This spectacular game was well known at the time and was voted the
second-best game of the period in Informant. It received three
first-place votes. Three panelists didn't vote for it at all, likely
due to the relative obscurity of the players and event. Gelfand-Dreev,
Tilburg 93 took the top prize for Dreev.

The Serper game has been anthologized various times and annotated by
Serper as well. It didn't make Soltis's "100 Best Games" book,
however.

Saludos, Mig

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Because Losing Sucks


On 10 Jun 2004 04:36:28 -0700, (Sensibleness)
wrote:

Looking at the Chessbase site they trailed the game Serper v
Nikolaidis, St Petersburg, 1993 available here

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1289099

the PGN is

[Event "St Petersburg Open"]
[Site "St Petersburg"]
[Date "1993.10.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Grigory Serper"]
[Black "Ioannis Nikolaidis"]
[ECO "E70"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "96"]

1.c4 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6
5.Nge2 Nbd7 6.Ng3 c6 7.Be2 a6 8.Be3 h5
9.f3 b5 10.c5 dxc5 11.dxc5 Qc7 12.O-O h4
13.Nh1 Nh5 14.Qd2 e5 15.Nf2 Nf8 16.a4 b4
17.Nd5 cxd5 18.exd5 f5 19.d6 Qc6 20.Bb5 axb5
21.axb5 Qxb5 22.Rxa8 Qc6 23.Rfa1 f4 24.R1a7 Nd7
25.Rxc8+ Qxc8 26.Qd5 fxe3 27.Qe6+ Kf8 28.Rxd7 exf2+
29.Kf1 Qe8 30.Rf7+ Qxf7 31.Qc8+ Qe8 32.d7 Kf7
33.dxe8=Q+ Rxe8 34.Qb7+ Re7 35.c6 e4 36.c7 e3
37.Qd5+ Kf6 38.Qd6+ Kf7 39.Qd5+ Kf6 40.Qd6+ Kf7
41.Qxe7+ Kxe7 42.c8=Q Bh6 43.Qc5+ Ke8 44.Qb5+ Kd8
45.Qb6+ Kd7 46.Qxg6 e2+ 47.Kxf2 Be3+ 48.Ke1
1-0

To this patzer's eyes this seems to be a modern classic. Is it on a
par with Kasparov Topalov? When I sac this much material it's by
accident. A truly incredible game worthy of wider attention?

Always be very sensible

Mig Greengard
http://www.chessninja.com
Because Losing Sucks