Game of the week October 11, 2020 by Robert Huntington Wesley So turned 27 on Friday. [Event "Toronto 2012"] [White "Raja Panjwani"] [Black "Wesley So"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A18"] [WhiteElo "2493"] [BlackElo "2668"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "55"] [EventDate "2012.07.15"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "7"] [EventCountry "CAN"] [SourceTitle "CFC 2003.10"] [Source "CFC"] [SourceDate "2003.10.??"] [SourceVersionDate "2003.10.??"] [SourceQuality "1"] 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 d5 4. e5 d4 5. exf6 dxc3 6. bxc3 Qxf6 7. Nf3 (7. d4 { is the main line}) (7. Bd3 $5) 7... e5 8. Qe2 (8. d4) 8... Nc6 9. d4 Bg4 10. d5 Bxf3 (10... Be7 $1 11. dxc6 $2 e4 $15) 11. gxf3 Nb8 (11... Ne7 12. Rb1 O-O-O { Perez Fungueiro-Adla, Nigran 1998} 13. Qe4 $14) 12. f4 (12. Rg1 $5) 12... Nd7 13. Bh3 (13. fxe5 $5) 13... Bd6 14. Bxd7+ $6 $146 (14. O-O O-O-O $11 { Petursson-Lagunow, Bern 1996}) 14... Kxd7 15. c5 exf4 16. Qb5+ $6 (16. Qg4+ Kd8 17. cxd6 Qxc3+ 18. Kf1 cxd6 (18... Qxa1 19. dxc7+ Kxc7 20. Kg2 Kd8 $8 21. Bxf4 Qxa2 $44) 19. Qg5+ f6 20. Qxf4 Qxa1 21. Qxd6+ $11) 16... c6 $2 (16... Kd8 17. Kd2 Be5 $17) 17. Qxb7+ Bc7 18. Bxf4 (18. d6 $1 Qxc3+ 19. Kf1 Rhc8 (19... Qh3+ 20. Kg1 Qg4+ $11) (19... Qxa1 $2 20. Qxc7+ Ke6 21. Kg2 $18) 20. Qb3 Qxb3 21. axb3 Bd8 $11) 18... Rae8+ (18... Rhe8+ {is slightly better}) 19. Be3 $2 (19. Kd1 Qxf4 20. Qxc6+ Ke7 21. Re1+ Kd8 22. d6 Rxe1+ 23. Kxe1 Re8+ 24. Kf1 Qc4+ $11 ) 19... Qxc3+ 20. Ke2 Qc4+ 21. Ke1 cxd5 22. Rd1 ({Slightly (and irrelevantly) better is} 22. Qb3 Qe4 $19) 22... Re5 23. Qxa7 $2 (23. c6+ Kd6 24. Qxa7 Kxc6 $19 {would at least make game last a little longer}) 23... Rhe8 24. Qa3 $6 ({ Another irrelevantly better continuation is} 24. c6+ Kxc6 $19) 24... Ba5+ 25. Qxa5 $2 (25. Rd2 {is better but would only prolong White's suffering and to what end? He chooses a quick death.}) 25... Rxe3+ 26. fxe3 Rxe3+ 27. Kf2 Qe2+ 28. Kg1 0-1 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