[Event "Ohrid, 1972"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Vaganjan"] [Black "Velimirovic"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E64"] [Annotator "Velimirovic"] [PlyCount "64"] [EventDate "2001.06.22"] [SourceDate "2001.06.22"] 1. d4 {In modern tournament practice there are lot of variations where fighting for diagonals begins from the opening. This game is one nice illustration of that fight.} 1... Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. g3 d6 6. Bg2 O-O 7. Nf3 e6 8. dxe6 {8.0-0 ed5 9.cd5 leads to Ben-Oni Indian defense. With move in the game white expresses wish to play peacefully.} 8... Bxe6 9. Ng5 Bxc4 10. Bxb7 Nbd7 {White is in front of the dilemma: whether to take rook or pawn? In both cases black has good counterplay over big white diagonal (a8-h1).} 11. Qxd6 h6 12. Nge4 (12. Nh3 Rb8 13. Bg2 Re8 14. O-O g5 { with compensation.}) 12... Nxe4 13. Bxe4 Re8 14. O-O { Of course, not 14.Ba8: Bc3: and black wins.} 14... Bxc3 {Strong positional strike on what is established whole idea of black started with 9...Bc4:. Now white must take the rook and black light square bishop becomes "master" of the long diagonal.} 15. Bxa8 Be5 16. Qd1 Qxa8 17. Qxd7 Bd4 {After this move white must give back material (threat Be6-h3), but it does not decrease black domination over long diagonal.} 18. e3 Bxf1 19. Kxf1 Bf6 20. Qa4 Qh1+ 21. Ke2 Re5 {Black is attacking directly with small number of pieces. There is no defense against Rf5 and white is losing everything he had more.} 22. Qd1 Qxh2 23. Bd2 Rf5 24. Qg1 Qh3 25. Rc1 Qg4+ 26. Ke1 Qf3 {With the idea Rh5.} 27. Rc4 Bxb2 { Black has already material beside the positional advantage. The end is close.} 28. g4 Re5 29. Qh2 Qd5 30. Rc3 Re8 31. Qxh6 Rd8 32. Rc2 Bc3 {The game was awarded by second place in "Theoretical novelties" in that year. First game was the game Velimirovic-Ljubojevic, Umag 1972.} 0-1