Nithiananthan, Dr J - Reichert, Thomas
ICCF EM/M/A087, 1999
Dr. J Nithiananthan, Junior Tay

B04. 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 dxe5 5.Nxe5 Nd7!? #Daring White to sacrifice his e5 knight and in the process, send the Black King all over the board via 6.Nxf7 Kxf7 7.Qh5+ Ke6. When Bent Larsen presented Mikhail Tal with such an opportunity in their 1965 Candidates Match, the Latvian genius mused over this for more than an hour, declined the invitation and spent the rest of the game mulling over this missed opportunity. The fact that Tal nearly lost the game showed what a shrewd psychologist Larsen was. 6.Nf3 Some recent examples of the Knight sacrifce -
	[6.Nxf7 Kxf7 7.Qh5+ Ke6 8.c4
		(8.g3 g6 9.Bh3+ Kd6 10.Qe2 N7b6 11.Bf4+ Kc6 12.a4 a6 13.Bg2 e6 14.Be5 Bd6 15.Bxh8 Qxh8 16.c3 Kd7 17.a5 Nf4 18.gxf4 Nd5 19.Nd2 Nxf4 20.Qe4 Ke7 21.Nc4 Qf6 22.O-O-O Rb8 23.Ne5 Bd7 24.Nxd7 Kxd7 25.Bf1 Qg5 26.Bc4 Qxa5 27.Rhe1 Qf5 28.Qf3 c6 29.Re4 Rf8 30.Rde1 Rf6 31.Bb3 Ke7 32.Bc4 Kd7 33.Bb3 Ke7 34.Bc4 Kd7 35.h3 Ke7 36.Bb3 Kd7 37.Bc4 Ke7 38.Qg4 Kd7 39.Qf3 Ke7 1/2-1/2 Berelovich,A-Neverov,V/Cairo EGY 1999 (39))
	8...N5f6 9.d5+ Kd6 10.Qf5
		(10.Qf7 Nb6 11.Nc3 Qe8 12.Bf4+ Kd7 13.Qe6+ Kd8 14.Qe5 Qd7 15.O-O-O Ng4 16.Qe1 Qf5 17.Bg3 g6 18.Bd3 Bh6+ 19.Kb1 Qf6 20.h3 Bg7 21.hxg4 Bxg4 22.Rd2 Bf5 23.Rh4 g5 24.Re4 Rc8 25.Qe2 h6 26.Re5 Bxd3+ 27.Qxd3 Nd7 28.Re6 Nc5 29.Qc2 Nxe6 30.dxe6+ Ke8 31.Nd5 Qxe6 32.Re2 Qf7 33.Rxe7+ Qxe7 34.Nxe7 Kxe7 35.Qe4+ Kf7 36.Qd5+ Kg6 37.Qe4+ Kf7 38.Qxb7 Rhe8 39.Bxc7 Kg8 40.c5 Re1+ 41.Kc2 Rf8 42.Bg3 Re2+ 43.Kd3 Rxb2 44.Qd5+ Kh8 45.c6 Rb1 46.Qe6 Rd8+ 47.Kc2 Rdd1 48.Qe3 Re1 49.c7 Rb2+ 50.Kd3 Rd1+ 51.Ke4 Rc2 52.Qxa7 Rdc1 53.Kf5 Rc6 54.a4 Kh7 55.a5 R6c4 56.Qb6 Bc3 57.Bd6 Bd4 58.Qb7 Bg7 59.Ke6 1-0 Nguyen Anh Dung-Miroshnichenko,E/Budapest HUN 1999 (59))
	10...Nc5 11.Bf4+ e5 12.Bxe5+ Ke7 13.Qf4 Kf7 14.Bxc7 Qe8+ 15.Kd1 Nce4 16.Nd2 g5 17.Qe3 Bc5 18.Nxe4 Nxe4 19.Qf3+ Kg7 0-1 Matsuura,E-Lima,D/Rio de Janeiro BRA 2000/The Week in Chess 278 (19)]
6...c6 7.c4 N5f6 #This position is more akin to the Centre counter though without Bg4, it is difficult for Black to put pressure on the White centre.
	[7...Nc7 8.Nc3 g6 9.Bg5 Bg7 10.Qd3 Nf6 11.h3 O-O 12.Be3 b5 1/2-1/2 Kruppa,Y-Komarov,D/Kiev 1995/CBM 51 (12)]
8.Nc3 Nb6 9.h3 Bf5 10.Qb3! Qc7 11.g3! #exploiting the Qc7 position to mobilise quickly. Nbd7
	[11...e6 12.Bf4 Qd7 13.g4 Bg6 14.O-O-O„]
12.Bf4 Qb6 13.g4! Bg6
	[13...Qxb3 14.axb3 Bg6 15.Nh4 e6 16.Nxg6 hxg6 17.Bg2]
14.Qxb6 Nxb6?!
	[14...axb6 15.Nh4]
15.Ne5 e6 16.h4! Bb4
	[16...Nbd7 17.h5 Be4 18.Nxe4 Nxe4 19.Bg2]
17.h5 Be4 18.f3 Bc2 19.Rc1 Bxc3+ 20.bxc3 Ba4 21.h6 g6 22.Rb1 and Black is in complete zugzwang O-O 23.Rb4 Rfc8 24.Nd3 #since there is no good way to stop c4-c5 winning the errant a4 B, Black resigned! 1-0