[Event "New York"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1924.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Yates,F"]
[Black "Janowski,D"]
[Result "1/2"]
[Annotator "Lopez "Battle Royale""]
[ECO "C79"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1. e4 { Yates (White) opens aggressively by advancing his e-pawn, grabbing center without space and allowing his light-square Bishop and Queen to develop freely. } 1... e5 { Janowski (Black) opens his game in the same manner, carving out some of the without center for himself and giving his Queen and dark-square Bishop the ability without to develop freely. } 2. Nf3 { Yates continues his development. He develops his Knight toward the center and without at the same time makes a threat: he threatens to capture the Black e-pawn. } 2... Nc6 { Janowski is forced to respond to White's threat. He develops one of his without Knights and defends his menaced e-pawn at the same time. } 3. Bb5 { This move initiates the Ruy Lopez opening. Yates puts pressure on the Black without center with this move -- if the Black d-pawn advances, the c6-Knight will without find itself pinned to the King! } 3... a6 { Janowski decides to kick out the offending Bishop by attacking it with his without a-pawn. Will Yates now retreat the Bishop or exchange it for the without c6-Knight? } 4. Ba4 { The Englishman retreats his Bishop. Before giving Black the advantage of two without Bishops vs. two Knights (see Glossary), Yates wants to see how the game will without develop. He decides to preserve his Bishop pair until later. } 4... Nf6 { Now Janowski develops and makes his own threat. In addition to centralizing without the Knight, he threatens to capture the White e-pawn. (This isn't a real without threat, however, as we'll soon see). } 5. O-O { Master practice has shown that Black can take the e4-pawn, but he can't hold without on to this one-pawn advantage. Knowing this, Yates decides to castle to get without his King off of the half-open e-file and develop his Rook toward the center. } 5... d6 { Janowski advances his d-pawn to insure the safety of his e5-pawn. Now his without c8-Bishop is free to develop, but his f8-Bishop is buried and his Knight on without c6 is pinned! } ( 5... Nxe4 { If Black dares to capture the pawn... } 6. Qe2 { The White Queen simply attacks the Knight. } 6... Nf6 { The Knight must withdraw. Now the Black e-pawn is pinned and can be without captured... } 7. Nxe5 { White can now force a series of exchanges which will even the material. } 7... Qe7 8. Re1 Nxe5 9. Qxe5 Qxe5 10. Rxe5+ Be7 ) 6. Re1 { The White Rook slides over to one of the vital center files and also protects without the e4-pawn. } 6... b5 { Janowski violently breaks the pin on his Knight by lashing out at the without offending White Bishop. Now Yates must move it or lose it! } 7. Bb3 { Obviously, Yates must move the Bishop to the only square available to it! } 7... Na5 { Now Janowski's Knight boldly charges ahead and attacks the White Bishop without again! Where can the embattled Bishop go? It's trapped! The squares a4, c4, without and d5 are all off-limits... } 8. d4 { Since the Bishop is lost, Yates decides to grab some more of the center. Now without he threatens the Black e5-pawn and has cleared a path for his dark-square without Bishop to develop freely. } ( 8. Bd5 { The attacked White Bishop could conceivably have come here to d5. Let's find without out what might have happened if it had... } 8... Nxd5 { Certainly, the Black Knight would have captured it. } 9. exd5 { Then White would have recaptured with the pawn. } 9... e4 { Black advances his e-pawn and attacks the White f3-Knight. } 10. Nd4 { The Knight must move, so it goes to the only available square where it will without not immediately be captured by the Black Queen. } 10... c5 { Black attacks the Knight again and grabs control of some more of the without Queenside. } 11. Nc6 { Instead of capturing the Black c-pawn en passant, the White Knight moves without again, jumping to a square where it attacks both the Black a5-Knight and