( Black to move after 14.b4-b5 )

While I was browsing at Goran's Weblog, I noticed he had posted an annotated version of  this game from the 2005 Canadian Open in which Canadian GM Mark Bluvshtein bested GM Alexey Shirov.

[Event "Canadian Open"]
[Site "Edmonton CAN"]
[Date "2005.07.17"]
[EventDate "2005.07.09"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "A Shirov"]
[Black "M Bluvshtein"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2705"]
[BlackElo "2525"]
[PlyCount "46"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O
8. c4 c6 9. Qc2 Na6 10. a3 Bg4 11. Ne5 Bf5 12. b4 f6 13. Nf3 Qe8 14. b5 Qh5
15. bxa6 Bg4 16. Re1 Bxf3 17. gxf3 Qxh2+ 18. Kf1 f5 19. cxd5 cxd5 20. fxe4
fxe4 21. Bxe4 dxe4 22. Be3 Bg3 23. Ra2 Rf3 0-1

This must have been one of the reasons Mark was voted Canadian Chess Player of the Year.

You can play through the game, along with 3 full pages of kibitzing at Chessgames.com.

Jonathan Berry annotated the game in his Globe and Mail column. That's where the diagram position above is from.

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