Let’s begin my report with the fact that my age was twice the sum of the ages of three young players of the quad happened on May, 4th. But I remember myself as 10-years old boy who came to study chess in a famous Pioneer Palace in Minsk, a capital of one of 15 republics of the former Soviet Union. Moreover I remember one of the chess lessons devoted to the most energetic variation of the Italian game called FLA, “The Fried Liver Attack”. At that time I did not know its English name which literally translates “Black king is cooked like the fried liver over a big fire” but now I will explain this by the help of 4 positions in the picture. Position 1 is an initial position of FLA; in it White sacrifices a knight to gain the initiative and lure the black king to the middle of the board. Position 2 is the second key position of FLA (it actually had occurred in my game with Albert). Black has to play c7-c6 to defend his d5-knight as much as possible. I had known it from my first chess lesson when I was a boy. But strangely enough Albert had made a fatal mistake. By playing g7-g6 he had allowed Bc1-g5 after which Black’s position was quickly collapsed. There were some other very interesting moments in our game. There had been an inclusion of moves 4. Qe2 and 4…d6 before I played 5. Ng5 (I wanted to prevent my young opponent from playing Bc5 because in many variations a queen jumps to c4 and attacks c5-bishop). But this inclusion actually favors Black since position 3 is a fake position of FLA. Black does not have to play d5 anymore; instead he may play Nd4 and White cannot play 6. Bf7 Ke7 7. Qc4 because of 7…b5 and White loses a piece after h7-h6 since his bishop and knight are stuck (position 4). So, my advices to Albert and other young (but talented!) players are: 1) upon studying chess openings try to understand the basic ideas of them; 2) in calculations do not entirely trust to players with a high rating.
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