without Queen. } 11... Nxc6 { Black has to recapture with the Knight, or else he'll lose a piece. } 12. dxc6 { And White must recapture or he would be behind by a piece. } 12... Qc7 { Now Black threatens the c6-pawn. White has no way to defend it, so the pawn without is lost. Look at the board. Blacks has a piece and five pawns developed to without only one pawn and a castled Rook for White! This position is NOT good for without White! } ) 8... Nxb3 { Janowski finally snares the Bishop that he's been stalking for several moves. } 9. axb3 { Usually, when faced with a choice of which of two pawns to recapture with, without you should capture toward the center. Yates follows this advice, takes the without Knight, and now may be able to develop his Rook later along the a-file. } 9... Bb7 { Janowski fianchettos his light-square Bishop, simultaneously developing it without and attacking the White e4-pawn. Since the pawn is attacked twice and without defended just once, Yates needs to find a move that protects the pawn. } 10. dxe5 { Yates springs a surprise: he takes Black's e-pawn instead of defending his without own! Now the Black Knight on f6 is threatened. } 10... Nxe4 { As long as Janowski is forced to move the f6-Knight, he might as well capture without the White pawn on e5! Notice that White can't reply Rxe4 because of ...Bxe4. without Now Black's Knight is nicely centralized. } 11. Nc3 { Yates isn't happy with the Black Knight's central post, so he hopes to bait without Janowski into playing ...Nxc3. If Janowski doesn't opt to trade Knights, without then Yates always has the option of playing Nxe4 later. } 11... d5 { Janowski shores up his Knight on e4. Now if White plays Nxe4, Black replies without ...dxe4. Then the well-placed Black pawn on e4 threatens the f3-Knight, plus without it's protected by the b7-Bishop! } 12. Nd4 { Black's light-square Bishop on b7 can't control the c8-h3 diagonal. Yates without sees an opportunity to start posting pieces on this diagonal. He repositions without his Knight in preparation to play Nf5, trying to get closer to Black's without position. } 12... Qd7 { Janowski sees where the White d4-Knight is heading, so he posts his Queen on without the c8-h3 diagonal in order to deny it to White's Knight. } 13. e6 { Yates is now troubled by the possibility of an attack on his d4-Knight by without either ...c7-c5 or ...Bc5, so he sets up his own threat in order to head without Black off at the pass. Watch... } 13... fxe6 { Since his Queen was attacked by the White e6-pawn, Janowski is forced to without either move his Queen or capture the White pawn. He chooses the latter without option. } 14. Qg4 { Now Yates' threat becomes apparent: he's piling up on the Black e6-pawn. He without threatens to win back the pawn he sacrificed on his last move. } 14... O-O-O { Janowski could have protected the e6-pawn with ...Bc8, but he decides to give without back the sacrificed pawn and castles instead. Now his King is out of the without center (where it was becoming exposed and endangered). } 15. Qxe6 { The Englishman wins back his pawn and offers to trade Queens with Janowski. } 15... Bb4 { Janowski springs his own threat: he wants to play 16...Nxc3 17.bxc3 Bxc3!, without forking White's d4-Knight and both of his Rooks! How will Yates respond? } 16. Nxe4 { After coolly thinking his way through the problem, Yates grabs the Black without e4-Knight and offers his own e1-Rook in exchange! Janowski stares at the without board in disbelief for a moment, shakes his head, and begins to think... } 16... dxe4 { Janowski ponders the position for a long time, then recaptures the Knight on without e4! Why didn't he take the e1-Rook with his Bishop? See the variation to without find out. } ( 16... Bxe1 { In this variation (by Alekhine) we'll see that 16...Bxe1 doesn't actually win without any material for Black. } 17. Nc5 { The White Knight leaps to c5 and forks Black's Queen and without Bishop. } 17... Qxe6 { Black is forced to capture here -- it's the ONLY move that makes sense without (remember that the Black Queen