Opening Traps in the Harrwitz Attack - Levon Aronian vs Ernesto Inarkiev - Queen's gambit Declined
We Are continuing our d4 theory with some Queen’s gambit studies. Today’s lesson will be the very popular Harrwitz attack of the Queen’s gambit declined with some beautiful tactical and strategical elements.
PGN of the game:
[Event "Palma De Mallorca GP 2017"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/DRM8GNaw"]
[Date "2017.11.17"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Aronian, L. (2801)"]
[Black "Inarkiev, E. (2683)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[ECO "D37"]
[Opening "Queen's Gambit Declined: Harrwitz Attack"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Qc2 Nc6 9. Rd1 Qa5 10. a3 { D37 Queen's Gambit Declined: Harrwitz Attack } Re8 11. Nd2 e5?! { (0.74 → 1.33) Inaccuracy. Qd8 was best. } (11... Qd8 12. Nb3) 12. Bg5 Nd4 13. Qb1 Bf5 14. Bd3 Bxd3 15. Qxd3 Ne4 16. Nxd5 Nxg5 17. b4 Qa6 18. bxc5 Rad8 19. Nb4 Qa4 20. Qb1 a5? { (0.53 → 2.00) Mistake. Nc6 was best. } (20... Nc6 21. Qb3 Qa5 22. O-O Ne6 23. Ne4 Nxc5 24. Nxc5 Qxc5 25. Rd5 Rxd5 26. cxd5 Na5 27. Qa4) 21. Nd5 Nc2+ 22. Ke2 Ne4 23. Nxe4 Qxc4+ 24. Kf3 Rxd5 25. g4?! { (2.06 → 1.22) Inaccuracy. h3 was best. } (25. h3 Rxd1) 25... f5?? { (1.22 → 3.97) Blunder. h5 was best. } (25... h5 26. h3 Rxc5 27. Nxc5 e4+ 28. Kg3 h4+ 29. Kxh4 Qxc5 30. Qb3 Nxa3 31. Rd5 Qc6 32. Rf5) 26. gxf5 Rf8 27. Qxb7 Rxf5+ 28. Kg3 Rxd1? { (3.96 → 6.50) Mistake. Rd3 was best. } (28... Rd3 29. Rxd3) 29. Rxd1 Nd4 30. exd4 Rf7 31. Qb1 Rf4 32. f3 Qe6 33. Ng5 Qh6?! { (10.27 → Mate in 7) Checkmate is now unavoidable. Qf5 was best. } (33... Qf5) 34. Qb8+ { Black resigns. } 1-0
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