nd5 Rxb7 Bc8 Ra7 Kh8 Re5 Qe8 Qe2 Rd6 Rc5 Qg6 Bc2 Qe8 Qe5 Rb6 Qc7 Kavalek, Lubomir. Garcia Gonzales, Guillermo. Pirc Classical, h3 system.

Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Be3 c6 7. Be2 Qc7 9. Then, nerves came into play. Okay, not a great result, but, he only needed a draw with white in the last round, against Nigel Short. Then he would tie for second or third place overall, and still qualify to the Candidates Matches. Instead, he was methodically outplayed in an Exchange French! Gurevich did not qualify for the Candidates due to these losses. Gurevich was never the same after those final rounds of the Manila Interzonal.

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The name "Gurevich" sounded vaguely familiar, but the name sounded like an 80s or 90s player's name for some reason, so I took the liberty of looking him up.

Here is some basic information about him that I found on Wikipedia:. He was a top ten ranked player from to At his peak, between and , Gurevich was consistently ranked in the top ten players in the world.

To get a better feel for what kind of player Gurevich is, here's one of his most famous games in my opinion against the familiar Ljubomir Ljubojevic if his name is in an opening, you know he's good; i.

Here's the Ljubojevic attack in the Pirc I didn't know it was called that until I looked it up preparing for this article :. So now that you know Ljubojevic has at least one variation named after him, you know he's good. So here is Mikhail Gurevich's game against him in Linares 7 years before the legendary Shirov beat Topalov with the insane Bh3 endgame at the same tournament :.