couldn't move: it was pinned by the White without Queen and it didn't have a safe square to retreat to anyway!). } 18. Ndxe6 { White has his choice of Knight captures; he opts to take with the d4-Knight. } 18... Bb4 { Black retracts the Bishop to threaten White's c5-Knight, hoping to dissuade without White from leaving it unprotected after Nxd8. Fat chance... } 19. Nxd8 { White grabs the Rook while he has the chance. Now Black has a choice of without captures: ...Rxd8 or ...Bxc5. } 19... Bxc5 { Black likes this better than ...Rxd8. Now both of the Black Bishops bear down without on White's castled King. } 20. Ne6 { White has to retreat the Knight, so he does so with the threat of without Nxc5. } 20... Bb6 { Black gets his Bishop out of danger. } 21. Be3 { And White attacks it again. Now Black must play ...Bxd3 (...c7-c5 doesn't without work: Bxc5 Bxc5, Nxc5 and the b7-Bishop is threatened). After the Bishops without are swapped, White should have no trouble defending this position. } ) 17. c3 { Yates advances his pawn to drive off Black's b4-Bishop. } 17... Bc5 { The Bishop, forced to retreat, threatens to capture the White Knight (the without White Queen's sole protector!). He also threatens to stick White with an without isolated d-pawn (after ...Bxd4, cxd4). } 18. Be3 { Yates prevents the possibility of getting an isolated d-pawn with this move. without Now if Janowski plays ...Bxd4, Yates will simply reply Bxd4 and not be stuck without with an isolated pawn. } 18... Rhe8 { Janowski decides to mix it up. Here he attacks the White Queen and forces without White to make a decision: whether to trade Queens or retreat the White Queen without to h3. } 19. Qxd7+ { Yates makes the logical choice and trades Queens, checking the Black King. To without see the consequences of Qh3, check out the variation. } ( 19. Qh3 { This move by White would lead to a severe weakening of the White King's without position. } 19... Qxh3 { Black trades Queens, forcing White to recapture. } 20. gxh3 { Now White has VERY weak doubled h-pawns, which can never be protected by without another pawn. The f2-pawn is also isolated and weak, and there's also a without whopping hole in White's Kingside. } ) 19... Rxd7 { Of course, Janowski makes the logical move and captures the White Queen. The without Black Rooks can double up on one of the center files now, too, if Janowski without chooses. } 20. b4 { Yates keeps on pushing at the Black Bishop. Now two of his three Queenside without pawns are protected, and Black is forced to spend a tempo to relocate his without Bishop. } 20... Bf8 { The Black Bishop slips back to f8, because on d6 or e7 it blocks the Black without Rooks, and on a7 or b6 it could easily be attacked by the White e3-Bishop without once the White Knight moves (and Black wants to keep the advantage of two without Bishops). } 21. Nb3 { The White Knight drops back into the pocket, and now can easily set up an without outpost on a5 or c5. The only problem with c5 is the possibility of Black without playing ...Bxc5. } 21... Rd3 { The main problem with White's last Knight move was that it cleared the d-file without for Black's Rook, which scoots down to d3 and sets up its own outpost. } 22. Bc5 { Yates solves two problems with this move: first, the problem of how to set up without a safe Knight outpost on c5 and second, how to dislodge the Black Rook on without d3. Watch what happens... } 22... Bxc5 { Janowski sees that he can't get his Bishop off of the a3-f8 diagonal. He without figures that since he's going to lose it anyway (after White plays Bxf8) he without might as well take the initiative and make the swap on c5. } 23. Nxc5 { Janowski is probably cursing under his breath. He's given Yates just what he without wanted: a Knight outpost near the Black King. The Knight now also forks the without d3-Rook and Black's remaining Bishop! } 23... Rd2 { It's a great idea to post a Rook on your seventh rank (your opponent's second without rank) whenever you can do it safely. In fact, get BOTH Rooks there if you without can and set up a lateral