Andrei Sokolov .... who was he? No, not any Carneades, but a brilliant young player capable of being elbowed off the real one source of Grand Masters that was the USSR of the late '80s, more and more giant clay but he allowed himself the luxury of turning out such talents Ghelfand, Dreev, Bareev or Dautov the face ... crisis! Andrei Sokolov, however, seemed different from all: brilliant and aggressive on the board, earning the nickname "Knights Sicilian, but also unconventional and libertarian in private life, almost to the point of being looked upon with suspicion and dislike from the chess Soviet, still suspended between the anxieties of a renewal of the new world champion Kasparov and Karpov and Botvinnik conservative nostalgia.
The brutal and clear defeat suffered dall'arrembante Andrei in the candidates matches to Karpov by the granite was probably the event which prevented the Knights Sicilian permanently integrated in the elite of chess: he was probably arrived at that match too early, a child prodigy is not yet ready to take on a living legend ... regarded as the legendary Anatoly then the inadequacy of his staff of seconds, a certain psychological fragility and strength of the opponent's objective and that explains how a rising talent can be hard, and unjustly reduced to the point of disappearing from lists of the tournaments 'top'.
But then what happened to Andrei Sokolov? He simply continued to play and win, leaving Russia to earn a living in the great European Open and becomes France (as do all the Russians that if they go abroad) on the basis of his new life.
Sure, he has left any ambition to play the super tournaments like Linares and Dortmund, but as the talent goes bad the matches are always interesting and faithful to his aggressive style and imaginative, the face of misfortune, the score Elo and a thousand circumstances and needs of the combined vita.Ecco thing today, right now, during the final of the French absolute
(172) Sokolov, Andrei - Leroux, Jean-Pierre [B89]
84eme Championnat de France Nimes (2), 11.08.2009
B89: Sicilian: Attack 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Velimirovic cxd4 Nf6 4.Cxd4 5.Cc3 6.Ac4 e6 Nc6 Bd7 7.Ae3 8.Ab3 Be7 9.De2 brings us to the terrible attack Velimirovic, one of the most complex and sharp variations the whole theory of the Sicilian Tc8N 9 ... [Black tries to avoid the beaten path. ... cxd4 9 is more common, possibly followed 10.Axd4 Ac6 DA5 11.0-0-0 e5 12.f4 13. AE3 Tac8 16.g5 0-0 14.g4 Axe4 15.Thg1 Txc3 Axf6 18.bxc3 exf4 17.gxf6 19.Ad4 Axd4 20.Txd4 Dxc3 21.Txg7 Rxg7 22.Txe4 f3 + + 23.De3 Dxe3 24.Txe3 Ivanchuk, V (2705), Navara, D (2620) / Mallorca 2004/CBM 104/1-0] Ensures a6 10.0-0-0 b5 [10 ... Na5 11.f3 =] 11.f3 Prepare against the onslaught of pedestrians castling opponent [11.Cxc6 Txc6 0-0 12.f3 ²] 11 ... b5 [11 ... Na5 12.g4 =] 12.Rb1 [12.Cxc6 Txc6 13.a3 Txc3 14.bxc3 DA5 ²] 12 ... Qc7 [12 ... Na5 13.g4 =] 13 . g4 [13.a3 0-0 ²] 13 ... h6 [Black tries to slow down the attack, but was probably more "Sicilian" counterattack to the west with 13 ... cxd4 b4 14.Ca4 15.Axd4 = (\u0026lt;15.Txd4 Da5μ)] g6 14.h4 f5 to prevent [14 ... Na5 15.a3 ²] 15.Dd2 cxd4 [15 ... Na5 16.g5 b4 17.Ca4 (\u0026lt;17.gxf6 bxc3 18. bxc3 Axf6 ³) 17 ... Cxb3 18.axb3 hxg5 19.hxg5 Txh1 20.Txh1 ²] 16.Axd4 17.Ca4 b4 Bb5 [17 ... TB8 18.c4 ±] 18.Dxb4 + - 18 ... e5 19. AB6 DC6 20.Da5 Sd7 21.Ae3 Be2 [¹ 21 ... Be7 22.Db4 AD8 + -] 22.Cc3? Zeitnoit ... [¹ 22.Td2 won just 22 ... DB5 23.Dxb5 Axb5 24.h5 + -] 22 ... Axd1 ² 23.Txd1 CC5 24.Axc5 Dxc5 25.Dxa6 0-0 [25 ... Axh4 26.a4 TC6 27.Db7 ²] 26.h5 gxh5 ± [26 ... RG7 27.a4 ²] 27.gxh5 RG7 28.a4 df2 29.Cd5 Dxf3? even the black and make a reel in zeitnoit erroraccio but this time it will be fatal [¹ 29 ... Ta8 30.Dd3 AG5 ±] 30.Tf1 + - [30.Tf1 Ta8 31.Dc4 Dxh5 32.Cxe7 + -] 1-0
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