[Event "Governor's Cup-2"]
[Site "Kramatorsk"]
[Date "2001.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Efimenko, Zahar"]
[Black "Komliakov, Viktor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "V.Barsky (www.chesstoday.net)"]
[BlackElo "2494"]
[ECO "C67"]
[EventDate "2001.11.??"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[WhiteElo "2523"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 Bd7 { Everyone wants to play like a champion! Only
one year has passed since the  London-2000 battle between  Kasparov and
Kramnik, but the Berlin wall has acquired many admirers. } 10. b3 { White has tried a lot of ways here: } ( 10. Bf4 h6 11. Rad1 Kc8 12. Ne2 g5 13. Bd2 Bg7 14. Bc3 Re8 15. g4 Nh4 16. Nxh4 gxh4 17. e6 $5 Rxe6 18. Bxg7 Rxe2 $13 { Salai - Rogers, Slovakia 1998. } ) ( 10. h3 h6 11. Bf4 b6 12. a4 a5 13. Rad1 Kc8 14. b3 Bb4 15. Ne4 Be6 16. c4 c5 17. g4 Ne7 $132 { Shirov - Almasi, Polianica Zdroj 2001. By the way move 9...Bd7 becames popular
after this game. } ) ( 10. Rd1 Kc8 11. Ng5 Be8 12. Nge4 b6 13. b3 c5 14. Bb2 Nd4 15. Rd2 Kb7 16. Nd5 Rd8 17. c4 $14 { Leko - Kramnik, Budapest 2001. } ) 10... Kc8 { The main alternative is } ( 10... h6 11. Bb2 Kc8 12. Rad1 ( 12. h3 b6 13. Rad1 Ne7 14. Ne2 Ng6 15. Ne1 h5 $13 { Kasparov - Kramnik, London 2000. } ) 12... b6 13. Ne2 c5 14. c4 Bc6 15. Nf4 Kb7 16. Nd5 Ne7 17. Rfe1 $14 { Kasparov -
ik, London 2000.  After the text move black wants to safe a tempi and plays
h7-h5 later in one move. } ) 11. Bb2 Be7 12. Rad1 ( 12. Rfe1 a5 13. h3 h5 14. Ne4 a4 15. Neg5 Be6 16. Nxe6 fxe6 17. Re4 axb3 18. axb3 Rxa1+ 19. Bxa1 Rd8 $132 { Leko - Kramnik, Budapest 2001. } ) 12... a5 13. h3 Re8 $6 { This is a 
novelty, and maybe not good. As you have seen Kramnik never forgot to play h5
after h2-h3. It's very important to take care of the  knight on f5. } ( 13... h5 14. g3 Ra6 15. Bc1 Re8 16. Bg5 Bb4 17. Rd3 Ne7 18. Bxe7 Bxe7 19. Kg2 Bf5 $15 { Shirov - Kramnik, Monaco 2001. } ) 14. Rd3 $5 { An interesting plan. } 14... c5 { Black weakens the d5-square. Maybe he can avoid this and play 14...h5!? } ( 14... h5 $5 ) 15. Rfd1 Bc6 16. Nd5 Bxd5 { Black can't bear such a strong
knight and has to part with his main plus - a pair of bishops. } 17. Rxd5 a4 ( { Now was the last opportunity to play } 17... h5 $5 ) 18. g4 $1 Nh6 ( { The knight has to go to the edge due to } 18... Nh4 19. Nxh4 Bxh4 ( 19... c6 20. Rd7 Bxh4 21. Rxf7 $16 ) 20. Rxc5 axb3 21. axb3 Ra2 22. Bd4 $14 ) 19. Nd2 b6 20. Nc4 axb3 21. axb3 { Obviously all of  White's pieces are placed better than
his opponent's, though it's hard to exploit this advantage because Black
hasn't any pawn weaknesses. } 21... Kb7 22. Na3 Rad8 23. Rxd8 Rxd8 24. Rxd8 Bxd8 25. f4 g6 26. Kf2 Kc6 27. c4 { To interrupt Black's counter-play with b6-b5
etc. It's almost always useful to block your opponent's pawns on squares the
same colour as his bishop. } 27... Ng8 28. Kf3 Kd7 29. f5 Ne7 30. Ke4 Nc6 31. Bc3 { Prophylaxy vs. Na5. } 31... Bg5 32. Nc2 Nd8 33. Ne1 { It is Interesting that both players dream to part with their own bishop. } 33... c6 34. Nf3 Bc1 35. h4 Ke7 36. h5 { In reality White is a pawn up because on
the queen side his two pawns on b3 and c4 cost no less than Black's three pawn.
Also White has more space and now  feels his way to the weak pawn on h7. } 36... gxh5 37. gxh5 Nb7 38. Nh2 $1 Ba3 39. Bd2 Bb4 40. Bg5+ Kf8 41. Ng4 Na5 { Black's counter-play is too late. } 42. Nf6 Nxb3 ( { Black is unable to rescue his pawn on h7: } 42... Kg7 43. h6+ Kh8 44. e6 $18 ) 43. Nxh7+ Kg7 44. e6 $1 fxe6 45. fxe6 Nd2+ 46. Kf5 { An interesting game in all its stages. } 1-0