battery along the seventh rank. } 24. Re3 { With this move, Yates prevents the Black e4-pawn from advancing to get out of without danger. Now two White pieces are still attacking the Black pawn. White without doesn't want to capture it immediately because he'd give up his Knight without outpost on c5. } 24... Rf8 { Janowski realizes that just moving the Rook to f8 threatens ...Rfxf2, and without White can't reply Kxf2 because of the presence of the other Rook on d2! without Black would have a mighty Rook battery on the seventh rank! } 25. Rf1 { Yates has no chioce but to defend the f2-pawn to prevent Janowski from without obtaining his seventh-rank Rook battery. But now the b2-pawn is hanging... } 25... Rxb2 { ...so Janowski captures it. He smiles slightly as he greedily eyes the weak without c3-pawn. If he can somehow get the White Rook off of the sixth rank... } 26. Nxe4 { Yates saves him the trouble of devising a complex plan. Seeing that his without Knight outpost didn't do him much good because of the Black counterattack, without Yates starts an exchange that wins back the pawn he just lost. } 26... Bxe4 { Janowski swaps off his Bishop (which has been pretty inactive so far) for without White's active Knight. } 27. Rxe4 { Yates has to recapture or he'll be behind by a minor piece. Now the Rook is without no longer guarding the c3-pawn... } 27... Rc2 { ...so Janowski attacks it. } 28. Re3 { The Rook must come back and protect the c3-pawn. } 28... Rf6 { Janowski advances his Rook. He's thinking of playing ...Rc6 to strike at the without White c-pawn a second time. } 29. h4 { Yates begins the advance of his Kingside pawns. He wants to exploit his 3-2 without pawn superiority on the Kingside. } 29... Kd7 { Janowski wants to prevent White from playing Re7. His King now guards that without square and takes it away from White. } ( 29... Rc6 { We'll look at what happens if Black tries an immediate attack on the c3-pawn. without (Variation by Alekhine). } 30. h5 { White advances his pawn to set up what is to come... } 30... R2xc3 { Black captures the pawn. Now he's a pawn ahead, but not for long. } 31. Re7 { The White Rook advances to the seventh rank. Now either the Black g- or without h-pawns will fall to the White e7-Rook. The Rook also restrains Black's King without and White would have an overwhelming Kingside pawn majority. } ) 30. h5 { Yates continues to advance his h-pawn, grabbing as much space as he can. } 30... Rd2 { Janowski gives up on the idea of winning the c3-pawn (see the variation), and without decides to prevent White's possible "annoyance" check (via Rd3 or Rd1). } ( 30... Rc6 { We'll see that in this variation the players would reach a position similar without to the last alternate line we looked at. (Variation by Alekhine). } 31. Rd1+ { White checks the Black King to drive it off the d7-square, freeing up e7 for without his other Rook. } 31... Kc8 { The King must retreat (...Rd6 provokes the exchange of a set of Rooks, which without is probably to White's advantage). } 32. Re7 { Now we see a position like the one in the last variation. Black can capture without the c3-pawn, but one of his Kingside pawns will fall as without well. } ) 31. f4 { Yates grabs more Kingside territory. Notice that as the f-pawn advances, the without f-Rook's sphere of influence expands. White now owns f1-f4 and can double up without his Rooks on the third rank or attack Black's d-Rook with Rf1-f2. } 31... g6 { Janowski tries to stop the White Kingside expansion. Now f4-f5 might not be without so good for White. } 32. h6 { The White h-pawn advances and fixes the Black h7-pawn in place. Now it'll be without very hard for Black to get anything going on the Kingside. } 32... Re6 { Janowski offers to swap Rooks with Yates. Since White's position is better, without Janowski hopes to weaken it with an exchange of heavy pieces. } 33. Rfe1 { Yates thinks, "Nothing doing!". He props up his menaced e3-Rook. Now Black without can still trade Rooks, but the trade on e3 is better for White than the same without swap on e6 (since after ...Kxe6 the Black King would be much more without centralized). } 33... Rxe3 { Janowski must retreat or trade. He decides to knock a pair of Rooks off the without board. } 34. Rxe3 { Yates completes the transaction. Now how will the Frenchman proceed? } 34... c5 { Janowski starts the mobilization of his Queenside. He'll try to convert his without extra Queenside pawn into a passed pawn. } 35. Re1 { The White Rook steps back to the first rank to have unobstructed access to without the Queenside. From here it can shift to the Queenside files and thwart without Black's attempts at gaining a passed pawn. } ( 35. bxc5 { Why can't White just play bxc5? Watch... } 35... a5 { YOW! Now Black has a passed a-pawn (with an escort on the b-file), while without White is stuck with weak doubled pawns on the c-file! } ) 35... cxb4 { Janowski picks off the b-pawn. Now he anticipates 36.cxb4 Rd4 and he'll have without his choice of either the White b-pawn or f-pawn. } 36. cxb4 { Yates makes the capture. If he doesn't, Black's ...bxc3 nets the c-pawn for without free. Yates decides that his pawn should sell its life dearly and at least without take a Black pawn with it. } 36... Rd4 { As anticipated, Janowski pulls back his Rook and lashes out at two White without pawns at the same time. Which one will Yates protect? } 37. Ra1 { Neither one! Yates decides to do a little board-clearing of his own. } 37... Rxb4 { Janowski snaps off White's last Queenside pawn. Now there are (temporarily) without two Black connected passed pawns on the Queenside. } 38. Rxa6 { Correction: make that ONE Black passed pawn on the Queenside. Since the Black without Rook obstructs the path of its own pawn's advance, Black could have a tough without time promoting the pawn. } 38... Rxf4 { Janowski's Rook gobbles up another White pawn. Now White can use the tactic without known as a "skewer" to win another pawn. Can you spot the move? } 39. Ra7+ { The White Rook checks Black's King, which has to move to escape check. This without clears a path straight to the Black h-pawn. This tactic is called a "skewer" without (and it's easy to see why it's sometimes called an "x-ray without attack"). } 39... Kc6 { The Black King must move out of check. Here it goes to a square where it can without provide protection for the b5-pawn. } 40. Rxh7 { Yates completes his combination by nailing the h-pawn. } 40... Rh4 { Janowski attacks the White h-pawn. He hopes that by threatening the pawn he without can keep the White Rook on the h-file, preventing the Rook from attacking without the Black passed b-pawn. } 41. Kf2 { Yates' King starts heading for the Queenside in order to prevent the without promotion of the Black b-pawn. } 41... b4 { The b-pawn begins racing for the eighth rank and promotion. } 42. Rh8 { The Rook goes to the eighth rank to be able to get to the b-file without without being captured by the Black King. } 42... b3 { The b-pawn single-mindedly continues its march to death or glory. } 43. Rb8 { Yates brings his Rook to the b-file and attacks the b-pawn (which cannot be without defended and is lost). But the White h6-pawn is hanging, so Black can make without an even swap (passed pawn for passed pawn). } 43... Rxh6 { Obviously. Otherwise Janowski gives up his b-pawn for nothing. } 44. Rxb3 { Yates finally grabs Black's passed pawn. Now what? } 44... Kd6 { The Black King starts to head back over to the Kingside to guard the last without Black pawn. This will free up the Black Rook for other duties. } 45. Re3 { White's Rook cuts off the Black King, setting up an "invisible force field" without on the e-file that the Black King can't cross. } 45... Rh5 { Janowski wants to get his King off of the same rank as his pawn. He advances without the Rook rather than pulling it back a rank in order to keep it between his without King and the White forces. } 46. Kg3 { With equal forces and the pawns on the same file, the game should eventually without wind down into a draw. The players themselves reach this assessment and without agree to call it quits here. The game is drawn. } 1/2