Essentially this game is about not allowing positions where my opponents two bishops were better than my two knights. Two bishops if co-ordinated can so easily be an advantage over two knights as the number of pawns decreases (as they usually do).

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Sicilian Defence, Moscow Variation 3... Nd7 Probably stronger than 3...Bd7 or 3...Nc6 4. O-O Main line is 4. d4 Ngf6 5. Nc3 cxd4 6. Qxd4 e5 7. Qd3 h6 8. Be3 Be7 9. Bc4 a6 10. a4 Qa5= Yudasin-Kozul,1997 4... a6 5. Bxd7+ Bxd7 6. d4 cxd4 7. Qxd4 Qc7 I judged the position about equal. Now I try a new idea 8. Na3!? New move in this position. 8.Nc3 is usual here 8... Nf6 9. Bg5 Bc6 10. Rfe1 e5 11. Qd3 Be7 12. c4 O-O 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Rac1 Qb6! 15. Nc2 Rad8 15..Qxb2 leads to a Queen trap 16. b3 g6 17. Ne3 Bg7 18. Nd5 Bxd5 I manange to exchange one of the bishops 19. Qxd5! Qc6 20. Rcd1 Bh6 If 20... Qxd5 21. Rxd5 followed by 22. Red1 and 23. c5 21. Rd3 Qc7 22. Red1 b6 23. Nd2 Plan: to improve my remaining knight vis-a-vis the remaining bishop 23... Qc5 24. Nb1 Qc7 25. Nc3 Kh8 26. Rh3 Bg7 27. Rhd3 Qc8 28. Na4 Qc7 29. Nc3 With four minutes left on my clock for eight moves I didn't calculate this very interesting line to the very end 29. c5 bxc5 30. Nxc5 Qb6 31. Nb7 Rd7 32. Nxd6 Kg8 if 32...Rfd8 then 33. Nxf7+ 33. Qc4 Rc7 34. Qa4 Rc2! and now 35. R3d2 and then what ?? 29... Qc8 30. f3 f5 31. h3 Qc7 32. Kh1 Rfe8 33. a4 Bf8 34. Ra1 Rc8 35. a5 Qd7 Badly prepared Queen trap. In effect he traps himself! Better is 35... Qe7 threat 36..Rc5 36. b4 bxa5 37. Rxa5 but I really don't think White is well co-ordinated to achieve anything much on the Queen side. So perhaps 35.a5 was premature ? 36. axb6 Rc5?? Making his last move before the time control he blunders 37. Qxc5 1-0