Personal Mona Lisa of GM Evgeny Bareev
Russian GM Evgeny Bareev is widely known as a strong technical player. Probably for that reason Vladimir Kramnik invited him to be his second during the World Championship match vs. Garry Kasparov. Indeed, Kasparov was never able to break the Berlin Wall built by the Kramnik-Bareev duo. Yet, I always considered GM Bareev a sharp tactical player. We played many games including Soviet junior competitions and in all of them, regardless of the result, he tried to checkmate my King. Just check out two of them:
(Just like in most of my articles I give you a chance to test your attacking skills, so the games are given as a Quiz. Please remember that you can always replay the whole game from the first move if you click "Solution" and then "Move list".)
As you can see in the following diagram, White hasn't finished his development and his King isn't castled, yet he starts preparations for a deadly attack. How can it be done?
What a drastic change compared to the previous diagram! Out of the blue, White has a very strong attack. But how should he continue?
