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Budapest gambit fajarowicz variation4/4/2023 I'm intrigued to know how black stays afloat here. Still, the rest of the game is more for amusement than anything else. One of the finest blunders I have ever seen, with my silicon friend giving the white position if he had found 42.Bxg7. The game concludes quite bizarrely, 28.e4 Be6 29.Nd5 Rd8 30.Bc7 Re8 31.Bg3 Ref8 32.h4?! Bg4 33.f3 Bxf3? (what black was thinking he'd gain from this sacrifice I really don't know) 34.gxf3 Rxf3 35.Kg2 Rb3 36.Rd2 Na5?! (Rff3 looks marginally stronger, but at this point it should hardly matter) 37.Rc1 b5 38.Rc7 Nc4 39.Re4 a5 40.a4!! Nxb2 41.Be5 Nc4 42.Rxg7+?! (Bxg7!! is game over) Kh8 43.Nf6!!!!!!!!!!! Kxg7 0-1. The game continued 12.Bc4 Qe4 13.O-O O-O 14.Bf4 h6 15.Nd2 Qc2 16.Qxc2 Bxc2 17.e6! fxe6 18.Bxe6+ Kh7 19.Rfc1 (perhaps Rac1 is more natural) Bd3 20.Bg3 Rad8 21.Nc4 Rfe8 22.Nxb6 Rxe6?! 23.Bxc7! Rde8 24.Nd5 Be4 25.Nc3 Bf5 26.Rd1 R6e7 27.Bd6 Rf7 and, to my eyes, white looks clearly better here, even discounting his two pawn advantage. However, white's position is good and he is a pawn up. I've played the Fajarowicz on and off for years, and have never felt convinced by it.Īs far as I can see, 4.a3 d6 5.Qc2 gives white a good position and a pawn - Goldstern - Joller (1999) continued with 5.d5 6.cxd5 Qxd5 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.Nc3 Nxc3 9.Qxc3 Bf5 10.Bg5 Bc5 11.e3 Bb6 and black eventually won.
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