The winner of today’s game, Jonathan Penrose, who won the British Championship ten times in his career, started the tournament with a brilliant 20 move win in a Scotch Gambit against the Swiss Master Max Blau. In this game PPenrose pulled off another brilliant win against countryman Leonard Barden in a game that Ludek Pachman used to illustrate the tactical use of pieces.
As Pachman explained, “To invest the pieces with a higher degree of effectiveness is a substantial part of the purpose of the moves we make in a game.”
Penrose started his brilliant play at move 15 and although engine analysis showed Barden to have the better position it was only theoretical. In practical [pay he couldn’t get his pieces coordinated and that spelled his downfall.
[Event "Hastings 1957/58"]
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[Date "1958.01.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Jonathan Penrose"]
[Black "Leonard Barden"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B71"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 19"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1957.12.28"]
{B71: Sicilian Dragon, Levenfish Variation} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. f4 {[%mdl 32] Transposing into the sharp Levenfish Variation against the Drago. Both sides are itching for a fight.} g6 7. Bb5 {A rare side line. White intends to play e5.} Bd7 8. Bxc6 Bxc6 {Equally good is 8...bxc6} 9. e5 {Aggressive play! Penrose has no interest in the customary 9.Qf3 or 9.Nxc6} dxe5 $1 $11 (9... Bxg2 $4 10. Rg1 {Black has two pieces under attack and must lose one of them.}) 10. fxe5 Ne4 11. Nxe4 (11. Nxc6 {is more appropriate, but after} Qxd1+ 12. Nxd1 bxc6 13. Nf2 Nxf2 14. Kxf2 {All the tension has gone out of the position and a draw would not be a surprising outcome.}) 11... Bxe4 12. O-O {An interesting position! Engines give black the advantage here, but GM Ludek Pachman views things from the human perspective which is quite different. White has come out of the opening with a considerable lead in development, but he has a weak e-Pawn plus black has the two Bs. White's task will be to create effective threats as quickly as possible and so preventing black from completing his development.} Bg7 13. Re1 Qd5 {Well played as the Q is very strongly placed here.} (13... Bc6 14. Bg5 Qb6 15. c3 Rd8 16. Qe2 Rd5 {is quite equal. Kavalek,L-Jansa,V Jablonec 1962}) 14. c3 Qxe5 {Another excellent move. Other continuations are inferior.} (14... Bxe5 15. Qa4+ Kf8 16. Rxe4 Bxh2+ (16... Qxe4 17. Ne6+ {wins the Q.}) 17. Kxh2 Qxe4 18. Bh6+ Kg8 {Materially speaking white has a B+N vs a R=2Pa, but the activity of white's pieces should result in a win for him.}) (14... Bxg2 {is really bad.} 15. c4 Qxc4 16. Kxg2) 15. Bf4 {Theoretically this is not as accurate as the prosaic defensive move 15.Qe2, but it is still a very pretty move. Penrose is attempting to take advantage of the face that none of black's pieces are defended.} Qxf4 16. Qa4+ {Black has the advantage if he finds the right defense, However, the ancient proverb "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip" is once again applicable.} Bc6 $2 {The slip on the way to the lip, but it's not fatal. However, white is now on the attack.} (16... b5 {This brilliant move has escaped the attention of all the annotators. The idea is to deflect a white piece.} 17. Qxb5+ Kf8 18. Ne6+ fxe6 19. Rf1 {lools bad for black, but after} Qf6 20. Rxf6+ Bxf6 21. Rf1 Kg7 {Black's R+2Bs are, theoretically at east, more than enough compensation for the Q.}) (16... b5 17. Nxb5 {The correct capture.} O-O 18. Rxe4 Qd2 {Black has survived an is even better.}) 17. Rxe7+ $1 {A beautiful move, but it does not lead to a forced win.} Kf8 (17... Kxe7 18. Nxc6+ {wins the Q}) 18. Ne6+ $1 {Another sledgehammer blow, but it will still take a few more licks to finish him off.} fxe6 19. Qxf4+ Kxe7 {Black has gotten as much as possible for the Q (a R+2Bs), but his problem is the lack of coordination between his pieces.} 20. Qc7+ Bd7 21. Rd1 Rad8 {Barden has consolidated his position as best as possible, but white keeps up the pressure.} ({This was the wrong R. Here is why...} 21... Rhd8 22. Qxb7 Be5 23. Rxd7+ Rxd7 24. Qxa8) 22. Qxb7 Rhf8 23. Qxa7 Rf5 {Looking further ahead than humanly possible 24...Rf7 amd ...Kf8 defending e7 amd placing the R on a more profitable rank would have been better.} (23... Rf7 24. a4 Kf8 25. Qb6 Bf6 26. a5 Rc8 27. a6 Bc6 28. a7 Ba8 {White's progress is stalled and the outcome is uncertain/}) 24. a4 {[%mdl 32] In this line the advance of the Ps will secure the win, but the remainder of the game had to be with great difficulty for both players because of the great complications.} Be5 (24... Rd5 {This may have been the idea behind 23...Rf5, but now black realized it was no use because after} 25. Rxd5 exd5 26. Qc5+ Ke8 27. a5 d4 28. a6 Rc8 29. Qd5 dxc3 30. bxc3 Bc6 31. Qe6+ Kd8 32. Qg8+ {wins}) 25. a5 Ke8 26. a6 Bc6 {Black has held up the advance of the a-Pawn, but white is not out of resources.} 27. Rxd8+ Kxd8 28. Qe3 Bc7 29. b4 {One of white's major resources.} Re5 {He could have put up a stouter defense with 29...Bb5 trying to prevent the advance of the P and threatening mate on f1.} (29... Bb5 30. g4 Re5 31. Qd4+ Kc8 32. a7 {As amazing as it seems, white is struggling to score the point} Re1+ 33. Kf2 Re2+ 34. Kf3 Ra2 35. c4 Bc6+ 36. Ke3 e5 37. Qc5 Kb7 {White is winning, but he still has plenty of work to do!}) 30. Qd4+ Kc8 31. c4 {Inhibits Rd5.} Re4 32. Qh8+ Kd7 33. Qxh7+ Kd8 34. Qh8+ Kd7 35. Qg7+ Kc8 36. Qf8+ Bd8 37. Qc5 Kd7 38. b5 {The three Ps cannot be stopped.} Ba8 39. Qa7+ {Black resigned. An amazing game for which both players deserve credit.} 1-0
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